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== Stationery Brew Twitch Team and Community ==


'''Brad Dowdy:''' Absolutely. So there's a Twitch team, team called stationery brewery. So why don't you, why don't you talk about that?

'''Miranda Sanchez:''' Yeah. So stationery brew was started by myself. Um, and then I have April and joy as sort of like the other two heads of the Hydra basically. Cause it's like, I don't, I don't like when one person is in charge of everything. So like the three prong system, let somebody veto the other, if there's a disagreement, not that there ever is. Um, but as a Twitch partner, I was able to start a Twitch team. And so I think I'm, um, did you get, are you a partner yet, Brad?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Uh-huh. Yeah.

'''Miranda Sanchez:''' Okay. Perfect.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I had my two year partnerversary, uh, stream on Wednesday.

'''Miranda Sanchez:''' Congratulations. Thank you. Thank you. Wait, that was yesterday. Extra congratulations.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' It actually happened last week. I'm just not, I'm just not good at scheduling things. Yeah. And preparing.

'''Miranda Sanchez:''' Yeah. I was about to say, cause I think when I started it, I don't think you had been streaming then.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. I've been streaming for a while, but there was like some ons and off again. So basically, uh, internet, do I have internet? And then, Hey, I got real internet. Let's go.

'''Miranda Sanchez:''' Oh, for sure. Yeah. Cause I was thinking, cause I started it cause I was the only person in like our group that was a partner at the time. And definitely partners can start Twitch teams. And so I was like, well, like I'd be down so we can kind of just have a nice place to showcase all the stationery streamers. Cause at the time we didn't have stationery tags. And of course we, um, you very kindly promoted that, like our little rally to get the tags approved. And then of course they changed the system to where you can tag anything. I'm like, dang. Yeah. I'll still take that victory. That's right. But we wanted a way to like really make it visible that there are a lot of people who stream stationery on Twitch and thus the, uh, stationery brew was formed, which was not meant to be like a spinoff of stationery cafe. We, we thought about using that name and I was like, well, I don't think it's fair to April if we use her brand as this. So what if it's like brew, which is, you know, like a little, nice little nod to the cafe. Like cafes have brews. We, we like all kinds of brews here. We like teas. We like coffees. We like beers. There's all sorts of things. And so we kind of just tried to envelop that. And then just to invite as many streamers as we could verify if we're good, cool people into our group and give them resources to talk about tech problems or community problems. We also have it as a resources, like a PSA for like, Hey, if there's someone that's kind of lurking around, it's a little creepy, like be aware, or this person was a problem. So please block them on your channels. Things like that. Of course, nobody wants to talk about the not fun stuff. And that's very rare in our channels, I would say, thankfully. But it does happen. And so it was meant to be a part of a resource, a community and a point for safety as well, because I think a lot of folks who do get into streaming maybe don't have that kind of internet practice where unfortunately I am very practiced at having to, you know, look someone in the eyes virtually and be like, Hey, get out of here, you rascal. So, you know, um, and so I wanted to like, kind of inform folks of that, of like how to be safe and like, what not to share, make sure you cut off the, the postage marks on, you know, your happy mail, like don't show your address, man. Um, things like that of just like nice reminders as people get into it. But ultimately that's what the brew is. And sometimes folks like, it's not just me leading and saying, we're doing this. It's like anyone in there can start something. Like we had, um, the Techo Kaigi, um, choo choo train, which was like 24 hours of different streamers. I didn't even get to be a part of it because I was busy, um, of people rating each other from stream to stream. And like these like 30 to hour long intervals of like, here's my Techo Kaigi, like my journal planning setup. And then you pass to the next streamer and pass to the next room. It was such a cool event. And that was just set up by people, part of the stationery brew. And, and I love that for us. Like we just, it's not one person in charge, even though I'm technically the person who has to like admit people and invite them. Um, it's, it's all of our group and we all own it collectively. I think so.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, this was, that was not on my, uh, what I'm going to be doing with my life. Uh, bingo card. Yeah, right. Streaming stationery on Twitch, but my goodness, it's, it's been such a an important part of my life. Uh, like I said, getting to meet you. I've made so many cool friends from, from this, a lot of people that I've met in person, like, you know, a bunch of us met in San Francisco last year for the first time. And even, you know, people who I haven't met in person, just getting to have this wonderful space, um, and support system of just awesome people doing this. So I will be sure, um, to add in a link to the Twitch, uh, team, uh, for stationery brew. So if a lot of people aren't familiar with Twitch or are just wondering like, how could, you know, someone writing with their fountain pen on a notebook be interesting at all? I implore you to give it a try and I'll give you, uh, some links in the show notes to, you know, go click on the stationery brew team and you can see when someone's online or when their schedule is, uh, to come and drop in and see.

'''Miranda Sanchez:''' Yeah. And I can also send you the link to the doc of getting set up for Twitch. That'd be amazing. Yeah. If anyone out there wants to stream stationery, like, please use that. It's, it's a few years old at this point, but should mostly still be applicable to streaming on Twitch. Now, if you want to share your stationery or your handwriting, I know some people who just do handwriting streams and they are just so lovely. So please join us. Thank you.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Well, Hey, I have to thank you for joining me on this episode. This has been just a blast. And again, like I could sit like you and I, or a group of people and just go through planners and journals. And like, I just, my brain is full. My heart is full just from listening to everything that you do and all of the support you give to the community. And, uh, you're a wonderful friend and I appreciate so much the time, uh, that you spent with us today. Thank you so much, Miranda.

'''Miranda Sanchez:''' And thank you so much for having me as a long time listener and fan. It's a great honor to be here. So thank you so much for having me. And I hope you guys enjoyed this little wandering road into video games and journaling.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Oh boy. And like I said, we almost need to do like a whole B sides after where I like really nerd out on like the video game questions that I, that I held back on again. And like, I, I would, I am a very professional, um, uh, at wanting to run a two hour podcast and cutting it down to an hour. So maybe one of these days I'll start having two hour podcasts. I'll listen. I don't know. I don't know. I say I got to save that energy for the two hour streams. That's, I think that's enough.

'''Miranda Sanchez:''' That's true.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' All right, Miranda. Um, can you tell people real quick, um, where they can find you? I'll have all these links in the show notes, but if you want to give anything a shout out, um, I would love to hear from you.

'''Miranda Sanchez:''' Yeah, absolutely. You can find me at Havoc Grows on Twitter. I don't really post that much, but I'm there. Um, at Havoc Grows Writes is my journaling account. I also don't post very much, but I do periodically at Havoc Grows on Twitch, where I stream every Sunday at 1130 AM PT. Um, for now, I think I'm going to change that to an evening stream. So sorry, East Coast and international folks. Um, but those are the main places. Then of course you can check out, um, the IGN guides. Please do. If you play video games, really appreciate it. We work very hard and we have nice checklist tools.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I've been using the Diablo guides, uh, recently. So I need to know where those, I need to know where those helltide mystery chests are.

'''Miranda Sanchez:''' Oh my gosh. Yeah. We just published a big thing on that. And then, oh, if you go on Math Genete, which is also part of us, um, they have a helltide timer now.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Nice.

'''Miranda Sanchez:''' Nice.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' See, this is the whole extra hour podcast. Y'all, y'all aren't getting this week chat. So, uh, we'll save that for another day. Miranda, thank you so much for joining and I will talk to you soon.

'''Miranda Sanchez:''' Thank you. Bye.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Bye. Bye. Bye.

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