YouTube Helpings: Sonic the Hedgehog Edition

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Or “Ellie Doesn’t Quite Dip Back in the Fandom Pool, But She Gets Her Toes Damp” Part of the challenge of not having a job outside the house is that you have to keep yourself occupied, or you’ll end up wandering off to clean something or staring into the void and pondering every life decision…

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Animatic: Twinny for Gas

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What, you don’t mentally paste players’ faces onto characters when they use their regular speaking voices? That’s just me? As a fellow Southerner, I can verify that CaseOh is pronouncing “twenty” correctly. Don’t let the Yankees tell you otherwise.

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August 21, 2026

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Today is my last day of classes. I just submitted my final assignment. I’m done with graduate school. Well, almost. For whatever reason, my university doesn’t hold a summer commencement ceremony, so I’ll have to attend the one in the fall. But as far as coursework goes, I’m finished. You’d think I’d be ecstatic. You’d…

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Thoughts, More or Less: Episode 1

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This shit better show up, I’m sick of copying and pasting the link over and over. An audiovisual experiment I’ve thought about doing for a while now. I think I prefer this to live streaming, even if it was a pain to figure out what codec wouldn’t make YouTube gripe about “incorrect formats”, even if…

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What I Watched and Read These Past Few Days

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I miss creating random posts where I share the odd jumble of things I’ve come across. So I’ll do that in this one. Life Lessons Everyone Learns Too Late But Wish They Knew Earlier (YouTube) These videos have been popping up in my feed lately, and some of them are actually pretty useful. After six…

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Animatic in Progress: Twinny for Gas

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I’m maybe halfway done with this. This animatic was a surprise even for myself, considering I’ve never watched this streamer before. On a whim, I checked out a VOD of his, found a moment after clicking through the video, and started imagining a slightly different set of circumstances. I’m having fun, and I hope future…

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Animatic: Poke Wins

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What will take you less than a minute to watch took me over a month to create. I’m rather proud of this little project, especially since it started to all come together as soon as I figured out ToonSquid and just allowed myself to be weird. I’m glad that I finished this, and I’m very…

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In Progress: Animatic

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In an effort to get into the habit of updating on projects, here is a screenshot with no context. Maybe this project will be better received than a short story.

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On Toxic Communities and How to Remedy Them (Hopefully)

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As the year progresses, I find myself becoming less and less tolerant of the internet as a whole. Mostly because of knee-jerk reactions, tribalism, slogans, ragebaiting, hypocrisy, and other general unpleasantness. “Support artists!” (Follows and buys merch only from popular artists.) “People should succeed on merit!” (Watches videos and streams of only famous content creators.)…

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