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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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Hey! A dealer selling CD’s!
And at a con with a “No Bootlegs” policy, no less!
They could legal copies of soundtracks to popular video games or anime series.
Guess I phrased that poorly. I was merely commenting on the lack of dealers selling CDs these days, when once they were abundant.
*sigh* I miss the old days. When fansubs were multigenerational VHS copies, a lot of things were dub-only, and $40 for two episodes was considered an acceptable price.
On second thought, I only miss certain, overly romanticized elements.
Agreed. Some parts of Cons Of The Past were pretty awesome… but as a whole, the modern stuff is better.
Yeah, besides the fact that a Pioneer/Geneon released a number of Jpop and anime soundtracks, and there’s a number of game soundtracks available in the US, a lot of groups also import Japanese CDs. As long as they’re not Son May or Ever Anime or one of the other bootleg groups, there’s no reason to question CDs being at a convention.
I really need to be more specific when I’m waxing nostalgic
Yeah, the “Stubble Guy’s” table has CDs because I used to sell (legit, imported) CDs at cons.