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Finally: THE DEED OF PAKSENARRION!

WOOOO!

Also since this is likely to be a less clicked on episode I hope you like my CLICKBAIT THUMBNAIL!

(I do actually talk about Jordan Peterson in the episode, it is honestly relevant that his face is on there.)

Anger, paladins, and how we should all be a little more like Paksenarri...

Hairsticks, A History

Shush I'm proud of that title.

File this blog post under 'Jill has freakishly comprehensive knowledge about bizarrely specific subject areas'.

Also: pretty pictures! Look at that carving!

New BrightSci and Poll Results!

People try to persuade you into all kinds of weird nonsense when you're pregnant; lotus birth is just one of many. But it's unscientific and woo and potentially harmful so I decided to make a video!

Fair warning there are photos of placentas and umbilical cords and stuff.

Also: THE RESULTS O...

Ready? Set? Vote!

All right, some excellent suggestions by my $10 Patrons here, and I'm going to get to as many of them as I can, but which one do you really really want?

(Yo, I tell you what I want, what I really, really want...) 

SYL 165 (really now): Derry Girls

For you, a little earlier than everyone else (this one was a bit of a rush, the finale was only last Thursday!) Definitely not a safe for work show, but so so so good. Honest.

SYL 165 early access: THE TRUTH

The Discworld book, not any of the other kinds. :D

I'm off to watch the finale of Derry Girls now, have a great weekend!

ETA: OK I have just watched the Derry Girls finale and IT WAS AMAZING so I'm going to try and swap these around, if I can get an episode filmed. So it may be you've just s...

Patron update! ✨✨✨

Wind! Rain! Sick toddlers! Works in progress!

What Am I Reading? SYL Extra Early Access!

Hat tip to Anders who recommended The Happiness Hypothesis and The Righteous Mind, they're both great. 

General Patron update coming in a couple of days, but currently: Ursa Minor still under the weather, but after two weeks with a broken washing machine, we've finally got a new one!

Ho...

How (Not) To Be A "Nice Guy"

Sorry I didn't get this up for you all earlier, Ursa Minor has been ill. Nothing serious, but it means no nursery and a lot of coughing.

I think the real moral we should get from this story is that if you ask me a question enough times, I might still answer it...but I might make you a terrible war...

Rogue One Early Access!

Yes, it's slightly earlier than usual access this time, because I will be AFK (horror!) for a few days. I'll see you all when I get back!

Hope you like this totally-not-at-all-a-book-review, no siree Bob!

Have a great weekend!

SYL 163: Spark Joy and KonMari 2 Years On

Tidying! (Aka decluttering and organising if you aren't Slightly Kooky Tidying Pixie, Marie Kondo).

Happy New Year! Tidying up after myself still sucks! But less than it used to! Because there's less to tidy!

Sorry this is a bit late up on Patreon. My toddler broke my glasses, which are now ...

Spark Joy Early Bird!

Ok, it was meant to be a review of Spark Joy by Marie Kondo. It sort of became more of a 'well, how well does the Konmari method work in the long term?' type of thing, but there we are.

Remember if you pledge more than $1.25 you probably need to go tick the box for early access...ahem. I may have ...

Dealing With Toxic Fandoms (A SYL Extra)

I got an interesting Tumblr ask and thought, well, actually, this would make a pretty good video topic! And so here we are. 

Happy almost new year, everyone! 

Merry Christmas!

OK I remembered the thing I forgot, to wit, I have about a decade's worth of Christmas movies I can look at now. And at least two years' worth of ones which I've already seen and love a lot, so yay!

Merry Christmas, everyone. I wish you as much happiness as I have. Which is, without getting too HA...

The Last Jedi Early Bird!

I just... have a lot of feelings. 

Good ones, generally.

But...you know. FEELINGS.

Livestream here now wooo!

1600 GMT, to be precise about it. 

I think I'm getting the hang of this, though let's be real, it'll be a while before I'm doing anything complicated like playing games and streaming at the same time. :D

I...err...I hope the chat is working. 

It's the RPG mashup game!

Enjoy, lovely people! I'm off to see The Last Jedi tonight and I'm so excited! (I'm also having a terrible hair day, which may make fancy hair-doing a bit of a problem. Hmph.)

Also, dear Patrons, do come along tomorrow at 4pm GMT for my first ever Patron livestream!

I promise not to talk abo...

Announcing my first ever Patron livestream...I hope.

Ok, so Patreon are not rolling out the thing.<br><br>Good.<br><br>I’m just going to keep the $1.25 tier, because hey, why not. But we should get together! And have a chat about Patreon and tiers and life and stuff!<br><br>So what I’m going to do, on Saturday 1...

OH $%^& I deleted the tier instead of changing the amount...

Hey, are you a Patron? Do you pledge $1.25 a month or more? Then you are eligible for the $1.25 tier, which replaces the $2 tier because $2 is now $2.75 or something.

I may have accidentally deleted the tier instead of changing it though. Um, sorry. It wouldn't let me type a new number. Or so I th...

So about that change in fee structure...

A lot of you know this already, and I assume the rest of you will be informed by Patreon in due course, but...

Patreon is changing its fee structure and it looks like a whole Barrel Of Stupid.

How and why? Well, they explain it all 2017-12-08 08:51:38 +0000 UTC View Post

Vidme is Dead, Long Live Our YouTube Overlords

New video! Which is going up right now, because...it has finished uploading, hooray!

I wanted to talk a bit about video hosting sites and why, with the best will in the world, everyone still has to bow to our Facebook slash YouTube overlords.

Possibly both sets of overlords. And the odd over...

YET MORE HAIR!

OK, I should probably make one for five days to go...But WhAt? I can't do Rey's hair at all, I just have too much hair to make it work. 

And the toddler has too little. I tried. Maybe next Halloween?

Still, Cloud City woo!

I L U AANG!

In other news, ATLA uses a lot of centre framing. o.0

SYL early bird: Avatar Aang!

In this episode: why people tend to forget about Aang, how love is a sacrifice to the needs of the Avatar, and why Uncle Iroh was right all along.

Also, someone has come and fixed our phone line fault! This episode took three hours to upload, but maybe the final version will be quicker! MAYBE EVEN...

SYL 161 Yes Minister Early Bird!

It's a five and a half minute episode. I do not want to tell you how many hours it took to upload to YouTube. 

My goodness, so many hours. 

So.

Many.

Luckily we are not staying in this house with its amazingly slow internet for too many months, so probably by the summer...

No Internet, No Heat, But At Least The Shower Is Working!

There will not (you might have guessed) be a regularly scheduled episode of Stuff You Like out next week because I have moved into a new house (well, new to me!) and the Internet company are being slow to transfer things.

Also the hot water is working but the radiators are all stone cold. It ...

1984 Early Bird!

Wow, George Orwell. You are always on point. And everybody loves you, because your cornucopia of horrors contains something for everyone.

Some Day My House Will Come...

There will come a day, some day, when you're watching one of my videos and you think wow, man, Jill hasn't complained about moving house in a long time.

And that will indeed be a joyous day.

I'm not going to complain about moving house now, but things have changed in a rapid and une...

Get Recced | History of Fanfiction 7

I really strongly suggest that you go read the YouTube comments. 

Seriously there are over a HUNDRED comments where people rhapsodise about their favourite fanfics. 

It's pretty great. :D

HOFF 7 Early Bird!

An episode of pure happiness and many fanfic recs. Share your favourite in the comments, or just tune into the start and learn about gift economies.

Because that's just how we roll around here. :)

In moving news, the letting agency have changed the date we have to go sign things, and thus ou...