Hello, helpful humans! Hope you all are having a lovely Thursday.
Now this one may be a heavy hitter, but writing this 4 minutes in advance of leaving for my trip, I can tell you I am absolutely stoked for London and for all the lessons I'm about to learn entering this new social milieu.
I only hope this journey is relatable for a lot of you. I'm no social butterfly, but any of us can metamorphose with the right care.
If you have any questions about this, feel free to ask me...
2019-02-14 19:01:00 +0000 UTC
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Hello, Helpful Humans and Engineers of the foundry!
I'm writing this as I'm about 60 seconds out from leaving for London. Needless to say, there won't be any kind of traditional Forge session this Friday, as I'll be off in another country.
Instead, get ready for a Forge session after I come home!
The Foundry Forge
When: Friday, February 22nd, 6:30-7:30pm CST
Where:...
2019-02-13 19:00:02 +0000 UTC
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Outside of scheduled posts, I've been moving about just a bit too much to be posting regularly, but that doesn't mean I've nothing to share with all of you.
London is fascinating, mostly because my experience with it thus far is so vastly different from what I'd been expecting. For some reason, in my brain London has always been a metropolitan shanty town. I expected everything to be ruddy wood, smokestacks, cobblestones. Don't ask me why, this is just the aesthetic conglomerat...
2019-02-13 11:45:19 +0000 UTC
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G'monday, helpful humans of the future!
This is Benji, communicating with you from a time long past (read: yesterday). By the time you receive this transmission I shall be long gone, sailed far into the sky toward and away toward my destiny...
Vidcon London.
I'm equal parts jazzed and nervous, as you'll find in the coming Patreoncast for this Thursday. For the first time in my life, I'll find myself surrounded by people within my industry, who do a lot of the same things I d...
2019-02-11 19:01:00 +0000 UTC
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Just a quick reminder that we've got a Forge session coming up on the Discord server in less than half an hour!
This might be our biggest and most open session so far, so if you're new, be sure to join us! It's gonna be a lot of fun!
All the details here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/forge-new-smiths-24521693
2019-02-09 00:06:56 +0000 UTC
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I liked the look of them in the product images, but I received my personal set of bookmarks in the mail today and...
I just cannot believe how good these things look between the pages of a book. I couldn't be happier with how they turned out~
There are only 100 of these bad boys left, so if you're still curious about how to get one, be sure to check out all the deets here: 2019-02-08 23:57:47 +0000 UTC
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Welcome, helpful humans, to this week's Tale Foundry Patreoncast, wherein I mostly just gush at you about how amazing you are and how much I love you.
Enjoy~
More substantial, show-production-related topics to come. <3
—Benji
2019-02-08 02:21:58 +0000 UTC
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Hello hello, helpful humans of all kinds!
For a lot of you this will be the first time you ever see anything about The Forge. Allow me a brief explanation before I go on:
The Forge is a livechat voice channel in the discord server where I gather with the community to put our heads together and come up with material for the show in real time.
This can range from reviewin...
2019-02-06 22:59:06 +0000 UTC
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IT'S HAPPENING!
All of you have come together and pushed Tale Foundry well past simple stability. Thanks to you, this show is not only safe, but it's about to get way better than it's ever been!
With Felipe's help, we're going to work our way back toward an upload rate of 1 video/month, which should totally be possible with the amount of time he...
2019-02-06 21:39:09 +0000 UTC
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I'm shocked.
Our bookmarks are vanishing far faster than I could have ever predicted. The last four days have been an unbelievable whirlwind of support from the greater community, flooding in to join us here on Patreon. As a result, our bookmarks have been eaten up by the new $10 patrons who will get theirs automatically. At this rate, they may all be gone in the next few days!
But if you're an existing patron (or a new patron who pledged beneat...
2019-02-05 23:16:38 +0000 UTC
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Hello, Helpful Humans, both new and old!
There are... a whole lot more of you here now than last time I shared one of these. It's almost surreal to see this much support pouring out of the larger Tale Foundry community. I've always known the love is deep, but it rocks me to see it so viscerally.
Before I get on with the update, I just want to say thank for the umpteenth time. I can't say it enough, really. The last few days alone feel transformative. Me and my show (and the team I...
2019-02-05 02:47:06 +0000 UTC
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It's official! With help of all of our amazing new patrons, we've passed our $1,500 goal!
As of now we can finally start focusing less on what works well in Youtube's algorithm and more on what you—our community—want to see most! Things like the SCP Foundation, the Steampunk Genre, and Fan Fiction are all free game at this point!
2019-02-03 08:09:50 +0000 UTC
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Hey everyone!
Just a reminder for everyone signing up at the $10+ this month:
If you weren't prompted to add a shipping address to your patreon account when you signed up, be sure to add one now! We won't be able to send out your bookmark until you do!
Click here for instructions on how to add/update ...
2019-02-02 07:13:05 +0000 UTC
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Bookmarks are out of stock!
A massive thank you to everyone who joined the Patreon community during this period! It's literally changed everything for us. 2019 is going to be an incredible year for the show.
—Benji
2019-02-01 21:48:57 +0000 UTC
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The bookmarks are officially out of stock!
A massive thank you to everyone who threw in to support the show of February and beyond! 2019 is already shaping up to be the show's best year so far. We could never do this without all of our helpful humans.
Here's to another amazing year of making stuff up! ❤️
—Benji
2019-02-01 21:43:25 +0000 UTC
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A little slow on the draw, but better late than never!
If all goes well, tomorrow should be a big day for this community and for the show. It could well change the entire year/lifetime of Tale Foundry. Let's all cross our fingers together (but separately, because no one wants to be involved in a hideous five-hundred-way finger knot) and try to enjoy the journey.
Tomorrow, we get to enjoy these beauties, finally:
2019-02-01 06:17:15 +0000 UTC
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Hope you're having a lovely Mundey.
I don't have much to share with you guys this week, unfortunately. Just working hard on this Patreon drive to kick off 2019! It should be out on the first of February, about 4-5 days from now.
Prepare yourselves! Hopefully that'll make a bit of a whirlwind for the show and get us sailing in the right direction.
The week after that, I'll be off to Vidcon London, which I'm absolutely ecstatic about! I'll be sure to ke...
2019-01-28 23:41:04 +0000 UTC
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Hello helpful humans!
A bit late on the upload here. Sorry about that. I'm slowly but surely learning things about schedule management. That I am bad it is among them.
Nevertheless, I have something to talk to y'all about. I've been teasing this nonstop for what feels like ages now, but I've finally gone and updated the goals here on Patreon. This is an important part of the upcoming drive, and I hope listening to me ramble in depth about all of them brings you as much optimism an...
2019-01-25 07:16:28 +0000 UTC
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Hello, helpful humans, engineers, and artificers!
There'll be no reading attached to this upcoming Forge session, as I more or less have all I'm going to need to begin the writing for the first script at this point. Instead, we're going to discuss something I've been wracking my brain over since I started reading Pratchett: what does Pratchett/Discworld look like?
This is largely about the video's thumbnail, intro sequence, and the common imagery I'm go...
2019-01-23 22:24:37 +0000 UTC
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G'monday, helpful humans!
The year is about to start! I mean, that technically happened several weeks ago, but it's like any given day—it doesn't actually start or end until you've woken up or gone to bed. And Tale Foundry's 2019 is on the cusp of actually starting with the forthcoming Patreon drive video. It'll be Talebot's first appearance of the year, and (hopefully) will kick things into high gear in the coming months.
So let's talk a bit about how 2019's shaping up...
2019-01-21 17:33:31 +0000 UTC
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We're back with another Tale Foundry Patreoncast. And this time, it's personal.
...not that it wasn't last time.
We'll be talking about more generalized parts of the show while we wait for this Patreon drive to begin. Last time it was my experience as an artist running a Patreon, this time it's my experience as an artist who co-exists with his fictional host: Talebot.
Don't expect any lore drops this time; it's mostly about my relationship with TB and how I think of...
2019-01-17 21:28:34 +0000 UTC
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Hello, helpful humans! Happy wednesday—or as the bloggers and instagrammers call it, "hump day"! I hope your week is treating you well.
This has been a unique experience compared to the rest of the readings I've done for the Forge. I actually decided not to take extensive notes this time, as I feel I'm using this particular reading to get a feel for Terry Pratchett as a human being rather than strictly as narrative voice.
And I think it's beginning to work.
2019-01-16 23:11:30 +0000 UTC
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G'monday, all y'all helpful humans!
The start of a brand-squeaking-new week. Time to re-calibrate and get that schedule in good working order. I'm off to a slow start myself, but progress is progress, however minute it may be.
Shall we talk about it?
Where are we now?
In the middle of creating this Patreon drive!
Today I'll be planning out the visuals, and then I'll be creating assets and stringing things together over the course...
2019-01-14 22:07:04 +0000 UTC
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Hello, all y'all helpful humans!
So this is a very new thing, and I think it worked out pretty well, but I'm very interested in your feedback. Do you enjoy listening to me ramble about the show in general, share my thoughts about things as a creator? Was this fun for you, or should I try to keep it a little shorter?
I really enjoyed this and am looking forward to a lot more of them in the future, but a lot of my decisions about this Patreon hinge on your feelings...
2019-01-11 22:33:25 +0000 UTC
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Heyo, helpful humans!
Just a quick update to let you know where the sneak peek went for this week. I had some difficulties with the audio, so I won't be able to share it with you until tomorrow, unfortunately. The good news is that I really enjoyed recording it, and it seems like the right direction to go with sneak peeks moving forward. Low-maintenance, but personal. So expect that tomorrow!
In other news, I have four new, freshly-adopted taleoids to introduce all of you to! Ever...
2019-01-11 01:32:18 +0000 UTC
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Hello, helpful humans!
This is going up a bit late tonight, it's still in plenty of time for our upcoming Forge session. This time we're doing something a little different, reading some non-fiction in preparation for the upcoming Terry Pratchett series.
I have some mixed feelings about whether the author themself should be involved in the analysis of their work, but seeing as we're thinking so hard about author voice and self-characterization, I felt it might be helpful to get...
2019-01-10 06:50:16 +0000 UTC
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Good (thirty minutes past) Monday, helpful humans!
Since the video's come out, this marks the first official week of work for Tale Foundry's 2019 year. I took last week to get some ducks in a row and manage some Patreon stuff, but now it's back to video creation. And this year, we're going to be kicking things off with a Patreon drive!
Let's talk about it.
Where are we now?
We're all eager for the Terry Pratchett series—especially ever...
2019-01-08 06:57:53 +0000 UTC
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Come join us in #the-foundry-forge on our the TF discord server at 6:30pm CST tonight to hear what I've been delving into with Author voice and to give your input! All the details are over here.
2019-01-05 00:05:25 +0000 UTC
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Heyo, helpful humans!
I have a bit of unfortunate but important news for you guys. After some reflection, I'm beginning to realize that sharing a video sneak peek with you every week isn't exactly feasible. There are two reasons for this:
1 — I don't always have material. Sometimes I'll be deep in the writing process, sometimes I'll be in the middle of editing audio, neither of which are exactly conducive the visual medium of video. Squeezing out a mandat...
2019-01-03 21:42:52 +0000 UTC
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Welcome to the middle of the week, all you helpful humans and engineers!
Just a quick reminder about the Forge session that's coming up in a few days, here. It'll be the first more theory-oriented Forge session we've run, with a heavy emphasis on trying to understand how literature and writing in general work as opposed to a specific author.
Obviously this is all in service of learning to write from Pratchett, but we have to have a more generalized understanding be...
2019-01-02 17:38:28 +0000 UTC
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