Hello everyone.
I’ll be honest. I didn’t even realize it’s been almost a month since a post went up here. Things have been quite busy in a good way and I’ve come up for air enough to refocus on this.
I’ve started a new full time teaching position. I’m very happy with the work I’m doing but had to go through all the hiring and onboarding the past few weeks. That’s a lot of work for certified teaching positions and it moved far quicker than I’ve experienced it before.
I will finish out the Battlebots series soon. Those last two episodes hit right at the thick of things. To be quite honest, I was disappointed greatly by the discourse surrounding the finale on social media and reports of genuinely abusive behavior exhibited by the fans during the live filming. While my own experience with the combat robotic community has been far more positive, it does give me pause to engage in a critical way with an online fandom so quick to turn to hatred when things don’t go their way.
The next chapter of Extra Intent should be ready soon. I’m not guaranteeing an April release, but I do have the draft in a good place. It’s a tricky bit of writing to make this part of the story work quite right and it’s something I’ve been toying with since before releasing the first chapter back in December.
I also got a bit of attention recently for Tick: A Short Musical. A popular theatre content creator decided to name my demo recording of one section of an anthology musical as one of the worst cast recordings he ever listened to, knowing full well it was a proof of concept demo for licensing and not traditional commercial release. All publicity can be good publicity, and I’ve taken the time on my own accounts to explain what the recording and show are rather than what he presented them to be. Not everyone is going to like a 90s alternative-style horror score with a contemporary theatre melody on top. Good thing the full The Sublime Method musical will have four additional styles for the other four short musicals contained within the framing narrative.
Finally, I want to thank all of your for supporting me for so long in media criticism and content creation. I love what I do here and don’t intend to give it up. I just might not have the energy and focus to do it on the five day a week schedule I’ve stuck to the past few years. I need to have time for myself and there are only so many hours in the day. Sketching Details isn’t going anywhere and neither am I.
