Hey everyone, so my citation list for my video on Holes was so long it didn't fit into YouTube's description (Whoops). Because of this, something that I think I might do in addition to adding the bibliography to the video itself is having my citations list linked publicly on Patre...
2025-10-14 16:32:16 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello! You might recall how late in 2023, I released a video about Adventure Time: Fionna and Cake, which I ended off with a cover of "Part of the Madness" by Rebecca Sugar. Now that Season 2 is expected to drop sometime in October, I am going to be publicly releasing the song on YouTube with this fancy Lyric video. Between this, my video on Holes, and 2025-10-08 21:37:50 +0000 UTC View Post
[Edited 10/14 to include the final draft of the video and update the description]
You've got to go and dig those holes...
In this video, I explore Louis Sachar's novel turned film Holes and the ways it discusses America's past, possible futures, and present curses that afflict this country.
This video is going to also be used to raise money for the Spirit of Giving Fund, a Texas Based nonprofit that provides financial and i...
2025-10-04 22:03:57 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey everyone!
Back in 2023, I contributed to 'Off to Space!' - a Bee and Puppycat Fanzine by creating a small one page rpg based on the show. Now that it's been a couple of years, I wanted to upload it here and on itchio just so people could have easier access to download and play it.
In this game, players ...
2025-07-23 17:09:43 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey Everyone!
I am so happy to announce that after working on revisions for the past few months, I have completed another draft of The Summer of Green and Gold, an original scenario to be played in Call of Cthulhu that is based on The Great Gatsby.
This draft of the adventure includes:
An adventure that is now 102 pages long taking place in New York City over the course of 4 days in August 1922.
Hey Gang!
I have another update for the Galapos Region adventure guide. This time, I have fleshed out the first two locations in the main city of Port Lantana, the welcome center, and the Galapos Research Institute HQ. I decided to continue the trend of making pixel art for the maps of these locations, though I don't think I will want to do this for every single location in the city since it isn't really necessary and adds a lot of extra work into this thing.
The other major thing...
2025-07-16 01:00:34 +0000 UTC View Post
As a little video bonus, here's some behind the scenes footage where I am reading and commenting on one of the sources that became quite helpful for my video about Louis Sachar's 1998 novel Holes, as well as the 2003 film.
I hope this can give some insight in how I go about my research process and what kind of stuff I look at to get ideas for my video.
Møllegaard, Kirsten. “Haunting and History in Louis Sachar’s Holes.” Western American Literature, vol. 45, no. 2, ...
2025-07-09 15:09:04 +0000 UTC View PostHey Everyone!
I hope you are having a nice summer. I am currently hard at work on multiple projects, but one smaller project that I wanted to share early is a segment I am doing in collaboration with The Essay Library, a group of fellow video essayists that are working on a project called "Postcards from the Essay Library"
This is the same group that did the Essay Jam back in January that resulted in 2025-07-08 19:05:38 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey everyone! I'm in the process of my other RPG projects, but I recently started a Mothership campaign with some friends and wanted to make a handout inspired by Breach of Contract that introduces them to Prospero's Dream, the setti...
2025-06-25 18:04:07 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey everyone!
Since my last update 2 weeks ago, I have been continuing work on the Galapos Region alongside some of my other summer projects. In this update, I've added more details about certain factions and locations, but the biggest update regards character art.
As I mentioned in previous updates, some of the characters in this are the product of original fan characters that I wanted to attribute. The process of getting permission has been difficult as some of the sources have ...
2025-06-05 02:13:59 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey everyone!
I have a small update on the Galapos Region. Last time I shared some stuff about story progression and the general factions that can be found in the Galapos Region, now to go into more specific detail about some of those factions. For the first one, I went into the Galapos Research Institute, which an organization that has a lot of application if you decide to run a Pokémon Tabletop campaign in this setting.
Just to note, some the art that's featured is not attribut...
2025-05-24 21:07:40 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello All! I'm back at it again with an update to the Galapos Region Guide, my original setting created for any Pokémon Tabletop System. In this update, I have added 12 new pages detailing more about this region.
The main additions include:
A list of possible campaign styles to use in a Galapos Campaign
A basic description of the different facti...
2025-05-17 22:05:51 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey everyone! Thanks to everyone who watched my most recent video on Pokémon TTRPGS. I've since received a number of comments and messages asking me for more information about the Galapos Region, the original setting that I have used in my home sessions of PTA.
The setting was originally designed by me, but was brought to life with the amazing map and icons that I commissioned from the artist 2025-04-06 18:26:48 +0000 UTC View Post
In another installment of "Henry makes a video about whatever random thing he wants," this video combines my love for Pokémon and Tabletop RPGs to explore which system translates what I consider most important to the themes and mechanics of Pokémon.
This video also is a little bit of a love letter to fan made TTRPGs and to every hobbyists that has created stuff for this space.
It's gonna feel a little weird releasing it since my Porco Rosso vid popped off like crazy and some m...
2025-03-25 18:40:07 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey all!
I have been continuing work on my different videos that I had started last year, but I have completed a basic draft of my newest video about Pokémon Tabletop RPGs. Inspired by my love of the channel Quinns Quest, the world of Pokémon, fan created media, and Tabletop Gaming; this video explores the different attempts fans have made to translate the mechanics of Pokémon into a tabletop setting.
Heyo! I'm currently in the process of finishing up a number of projects that I was working on at the end of 2024. Amongst them is a video that discusses the scene surrounding fan made Pokemon Tabletop Games.
The script was partially inspired by one of my favorite new channels introduced in 2024 Quinn's Quest, but it's also a bit of a love letter to the world of RPGs and the friends I've played with.
As...
2025-01-08 00:40:11 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello everyone!
I am happy to announce that I have completed a basic draft of the first episode of Cowboys & Space Rangers: The Evolving Masculinity of Pixar.
This will be a series of videos that are going to delve into Pixar’s filmography and history to better understand the studio’s relationship with masculinity. The plan is that I will only be releasing each episode once I have completed the edit for the next one. My goal with this will be to make it so patrons...
2024-10-18 00:01:20 +0000 UTC View Post
In preparation for Thatgamecompany's collaboration with Moomin in Sky Children of Light, I have given the game a try, only to find a online multiplayer experience that had felt abandoned since the heyday of early 2000s MMOs like Club Penguin and Pixie Hollow.
This isn't an endorsement of some of the predatory monetization that is kind of inherent to any free to play game, but it might be a fun time for anyone who is looking for a much more chill multipla...
2024-09-07 19:18:34 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey everyone, here is an updated version of A Summer of Green and Gold, a Call of Cthulhu adventure I have been writing for the past couple of years.
After running some playtests, I have fully written out a basic draft of the complete adventure. Those who know my work may be unsurprised to learn that this adventure is an adaptation of The Great Gatsby, and will seek to explore similar themes found in the story with a supernatural layer.
Included ...
2024-08-10 19:44:01 +0000 UTC View Post
From the same artform that brought you Coraline and Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, comes three stories that evoke the existential fear of art.
Update: Here is the final draft of the video with the music composed by Molly Noise. This video is getting released a little later than I expected mostly to give Molly the time she needed to complete the music. Expect the video to be pu...
2024-06-25 19:47:31 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey everyone!
For the past two years, I have been writing a Call of Cthulhu adaptation of F Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby. The novel has served as a point of fascination for the past couple of years, specifically in the ways that it illustrates some of the worst elements of American society in both the 1920s and today. This was around the same time when I was becom...
2024-04-20 16:10:36 +0000 UTC View Post
In this video, I return to the world of Moominvalley to analyze the hotly anticipated game Snufkin: Melody of Moominvalley and its relationship with the original Moomin stories, Tove Jansson, and the philosophies it connects with.
Disclosure: My copy of the game was provided to me by Hyper Games and Raw Fury. While I think objectivity is overrated, the opinions in this video have not been influenced by the developers and are a reflection of my own thoughts on t...
2024-03-29 00:53:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey All!
Expect an update on some big plans for 2024 later this weekend, but until then, here are some landing pages I have created for the Call of Cthulhu campaign books Cthulhu Dark Ages and Down Darker Trails by Chaosium.
These are startup pages for Virtual Tab...
2024-02-17 20:15:05 +0000 UTC View Post
With the conclusion of season 1 of Adventure Time: Fionna and Cake, this video seeks to explore the show's relationship with the philosophical concept of Eternal Recurrence, the notion that everything stays, right where we left it. But does everything truly stay without changing? Come along with me to find out!
Stream or Download my cover of "Part of the Madness" from Adventure Time: Fionna and Cake for $1!
I'm back on my bullshit of making cartoon covers for my videos. This time, I wanted to expand the sound of this little number from Adventure Time: Fionna and Cake. A lot of Rebecca Sugar's music taps into flavors of Bossa Nova Jazz, so I've decided to finally dust off the old trumpet and play through this. I haven't played my trumpet since like 2015, so you can hear some of the rus...
2023-12-24 05:35:55 +0000 UTC View Post
Update: Because Warner Bros has been continually putting a copyright claim on this video, I have been putting it's release on hold until it is resolved. Until Then, enjoy the early access to this finalized video!
Indeed, with my summer vacation, I have been able to complete a basic draft of my newest video slated to release this August, a deep dive into the 2013 Baz Luhrmann adaptation of The Great Gatsby. I still have a couple of things to add...
2023-07-26 00:47:57 +0000 UTC View Post
For this next video, I have decided to meet the demands of Gamers™ everywhere and write a 100% objective review of the 2018 video game Celeste. Yep, definitely nothing that isn't objective in this video, no sir.
Watch to find out whether I give this game a good, perfect, or the worst rating a video game could receive: 6.5/10.
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Ok but in all seriousness, this video is my attempt at using...
2023-07-01 22:26:46 +0000 UTC View Post
In the final part of this retrospective on Ruth Handler's life, we explore her time at Mattel overseeing Barbie's rise to fame, the disasters that saw her leave Mattel, the cancer diagnosis that changed her life, and the personal and legal trials she faced as she was separated from her prized creation, Barbie. What do these things say about Handler and Barbie's legacy, listen and find out!
In part 2 of this series, we continue to explore the life of Ruth Handler, the creator of Barbie, as we specifically discuss the process she went through in the creation of the doll. A process that included Japanese war criminals, unscrupulous business deals, and a shockingly horny psychologist. How was Barbie able to succeed in these strange and challenging circumstances? Listen and find out!
This is part one of three of our retrospective mini-series examining the life and legacy of Barbie's creator, Ruth Handler. In this section, we explore Handler's early life as Henry explains to Emma the different challenges she and her husband faced before creating the doll we all know and love, including scandalous marriages, antisemitism, a changing manufacturing industry, and something called a Uke-a-Doodle. What does all of this have to do with Barbie? Listen and find out!