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Night Shift Podcast: A 2025 Big Update

Phew, deep breath.

Here goes.

The Night Shift Podcast is coming back!

(@ me, that wasn't so hard, was it?)

It's July 2025 as I'm writing this, and on behalf of the whole Night Shift team, I'm really happy to say the show is on its way back to you.

Writing this post has me super anxious because it's been so long since the second season was promised, but things are moving again at last.

To answer some questions we've had a few times:

No, we didn't blast through the crowdfund money on other things. That was for this show and will always be for this show.

Yes, there likely will be new parts to cast soon, but we'll post about them when it's time.

I still can't give you a release date yet, as production takes time, and whilst I was all but unemployed during S1, I ended up with a pretty intense and high level job in the last two years. I have to make all this work around that.

I will post more updates as often as I can from here on out.

I know I said last year I wouldn't go into it, and I'm not obligated to explain the delay, but a little context is deserved for all your patience.

I'll put the rest below because it's a little heavy so you can stop reading here if you want, and leave you with this snapshot of editing on an interim episode between S1 and S2 which is coming together very nicely.

If you do want to read on, CW's are death of close family, general illness, and cancer. Thank you all so much for being patient with me. It's often very hard to create when you're going through hard times, and the state of the world hasn't cut any of us a break either. But it feels amazing to be back in the saddle.

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So, my story.

It started back at the end of 2022 right after Season 1 wrapped up, when I lost my grandfather very suddenly, which would turn out to be the first in a series of horrible events. A member of my immediate family got diagnosed with cancer less than a month later, and Ashe and I were planning our wedding at the time when I suddenly got sick myself. It took months for the NHS to diagnose an autoimmune illness, which I've been struggling with every since.

Then less than a year later my grandmother passed too from Alzheimer's. It wasn't unexpected, but it was hard and brought heaps of legal stuff with it. I got a muscle atrophy in my leg in April 2024 and had to start walking with a cane, and recovery is still ongoing from that (but we're almost there!) - and I went through a lot of self-discovery after learning how much adhd had been ruining my life for decades, and trying to adapt to that.

I was pretty depressed and very anxious, and every piece of world news was making it harder to want to write (and especially something set in America). How was I supposed to write a story about rising up against how cruel and strange the world can be, when in reality the weight of the real world was crushing me?

For the next year, I became a complete hermit and spoke to nearly no one besides my wife, best friend and family. I stopped going on social media. I worked, put on a happy face to my colleagues, then played D&D in the evenings to escape.

When I posted the update last year, I thought I was on the mend at last. My work mentor was helpful, but I found that whilst I could be creative again, I couldn't bring myself to work on Night Shift. I drafted out a whole novel in that time, 100k, guilt eating away at me with every page that I wasn't working on the thing I was supposed to be working on. Night Shift stopped being fun and started feeling like a ball and chain.

'I'll start on it next week'. I must've told myself that a hundred times. And as last year closed out, I started to think I might be able to.

Then in January, my mother's partner of five years also died suddenly in a very traumatic way. It's wrecked the first half of my 2025, to the point where I was ready to just give up on being able to make anything again. When we finished S1 in 2022, I never, ever could have guessed I'd lose three very close family members in less than three years, let alone everything else in-between.

Just last month, I even deactivated the Night Shift website thinking about how I was going to announce the project was done for. I'd thought about it over and over for the last year. But I waited, just a little longer, because deep down I knew I didn't want to do that.

Maybe that was the release I needed, allowing myself to close it down and then realising I didn't actually want that at all. I saw a few things and read a few things that filled me with hope and inspiration.

And it struck me: what I need more than anything right now is to write a story about rising up against how cruel and strange the world can be.

Suddenly, all this nostalgia and love for the show came flooding back in, and I got my groove back; I've put four episodes together in four days, and reactivated the site again. I'm still figuring out the shape of Season 2, and it'll be what it'll be, but I hope whatever that is, you enjoy it.

I'm not writing this all down for pity, more just to get it off my chest. It's been an incredibly tough 2.5 years, both personally and globally. To all the people who've sent messages of encouragement and love for the show, know that I see you and I appreciate you.

My big hope is that when this little show releases, it can bring everyone a bit of hope and escapism. At a time when everything feels dark, we need visibility and togetherness. I hope our little queer show can be a drop in that ocean.

Lots of love, and I'm going to do my utmost for you all. Wish me luck ❤️

If you have any questions, please feel free to send them through to our inbox. I'm going to try not to avoid it any more.

- Skye (formerly Julian)

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absolute menace but still such a good boy :')))

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Dante in Raccoon City!

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In all timelines, in all possibilities, only you can show me this-

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It started as an exercise for my 2D animation course with @zyngaro but became a much bigger project than anticipated! xD So here you go: one of my favorite moments of the second episode of @HighRollersDnD one shot with the full Baldur's Gate 3 companions cast!

I reeeeealy loved Neil performance with Astarion seeing Drizzt (since I'm also a fan of the legendary drow!).

Congratulations for the GOTY awards, guysssssssss!!! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

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In an alternate universe they're university professors and married I saw it in the wild rune

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MORPH TELLING WOLVERINE "I LOVE YOU LOGAN, STAY WITH ME" WHILE LOOKING LIKE JEAN, THEY CAN SAY IT BECAUSE THEY FEEL IT.

WE GOT A LOVE CONFESSION BUT AT WHAT COST. I'M GONNA JUMP OFF A CLIFF

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I would cut off every toe on my left foot if Bethesda could please just:

1) fix MacCready. I'm so serious his game mechanics and his character are so contradictory and buggy, please

2) let danse not be in power armor all the time. Please. It's so annoying, he's awesome but I don't want buzz lightyear stomping behind me all the time, I want to put him in cute little outfits like the rest of the companions

3) let danse move on from the BoS if you save him. Like he keeps bugging out about serving the brotherhood and getting upset about not following the brotherhood, danse honey we said brotherhood is BAD which is why you're still alive, let him move on PLEASE

4) for the love of god let me romance the crumbly detective, I spent so long on my first playthrough with nick following him around and pining for him I didn't even know romancing was an option in the game until after I beat it.

5) let me pat the dogs. The cows. The cats. If UBISOFT of all people can do it, then so should Bethesda

6) fix the game-halting bugs, glitches and crashes. Please. Stop adding cool new feats and stuff, like that's great, but literally fix the masterpiece there is. Better yet, STOP UPDATING IT AND JUST REMASTER THE GAME.

BLEASE.

feel free to reblog and add to the list with things yall would cut off appendages for Bethesda to fix. These are the only ones I can think of right now.

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imagine the brooding, intimidating Batman fighting criminals in the street when he hears this special ringtone in the comms and they're for specific people: his grandkids.

he has to hide in the shadows and goes Grandpa mode, clears his throat and coos lovingly to the comms to talk them.

Nightwing: Oh, he's cooing again.

Red Hood: Lian must have called and asked for more fruit loops.

or

Spoiler: B's doing that baby voice again, it's kinda creepy.

Red Robin: My baby must have dialed, he likes his grandpa's voice.

The rest of the batkids: WHAT BABY?????

Superboy: Our baby.

the batkids curse in different languages, confused and shocked.

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when some of the rogues or criminals hear Batman in his Grandpa mode, they think he's gone soft.

nope. he's more determined, more restless, more protective, so he won't stop unless they're in Akrham or in jail.

but it's worth it when he comes home to little kids, who are excited to see him.

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Jason: once I tried to rob this preppy kid on his way to school but before I could even get a threat out he told me ‘please don’t hesitate’ and I was so agasp that this eight year old just asked me to kill him outright that I ran off into an alleyway and cried.

Tim:

Tim: omg wait that was me!!! :D

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Jaskier's intro in s1: being pathetic and getting Stuff thrown at him

Jaskier's intro in s2: in the middle of playing a powerful post-breakup ballad he's playing to raving fans in a styling new look showing that he's building off his heartbreak and forging a new era for himself and his work

Jaskier's intro in s3: being pathetic and getting Stuff thrown at him 2

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I can’t handle the Cavill slander

HE WAS THE ONLY REASON GERALT WAS ANY GOOD IN THE NETFLIX SHOW

HE was the one that wanted to show more emotional depth to Geralt, HE was the one that actually knew and studied the character, HE was the one that hated when the writers reduced him to grunts and snide jokes

They cast Liam Hemsworth bc he’s not going to fight them on their creative decisions or argue in favor of Geralt

That’s why everyone is sad that Cavill is leaving, any chance of changing this character for the better is gone with him, he actually cared about Geralt and was fighting every day to give him the story he truly deserved- IT WILL ONLY GET WORSE FROM HERE

Also if you’re going to say Cavill is a bad actor based on him not being expressive, I need you to look up gameplay or read the books, Geralt is a serious person, he doesn’t often show his expressions in his face, and the writers were trying to take away any emotion Geralt was showing in the original story for comedic effect instead of taking Geralt seriously

Cavill did a fantastic job working with what he was given, Geralt may be stone faced but Cavill showed his emotions in his body-language, in his eyes, through his voice

If you base how good an actor is based on if they’re frowning or smiling at certain times and truly believe that is the only way they can show their character’s feelings, you have no right to comment on acting

And no we will not figure out Cavill “was the problem the whole time”

He was the one that wanted to stay true to the story and do more for Geralt

The writers are the ones that promised a book-accurate adaptation and then immediately broke that promise

The problem was never Cavill and the show will only get worse without him

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I have walked away after reading the news, made a cup of tea, and have returned more calm with a fresh meme and hot take for y’all

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in the season 3 finale geralt gets beaten up so bad he becomes australian

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