Here’s my streaming schedule during my vacation week. A few things:
The Miles Morales stream on Saturday will be a LONG one. I intend to start a new playthrough, basically turn off the music, and then complete it from start to finish (not planning to 100% it). Expect at least an 8-hour stream that day.
The episode of The Web Line on Sunday has not yet been determined, but it’ll probably be a solo episode.
On Monday 7/3, the intention is to play Marvel’s Midnight Suns to completion. It’s sat forEVER, and I want to knock out the story. I think I’m close, but it might be a longer stream.
For the Fourth of July, I’m not sure what we’ll be doing. Suggestions welcome, but tentatively I’m hoping/planning to finish out any of Miles Morales or Midnight Suns that I didn’t finish, but I’m open to other ideas. Hit me up in the comments if you have any ideas!
I’ll be live streaming a bonus episode of The Web Line podcast tonight at 8 PM central time. I’ll have two guests on hand as we talk about the film Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, WITH SPOILERS! Come by, and talk with us about what you liked about the film! Hope you watched it already!
Now that Trouble is okay and I’m making some progress with paying down her medical debt, I’ve been able to turn my time and energy back to content creation. While I’ll never claim to be the world’s best blogger, YouTuber, or podcaster, I can at least add that latter term to my content creation resume again! I’ve started a podcast focused on one of the few subjects I can nerd out about ad nauseum–the amazing Spider-Man, of course–and have, as of this writing, streamed, edited, and uploaded THREE episodes!
Introducing: The Web Line, a Podcast About Spider-Man and His Amazing World! It’s the ideal place for Spider-Fans to discuss all aspects of our favorite webslinger in a fun, informal–but informative!–forum. Join me, the laughably loquacious Spidey Librarian, and my garrulous guests to hear about the timely topics related to the wondrous webslinger! Spidey news, analysis, reviews, and discussion, all in one perfectly imperfect podcast!
I mentioned earlier that I’ve already gotten THREE episodes out. Below you’ll see what they are, and when they originally streamed:
Episode 1 – Timeline to Spider-Verse: Video Games to Comics to Film (Really!) / May 28
Episode 2 – Reaction and Review of Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (non-spoiler) / June 4
Episode 3 – Character Deep Dive: Peter Parker / June 11
Below is a playlist of the original live streams of The Web Line on my YouTube channel. If you love Spider-Man and his amazing world as much as I do, you’ll want to tune in! As time goes on, this playlist will grow larger and larger, since I’m currently averaging an episode per week. And that’s not even talking about the bonus episodes I’ll be putting out on a semi-regular basis!
The podcast is also available in audio formats, on many of the podcast providers out there, such as Spotify, Amazon Music, Apple Podcasts, and Stitcher. I’ll create a link for The Web Line that has links to your preferred podcast service in the near future.
In the meantime, here’s a list of upcoming episodes, the date of they’re intended live stream, and any information I have about guests for them:
Episode 2.5 – Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse SPOILER Talk / June 16 / Diane Maenad and Chuck Schiel (BONUS Episode!)
Episode 4 – Tier List: Rating Spider-Man’s Rogues Gallery / June 18 / no guest
Episode 5 – Spider-Reads: What Are the Most Iconic Spider-Man Stories? / June 25 / Dan Gvozden of the Amazing Spider-Talk podcast
Episode 6 – Film Review: 2002’s Spider-Man / July 2 / no guest
I hope you’ll check it out and enjoy! I know it’s a good time to be a Spider-Man fan, and hopefully this little podcast will add a little fan-fueled flavor to all the Spider-Man content that’s out there.
During the first two weeks of May, Trouble’s medical debt has gotten $31.90 in support from you guys through donations to her GoFundMe, as well as tips using my StreamElements link.
I want to thank all of you for the support so far, as well as ask you to help me raise that number. Remember, if we can get to $50, Frankie’s Friends, a pet helper charity that I support, will get 10% of the donation total (they’re currently at 5%). The more we can raise, the larger a percentage they’ll get!
If you’d like to add to the donations for this month, I’ll be streaming tonight (Marvel Puzzle Quest at 9:00, and The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom at 11:00). You can also always donate to Trouble’s GoFundMe.
I wanted to revisit this and convey my biggest, unending thanks to everyone who donated to relieve Trouble’s medical expenses. Because of your amazing generosity, we were able to blast away a full 20% of a very hefty hospital (now credit card) bill on the first payment. Trouble and I are both humbled and grateful for your support, and will never forget it.
Going forward, I’m going to leave the door open for further donations, with a slight change.
Every month, upon meeting certain donation thresholds, I will donate a percentage to Frankie’s Friends, an organization that helps pet owners whose pets are acutely in need of lifesaving medical care. This is my way of paying the generosity you’ve shown me forward to other pet owners who may find themselves in a similar situation to the one Trouble and I were in a couple months ago.
Donation thresholds and percentages will be as follows:
$20 —> 5% ($1 minimum donation)
$50 —> 10% ($5 minimum donation)
$100 —> 20% ($20 minimum donation)
$250 —> 30% ($75 minimum donation)
$500 —> 40% ($200 minimum donation)
$1,000 —> 50% ($500 minimum donation)
As an example, in April, Trouble’s GoFundMe received $60 in donations. I will therefore be donating $6 to Frankie’s Friends this month.
This is all voluntary and low pressure. While this expense is both sudden and large, I should be able to more or less manage it. Any further donations will go towards paying down the principal and hopefully reducing the monthly minimum payments and knocking this debt out as soon as possible.
I will post monthly updates on where the overall debt is, how much was donated in a given month, and how much was in turn donated to Frankie’s Friends. If you’d like to help me, as well as other pet owners in sudden need, there are several great ways:
Again, thanks for your support in helping me fight for my kitty baby. And thanks for any future support any of you can manage as I try hard to slay this formidable debt beast.
This Sunday night, I’ll be holding a birthday stream for Trouble, who is now 5 years old. The goal will be to spoil her with attention, love, and treats while simultaneously raising some funds to help pay off her medical debt.
I’ll have her on camera during the stream, where people will be able to say hello, have me interact with her in various ways, and hear some stories about why I love this little furry orange demon so damn much.
Also, I am no longer raising money just for Trouble’s medical debt.
Starting with this stream, I will be pledging a percentage of the total donations made during the stream to Frankie’s Friends, an organization that helps save pets in need of lifesaving medical and/or veterinary care. For every donation made, either to Trouble’s GoFundMe or via Paypal Donations, I will donate to Frankie’s Friends at the following rates:
$20: 5% ($1 at threshold) $100: 10% ($10 at threshold) $250: 20% ($50 at threshold) $500: 30% ($150 at threshold) $750: 40% ($300 at threshold) $1,000: 50% ($500 at threshold)
I’m doing this because I felt so supported and nurtured and humbled by everyone during the Trouble Watch, and I wanted to figure out a way to give back and possibly help out any future pet owners. While the medical debt payments are a pain, I **think** I’m able to handle them, so anything you donate will be going to cover paying down the interest on it, and if your generosity helps me both pay down the debt faster AND donate to a worthy pet friendly organization, then I think we all win here. 😻
Tune in Sunday night, April 30, 8 PM central, at this link
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I know this is a fairly recent undertaking, but I’ve already had some occasional minor issues come up when ordering new Spider-Man compression shirts online. I like to think I’m a generally laidback individual who can usually roll with the punches, but occasionally there are times when you just shouldn’t settle for whatever you’re given, particularly if it looks like you were promised something else.
Which is one of the reasons I’m here today.
In my previous post about the Miles Morales compression shirt, I’d talked about how that shirt was overall, pretty decent quality. It was a little loose, but overall still looked good, and I was happy to add it to my Spidey wardrobe. Well, it seems I’ve now got a spare of that exact shirt, as the vendor from whom I ordered a noticeably different Miles Morales compression shirt saw fit to send me something that not only looks very much unlike the pictures that were used in their advertisement, but is the same shirt as the one I’d gotten previously.
While I’m not unhappy to have a double of the Miles shirt that I’d ordered before, it’s a little vexing to see the difference between what was advertised and what was sent to me–especially since it was more expensive than the other shirt from a different vendor. I was strongly considering NOT including an affiliate link, since I didn’t want to refer my readers and viewers to a vendor that had not only sent me a bogus shirt, but who has done nothing and showed no interest in reaching out to correct their mistake.
But you know what? Screw it.
Here’s the link to the shirt in question. Please go have a look, read the disappointed review I gave them, and then go somewhere else on Amazon to shop for your things. If you’d like to see a more thorough example of my disappointment, I’ve linked the video below.
I’ve been gradually cultivating a collection of Spider-Man compression shirts, and have been meaning to add reviews and links to this site after I unbox and review themon my YouTube channel. It’s a fairly recent endeavor that I’m trying to create content for on a monthly basis, and with my most recent acquisition, I figured it’s time to start linking things to the website blog now. It’s a fun, low-stress way for me to create a brand, use my affiliate links, and let others see how this apparel looks.
If you’re looking to purchase the shirt I review in the video below, please consider using this Amazon affiliate link to do so.
As a Miles Morales fan, I was pretty happy with this shirt, and was happy to give it a good review. You can see the full video review below:
If you’d like to see more reviews of Spider-Man compression shirts, I’ve collected them in a playlist on my YouTube channel. Affiliate links are also available in the video descriptions.
This is about the time of year we start getting Trouble’s kitten pics, and this is the earliest known one. I’ve really grown to love this kitty, as quite a few of you already probably know.
This year has already been trying, for both Trouble and myself, but we both pulled through with help from you guys, from my friends, family, and co-workers. So this occasion feels extra special. Trouble is now 5 years old, and she’s the best furry little orange demon a cat dad could ask for.
I’d like to do some form of birthday stream for her on our around May 1, but I’m still coming up with ways to celebrate, so hit me up with ideas about what we could do. In the meantime, enjoy this extra special “how it started/how it’s going” pic of our favorite queen. 😻🐕😺👑
For those who don’t already know, I am in fact a real life librarian, and I sometimes do librarian things like attend professional conferences. It has been my privilege for the last several years (pandemic lockdowns and social distancing notwithstanding) to attend the Texas Library Association conference, the latest of which was just held in Austin. These conferences consist of panels and presentations put on by other librarians across the state, social gatherings, and opportunities to get to know and reconnect with other librarians in a professional setting.
This year’s conference was pretty special to me, for a couple of reasons.
First and foremost, I got to present my own session at TLA for the first time this year. It was a 60-minute talk on bringing YouTube channel management programming to library users, and it brought in between 30 and 40 audience members. In it, I basically discussed the merits of bringing content creation programs to the library, the benefits they could bring to library patrons, and some best practices for doing so. I also talked about my own passion for content creation, and how managing a YouTube channel has benefited myself in the last couple of years. I enjoyed myself immensely, and would love to do similar such talks at TLA in the future. This also marks the first time I’ve come to TLA as a contributor in some way as opposed to simply consuming the content that’s there, which I think is fairly significant.
Me with Brittney Morris, one of the writers for Marvel’s Spider-Man 2!
Second, I got to meet one of the writers for Marvel’s Spider-Man 2, Brittney Morris. I didn’t even realize one of the young adult authors on the panel I was attending also wrote for the game I’m most looking forward to playing this year! I went and met her after the panel, and while she couldn’t tell me about the game, she did say she was impressed with how much heart and effort everyone working on it was pouring into its development, and that she thought it was going to be a real treat to players when it’s released. I was impressed to meet her, and went to her signing line and got a copy of her book, The Jump, signed. I’ll be reading it in the near future.
Yes, THIS GAME!
Aside from those occurrences, it was just nice to walk the exhibits hall, see former and current co-workers in a more relaxed setting, and just be around a bustling convention style atmosphere. I always enjoy going to events like this, and hope to get to more of them in the future. Unfortunately, I’m sure PAX South is dead, but I suppose there’s always Comicpalooza in Houston later this year.
Spidey Librarian 