It’s DECEMBER, my mates! 🤗 Blissful Thanksgiving, Merry Christmas and Blissful Holidays, multi functional! I hope you guys are pleased, and wholesome, and nonetheless having fun with your dramas! ❤️
On this month’s put up, I cowl:
1. My first ever PATREON SALE! 🥳
2. Why I’m on Patreon, and why I hope you’ll think about supporting me on Patreon;
3. Which Patreon-related critiques are due this month;
4. What exhibits I’m contemplating for protection on Patreon, to exchange exhibits which have accomplished their cycles, and
5. What you possibly can anticipate, as a member on Patreon.
I hope you guys discover this useful &/or informative, and I hope you’ll think about supporting me on Patreon! ❤️
YEAR END SALE!
Patreon’s launched a reduction characteristic, and I’ve determined to run a year-end sale!
SALE IS ON TILL 31 DECEMBER 2024!
DETAILS AS FOLLOWS:
A. Take pleasure in a 20% low cost on all membership tiers for the month of December!
This is applicable to all NEW month-to-month and annual subscriptions! Simply use code KFGYEAREND20 at check-out, to benefit from the low cost!
If you happen to’ve all the time wished to affix me on Patreon however haven’t but finished so, now’s a good time to do it!
If you happen to’re at the moment a free member and want to improve to a paid tier, that is additionally a good time to do it!
If you happen to’re an current paid member and also you’d prefer to benefit from this sale to join the next tier, for instance, you might think about canceling your subscription, after which re-signing up utilizing the low cost code.
If you need to do that, message me about getting a refund on the unused portion of your canceled subscription.
B. Gifting is now an choice, on Patreon!
Which implies that you would be able to now give your drama-passionate family and friends a subscription to my Patreon web page, OR, you might put a subscription to my web page in your wishlist for the vacations! – and that low cost code would nonetheless turn out to be useful, if the present subscription is bought by 31 December 2024! 😉
Simply to be clear, although, the gifting choice is obtainable year-round, and you’ll give or obtain as much as one 12 months of membership!
You’ll be able to test it out right here!
SALE IS ON TILL 31 DECEMBER 2024!
Why I’m on Patreon
My work was placed on maintain indefinitely due to the pandemic, and with that occurring for fairly a while, it turned the set off that made me determine to weblog full-time. It’s what I do know, and it’s additionally what I really like.
I really like dramas, and I really like writing, and I really like writing about dramas, however I additionally must discover a strategy to make it sustainable, in order that I can maintain my lights on, and pay my payments; that sort of factor.
That’s the place Patreon – and everybody who values what I do on this weblog – is available in.
I put loads of work into the critiques that I put up on the weblog; loads of thought, time, and energy goes into every overview.
If I had been so as to add on a regular basis that goes into the episode notes, which then go into the overview, after which add the time it takes to really craft the overview, I estimate that every overview takes a few week of man hours – or extra.
If you happen to worth and benefit from the work that I do right here on the weblog, please do think about supporting me on Patreon. 🥰
New tiers on Patreon!
I’ve launched 4 new tiers to my Patreon web page, for individuals who are in a position to, and wish to assist me in a deeper method.
You’ll be able to take a look at that announcement right here, or view the tiers on Patreon right here!
As a token of my appreciation, these 4 tiers will obtain entry to voice notes, which I intention to place out weekly.
If you happen to do select to assist me at these deeper ranges, you’re enabling me to do extra for the location, in addition to empowering me to do extra for myself and my household as effectively – and making this running a blog factor that rather more possible, as a long-term full-time gig.
If you happen to worth the work that I do right here on the weblog, please think about supporting my work on Patreon. ❤️
Psst! If you happen to’re curious in regards to the nuts and bolts of the work that goes into sustaining this weblog, right here is a Pricey kfangurl put up about this very matter; I hope you take pleasure in!
Evaluations as a consequence of put up this month
We’ve obtained 4 critiques as a consequence of put up this month.
Dates are forecasted however not solid in stone; I would swap issues round relying on how I do.
A Virtuous Enterprise [Korea]: 2 December 2024
Jeongnyeon: The Star is Born [Korea]: 8 December 2024
Household By Alternative [Korea]: 15 December 2024
Mr. Plankton [Korea]: 22 December 2024
Substitute exhibits
This isn’t but solid in stone, as a result of I’d want to take a look at the exhibits to ensure I like them sufficient to cowl them on Patreon, however listed here are those that I’m contemplating:
A Virtuous Enterprise [Korea]: already changed by When The Telephone Rings [Korea]
Jeongnyeon: The Star is Born [Korea]: presumably to get replaced by Mild Store [Korea]
Household By Alternative [Korea]: possible to get replaced by The Trunk [Korea]
Mr. Plankton [Korea]: presumably to get replaced by Who Is She [Korea]
* Different back-up exhibits I bear in mind (in case the shortlisted exhibits don’t make my lower): Love Your Enemy [Korea], The Story of Woman Okay [Korea], Examine In Hanyang [Korea]
In case you have different nice exhibits to counsel, do let me know within the feedback! Please do keep in mind to remember their airing schedules, although!
Patreon tiers and their advantages
That is what the Patreon roster appears like, in the intervening time:
Basis Tier (US$1): Leisure information and different tidbits (each Sunday!) + the primary set of episode notes of all exhibits lined on Patreon (2 eps for kdramas, 4 eps for cdramas)
Early Entry (US$5): +Mr. Plankton [Korea]
Early Entry Plus (US$10): +When The Telephone Rings [Korea]
VIP (US$15): +Inform Me That You Love Me [Korea]
VVIP (US$20): +The Trunk [Korea] – beginning quickly!
Final (US$25): +Mild Store [Korea] – beginning quickly!
* Simply to be clear, the tier advantages are cumulative, so for those who join the Final tier, you wouldn’t solely obtain episode notes for Mild Store, you’d obtain episodes notes for all the opposite exhibits as effectively!
* For precise examples of episode notes, you possibly can go right here and right here. 😊 These are my E1-2 notes for Jeongnyeon: The Star is Born [Korea] and Household By Alternative [Korea].
Patreon Highlights
If you happen to’re new to my Patreon web page, listed here are a handful of stuff you may prefer to know:
1. ALL tiers obtain my first set of episode notes for any present that I’m protecting on Patreon.
Subsequently, let’s say you’re interested by my notes for Mild Store, however aren’t positive whether or not you’d like them sufficient to wish to be part of the Final tier, becoming a member of the US$1 Basis tier would offer you instant entry to Mild Store E1-2 notes.
After this, for those who want to improve to the Final tier, Patreon would merely cost you the distinction, whereas instantly unlocking all of the posts that your new tier entitles you to. That’s precisely what Michelle did with Vincenzo, and I’m pleased to report that it labored out very well! 😃
Vital observe! Going ahead, on the brand new schedule, this might be 2 episodes for kdramas and 4 episodes for cdramas (as a result of shorter episode lengths).
2. The Final tier additionally receives E1 notes for all exhibits that I’m watching (or have checked out), INCLUDING exhibits that I’m NOT protecting on Patreon.
This has included E1 notes for exhibits like:
True Magnificence, Lovestruck within the Metropolis, Candy House, Shanai Marriage Honey (Japan), Should You Go?, Love In Between (China), A Thousand Goodnights (Taiwan), Zombie Detective, Right here’s My Plan, Hiya, Me!, Taxi Driver, At A Distance Spring Is Inexperienced, Month-to-month Journal House, Takane and Hana, You Are My Spring, The Witch’s Diner, D.P. (Deserter Pursuit), My Title, Forecasting Love and Climate, The One and Solely, All the pieces and Nothing, You Are My Hero (China), Lesson in Love (Taiwan).
I name these posts Early Entry Extras, and as a patron on the Final tier, on common, you possibly can anticipate to see about 2 of those posts every month.
In case you’re questioning, whether or not I ultimately overview these exhibits on the weblog, actually is determined by how my expertise with the assorted first episodes works out.
I’ve carried on to overview quite a lot of the exhibits listed above, however I’ve additionally chosen to not proceed watching a handful of them as effectively.
I’ve additionally launched the occasional bonus present for this tier, beginning with My Title, Hellbound and Soundtrack #1.
3. You’ll be able to work together with me and with each other, on Patreon.
There’s a remark characteristic on Patreon, so, very like right here on the weblog, you’d be capable to touch upon posts and share your ideas with me and with different patrons.
There may be additionally a non-public message operate, so that you’d be capable to message me instantly on Patreon, if there’s one thing you’d like to speak with me about, however you’re feeling isn’t related to the posts on Patreon themselves.
Except for an internet browser, you can even entry my Patreon posts and messages on the Patreon app. Yow will discover the Patreon app on Apple’s app retailer right here, or on Google Play right here.
4. You’ll be able to really feel secure to pause your subscription, or transfer between tiers at any time.
Transferring between tiers
Since you are charged upfront for the approaching month, that tier’s privileges will proceed to be open to you, even for those who select to maneuver down a tier someday throughout the month, or for those who select to pause your subscription.
For instance, for those who had been on the Early Entry Plus tier, and someday throughout the month, you determined that you simply’d like to maneuver down one tier, to the Early Entry Tier, you may make that change instantly.
However since you’ve already paid for Early Entry Plus privileges, these will stay open to you till your subsequent billing cycle. After which you may be charged your new tier fee, originally of your subsequent billing cycle.
If you happen to select to improve your tier, you can even accomplish that at any time, and you’ll merely be charged the distinction, eg, US$5, for those who’re shifting from the Early Entry tier, to the Early Entry Plus tier, and the extra privileges will probably be instantly unlocked for you as effectively.
You’ll then be charged the brand new fee in your subsequent billing cycle.
Pausing your subscription
If you happen to select to pause your subscription, you’ll not be charged on the subsequent billing cycle, and your Patreon advantages will stay open to you till the tip of your present billing cycle.
Thereafter, be happy to reactivate it at any time.
Please let me know if this rationalization isn’t clear!
5. There’s now an annual subscription choice out there!
I solely activated this selection lately, as a result of somebody expressed curiosity in it. I simply.. hadn’t realized that you simply guys believed in me sufficient, to wish to join on a yearly foundation. 😅
With the yearly subscription, you obtain a 5% low cost (now 20% off, till 31 Dec 2024, with code KFGYEAREND20!), and you may be charged on every anniversary of your be part of date. The one draw back to this, is you don’t have the pliability to maneuver between tiers from month to month, in response to which exhibits spark your curiosity.
6. The Patreon web page has turn out to be a cool little neighborhood!
Moreover the episode notes, there are many different conversations occurring, on the month-to-month Drama Change posts that I create.
One is the Drama Change: Spoiler-free zone, the place you possibly can safely alternate drama suggestions and chat about different issues, with out the hazard of encountering a spoiler, and the opposite is the Drama Change: Deep Dive Zone, the place you possibly can focus on different exhibits that you simply’re watching, that I’m not protecting on Patreon, in all its spoiler glory.
We’ve additionally obtained a Water Cooler thread, the place people chat about something and every little thing that doesn’t fall into the Drama Change zones!
Since these posts have been launched, actually a whole lot of feedback have been exchanged, on each!
ALSO. As a part of the Patreon neighborhood, you’ll get numerous updates from me, together with private updates that I don’t share elsewhere. I’m very blessed that the Patreon neighborhood has turned, successfully, into my inside circle. I’d love so that you can be part of me, for those who can! ❤️
I suppose it goes with out saying, however simply in case it isn’t clear, these conversations are open to all patrons in any respect tiers.
What about one-time contributions?
If you happen to want, you can even assist the weblog by simple one-time contributions by clicking on this different cute lil icon under.
I’m advised that you simply don’t must have a Paypal account so as to take action, but when that modifications, or is totally different in your area, a Paypal account is fairly simple to arrange; there are not any sign-up charges concerned, and also you don’t should maintain a stability in it, until you really wish to.
You’ll be able to select to hyperlink a checking account, a debit card, or a bank card, to facilitate your contribution.
Thanks!
..And that’s about it, for this month’s updates! In case you have strategies for different issues that you simply’d like me to incorporate in these month-to-month replace posts, do let me know within the feedback, and I’ll see what I can do, to include them into future posts.
I intention to publish future replace posts on the primary of every month.
Thanks for studying, thanks in your assist, and thanks for being right here! Huge hugs to ya! 🥰❤️😘
As soon as once more, you could find my Patreon web page by clicking on this cute lil icon under:
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