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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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Welcome to the cesspit where I live called Florida. It’s not as bad as it once was, but there was a point in time where this was the norm.
That poor man…
Once you’ve got your foot in your mouth, you should at least try not to chew…
Yeah, we get this all the time. NYC anime fans despise crossing into NJ for a con even though it’s nigh-impossible to run a mid-sized con in NYC due to costs. Trust me, we’ve checked.
I believe t’s called a “rack focus,” Mark.
What’s a real con? I mean what defines a Fake con from a Real con?
same criteria as gamer girls?
Same criteria as real cheese?
‘Is he personally involved with running it, and take pride in doing so?’ Anything less, not a ‘Real’ Con.
Are he and his staff going to turn out to be from Chicago?
*whistles whle looking off to the side*
You daffy bastard!
That’d be like people from Minnesota and Illinois running a con in Iowa!
@Berhard, Not quite as crazy as it sounds. Well, maybe it would be, for Milwaukee proper. Congenial (a Racine-area relaxacon) was started by Milwaukee fen and then taken over (relatively amicably as such things go) by Chicago fen who were heartily tired of the existing Chicago con scene. Not sure if it’s still operating, haven’t heard any references to it in a while. The “not a real con” comment was used non-ironically in the 80’s and 90’s to refer to any “media” (television-series- or movie-oriented) convention, because (as the gatekeepers held) “real fans read books”. Book books, not comic books. Comic cons, such as existed then, were more like flea markets or swap meets. Really boring if you weren’t really into it. “Real” cons were not-for-profit, had an art show, a hospitality suite, a masquerade for the costumers, discussion panels, and catered to a broad spectrum of interests….if your interests were literary, that is, because the GoH’s were authors and artists. Now it seems that you have to be a big glitzy (read: expensive) for-profit event with Big Name guests to be “real”…