When: Tuesday, 28 May, 2pm Pacific
What: Free Jimmy – IMDB
Host: Lewis
Category: blog posts and updates
When: Tuesday, 21 May, 2pm Pacific
What: The Horne Section Television Programme (2018) – IMDB
Host: Lewis
Watch parties will be happening (fairly) regularly on Tuesdays in the Taskhusbands discord server in the voice channel. They are open to everyone in the server, and will be a livestreamed event. If you do not have the media in question, don’t worry! You won’t need access to it.
When is it?
Watch parties will be taking place on Tuesdays between 2-3pm Portland time. You can see what time that is for by clicking here and adding your own time zone to the chart. The times may shift a bit depending on group (and host) availability, but this is what we’re going with for now.
What’s playing?
What we watch depends on what gets suggested here. You can suggest as many films, stand up specials, television programmes, etc as you like, put please limit one request per form. Requests will be pulled randomly from the list, depending on their length, whether I have to track them down (and how difficult that is), and the overall mood of the server.
Watch parties will generally last as long as people have energy for (host included). For television, this could mean watching a full six-episode run in one go, or just a single stand up special. What we will almost certainly not be doing is collectively binge watching full multi-series programmes at once. For longer, multi-series programmes, we will navigate those as we come to them.
Currently I am building a collection of works involving Taskmaster alum, but we are not limited to this list by any means. It’s also going to take me ages to get the collection put together, but so will watching all of it.
How to Participate
As this will be in the voice channel, there will be some quick rules around microphones. At the beginning of the party, we’ll have an open lobby to make sure sound and picture works for everyone. Only the host should be streaming video. Once the watch party begins properly, all microphones must be muted, and chat directed to the accompanying text channel.
If subtitles are available, they should be turned on to English.
If you would like to guest host, please DM me to arrange so we can set it up in advance.
This site is, frankly, a mess. At a certain point, I tried to do too much with it, and it became a nightmare to maintain. I basically forgot that I can make other sections that can be their own thing, and it all doesn’t have to go in one place. So I’m slowly removing a lot of stuff from this section of the site and moving it elsewhere. This week, it’s the blog. I use dreamwidth now anyway. I want this section to be solely fic notes, and I’ve been collecting the fic notes that still exist over there to copy over here when the time comes as well. There’s a lot that got posted to AO3, and I think I have quite a few in Scrivener that I need to sift through, so that’s going to be this week’s project.
But for now, the whole thing has been wiped clean and renamed in the menu and changed the sidebar to make this section easier to browse for fic notes. I’m going to keep the “blog posts and updates” tag, and all of the backend stuff, because I hate messing with that, but this is now effectively the fic notes section. I’ve even backdated this entry, so it shows up before the fic notes I’ve been posting. I’ll be clearing out unused tags and categories eventually, once I clear out unused pages as well. But I’ve got literally thousands of them, so we’ll see how things go. By the time you see this post, it may or may not already be done. It depends on how things look when I fiddle with them.
The reading lists will be moving over to Thor Daily at some point in the near future, but that’ll take some time to do. I’m effectively going to be turning this part of the site into more of a landing page, and totally separating the comic part of the site off entirely so I can give it its own unique domain next year. This part of the site is going to go back to just basically a place for my fic notes and occasional updates outside the newsletter. Nothing will really be lost, because it’s all just being moved around and copied elsewhere. It’s a whole process that is taking forever though.