Hi, pals! Happy New Year! I'm just popping in to give my seasonal well wishes—hope you had a nice holiday season!—and continue my trend of vagueposting about what I'm up to, and what you can expect. This next year is going to be really big for me, professionally, personally, and, er, yer boi is gonna be right strapped for cash by the end of it, but hopefully much better for it. This means, of course, that the lion's share of my efforts is going somewhere else at the moment, and while I'm terribly excited, it very much means that it's going to be a stretch longer before I return to these (semi) hallowed halls of YouTube. But let's have a chat about that.
I've not written about this anywhere other than responses to comments and the odd tweet, but I'll use this as an opportunity for transparency about what I'm planning on doing here in the future, and how you can help me get there if so inclined. I've veered further away from remix, and I'm dedicated to original works at this point. That means, for all intents and purposes, there aren't going to be anymore PokéTunes, or LaytonTunes, or anything of that nature. This is for a number of reasons, including issues with copyright, viability of that work as sustainable, and, to be entirely frank, my interest level. I'm proud of the work I did, and I take immense happiness in knowing it'll most likely always be there for you to return to and enjoy, but I've realised that I don't need to. I can do something different. And in fact, I have been doing a great many things different, and it's resulted in a good number of demos, which I hope to fully realise in the not-too-distant-future.
I understand that might be sort-of disappointing for some of you to read, but I feel very passionately that the best way forward is to trudge my own path, and I'm more passionate about that work than ever. Unfortunately year-or-so ago, I lost access to my DAW (Digital Audio Workstation, or the thingy that makes the blips and boops) of choice, which has killed my ability to produce music as I'd like to. Shortly after that loss, I started a Ko-Fi as a method of raising funds to help me not only rebuild my little studio, but build an actual little studio, where I can record directly from my piano, and produce my music on the updated version of that aforementioned DAW. To level with you, that crap's expensive, and I'm staring down the barrel at a decade of student loan debt. But every cent helps, and I'm so grateful for those of you who've pitched in, those who've shared the Ko-Fi via the good ol' retweet button, and those who've voiced their support in other ways. I'm very lucky to have accrued a good gang of people around me, and I want you—yes, you—to know that I'm so grateful for your support.
Also, with utterly no pomp or circumstance, this channel turned a whole-ass ten-years-old in November, which is bonkers. I started this thing when I was a lonely and depressive teenager, and now I'm a lonely and depressive adult! Self-deprecation aside, I gotta give my love to both the folks that have been around since the beginning, those who're new to our little pack of weirdos, and all of the folks who showed up to the party fashionably late somewhere in the middle. It's very cool that we exist in the same time, and somehow, in the middle of it all, we were able to connect with each other through a bunch of ones and zeros. Fifteen-year-old me would think that's hecking rad as heck. And then he probably would've asked if I had my life figured out, and I would've laughed myself to death, like Chrysippus, who got his donkey drunk on wine and fed it figs, and literally laughed himself to death. Look it up. Antiquity was, as the youths say, lit.
If you'd like to support me, you can throw a few bucks my way here: ko-fi.com/happydragonite And as always, you can find my slow (but live!) descent into madness on Twitter and Tumblr, which are at: twitter.com/happydragonite and happydragonite.tumblr.com/ Thank you for your kind words, and thank you for your seemingly endless patience while I pour the foundation for what I want to do. Ya'll are stars, the lot of you. I hope this new year—this new decade—is good to us.
Here's a picture of my cat, wearing a bowtie, pretending he was a loaf of bread.
HappyDragonite
Hi, pals! Happy New Year! I'm just popping in to give my seasonal well wishes—hope you had a nice holiday season!—and continue my trend of vagueposting about what I'm up to, and what you can expect. This next year is going to be really big for me, professionally, personally, and, er, yer boi is gonna be right strapped for cash by the end of it, but hopefully much better for it. This means, of course, that the lion's share of my efforts is going somewhere else at the moment, and while I'm terribly excited, it very much means that it's going to be a stretch longer before I return to these (semi) hallowed halls of YouTube. But let's have a chat about that.
I've not written about this anywhere other than responses to comments and the odd tweet, but I'll use this as an opportunity for transparency about what I'm planning on doing here in the future, and how you can help me get there if so inclined. I've veered further away from remix, and I'm dedicated to original works at this point. That means, for all intents and purposes, there aren't going to be anymore PokéTunes, or LaytonTunes, or anything of that nature. This is for a number of reasons, including issues with copyright, viability of that work as sustainable, and, to be entirely frank, my interest level. I'm proud of the work I did, and I take immense happiness in knowing it'll most likely always be there for you to return to and enjoy, but I've realised that I don't need to. I can do something different. And in fact, I have been doing a great many things different, and it's resulted in a good number of demos, which I hope to fully realise in the not-too-distant-future.
I understand that might be sort-of disappointing for some of you to read, but I feel very passionately that the best way forward is to trudge my own path, and I'm more passionate about that work than ever. Unfortunately year-or-so ago, I lost access to my DAW (Digital Audio Workstation, or the thingy that makes the blips and boops) of choice, which has killed my ability to produce music as I'd like to. Shortly after that loss, I started a Ko-Fi as a method of raising funds to help me not only rebuild my little studio, but build an actual little studio, where I can record directly from my piano, and produce my music on the updated version of that aforementioned DAW. To level with you, that crap's expensive, and I'm staring down the barrel at a decade of student loan debt. But every cent helps, and I'm so grateful for those of you who've pitched in, those who've shared the Ko-Fi via the good ol' retweet button, and those who've voiced their support in other ways. I'm very lucky to have accrued a good gang of people around me, and I want you—yes, you—to know that I'm so grateful for your support.
Also, with utterly no pomp or circumstance, this channel turned a whole-ass ten-years-old in November, which is bonkers. I started this thing when I was a lonely and depressive teenager, and now I'm a lonely and depressive adult! Self-deprecation aside, I gotta give my love to both the folks that have been around since the beginning, those who're new to our little pack of weirdos, and all of the folks who showed up to the party fashionably late somewhere in the middle. It's very cool that we exist in the same time, and somehow, in the middle of it all, we were able to connect with each other through a bunch of ones and zeros. Fifteen-year-old me would think that's hecking rad as heck. And then he probably would've asked if I had my life figured out, and I would've laughed myself to death, like Chrysippus, who got his donkey drunk on wine and fed it figs, and literally laughed himself to death. Look it up. Antiquity was, as the youths say, lit.
If you'd like to support me, you can throw a few bucks my way here: ko-fi.com/happydragonite
And as always, you can find my slow (but live!) descent into madness on Twitter and Tumblr, which are at: twitter.com/happydragonite and happydragonite.tumblr.com/
Thank you for your kind words, and thank you for your seemingly endless patience while I pour the foundation for what I want to do. Ya'll are stars, the lot of you. I hope this new year—this new decade—is good to us.
Here's a picture of my cat, wearing a bowtie, pretending he was a loaf of bread.
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