Bess posts
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July/August Updates
Hi everyone! Another sparse update this month, I haven't been able to make much progress with the video, but I have a few other exciting things to share. First of all, I wrote a piece of fanfiction for an Ace Attorney zine all about Phoenix Wright that's now up for preorder! It's a gorge...
2023 Q2 Media Roundup
Hi everyone!I had hardly any time to watch/read/play anything in spring but here's what I did manage to fit in:AishaAisha is a 2022 Irish film and the first of two films I watched on my flight back from Asia in May. The film is about a Nigerian asylum seeker in Ireland who has spent years alread...
June Updates & Video Preview
Good evening everyone!After lots of travelling from late April up until early this month, I finally got settled back at home a few weeks ago and freed up some time to work on the next video. The result is the above! I've actually got 10 minutes edited right now but decided this was a good place ...
May Updates
Hi everyone!! Long time no see! I really apologise for not posting last month, I was travelling and barely had a moment. No excuse, but I didn't and still don't really have any updates, there's unfortunately no progress on the video front π« As some of you will know, May was a very exc...
2023 Q1 Media Roundup
Hi everyone!Here's a roundup of the media I've gotten through in the first quarter of 2023:Good (play)As part of my bid to make the most of having moved back to London, while browsing things to do late last year, I saw that David Tennant was starring in a play on the West End called Good, an...
March Updates
Hi everyone!I hope you're all well! Needless to say, it's been yet another busy month. In terms of video updates, I finished the script, recorded the audio and am almost done editing it. Progress continues to be slow but steady, not much more I can say :')My exciting update (more for me ...
February Updates
Hi everyone!Another month has passed and I'm back with another small update.It finally feels like spring is almost here in the UK which is a huge relief. It's been a difficult winter on various levels and I'm looking forward to everything getting a bit easier.It's been another super ...
January Updates
Hi everyone!I hope you're all well. This will just be a quick update. It's been a super hectic month for me both professionally and personally, but I did manage to continually work on the Tokyo Godfathers video. I did a good bit of research, including reading a book (No Fixed Abode by Maeve ...
2022 Retrospective and 2023 Plans
Good evening everyone!We're into the last few hours of 2022 here in the UK and so it's time to reflect.It both was and wasn't an eventful year for me on YouTube. I only released one video, but it was a six-hour, 100-page beast. I'm still not really sure how I did it. The project suck...
2022 Q4 Media Roundup
Good evening everyone!I'll be posting my general update post right after this, but for now, here's the media roundup for the last few months. It's quite a diverse list this time:Sonny BoyThe final anime I managed to finish this year was 2021's Sonny Boy. I'd heard a lot of raving...
November Updates
Hi everyone!I hope you're all keeping well as the weather gets colder and are enjoying the lead-up to the festive season.The months are flying by! I'm going to be continuing with the relatively short updates while work is consuming my life (in a good way). As promised, I did start rereading ...
October Updates
Hi everyone!How are you all? It's getting autumnal in England and it's the first year in a while where I feel like I'm actually enjoying it. It used to be my favourite season, and then that ended up changing at some point, but I'm remembering why all over again.I really don't hav...
2022 Q3 Media Roundup
Good evening!Here's some things I've been enjoying over the last few months:Four Feet Under by Tamsen CourtenayThis is a compilation of the stories of various homeless people in London that I picked up in preparation for my current job. It was exactly what I was hoping for -- extremely eye-o...
September Updates
Hi everyone!This month's update will be a quick one as I don't have too much to say. Work has been keeping me busy, as well as settling into my new flat and slowly furnishing and decorating my room (fun adult life). I'm very well! What about you?I don't have a single update on the Yo...
A Look Back: A Higurashi Gou & Sotsu Post-Mortem (Podcast)
Good evening!Thank you for your patience while I pulled together this excessively long podcast! It's my first time doing one of these immediately after releasing a video, but this will be the standard moving forwards. I might need to change the title of the podcast series π€ These are usually ...
August Updates
Hi everyone!I hope you're all well and enjoying your summer if it is summer where you live. I certainly am -- I'm writing this on the train back from a trip to Scotland, and I'm off to Ireland this weekend. Otherwise, I've been spending a lot of time out and about doing all sorts. I ...
Questions about the Gou/Sotsu video?
Hi guys!As mentioned, I'm planning to do a podcast on the Gou/Sotsu video as I have been for the rest of my video catalogue talking about the process of making it. If you have any questions about this or the video in general at all, please feel free to leave them here and I'll answer them in...
A Higurashi Gou & Sotsu Post-Mortem
Hi everyone!!!After almost nine long months, itβs finally, finally, finally here: A Higurashi Gou & Sotsu Post-Mortem.What can I say? I thought Iβd be really emotional to finally be putting this video out there, but it hasnβt hit me yet. I canβt believe Iβve spent such a big chunk of my li...
July Updates
Hi everyone!I hope you're all well and that anybody in the UK or one of the many other places suffering with them right now is managing the heatwaves okay. I'm just popping in to give my very last update ahead of the rapidly approaching Big Upload Day!I'm currently flat-hunting and am al...
June Media Round-Up
Hi everyone!I'm renaming these posts as sometimes I want to talk about things that aren't necessarily faves/recs π§ Starting off this month with...Everything Everywhere All at OnceI definitely do recommend giving EEAAO a watch if it sounds interesting to you, especially if you can see it o...
FIFTH PREVIEW: A Higurashi Gou & Sotsu Post-Mortem (+ June Updates)
Hi everyone!Iβm here to share the final 20-minute preview of A Higurashi Gou & Sotsu Post-Mortem, ending at one hour and forty minutes into the video as a whole, just before I begin talking about Sotsu. Previews one, two, three and four are here. After this point the video changes a bit β being ...
FOURTH PREVIEW: A Higurashi Gou & Sotsu Post-Mortem
As in the title! The first, second and third previews are here. I'll be back with the last preview and an update next Monday! Enjoy!
May Media Favourites/Recommendations
Hi guys!I have two things to talk about this month:Run with the WindIt's been a busy year so far and this was actually the first anime I got the chance to watch. Run With the Wind is a novel adaptation that came out back in 2018. The show opens with our lead Kakeru Kurahara running away from a c...
THIRD PREVIEW: A Higurashi Gou & Sotsu Post-Mortem (+ More May Updates)
Hey guys!I'm back with another 20-ish-minute preview (find the others here and here). The whole first hour of the video is now up on here! I've edited beyond this point, but I'm planning to post another preview in about a week, and then probably the last a week after that, capping it at ...
SECOND PREVIEW: A Higurashi Gou & Sotsu Post-Mortem (+ May Updates)
Hi everyone!Today I'm back with the next 20-ish minute preview of the Gou/Sotsu video, following on from the first one last month.Here's the current state of play: it's been expectedly slow going since my last update as things were busy in my personal life for the first half of this mont...
April Media Favourites/Recommendations
Hi guys!Super quick post once again this month, I actually don't have any media recs with the exception of the mobile game Twenty which I don't recommend checking out if you value your time, and some YouTube vids:The Ethics of Looking And The "Harmless" Peeping Tom by Pop Culture Det...
FIRST PREVIEW: A Higurashi Gou & Sotsu Post-Mortem (+ April Updates)
Hello everyone!!Today I am so excited to share the first preview for A Higurashi Gou & Sotsu Post-Mortem. This preview covers the first twenty-ish minutes of the video, which will be around 5.5 hours total. I'd say this is about 90% of the way to what the final video will look like -- there'...
March Media Favourites/Recommendations
Hello!Here's what I enjoyed in March:The Trojan Horse AffairThe Trojan Horse Affair is a podcast by Serial Productions who I've mentioned that I'm a fan of before. This project immediately caught my eye as it was about something that happened here in England -- the Trojan Horse scandal, ...
March Updates
Hello everyone!I hope you're all well! It feels like spring has finally sprung in the UK and I'm really appreciating the sun, warmth, flowers budding everywhere and longer days. I also finally feel like the finish line for the video is coming into view! Since my last post I've been throu...
daybreak
Hi guys!Popping in super quickly just to share this Higurashi fanfic I just posted -- it was written back in 2019 when it was originally commissioned from me and I stumbled across it again the other day and thought I should share it. It's an alternative take on the end of Minagoroshi. I always f...
