January Updates / Upcoming Stuff for You!

Hey all! First off, I just wanted to thank everybody here for an absolutely incredible month of support in December during the book launch. It's the best my patreon has ever done by a huge margin, and I hope all of you who grabbed the PDF are enjoying some of the exclusive stuff you get on here!

I wanted to have 2/3 things done already for the new year to capitalize on all the new Patreons and make sure they had some good things to look at, but as per usual with January I'm extremely sick and have been so every day of 2023 so far. I actually kinda blacked out for three hours after the New Years Name That Tune stream.

Haha! Whoops!

Turns out I've got some kind of weird, annoying fatigue disease that just won't go away. It doesn't pair well with my chronic insomnia. I've been dead tired for a week straight, but unable to sleep. Because of that, I haven't been able to come out of the gate with stuff for the new Patrons, but IIIIIIII'm tryin~!

Just to keep you updated, here are some cool things that have been happening:

• The molly bear hoodies have begun shipping out
• I officially signed a contract with a publisher and we've started the process for getting the book edited, redesigned, and printed. Yay!
• I finished two new visual demo reels for voice acting. They're not uploaded anywhere yet (because I keep passing out), but hey! That's something!
• Aloha and I finally, finally, finally managed to monetize our VOD channel, which is replacing Twitch as the place we stream. Trust me, you have NO idea how much of a pain in the ass this has been. He uploads mirrors of our old streams there every Mon/Wed/Fri and we're currently very close to finishing our playthrough of Night in the Woods with Will, Yam, Oz, and Dani. The VOD channel is here if you haven't seen it yet. I'm hoping we'll finish next Friday, provided I'm not still dying. But I'll probably still be dying.
  
  

And here's a list of things I'll be doing for Patreon/YouTube when I'm NOT dying!

• I need to update the Name That Tune masterpost so you can download the new set of 150 video game tracks I added. (download the songs here)
  
• Do another batch of animated movie reviews. I've seen a few more movies since the last time, but I'm really in no shape to sit down and talk about anything for two hours right now. (listen to the previous batch here)
  
• Edit down the first episode of Anime Campaign, the terrible TTRPG game Epithet is loosely based on. I will be releasing the first episode which is what the Redwood Run arc is based on and then probably take a break. I spent most of the day yesterday chopping it down (killing pauses, doing what I could to fix the horrible sound balancing issues to some degree, etc). That work took almost an entire day and I only have 2 hours of finished product, and that's maybe halfway. These things are AGGRESSIVELY long.
  
  The sad part is, a lot of fans have told me they want to see these episodes again specifically to get inspiration for their own Epithet-inspired campaigns. I'm going to add a disclaimer to the start telling them not to do that, the GMing is absolutely awful. I think I might even add tool tips over parts of the video wen hI think I make bad calls and explain why I should've done something else. I'll also add a little "Hey, here's what I could've done to make that combat good instead of bad, actually" after every fight. Because why would I ever NOT give myself more work, right?
  
  Please note that the edited AC episodes will be Patreon-exclusive, and only on the $15/mo Axolotl Friend tier. I waffled on this for awhile, but the qualification for something being in the Axolotl tier is "a long video exclusive to patrons that took several days of additional work", and that's absolutely what this is. Good lord. Kickstarter backers will also get a link since it's a stretch goal. I'll also be uploading all of the AC episodes and copyrighting them on YouTube's system, so if you have a friend who's been uploading mirrors of the original VODs (like we've explicitly asked not to do for three years), tell them to take them down now or their channel will be removed.
  
• I'm planning to focus my efforts this year on YouTube and my voice acting career, both of which I had to completely leave on the backburner while working on the audiobook in 2022. The first YouTube video I'd like to release is the sequel to Dogs in Love. Initially we planned the release for that at the end of January... but I lost a week from being sick already and I am still not better at all. So. Probably not. :|

Okay I had to take four separate breaks while writing this post. I'm going to go back to bed. Byeeeee