{"id":3244,"date":"2025-07-01T03:34:49","date_gmt":"2025-07-01T07:34:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ceaselessfables.com\/cfb\/?p=3244"},"modified":"2025-07-01T03:34:49","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T07:34:49","slug":"whats-new","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ceaselessfables.com\/cfb\/2025\/07\/01\/whats-new\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s New?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I invite everyone to check out the new banner. All systems are go for a new independent animated film production. Now what?<\/p>\n<p>Well, my focus now is directed towards raising the necessary funds, on top of what I need for living expenses et cetera. I have been relieved of my lucrative construction job, due to my inability to control my temper, so I am now back to my paltry cartooning income and eBay sales. I am an irascible and unhappy man and working a 9-to-5 around people who often decide to be disrespectful and shitty never works out. I walked off the job rather than go to prison for killing someone.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve done everything within my power over the past 20+ years to help the world understand that hearing music which I feel is superficial and\/or devoid of talent is <strong>literal torture for me.<\/strong> So instead of murdering a human being for hurting my ears and disrespecting me while I&#8217;m working, I removed myself from the situation*. Don&#8217;t ever ask me why I didn&#8217;t just &#8220;ask them to turn it down&#8221;. Whatever the reason, when I am &#8220;being tortured&#8221; enough, I can&#8217;t be anything but <strong>physically violent.<\/strong> This goes all the way back to high school. All the way back to working in the mall record store in the early 1990&#8217;s. It&#8217;s why I created <em>Bands I Useta Like<\/em> in the first place.<\/p>\n<p>Oh yeah- the deadness in my arms that I mentioned in prior updates wasn&#8217;t caused by the construction job (which actually helped fix it). Hey- remember the months and years we were all forced to work out of our homes, thanks to our coward fraud government? Well guess what. For like <strong>two years straight<\/strong> I held my arms at chest-level sitting at a desk or computer. Over time my shoulders hunched up and my arms withered because I was <strong>constantly resting them on armrests.<\/strong> So I started waking up in the morning with lifeless hands, because for less than 20 minutes a day I was standing with my arms at my sides. Since I was never walking, there was never any natural momentum to drag blood to my fingertips. If you ever wonder why some of us still seek a windpipe to crush regarding the &#8220;pAnDeMiC&#8221;, I hope this clears that up. <strong>Heed my warning\/example.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m too tired right now to finish this, and I need to give my li&#8217;l hamster pal some TLC before I hit the hay. (He&#8217;s on my shoulder supervising at the moment.) If I haven&#8217;t already said so, past\/present\/future donors to my cause are all slated to be credited as <strong>executive producers.<\/strong> I&#8217;d like to reward every donor with a miniature John&#8217;s Arm figurine, but I haven&#8217;t figured out the logistics on that yet. I have pages and pages of treatments and notes, with some dialogue, and things have really picked up now that I have the aesthetic concept properly defined. As I&#8217;ve told my secret collaborator, <strong>I had to rediscover the uniqueness of what I&#8217;d created, and relearn its appeal.<\/strong> I had to work out how to introduce the world to the <em>John&#8217;s Arm<\/em> universe a second time, without retracing my steps or anyone else&#8217;s. And now that I&#8217;m working in high-definition, it&#8217;s a whole new ball game compared to 2005. You see them fire and lightning effects I did in the trailer? Yeah bro.<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned. Time for zzz now. Gomez the hamster says hi.<\/p>\n<p>*<u>Next Day Edit<\/u>: I neglected to mention that when I flipped out over the ear-splitting music and walked, I&#8217;d also been watching my friend basically killing himself doing the job for no money, because we hadn&#8217;t been paid yet and hadn&#8217;t eaten a thing that day. Kind of a crucial detail that hopefully will help folks understand that I&#8217;m less psychotic than I might seem. Believe me, it takes a hell of a lot for me to just ditch a job like that in Current Times. Thanks for your understanding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I invite everyone to check out the new banner. All systems are go for a new independent animated film production. Now what? Well, my focus now is directed towards raising the necessary funds, on top of what I need for living expenses et cetera. I have been relieved of my lucrative construction job, due to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ceaselessfables.com\/cfb\/2025\/07\/01\/whats-new\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;What&#8217;s New?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8Bl7P-Qk","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3182,"url":"https:\/\/ceaselessfables.com\/cfb\/2025\/07\/01\/back-to-zero\/","url_meta":{"origin":3244,"position":0},"title":"Back To Zero","author":"Matty Boy","date":"July 1, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"During The Worst Year Of Our Lives Thus Far\u00a9, I did my level best to prepare for when things got worse, and truthfully, I didn't fare too badly. 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