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Amanda Stroken has always been unlucky in love, which has led her to become a workaholic. When her boss decides to close the business for three weeks during the summer, Amanda’s friend – Macey, takes this opportunity to sign her up for a dating app. But with mercury retrograde starting, her luck is bound to get even worse.

When fairy godmother Lilly Bloom gets her latest assignment, the rules send her into a minor panic attack. She must bring two people together—using as little magic as possible.

The critically acclaimed first-person shooter franchise Borderlands knows it’s ridiculous. It’s a badge of pride. These space-western games encourage you to shoot a lot of enemies and monsters, loot their corpses, and have a few chuckles while chasing down those bazillion guns. As Kaitlin Tremblay explores in Ain’t No Place for a Hero, the Borderlands video game series satirizes its own genre, exposing and addressing the ways first-person shooter video games have tended to exclude women, queer people, and people of colour, as well as contribute to a hostile playing environment.