[Beth & Angel] 9th-12th Prompt, Streaming, Fulfillment Update
🏃 Progress: 10 zines down, 12 zines behind
I STILL haven't worked on a zine since our stream on the 29th as fulfillment (and figuring out fulfillment lol) ate up these last few days for me. BUT now I've got all of that cleared up, so now I can work on zines again! I have one that only needs a couple of pages, and I'm still hopeful that I can get all of my zines done at least by the end of the month (which would be a week after all of the prompt periods end).
Angel finished her Mail Order Catalog zine, which she put a lot of effort into. It looks awesome! Angel's got less time each day now because she's helping her mom with physical therapy four times throughout each day (Angel's mom got injured in late December and is still recovering).
But we're still excited to get these made, and we definitely will!
Streaming
To help me ensure that I get work done on the zines, I plan to stream myself making them. These aren't special events or anything, just a way to ensure I focus more on making zines and stop flipping between 20 tasks all the time 🤣 I'd still love to see you there though and will answer questions and stuff!
I'll announce when I'm going live on Patreon (and patrons, including free members, will get emails when it happens), but you can also just subscribe to our Twitch channel and then you'll see when we're live :D I don't plan to schedule these ahead of time so I can just hop on when I have free time and get things done. Plus, not having scheduled times means no anxiety about being late and stuff! 🥳
The Prompt for the 9th - 12th
Wow, y'all are amazing voters! FIFTY-ONE people voted!!!! That's like 1/3 of you! 😮
The
winner is... "
How to pick yourself up after you've failed getting
something you really wanted <3" suggested by Joanie!
This is sooooooooooo in our wheelhouse! I'm hyped to try it out 🥳
Also, I didn't notice it until just now but "Option 35" got 9 votes. It was... an error? Like... I must've cleared a row without deleting it and it just renamed it "Option 35." Now I'm curious about what I'd do there, like... Options 1-34 are no longer viable, it's time for... option 35!
I deleted it out of the next polls but decided to put it back as a joke 🤣 It's now "Option 35 (suggested by Google Forms lol)"
What About the 13th-16th Prompt?
This next prompt is being voted on by the paid patrons of our Patreon. If you want to take part, join before the 13th as a paid patron (starting at $3/month)! Plus, $5/month patrons get 26 games and zines when they join (30 technically but if you got Tier 2 or 3 here you already got 4 of them).
Normally people get like... 5 or 6 things when they join lol but we've been BUSY, ran a special event last month, and thanks to Patreon goals being hit people now get three months of releases when they join instead of one.
Oh, and if you happen to be a paid patron, or want to join as one, this is the post where you can vote.
Fulfillment
This week I put together a spreadsheet with who got what, sorted all of the parts into a timeline, and set up a system for showing myself what's done and what's not.
Then, I sent out emails to everyone who got Tier 2 or 3 with the stretch goals that were unlocked, emailed everyone who bought zine bundles the keys for those, and reached out to everyone who challenged us to make a zine to start a dialogue about what your challenges will be.
As a reminder, multiple things that are part of fulfillment can use more prompts for voting. Click any (or each!) of the following to suggest prompts for them:
- Challenges for our EXTRA MODE/Challenge zines
- Full game challenges (we'll also pull from the challenge zine prompts that didn't win for zines and that apply to games)
- Prompts for our zines
💡 Spotlight: Take a Break (Again!) :D
Seriously, this last month and a half has had me in marketing mode pretty much nonstop. I think you've had enough of that for a while lol. It kinda makes me feel gross anyway tbh. And besides, I promoted something up there with the current prompt vote, so yeah.
📰 News: Happy Belated International Women's Day!
Yesterday was International Women's Day. I always forget about it, but someone included me amongst some women to celebrate the day, which still always makes me so happy since I've only known I'm a woman for a couple of years 🧡 So yeah, happy belated International Women's Day everyone!
🔎 SOON Crowdfunding: You Don't Meet in a Tavern by Violet Daisy Games
I'm breaking the format a bit here to share a campaign that's
going to crowdfund next month. AnnaMaria (who runs Violet Daisy
Games) is awesome and even shared a cool sneak peek at it on our Discord
server the other day!
This is a book of ways that your adventurers can meet that AREN'T in a tavern, as that seems to happen a LOT.
The example AnnaMaria shared was super cute and clever, and I loved that it was more about the event itself and involving the players than like "Hey you're in a tavern and wow hey you meet each other! And then someone comes in with a quest!" In fact, the event in the book didn't even have to lead to a special quest or anything, it could've merely been that event, which is amazing to me!
The campaign launches on April 2nd, and you can click the FOLLOW button on that page to be notified when it launches!
🙋♀️ Your Turn: How Do You Stay Warm?
LOL it's 64f in our living room (and probably even colder in my corner as I write this) so I'm curious what you do to stay warm when it's cooooooooooold.
Angel: I feel like I am always in a state of too cold or too hot! But when I'm really cold I like to throw my blanket in the dryer for a few minutes on extra hot and then cover up with the super warm blanket to warm up.
Beth: I have a foot warmer thingy, and when it gets really cold I put pants on under my skirt lol. If it's REALLY cold I'll wear a thick hoodie and drink some hot cocoa. Yum!
