Thirsty Sword Lesbians and Creating an Aesthetic of Emotion with April Kit Walsh

Sup y'all, we're clinging to spots of joy in this burning world! This week, Spencer hosts tea parties and finds their footing as a magical warrior professor in Intelligent Systems and Koei Tecmo's Fire Emblem: Three Houses, while Jamie gets spooky (but not too scary) in Supermassive Games' The Quarry.

Then we're joined by April Kit Walsh (she/her or gay/ghem), a kickass civil liberties lawyer at the Electronic Frontier Foundation as well as the designer behind Gay Spaceship Games -- and the Nebula Award-winning tabletop RPG Thirsty Sword Lesbians -- to chat about her early days as a modder, how her values shine through in her storytelling and game-making, not-so-literal swords, and so much more!

PS: Humans have been around for about 300 generations! (This'll make sense in the interview)

Follow April on Twitter

https://twitter.com/prilkit

Check out Thirsty Sword Lesbians

https://evilhat.com/product/thirsty-sword-lesbians/

8:26 - Fire Emblem: Three Houses discussion

23:08 - The Quarry discussion

47:47 - Interview with April Kit Walsh

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