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The House of Doo: A Comprehensive Genealogy of Scooby Doo's Family [Patron PowerPoint]

Hello Patrons!

For September's PowerPoint, I wanted to discuss a longtime obsession of mine: the family tree of Scooby-Doo. Though to join me today, my friends from the Raandyy's Fandies were here to witness the madness. View Post

The Nihilism of Thimbleweed Park

Edit: Final visuals added to video.

In 2017, Thimbleweed Park was released as an effort to recapture the glory of the point-and-click adventure game of the 1990s. In addition to recapturing the mechanics of the genre, it greatly exemplified the ge...

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Why Ash Ketchum Deserves More Respect | A Patron PowerPoint

Hey Patrons! 

To do something a little different, once a month, I am going to try to show a PowerPoint to you. These are going to be generally unscripted and unedited videos where I talk about things that I wouldn't necessarily want to do a formal video about. Starting us off with my g...

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Infinity Train: The TTRPG | Chapter 3: The Arcade Car

As they continue to travel on the Infinity Train, our heroes find themselves in the mysterious Arcade Car, only to be trapped with the king of games...

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Infinity Train: The TTRPG | Chapter 2: The Harvest Car

The adventures on the Infinity Train Continue as our heroes find themselves amongst a strange harvest... 

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Patron Only Videos!

Hey everybody!

If you have been following my social media, you might have seen that I was experiencing a bit of writers block over the summer. While I have been keeping myself quite busy through my work on The Pink Aisle, the Infinity Train RPG, and with World's Elsewhere; it has been somew...

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Secrets Revealed... (5k Sub Q&A)

Because I am not very good at this, it only took until now to do something to commemorate 5k subscribers. So here's a little Q&A I threw togerther. 

To give you lovely patrons a special thanks, I want to try do some more unscripted stuff for you guys, so let me know what kind of to...

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Infinity Train: The TTRPG | Chapter 1: The Hill Car

To commemorate the release of Infinity Train: the Tabletop RPG here is the first of three videos demonstrating the game system with an original story set in the world of Infinity train.

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Infinity Train TTRPG - Donor Exclusive Download Key

Thanks for donating to my patreon!

 As thanks for your support, all members of the Squirtle Squad will receive the following items:

  • An original soundtrack containing 7 tracks that you can use for your game session composed by the lovel...

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Infinity Train - the Unofficial Tabletop RPG

To download on Itch.io, visit https://hjkathman.itch.io/infinitytrainrpg 

This is a fan-created unlicensed tabletop RPG. Infinity Train is owned by Cartoon Network, Turner Media, T...

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Infinity Train: The Unofficial Tabletop RPG (TRAILER)

Hi guys! So I am technically meeting my arbitrary 1 video/month quota with this trailer in anticipation for the final release of Infinity Train: the Unofficial Tabletop RPG. 

At this point now, the guidebook has undergone a final edit, and the only things I have to work on are...

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Great Photography Games (That AREN'T Pokémon Snap!)

To celebrate the release of New Pokemon Snap, I want to explore the diverse world of photography video games using games that interpret the act of photography in a vast number of ways. In examining these games, we can see the different ways photography can be used to interpret the world ...

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Love's Light Wings | An Erotic Dramatic Reading

This story was originally uploaded to AO3 last year but has since been deleted by the original author. For anyone familiar with my work on the Pink Aisle, you know I like to ...

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Revisiting Pushing Daisies in a Time of Death

To start off 2021, I am releasing short essays summarizing my feelings about last year. These essays have the following self-imposed rules:

  • The scripts are less than 1000 words long
  • They are not comprehensive essays about the subjects
  • These essays are not indicative ...

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The Aerith Paradox | a Final Fantasy VII (2020) Mini Essay

To start off 2021, I am releasing short essays summarizing my feelings about last year. These essays have the following self-imposed rules:

  • The scripts are less than 1000 words long
  • They are not comprehensive essays about the subjects
  • These essays are not indicative ...

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Steven Universe: A Reflection on 2020

To start off 2021, I am releasing short essays summarizing my feelings about last year. These essays have the following self-imposed rules: 

  • The scripts are less than 1000 words long 
  • They are not comprehensive essays about the subjects
  • These essays are not...

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A Look Back on 2020...

It's cliche to talk about how horrible a previous year was, but I want to spend January thinking about stray thoughts that I might have had with the previous year, so I am going to be doing something different by writing four mini-essays about the previous year and the stuff that greatly defined ...

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January essay release poll

Hey guys,

To start off 2021, I am working on a video containing 4 mini-essays about topics that summarize my experience last year. You might remember that I attempted to do this back in 2019, but that project didn't work out as I hoped with the planned part 3 that never happened. But now I ...

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When The River Meets the Sea (Demo with my Sister)

So something I want to try and do in the new year is produce more music, maybe produce a cover album or something. To test this out, my sister and I threw together a very quick and dirty demo of the John Denver song When the River Meets the Sea. Hope you enjoy it!

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Cats (2019) - ONE YEAR LATER

Of all of the pieces of media released in the past year, there hasn't been anything that has caused such contemplation as Tom Hooper's 2019 classic Cats, a movie that has had no shortage of shock and bemusement to all who have seen it. Though instead of focusing on matters of cockroaches...

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Snufkin's Spring Tune (Song Download)

For those of you who want to download my translated cover of Snusmumrikens vårvisa, all patrons get access to an MP3 and Wav version for free! Hope you enjoy!


LYRICS: 

I wander through the forest, upon an early spring

It was as I expect...

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Snufkin's Spring Song

Snufkin's Spring Song (or Snusmumrikens vårvisa in the original Swedish) was a song written by Erna Tauro and Lyrics by Tove Jansson for the music book "Songs from Moominvalley". The song was one of many tunes composed made in this collaboration, and would later be rearranged in 2019 by Emma Kli...

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The Owl House: a History of Witchcraft

In the spirit of the season, this video will be discussing Disney's new series The Owl House, and its relationship to the history of witchcraft and magic? How do the characters of this modern cartoon comment upon the subjugation marginalized people have suffered under the suspicion of witchcraft?...

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Raandyy's Fandies Full Interview Podcast

As a companion to my video "Peacecraft, the McElroys, and Systems of Fan Interaction", I interviewed the different remaining members of the Raandyy's Fandies to see their insights on the series and the aftermath. As a note: to p...

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Peacecraft, the McElroys, and Systems of Fan Interaction

In this video, we will explore the McElroy family and their fanbase through the often overlooked  Polygon web series, Peacecraft. What can the journey of a gnome named Raandyy teach us about fandoms, online communication, and internet toxicity? Join me as I explore this series and find out w...

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The Sorrows of Young Werther and The First Fandom Drama

As we continue to contemplate the ways fandoms behave and evolve, I wish to tell you the sordid tale of the first modern fandom drama, and what the feverous reception to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's novel, "The Sorrows of Young Werther" can teach us about fandoms today.

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[Early Access] Is Brooklyn 99 Copaganda?

Update (6/29/220): I've re-rendered the video so the scanlines and the patented VHS video essay aesthetics look better. I have also decided to lean into the clickbait title in the hopes that more people can watch this and take the messages of abolish...

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[Early Access] An Amateur's Guide to Moomin (Part 3)

For the third and final part of this retrospective on the Moomin Series, I explore the major adaptations of Tove Jansson's work, and examine how it affects the latter half of the author's life, as well as contemplate the reason for why the Moomins have gained such popularity amongst certain peopl...

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Future Video Topic Roadmap: Summer 2020

Hey all, If you guys caught my 2000 Subscriber Stream, I mentioned that I have a little bulletin board with a road map for upcoming video projects. So I just wanted to share a picture of this to give you some idea...

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[Early Access] An Amateur's Guide to Moomin (Part 2)

As we continue our exploration of the Moomin series, we will be discussing the sudden success that Tove Jansson found with the Moomin books and the comic strips, and how her subsequent burnout, romance, and loss went on to influence the world of the Moomins.

 
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