Thanks for the kind words. I'm glad so many people have found something worthwhile in this little pet project of mine. I plan to continue these pieces, at least in theory, through the entire bibliography, though I hate to promise something so ambitious when life has so many ways to disrupt your plans. Still, it means a lot to me too, so I will continue.
To make things a little clearer, though, and to avoid any potential disappointment: after my piece on Parasite is done, I'll probably be done with covering Sotos for the rest of 2025. There's many other books (and records, and games, and etc.) that I'd like to talk about also, so I'll spend the rest of the year doing some of that. I plan to spend 2026 covering Index through Tick, essentially folding them together as Proxy in the way these first three pieces are compiled as Total Abuse.
Hopefully the relatively slow pace of production doesn't disappoint anyone, but I would rather take my time and produce material of (what I hope is) real value rather than rush the process and make something sloppy and trite. The channel is something I consider thoroughly anti-slop content, and if that makes things a little slower, so be it. And not to sound overly delicate, but repeatedly reading Sotos work, taking notes, writing the scripts, etc. definitely wears on me psychologically more than most content, which will be doubly true for the Proxy books which I consider particularly grueling. It's largely great work, but takes an unusual toll on my mental health to repeatedly read.
Thanks again for listening, and I hope you all enjoy my thoughts on Parasite as much as the other two.
