My love for reading and my love of gaming grew twined together; some of the first words I waded through were in A Link to the Past. Choose Your Own Adventure novels seemed like the best of both worlds. I could interact with the story in a meaningful, and often deadly-for-my-character, way by simply reading…
Quick Change: Linda of the Day
It is eight o’clock in the morning and your fellow geek calls you up and announces a last-minute con she has decided to attend. Obviously, you have to go with her, but what to wear? It is now time to perform your own superhuman feat and put together an acceptable geek outfit from easily found…
Con Season Survival Guide
Con season is already underway for many of us, and while surviving a con may not be as stressful as surviving a zombie apocalypse, they’re pretty damn close. So, I polled our amazing staff and contributors, who are seasoned con pros, mind you, to share their tips for surviving con season.
My First (PC) Game: Torin’s Passage
My grandmother was an engineer for Southern Bell (a predecessor of Bellsouth/ATT). My mother worked as a Help Desk operator for IBM for several years. So, I come by a love of computers honestly. However, for the first few years of my gaming life I only operated on a SNES, the controller like an extension…
Political Cartooning With Joe Dator: Clean Lines and Jokes
At first, I thought I really did not like artist Joe Dator. My initial assumption was that he was sexist and took easy shots like so many other political cartoonists. Honestly, these thoughts were based almost entirely off the the first cartoon of his that I saw, which was this one:
Watch Your Feelings: Heartbreak Screen Time
Take it from me, there are a couple of ways to recover from a heartbreak. I make a habit of getting my heart broken, and I’ve come up with a few coping mechanisms. Perhaps you, like me, find yourself crushed under the boot of the world by daily social interactions. Today, my barista broke my…
February Roundtable: Romance and Gaming
Welcome to the Games Section’s second monthly roundtable! Every month we will address a pressing issue in the world of gaming.
Hey Jude: Date Night With WWAC
It never seemed strange to me to have crushes on fictional people. After all, I would argue that the majority of people who fall in love are only falling in love with their idea of the other person anyway. Leaving behind my cynical views on relationships, I know that Osaki Nana and I were meant…
On Make-up and Femininity: WWAC Talks Make-Up
Make-up seems pretty quotidian, but it is a loaded sociocultural issue especially when you feel like it’s something you have to do to be female enough. The WWAC folk got together to discuss how our relationships to make-up and how it’s never quite so easy as yay/nay. We hope our contemplations will spur your own, and…
Zlumber Party: Quimby’s All Night Zine-Making Event
Last weekend I went to a sleepover. As an adult I don’t get to enjoy many of these sorts of activities anymore, so it was a real delight. Particularly because it was a sleepover with a purpose: zine-making. Quimby’s is a great comic shop in Chicago that organizes all sorts of interesting events, including the “Zlumber…
Cool Games of February! [GIFs]
Evolve Turtle Rock Studios 2K Interactive Win, PS4, XBO February 10, 2015 I’ve always loved the Left 4 Dead series and have had a blast with it and friends. The added dimension of play with the second one where players could control enemy zombies was something that had me so invested. Now, with the original…
harlequin creature: One of a Kind Literary Experience
*Cover art is the manifesto by Alvey Jones, Jade Fusco, Gustave Morin, Meghan Forbes, Ian Mclellan Davis, Hannah McMurray* I am a lover of literature, and of the special literary treasure that is the lit mag. Lit mags, literary journals, zines, and some graphic novels have so much overlap — and it is the publications…