Let’s be thankful for each other

What are some things we’re thankful for?

• The power to boldly go into the unknown universe

• Paranormal police sketches

• Well written and sourced articles in our current nightmare times

• Reading as a general concept

• Gene Kelly’s pants

• Math Rocks

As always, we've included things coming in the upcoming month, and a look at what's happening on our Patreon (which you can join for ~as little as a dollar~) & Discord which is open to all!

Feelings II: Election Boogaloo

STELLA:

I am writing this on October 27. I may or may not have had my baby. Who knows. 

We wrapped recording X-Treks so now I am free to watch the X-Files. I did decide to watch from the beginning to torture myself with season one. I did not expect my husband who is NOT a nerd at all and usually isn’t into genre TV shows to be so into it. It’s become our evening show together which has been awesome. I also feel vindicated because there was one episode recently where Nick was like “Woah. Mitch Pilleggi looks like he could really fuck someone up.” He’s starting to get it. 

The BOUNTY of good D&D right now is so great. Dimension 20 just wrapped “Cloudward Ho!” which legitimately might be my new favorite Intrepid Heroes campaign. Obviously I am a former steampunker (derogatory) so the theme was right up my alley, but damn not only was it very funny but it had SO MUCH heart. And truly the best Zac Oyama character ever. HIGHLY recommended - the first episode is free on Youtube. 

Critical Role’s new campaign is JUST SO GOOD. Fourteen players? A new DM? A whole new world? It’s all working. The damn campaign starts with “Liam, someone you love is about to die.” AHHH. If you have ever wanted to check out Critical Role, but have been overwhelmed by the amount THIS is the campaign for you. The characters are so dynamic, the way they are weaving everyone’s story together in just a few episodes is so incredible. Also, the character art is HOT. Like everyone is hot. Shout out to Robbie Daymond’s character specifically. 

I mentioned on the last NYD that I was making an Anti Ice volunteer and donate list. Here it is. I can’t physically fight back right now but reminder that you are always able to do something. I folded some anti-ICE zines the other day with a friend. Community and resistance don’t always have to be on the front lines. Don’t get discouraged! But also shout out to everyone that was able to go to the No Kings protest. That was dope as hell to watch!

Don’t forget that Thanksgiving isn’t a positive holiday for many, many people. Personally, I feel trapped to “celebrate” with my family because the gathering is important to them, but I always donate to a few Native organizations and gofundmes. I’m slowly rolling some acknowledgements to the fam and slowly decolonizing our language and traditions to be more honest about the holiday. Small changes, slow changes, they can lead to big changes down the line!

Get fucked Joshua Tyler.

ERIN:

[loudly clanging a bell] Oy! Shore ahead! The Depression is starting to lift!!

This month's account I'm obsessed with: art restoration

I can’t remember where I read it, but I read something I found interesting in myself - playing the same music over and over (and over) is a form of stimming. And like, duh, but I had never thought about it that way. I don’t really listen to podcasts right now, so I’ve been listening to music all day, every day. Current stims are:

• The Vaccines (double duh)

• Louis Cole

• The Happy Fits

• Haiku Hands

• My dreamy evening playlist

I spent a lot of October reaching out to people and making sure I’m maintaining the relationships that are important to me. That’s all. That’s the whole paragraph.

PRODUCER BOBBY:

Recs in Effects:

Listen:

Stell’s Metal Birthing Playlist

Maromaro - Moonlighting (also the visuals, this guy usually does stylistic covers but his original work is so good)

Møl - Garland

The Lemonheads - Love Chant (prime old man type shit)

To Watch:

(pick one of the movies you’ve watched in the last week)

Games:

Eclipsium

s.p.l.i.t.

Dead Letter Dept. 

Silent Hill f

This month’s Thoughts 4 U:

• Be prepared

• Know your rights - you can sue them if they don’t read you your Miranda rights

• Memorize the most important phone number or write it on yourself in sharpie at a rally or protest

• Carry a whistle - in Chicago it’s three short burst for a sighting and three long bursts for ICE detaining someone

• Form a crow and get loud

• Film the encounter, but keep yourself safe from retaliation

• Trust your instincts and keep everyone around you safe

• Fuck this shit

• We’ll get through this together

Things coming this month:

• Final X-Treks episode this month. Holy shit.

• New Not Your Demo maybe??????? Let’s see what the inside to outside baby pipeline looks like.

• Will we still be on Instagram in the December newsletter? Only if the Bluesky alternative isn’t up yet! (though they do have a tiktok alternate that’s up and running and tied directly to your Bluesky account already!) Until then at @nydproductions you can get show announcements, hilarious clips, and general revelry. 

• Tumblr! 

• Our Bluesky does exist! @nydproductions

Exclusive to our Patreon (it's only a dollar!) and open for all Discord!

• Join the book club in November! Discord has all the (virtual, do not worry) meetup information!

• Xtras on the Patreon include:

  • Episode outtakes - what are we going to tangent about this time??! 

  • Surprise content mini episodes

  • and more!

And in the Discord, let’s hang out! We’ve got lots of cool little internet rooms.

• Memes!

• Book club!

• We do actually talk about wrestling in there sometimes.

• There’s a lot of music talk, help us find avenues away from Spotify!

• Erin is liveposting fanfic once a month in Stella’s Link Lounge! She’s also documenting it on our Instagram highlights, to varying degrees of success. There will be two this month because of Erin’s poor planning in October!

Drop it pop it and lock it. Now let’s move on to the turkey.