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Thirsty Sword Lesbians
''Thirsty Sword Lesbians'' is a narrative-focused tabletop role-playing game that emphasizes telling "melodramatic and queer stories"."Thirsty Sword Lesbians". ''Kickstarter''. Evil Hat Productions. Retrieved August 6, 2022. The game was funded via a 2020 Kickstarter campaign and published by Evil Hat Productions in 2021. It uses a modification of the Powered by the Apocalypse game system. ''Thirsty Sword Lesbians'' was the first tabletop game to win a Nebula Award and the fourth winner in the " Best Game Writing" category. The game also won the 2022 ENNIE Awards for "Best Game" and "Product of the Year". Creative origins The game was developed by Electronic Frontier Foundation attorney April Kit Walsh and illustrated by Kanesha Bryant; Walsh began development in 2017. Walsh wrote that her "primary inspiration was urgently wanting to tell stories about dashing queers having adventures and connecting emotionally and finding that the game I wanted wasn't out there yet". Walsh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jonaya Kemper
Jonaya Kemper is an American game design academic and game writer/designer. Kemper's work includes LARP, tabletop role-playing games, and computer games. Kemper coined the term and developed the theory of "emancipatory bleed." Academic work in games Kemper developed the theory of emancipatory bleed in live-action games as a way of analyzing how players with marginalized identities can achieve political liberation through embodying imaginary characters. Kemper also developed guidelines to design games for players with intersectional identities and an auto-ethnographic process for LARP research and documentation. As Game Design Lead in Carnegie Mellon's computer science department's Human-Computer Interaction Institute, Kemper conducted professional research on human-robot interactions in educational games and racial and gender biases in the design of children's games. Game writing and design Kemper co-wrote '' Thirsty Sword Lesbians'' ( Evil Hat Productions), winning a Ne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fan Fiction
Fan fiction or fanfiction (also abbreviated to fan fic, fanfic, fic or FF) is fictional writing written in an amateur capacity by fans, unauthorized by, but based on an existing work of fiction. The author uses copyrighted characters, settings, or other intellectual properties from the original creator(s) as a basis for their writing. Fan fiction ranges from a couple of sentences to an entire novel, and fans can retain the creator's characters and settings and/or add their own. It is a form of fan labor. Fan fiction can be based on any fictional (and occasional non-fictional) subject. Common bases for fan fiction include novels, movies, musical groups, cartoons, anime, manga, and video games. Fan fiction is rarely commissioned or authorized by the original work's creator or publisher and is rarely professionally published. It may infringe on the original author's copyright, depending on the jurisdiction and on legal questions such as whether or not it qualifies as "fair use ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2022 Russian Invasion Of Ukraine
On 24 February 2022, in a major escalation of the Russo-Ukrainian War, which began in 2014. The invasion has resulted in tens of thousands of deaths on both sides. It has caused Europe's largest refugee crisis since World War II. An estimated 8 million Ukrainians were displaced within their country by late May and 7.8 million fled the country by 8 November 2022, while Russia, within five weeks of the invasion, experienced its greatest emigration since the 1917 October Revolution. Following the 2014 Ukrainian Revolution, Russia annexed Crimea, and Russian-backed paramilitaries seized part of the Donbas region of south-eastern Ukraine, which consists of Luhansk and Donetsk oblasts, sparking a regional war. In March 2021, Russia began a large military build-up along its border with Ukraine, eventually amassing up to 190,000 troops and their equipment. Despite the build-up, denials of plans to invade or attack Ukraine were issued by various Russian gove ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
