Ash Parrish
@adashtra.bsky.social
Video Game Reporter @verge
Reporting on the biz, culture, & horniness of the game industry
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📍Northeast Ohio
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Reporting on the biz, culture, & horniness of the game industry
📧: [email protected]
Signal: @adashtra.87
Discord: @adashtra
📍Northeast Ohio
🌠 per aspera, ad astra 🌠
She/her
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Ash Parrish
@adashtra.bsky.social
· Jan 28
Ash Parrish Profile and Activity | The Verge
Ash Parrish is a reporter who covers the business, culture, and communities of video games, with a focus on marginalized gamers and the quirky, horny, culture of video game communities.
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Hey (again)! My name is Ash and I'm a video game journalist at The Verge! I cover a wealth of video game and video game adjacent topics from reported pieces on business & labor to the quirky / humorous aspects inherent to video game culture. Check out my works here:
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i beat them tumblr swords to plowshares a long time ago and i will study this fandom war no more.
People keep telling me to watch Hazbin Hotel and while I'm sure it's lovely the visual style is unfortunately and repellently glompcore
November 10, 2025 at 3:44 PM
i beat them tumblr swords to plowshares a long time ago and i will study this fandom war no more.
I can't be here today. Just gonna get too mad about the dems
November 10, 2025 at 1:06 PM
I can't be here today. Just gonna get too mad about the dems
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Reposted by Ash Parrish
this is the play in which sheldon rankins conjured a scorigami out of absolutely nothing. 30-29 had happened plenty of times and so had 37-29. scorigami only happened because the refs didn't make them stick around for the extra point
November 9, 2025 at 9:35 PM
this is the play in which sheldon rankins conjured a scorigami out of absolutely nothing. 30-29 had happened plenty of times and so had 37-29. scorigami only happened because the refs didn't make them stick around for the extra point
another day volunteering at Yautja Prime. everyone keeps asking me if they can fuck the yautja. buddy, they wont even let me fuck it
Predator Badlands has reinforced my powerful need to smooch a yautja
November 9, 2025 at 9:35 PM
another day volunteering at Yautja Prime. everyone keeps asking me if they can fuck the yautja. buddy, they wont even let me fuck it
Not if you have a true monsterfucker spirit
That… seems to involve logistical challenges
November 9, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Not if you have a true monsterfucker spirit
Predator Badlands has reinforced my powerful need to smooch a yautja
November 9, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Predator Badlands has reinforced my powerful need to smooch a yautja
"Please don't put it in the newspaper that I got mad" - ass tweet
November 9, 2025 at 4:18 PM
"Please don't put it in the newspaper that I got mad" - ass tweet
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OutKast is inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame:
“We started in a little room. Great things start in little rooms”
“We started in a little room. Great things start in little rooms”
November 9, 2025 at 1:05 PM
OutKast is inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame:
“We started in a little room. Great things start in little rooms”
“We started in a little room. Great things start in little rooms”
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pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:55 AM
pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.
You gotta be real smart/savvy if your horror movie plans to use implied sexual violence/pregnancy/forced birth as a plot device.
The ppl who made Frogman were not.
The ppl who made Frogman were not.
November 9, 2025 at 1:42 AM
You gotta be real smart/savvy if your horror movie plans to use implied sexual violence/pregnancy/forced birth as a plot device.
The ppl who made Frogman were not.
The ppl who made Frogman were not.
Zooted out of his gourd
November 9, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Zooted out of his gourd
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Target Customer Service be like
November 8, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Target Customer Service be like
Thank you to everyone who spoke to me for this piece. Its a harder topic to talk about than you think, scary too for some people.
Sims streamers are distancing themselves from EA, but for some the choice is hard
Sims streamers are distancing themselves from EA, but for some the choice is hard
The Sims community is struggling with a tough choice.
buff.ly
November 8, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Thank you to everyone who spoke to me for this piece. Its a harder topic to talk about than you think, scary too for some people.
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why the game got delayed
November 8, 2025 at 6:19 PM
why the game got delayed
At a bar for a football game. The bar is doing some kind of cop sponsored fundraiser for kids that require them to walk around with the servers and it makes me *deeeeeeply* uncomfortable.
November 8, 2025 at 6:31 PM
At a bar for a football game. The bar is doing some kind of cop sponsored fundraiser for kids that require them to walk around with the servers and it makes me *deeeeeeply* uncomfortable.
SEE SEEE THIS WAS ALL IT TOOK! Just a lliiiiiiill bit of DEI - diversity, editing, and inclusion - and we could have solved this
Kendrick Lamar put the phrase “they not like us” into the lexicon. And, as a result, they like him. In fact, they love him.
^i would’ve had the joke scrapped tho but this is the best I could do trying to keep most of the same words/same core idea.
^i would’ve had the joke scrapped tho but this is the best I could do trying to keep most of the same words/same core idea.
November 8, 2025 at 2:33 PM
SEE SEEE THIS WAS ALL IT TOOK! Just a lliiiiiiill bit of DEI - diversity, editing, and inclusion - and we could have solved this
I think this is less a "variety doesn't understand what this means" and more of "trying to force a joke that *really* doesn't work" but in either situation having a negro in the room would have prevented this
November 8, 2025 at 9:05 AM
I think this is less a "variety doesn't understand what this means" and more of "trying to force a joke that *really* doesn't work" but in either situation having a negro in the room would have prevented this
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It’s about protecting trans people. Don’t turn it into a generic platitude and rob it of its meaning.
I feel like we have the opportunity to turn David Lynch's quote into this moment's "Keep Calm and Carry On" and it's a far better rallying cry too.
November 7, 2025 at 11:13 PM
It’s about protecting trans people. Don’t turn it into a generic platitude and rob it of its meaning.
Liu Bei drives the villain Lu Bu from Xiapi
November 8, 2025 at 2:26 AM
Liu Bei drives the villain Lu Bu from Xiapi
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I think this bag is fake.
Hermes's flagship products are handsewn using a saddle stitch. A worker marks the leather using an awl and then threads two needles through from both sides.
This results in a tight stitch with no holes between the stitches. The holes here suggest the bag was machine sewn.
Hermes's flagship products are handsewn using a saddle stitch. A worker marks the leather using an awl and then threads two needles through from both sides.
This results in a tight stitch with no holes between the stitches. The holes here suggest the bag was machine sewn.
November 8, 2025 at 2:10 AM
I think this bag is fake.
Hermes's flagship products are handsewn using a saddle stitch. A worker marks the leather using an awl and then threads two needles through from both sides.
This results in a tight stitch with no holes between the stitches. The holes here suggest the bag was machine sewn.
Hermes's flagship products are handsewn using a saddle stitch. A worker marks the leather using an awl and then threads two needles through from both sides.
This results in a tight stitch with no holes between the stitches. The holes here suggest the bag was machine sewn.
Bu can't lay all the way down in the cone and he looked so sad. So I took it off to scratch his neck and maybe give him some relief and he immediately did this
November 8, 2025 at 2:11 AM
Bu can't lay all the way down in the cone and he looked so sad. So I took it off to scratch his neck and maybe give him some relief and he immediately did this
Anyway at husband's family Thanksgiving I'm gonna ask to lead the prayer for a change and instead of doing an "Our Father" like normal I'm gonna bring a bit of the negro AME/COGIC spirit to the table 😈
November 8, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Anyway at husband's family Thanksgiving I'm gonna ask to lead the prayer for a change and instead of doing an "Our Father" like normal I'm gonna bring a bit of the negro AME/COGIC spirit to the table 😈
You've got to be kidding.
To what end? What is the thinking? I'm seriously confused? Why try so hard to not feed people like this, like they can't SEE YOU WORKING AS HARD AS YOU CAN TO KEEP THEM STARVING??!!
To what end? What is the thinking? I'm seriously confused? Why try so hard to not feed people like this, like they can't SEE YOU WORKING AS HARD AS YOU CAN TO KEEP THEM STARVING??!!
BREAKING: DOJ goes to SCOTUS trying to stop a district court order that USDA pay out full SNAP benefits this month.
The First Circuit denied an administrative stay, but has not yet ruled on the stay request. And, CNN reported that USDA is already processing payments.
DOJ went to SCOTUS anyway.
The First Circuit denied an administrative stay, but has not yet ruled on the stay request. And, CNN reported that USDA is already processing payments.
DOJ went to SCOTUS anyway.
November 8, 2025 at 12:52 AM
You've got to be kidding.
To what end? What is the thinking? I'm seriously confused? Why try so hard to not feed people like this, like they can't SEE YOU WORKING AS HARD AS YOU CAN TO KEEP THEM STARVING??!!
To what end? What is the thinking? I'm seriously confused? Why try so hard to not feed people like this, like they can't SEE YOU WORKING AS HARD AS YOU CAN TO KEEP THEM STARVING??!!
He's so bored and he wants to play but he's having a hard time adjusting to the collar
November 7, 2025 at 11:13 PM
He's so bored and he wants to play but he's having a hard time adjusting to the collar