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So a lot of you know that I have a Patreon. If you didn't, uh... you do now? I originally launched it for my comics, but it kind of transitioned to being mostly focused on my Witchcraft podcast years ago -- because that's where I had extra content I could give folks -- but it's overall just for "me" in general.
Anyways.
My goal for the last year has been to increase the "value" for Patreon patrons, with all paid tiers getting access to a copy of Super Awesome Action Heroes, and the five dollar and ten dollar tiers getting access to my novels (at different times -- the five dollar tier patrons get them on a year delay).
For a while I had been doing Patreon exclusive "vlogs," but those didn't last just because I literally ran out of things to say in them. I mean, I'm boring. The only eventful stuff in my life is the eventful stuff happening to all of us right now. Back in April, I think I came up with something fun that I've now done two months in a row.
And that's record reaction videos to episodes of The Pagan Invasion.
You see, for the April episode of BS-Free Witchcraft I did an episode on the structure of Satanic Panic propaganda, and used the first episode of 1991's The Pagan Invasion as the example to illustrate my points. For that episode I needed to, obviously, rewatch that first episode for research.
Rather than just watch it in private though, I recorded my rewatch as a commentary and reaction video and posted it as a Patreon exclusive video. And even though the podcast has moved on from the topic, folks asked me to react to episode two... so I did that last week. I fully intend to review the whole series on my Patreon now, and each one of my videos ends up being like two hours long. I don't know if I'll get a chance to do one every month, but I plan to get through the whole series.
Honestly I'm not sure why I didn't think of doing something like this before.
So yeah, we're doing fun stuff there. Oh, also, before I forget to say something -- July is the annual Q&A episode of BS-Free Witchcraft, and I need listener questions. If you have something you want me to respond to on the show, just send it in via the show's contact form by July 11th 2025.
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I <3 you for the Hartnell/Troughton joke!
It’s not the first time we’ve seen those doors — Tara used to live in that dorm (http://www.unconventional-comic.com/2011/03/relative-maturity/). All the dorms on the Clearwater University campus share their names with Doctors, it’s just that we’ve only seen one other building — the two towered Baker Hall (http://www.unconventional-comic.com/2011/05/calling-seat/) — you’ll have to trust me on the second tower existing outside of frame — it’s based on a layout I’ve seen on at least four different Wisconsin campuses.
I that’s the first time I saw you draw a stick character in a tank top.
Next I don’t think those guys will ever be taken seriously on a College campus that has like I don’t know, maybe thousands of different students going around the place and probably most of them don’t care about one club that’s probably small compared to some others like maybe a sports club perhaps there’s a Rugby team that has more attention than those guys.
Actually, there have been several background characters in tank tops, you just have to look for them. Veronica and Megan also wear one sometimes, but it’s not as noticeable because they either wear an overshirt or jacket as well. Circa 2002 flashback Lynn also wears one too, just also layered with the fishnet shirt.
But that’s just it, they were covered so i couldn’t tell it if it was tank top or not. I know you tell me the stick characters are meant to interpreted as real human beings with normal bodies. But it’s kind of hard to see stick character were nor clothes when their stick bodies have no human like features such as the women not having actual breasts present but more of a shape in the clothing to let us the readers know they are there. It’s just one of the things makes it challenging to interpret at times.
Now I’m not asking for that stuff nor do I really want to that. I’m just saying a Tank top without covering looks kind of interesting on stick female when their isn’t real skin present. But I digress. I guess it’s the first time I’ve seen a tank top present without a cover.
Okay, this would be the point where I’d call the police about harassment. These guys followed Ruth to work and are exhibiting behavior that can be seen as irrational and possibly threatening.
….these guys obviously aren’t the brightest bulbs in the pack… a protest of this nature won’t do anything. The one with power would be the academic advisor, who as I recall, Ruth has already spoken to.