Posted enough links to free games to warrant its own category page.
Also spent the last week reading about Spritely Instituteās Goblins and wrote my initial thoughts down . If any of you have played with it from a blogging perspective Iād like to hear how it went
The Weekly Wrap Up is posted! Links this week include inventing Japanese Braille, a streaming site of independent and community radio stations and an envelope art contest! I talk about postcarding and the lecture I went to at the natural history museum. Plus, as usual, I listened to, read and watched things.
My brain has done a really annoying thing that Iām not sure all brains do and I want to know if Iām just weird or not. 
my brain was never quite able to give me an answer on what my calling was. it led to a lot of aimless searching, but a lot of learning opportunities too
Iāve been an avid doll collector for a while, and I also grew up with American Girl! I still have my Josefina Montoya and Addy Walker dolls, and I enjoy making clothes for them and dolling them up.
Iām exited to see how the doll vest turns out! Iām not sure if youāre into sewing, but thereās a site Iāve used for doll patterns and they have all sorts of patterns and notions to chose from:
Thereās also a really neat YouTube channel where they do a lot of crafting specifically for 18 dolls:
Thought you might enjoy these!
Finally posting again! A short post about a short trip over the weekend.
Iām like @ttywitch - Iāve also never felt called to do anything. Iāve always been a little jealous of people who have a clear sense of purpose.
Echoing the other two - Nope, never felt that. Iāve been on a dead-set path to be a games programmer because it was my dream since I was like, four, but I never really felt like I had any other direction to go in. My brain didnāt tell me āMAKE GAMES!ā, I just started learning programming in primary school and my brain went āhuh. so this is what weāre doing now.ā
Maybe I lucked out, maybe Iām just stubborn and will regret this later. Who knows.
God I really gotta send that paper to peer review someday.
Lmao, I can weirdly relate, altho mine has always been vague and I kept ignoring it, because I want to not be homeless and poor 
Idk if itās autism or not, but I always wanted to be an artist. Doesnāt matter what art it was as long as it felt like making art, but admitting that out loud would probably incite some tomatoes on my face. Because society loves undermining creativesā¦for some reason? Either way, I do get the feeling that you need to do something more important with your life, instead of what you actually want.
ive never really had a ācallingā i think. in most cases im just doing things kind of randomly because āhey this looks neatā and thats it lol. even my current job is something i got from pure random chance
Relatable. Like, does each new PokĆ©mon game need a new type of evolution or a fancy new power? Does anyone care about those? (I donāt.)
Getting rid of having to teach HMs to PokƩmon, on the other hand, was a great change because it simplified an annoying game mechanic. And the Exp Share, though some hard-core players complain about it, has made the games way more fun for me, because I can raise many PokƩmon without it feeling like an endless grind.
I didnāt have a calling to get into tech. It was just something I could do, and it paid better than sweeping floors and scrubbing toilets at a chain supermarket.
Becoming a writer was a choice, not a calling. I wanted to do something with what intellect I possess that didnāt further enrich the already wealthy.
Oh cool! I have a Samantha from childhood but my mom has her half a country away. Sheās gonna look into what itād cost to ship her to me though. 
Thatās awesome you still have your dolls too!
Iām so stoked about the vest Iām just annoyed that shipping it is taking so long on the patch. It should have been here by now.
Thanks so much for the patterns site! I havenāt sewn really since I was a teenager but Iām interested in making clothes if I find something I love. Iāll definitely check it out!
And thanks for the YouTube link too; I immediately subscribed, lol. I used to love making miniatures as a kid, I can definitely see myself getting into it again as an adult. 
I like your nickname for our dear leader. 
I have the calling - to make art either with people or to help them. Iāve done a lot in the education/higher ed/community world, now Iām just a straight-up public school art teacher in an city school.
I wasnāt good at anything else but art, and I like people - I would rot in a studio totally alone. Sometimes I think I should have gone to a school like this and been a craftsperson, I really like historic preservation work too. I am married to someone with no calling, who is just trying to retire as early as possible and it took awhile to understand each other. I will never really retire (probably couldnāt afford to anyways).
I didnāt know that this particular college existed until now, and I love that it exists.
When I was in community college, there was often an attitude that learning a trade or practical skill was only for those who couldnāt handle academics. And thatās so not true.
its even more annoying when they make a concept for one game then remove it to replace it with a concept thats like, the first one slightly to the left (mega evolution and dynamaxingā¦) like at least build on what you already have