October 2026 Newsletter: Badtober 2026 begins!!! & Zombies (Patreon)

Hello Patrons!

Welcome to the October newsletter! This is about to be a crazy month..

Announcements:

BADTOBER IS HERE!!! If you are unaware, I host an October drawing “challenge” akin to the infamous Inktober, called “Badtober.” Every day, there is a new prompt for you to create artwork around, however you interpret it. They are very unserious prompts, and the entire “challenge” is very unserious. It is a fun time that motivates you to create freely and without high expectations for yourself. It is customary to not ever finish a Badtober.. The prompt list is pinned on my Instagram and it is posted here as well! And follow the @Badtober account!

Additionally, as I posted about earlier, my 2027 calendar will be available shortly! I am waiting on a proof to arrive before I start preorders! They will be very similar to my previous years in terms of layout and price, and should be available to ship almost anywhere.

Art, Life, Media, & Personal Section!

ART:

Still have not drawn much or anything at all during September.. except maybe one cat. I started many drawings but didn’t finish a single one. Hopefully this will change, now that it is Badtober time… it would be so awkward otherwise. I am very slowly learning anatomy, but much of my creative juices were spent designing my calendar this month so it’s slow-going. I am certainly inspired to draw by many things.. media.. etc. Just can’t bring myself to do it yet.

I do have quite a few projects to finish this month which I will be excited to share with you soon! I am mostly looking forward to drawing some crappy stuff in my sketchbook… It seems like the physical plane is the only place where my hand does what I want it to. Badtober heal meeee..

TV/MOVIES:

I finished Walking Dead!!! As I’ve said so many times. My predictions of what would happen were incredibly wrong. Negan became good, to the best of his ability. Neither Michonne or Rick returned except to tease the Rick and Michonne spinoff show. And worst of all, Daryl did not have an on-screen romance with Connie. My official review of the later seasons of TWD are that it is certainly a different vibe than the earlier seasons, but it is still quite good! I was sucked into all the plots they gave me but I did unfortunately hate the whisperer arc, they cringed me out. But I did like whenever a good guy later used learned tactics to herd the zombies. The zombies that could climb were testing my ability to suspend my disbelief. Like I just don’t think climbing would be possible.. Unless it was like a very fresh zombie.. I'm unsure. And like maybe more so using weapons and tools. That’s nonsense. And then I watched The Ones Who Live, which follows Rick and Michonne and what happened to them since they both left the show prematurely. This entire arc has me wondering what happened in the comics because certainly not that. So I will be reading those.

Another zombie thing I watched was Resident Evil!! I obviously know about the games but I’ve never played them.. But I am inspired to now, even though I sorta dislike Leon Kennedy but I am strong and brave. I typically don’t like horror games that are like..campy or where you’re being pursued but I will try anything once (not true). Anyway, the movie was great and it was hilarious. I need to watch it again so bad!! Its barely an adaptation but it's the best videogame adaptation out there, which isn’t saying much because they are all terrible.

A movie I also saw but never wish to see again was Primetime last night. I don’t believe this movie needed to be made. It was fine, good even. I like Robert Pattinson fine. But it was like.. Ok we know this. Idk! 

GAMES:

I finished Arkham Knight and began Lego Batman. Arkham Knight was so phenomenal, that might be a game of all time for me. It is so freaking fun to fly around and best foe! And the combat in the Batmobile was so amazing.. Lego Batman is obviously a major downgrade so far but I’ve barely gotten that far into the story so I won’t diss it too much right now. It does make me laugh a lot though! I also acquired Little Big Planet 1 & 2, as well as RDR Undead Nightmare and started playing those again on the PS3. John Marston is so funny in the zombie apocalypse he doesn’t seem to take it very seriously which is amusing. I also want to play the Walking Dead games since I don’t know anything about that storyline. And I’m a zombie head, apparently.

Yesterday I started Control 2, whatever it's called. I had no idea this game was in development, let alone released. I loved the gameplay of the first one even though I never understand a single thing that is happening in games by that developer. I’ve played both Alan Wake games and the first Control, and when I watched the Control recap I was like I don’t even think I understood any of this stuff when I was playing it.. But it's cool, I am so glad we play outside the building, since the entire first game was inside and it gave me a disturbing feeling, never leaving.. And I really like the weapons. I felt primed to play this game after playing Elden Ring again with a similar weapon..

I’m EXTREMELY into co-op and friend slop this month! Me and my friend Ayla have been exclusively getting boba and playing co-ops when we hang out and our current favorites after finishing It Takes Two were the game Unrailed, in which you maintain an infinite train for as long as possible, and now we are playing Orbitals on the switch 2! The art of the game is so freaking beautiful. My only gripe is the male blue character is giving serious homestuck tumblr energy which cringes me out. But that is ok <3. My other more distant friends have also been getting together online and playing either Stardew or we recently started Flock Around in which you just take pictures of birds for money. These are very good games for playing with my non-gamer friend, but when we play with my gamer friend, we started RV There Yet, finished How to Fish which was just phenomenal fishing except there’s guns, and started Shift at Midnight the other day which is also fun but also, a little scary.

COMICS:

I finished reading The Long Halloween and it was artistically beautiful and the plot was sorta crazy. It is mildly up to interpretation of who truly done it, and by ‘it’ I mean the murders. I personally don’t think it's ever as fun to have MULTIPLE killers but what can you do.. I also just finished the first two volumes of Absolute Batman and purchased the third! I am very much enjoying it right now! He is not as dark and sinister as I thought YET! But who can say what the future holds for me. The entire Bane plot so far was nuts. Batman really is THAT guy..

I also read the first volume of Absolute Martian Manhunter, who I had never heard of before and that was crazy. The art is also crazy abstract and cool. I am unsure of if I will continue that, but so many people have said it's amazing so I am interested in seeing more. I ALSO started reading the first compendium of Invincible so that I can know what happens before the next season comes out. I am gonna try and go out in the world and see if I can get the second compendium next week so prayers up! I am doing so good at reading all the new comics I have purchased. None of them will sit on a shelf, unread if I can help it.

A Personal Message to YOU

Do you have any recommendations for fun split screen/single console co-op games OR online friend slop games??