Is PACKED.
Hey everybody!
Sorry I've been missing updates and things lately, guys. This series has been an absolute bear. Between sickness and losing a few weeks to re-writes, I'm pushing my sponsorship deadlines quite a bit at this point, which means I'm worki...
2019-04-10 21:18:39 +0000 UTC View PostHeyo, Foundry maintenance crew!
Apologies for not mentioning this earlier in the week—I've just been hard at work wrapping up the writing for the Pratchett series so we can swing into video production mode! Nevertheless, if I have an opportunity to get you nerds together in one place to c...
2019-04-05 20:13:07 +0000 UTC View Post
Heyo, maintenance crew!
As I wrap up this Pratchett script, I actually have something else on my mind. Something that's proved a problem since I first decided I wanted to discuss myth, legend, and folklore on the show forever ago.
I don't quite know how to approach it.
...
2019-04-04 21:00:22 +0000 UTC View PostAlright, all y'all helpful humans. I've learned my lesson.
Never again with a list this long. At least not when the subject matter is as densely-populated with brilliant ideas and concepts as Terry Pratchett's work. Honestly, just choosing what to put into the outline was a several-day-long...
2019-04-04 00:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello, foundry maintenance crew!
Phew. This Pratchett series has been a task and a half, but aren't they all? This week I discuss how the process for deciding what content I can make for the show changes based on the subject matter of the series at hand, and specifically, how this ...
2019-03-29 03:14:14 +0000 UTC View PostGood (2 hours after) Monday, foundry Maintenance Crew!
I hope you're all off to the right start this week. I myself... well, I'd say I'm getting there. The "there" in question being... the right start. Which implies I haven't started yet. Which is a convenient way of saying that I'...
2019-03-26 07:09:35 +0000 UTC View PostHeyo, helpful humans! Before I post the progress update for today, there's something I've been meaning to ask all of you.
I see the Patreon and the TF community as a living, ever-changing organism. I just wanna nurse it and make sure it (that is, all of you) is as happy and healthy as it ca...
2019-03-25 22:17:58 +0000 UTC View PostHeyo!
Just a reminder that we have a Forge Session beginning on the Discord server in just a little over 30 minutes! Find all the details here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/25522257
—Benji<...
Heyo, helpful humans!
My return from illness hasn't been half as glorious as I'd been hoping, but that's how these things go, isn't it? Still, the progress chugs along and there are videos on the way!
—Benji
Hello, Foundry Maintenance Crew!
It's time! A few weeks back, I'd planned to dedicate a Forge session to brainstorming all the delicious details of the forthcoming Pratchett short story, but... th...
2019-03-21 06:15:06 +0000 UTC View PostPhew. Alright. It's happened again.
I spent the day working on the script for the Pratchett list, and realized that it just... wasn't very fun, nor very interesting. I felt like I was kind of missing the spirit of Pratchett in this series.
The reason for this is that I'...
2019-03-20 03:10:59 +0000 UTC View PostHeyo, foundry maintenance crew!
The last week was a doozy. I'm not sure I've ever been quite so sick in my life. But at last, the phantoms of illness have left my side and taken their miasma of noxious fever with them. I am once again whole... for the most part.
The most exciting thin...
2019-03-19 07:10:03 +0000 UTC View PostHelpful humans! I have... weird... news.
Good news, but weird.
A few days ago, without a word to me, without allowing me the opportunity to reapply for monetization eligibility, Youtube silently re-monetized all of the videos on the channel. Even some videos I had never <...
2019-03-19 02:03:29 +0000 UTC View PostHeyo, Foundry Maintenance crew!
Great news! I'm well enough to be writing again, which means production has started back up! I'm actually writing up the episode script at this very moment, although something in the process has given me pause.
I'm referencing three examples of voices P...
2019-03-15 23:56:50 +0000 UTC View PostHello, Tale Foundry Maintenance Crew!
Seeing as I've been sick, there's not much I've been able to do in terms of production lately. With any luck I'll be back on that horse soon enough. But in the meantime, something I can do: get well and prepared for what's to come.
So, le...
2019-03-13 08:30:51 +0000 UTC View PostHeyo, helpful humans!
If you've got a bookmark coming to you and you didn't buy it directly from the store (as in, you unlocked it by signing up at the $10 tier during February or got it for free automatically from being at the $100 tier), then I have some slightly obnoxious news...
I...
2019-03-13 00:15:41 +0000 UTC View PostHello, Tale Foundry maintenance cr—*cough hack sputter gag*
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Alright, so there's not much to report in terms of progress at the moment, as I'm still dirty sick. I've been running a fever since Thursday evening last week, and today's the first t...
2019-03-12 08:46:17 +0000 UTC View PostHello, maintenance crew! 'Fraid I've got some bad news today.
I'm writing this from my bed, in the cocoon of blankets and fever and gross, unshowered bleariness that comes with illness. Benji is very, very sick.
Came out of nowhere and suckerpunched me at Starbucks yesterday. I though...
2019-03-08 21:28:10 +0000 UTC View PostHello, Foundry maintenance crew!
Barely three days until the next Forge session! I'm fairly certain this'll be the last session we spend on Pratchett, so let's make it count and try to figure out what exactly we're doing with this short story, shall we?
G'monday, maintenance crew!
The "maintenance crew" thing is kind of a new development. I'm trying it out, and it just seems to... fit. It's sticking in my mind. What do you guys think of it? You are a bunch of helpful humans and engineers, after all.
More to the point, I've been hard ...
2019-03-05 01:42:57 +0000 UTC View Post
Heyo, helpful humans!
A... little late on the draw with this one. Deep apologies there. I've been a zombie lately, trying to get everything back in order after London. Timeliness is not generally among my virtues.
But, things are looking up here! Despite some minor hiccups, the ...
2019-03-02 18:12:50 +0000 UTC View PostHello, helpful humans!
The time has come! It's March 1st, and as promised, we're officially taking the bookmarks off the shelf never to be seen again. Thank you so much to all the new patrons who joined over the last month and all the old patrons who gobbled the bookmarks up. I can't imagin...
2019-03-01 22:42:30 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello, Helpful Humans, Engineers, and Artificers of the foundry!
It's a ways off yet, but better it's so much better to get a head-start on these things. So, weeks in advance, we're going to dedicate the whole session to figuring out what we want to see most in the forthcoming Ter...
2019-02-27 19:30:41 +0000 UTC View PostG'monday, foundry maintenance crew!
Things are chugging along. It's been a bit of a slog getting back into the rhythm of work after Vidcon London, but at last, here we are, trudging ever onward to our glorious destiny.
It may not sound like a lot's happened since the last progress upd...
2019-02-25 23:58:40 +0000 UTC View PostJust trying to get a feel for what works best for our community!
NOTE: comments matter a great deal on this matter! We're trying most of all to cater the times to our most active/involved community members.
—Benji
2019-02-24 23:52:37 +0000 UTC View PostHurry up and hop in! We'll be talking about the scripts I'm presently working on, as well as my trip to London!
Details here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/forge-pratchett-24881011
2019-02-24 19:29:41 +0000 UTC View Post
Vidcon London was a fascinating experience for a lot of reasons.
Chief among them?
I felt at home.
It's hard to explain what it's like to move from relative isolation to a subculture of people who share your interests and passions, but I gave it a shot in this Patreoncast. I hop...
2019-02-23 09:24:35 +0000 UTC View PostWith little warning or context, I'd like to announce that we're having a forge session this Sunday.
Sorry to catch you all off guard; this is something I wanted to announce on Wednesday, but it's been utter chaos reclaiming my daily routine after London. I see this (and the i...
2019-02-22 15:29:26 +0000 UTC View PostOut of our entire stock, only 50 bookmarks remain! After that, they'll never be available again!
For all of you existing Patrons who are interesting in buying a bookmark (or another one if you really want to jazz up your bookshelf), now's the time! As a bonus, if you buy a bookmark...
2019-02-21 05:54:19 +0000 UTC View Post
Well, here I am at last, sitting in the London City Airport waiting to return to my life. It feels like so much has happened over the last week, and I know I'm gonna have a heck of a time articulating all of it.
I can't tell you everything here and now, but I want to soon. I want to fin...
2019-02-18 18:25:43 +0000 UTC View Post