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Star Wars VII teaser: The Force Awakens

and everything is beautiful hugs and puppies and rainbows and explosions. Don't mind me, I'll be over here grinning to myself.

116: The Mummy: Second Look

YEAH RICK AND EVIE! Also: MAWWIAGE! I mean: MARRIAGE! Something like that.

Q&A: Feminism!

Today's 3 Qs: Do you think that you have to call yourself a feminist to want things to be better for women? Do you think there are wrong ways to be a feminist? Does being a feminist also mean caring about the issues of men? Also included: attempts to define intersectionality, various -archies, and awesome earrings.

Milestone Part 1!

It was a happy day when I found out that there's a full-length version of Reflection sung by Lea Salonga. So that's what this is. But with me. More, or different, to come, but I've put the MP3 on Tumblr. However one of my neighbours is apparently power hosing his entire garden and the surrounding areas, so no more recording t...

Go forth and vote!

Here is the voting form for SONGS, ALL OF THE SONGS! OK, not the Queen of the night aria. That's a little ambitious. Go forth and vote! Vote early! Vote often! Vote before the 6th of April! https://docs.googl...

March 2015 Patreon supported

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115: Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Groans

Actors, directors, and Ursa's favourite thing about the prequels: the arena scene, and Jedi doing...

MOAR Q&A: Thunderbirds, 50 Shades and Discworld

Also the Sexy Lamp Test, my cat (briefly), and how to deal with people who treat you like a child.

Q&A: Hell, Children's Books and Crossover Fanfic

More questions! In which I blather about kids books I loved growing up. And theology. And crossover fanfic.

MUSIC: THE BEGINNINING

Milestone! Well, almost. We hit $400, and then we didn't, but I remain confident we'll get there again very soon, so: suggestions for songs! I am all ears.

CRAFTING! (How To Make Tracy Island)

Thunderbirds (the 60s TV show that Team America was spoofing) was a BIG part of my childhood nostalgia. And there aren't many British kids circa 1992 who don't remember learning how to make Tracy Island from Anthea Turner. I hear she has a show about housewives now. There's a new series out next month, so I got a little old-sc...

WEBCOMICS!

I would like to thank the person (you know who you are) who recced Digger to me. You're great. But no, half a dozen people who've asked, I haven't read Homestuck. I don't even know if it would fall into the category of webcomic anyway. Though I've no idea what category it would fall into...

113: Enchanted

ENCHANTED!

February 2015 Patreon supported

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112: Star Wars Episode 1: The Fandom Medley

You know I can't resist my terrible puns. Moosebutter medleys, Dungeons and Dragons webcomics, and...well...you know, some actual discussion of The Phantom Menace. A little bit.

VERY IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT (or VATMOSS, what the #$&@?)

SO, my beautiful darling Patrons: we have...an issue. A TAX ISSUE (DUN DUN DUUUUNNN!) Here's the TL;DR: Due to new European Union tax rules, I do not think that I can continue offering reward tiers. Which is to say, if you give me money because you want early access to episodes, I won't be doing that any more, and if you w...

111: Captain America: The Winter Soldier

Reupload to fix a sound glitch. STEVE! AGAIN!

Advice On: Getting Married in Your 20s!

Yay, Patreon will let me put things up again!

January 2015 Patreon supported

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How do you do your hair, Jill?

So I feel bad about not really having given you guys much early content recently. SO. For you, earlier than everyone else will get to see it: time for another vlog! This one answering a really vague hair question. It also gives me a chance to talk about my secret love of YouTube tutorials and hair forks. So s'all good. :)

Email list!

Patronuses! If you would prefer getting update notifications from me in one big happy Email of Joy every few weeks instead of as they go up, then you should sally forth to jillbearup.com/newslettersignup and put in your email! Obviously they'll be getting news and updates some time after you if you're following this page, but i...

Don't Put Pig On Your Face: A Beauty Vlog

Sometimes you just see something that makes you feel the need to make a semi-ranting science vlog. Pig collagen jelly masks just about did it for me. :)

Zombies, Run! (Part 2)

YAY SAM YAO! Also misattribution and suchlike.

How Much Money Do You Make From Videos?

All right! The 4th draft of this video is finally ready for public consumption and stuff! Thank you to everyone who sent me a message with helpful advice! The final version is a little different from the one you guys saw earlier...but not much. Mostly there are many more annotations and an explanation of what CPM is. Thank yo...

109: Zombies, Run! Part One

IN THIS EPISODE: An actual kind of...review thing, for a change, of an app which gets you to run away from zombies in a post-apocalyptic wasteland. Also embodied cognition and Silent Protagonists.

How Much Money Do You Make On YouTube?

And Blip, and Patreon...we've got advertising, we've got spreadsheets, and we even have a graph or two. For now, this video is exclusive to you, so let me know what you think!

Vlog: I Hate 'Toxins'

Or, a topic which turns me into a ginger Ben Goldacre every January. TOXINS! Dun-Dun-DUN!

2015, We Are In You With Our Episode Timetable

Happy New Year (in the Gregorian calendar!) Here, for your edification and/or amusement, is the provisional SYL episode timetable for the coming year! RED things are properties now (or always) owned by Disney. Blue things are books and webcomics. I know, right? This timetable is obviously subject to alteration, but this is w...

December 2014 Patreon supported

Thank you so much for the support this month!

Dear Patrons, Merry Christmas or solstice or Hannukah or...whatever you celebrate! (Yesterday I learned that there are 16 variant spellings of Hanukkah using this alphabet. Transliteration is fun!) ANYWAY, that's not what this post is about. It's actually about...dun dun DUN...MONEY! I'm not asking you to give me more money, ...