blow Guardian house web copy2 Illustration: Paul BlowIn the tight-knit online gaming community Epic Mafia, Eris was an infamous celebrity. So when news of his suicide reached the forums, many players were grief stricken. But in a virtual world where it pays to lie, could it really be true?by Alina SimoneEveryone who played Epic Mafia knew Eris, or at least knew of him. In real life, he was a 32-year-old computer programmer, who lived alone with his border collie in upstate New York, but in the tight-knit online gaming community of Epic Mafia, he was a celebrity, the impresario of the site’s many forums, constantly flirting, philosophising, gossiping.

Emma Kennedy: ‘A waistline started to appear, and a smile.’ Photograph: Sophia Spring/The GuardianEmma Kennedy: ‘A waistline started to appear, and a smile.’ Photograph: Sophia Spring/The GuardianFitness tipsHealth & wellbeingA 75-day six-pack programme, Brazilian jiu-jitsu, women-only weightlifting and Couch to 5k: four writers on finding their perfect route to fitness ‘Exercises you struggle with on a Monday will feel easy by Sunday’Emma Kennedy on the Six Pack Revolution I have always been an active person, interested in life, people, news, but after reacting badly to my second Covid vaccine, I developed ophthalmic nerve shingles.

StageObituaryJohn Moffatt obituaryClassical actor who graced the stage with decorum and stillnessAlthough perhaps best known as Hercule Poirot, Agatha Christie's moustache-twirling detective, on BBC radio, John Moffatt, who has died aged 89, was a devastatingly clinical and classical stage actor of irreproachable taste and valour. He seemed something of a throwback, but there are very few today who could rival his armour-plated technique, his almost uncanny empathy with comic style ranging from the Restoration to Rattigan – his trademark stillness and decorum on stage was at odds with false notions of flounce and frilliness – or his incisive articulation.

Books blogFictionKafka's guilty pleasuresThere's no reason why his genius should be questioned because of his taste for pornographyQuite dark ... Anthony Perkins as Josef K in Orson Welles's 1983 film of The Trial. Photograph: Kobal So the literary world, and perhaps some of the rest of it, is now astonished to learn that Franz Kafka, of all people, had a collection of surprisingly dirty pornography. Dr James Hawes, his latest biographer, has told us that it is not common-or-garden porn.

If the cap fits … rapper NF. Photograph: Jon Taylor SweetIf the cap fits … rapper NF. Photograph: Jon Taylor SweetRapInterviewRapper NF: ‘In the Christian world everyone wants to pretend everything is OK’Michael SegalovThe Nashville-based artist has attracted a huge audience with his deeply personal rhymes about depression, trauma and ‘the Almighty’ – just don’t call him a Christian rapper The week I meet Nashville-based rapper Nathan John Feuerstein, AKA NF, at his Tennessee home in April, his latest record – Hope – hits No 2 in both the Billboard Hot 100 and the UK album chart, as well as in Australia, Canada and Norway, and No 1 in the Netherlands.