a good news update (Patreon)

hello again! nothing huge to report in terms of out and out progress, but! after almost two years i finally finished godfeels 3 part 1. the final chapter released on january 4th, and it feels like i have exorcised a literal demon. it's really not much of an exaggeration to say that this story possessed me! finishing this story throughout the latter half of 2021 was the only task that was completely in my control at a time when everything around me had completely fallen apart. i know more than a few folks who follow me primarily for my essay work put my fixation on this homestuck fanfic somewhere on a scale between "kinda silly but harmless i guess" and "professional suicide," and i DO have some regrets about how this project consistently grew out of my control the more i worked on it... but i also don't think it could have happened any other way? i needed something to hyperfixate simply on the basis of pure survival, and now godfeels has an astonishingly vigorous fandom all its own. it's also just straight up becoming a comic now, which has been a dream of mine for ages!! this chapter was something of a dry run for the kind of spritework we're gonna do in godfeels 3 part 2. check this shit out!!!

janet and zoe did such an incredible job. i'm so proud of all the work that went into this thing and, in equal measure, SO FUCKING GLAD TO BE DONE WITH IT FOR A WHILE. now we're starting "a pause for all seasons," which just means none of us are allowed to even think about godfeels for at least a month. then sometime after that we're going into a planning phase so we can map out 3.2 extensively, so-as to avoid future scope creep explosions and to make sure we can do this in a sustainable fashion that also leaves time for other stuff.

if i seem overly defensive about godfeels, a little "the lady doth protest too much," it's because understanding the place of so-called fanworks under capitalism has increasingly become a huge pillar of my stance on copyright. eventually i'm gonna do a video or two about godfeels and homestuck and why i think this sort of thing is very much worth pursuing even with the assumption that it will never make a profit.

but that's the distant future! in the not-so-distant future, as in later this week, i'm finally going to resume proper video work the way i've been promising to do for damn near two and a half years now. the thing is though, i've realized i am very out of practice with this stuff. before i properly started treating LTAS like a job in early 2017, i did a letsplay show that posted an episode a day every day for a year and a half, and i edited almost every single episode (don't ask about it, the show sucked and it's destroyed now). by the time 2019 rolled around, i was still skating off the skills i'd been honing all that time. but i've steadily shifted focus since then, and now i'm at a point where i think for the moment i need to start small and work my way back up to more ambitious projects.

so i don't have anything to ANNOUNCE. we only just started feeling safe in our home a couple weeks ago (in the sense that we were afraid to leave because we were certain if we did that the property manager would change his mind about us and lock us out --that's trauma innit), but now that we're almost back to where we were IN JULY 2021 for fucks sake i think it's safe to say genderpunk will actually for real start soon. i've already sketched out a couple of short video ideas, and i'm excited- which is really the thing i wanted to say. i'm excited to do videos again. i believe with absolute certainty that the stuff i'm about to make, the stuff i've been ready to make for seven months now, is gonna be the best shit i've ever done. on a lot of levels.

anyway. thank you as always for your support. next time i post on here, by god, i will have some shit to share. take care of yourselves.