The week started off on a high note with the Met Gala. Fashion's biggest night saw major stars like Rihanna, Kim Kardashian, and A$AP Rocky walk the blue carpet in looks celebrating the Costume Institute's new exhibition, "Superfine: Tailoring Black Style." While some were dragged for their looks (looking at you Sydney Sweeney), others got high praise, like Lupita Nyong'o Nicole Kidman and Lewis Hamilton.
And now we're ending the week with a new pope. Crazy how some weeks go, right?
Here are some other things you missed this week...
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Quantum Witch developer Nikki Jay grew up in a cult. It was a heavily religious environment, with strict rules and harsh teachings. Most medical assistance was shunned, and there were constant lectures about the end of the world, how she was never good enough, and that God was going to kill her and all her loved ones in horrible ways. Nothing was more abhorrent to the cult, though, than the concept of homosexuality, and that was a problem for Nikki, who realised she was attracted to women at a young age.
"I knew that I liked girls from the age of 8," Nikki tells me. "I distinctly remember, at the end of term at school, teachers brought in Labyrinth for us to watch. I saw Jennifer Connelly, and I saw David Bowie, and I knew who I preferred."
The religious group's disposition on homosexuality, combined with its total ban on outside interaction – friends outside of the group were considered to be "controlled by the devil" – and limitations on LGBT+ discussion in public life in the UK throughout the 80's and 90's, meant that Nikki was isolated and alone. Her escape throughout these difficult times was video games, where she fell in love with games like Chrono Trigger, which offered her something new: an opportunity to choose her own path.
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