Hi everyone!
Another sparse update this month, I haven't been able to make much progress with the video, but I have a few other exciting things to share.
First of all, I wrote a piece of fanfiction for an Ace Attorney zine all about Phoenix Wright that's now up for preorder! It's a gorgeous zine with loads of fun merch bundles and stretch goals so if you're a fan of the series, ...
Hi everyone!
I had hardly any time to watch/read/play anything in spring but here's what I did manage to fit in:
Aisha
Aisha is a 2022 Irish film and the first of two films I watched on my flight back from Asia in May. The film is about a Nigerian asylum seeker in Ireland who has spent years already moving between temporary accommodations waiting for progress on her case, and an Irish ex-prisoner turned security guard who befriends her.
Aish...
2023-07-12 18:25:49 +0000 UTC View Post
Good evening everyone!
After lots of travelling from late April up until early this month, I finally got settled back at home a few weeks ago and freed up some time to work on the next video. The result is the above! I've actually got 10 minutes edited right now but decided this was a good place to cut the preview. The final runtime is looking to be about 25 minutes.
This is just a draft and there will be a bit of polishing (e.g. exporting it in the right aspect ratio lol), but ho...
2023-06-30 21:42:34 +0000 UTC View PostHi everyone!!
Long time no see! I really apologise for not posting last month, I was travelling and barely had a moment. No excuse, but I didn't and still don't really have any updates, there's unfortunately no progress on the video front 🫠
As some of you will know, May was a very exciting month for me -- I spent almost the entire time in Japan and South Korea! It was the trip of a lifetime and definitely one I want to share more about with you guys, not least of all becaus...
Hi everyone!
Here's a roundup of the media I've gotten through in the first quarter of 2023:
Good (play)
As part of my bid to make the most of having moved back to London, while browsing things to do late last year, I saw that David Tennant was starring in a play on the West End called Good, and decided to get a ticket and go alone.
Good was written by British playwright Cecil Philip Taylor and first published and performed in the 1980s. Despite also r...
2023-04-08 18:53:39 +0000 UTC View PostHi everyone!
I hope you're all well! Needless to say, it's been yet another busy month. In terms of video updates, I finished the script, recorded the audio and am almost done editing it. Progress continues to be slow but steady, not much more I can say :')
My exciting update (more for me than anyone else) is that at the very end of April, I'll be going on an almost month-long trip to Japan and Korea! It'll be my first time going to both and a long-awaited tick off my bucket list....
2023-04-01 22:09:10 +0000 UTC View PostHi everyone!
Another month has passed and I'm back with another small update.
It finally feels like spring is almost here in the UK which is a huge relief. It's been a difficult winter on various levels and I'm looking forward to everything getting a bit easier.
It's been another super busy month for me, but the video is finally almost ready to go into production! I have an edited final draft of the script that I'm just polishing into shape. I don't know if this video is par...
2023-02-28 21:14:40 +0000 UTC View PostHi everyone!
I hope you're all well. This will just be a quick update. It's been a super hectic month for me both professionally and personally, but I did manage to continually work on the Tokyo Godfathers video. I did a good bit of research, including reading a book (No Fixed Abode by Maeve McClenaghan), made the rough plan, and have written most of the script. I'm not as far along as I wanted to be by now, but I expect it'll be easier to carve out time for the project each day once I'...
2023-01-31 22:51:44 +0000 UTC View PostGood evening everyone!
We're into the last few hours of 2022 here in the UK and so it's time to reflect.
It both was and wasn't an eventful year for me on YouTube. I only released one video, but it was a six-hour, 100-page beast. I'm still not really sure how I did it. The project sucked up about eight months of my life frighteningly quickly, and I'm very fortunate that I was able to dedicate so much time to creative endeavours. At the same time, it did drive me slightly mad, and ...
2022-12-31 20:27:06 +0000 UTC View PostGood evening everyone!
I'll be posting my general update post right after this, but for now, here's the media roundup for the last few months. It's quite a diverse list this time:
Sonny Boy
The final anime I managed to finish this year was 2021's Sonny Boy. I'd heard a lot of raving about it and not much else when I decided to pick it up. Any synopsis will tell you it's about a group of high school students who find their school has drifted into a...
2022-12-31 18:56:54 +0000 UTC View PostHi everyone!
I hope you're all keeping well as the weather gets colder and are enjoying the lead-up to the festive season.
The months are flying by! I'm going to be continuing with the relatively short updates while work is consuming my life (in a good way). As promised, I did start rereading Umineko this month (and reading the manga for the first time), but it was also a very difficult month in my personal life and so progress was stunted by that. I think the universe is conspiri...
2022-11-30 17:18:35 +0000 UTC View PostHi everyone!
How are you all? It's getting autumnal in England and it's the first year in a while where I feel like I'm actually enjoying it. It used to be my favourite season, and then that ended up changing at some point, but I'm remembering why all over again.
I really don't have anything to say this month, which I'm going to again try not to be apologetic about. My job is getting busier all the time, but I'm still really enjoying it. I'm hoping to share a bit about what I'm do...
2022-10-31 19:08:54 +0000 UTC View PostGood evening!
Here's some things I've been enjoying over the last few months:
Four Feet Under by Tamsen Courtenay
This is a compilation of the stories of various homeless people in London that I picked up in preparation for my current job. It was exactly what I was hoping for -- extremely eye-opening and informative. It got me to consider the myriad issues people who are homeless face on a daily basis that had never even occurred to me. I think th...
2022-10-16 19:25:14 +0000 UTC View PostHi everyone!
This month's update will be a quick one as I don't have too much to say. Work has been keeping me busy, as well as settling into my new flat and slowly furnishing and decorating my room (fun adult life). I'm very well! What about you?
I don't have a single update on the YouTube front! It's been a needed break, and I've only this week or so begun to feel like I'll have the time and mental energy to now return to rereading Umineko and thinking about videos. I've also on...
2022-09-24 19:26:38 +0000 UTC View Post
Good evening!
Thank you for your patience while I pulled together this excessively long podcast! It's my first time doing one of these immediately after releasing a video, but this will be the standard moving forwards. I might need to change the title of the podcast series 🤔 These are usually exclusive to the £3 tier!
The first part of the podcast is me going through the process of making the video and any additional thoughts on the content. The Q&A starts at 1:29:50!
<... 2022-09-04 19:48:12 +0000 UTC View PostHi everyone!
I hope you're all well and enjoying your summer if it is summer where you live. I certainly am -- I'm writing this on the train back from a trip to Scotland, and I'm off to Ireland this weekend. Otherwise, I've been spending a lot of time out and about doing all sorts. I moved back to London a few months ago in the run-up to starting my job, which I finally did almost a month ago now. It's all going really well. When I haven't been at work, I've been flat-hunting, when I ha...
2022-08-09 19:26:27 +0000 UTC View PostHi guys!
As mentioned, I'm planning to do a podcast on the Gou/Sotsu video as I have been for the rest of my video catalogue talking about the process of making it. If you have any questions about this or the video in general at all, please feel free to leave them here and I'll answer them in the podcast! I'll be back with a proper update soon!
2022-08-01 17:13:58 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi everyone!!!
After almost nine long months, it’s finally, finally, finally here: A Higurashi Gou & Sotsu Post-Mortem.
What can I say? I thought I’d be really emotional to finally be putting this video out there, but it hasn’t hit me yet. I can’t believe I’ve spent such a big chunk of my life on this project — far, far longer than I ever intended — but I don’t regret it. I’m very, very, very proud of this video. It was both extremely challen...
2022-07-30 11:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostHi everyone!
I hope you're all well and that anybody in the UK or one of the many other places suffering with them right now is managing the heatwaves okay. I'm just popping in to give my very last update ahead of the rapidly approaching Big Upload Day!
I'm currently flat-hunting and am also finally starting my job on Monday (the security checks took forever), so things have been pretty crazy. It was also Mion's birthday last weekend which was a lot of fun! I managed to write and ...
2022-07-15 11:37:08 +0000 UTC View PostHi everyone!
I'm renaming these posts as sometimes I want to talk about things that aren't necessarily faves/recs 🧐 Starting off this month with...
Everything Everywhere All at Once
I definitely do recommend giving EEAAO a watch if it sounds interesting to you, especially if you can see it on the big screen. In the unlikely event that you haven't heard of it, it's a film that explores what happens when the main character, Evelyn Quan Wang, beco...
2022-07-03 18:17:16 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi everyone!
I’m here to share the final 20-minute preview of A Higurashi Gou & Sotsu Post-Mortem, ending at one hour and forty minutes into the video as a whole, just before I begin talking about Sotsu. Previews one, two, three and 2022-06-13 18:12:15 +0000 UTC View Post
As in the title! The first, second and third previews are here. I'll be back with the last preview and an update next Monday! Enjoy!
2022-06-06 10:51:18 +0000 UTC View PostHi guys!
I have two things to talk about this month:
Run with the Wind
It's been a busy year so far and this was actually the first anime I got the chance to watch. Run With the Wind is a novel adaptation that came out back in 2018. The show opens with our lead Kakeru Kurahara running away from a convenience store after stealing some bread. Another boy approaches him on a bike and asks him whether he likes running. They find out that they attend the s...
Hey guys!
I'm back with another 20-ish-minute preview (find the others here and here). The whole first hour of the video is now up on here! I've edited beyond this point, but I'm planning to post another preview in about a week, and then probably the last a week after that, capping it at the end of the Satokowashi stuff before I ge...
2022-05-31 14:21:32 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi everyone!
Today I'm back with the next 20-ish minute preview of the Gou/Sotsu video, following on from the first one last month.
Here's the current state of play: it's been expectedly slow going since my last update as things were busy in my personal life for the first half of this month, but I'm making good progress overall. I've managed to entirely finish up editing the voiceover, and it comes in a...
2022-05-18 22:51:32 +0000 UTC View PostHi guys!
Super quick post once again this month, I actually don't have any media recs with the exception of the mobile game Twenty which I don't recommend checking out if you value your time, and some YouTube vids:
The Ethics of Looking And The "Harmless" Peeping Tom by Pop Culture Detective
2022-05-02 21:40:46 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello everyone!!
Today I am so excited to share the first preview for A Higurashi Gou & Sotsu Post-Mortem. This preview covers the first twenty-ish minutes of the video, which will be around 5.5 hours total. I'd say this is about 90% of the way to what the final video will look like -- there's a few small things I need to fix and change, but doing this helps me to spot them.
This will also function as my monthly updates post so let's get right into it. A lot h...
2022-04-30 22:59:38 +0000 UTC View PostHello!
Here's what I enjoyed in March:
The Trojan Horse Affair
The Trojan Horse Affair is a podcast by Serial Productions who I've mentioned that I'm a fan of before. This project immediately caught my eye as it was about something that happened here in England -- the Trojan Horse scandal, where an anonymous letter was sent to Birmingham City Council claiming that Muslim students were being radicalised in schools. Despite its veracity never being ...
2022-04-03 15:49:40 +0000 UTC View PostHello everyone!
I hope you're all well! It feels like spring has finally sprung in the UK and I'm really appreciating the sun, warmth, flowers budding everywhere and longer days. I also finally feel like the finish line for the video is coming into view! Since my last post I've been through a few rounds of script editing, recorded 70% of the voiceover and have been editing it too! I can now say that I’m expecting the runtime to be… *drumroll* between five and six hours 2022-03-30 21:41:17 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi guys!
Popping in super quickly just to share this Higurashi fanfic I just posted -- it was written back in 2019 when it was originally commissioned from me and I stumbled across it again the other day and thought I should share it. It's an alternative take on the end of Minagoroshi. I always forget to be mindful of Higurashi spoilers on here but I'll leave it there just in case 🧐 Check it out if you'd like!
I'll be back before the end of the month as usual with another video...
2022-03-18 19:54:14 +0000 UTC View Post