Hi there!

Hello my loverly followers! It has been quite a long time since I have posted anything other than a Ninjago chapter here. Wow. To be honest, I've mostly just been forgetting :/ so that's my bad. Either way, I just wanted to send out a bigger update on things here at Pinkiemachine HQ because now there's actually something to talk about :D

For a long while now I have not been posting to YouTube and aside from Ninjago, I haven't really been doing anything else. Except the occasional quick painting or meme on, say, Twitter. A big part of why that is has to do with this big commission I've been doing IRL, and even though I had been pretty confident that I'd be finished by the end of February, turns out there was a lot more work to do than I was initially told, so work got extended through the spring. lol, what can you do?

HOWEVER I am here to tell you all that after so long, this commission is finally, OFFICIALLY, finished! What does this mean? Well, if I manage to maintain a disciplined schedule, it means I'm actually gonna be posting on YouTube again! Woohoo!

In one of my previous YouTube update videos, I mentioned how I wanted to steer away from tv show related subject matter and become a story time YouTuber, and at the time that was absolutely true, however, as time has worn on and as I have grown, I've realized that story time just isn't where my creativity lies. I am much more drawn to fiction (clearly) and so I want to create videos about shows and movies. Critique videos? Mmm, maybe every now and then, but if I'm being honest, I have spent so much of my time over the past few years being critical of films and shows, and I'm just getting so sick of it. The Internet used to be a place where the majority of content was creative, and I want to get back into that mindset. We are creators, not just consumers, and definitely not just critics.

I was convicted one day as I rewatched Ratatouille, and if you've seen the movie, you might recall Ego's review at the end where he states, and I quote,

"In many ways, the job of a critic is easy. We risk very little, yet enjoy a position over those who offer up their work and their selves to our judgment. We thrive on negative criticism, which is fun to write and to read. But the bitter truth we critics must face, is that in the grand scheme of things, the average piece of junk is probably more meaningful than our criticism designating it so."

Even if I don't like some of the things being made nowadays, at least these people actually went out and made something new. Meanwhile I'm just sitting here, in my bedroom, complaining about it. If I genuinely believe I have a point to make in all of this, the least I can do is show rather than tell. I have the power to create, and potentially create something better than the things I have deemed as less than, and if I'm going to continue to believe that, I need to prove it through action, not just with fancy words. So, that being said, the type of content I want to make on YouTube going forward will largely have to do with creative writing, re-writing professional scripts as a form of writing exercise (and just for fun), and lastly, creating my own original works. But that last one might take a little while longer.

So I hope you all enjoy what I have planned. The first video scheduled is just gonna be an intro video, finally--we've needed one for a while--so don't get too excited just yet, but with any luck, I'll be making the content that I truly enjoy, and you all will have something genuinely fun and creative to watch, which, as a writer, I don't think there's much of a higher calling beyond that. I'm excited to see what happens next!

XOXO

~Rhapsody