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TheDizzyDan


I'm CreepyPastaSalad and Sensuous Sonority on YouTube, and I perform audio readings.

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  • 138 weeks
    Some major personal updates

    I'll get right to the point: I got a new job! :pinkiehappy:

    While I enjoyed my previous work, it was mostly thoughtless data entry and wasn't even close to full-time. I have clawed my way out of the welfare trap.

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    5 comments · 375 views
  • 162 weeks
    Progress Report #2, and a Question

    Question first: Does anybody know what happened to Swift Blade Productions? I could've sworn when I trailed off that they were a rising audio reading channel. Now I can't even find them on YouTube. :rainbowderp:


    Progress Report

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  • 162 weeks
    Progress Report #1

    Read over fic for consideration of next project. Time 0:34.

    Request permission to voice above. Time: 0:05.

    Seek image for above. Time: 0:15

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    0 comments · 260 views
  • 174 weeks
    Merry Christmas and Happy Holliday

    I wish there was more I could say that I haven't said fifty times previously. I miss this place and wish I could be back to work on here. I hope you're all well.

    18 comments · 279 views
  • 182 weeks
    Howdy, all!

    I'm curious if anyone has plans for this Hallow's Eve. I don't have much worked out for it yet myself.

    6 comments · 246 views
Jul
21st
2017

New Reading: "Ex Oblivione" by H. P. Lovecraft · 9:46pm Jul 21st, 2017

I proudly present to you an audio reading of Lovecraft's Ex Oblivione. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did finally get to make another video again.

By the way, are there any places on here that would accept me promoting this reading? I suspect the "FimFiction YouTubers" group might, since they take general videos, but I don't know if places like the "Dark" group or "Every Other Group Combined" would accept non-pony content promotions.

Don't expect too many more of these this summer, though. I'm currently studying for FM and have taken off from the VA in order to do so. Progress has been slow.

Works on FimFiction I've Proofread/Edited for (From most recent to first)
What about Mummy by
Laughter in the Night by
Applejack's Stetson Hat (ongoing) by
Tales of Fillydelphia (ongoing) by
The Shipping Boat by
The Smiling Stallion (ongoing) by
Hidden Wonderful World of Pinkie Episodes by

Works I've Audio Read (From most recent to first)
Video Link (Part 4) Reconnection and Breaking the Circle by
Video Link (Part 1) Reconnection by
Video Link Blinking by
NSFW Verbose Parody - Check my channel for the video. Big Pinkie Pie Warms You Up by , recommended by

Video Link The Severing of Friendship by RagingSemi

Video Link My Final Confession: Vengeance by - Recommended by
NSFW - Check my channel for the video. My Final Confession by
Video Link The Unfortunate Aftermath of Nurse Redheart by
Video Link Blink by
Video Link Wrong Place, Wrong Time by
Video Link The Unfortunate Stabbing of Nurse Redheart by - Recommended by
Video Link Black Lotus by - Recommended by
Video Link Duty by
Video Link Sandstorm(s) (Unedited version) by
Video Link Elegy of Equestria by
Video Link Shadow of Luna by
Video Link The Scraping by
Video Link Mirrors in Shadows by
Video Link Umbra by
Video Link Breaker by
Video Link I Have No Voice, and I Must Cry by
Video Link Of the Monsters in Nightmares by
Video Link Changes by
Video Link The Changing of the Guard by
Video Link A Reasonable Solution by
Video Link Painless by - Recommended by
Video Link Reflection by - Recommended by the author

Video Link An Issue in Friendship by Captain Burrito

Video Link Time by - Recommended by
Video Link Eternity by .
Video Link Crusader's End by
Video Link The Serene Forgetting by
Video Link The Weak by
Video Link De Grave of Blueblood by
Video Link Ruin Value by
Video Link Mare of the House by
Video Link I Don't Know If I'm Real... by - Recommended by
Video Link Drifting by
Video Link Dreams Fade by
Playlist Link Friends Forever and Fading Twilight by
Video Link A Life Rebuilt by
Video Link Drop. by
Video Link Let It Snow by
Video Link Those Who Are Oppressed (Story withdrawn for editing) by
Video Link Lives' End by

Comments ( 7 )

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:pinkiehappy: A guy running a Facebook group for Lovecraft audio readings found my video and featured it there. Although the likes from Facebook didn't translate to likes on the video, it did pretty well there, and the administrator of that page and invited me to post future Lovecraft readings there. :rainbowdetermined2:

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Awesome! I see you're steadily getting YT subs too.

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Yeah, it's bewildering! :pinkiegasp: People have been steadily subscribing even though I haven't been producing or advertising my content.

:twilightsheepish: Makes me wonder what may be if I had actually been able to stick to a schedule for that this summer.

In other news, though, studying for FM is coming along better than I had expected.

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Just checked my analytics. Apparently, a people have been sharing a couple of my videos places, although I don't know where, and they're not the videos I'd expect. My subscriber count also seems to be bobbing day-to-day from people subscribing and unsubscribing, and I'm not sure what that's about.

Oddly enough, this has been probably the worst four-week span for dislikes on my videos since the start of my channel. From my analytics, people are actually unliking some of my videos and instead disliking them. I think I mentioned in a blog earlier this month about that, but the practice has continued. My natural instincts, as I disclosed then, are to dismiss them as someone using the "Liked videos" playlist as a "watch later" playlist, where they unlike the videos once they've watched them, but the problem is that at least two people have done this to at least two or three of my videos in the past 28 days, so either I'm dealing with lazy birds of a feather, or I may have some silent detractors trying to undermine my ratings.

Still, without doing anything, I believe in a couple of weeks my "Average view duration" has jumped from about 7:22 to 9:06, which means audience captivation seems to be up, which is definitely good for my videos since they tend to be longer.

My Lovecraft reading also was visited by two spammers shortly after I uploaded it. I find that confirms my significance, since obviously they think they can reach people by commenting on my videos. I tacitly dismissed them as spam, so you won't see them. (One offered me a suspicious link to her Instagram, telling me to follow her there. The other told me my video "was dope" but he didn't give it a like and instead told me if I wanted to get free music for my videos to check out his channel, which was obviously a music-ripping channel filled with music listicles.)

One thing worthy of note is that my Big Pinkie Pie Warms You Up video has awful view duration statistics, but it has a surprisingly high like-to-dislike ratio. :rainbowlaugh: I guess I'm a better shitposter than I thought.

On another note, my subscriptions don't often stem from individual videos; however, someone subscribed to me in the wake of watching My Final Confession, which is encouraging. People who watch that video don't seem to detest it, which, to me, signals that it's reaching the right people.

Good job. Miss you.

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I will try to be on more once I've taken my exams or I am at least done studying for them. I miss you; however, I'm glad you liked my video.

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