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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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This needs to be a panel.
The only problem is that it takes a comprehensive knowledge of the shows.
So, what, you’re saying there’s a surfeit of potential panelists?
More like a dearth–I’ve been to way too many panels where the panelists’ knowledge was severely lacking.
so you make it a competition, the shows are assigned randomly and a panel and you have X amount of time to create your pitch then a team of of judges score the pitches
it would be The masquerade for aspiring writers and fan fic enthusiasts
I’d watch this panel.
the proposed mash up would be a lot like Escaflone or Aura Battler Dunbine
I prefer to think of it as “Alchemech: Destiny of the Hunters”
Until the tank starts dating one of the mechs.
Well Toei Animation in Japan made a merged episode of DBZ, One Piece, and Toriko in the show One Piece. Just wanted to put that out there.
They did even worse in an episode of Gintama.
I thought it was Maychek…
Also spelling error in Panel 3, “Cark”
Oof – thanks for catching the typo.
As for the pronunciation of “Macek” — I’ve always heard it pronounced “May-sek,” so at the very least (whether it’s right or wrong) that’s how Max and Veronica would say it.
VANESSA
PANEL IDEA
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