So I finally finished this essay about my Master Chief armor, my epic break-up last year and my reasons for getting the costume made. Kevin over at the Bygone Bureau liked it, worked on the piece with me, and published it yesterday morning.
The results were incredible.
Entitled Master Grief, the essay has since been mentioned on Kotaku, Geekosystem, Neatorama, The Daily What, Rip Ten, CNET, Digital Trends and was featured on the front page of Reddit pretty much all afternoon with over 1200 votes.
Update: It’s now appeared on Geekology, Device Mag, Ubergizmo, Buzzfeed, G4, Geekologie, Brides Magazine, Shortlist, DVice, the front page of Yahoo and the official website for Halo. Unreal.
At the end of the day, the essay was scoped out 105,000 times. I’m not sure how many of those individual people actually read it, or what the count is like right now, but man, what a crazy number.
I’d like to thank everyone who tweeted about the article, up-voted it on Reddit (both strangers and friends), shared it on Facebook and took the time to read my countless rough drafts, especially Mikey, Chris, Allie, Allison, Jess, McG and Tim for their invaluable notes. And of course, huge thank you to Kevin for giving me an outlet to share my story.
If you haven’t read it yet, take a look at it here.
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congrats! still a cool concept, if based on tough beginnings.
Just read about you on G4′s website, and I’d like to say “hat’s off” to you, good sir. That’s a fine alternate investment you’ve made.
Thanks Salem!
yo it’s up on MetaFilter now! (that’s where I came in from)
awesome story dude.