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Demon Storm: Final Overview

December 20, 2025 at 6:30 PM

Jonathan Taylor

@jonathantaylor.bsky.social

youtu.be/IsyL06-cvps

Turns out this series won't let me go this easily.

@valeriestorm.bsky.social if you're curious

#TheHeirsLair #Overview #SeriesOverview #Series #BookSeries #BookSeriesOverview #DemonStorm #DemonStormOverview #SciFi-Fantasy-SpecFic🪐📚 #BookSky💙📚

December 20, 2025 at 6:00 PM

Jonathan Taylor

@jonathantaylor.bsky.social

youtu.be/ezDatJJFdHM

What do you think of this little display and game? I find it very enjoyable

@toukana.bsky.social good job

#OneTakeMan #InOneTake #Gameplay #Quickplay #CityBuilder #Cozy #cozygames #CozyVibes #TownBuilder #Dorfromantik

Quickplay: Dorfromantik

Demon Storm Review: Fate of the Storm

December 13, 2025 at 6:33 PM

Jonathan Taylor

@jonathantaylor.bsky.social

youtu.be/NYyV6Da8JsY

And this is the ending of the Demon Storm Saga. It's been a while, hasn't it?

@valeriestorm.bsky.social if you want to find the author

#TheHeirsLair #Review #BookReview #fantasy #Romance #Romantasy #FantasyReview #RomantasyReview #DemonStorm #DemonStormReview

Movie Review: Superhero Rewind: The Movie

December 13, 2025 at 6:01 PM

Jonathan Taylor

@jonathantaylor.bsky.social

youtu.be/UgJ4H78K6nc

And this is me indulging in a long-standing parasocial relationship

#OneTakeMan #InOneTake #YouTube #YouTubeCulture #YouTuber #YouTuberCulture #YouTuberMovie #Review #MovieReview #YouTuberMovieReview

Book Review: Under The Oak

December 6, 2025 at 6:30 PM

Jonathan Taylor

@jonathantaylor.bsky.social

My YouTube upload schedule for December 2025:

December 6th: Under The Oak (main channel), Movie Review: Superhero Rewind: The Movie (2nd channel)

December 13th: Demon Storm Review: Fate of the Storm (main channel), Quickplay: Dorfromantik (2nd channel)

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December 6, 2025 at 6:11 PM

Jonathan Taylor

@jonathantaylor.bsky.social

youtu.be/JuPW31BPhqg

And here I conclude a trilogy

#TheHeirsLair #Review #BookReview #scifi #ScienceFiction #scifireview #ScienceFictionReview #horror #scifihorror #scifihorrorreview #BookSky #scifi-fantasy-specfic

King Arthur and Robin Hood series discussions

December 6, 2025 at 6:00 PM

Jonathan Taylor

@jonathantaylor.bsky.social

youtu.be/Pnw4sQfDJKg

And this is me concluding another mini-series.

Enjoy

#OneTakeMan #InOneTake #HowIWould #OTMUniverse #OneTakeManUniverse #KingArthur #RobinHood #TV #TVseries #TVPitch #TVSeriesPitch #TVDiscussion

Book Review: The Present from the Past

November 29, 2025 at 6:31 PM

Jonathan Taylor

@jonathantaylor.bsky.social

youtu.be/vpFAVF-cAXU

I guess this demonstrates why I was right to mistrust Romanian academia

#TheHeirsLair #Review #BookReview #NonFiction #Historical #Educational #Supposedly #NonFictionReview #BookSky #HistoryReview

Paranormal Mystery Series

November 29, 2025 at 6:00 PM

Reposted by Jonathan Taylor

Dr Kat Day (she/her)

@chronicleflask.katday.com

“We joke that [chatbots] would be great if we could get them to stop lying,” said one AI tutor who has worked with Gemini, ChatGPT and Grok,”

And…

"Once you've seen how these systems are cobbled together - the biases, the rushed timelines, the constant compromises - you stop seeing AI as futuristic and start seeing it as fragile," said Adio Dinika, who studies the labor behind AI at the Distributed AI Research Institute, about people who work behind the scenes. "In my experience it's always people who don't understand AI who are enchanted by it."

November 23, 2025 at 9:56 AM

Jonathan Taylor

@jonathantaylor.bsky.social

youtu.be/ZXoHwty8FgE

Back to my TV pitch nonsense, I hope you like it

#OneTakeMan #InOneTake #HowIWould #OTMUniverse #paranormal #mystery #pitch #tvpitch #series #tvseries #tvseriespitch #paranormalmystery #paranormalmysterypitch #mysteryseriespitch #mysterytvseriespitch

Book Review: How the Romanian People was Born

November 22, 2025 at 6:30 PM

Jonathan Taylor

@jonathantaylor.bsky.social

youtu.be/pbFRwjtEq6U

I wonder if Neagu Djuvara's estate will come after me for criticising him *shrugs* no that it matters...

#TheHeirsLair #Review #BookReview #NonFiction #History #MiddleGrade #MiddleGradeNonFiction #HistoryReview #MiddleGradeReview #MiddleGradeHistory #BookSky #HistoryforKids

November 22, 2025 at 6:00 PM

Jonathan Taylor

@jonathantaylor.bsky.social

youtu.be/HlJpRsmhzJg

Time to return to this thing, after five years. I've missed it.

#OneTakeMan #InOneTake #Daria #SequelSeries #SequelSeason #SequelMiniSeries #HowIWould #30YearsLater

Daria: 30 Years Later

Book Review: The Devil's Bridge

November 15, 2025 at 6:30 PM

Jonathan Taylor

@jonathantaylor.bsky.social

youtu.be/GPd9QLpUkOo

I have some mystery reads in my calendar too, occasionally

#TheHeirsLair #Review #BookReview #Contemporary #Mystery #MysteryReview #ContemporaryMystery #ContemporaryMysteryReview #BookSky💙📚 #MysteryReads

Book Review: The Third Gilmore Girl

November 15, 2025 at 5:59 PM

Jonathan Taylor

@jonathantaylor.bsky.social

youtu.be/WOj15dJmjJo

This book was surprising to learn about, but fun to read

#TheHeirsLair #Review #BookReview #NonFiction #Biography #Autobiography #Memoir #Acting #entertainmentindustry #WorkingInEntertainment #BookSky💙📚 #TheThirdGilmoreGirl

Run Lola Run Sequel Series

November 8, 2025 at 5:59 PM

Jonathan Taylor

@jonathantaylor.bsky.social

My YouTube upload schedule for November 2025:

November 1st: Book Review: Atatürk: The Rebirth of a Nation (main channel), Run Lola Run Sequel Series (2nd channel)

November 8th: Book Review: The Third Gilmore Girl (main channel), Martial Artists Sitcom (2nd channel)

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November 1, 2025 at 7:15 PM

Jonathan Taylor

@jonathantaylor.bsky.social

youtu.be/S-mOjXzT_ng

Sometimes you have to let the thoughts in your head out

#OneTakeMan #InOneTake #HowIWould #TommyWestphalUniverse #OneTakeManUniverse #RunLolaRun #SequelSeries #SeriesPitch

Book Review: Atatürk, The Rebirth of a Nation

November 1, 2025 at 6:28 PM

Jonathan Taylor

@jonathantaylor.bsky.social

youtu.be/ZiVrWwERt7c

This is my tribute to the original democracy of the Middle East (Suck it, Israel)

#TheHeirsLair #Review #BookReview #NonFiction #historical #Biography #NonFictionReview #BiographyReview #Türkyie #Turkey #RepublicOfTurkey #Ataturk #BookSky💙📚 #HistoricalBiography

Reacting to SwellEntertainment on DashCon

November 1, 2025 at 6:00 PM

Jonathan Taylor

@jonathantaylor.bsky.social

youtu.be/oTSPYlreCBs

Yes, I also did reaction content. Happens

btw, the follow-up of the con the video is about was announced last week

#OneTakeMan #InOneTake #Reaction #ReactionVideo #DashConTwo #Commentary

October 25, 2025 at 5:30 PM

Jonathan Taylor

@jonathantaylor.bsky.social

youtu.be/OQrgIP1p6uw

This book came out a while ago, but it's more in keeping with the theme of the times.

@chucktingle.bsky.social if you want to find the author

#TheHeirsLair #Review #BookReview #paranormal #horror #mystery #contemporary #horrorreview #paranormalhorror #mysteryhorror #BookSky💙📚

Book Review: Lucky Day

Garbage’s Shirley Manson Speaks Out Against Music Industry Economics: “This Is An Alarm Call”

October 25, 2025 at 5:00 PM

Reposted by Jonathan Taylor

Cheryl Lynn Eaton

@cheryllynneaton.bsky.social

It's really sad that entertainment overall has become a landlord economy. The people who own the platforms make the money. The people who provide the labor make crumbs in comparison.

Bjørn Larssen (he/him) @bjornlarssen.com · Oct 19

“Average musician makes $12 a month on Spotify. The fact that they are not even able to sell a record and it’s taken from them by rich motherfuckers on streaming platforms who get paid royally by record labels,Ticketmaster, merch companies. They’re all fucking getting paid, except for the musician.”

Just before they kicked off their current run of dates, the ’90s alt-rock greats Garbage announced that it would be their final North American headline tour. When the band played at Denver’s Mission B...

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October 19, 2025 at 4:39 PM

Jonathan Taylor

@jonathantaylor.bsky.social

youtu.be/fYm378CByOQ

And this is my conclusion to what I've been busying myself with this month

#OneTakeMan #InOneTake #HowIWould #reboot #TVReboot #CharmedReboot #RebootPilot #CharmedPilot

How I Would Script The Charmed Pilot

Demon Storm Review: The Storm Descends

October 18, 2025 at 5:29 PM

Jonathan Taylor

@jonathantaylor.bsky.social

youtu.be/VuEq6KxU0RU

Not the best book of the series. In fact, it's much closer to the other end

@valeriestorm.bsky.social if you want to find the author

#TheHeirsLair #Review #BookSky💙📚 #YA #YoungAdult #YoungAdultFantasy #FantasyReview #AdventureFantasy #ActionFantasy #SciFi-Fantasy-SpecFic🪐📚

Charmed Casting: Regular Characters

October 18, 2025 at 5:02 PM

Reposted by Jonathan Taylor

Matt Thompson

@mvthomster.bsky.social

his biggest claim to infamy was participating with a group of young conservatives from the Stanford Review in a campaign of harassment against a gay Resident Fellow in one of the Freshman dorms, all before he came out, decades later, of course

he is an unprincipled and cruel human, from his youth

October 12, 2025 at 1:54 PM

Jonathan Taylor

@jonathantaylor.bsky.social

youtu.be/j5Ss5KdK5Aw

The witches still have me in their grip

#OneTakeMan #InOneTake #HowIWould #CastingCall #CastingVideo #Casting #CharmedCasting #CastingLeads #CastingSecondaries