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Mellie Doucette 🇨🇦 @melliedm.bsky.social · 20m

For those lucky enough to have a showing somewhere in their vicinity, which is sadly not me. Netflix’s distribution of this is terrible (I live in a major city!), but I hope y’all get to see it on the big screen, I’ll be happy for you in my jealousy 😭

Guillermo del Toro @realgdt.bsky.social · 2h

Cinemas playing FRANKENSTEIN right now!! frankensteingdt.com

Frankenstein | Official Website | October 17 2025

Watch the trailer, find screenings & book tickets for Frankenstein on the official site. In theaters October 17 2025 brought to you by Netflix. Directed by: Guillermo del Toro. Starring: Oscar Isaac, ...

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Mellie Doucette 🇨🇦 @melliedm.bsky.social · 17h

…As a collective—

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Mellie Doucette 🇨🇦 @melliedm.bsky.social · 23h

It also has the beautiful knock-on effect that *after* I play with Smallville rules, folks bring the rewired brain chemistry of how to look at character interaction into other games.

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Mellie Doucette 🇨🇦 @melliedm.bsky.social · 23h

My pipe dream if I ever somehow come into a lot of money is to buy the rights to Cortex so that people can use it to make games again. 🥲

Jeremy Forbing @jeremyforbing.bsky.social · 23h

Cortex is one of the most innovative RPGs ever written but the system has never been owned by a publisher who actually knew what to do with it. It's never grown into its full potential or sustained a long-term game line.

Mellie Doucette 🇨🇦 @melliedm.bsky.social · 1d

Everytime I can show people Leverage, or Smallville’s drama rules, or Cortex Prime anything, it blows their mind. We just gotta keep never shutting up about why they’re so cool.

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Mellie Doucette 🇨🇦 @melliedm.bsky.social · 23h

The true curse of Cortex is that it seems doomed to always fly under the radar.

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Mellie Doucette 🇨🇦 @melliedm.bsky.social · 1d

Deal!

Mellie Doucette 🇨🇦 @melliedm.bsky.social · 1d

Everytime I can show people Leverage, or Smallville’s drama rules, or Cortex Prime anything, it blows their mind. We just gotta keep never shutting up about why they’re so cool.

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Mellie Doucette 🇨🇦 @melliedm.bsky.social · 1d

The day I get to add a new Cam title to my shelf will be a very good day 🥲

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Mellie Doucette 🇨🇦 @melliedm.bsky.social · 1d

And it’s really dang good!

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Jon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · 1d

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Mellie Doucette 🇨🇦 @melliedm.bsky.social · 1d

Yes please 🥺

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Mellie Doucette 🇨🇦 @melliedm.bsky.social · 1d

Nooooo 😭

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Mellie Doucette 🇨🇦 @melliedm.bsky.social · 1d

And if they don’t, it’s not remote!

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Mellie Doucette 🇨🇦 @melliedm.bsky.social · 1d

I think october should get to be longer so I have more time for all the spooky plans

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Mellie Doucette 🇨🇦 @melliedm.bsky.social · 2d

Things to ask yourself when playing in a new TTRPG group:

- What do I want out of the experience?
- What am I bringing to the experience for the group?
- What compels your character to be involved in the story and the group?

The experience will be 10x better with answers to these questions.

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Mellie Doucette 🇨🇦 @melliedm.bsky.social · 2d

Yes

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Mellie Doucette 🇨🇦 @melliedm.bsky.social · 2d

Got to go see Queens of the Dead at NW Fearfest tonight and holy crow. If this is shown anywhere near you: run (or strut), don’t walk. Go see it. Please. Funny, clever, stylish, just the right amount of gore, and a good heaping of heart.

A photo for Queens of the Dead. From left to right: Dominique Jackson, Nina West, Tomas Matos, Quincy Dunn-Baker, Katy O’Brien, and Jaquel Spivey

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Mellie Doucette 🇨🇦 @melliedm.bsky.social · 2d

A hate crime against us, specifically

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Mellie Doucette 🇨🇦 @melliedm.bsky.social · 2d

Right?!? This is the cinematic event of the season 😭 Get with it, Canadian theatres!

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Mellie Doucette 🇨🇦 @melliedm.bsky.social · 2d

Hell. Yeah.

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Mellie Doucette 🇨🇦 @melliedm.bsky.social · 3d

It feels like a personal attack. When I opened up the website to check today, they even advertised it to me above a result showing it doesn’t have any times. 😭

A screenshot of a movie theater website. The top advertises Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein for Oct 24. The page is set to Oct 24, the two movies appearing are Regretting You and Springsteen: Deliver me From Nowhere

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Mellie Doucette 🇨🇦 @melliedm.bsky.social · 3d

I’m sending desperate messages 😭

A website Contact Us comment section, with the textbox filled out: Hello! I am writing to inquire (and also to beg, just a little) about whether Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein will be screened at any of your Edmonton, Alberta area theatres. We have been searching fruitlessly to find a theatre that will be showing this come October 24th, and because yours is our preferred moviegoing destination, l'm hopeful you can provide some good news. Thank you!

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Mellie Doucette 🇨🇦 @melliedm.bsky.social · 3d

Been desperately trying to find a theatre that will be showing Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein in my city, and the “closest” that appears in 2700km away in Ontario. Are yall for real? They should fear the person I’m going to become if I can’t see this masterpiece on the big screen.

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Mellie Doucette 🇨🇦 @melliedm.bsky.social · 3d

Excellent shelfie! Love seeing Tales of Xadia there ❤️❤️

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Mellie Doucette 🇨🇦 @melliedm.bsky.social · 3d

Yes! I love the accessibility and convenience of digital, but nothing can compare to the feel of a book in your hands.

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