Athan

Creator of [REDACTED] and The Grotto

[athansmusic]

Hey y’all! I said I’d post daily with updates, so here it goes:

Currently, I just got a new job! Super excited, that starts in July and should be a great opportunity for me moving forward - ideally it gives me the financial flexibility to have more time for stream, but I’m still dialing back on the number of days I’m live, since I have to work on [REDACTED]

Speaking of, the show is moving along fine, currently finalizing just some internal boring paperwork type stuff and then full speed ahead on production. I don’t think we’ll be delaying passed October for launch, but mentally trying to make the top priority be “make the show good” not “make the show fast”

Anyway, not a huge update, but that’s currently where my head is at. Excited for the next few months and can’t wait for [REDACTED]! If yall have any questions, let me know!

Also here’s my cat

[casgirlisms]

i really do love the name combo of athan and jamie petronis because athan sounds like the name of a celebrity who hides their face and jamie petronis is the fake name they'd use to check into a hotel

[athansmusic]

TWITCH PARTNER ANNOUNCEMENT

So I've been streaming on Twitch for the last two years.

It all started from me waking up in the middle of the night and realizing "everything in my life is currently dependent on the grace of others". I had a relatively good job, decent side income, and things were going well, but there was this nagging thought in the back of my mind that told me I needed to build something for myself.

I didn't know what it was that I wanted to do, but I knew I'd need to start creating a platform for myself, specifically built around the idea of meeting other people and growing together. I didn't know what the end goal was, but something told me I had to do it.

Shortly after streaming, I met Dylan, creator of Woe.Begone - after chatting with him for a while, I ended up trying my hand at creating an audio drama... I didn't have any experience in this space, and by all rights nobody should have given me the time of day, but on Thanksgiving I stayed home and spent a 24 hour sprint creating The Grotto. This entire chain of events ended up changing my entire life.

As we close out the [REDACTED] Kickstarter, and The Grotto S3 is in full swing development, I am honored and proud to let everybody know that I HIT PARTNER ON TWITCH. It's because of the community we've built (or rather, the community I infiltrated), and I appreciate every one of you so much. I don't think many people are fortunate enough to see when to the day the trajectory of their life changed, but [REDACTED]s Kickstarter ending coinciding with getting Partner is I think very clearly when mine did.

Special thanks to Natalie, Derek, Krista, Jamie, Tay, Lyssa, and everyone in the Hush Studios Discord - saying it like I got a Grammy or something, I dunno