August 2026 Newsletter: Batman and being old (Patreon)

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The long-awaited August newsletter is here, I am doing them at the start of each month rather than the end, so this is TECHNICALLY the July newsletter. And then I forgot to post this.. So it's a tad late.

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Art, Life, Media, & Personal Section!

ART

My new drawings have started but are slow! I started my motocat DTIYS but it hasn’t been wrapped up yet.. I keep finding other things to do.. But I am so interested right now in continuing a sculptural endeavor I began months ago.. My mind is impossible to understand. The juices are flowing, just strange juices.. And I really want to draw Batman.. so I did!! I hope to draw batman many more times..

TV/MOVIES

The 18th was Chloe’s (my sister) 30th birthday and so of course we watched 13 going on 30. That was a better movie than I remembered.. Even though we liked to make fun of the fact that Mark Ruffalo was actually in love with a 13 year old girl, technically. It was very funny. They don’t make movies like that anymore.. I was thinking while watching it that if it was exactly the same and shot exactly the same but right now in 2026, would it be as good?? Or is nostalgia a major factor of why it's good? I feel like the internet would be upset by it somehow, the 13 year old girl in a 30 year old’s body of it all. Something. Idk. Or it would be soulless slop. Because maybe it's not a phenomenal movie, but if something isn’t phenomenal these days, nobody cares. Or we’d only care for a month. Idk! 

Anyways, on Mac TV (my brother’s pirated movie server) I asked him to get the movie Dark Skies. This is a movie I used to love as a kid. Apparently it’s by the Insidious guy or something, but it has the mom from Insidious in it. I used to love it because I thought it was terrifying in a uniquely alien way, but it was just okay. It wasn’t as terrible as I feared it would be but it was also not great. A movie that was absolutely abhorrently terrible was Lee Cronin’s The Mummy. Wow. Like so cliché but not even in a campy fun way. A disgrace! The most predictable possession movie of all time. The fact that she was a mummy was crazy. When they first saw her again in the hospital after so many years, that was scary. But they really flopped with it after that. Like, what if she was actually dead and her arm fell off during dinner or something crazy. What if she was DEAD the entire time??? That would be terrifying. They should’ve made her a little normal but seeming a bit off. Then she would just start stinking like death and then like her arm just came off. Just spitballing..

And I'm still watching Walking Dead! That show just never quits. Speaking of shows that never quit, I asked Mac to also get Supernatural on Mac TV and me and Chloe might have to have a rewatch of that once Walking Dead is over…

GAMES

I AM LOVING SO MUCHHH THE BATMAN ARKHAM GAMES YAAAAYYY!!! I JUST finished Arkham City and first of all, wow Joker died..I did not see that coming.. The game ended so fast. I didn’t do any of the side missions so that makes sense but still, it was so fast. I guess, how long can they make this cure thing take.. And um?????? There was little to no Catwoman!! Why did they act like Catwoman and playing as her was a major part. Did I miss something.. Anyways. I started playing Arkham Knight and… wow. Oh wow. This is the most beautiful game of all time. The jump from Asylum to City was pretty big, but it was nothing compared to the leap from City to Knight. It is stunning, it is incredible… I only played ten minutes of it so that’s all I can say.

ALSO…. GUYS!! 007 First Light or whatever it’s called is so so soso so fun. And it looks incredible. I am making Hannah (my other sister) play it and I watch. I don’t really like stealth. It just pisses me off and she loves it so it’s perfect. She loved the Hitman games and she loved the Uncharted games, it’s meant to be!. I was so terrible at Hitman, I couldn’t even get past the tutorial level lol. But this is great and then when she struggles with a shooting scene, I take over because I’m better at that. Something interesting about me is I’m really good at using a controller to shoot.

MUSIC

Like 90% of my media intake this month, I am going nostalgic for my music. I usually listen to old timey Brazilian music, so that aspect isn’t unique, but we are going back to the 2000s and 2010s recently. I made my friend Emily a CD of music that was very GTAV non-stop pop adjacent and I am into that. Obsessed by Mariah Carey, Irreplaceable by Beyoncé, SOS by Rihanna, Smile by Lily Allen. But also, my dad’s favorite songs, Everybody Wants to Rule the World by Tears for Fears, Don’t Dream It’s Over by Crowded House.. Music on the radio as a kid, It Ain’t Over ‘Til It’s Over by Lenny Kravitz, Two Princes by Spin Doctors, Give a Little Bit by The Goo Goo Dolls.. And lastly, disney channel bangers like La La Land by Demi Lovato and Love You Like A Love Song by Selena Gomez… A look into my sick and twisted mind.

PERSONAL LIFE!

NOW we are truly almost utterly moved into our new home! And on top of that, the old apartment is almost completely …repaired let’s say. Melon is completely normal now. But she doesn’t like going to my parents house.. interesting. It was my sister's 30th birthday and my dad’s 66th birthday in July! And unfortunately my grandmother passed away at 97. In August it will be my brother’s 33rd birthday and my 28th!! It’s birthday season.. I will also be going on our annual camping trip in August so I am excited! I am still chilling in terms of life.. playing videogames, eating crap. But at the same time, I am making business moves, updating the shop, taking jobs I don’t wanna take. Putting a lot on my plate…I need to get back in the ZONE. The no funny business zone!

A Personal Message to YOU

Do you have or know someone who has had the diarrhea explosion parasite..? And thank you so much to everyone who placed an order in my shop or joined a physical mail tier!!!!!! U rock my world!!