- It’s been a great week on Tumblr for amazing fan game concepts that I wish were real. Check out this Pokémon concept where you play as a young Professor Oak or Agatha and make your own proto Pokéballs, and this Zelda concept where Zelda herself is the star.
- Tumblr Storyboard is dead and I am seriously crushed. I was freelancing for them and I wanted to wait until my first story was published to announce it. Now it won’t be running after all. But it cheered me up a little to read the New Yorker’s Collected Messages of David Karp.
- Despite its ups and downs, do you think you might join me in living the freelance lifestyle? Jezebel’s Laura Beck thinks you will:
According to a study conducted by Intuit in 2010, more than forty percent of the US workforce — so, sixty million people — will be contractors, temps, and the self-employed by 2020. That’s great for those of us who want to trade business casual for an all day pajama party, but is it good news for everybody?
- Are you watching any spring season anime yet? (If you aren’t, have I got a vlog for you coming next week!) I enjoyed Charles’s (of Beneath The Tangles) Tumblr post about Oreimo 2.
- Grant sent me this comic about the discrepancies in anime subtitles done by different groups. Painfully true.
- Finally, here’s a California game store that paved its floor with Magic: The Gathering cards. There are a few valuable rares in there but don’t worry, they were donated for this very purpose.
- Edit: One more link! Charles over at Study of Anime let me know that my contribution to his fandom ID project is now live. I wrote about defining my identity in fandom.
(Illustration via pookerskull.)
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Great link roundup this week!
I *loved* the Zelda concept. I want to play it.
The article on freelancing was a good one and rang true. I’ve freelanced as a coder on and off for years and enjoy it. But, oh, that uncertainty about when the next gig is going to hit can be hard. As well as when you get a ton of projects all at once. Feast or famine.
And, the no benefits bit sucks.
Enjoyed your fandom ID contribution. Did you ever tell your best friend’s big sister how cool you thought she was? I recall at times having younger kids look up to me for some reason or another and it felt weird as I was a bullied, ostracized outcast. But, then, it felt good to actually have someone looking up to me.
Looking forward to the vlog next week :)