Crowdfunding on Kickstarter w/ Holly Black - Intentionally Blank Ep. 174

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Brandon Sanderson

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@劉禎-s7k 2 ай бұрын

The fly: " Life before death."

@PikuStation 2 ай бұрын

The fly didn't die because they kept charging him with Stormlight.

@kenzalhunter 2 ай бұрын

He was too busy journeying before that final destination.

@GeFuryy 2 ай бұрын

Strength Before Weakness

@Shawnbob82 2 ай бұрын

All right you guys covered them all

@bibliophilecb 2 ай бұрын

Windrunner fly confirmed

@thaynehansen7079 2 ай бұрын

To Dan: I have an "I am not a Serial Killer" T-shirt and people ask me where I got it all the time!

@Andrew_Bradshaw 2 ай бұрын

They should have the fly special guest on more often. He really brings the excitement.

@waynecoady3257 2 ай бұрын

I don't know. He bugs me!

@Parmandur 2 ай бұрын

Backing a Kickstarter activates some sort of "team sports" mentality where I cheer watching the numbers go up...even if there are no stretch goals!

@thebananafactor 2 ай бұрын

Agree! One psychological term is “basking in reflected glory,” like when everyone wears a team’s jersey after they have a big win

@vthenarheqa 2 ай бұрын

No surprise but I appreciate your integrity around the crowd funding. I so rarely do kickstarters/etc any more because 99% of the time they feel like scams or have fallen through. The fact that you are judicious in choosing how often and why to crowd source -- kudos and thanks! Always a fan.

@Franzburg 2 ай бұрын

Calvin and Hobbes is a Master piece!!!! Isn't that labeling enough?

@vio6815 2 ай бұрын

Holly Black being such a cheerful person is throwing me for a loop. after reading some of her books, I would have expected someone more somber, I guess :D cool episode

@benlemcke2863 2 ай бұрын

That is the trick isn’t it? She writes the somber into her books so that it isn’t occupying her mind.

@matthewdrury7264 2 ай бұрын

@@benlemcke2863seems like it does occupy the mind which is why she is able to write it, but being able to express it through writing allows her to not show it in person. Since everyone likes to communicate their feelings, she can be happy while you read her dark side.

@Avid_Reader 2 ай бұрын

Some personal reasons why I believe Kickstarter to be more fun than a pre-order: Stretch goals, voting on inclusions, name in acknowledgements, comments, etc. Kickstarter is an interactive event. A pre-order is click, pay, wait.

@TheButterflyChaos 2 ай бұрын

Holly is a delightful guest 😊 interesting chat today

@MrNukabear 2 ай бұрын

Holy totally unexpected here, Spiderwick was my introduction to the fantasy genre and one of that series was the first book that I was waiting for the release of, must have been 6/7, insane flashback. Amazing. @00:25 also now realize that me and Brando have VERY different ideas of what quantifies an adult book...

@rossburgess2965 2 ай бұрын

PLEASE DO A LET'S PLAY WITH YOU TWO PLAYING THE COSMERE RPG!

@naastyaaaaaaaaa 2 ай бұрын

I LOVED _Book of Night_ ! Definitely a standout for me in Holly Black's oeuvre.🖤

@Panamaniac3D 2 ай бұрын

Dan should bring his swag to Dragonsteel Nexus. I bet he would sell all of it.

@pretty5793 2 ай бұрын

2:00 my toddler thinks that fly swatter makes fireworks…he gets so excited and wants to try it out 😔

@Akwyndor 2 ай бұрын

Man, I wish that this podcast was longer.

@cbalan777 2 ай бұрын

Having run several failed crowdfunding attempts, the advice I would give people is look at the idea itself. Crowdfunding. There won't be any funding unless you have a crowd. You basically have to already be in a good position to have a successful crowdfunder. In fact, you should secure a good chunk of the backers and the money you need before you even put the crowdfunder up, because when the campaign launches people are going to look for how successful it was out of the gate. Immediate success equals that the person running the campaign is trustworthy, where as a campaign that sits at $0 for days shows that it's not worth investing in. Don't be like me and pin your hopes on that people are going to believe in what you're doing. Avoid that depressing scenario at all costs. All the advice kickstarter gives about making your video, and your pitch and your rewards means nothing if a lot of people aren't there to donate on day one. Also, one of the campaigns I ran I had the merchandise ready to go. There was literally no risk for anyone as to whether or not they would get what they bought, but it still failed. So even though some people have successful campaigns without ever producing the goods, and some people have successful campaigns with massive delays, it doesn't mean that you taking those risks out of the equation is going to lead you to success.

@Shawnbob82 2 ай бұрын

I’m sorry you have had bad luck with your kickstarters. Never give up!

@cbalan777 2 ай бұрын

@@Shawnbob82 I appreciate that. I'm still chipping away at the story I want to write, bit by bit. I'll get there eventually.

@bia3924 2 ай бұрын

awesome episode! i love holly

@sherizaahd 2 ай бұрын

My experience with the electric swatter is that often it will simply stun a fly, and you have to finish it off after zapping it, either with the big shoe or dropping it into the zapper for a few seconds of zapping to burn it.

@yerbamatemaker 2 ай бұрын

Decided to buy Dan's merchandise because of this episode.

@DryerFryer 2 ай бұрын

I enjoyed the catch the fly intro. You should bring it back as a segment 😂

@Shawnbob82 2 ай бұрын

DAN I totally want so many of your shirts! How about a link on Dragonsteel or the podcast information so we can get all your awesome shirts. I’ll start with an I heart Moash. I love to get the room riled up

@davidmruk2251 2 ай бұрын

To Dan: I am loving the John Cleaver story, but I also despise John Cleaver as a character, so purchasing merch never felt right. He is an excellent antihero, in the truest sense of the word (I just recently finished book 4, so we'll see how i feel at the end) , but after he burned the *spoiler* in the building in book 2, I just couldn't accept him. I enjoy the depth and darkness of your writing, so I have to catch up on the rest of your work. please make limited merch specially for me in the future so I can buy it, but make happy merch so I can also display it.

@robbybevard8034 2 ай бұрын

Hobbes is 100% real, there are many times where he performs actions a child can't have set up, or knows things that Calvin has no way of knowing. Notably the open door-pounces that lead to Calvin actually getting injured. He's not forcefully throwing himself backward into injury dozens of times, even with a wild child imagination.

@kirkwagner461 2 ай бұрын

Welcome to "Fly Zapping" with our special guest swatter, Holly Black! Hobbes not real? Pooh not real? You. Take. That. Back!

@diepie5144 2 ай бұрын

In my opinion, genres are the reason you want to read the book. Fantasy, as a genre, are books you read because you want to explore the world (usually because you want to see the implications of changing the rules). So if you are reading Calvin and Hobbes to see the implications of Calvin’s (imaginary) friend, that’s fantastic.

@TheSpursfan2112 2 ай бұрын

The fly is the star of the show!!!

@olevam1 2 ай бұрын

To Dan - in amazon UK the second part of the I am not the serial killer series does not sell an e-book version-- can I buy somewhere else? I want to finish the series!

@shredder11977 2 ай бұрын

Do a drawing/competition where the winners get to play a cosmere ttrpg one-shot with Brandon and Dan!

@XonyxkingX 2 ай бұрын

At around 30 minutes he nailed it with many customers love interacting directly with the creator.

@chrondeath6142 2 ай бұрын

I like the theory that whatever is going on in Calvin and Hobbes is the same thing that's happening in Fight Club.

@Osyrous 2 ай бұрын

The fly is right over Brandon at 1:30 !!!

@daraadesoji3283 2 ай бұрын

I came here from Spotify just to see the fly swather 😂😂

@samanthaa.6055 2 ай бұрын

Love me some Holly Black

@asterismW Ай бұрын

Bill Watterson said that he didn't view Hobbes as a magical doll that came to life whenever someone else was around; it was simply how Calvin saw the world.

@EnCwoisant 2 ай бұрын

That ‘Gamgee’ was wild

@laceymiles1904 2 ай бұрын

2:40 fly flew by again on Dan’s side lol 😂

@TheMatSignal. 2 ай бұрын

I feel like we could have just witnessed a Super-fly origin story! "After surviving being shocked by an electric death ray...."

@trennamcmullin9437 2 ай бұрын

I feel a little crazy...i swear i saw a notification for different new episode of intentionally blank last night... I didn't have time to watch it so i chose "watch later"...and this morning there was no new episode until this one dropped 😅 someone tell me I'm not imagining things.

@srlong1123 2 ай бұрын

They sometimes make shorts with clips from intentionally blank, and I got a notification yesterday for one of those. It might have been that

@trennamcmullin9437 2 ай бұрын

Probably was. I see those all the time though, and for some reason the title of this one made me believe it was the new episode 😅

@julianmedeiros6986 2 ай бұрын

Everyone needs a fly episode. 😂

@MAD-DUKE 2 ай бұрын

The worse

@christopherbradbury6562 2 ай бұрын

Take a shot every time Brandon says "And things like that"

@jchinckley 2 ай бұрын

Of what? Ozempic? 😂

@jbjstyx 2 ай бұрын

Calvin and Hobbes is Magical Realism

@billyalarie929 2 ай бұрын

Calvin and Hobbes is magical realism. As long as you’re in Calvin‘s deep perspective, Hobbes is real. When you’re not in his perspective, that is to say, when the mother interrupts their exploits, Hobbes is no longer real. Edit: therefore, the ambiguity defines the terminology “magical realism”

@jordanhiatt3925 2 ай бұрын

Calvin and Hobbes is not fantasy because nothing about it is fantastical. Stuffed animals do have souls and occasionally get up and walk around.

@tristantandberg 2 ай бұрын

It's kid punk where dinosaurs can show up.

@kns7717 2 ай бұрын

Surely it counts as magic realism, then

@quikbeam03 2 ай бұрын

Those electric rackets are great for mosquitoes, but I find flies are too quick and it's hard not to smash the racket into something. Regular flyswatter is better.

@MalachiNorris 2 ай бұрын

I love my cleaver plushie, y’all don’t know what you’re missing.

@dmi5664 2 ай бұрын

Nobody here is understanding Calvin and Hobbes. The question of whether Hobbes is real is intentionally unanswered, and Watterson blurs the lines between real and stuffed tiger as a comedic narratives device. He has said Hobbes nature doesn't interest him and he goes out of his way to not answer the question. Calvin sees Hobbes one way, and everyone else sees him differently. That's the closest we'll ever get to an answer. And it's perfect.

@melissamurray2548 2 ай бұрын

I would buy the t-shirts! Please make them Dan

@naomimarker451 2 ай бұрын

I've been wondering if Brandom Sanderson has considered what life would be like for a high dahn Vorin light eyes woman who is left-handed. I'm considering making a Cosmere RPG character with that trait.

@futurecoffee2226 2 ай бұрын

Evi was left handed, and convertting to vorinism was made by out to be a colossal pain in the neck

@naomimarker451 2 ай бұрын

@@futurecoffee2226 Oh! I had missed that when reading.

@futurecoffee2226 2 ай бұрын

@@naomimarker451 it's not super noticeable, but Dalinar mentions she really struggles not to use her safe hand, as that's the hand she has always preferred. For someone raised vorin, I wonder if it would be similar to someone raised in a school system that didn't let you write with your left hand. You'd end up doing a bunch of tasks with your non-dominant hand, and would probably have some issues stemming from that, but you'd use your left hand for all sorts of tasks that others didn't, but which weren't strictly schooled out of you. I dont THINK it would be as extreme as when people had their left hands tied behind their backs to train them out of it at schools, but maybe?

@naomimarker451 2 ай бұрын

@@futurecoffee2226 I was thinking that if she was considered artistic before donning the sleeve, she would be thought of as someone who had mysteriously not lived up to her potential. Almost everything would be just slightly harder for her than for those around her, so she would be considered a little "slow". I'm also very interested to see what is said about the devotaries in the World Guide, because her chosen devotary might be very helpful in finding ways to work around her difficulties.

@futurecoffee2226 2 ай бұрын

@@naomimarker451 I really like that, but I do think Vorins would understand handedness enough that they would 100% know WHY she wasn't as good at drawing with her right hand, they'd probably just be unsympathetic. Historically handedness has pretty much always been recognized as a real thing, it's just been treated as something you can be trained out of and/or something undesirable. So I think that's a really fun angle to explore, I just don't feel they would consider it mysterious. Perhaps they'd just be like 'u need to practice more man', failing to appreciate the fundamental nature of handedness.

@mycointhetrees 2 ай бұрын

Dan let me buy your merch!! ❤️ I neeeeeeds it

@Azravald 2 ай бұрын

What I got from the Calvin and Hobbs discussion is that Lord of the Rings is in fact not fantasy.

@SujeetRaj711 2 ай бұрын

How many signed copies were there for wind and truth. I saw update after 2 hours. And just 9k views on yt video. But it was already sold out 😢

@RonanRead 2 ай бұрын

15,000 signed copies. 5,000 went to stores like Barnes and Noble and books a million. 10,000 for Brandon during Nexus event, the rest were sold on the website that you're referencing. So take the amount of tickets sold at Nexus and minus 10k, that's how many were sold on the site. At least that's everything I've been told from previous Tuesday updates

@SujeetRaj711 2 ай бұрын

@@RonanRead Demn. Sad to miss out 😞

@spedcuber178 2 ай бұрын

When I buy a book at a store, I have to wonder how much of my money is going to the author and how much is going to the store/publisher/etc. For a kickstarter, though there are always other expenses the creator has to pay, they are putting it up for the price they want to sell it for, so I know they will be getting the amount of money the want to receive for the book/item.

@wasatchwizard4770 2 ай бұрын

Are the adventures of Spaceman Spiff Sci-fi?

@adamwebster1666 2 ай бұрын

Entirely and emphatically affirmative

@De_Lorenzo 2 ай бұрын

Are they restocking signed mistborn is that why he’s signing?

@familypaul3553 2 ай бұрын

The Flyspren episode.

@adammartinez3958 2 ай бұрын

I’m still waiting for the “I am not a serial killer” leatherbound kickstarter.

@Machtyn 2 ай бұрын

Those salt fly killer thing doesn't work very well for me. The better one is the battery operated, tennis racket looking, zapper. Kills the fly most of the time. (Sometimes they will survive the zap.)

@luisorbegoso7248 2 ай бұрын

Can I buy the plushy Meat Cleaver in Germany?

@chadb2840 2 ай бұрын

Is Hobbes just like Barney? Where he is a stuffed animal but comes to life through imagination and the parents can't seem to see him?

@zenthepoet. 2 ай бұрын

Adoooonalsium

@RealAkerbos Ай бұрын

FWIW, I consider "crowdfunding as a gamified preorder" an antipattern. That approach leads to overproduced stuff, artificial stretch goals, the ever same marketing fluff text, and so on. If you are gonna do it anyway and you can dedicate a whole team just to set up and manage the campaign, please set up a preorder in your webshop instead. Crowdfunding shines if the campaign is an _experiment_. When it's market research, investor aquisition and commmunity building at the same time. Of course, that kind of campaign doesn't really exist anymore.

@mitchellradspinner4491 2 ай бұрын

I see Calvin and Hobbes as philosophy first and foremost.

@sd5919 2 ай бұрын

Calvin and Hobbes is a sci-fi since Hobbes is animated by aliens.

@ZachLaGreca 2 ай бұрын

I’d buy a Dan Wells Commemorative Meat Cleaver (TM)

@davidsabotta6528 2 ай бұрын

Even if Hobbes is not real, so much of the story is Calvin's imagination and that is enough for me to consider it fantasy.

@esheyw37 2 ай бұрын

why is all of dan's stuff not up on dragonsteel's shop. I want a plush cleaver (I would absolutely not be fast enough to be first 50 if this happened tho)

@mrnobody-unowen 2 ай бұрын

Hobbes is real to Calvin.

@Orsnoire 2 ай бұрын

Fly was invested...

@zack32460 2 ай бұрын

I WOULD PAY 5X MORE TO HELP CROWD FUND A MISTBORN FILM THAN I PAID FOR THE SECRET PROJECTS. OVERWHELM ME

@NickCasioppo-l5e 2 ай бұрын

Merchandising merchandising merchandising. I hate consumerism.

@igamergirl14 2 ай бұрын

The magical realism genre must not have even been on their minds when they talked about C&H. I would probably classify Winnie the Pooh in that too. Hobbes is real to Calvin and not real to the others around him

@reflexjat3822 2 ай бұрын

Dan. I want a plushie cleaver. I will buy from you. Right now

@GeFuryy 2 ай бұрын

Is that flys name Moash?

@emmielaughlin4478 2 ай бұрын

If Hobbes is both real and not real, he exists in a quantum superposition. Calvin and Hobbes isn't fantasy, it's science fiction.

@ambbb4691 2 ай бұрын

Now we know Brandon has an intense dislike for flies. Man was ruthless.

@TimeslipNovel 2 ай бұрын

Call SWAT

@Xinoflow 2 ай бұрын

If you read Calvin & Hobbes from the adult point of view, then you can argue that it is a fiction in which Calvin is either a healthy child with an overactive imagination or has a serious mental disorder (depending the degree of you own neurosis). I prefer to read it from Calvin's point of view, where everything is real, and once in a while we are presented with the limited viewpoint of the magic deprived adults. Maybe it would still be fiction from Calvin's point of view, but fantasy from the reader's. It al come down to who do you choose to believe: Calvin or the adults.

@TonttuTorvinen 2 ай бұрын

Since Narnia is fantasy, Calvin and Hobbes is too. Narnia also has the normal world side by side with the fantasy elements.

@ramblingdad7764 2 ай бұрын

But Narnia is presented as being real within the series and not just children's imagination, especially in books besides The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe.