Sunday links smell dinner cooking

• I didn't think that thieves actually climbed through ducts, but at least some do.

• Via File 770, two links on accessible gaming: tabletop, at the Mary Sue, and video games, at the Washington Post.

• Speaking of games, an article on Killer Queen, an indie arcade game played in two teams of ten people that has developed a large tournament, a fandom, etc.

• Two things via Nicole Cliffe's newsletter. First, How Scorned Women and a Casanova Cop Caught L.A.’s ‘Dine-and-Dash Dater’, which feels like a story that will grab people's attention in multiple different ways. (Because I'm me, I was most focused on the allocation of police and prosecutorial resources.)

• Second, I think I'd heard about the Lykov family before, but it'd been a while. Start with The Smithsonian Magazine, For 40 Years, This Russian Family Was Cut Off From All Human Contact, Unaware of World War II, which largely ends in 1998; then check out Vice's visit with the last survivor, Agafia Lykova, in 2013. Her Wikipedia page contains no mention of her death, nor did I turn up any news stories, so I must presume she is still alive today.

• I didn't know that roller derby dated to the 1930s; the NY Times has lots of pictures.

• Baby otters napping.

• The NY Times says that All of Those Products Are Making Your Skin Worse. I have let the whole skincare thing pass me by because I am extraordinarily lucky, genetically speaking, but SteelyKid is almost 11, so it's time to start paying attention to this stuff.

• Recommendations of F/F Historical Romances over at Smart Bitches, Trashy Books.

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