What I'm working on - June 2024

Hello again Patrons. Boy am I glad to be done watching Teen Wolf. I got some new signups from my last video, so thank you for that, and if you're new here, welcome! This is the part of the Patreon where I tell you what I'm up to for the next few weeks.

My main focus this month is my Sterek video. I'm in the process of editing, and right now she's about 55 minutes long. Why do I keep doing this to myself?? I'm about 14 minutes into the edit; the video will probably be out in a couple of weeks.

^^ When they ask you how you are and you just have to say that you're fine when you're not really fine but you just can't get into it because they would never understand

There are some things in it I'm really happy with, especially my analysis of why I think Sterek became so popular, so I just hope it resonates with people and doesn't get caught up in fandom discourse or whatever. Something I say early on in the video is that I'm something of a Sterek centrist (lol), and that my goal is not to pursuade people to like or dislike the ship, but more to get to the bottom of why people shipped it in the first place.

I admit I'm finding it a little hard to stay motivated to work on the Sterek vid, maybe just because I'm ready to move on from Teen Wolf. But that just makes it all the more exciting to think about what I'll do in the post-Teen Wolf era. I'm thinking maybe the Wrong video next? I've been promising to make it for ages, so I figure I might as well knock it out while I'm on this roll of finally finishing long-awaited projects. There were 25 Wrong movies when I first started developing the video, and I believe there's been a 26th released since then. And a spinoff miniseries called Keeping Up With the Joneses. So like. I can't not include that.

I did watch 25/26 of the Wrong movies in the last year or two, but they're so generic and similar to each other that many of them have melted down into a nondescript sludge in my brain, so I think I'll have to rewatch all of them to refresh my memory. Maybe I'll do a format similar to my Lifetime cheerleader video where I sort them into qualitative categories in order to spend less time talking about the ones that are so forgettable they're barely worth mentioning.^^ A small sampling of David DeCoteau's glittering filmography

I know I definitely want to do a segment about David DeCoteau, who directs all of the Wrong movies, because he is a legendary (derogatory) Z-movie director. Specifically, he has a penchant for weird homoerotic no-budget slop where a bunch of shirtless guys run around in the woods for 90 minutes. I think Redlettermedia have covered some of his work... Plus there's a frequent writer of Wrong movies, Adam Rockoff, who I happen to have personal one-sided beef with. Rockoff wrote a rather popular book on the slasher genre that I tried in good faith to use in my research for my undergrad thesis paper on slasher films. I ended up being extremely turned off by his dismissive tone towards the established academic literature on the genre and especially his dismissal of the formative gender-based readings of the genre (largely by female scholars, of course). It was ignorant and condescending and weird. So Adam Rockoff is no friend of mine. I WILL be coming up with some scathing puns about his surname to use in the video.

 ^^ Adam Rockoff's stupid dumb slasher book that sucks

Beyond that, I'd like to make a Patreon bonus video some time this month as well, partly because I don't have a Patreon-exclusive section planned for the Sterek video. Maybe a silly movie I've been into lately, or something more esoteric? Something behind the scenes like videos I've thought about doing but haven't made? I'll keep thinking about it, but that will be my second priority after the Sterek vid.

Thanks for your support this month and stay tuned!!