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@stellarscripts
Hopefully we have done everything right and Stellar Firma Live is now available to purchase Pay What You Want on the Goblins Podcast website.
It's been one year since we finished our Goblins crowdfunder. There have been quite a few challenges, but we are well on our way to bringing you series 1 and delivering your Crowdfunder rewards.
We have about one third of episodes recorded and two thirds written. We'll be working hard through September and October so we can give you a release date!
Image Description: screenshot of an email. Text reads, 'Crowdfunder. One year ago today... Hi Amy, Everyone here at Crowdfunder would love you wish you a happy crowdfunding anniversary! It's been a whole year since your project Goblins podcast series 1, closed successfully and raised ÂŁ26069 from 361 supporters.'
The wonderful folks behind Stellar Firma will be running a live stream to help raise funds for my husbands visa!
The stream will be a preview of their upcoming live show on Nov 7th in Brighton, as well as stuff from Do The Thing, Contrived & Insufferable and Joni-Rae Carrack. It'll be on The Brothers Meredith twitch channel on August 2nd, 12-6pm BST!
The first 30 donations over ÂŁ30 to the crowdfunder will get a set of these limited edition badges that I made!!
Only a few days to go! I'm so excited 🥰
IT'S TODAY!! 12-6PM BST TheBrothersMeredith Twitch channel.
G.O.B.L.I.N.S is fully funded!!!
The he crowdfunding campaign is slowly reaching the end of its run time, but any additionally raised funds will go towards merch production!!!
Oh, I can’t wait for the shenanigans and the chaos and the absolutely brain breaking task to transcribe it all!
@stellarfirmatim, Amy, and Sam who were just streaming, are going to have a well deserved rest, Tim promised to take Amy out to dinner tomorrow, and then they’ll get down to the rewards soon enough.
Stay tuned and follow #Goblins Pod for more info!!!
With only 3 days to go, the G.O.B.L.I.N.S podcast crowdfunding campaign is less than ÂŁ 4,000 away from its ultimate ÂŁ 24,000 goal.
With more than ÂŁ 20,000 raised already, 8 out of the 10 planned episodes are fully funded and we got @stellarfirmatim and Ben to commit to doing a (most likely Stellar Firma) live show some time in the future!
Check out The Brothers Meredith on Twitch, for various shenanigans, which have - in the most recent past - included readings of Tarot cards and notorious fanfic "My Immortal".
[ID: White text on a green background, listing various crowdfunder streams, there's a yellow star next to each line: Wednesday 28th is "AI generated stories with Tim and Amy", Thursday 29th is "Tim's birthday stream with Imogen Harris and James Ross", Friday 30th is "Tim's birthday cont'd with Martyn and Lya", Saturday 31st is "My Immortal stream with Ben" and Sunday 1st is "Tim and Sam stream with more Monty than is sensible". /end ID]
The Merebros are extremely active this week. They've advertised a jam packed streaming week on Twitter. Come join them on Twitch at TheBrothersMeredith at 7.30 pm BST each day as they try to raise more money for their new podcast G.O.B.L.I.N.S!
There will be the opportunity on tomorrow's stream to donate and have Ben say something in one of his character voices. Donation amounts for this TBC. We're aiming to hit ÂŁ12k in the fundraiser tomorrow, and there will be surprises if we go over that, so invite everyone!!
There will be another fundraising stream for the Goblins podcast on Saturday, August 24th at 8:30 pm UK time on twitch.tv/thebrothersmeredith. Ben (or is it Blen?) will be reading horror stories and saying things in his character voices when people donate a certain amount to the fundraiser. Come join in on the fun if you can!
G.O.B.L.I.N.S
I still don't understand Tumblr yet, so here's some links:
Link to the pilot episode of G.O.B.L.I.N.S: https://shows.acast.com/goblin/episodes/6690515f5d66becbc600ef11
Link to the Crowdfunder
We are fundraising for season one of G.O.B.L.I.N.S. A new podcast from the creative minds behind the award winning podcast Stellar Firma.
Link to the Crowdfunder video
Link to Apple podcasts
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Pilot episode transcript link
The Stellar Firma creators are making a brand new show called GOBLINS, and crowdfunding for it launches this Friday!
(I'm just a random podcast fan, but here's all the info I've gleaned. Yell at me if I'm wrong about anything.)
GOBLINS is a scripted comedy podcast written and performed by:
Tim Meredith (Trexel from Stellar Firma and SF's showrunner)
Ben Meredith (David 7 from SF, Elias from The Magnus Archives, Zolf and Grizzop from Rusty Quill Gaming, and Mathias from The Secret of St Kilda)
Imogen Harris (IMOGEN from SF and Helen from TMA)
Jenny Haufek (Hartro from SF)
Amy Dickinson (Number 1 from SF)
*** Additional details under the cut ***
This podcast will also have transcripts available that will be written by me and I promise to uphold quality standards and react to feedback as soon as possible!
For all the Stellar Firma fans, here's information and links for the GOBLIN podcast pilot episode and crowdfunding launch. The @goblinspod team cares deeply about accessibility, so they have hired the amazing @franzis-frantic-thoughts to write transcripts for the episodes. If you are interested and in a financial place to do so, consider supporting the crowdfunder. (Crowdfunding link will be added at a later date.)
Rusty Quill has updated their website which includes adding the official transcripts to each individual show pages! The above link will take you directly to the Stellar Firma transcripts.
If the Sharepoint link is being difficult, you can try accessing it via RQ’s new website here: https://rustyquill.com/show/stellar-firma/
The links to all the shows’ transcripts (including the Rusty Quill Network shows) can be found at https://rustyquill.com/transcripts/
Rusty Quill has updated their website which includes adding the official transcripts to each individual show pages! The above link will take you directly to the Stellar Firma transcripts.
If the Sharepoint link is being difficult, you can try accessing it via RQ’s new website here: https://rustyquill.com/show/stellar-firma/
Rusty Quill has updated their website which includes adding the official transcripts to each individual show pages! The above link will take you directly to the Stellar Firma transcripts.
Said it in the last post, but with all respect to Jessica deciding to no longer host transcripts herself, I am personally okay hosting them, and all of the ones we have made are available as PDFs here.
Shoot me any questions you have about them, or if you need them in different formats, and I’ll provide what I can.
Statement from a different transcriber:
We started making the at-the-time unofficial Stellar Firma transcripts in April 2019 as a fan endeavor. Obviously, none of us expected they would ever be official, or even recognized by Rusty Quill. I was there from the start, but I am not the founder of the group nor the person who did the bulk of the work by any means.
In September 2020, we, along with a group of other fans of Rusty Quill, formed a discord server where we talked to Autumn (and emailed with Anil) questions about the transcript situation, and other accessibility concerns, such as closed captions on YouTube.
Rusty Quill approached the Stellar Firma team later that month asking to purchase our transcripts from us (and declining to purchase the existing TMA or RQG transcripts, for what it's worth).
It’s hard to argue the nebulous idea of "they should be investing in accessibility more” without providing clear steps and goals. I get it; they are investing as we speak. I am so thankful for all that they're doing, even if I do personally believe it could be expedited. Any progress is still progress, and I don't want to undersell how ecstatic I was when they came to us with the offer to buy our transcripts. I remember thinking “holy shit, this shows that Rusty Quill cares about this.”
I still believe that; obviously they care, or they wouldn’t have come to us in the first place, and obviously a company with a lot of disabled employees understands that accessibility is important. I'm not claiming that they don't, or besmirching their moral character, that's a ridiculous point to argue and would have us going in circles for days.
What is not hard to argue is this: they already paid us the money, we already gave them the transcripts, and said transcripts are not available through any of their channels.
If the issue with RQG transcripts is time and/or money, that is not the issue here: we already put in the time, and they already put in the money. The transcripts exist, and are ready to post. They have been since December 2020, when we finished our second round of checks for accuracy (though I understand that they would want to check it themselves, just to be safe).
This is not comparable to RQG, where they still need to invest time and money into working through the backlog. The backlog has been worked through, and the time and money has been invested, and… well, and nothing.Â
And if your question is “well, this is something that’s easy to fix, they already paid you your money, so why aren’t you shutting up,” my response is because it's such a simple solution (throw up a temporary Google Drive while you get Sharepoint running, etc) it stings all the more to me that nothing has been done, that I have to link people my personal Google Drive when I recommend Stellar Firma to them, that when they ask if there's transcripts I have to include a “yes, and I helped make them, but...” addendum.Â
When we completed the transfer in February, Anil said "I'm happy to confirm receipt and that they have been completed to our satisfaction." Now, in June, that is still all we have.
Rusty Quill obviously cares and obviously is trying, and I get from my own experience transcribing that something like complete transcripts for Rusty Quill Gaming is going to take a really long time.
But that doesn't change the fact that they have the Stellar Firma transcripts for seasons 1 and 2, formatted to their specifications, completed (in their own words) to their satisfaction, and they are, months later, still not being shared with the people who need them by the company who legally owns them; instead, those who need them are relying on fans who have no legal claim to them to maintain legally-questionable archives.
That’s the issue I have. That’s what I am currently fighting for. I want the money Rusty Quill invested (not to mention the time they’ve dedicated) to go to a good use. I want what we’ve done and what they’ve done to help people. That’s it.
(And, with no disrespect to Jessica’s reasoning for their decision to stop hosting them herself, all of the transcripts we made are available as .PDFs here. I am okay continuing to host them until Rusty Quill does. I may not own them anymore, but anyone who needs them is welcome to them. All I personally want is for people to have them, and to enjoy the show like I did.)
yes because giving RQ the time within their incredibly low manhours budget to QC transcripts to make sure they're not like, full of fascist screeds or whatever is ableism. when some of the people DOING the qc are. disabled. sure.
Another bad faith take!
I don't know, when I was talking with Anil about the whole thing, he was planning on having a 2 week turn-around time from when they bought the transcripts until they put them up on the website. So it didn't sound like a QC problem.
Either way, even if they have to QC the transcripts, it still wouldn't take nearly as long as it took me to copyedit 77 transcripts while working a medical job in a pandemic. They gave us 3 months so I don't know what they're doing with their extra month.
different transcriber here!
i get the concern about quality, anon, and that is a very important thing to check for.
but… i would think they would check the transcripts for “fascist screeds” before deciding to buy them? rather than after theyve already paid the money and signed all the paperwork, which they did well over 4 months ago (on febuary 16th 2021) after 5 months of negotiations (starting in september 2020).
you would think, ideally, that theyd spend some of those months making sure they didnt just spent several thousand dollars on “fascist screeds.”
yes because giving RQ the time within their incredibly low manhours budget to QC transcripts to make sure they're not like, full of fascist screeds or whatever is ableism. when some of the people DOING the qc are. disabled. sure.
Another bad faith take!
I don't know, when I was talking with Anil about the whole thing, he was planning on having a 2 week turn-around time from when they bought the transcripts until they put them up on the website. So it didn't sound like a QC problem.
Either way, even if they have to QC the transcripts, it still wouldn't take nearly as long as it took me to copyedit 77 transcripts while working a medical job in a pandemic. They gave us 3 months so I don't know what they're doing with their extra month.
did anyone at rusty quill actually ask you to do any of this, or did you take it upon yourself? maybe i'm misreading what it is you're saying in that post, but it sounds like a group of you decided to spearhead this without them asking you to, fully knowing that they have plans and are trying to do things in a way that meets their standards while being accessible and uniformed
While I know this ask was not made in good faith, I'm still going to answer it.
You do know that Rusty Quill literally gave us money for our transcripts? They made up a legally binding contract with us so they could buy the transcripts our group made. The season 3 transcripts they made are based on our style guide.
You may have missed it since it was only ever announced on Patreon, but here was their announcement on the matter: "Transcripts for Season 3 will be handled in-house. Those for Seasons 1 and 2 are in the process of being purchased from a group of fan transcribers, and should be available from us directly by the end of the year." That's us. We're the group of fan transcribers.
So yes, Rusty Quill did ask us to do this.