August Content Update (Patreon)

Generous Chads, Gosus and Hax0rs,

I'm pausing my Patreon billing cycle again for September.

Things are in the works, but I don't have anything new to upload yet.

None of you should be charged on September 1st.

I'm sorry for the wait for Arby 'n' the Chief as usual.

I have been working, but I've been lazy too, frankly.

I've taken a break from Arby 'n' the Chief in particular.

I kept sitting down repeateadly in different places to finish getting through the character auditions-- different rooms in my own house, my mom's house, restaurants, cafes-- and just couldn't will myself to do it, or anything else on my immense list of production tasks.

I wanted to work, just not on that show in particular for a while.

The amount of remaining tasks on top of the heavy subject matter are too much for me to handle right now.

It's like being furious with a significant other and just wanting to leave the house for a while and take a long walk in the park.

Most of the work I did get done this month was on my yet-to-be-launched media review show I've mentioned before.

That's the direction in which my creativity was driving me each time I sat down to pick away at Arby 'n' the Chief, and I followed that energy instead.

I find I do my best work when I follow that drive, even-- sometimes especially-- when it's not the work I should be prioritizing.

I procrastinate, but I always try to channel it into production on something I can release later on.

Sometimes that's music, in this case it's my new show.

I'm reluctant to put the first episode of it out before the next Arby 'n' the Chief since the latter's what everyone's waiting on and I feel I'd piss a bunch of people off and sour the launch of the former, but it doesn't matter as it's not done yet anyway.

However, this month a lot of ground work has been laid for it, including dialogue, long-term characterization and episodic structure, graphic and aesthetic design, and original music.

I also had a blast doing it all.

I want to make the kind of media-themed show I'd have loved to watch if I was still a kid in the nineties, complete with an aged VHS aesthetic, and I've even impressed myself with what I've accomplished so far in that regard.

Inspirations for the show include Video & Arcade Top 10, YTV's The Zone with Phil and Snit, Red Dwarf, Mystery Science Theater 3000, The Angry Video Game Nerd, Half in the Bag, and the whole synthwave aesthetic and genre.

For what it's worth, it's something I'm very excited about and I think you'll enjoy-- at least when Arby 'n' the Chief season eight's over, hopefully.

I'm very excited about Arby 'n' the Chief's ending too, of course, but as I went over, I had to step away from it a bit longer.

I'll try to get episode sixteen out by the end of September, we'll see.

I gotta just pick away at it at my own pace.

I promise I'll make it good.

Thank you all so much as always.

I'm so grateful to all of you for giving me some financial security and peace of mind in these difficult times.

I hope you're all doing well and wish you and yours the best.

Please stay tuned, there's good stuff coming.

Cheers,

Jon