January 2024 Update
Live Laugh Stuck
End of the Hiatus/100 Episodes/5 Year Anniversary
We came back from the hiatus with a bang with part one of our Rating Ship Names series with me (Jackie), Domi, and Justin! It has been a lot of fun to put together in celebration of two major milestones. It’s fully accessible as audio, but there are some fun visuals on the video, so I recommend checking that out!
There’s more where that came from — we haven’t finished recording the 400+ names, so expect videos like this about once a month for… A while! If you want to get a sneak peek of more ship names, I have everything we compiled and more on my website!
Latest Episode
Just launching yesterday, 1/4, is the start of Act 6! New universe, new characters, new podcast format — I was getting kinda loosey goosey toward the end of Act 5, but now things should be a bit more structured — which we need for Act 6!
Other Upkeep
All the old episodes are in the process of uploading to youtube! They’ve been dropping about once a day, and the last one drops 1/8. The playlist should be in order, and I did some other playlist reorganizing, so you can look for just the Problematic Faves episodes or Fanstuck episodes or what have you.
Speaking of Problematic Faves and Fanstuck — My link to the form to submit your interest to be on an episode broke! I’m in the process of fixing the links in all the episodes, but one bad thing about Transistor vs Buzzsprout is I have to do it all manually and, as we recently discussed, there are now over 100 episodes! It’s correct on the latest couple and on the earliest few, and I’ll link it here in case you’ve been itching to submit!
Jax Elsewhere
Not a lot to report on right now! Still working on the Caedes interactive fiction game I talked about in the last newsletter, but I also gave myself a pretty good holiday break after editing that 3 hour ship name video. There are also still a couple projects I’ve been part of that haven’t been released yet, so more on the horizon!
I’m still brainstorming other projects, especially Fake Gamer Bro, but I want to make sure Live Laugh Stuck is running smoothly before I focus much more on that — and there are a lot of behind the scenes things to mess with.
Poetry Corner
Prompt: “It grew faster than I ever would've thought.” Generated here. (Also if you like my poetry, I’m uploading more to Tumblr.)
A seed To be watered, nurtured, grown A sprout To be sheltered, watered, nurtured, grown A stem To be supported, sheltered, watered, nurtured, grown A leaf To be -- A bud To -- A flower Two flowers Three sprouts Seven stems A garden A field A forest To be watered, nurtured, grown