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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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Hypothetically we all could learn to speak Dutch or German, or French, or Cantonese, or South Korean, or Turkish(which I once could understand better than English at one point in my life it’s a long story and you would have to message me on Facebook for that one), but you know, we’re too tired and busy to learn them. Also technology is coming out so we don’t have to learn new languages.
Which is slightly sad. People tend to think better and make more logic choices when working in a second language. It’s one of the best things you can do to boost your brain power.
Granted, but it is a pretty vast investment in time/effort, especially if it’s not one you’re going to use constantly. Otherwise it seems to often fade after a while, ‘specially if it’s not one you learned as a kid. Those usually stick, but a language learned later in life – as I found out with my Spanish – gets realllllllly rusty when you don’t use it for a long while. I can still sorta stumble along in baby talk, but that’s about it. Rarely used these days barring sometimes grabbing a La Opinion to read or something, and written Spanish I find by far easier than speaking it. Heck I can probably read like a 5 year old instead of like a baby!
*helps that La Opinion seems to be written mostly in fairly simple Spanish. Always figured to accommodate readers from many different countries/Hispanic cultures at once