Patreon Newsletter #10: July! (Patreon)

Well hi! It's July but it simultaneously feels like March 2020 and GlumpBloof 4057....a year so far in the future we no longer have the same months as we do today and in which things are still absolutely awful! (P.S. This GlumpBloof don't forget to vote Puzzbot!)

We hope all of you are living your best Q-Lives and we can't thank you enough for your continued support (for the olds) or your recent support (for the newbies)! With iO no longer around, this Patreon is the main (in some cases, only) source of income for us 3. So you are literally keeping us going. It insane to think of how kind and loving you all have been to us. We love you Riddiots!

From Adal (Dr.) Recommendations: 

Jemma and I have been using/doing NOOM for 4 weeks and it's been difficult but effective! Basically you just help understand your relationship to food and log what you eat each day. We figured it was only fair we should do this since we put Brisket on a diet. I've lost 11lbs so  far which feels good but I'm aiming for another 10 lost baybee!! Let's see if I can make it!

Also shout out to the Koi Pond! My fake Twitch community! I'm a Koi Boi and don't forget 'Feed the fish, not the Trolls!'

TV

1. Fuck, That's Delicious! - it's a VICE show but it's currently on HULU. This is a food travel show that follows rapper Action Broson and his friends around the world as they eat amazing food. I'm obsessed. I've gotten high the last 3 nights and watched 10 episodes. 
2.  Floor Is Lava - new Netflix game show that's basically American Ninja/Wipeout/Nickelodeon Guts with a pool of lava on the floor you can't touch! Enjoyed the first episode but there's a lot of wasted time with people shouting about HOW CRAZY EVERYTHING IS! or dudes needing to make a million jokes. Focus up PEOPLE! The best part is when someone falls in the 'lava' we never see them again....

Movies

1. Disclosure - new Neftlix movie about how trans people have been portrayed in Hollywood and the impact that's had on the community. Powerful, necessary viewing because if you didn't know...Trans Lives Matter!

2. Harriet - amazing performance by my broadway crush Cynthia Erivo!

3. Bruce Lee: Be Water - new 30 for 30 on ESPN that documents Bruce Lee's life through the lens of the racism and barriers he faced during his career. 

4. Master Z - I absolutely LOVE the IP man movies and I didn't realize until last week there's a spinoff movie they made about a side character and his fallout from fighting IP man. If you dig martial arts movies, the IP man series, including this one, are an absolute must watch. 

Books

1. Michael Jordan: The Life by Roland Lazenby - still riding the high of The Last Dance doc so I picked this up since it's supposed to be the most thorough and well written of his biographies. So far it's great!

2. New Mexico's Best Ghost Towns/Arizona Ghost Towns and Mining Camps by Philip Varney - I had a great conversation with Janet Varney about the southwest and creepy abandoned towns and she mentioned her dad is an author who wrote several books on ghost towns so I had to snatch 'em up!

Video Games: 

1. Slay The Spire - friends Rush Howell and Pad Connelly have been talking about the sweet sweet satisfaction of playing this game for maybe a year and I finally caved when I saw it came out on iOs. I've only injected a few hours into it but it's taking over my waking thoughts. VERY fun game that'll I'll have to treat as gaming dessert so I don't just lose myself in it. 

2. Breath Of The Wild - taking my time with this baby! Just got to the desert where you can shield surf with a sand seal. It makes me giggle every time. 

3. Streets of Rage 4 - played this with Japes for his livestream ($10,000?!!!??!! what an amazing thing he did!) and it was a GD blast. It's a throwback to the 4 player arcade machines I used to haunt (TMNT, The Simpsons, X-Men) and it's incredibly satisfying and the soundtrack absolutely fucks. 

Theater: 

1. Eschaton - A friend told me about this online immersive theater experience so Jemma and I bought tickets for it the last 2 Saturdays to experience it! It's part Sleep No More, part ZOOM Call, part Escape Room (there's a mystery to be solved) and part Karaoke party. Truly a blast and something I'll be doing again soon. If you get tickets let me know and I'll maybe try and sync up nights so we can bump into each other in the dozens of rooms to explore! https://www.tickettailor.com/events/eschaton

Podcasts:

Here's some new podcasts I've guested on in June! The episodes I guested on are either out now or out very soon! Please give them a listen and if you have a podcast let me know if you ever need a guest!

1. The J.V. Club with Janet Varney

2. Perfect Package Podcast

3. Meddling Adults (with Erin and JPC!)

4. The Doctor DC podcast (with Erin!)

5. The Redo

6. That's My Story - https://www.facebook.com/thisismettlesome/videos/299994264457220/?vh=e&d=n

Some things I'm looking foward to are: 

- DARK season 3 just came out! It's one of my favorite tv shows of all time so Jemma and are going to savor the last season this week. 

- Hamilton on Disney +! Two days away baybee!!

- Catherine Full Body on Switch. I think one of our Patreons subscribers mentioned this game to me and since then I've been curious to play. Excited to try the Switch port of it on 7/7!

Adal July Spotify Playlist - https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3bLhRw0aJ1eNPTn9p7hIxW?si=wwjNNdh9QFWLQSQ-Ls2VWA

love, Daddy Addy

From Erin: 

Wow! It’s July!

I’ve been really busy for the first time in quarantine! So I don’t have much to recommend! 

If you make a donated to a BLM cause this month please let me know and I’ll donate where you donate! I’ll also make a playlist as soon as I have time and leave it as a comment on this post. 

I hope you find a moment soon to sit with your face in the sun and close your eyes and breath! 

Let me know if you have any podcasts on health like you like! I’m on the lookout!

Xoxo, 

Gossip girl 

From JPC: 

Hey, everyone!
Big recommendation this month is Disclosure on Netflix. Really eye-opening documentary about Hollywood's impact on the trans community. They interview trans actors, writers, & creators about trans representation in media and how that has influenced cultural perceptions. Truly a great watch. Other than that, I just watched Avatar: The Last Airbender for the first time. 3 seasons on Netflix and it's pretty great! At one point, Aang refers to some Fire Nation people as "hotman" and Mariah and I have been calling each other hotman for weeks! So that's fun. Also started reading Book 3 of the Stormlight Archives and it's good so far! Adal turned me on to the first two books in the series. As far as music, I've been listening to a lot more music than I normally do, but it's for a secret project and I can't really go into specifics quite yet. If you hung out during last weekend's 24 hour Twitch Charity stream, thank you very much! We raised over 10k Chicago Community Bond Fund and a couple other local orgs. I'm getting more and more into Twitch streaming and I'm in the process of building a PC to really up my game. We have a pretty fun little community going, so come hang out if you are free Monday-Friday 11am-2pm Central. Twitch.tv/SharkBarkman. Adal and I still have a game of Streets of Rage 4 to finish, so we'll have to give everyone the sequel soon! 

- JPC

Other Stuffs: 

- We're recording our July livestream for $8 tier this Sunday the 5th so you should receive it that night! If you have questions or talking points for us and you're apart of that tier, please put them in the Discord under #live-stream-chat

2. Our July Review Crew is the first episode of the NEW Unsolved Mysteries series on Netflix!! That RC should be up next week at some point! Watch the first episode before then so you can be in the know!

3. We hit a snag with TeePublic but figured it out so the Jasmin Darnell 100th episode art should be up by the end of this week! 

that's all for now! As always, let us know what YOU RECOMMEND in the comments! We're always looking for some good media to consume!

love,

Adal, Erin & JPC