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Harry Dresden Has NO TIME FOR SUBTLE

At least, not in the first book. Spoilers for Storm Front, and let me know about your favourite Dresden Files scenes!

INCONCEIVABLE! An extended Princess Bride video!

Why yes, I can take a hint, my friends! So here it is (public version will be up on Tuesday) THE PRINCESS BRIDE, and *that* Cliffs of Insanity swordfight.

Because I need to tell you something.

I'm not left-handed either.

Why The Matrix: Reloaded's Fights are SO BORING

Did you love The Matrix? I loved The Matrix. Were you a bit...disappointed with the sequels? Yeah, me too. Let's talk about why via the medium of the fights. Of which...there are many.

This video contains extra content instead of the sponsor read that will be on the main YouTube video.

Normally these 'videos plus extra rambling at the end' will only be available to people from the $...

Mistcloak Phase 1

Not dyed yet, and no ribbons, but this is my first time using a sewing machine in ten years, so I’m pretty pleased with how the base capelet for my Brandon Sanderson mistcloak turned out.

If you’re an Early Bear or above you can hear something about my mistcloak adventures at the end of my September video. Otherwise, stay tuned for November when there will be misterious (see what I d...

Editing Diana into Wonder Woman

Woohoo! Welcome to the first in a slightly altered video format, where I don't cut out the interesting but not necessarily relevant parts of the script, I just move them to the end as bonus content! As an Early Bear Patron, you (and Nebula viewers) get this instead of the sponsor read section where I talk about Nebula and Curiosity Stream.

I hope you enjoy the video! :)

One X-Cellent Scene: Nightcrawler in The White House

SECRET PROJECT!

SECRET PROJECT!

THROUGH THE YOUTUBE!

SECRET SECRET SECRET SECRET PROJECT!

Hope you enjoy!

How to hide a sword in your dress - Early Bears!

I promised this last week, and here it is! I’m not sure if I’m going to have the subtitles or not (let me know what you think) and I hope you enjoy it!

The Ballad of the Construction Site

Hello lovely Patrons (and a special welcome to Karel, Tom and Eric!)

I am currently in a place not my own because, as I may have mentioned, my bathroom is being completely rebuilt and that’s not great when you only have the one toilet.

I share with you:

Bathroom at the beginning of last week:

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Early Bears! I challenge you to an Agni Kai!

I know, 3 weeks without an episode and then two come along at once. I hope that you're all well, and that you enjoy my somewhat timely trip down memory lane to visit Zuko, Azula, and my favourite animated fight ever.

Dead Man's Chest: Yo Ho Ho etc

Finally! Owing to some scheduling difficulties, everyone else will be seeing this on the 25th, and then there'll be a new episode on the 1st July (you kids like cabbages? How about duels of honour?) which you'll get to see early. 

I have been preparing my house for the arrival of the nice people who will make the bathroom fit for human habitation, and devoid of any weird light fixtur...

Early Bears: You Felt That, Right?

Yes indeed it's an Early Bear special just for you, my dears! (I know at least one of you is really looking forward to this episode, and I hope it fulfils all your wishes)

It's my birthday this weekend! So I will be eating cake and...not taking delivery of my sword because it is delayed but oh well. There will be cake. And other good things! Hope you're all well, and I'll see you soon. :)...

I Started a Hair Tutorial Channel

Strictly for my own amusement, to be honest, because there's going to be nothing even faintly resembling a regular upload schedule and the first half dozen videos will be reposts from my main channel. But here's the first video, and if you're interested in my hairy videos (ha!) then feel free to subscribe, and share them with your Star Wars or other movie hairdo-loving friends. 

Earl...

General video update post: Pirates, AMA, and all that jazz

Hello! How is life for everyone at the moment?

I thought I’d tell you some of the videos and whatnot that are coming up.

One of them is a Sekrit Project, but the rest of them anyway 😁

The next video coming out will be Pacific Rim, which for some reason I keep typing as Pacific Tim. Or Pacific Rum, probably because of too many Pirates movies.

June’s second episode ...

Livestream for everyone

Ten minutes and we’re live!

Early Bears! Let's battle some baddies :)

I hope you enjoy this second in my 'Jill puts on formalwear and does something ridiculous' series. I had a lot of fun making it :D

PS: If you're around on Saturday at 6pm BST, I will be live-streaming on YouTube. (If you turn on YouTube notifications then it will ping you when I start, otherwise, I'll be streaming for about 45 minutes from 6.) Hope you enjoy this video, and I'll see you s...

This is the tale...of Captain Jack Sparrow...

And how his fight with Will Turner in Curse of the Black Pearl is everything that is beautiful and good.

I am still figuring out how to title this one, all suggestions welcome, but I'm thinking something like 

Pirates' Perfect Fight: Jack Sparrow vs. Will Turner

Ashens & Jill Podcast: Extra Special Patron Bonus

I had the great pleasure of being a guest on Stuart Ashen's Patrons-only podcast 'Audio Guff' in which we talked about stage combat, movie fights, Songs of Praise and the oddest thing I've ever done while working in a church.

And he has kindly let me share it here, just for you! Hope you enjoy it :)

Captain Marvel! She's a Hero!

Gonna take pollution DOWN TO ZER-wait.

Never mind. 

Herewith my first ever sponsored video but without the sponsor section, because that's how we roll around here.

If you're mad keen to take advantage of the Curiosity Stream offer though ($12 for a year of Curiosity Stream documentaries and Nebula, which is basically YouTube Premium but done by people you've actually hear...

You tossed a coin to your YouTuber...

And so the early bear is yours! Or the early Witcher. Or just...Henry Cavill in a bath, whatever really.

The Next Right Thing

A Frozen 2 song cover for your Good Friday! (A friend of mine on Facebook has been doing his favourite songs and I decided that it looked like fun.)

Happy Easter, all! New video up on the 15th! Though I'm not sure what it will be yet because I'm trying to finish two at once!

Kitten is cute

I mean, he just is.

Going live once Ursa Minor is asleep!

So in the next 60 to 90 minutes I hope!

Going to let everyone (not you, dear Patrons, because you know already) know about the future direction of the channel and job and so on.

Ha. Ha. What a great time to become self employed. Haha. Ha. XD

How to...

Hide a sword in your dress like you’re Wonder Woman?

Working on it 😁

Let me introduce...

The newest member of the Bearup household.

This is Nemo, everybody say hi, and wish us a smooth introduction to Sherlock.

I have copious amounts of Feliway spray and I know how to use it!

EARLY BIRD!

We are creeping closer to the 'Jill  leaves her job' deadline and I admit, I'm looking forward to having more time to write and edit and not have to cram it in to evenings and weekends.

SEVENTEEN MINUTES THOUGH! I'm so proud.

Title suggestions welcomed, because I still write titles like I'm a nineteenth century mathematician. i.e. Lewis Carroll. Through the Looking Glass and Wh...

A ten second joke always takes longer than I think...

You'll be delighted to know that I am very nearly finished my next video, which is a The Last Jedi throne room fight analysis.

And those of you who like longer videos will be especially pleased, trust me.

But this one joke that I had to make (because I was referencing Frozen) took a bit longer to set up than I thought...oh well. I thought we'd have a chat while I did my hair.

Have your say on the last Patron Request video!

Well, the last one for now anyway.

Have youuuuurrrr saaaaaaaaayyyyy!!!! Rock the vote! Or...something like that anyway.

It's like real voting for elections, but...simultaneously less important (I do not run your country) and more significant in terms of the impact your vote has (there are fewer than 40 people who can vote in this one XD)

If you don't know why this is the last ...

Very Important Update!

Things they are a-changin', and you need to know about it! 

(There will be some kind of public video at some point too, but for now, here's the reasonably short version.)

TL;DR: More videos, different focus, (more stage combat related movie videos, in short), updated Patreon tiers with more content, and in general, trying to make this YouTube thing viable as an actual job.

Patrons Only: Star Wars meets Stage Combat

Series name suggestions gratefully received, but for now...this is what I've been working on. And I hope you like it!

(Thank you for your patience. Seriously.)

There has been an awakening...

Oh my goodness I am alive, honestly! And I am working on a new video for you all which I think you're really going to like. Let me tell you about it because it is still in the rough edit stage. But...I think it's going to be a good one. And if I ever get the followup finished...I think that might be pretty good too...