{"id":347823,"date":"2024-08-21T09:00:55","date_gmt":"2024-08-21T16:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/operationrainfall.com\/?p=347823"},"modified":"2024-08-21T08:13:04","modified_gmt":"2024-08-21T15:13:04","slug":"flame-fatales-2024-fun-amazing-must-watch-speedrun-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/operationrainfall.com\/2024\/08\/21\/flame-fatales-2024-fun-amazing-must-watch-speedrun-event\/","title":{"rendered":"Flame Fatales 2024 Is A Fun And Amazing Must-Watch Speedrun Event"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Flame Fatales 2024, hosted by Frame Fatales<\/a>, is running from August 18, 2024, to August 25, 2024, on Twitch<\/a> and you can check out the upcoming runs here<\/a>. <\/em><\/p>\n

You can also donate to the Malala Fund, this event’s charity, here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

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It is Tuesday night. I have laundry to do, an interview to work on transcribing from FINAL FANTASY VII Rebirth Orchestra World Tour<\/em>, and yet I cannot tear myself away from watching as much Flame Fatales as possible on Twitch while they raise money for Malala Fund<\/a>. If you\u2019re not familiar with Flame Fatales, then what you need to know is this is one of two events put on every year by Frame Fatales<\/a>: a community of women and femmes who love speedrunning video games, raising money for charity, and gaming in general. Frame Fatales welcome cisgender, trans, nonbinary, and gender non-conforming individuals, and all you have to do is DM their Instagram account<\/a> or email them<\/a> to join.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve been catching Flame Fatales (and Frost Fatales, their wintertime event) since 2019, and I always find myself setting aside everything else I have to do that week to see as much as possible of it. While Flame Fatales does come under the larger GamesDoneQuick (for which I covered AGDQ 2020 in person<\/a>) umbrella, these Fatales events feel like a bunch of friends got together, decided to do some genuine good in the world, and host some of the best speedrunners in the world while occasionally letting absolute chaos reign inside the studio in the process. It’s like the best possible real-life version of Kidsongs<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Faith, the Frame Fatales mascot, is dialing in to Frame Savers as part of Flame Fatales 2024. (Image owned by Games Done Quick).<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

All of the speedrunners, donation hosts, commentators (or \u2018couch\u2019), and volunteers for Flame Fatales come from the people the Frame Fatales community represents. And I wasn\u2019t joking about the high quality of the runs. If you\u2019ve got 12 minutes, check out this run from Tuesday night by Zoreowo<\/a>, as they play through the Valve-classic Portal <\/em>BACKWARDS with dizzying speed and skill and while also doing their own commentary alongside their couch:<\/p>\n