Castle Magus

"We discuss YouTube creator burnout in light of the hiatus announcement of James & Mike Mondays."

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It wasn't Youtube, but I'd have to say that burnout was probably one of the main reasons that I finally wanted to stop doing OW! posts (well, that and the fact that it seemed like just about everyone else had already burned out on it even before I did), given that I'd been doing them on a semi-regular basis from... fuck... something like 1998 to 2003 or so? Five years? That's actually kind of hard to believe now, looking back on it. And that was just writing silly posts on a newsgroup.

And I've certainly felt burnout on trying to write a novel. Hell, it's why I've only gotten like six chapters or something like 32,000 words, even though I've been "working" on the thing off and on for like five years or more now.

I couldn't even imagine myself doing something more demanding than that like writing for a skit show like AVGN, not to mention actually performing said skits, or even just doing a regular podcast or a Let's Play series or something like that. I like me some video games, that's for damn sure, but having to do it on demand, as a performance? Fuck no to that noise.

dmjewelle made a post on Facebook yesterday (which is currently public, so I'll just link to it from here).

I'm going to copy/paste my own replies to that which pertain to the current subject into this post. (EDIT 2) None of those links work, though, since I have since deleted my Facebook account altogether. (/EDIT 2)

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Yeah... so... that is my current status as far as writer-type shit is concerned. I had been planning to write up a big, long, whiny, self-pitying, inane, baby-tantrum rant about all of that stuff here, but I got distracted by "child's birthday party" stuff yesterday and never got back to it until today... and today I'm just not feeling it. Which might be for the best, actually. *weary sigh*

(And, yeah, I'd totally read that "Bridge Girl" graphic novel, if it were a real thing.)

(EDIT) For reference, since I mention them in this post:

-- The MLP:FiM/Star Trek crossover stuff.

-- The MST of my Castlevania/Sailor Moon fanfic. The MST was co-written by owsf2000. (Just to note, most of the typos that are still in [and mocked in] the MST version of the original fic were fixed for the fanfiction.net version of it.)

-- As for OtakuWars! posts... meh. I'm not giving a link to that stuff here. If you really want to see them, at least some of them can probably be found via a Google Groups search for "alt.fan.sailor-moon" and "OW!" in the subject line. I posted there as "Kane Magus," naturally.

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(EDIT) Both of those links are broken now, due to Yahoo Groups going extinct, so I should probably just delete this post entirely, I guess, but I'll just leave it because whatever. Maybe because of the comments, if nothing else. (/EDIT)

I... I just wrote an OW! post, and I don't know why. o_O

First one in... ... ...only two years? Huh. How about that. I would have figured it to have been much longer than that. >_>

(EDIT) Broken links replaced with (at least partially) working ones. (/EDIT)

Hmm, apparently ASMR has gone down for good. It sorta sucks, but honestly, since I only visited that site maybe once a year or two at the most (mainly in an ever futile attempt to get my email address in my profile changed to my current one rather than the one that has been inactive for about 4 years now, since the ability to change it myself was non-existent), this only affects me insofar as I had a fanfic hosted there. It was a horrible piece of shit fanfic that, at the time of course, I thought was a masterpiece. That time being almost 10 years ago or so, while I was still in my teens. I was a different person back then. *sniff* For those unfamiliar with it, it was a Sailor Moon / Castlevania crossover fanfic. Yeah. It was that bad.

I mention this now, however, because after hearing last night about ASMR going down, I got to reading over the MST of this fic (which had also been hosted at ASMR) that I co-wrote with owsf2000 over the course of a year or so, ending sometime in 2005. It's still pretty damn funny, even if I do say so myself. It's part of the reason I was up so damn late last night when I should have been sleeping or working on some of my Art class project. Fair warning, in case you have the slightest interest in reading this MST, but are not familiar with Sailor Moon and/or Castlevania, and to a lesser extent the OtakuWars!, then it won't make a hell of a lot of sense. Also, fair warning, the MST contains some gratuitous profanity and crude risque humor, among other things, so if you're not into that kind of thing, steer clear. Also, as a point of reference if anyone cares, here are the bios (or Writer's Guides, for those in the know) of the OW! characters who are performing the MST: Kane Magus, SD-KM, Tuxedo Dionysus, and NC-Janitor.

(Links to the OW! stuff changed back to Mord's dreamhosters site instead of the angelfire one, because they seem to be working fine now.)

Here's just a sort of stream of conscious list of stuff, in the order that it comes to mind.

(EDIT) Breaks have been added between bullet points per request. That's the only concession to coherence that I'll make, since I'm not touching that big block of crap in the first point again with a ten foot pole. That big block of crap can be summed up by the first sentence and the last sentence, which is just a restatement of the first sentence, and the rest of the big block of crap in between can safely be ignored because it's a big block of crap. (/EDIT)

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