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The poetic side of gaming life.

This blog is run by writer/gamer Zac Hegwood.

The purpose of this page is to give me an artistic outlet to express my love for gaming. Currently, that means writing literary poems about my favorite games. You can check them out by clicking the "Poems for Gamers" link above.

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  1. If you’re going to Animazement, reblog this! I want to follow you! c:

    • Me too.  My blog is centered on video games and includes my Gamerverse poems, which are literary poems written for or about video games.   —Gamerverse

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  3. litreactor:

thekeylime:

neil-gaiman:

How to Write a Novel.
And you know, this is pretty much everything you need to know. The rest is detail, most of which is irrelevant…
(Stolen from http://www.nicalderton.com/blog/HowToWriteANovel/)

I tend to fall between the 2nd and 3rd pitfall…

C’mon, that’s not the only pitfall. There’s also:
5. Talking about the story more than writing the story
6. Angry badgers
7. Sarah Palin

    litreactor:

    thekeylime:

    neil-gaiman:

    How to Write a Novel.

    And you know, this is pretty much everything you need to know. The rest is detail, most of which is irrelevant…

    (Stolen from http://www.nicalderton.com/blog/HowToWriteANovel/)

    I tend to fall between the 2nd and 3rd pitfall…

    C’mon, that’s not the only pitfall. There’s also:

    5. Talking about the story more than writing the story

    6. Angry badgers

    7. Sarah Palin

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  5. My second sketch and coloring from the FLCL manga. 
-Zac Hegwood, Gamerverse

    My second sketch and coloring from the FLCL manga. 

    -Zac Hegwood, Gamerverse

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  7. When I’m not writing poems about videogames, I’m drawing from manga. Here’s my newest piece. 
-Zac Hegwood, Gamerverse

    When I’m not writing poems about videogames, I’m drawing from manga. Here’s my newest piece. 

    -Zac Hegwood, Gamerverse

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  9. videogamenostalgia:

    Super SOPA Bros.

    “Parts of this game have been censored due to the Stop Online Piracy Act. We apologize for the inconvenience”

    (via: warchief)

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  11. Open your mind,: How much do you like Tumblr?

    the-rose-reaper:

    Keep the right to click “Reblog!”

    Tomorrow, January 18th, 2012, will be the largest internet protest in history. Thousands of sites across the internet, including some of the biggest in the world, will be blacking out and directing people to contact Congress to kill the web censorship bill, SOPA…

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    The world is waiting for you.
    It lays bare, untrespassed, unplucked.
    It’s valleys and mounds have been tended
    in anticipation of your arrival.
    You seem so trust-
    worthy,
    bathed in the Liquid Crystal Display.  
    The world can feel your 
    love and your 
    appreciation and 
    the world

    is waiting.  For you
    to grab its wrists in that practiced grip
    of control.  To press 
    your muscles into its soft integument,
    violent and learned in the ways of this—
    your face no longer your own, 
    entangled now in meadow and stream,
    elation, elevation, earthquakes and screams
    until your body breaks beneath the weight of
    this world

    and it’s waiting to
    fuck you—
    to shatter every shadow in your mind 
    you were ever shallow enough to call a fetish—
    the world will bend your body and snap your will
    until the only breath you dare to waste 
    will be enveloped by the syllable
    more
    and the world is waiting
    and you….

    You’d love to see it again.
    But out there, in the wilderness,
    you’re only a child.
    And you hope the world will understand
    that in here, with all these lies and illusions,
    you are waiting

    for a new world
    to begin.

    -Zac Hegwood
    (Gamerverse)

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  15. In Human

    You say I am only pixels.  
    A mesh of polygons, sutured into this form.
    This false idol,
    This shinning skin of humanity.
    They say I am programmed to feel
    Human.

    I am said to exist
    As an abstract.
    A coded texture, infinitely looped
    To initialize, to update, to draw.
    You call me a rendered slave,
    Obeying the will of my program.
    Free will is a construct.  An illusion.  A ghost
    In my machine.  
    How different we must be:
    My self, made in your image, with no will of my own;
    And you, following so obediently your manual—
     the will of your god.

    -Zac Hegwood
    (Gamerverse)

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  17. Requiescat en Pace

    A gentle push.  One hand
    On one shoulder, then gone.  

    Fused into the crowd
    That cannot sense the hidden

    Blade, pressed cold, held
    Against the stranger’s wrist.

    Above him, eagles catch
    The heat of a hundred living

    Bodies and ascend
    Into the screaming sun.

    A stray beam of daylight
    Summons the gaze of a guard

    As it shimmers on 
    A sudden twitch of steel.

    nulla è reale… 
    The victim stumbles; falls.

    tutto è lecito…
    A kiss of scarlet spreads.

    His cloak billows, distant
    when the shrieks erupt.

    -Zac Hegwood
    (Gamerverse)

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  19. Challenge Red

    thegossipgamer:

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  21. jasinskiart:

“NEStalgia” print. Holiday special- available now.
This 10”x10” fine art print is double matted (light cream outer mat with a black interior mat). Outer mat dimensions are 12.5”x12.5” – perfect for a standard 12.5”x12.5” frame.
I’m signing a limited edition run of 30. Open edition also available. 
Get them here!

    jasinskiart:

    “NEStalgia” print. Holiday special- available now.

    This 10”x10” fine art print is double matted (light cream outer mat with a black interior mat). Outer mat dimensions are 12.5”x12.5” – perfect for a standard 12.5”x12.5” frame.

    I’m signing a limited edition run of 30. Open edition also available. 

    Get them here!

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  23. insanelygaming:

    Portal Bookends - by ThinkGeek

    Who knew that portals would make wonderful bookends?

    (via pwnlove)

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  25. insanelygaming:

Isaac Clarke Surfing the Internet - by Shawn Thorsson

    insanelygaming:

    Isaac Clarke Surfing the Internet - by Shawn Thorsson

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  27. insanelygaming:

    Video Game Collage - by Chris Lange

    (Source: insanelygaming)

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  29. videogamenostalgia:

PETA Blasts Nintendo Over Mario’s Tanuki Suit
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals is now blasting Nintendo over Mario’s use of the Tanuki suit. To go with their “Mario Kills Tanooki” campaign, the group has also released a flash game titled Super Tanooki Skin 2D.

“Tanukis are real-life raccoon dogs who are beaten and, as PETA’s undercover exposés show, often skinned alive for their fur. This winter, everyone can give raccoon dogs and other fabulous animals a 1-Up by keeping our wardrobes fur-free.” —Tracy Reiman, executive vice president of PETA

If you wanna check the game out, just head on over to PETA’s website. PETA had this to say about the release of the game:

“Tanooki may be just a ‘suit’ in Mario games, but by wearing the skin of an animal, Mario is sending the message that it’s OK to wear fur. We created our game to help inform people that in real life, Mario would be wearing the skin of an animal who was beaten, strangled or electrocuted, and it wouldn’t give him any special powers other than the power of self-deception,”

(via: Game Informer)

    videogamenostalgia:

    PETA Blasts Nintendo Over Mario’s Tanuki Suit

    People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals is now blasting Nintendo over Mario’s use of the Tanuki suit. To go with their “Mario Kills Tanooki” campaign, the group has also released a flash game titled Super Tanooki Skin 2D.

    Tanukis are real-life raccoon dogs who are beaten and, as PETA’s undercover exposés show, often skinned alive for their fur. This winter, everyone can give raccoon dogs and other fabulous animals a 1-Up by keeping our wardrobes fur-free.” —Tracy Reiman, executive vice president of PETA

    If you wanna check the game out, just head on over to PETA’s website. PETA had this to say about the release of the game:

    Tanooki may be just a ‘suit’ in Mario games, but by wearing the skin of an animal, Mario is sending the message that it’s OK to wear fur. We created our game to help inform people that in real life, Mario would be wearing the skin of an animal who was beaten, strangled or electrocuted, and it wouldn’t give him any special powers other than the power of self-deception,

    (via: Game Informer)

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