Deep in the bushes of the cursed gloomy marshland, air bubbles rise to the surface of a stinking water pond, while a fawn looks for green in the dying bush. Without warning, silence was broken by two bumpy shapes emerging from the water. Kikimore (a malignant spider-like mutant) and a Witcher (human) with a sword spinning, or … almost. What followed was a desperate battle during which the wizards of Geralt of Rivia were almost impaled, impaled, and drowned. In the end, if exhausted, Gerat will win. A hard day's work by anyone's standards.
Now he just has to find someone to pay for it.
Perhaps someone should have warned Geralt about speculative or "regulated" work. That was a potential client, asking creative workers to submit tests or samples of their work before providing any contractual guarantees. It's like inviting 15 bakers to bake your wedding cake for free, so you can decide which one is worth the money. Or maybe fifteen wizards risked carving their necks into Nekkers so you can feel the silver that works best for them.
Conscious activist No! Spec-defined canonical works are a common pitfall for young and inexperienced artists, designers, and other creatives. Anyone trying to make a living from the creative field – or someone who has spent ten minutes browsing good work exposure On Twitter-you will know that despite years of dedication and dedication, these arts are often considered frivolous or of little value compared to other skills.
In the "Blood and Wine" extension of The Witcher 3, there is a mission called "Warhammer Addicted to Knights". Geralt was hired to investigate a mocking knight's quasi-beauty, but before he could start, he had to win the entire medieval game before he could become an audience with her. Does anyone remember Ubisoft's partnership with HitRecord, designed to "crowdsource" music and art for "Beyond Good and Evil 2" and "Watchdog: Legion"? These "contests" are one of the more hidden forms that normative work can take. If the company ends up contracting directly, even the artist who is eventually selected will end up with a negligible income. If their art is tolerant, it should be considered enough to be fairly compensated.
If you've watched the first episode of Netflix's The Witcher, or read the short story "The Esser Evil" by Sapkowski, you'll know that Geralt wants to sell Kikimore's internal organs to make money, which will eventually become more complicated, In the end, during his freelance career, the angry Blakiken locals sent a spam email to his ylp page with a one-star review, and was hit hard. But, for example, when Ealdorman bought Kikimore kidneys on the market, White Wolf got paid effortlessly. What's next?
Well, probably back to reality.
In the past four years, the UK gig economy (part of the labour market consisting of short-term contracts, freelancers and unstable self-employed people) has more than doubled, with an estimated one in 10 workers. In the United States, that number has risen to about a third. Platforms like Uber and Deliveroo seem to offer flexibility on the surface, and they are generally more robust than fixed time. Without insurance, health care, sick leave or pensions, it's easy for show workers to find themselves unable to close because of fear of loss. In a report published by mancunianmatters entitled "We have no protection, they don't care: Deliveroo drivers protest the performance economy", an interviewed driver described "if anyone is going to take a week off, they will lose their statistics and can't continue to work. "
Most importantly, there is no traditional safety net. As closed delivery windows encourage workers to ride at dangerous speeds without having to worry about their safety, robberies and accidents have become so common that charities such as the London Courier Emergency Foundation have been set up to provide previously unavailable Charity support. It's hard to find similarities between these organizations and the 1.6 million food bank packages offered by the 2018 Trussel Trust alone. As the rich dismantle public services, working-class people will step up to help themselves at their own expense and share what they have.
The wizard also reflects this reality. In the episode "Four Marks", Sylvan's "Demon" Gerat was hired to hunt, and the result was to collect food from the local village to help the scattered elves. Elves were the original inhabitants of the land, long ago colonized by humans and forced to live as second-class citizens. The episode ends with Geralt, a seemingly indifferent mercenary, dedicated his reward to the elves. It says that whatever the shape of the ears, they have more in common with their neighbors than those feudal lords who hide their greed behind a benevolent smile. In the next shift, you have more in common with migrant workers than the technology lunatic who betrays the vest will spend some time sucking sweeteners from the nipples of his Elon Musk body pillow To happily dismantle the economy in the name of productivity.
The Witcher 3 also seems to know the score. In the quest for "The Taxman Cometh," Geralt, shocked, wore an apprentice with glasses and asked the witch to take some time to walk leisurely through Okunfurt's market to answer some questions about his income. It refers in part to some of the original game development methods that Geralt could use to get rich, but deliberate Byzantine language immediately raises fears of those who had to fill out tax forms before. Honestly, fucking wild hunting. You have no real fear before dealing with British bureaucracy.
The "Four Marks" is also the plot of Jaskier's "Throwing Coins to Your Wizard". Online, and about 8 billion acoustic covers, club remixes, chiptune versions-for some reason, all words involve paintball shooting-you'll also find a lot about how Geralt-ganda earworms became a generation of gig economy workers and Memes for Freelance's Law. According to the freelancers I talked to, they were casual.
"He suffers as little trouble as you do. He has to worry about where his next meal comes from, who wants to buy his services, and the permissions he can safely stretch out two fingers," Free Web Developer, Said University of Edinburgh master student Richard Plant.
"Gerat carries the scars of his life in a subtle way, and should be familiar to those who have not relied on: doubt, defensiveness, and the necessity of continuous grinding led by life."
Freelance writer Richard Flint added: "After working in such a cruel and competitive industry, you will gradually appreciate and even admire Geralt's business attitude." "Work is Geralt's job. Sometimes, you It must be sucked up, swallowed with elixir, and boiled until three in the morning, "said freelance writer Richard Flint.
"I want to believe that I am familiar with economic instability; whether personally or in public, this will affect the lives of wizards-mainly due to the responsibilities that wizards and even freelancers must remedy: survival, financial stability, and the skills to chase performances, to Make sure the above issues don't eat away your freelance writer and content creator, Aleksandar said.
I'm sure many people already know that the term freelance is the term of a 19th-century mercenary, even though the moral meaning of modern "merchants" is more applicable to companies that profit by creating an unstable work environment than many freelancers Professionals themselves. Recently, we have seen a tendency for private equity firms to monopolize new media sites. The fewer opportunities available and the more desperate the workers become, the more innovative ambitions or moral stances must be abandoned in order to survive. This may not be the goal of private equity, but it is a daunting side effect. After all, when you need monsters to pay rent, it's hard to get rid of their world.
"Fiction often mentions & # 39; Despise Time & # 39 ;, which is intended to describe xenophobia, racial hatred and a climate of despair that envelope the entire continent, if that's not a damn correlation, I don't know what it is," Twitch Streamer Tempy said.
"I think we also live in a time of contempt, which makes it more difficult to connect with others and hope for the future."
In order for fantasy novels to truly resonate with our audience, we must be able to see ourselves in them. In that case, most of us were related to a scammer who never wavered, potions, which is not surprising. He was not just a Tolkien-type archetype of the King of God who prophesied, but he cared more about him. friend. In the face of reality, Aragorn may be a Conservative party anyway, and Geralt is the perfect hero for the heartbreaking and unstable economy of our crumbling hell world.
