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SAHCon 2023: Watch the Project Showcase

It’s short notice, but if you’re free tonight, come attend this SAHcon 2023 event!

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Join us tomorrow at 8 pm EST as we showcase over 30 fan-made projects, including games, MSPFA adventures, zines, and more!

Everything is happening on our YouTube channel, and we’ll be opening up the SAHCon discord to let folks chat at 7 pm EST, one hour before the showcase!

I’ll be there, so make sure to join too. Even if it’ll be 7AM for me….. Time zones…..

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The Music of Michael Guy Bowman Has Really Impacted My Life

There’s too much I could write about for Michael Guy Bowman for one article. He’s one of my favorite music artists. A musician whose work been there for me through the past twelve years of my life, whose work has changed and grown alongside pivotal moments in my life.

Honestly, I could write a whole book about Bowman’s music and comedy. Maybe I will someday. Probably not, but still.

For now, I want to simply paint a picture of each Michael Guy Bowman solo album. Where I was in my life, how...

Karkalicious Captures the Essence of 2010s Internet Fandom

Karkalicious is great. You heard it here folks, I’m staking my position right here like the bold op-ed writer I have always been meant to be.

Karkalicious definition makes Terezi loco. No, I don’t do Kismesis.

It’s simultaneously actually kind of interesting while also being embarrassing to massive cringe-worthy levels. The Homestuck fandom, and by extension all those huge fandoms from the early 2010s, were just so ambitious. Fan art and fan fiction everywhere, of course, as expected...

Busy

I’m really busy. I’ve got book deadlines coming, comics to finish reading, real life social stuff to deal with, and another stockpile of fun blogs to build up.

I’m really happy about it all, honestly.

Most of 2022 was a gigantic mess for me, and it lasted through early 2023. Almost no creative activity, financial woes, being forced to move twice in a single year, and struggles in finding friends in my new homes. I was busy then, too, but it didn’t always feel great.

I’m still posting my...

New Book: Madoka Magica Memories!

My new book of Madoka Magica Memories comes out on 4/27. Please preorder it!

It’s a collection of essays about Madoka Magica, an anime greatly influential on my life and on pop culture as a whole. If you’ve enjoyed my 200+ blog posts, you’ll definitely enjoy this book too.

Nonfiction is… difficult to get popular on Amazon, but if this book can reach 20 preorders, it will probably become #1 in some Amazon categories, which will show the book to users from around the world. That’s huge...

Progress Mini-Blogs

I’m gonna start writing up daily (or semi-weekly) progress mini-blogs, just to talk about the stuff I did and totally just keep myself fully transparent. These blogs are going to be a bit too inconsequential for this website, though, so I’m going to put them over on my Tumblr account instead. That’s right. I’m using Tumblr more lately, mostly because it’s not that popular anymore and most of the intense toxicity moved onto Twitter and Reddit. It’s kind of nice and chilled-out these days.

Foll...

The Sad Secret of Blog Archives

The sad secret of blog archives is that the archives don’t seem to work like you think. They don’t really increase views over time like you’d sort of expect. And I think that’s more the reality of blogging in the 2020s and the crushing power of SEO, than anything.

It’s kind of crazy, because it goes against my own internet viewing habits. I can’t tell you the number of times I’ve randomly discovered some website with tons of articles. I came there just to read one, but then I ended up clickin...

The World Deserves a Fire Emblem Tellius Remake!

Give us a Tellius remake, Nintendo, and I’ll stop complaining all the time about your stupid business tactics. Yes, I am that easy to please.

There’s heavy, heavy rumors of a new Fire Emblem remake. In fact, data mining has exposed apparent proof of one. Everyone thinks it’s a remake of FE4, Genealogy of the Holy War, and… Uh, they’re probably right. But, if it’s not that, it’s abolutely a Tellius remake.

Since the next game will release in probably 2024 and it’s probably FE4 remake, then ...

Watching Movies With Poor Internet Connections [2010s]

Watching movies with poor internet connections will eventually be a thing of the past. Now that the age of 4G is nearly past, it might come even faster than we ever realized.

The 2020s are going to mark a transition in connectivity for the entire world. Soon, 4G will reach wide swathes of the planet (it’s already doing very well), and 5G is coming just as quickly. With 5G faster than anyone reasonably needs, with satellite internet finally viable and other really cool connectivity methods pop...

Operation Rainfall [2011-2012]

When grassroots campaigns succeed, like Operation Rainfall did, it can feel like people have moved mountains.

Three great Wii RPGs actually got localized, actually got released thanks to a massive outpouring of fan demand. One of Nintendo’s biggest franchises only exists thanks to these fans, and we should never forget that.

Giant soulless corporations actually responding, actually acceding to fervent demands… it’s insane when it actually happens. And Nintendo is the most surprising of the...