Wow, Star Trek, you really know how to tackle those hard issues. Unfortunately, I think the show creators handled the issue of mail-order brides and human trafficking with ZERO TACT.

How could Cassandra ever refuse my elfin shaggy butch style??

I tried Palworld because my bestie told me to.

In D&D, your character’s gender is entirely yours to invent. When you’re already embodying the experience of a half-elf or a cat person, playing a person of another gender isn’t all that strange. From there, anything is possible.

There’s never been a better time to be a gay geek!

Valerie and Meg look back at Critical Role’s gayest moments in 2020 because queer D&D is their favored terrain.

When we’re open to it, giving ourselves honest space to roleplay can be pretty powerful stuff.

“Sometimes I forget that straight people watch TV, too.”

Our continuing mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new lesbian life and new bisexual civilizations, and to boldly go where this franchise often vehemently refused to go before!

Critical Role helped me realized that D&D is about storytelling, and that there’s plenty of room for queer people in stories.

So much good STEM news this week! Come and get your links.

It’s also just so great to see a major games developer consistently shrug off the idea that a protagonist has to be a white man somewhere between CW Love Interest and CW Hot Dad in age whose character development can be deduced by counting the number of grey hairs in his angst-stubble.

This isn’t just gonna be another post about, like, Apple Watches. I know y’all already know about those.

“Some people don’t like how many queer characters or NPCs are in our campaign, or when either of the women on the show talk too much. Anyone feminine in our society is still expected to be quiet, subservient, and apologetic. Of course I’m not going to make myself or my character more palatable for anyone else’ sake.”

“Calculate how many ‘free’ airline snacks you would need to eat to break even on the cost of your plane ticket.”

You never have to watch a cis white dude play video games again.

So you’re Dungeons-and-Dragons-curious but you’ve never given it a try? Here’s how to get started DMing your very own Gayme.

“We take the role of Ryder, who is a far cry from Commander Shepard. She’s young and untried, great at sudoku but bad at flirting. She’s awkward and not entirely ready for command. She never quite carries that mantle of authority we got used to with Shepard, but when she earns the respect of her crew it feels genuine and nice. I like her. She’s a good hot nerd.”

Gonna find out who’s naughty and nice.

What is even the point of heterosexual vampires?