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Tor's Cabinet of Curiosities
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A guy, a doll, and a durian plumbing the mysteries of the world. New videos every Friday!
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Tor's Cabinet of Curiosities
Life has been coming at me in full force lately and for the first time in a few weeks, I have a video out early on Patreon right now.
And it's just one day early. London has gotten a role in an off-Broadway play about Marilyn Monroe (more details soon & I'll post a link to buy tickets!) so we'll be ping-ponging from Tennessee back to New York for part of this summer, and then I've got the plzdontkillus content creator bootcamp (plzdontkillus.com) in the Bay Area in July.
In light of this all, I'm taking a bye week. This episode will be out to the Teeming 256,582 tomorrow, but there won't be another public released episode for two more weeks. You may also have noticed it's been a while since the last episode on Tor's Cabinet Top Shelf. I have a lot of Top Shelf content in production stages and you'll see it before long. A tentative schedule for my next uploads, subject to change, will be:
- Today, Thursday, June 11: "The Snail Don" episode released on Patreon
- Friday, June 12: "The Snail Don" released to the public on the main channel
- Tuesday, June 23: "The Great Lakes Mormon Pirate Sect That Still Exists" episode released on Patreon
- Tuesday, June 23: A fun, silly video about an obscure so-bad-it's-good movie I just discovered, public on Tor's Cabinet Top Shelf
- Friday, June 26: "The Great Lakes Mormon Pirate Sect That Still Exists" released to the public on the main channel
- Friday, June 26: "The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Dictatorship" episode released on Patreon
- Tuesday, June 30: Next Infodump podcast episode, with London as a guest star talking about Victorian fashion built for comfort on trains, public on Tor's Cabinet Top Shelf
- Friday, July 3: "The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Dictatorship" released to the public on the main channel
- July: Top Shelf videos including an interview with an entrepreneur trying to start a luxury sleeper train in California, and a retelling of the elaborate, fantastical bedtime stories my dad used to tell to baby Tor, with art by London; possibly main-channel videos about the surprisingly dark and mysterious origins of "yee-haw", and America's most successful conspiracy movement you've never heard of.
Through July, main-channel uploads will be intermittent, because I'll be devoting most of my time to plzdontkillus. I'll try to keep up the weekly schedule but don't count on it. Regular cycle of Friday main-channel releases/Tuesday Top Shelf releases will be back by August.
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Tor's Cabinet of Curiosities
It is Friday my dudes! There's an episode happening today (about Edo-era Japan, a place I'm surprised I haven't already told a story from) and a new one on Patreon about an insane Australian criminal conspiracy, but also, check out Kacey's and my podcast on the 2nd channel, Infodump, in which today's episode is about the weirdest little trains in America. It also features a long tangent about the time a bunch of coked-out Romantic poets took over an Italian city and made it into a proto-fascist state, as well as a discussion of the world's largest, most dangerous glory hole.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZC_xw...
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Tor's Cabinet of Curiosities
T minus 80 minutes til the durian livestream! 2pm PST/5pm EST/10pm GMT on the second channel, www.youtube.com/@TorsCabinetTopShelf
I have never eaten durian before. Jolibee is on vacation and doesn't need to know.
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Tor's Cabinet of Curiosities
And now, for the first time ever: a Tor's Cabinet story I experienced myself, my adventures working on fishing boats in Alaska.
Check it out over on the second channel, Tor's Cabinet Top Shelf.
https://youtu.be/vg12QZbSb04
There's also a Patreon-exclusive new video out right now, but you don't get to see that.
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mithrilbookofmystery
(1 year ago)
I'm obsessed with the thought that he might just be doing all of this for the love of the game
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BCsouperfan2124
(1 year ago)
“Inserted the book under the Wikipedia page for Literacy”
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2fortsmostwanted
(11 months ago)
Imagine being one lone real person from Bulgaria unknowingly interacting with hundreds of "fan" accounts all run by the author. imagine how creepy that would be.
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banban8481
(2 weeks ago)
With AI, this is a lost form of art
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davibrelazdealbuquerque5766
(1 year ago (edited))
Plot twist: the person who wrote the blog unmasking Stanek was Stanek himself
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RobertSoul123
(1 year ago)
Inserting his book on the Wikipedia page for "Literacy" might be the most hilarious thing I've ever heard in my life
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SideofSushi
(1 year ago)
If Stanek had channeled this passion and skill into an online ARG i think he'd actually make a ton of cool stuff, hes got the grind
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limbobilbo8743
(8 months ago)
Stanek feels like those people who make detailed tv tropes pages for their 10 book epic scifi space opera that only exist in their head and a bunch of bullet points on a word doc but extended out to be an entire fake terrarium of content
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Lemonrollcake
(1 year ago)
Ty'rant is such a low effort fantasy name. I kind of love it.
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jmalmsten
(1 year ago)
34:00
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Manda_Kat
(11 months ago)
IMAGINE BEING A FAN OF THIS GUY AND GOING ON THE FORUMS AND CHATTING WITH A TON OF OTHER FANS AND BECOMING FRIENDS WITH THEM ONLY TO DISCOVER EVERY ONE OF THE OTHER FANS IS JUST THE AUTHOR TRYING TO MAKE HIS BOOK SOUND POPULAR!!!
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Ceruleansquid2468
(1 year ago)
Stanek really paved the way for all the author drama of today. He isn't just writing mean reviews of other people's books, this man is working for it.
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DrBrandonBeaber
(1 year ago)
It's easier to be an "amazon best selling author" than people think. I independently published a book, and at one point I posted on social media and made the price 99 cents, and my rank surged for 1-2 days until my book was #1 in the "multiple sclerosis" category, so I am technically an "Amazon #1 best selling author." I am not exactly about to quit my day job via author income. It would be truly sad if Stanek had to fake this.
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polymphus
(1 year ago (edited))
so the "Amazon Bestseller" thing is fun, I've been an Amazon bestseller, and I'm absolutely not an author you've heard of, because:
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cloudbloom
(1 year ago)
This story is bonkos, the way he changed the titles of his books and even made their covers match the colors and font settings of the ASOIAF books is absolutely nuts. The guy was dedicated, all this time invested in lying that he could have spent learning to write actually decent books lmao. Thanks for covering this story it's so interesting
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