A Week dump, not a weak dump.
I shut down but I'm back up again!
I tried to quit again!
They didn’t let me!
We move!
You know what puts me off from writing these newsletters?
I always try to say what I want to say in some Uber intelligent manner, when what I really want to say is
I shut down this week (early in the week) and Hamda (
) thinks it’s burnout but I don’t think so. I’ve been burnt out before. I know I’m more often on the brink of burnout than not, but it wasn’t burnout because I was still functional, somewhat. I bounced right back the next day, thank God.For most of the year I’ve spent my time guarding my energy, trying to prevent a burnout by, get this, only working on other people’s projects and abandoning my own. Smart, right?
Shutting down this week gave me almost the same thing a near death experience would. Remember me talking about disappointing people on Monday? I would go on to disappoint a lot more people during the course of the week, and never on purpose. Had to face a lot of consequences of my actions. Tried to quit my job, wasn’t allowed to but that was a good thing.
Now, what did the experience birth?
I’m a plotter, and plotters plot, but many plots plotted never quite pan out as prior plotted.
Nevertheless, the deeper I’ve gone into the world of podcasting, the more podcast ideas have come to me… even a 3Bs&BS podcast. I mean, you probably already read this in my voice.
But yeah, here are the two podcasts I’m looking to finally start.
TWW & MDP
The Weekly Weeb.
A weekly anime news podcast where we share the latest news on all things anime, but also table your run of the mill and slightly weird anime arguments, hot takes and more. Featuring a host of various characters/weebs each week.
The Month Dump Podcast.
Y’all are familiar with the concept of a month dump right? At the end of every month, thousands of netizens take to their accounts to post a summarised version of what went down during their months, some more than others. Took a million pictures during the month? Alright, here are six pictures trying to fit it all in, or I’ll post a grid of them so I have more space.
This is a messy explanation but you get the gist, I believe.
The MDP is a once a month podcast that features interesting strangers who come together, share their wins, losses etc from the month and also talk about what happened during the month, outside their lives, as much as can be covered.
Tbh, the shut down might have been a wakeup call, but the catalyst to me kicking off these projects was Ayo, a reader like you. And now she has no choice but to help cus you shouldn’t start what you can’t finish.
I reached out to four friends, two each for each pod to co-produce. I’m still fine-tuning the ideas, but if any of you are interested in either idea and would want to help somehow, just let me know in the comments and when I’m officially building the team I’ll hit you up.
I’ve procrastinated both ideas for a while but I want to try now because I’m not doing it alone, and I have no reason not to try them now. I’ll learn, fail, make mistakes, and get better. And I’m opening them up to you guys as well because I want these to be fun collaborative experiences. So it’s volunteer work but a chance to do something, if you’re looking for one.
We’d need help with stuff like graphics, managing socials, yada yada, I’m just spitballing here.
Eko Anime Fair…
…took place yesterday, and I’d been planning to go for weeks, months even, because I’d never been. But after shutting down on Tuesday, I scrapped it.
Fast forward to yesterday afternoon, a friend who basically works as one of the planners hit me up asking if I’d come. I wasn’t gonna, but I’d had a crappy week and maybe I needed that escape, so, I escaped.
I booked a ride and started googling characters I could cosplay with a red jacket and black jeans. While I somehow didn’t find one, I ended up somehow looking like the Weeknd from Blinding lights.
Saw another friend I hadn’t seen since Barbie dropped last year, Cass. Then I rounded up the night with…
What a Joke game night!
We played trivia and then video call charades all inspired by my podcast. It felt like the culmination of so many things I’ve done over the past three years. If you don’t listen or aren’t in the community already, shame on you. Here’s a link.
This was, in my opinion, a bant, with some brilliant somethings inside maybe? What do you think?
Hamda here to say the fact that you’re “always on the verge of burnout”, means you’re already burnt out. It’s not until you crash. Take a break love. Sending you hugs!
I actually like 'The Monthly Dump' Idea