August Newsletter

August Newsletter

Hi everyone! This is your August newsletter, as written, typed, corrected, autocorrected, set on fire, doused with water, recovered, corrupted, re-written, thrown off a nearby cliff, taken down to the very last circle of hell, re-re-recovered, and finally posted by yours truly <3

I won’t beat about the bush, June and July were brutal. As always, you guys are awesome, but there’s just a few bits going on behind the scenes that piled up, and suddenly everything was very upside down. But I think I’m over the worst of it. Though there’s a chance I may need to recuperate a little longer. Bear with me, I promise I’ll make a grand return when the time, and mental health, is right. So, when I fully get back on my bullshit, what can you expect?

Twitch Update

- BIRTHDAY STREAM! Join me on 7th August at 4pm for many hours of games, rats, cakes, and other birthday baubles. Just having you there would make it one amazing party, but if you’d like me to open something on stream, please send it through to:

Octavius

Mailbox 88 and MBE Cambridge

23 King Street

Cambridge

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Videos Planned This Month!

1) Pokémon Bootlegs! THEY’RE TERRIBLE AND THEY’RE DEFINITELY HAPPENING. JJ knows it’ll take more than a mental health break for me to not make this video. And she hates it. Ahahahahaha.

2) Little Red Riding Hood for the NES. [screams internally]

3) Rats and Tat! Back once again with the ill behaviour, the army of ratlings and I will be reviewing some of the finest crap money can buy.

Update on Me

Here we go. Time for a bit of a Mental Health chat. Veteran subs will know that this is some old, and very well-trodden ground for me. Sometimes it’s easier, sometimes it isn’t. And these last two months, it really wasn’t. Won’t get into the details of it, but suffice to say I wasn’t in a place where being online was conductive to my thought processes in any way shape or form.

And then I hit the bottom of it. So, I did what I always do; I slowly got back up and started climbing out of the pit. I started small, didn’t over-exert myself, and now I‘m slowly chipping away at several new scripts.

It’d be nice to say that each of these episodes come with a silver lining, like learning ‘it all comes down to the power of self-belief’ or ‘you can do anything you put your mind to if you just try’. But that’s baubles, because the reality is that you don’t have to take anything away from times like this. You get to feel crap and not get better at feeling crap. There is no magic button that turns all this into a very valuable life lesson. You’re already dealing with enough, never mind thinking you have to come out the other side being a better person off the back of it.

What I think I’m saying is, this happens to everyone from time to time. And that’s ok. We just need to take our time.

So, thank you for being there for me. I’m here for you too.

Patreon

CARDS HAVE BEEN SENT! PHYSICAL ACTUAL CARDS! Do let me know if you received them all (sorrynotsorry about the glitter. You were warned.)

Rats Rats Rats

As always, the sweet, mental angels have been keeping me somewhat sane. Although one of them, not naming names *ahemTEACAKEahem* decided to spice up a stream at the beginning of the June by chewing right through my Streamlabs cable. Fixed it for the most part, though it did put Archers part 3 on hold for a bit!

Officer waffles’ diet has been paying off! He is several grams lighter! What a slightly smaller lad!

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So, it’s been a bad couple of months. But hey – this is newsletter number 3. That’s two more than my personal best. If I can do that feeling as crap as I do right now, then there’s no limit to what I can do when I’m back on top form. Just you wait!

Thanks again for all your support. You guys are the freaking best.

Octy x