It's... been a while hasn't it? Let's cut to the chase, what is going on and what will be happening going forward?
Straight up, what is going on is a combination of things, mostly a form of burn-out. The thing is, for most of this year I decided to slow down movie reviews and focus on editorials, for three reasons; Firstly I have not really had the space to watch a movie consistently, so a weekly or bi-weekly schedule just seemed less possible. It also didn't help that this year started off with a 1-2-3 punch of getting sick, getting back problems and getting sick again, that was how my first quarter went, so that was fun, and also a reason I couldn't go to the theatre. Second, Editorials were just more enjoyable to write, I have a bit of a formula for reviewing movies and it got a bit dull to write after a while, plus there are only so many ways you can say "this is funny", "this is beautiful" or "this is good". Finally, movie reviews just weren't getting the views, granted I have a very small reader-base, but editorials have usually gotten more views than movie reviews have so it made more sense to focus on those.
However, that's really the surface answer, because I made a decision that ultimately burnt-me out. See in November of 2024, I did a blog about animated movies that were banned in different countries, and I had a lot of fun doing it, in May of 2025 I sort-of spiritually followed it up with a blog about seven myths around animation. These kind of editorials that required more research were tougher to write than others, where I just write down my thoughts on a certain topic, but were also more fun because it allowed me to look into subjects I normally wouldn't have thought about, like the Road Runner rules or why Shrek 2 got a ban in Israel. So, I tried to do something ambitious, I wanted to do a similar style blog, but with a topic I was more familiar with; I wanted to talk about the cartoon reviewing community that the different controversies it got into.
This was a mistake, because... first of all really all it was gonna be was a condensed recap of certain events, and second, as it turned out, two of these stories were still ongoing, sort of. I talked about the Great Brony Purge, the period of time where many prominent and even lesser known members of the brony community were ousted for being predators, and immediately after that the Saberspark controversy happens, where Saberspark gets accused of sexual assault. Really it began with BlackGryph0n but the way the whole situation ended, really it's about ILoveKimPossibleALot and EmuEmi. The second story that ended up carrying on was the Stargiant Productions controversy, because guess who resurfaced? And with the most... stupid stuff I've ever heard anyone say or write, if you can stomach seven and a half hours of literal delusional nonsense check out Lazy Bedhead's stream where she and the Enter Team read and react to a document that Stargiant wrote. Keep in mind, the second stupidest thing I heard from that document was literally "The law is if they are free, they are innocent."
The blog I was writing was not good, and would need a serious rewrite if I wanted to post it, the key word there being "if", because I'll be honest it does come off as a little... ambulance chaser-y, like those channels who talk about controversies and dramas only because it gets them views and attention, I won't deny on some level I did want that, but I also wanted to just tell these stories because... some of them are just insane, like the Stargiant story involves N3k0pan, Lio Convoy, Mr Enter, HopelessPeaches, Misanthropony, Rei Rants, PhantomStrider, and almost involved Just A Robot apparently. Like this whole story needs to be studied, in university classes or something, it's that insane. Still, not a great blog, and I'm going to withhold it indefinitely.
So what's going to happen for the future? Well... I think it goes without saying but I'm stepping away from this blog for a good while. I began this blog because I wanted to explore the vast world of animated features and I have not been doing that as of late. Also, I've been working on a few comic projects, most notably I have been submitting cartoons to the underground magazine Absolute Underground, so I think I'm going to focus more on comics for the time being. Will I come back to this blog? Sure, I don't believe this is goodbye forever because I still love animation, I still love movies and I still love writing, but right now I need to really focus my time and energy on to one or two things, and given the state of the world, and some personal issues I can't and won't divulge publicly, keeping myself sane is one of those two things.
Well... this was a long letter, I'll see you around.
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