Twilight Sparkle's Secret Shipfic Folder Livestreams

Between October to December 2019, Chris livestreamed himself playing the fanmade My Little Pony-themed card game Twilight Sparkle's Secret Shipfic Folder. During these streams, he generally plays the game alone, using his own custom cards.

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Watch the chaos unfold as I personally demonstrate how to play Twilight Sparkle's Secret Shipfic Folder, with the addition of my own first few cards in my expansions and promos so far.

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The TSSSF Sonichu Deck and Expansion Packs can purchased at the link, below. And each first time purchase receives the set of 18 Promo Cards. Mimimum $100 purchase customers get a bonus Expansion Pack that is not in their cart (Random Selected). And everyone who buys it all in one purchase, gets a Bonus Rigid Box to store them all in.

And the cards are coming soon to other online TSSSF CCG sellers, and Vendors at Conventions, includi [sic] BABSCon.

0:00 to 15:00
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[Video begins. The camera is focused on a table holding several boxes full of Chris’s homemade cards and a McCafe cup. Chris walks into shot while speaking, and sits at the table.]
 * Transcript|

[Sigh] Hello, ever’body, this is Christine Chandler comin’ to ya live from home once again. Today I’m doin’ something completely special, ‘cause I pretty much have enough produts, [he fiddles with the boxes] to actually take, uh, photographs [he leans down so that we can just see the lower half of his face] of, using my second phone. [In a smug, nasal tone of voice] Yeah, I got twooo phones, [he points at the camera], one for da trolls, and one for my, uh--one for my trolls, one for my homes, [he points at the camera again] I got twooo phones. One for da bullies, ‘n one for my friends. Do you think I need two phones? You’re recording me with one, you’re taking pictures with the other one. [Shrilly] I think that’s a pretty good reason! So anyway, let’s go through what I have here. [He picks up one of the boxes, which is marked with a borrowed or stolen fanart of Sonichu on one side and the merging Earths on the other] First off, I show off da bots. Dis is da bots where, er, past established dets and expansion packs will be packaged into when you buy the whole kit ‘n caboodle. Um, of course, well, dis is tak–dis is discounting the Sonichu villains pack--Baby! Don’t mess with that! My cat Baby. {Editor’s note: That is such a lazy fucking name for a cat} Hey! [He leans off camera to grab the cat] Don’t mess with the cable! [In a higher pitch] Don’t mess with the cable! [He picks the cat up and holds it in front of the table for a moment] Yeah, c’mere, buddy. Now it’s a cat video, there’s a cat. [The cat starts wriggling and he lets it go] Awright, let you go. Don’t mess with the cable. I’m recording here! [He gets up and walks away from the table] You mess with the cable, you mess with my power system! [He turns on a faucet offscreen and says something shrill; the running water and his tone largely obscure the words. He returns to the table and sits down with a stress sigh] Now. As I was saying, dis is a lovely custom designed rigid box, and before anybody asks, I gave errybody dis foretaste of de big ol’ world. It’s not a combination of Earth and Saturn, [he begins shuffling through cards] it’s atshually an image for one of the cards from the deck. Of which I shall present to you all once again. Dah-ta-dah, here we are--Hey! [Shrilly] No no no no no no no no! [Thumps something on the table to scare the cat away, shaking the camera slightly. He stress sighs] Kitty-cat messing with da symbols--the cables. [He holds the card up to the camera, showing us the image of the merging Earths] See? Dimension Merge Completion. Dis is essentially an image of myging–da merging of da two Earts between Dimension 1218 and C-197, which is very much happening. [He puts the card back into the deck] And I’m not listening to any hater comments on that. Which, also on that, you know, not reading your comments, but donations are greatly appreciated, thank you very much.

Anyway, so. . . I have my cards so far, and some of which I have printed individually in advance, so. . . [stress sigh] now, back to the bots, back to the bots [he picks up the box again, rotating it as he speaks. He doesn’t seem to notice that it’s mostly out of frame as he does this] There’s one side, and the other side, and anurr side, there’s anurr side, there’s da top, and the bottom’s all black, and you open it up, and I had da dis–I did dis with my. . . kit ‘n caboodle, to figure out how to arrange everything. [He opens the box, revealing it to be stuffed with several smaller card boxes, like an autistic matryoshka] Ta-da! Can fit all the–fit all the deck and etspansion packs in dere, [Baby wanders past at the top of the frame] ‘n which would be arranged carefully. Now doing--d--I do not have the. . . [he picks up some sheets of paper, the first of which bears an advert for the Samurai Pizza Bots expansion] Samurai Pizza Bots etspansion pack yet, though that is completed and a copy of it is on its way, [he sets aside the first sheet and reveals the second, an advert for the Nightvee & The Warriors for Andromeda expansion] aaand I’m still a few cards short of completing Nightvee and the Warriors for Andromeda pack. So–but we do have boxes of which represent--da--represent dose, in de absence of dose atshual botses. [He pulls out one of the smallest card boxes to show us] Cause, you know, de size of de Samurai Pizza Bots bots [he holds up the SPB advert again] is essentially, nyeeh, da size of bots of the Super Mega Forms, or, here [he pries out two other boxes] de Idea Guy Corruptions and de Arizona Slime etspansions. [He returns those boxes and pulls out one of the larger boxes] And of course here’s de deck bots, the ones that [get put box?] will definitely be Nightvee and da Warriors for Andromeda, so that’s–so I got this bots, dis prototype bots for Arizona Slime [shrilly] dey don’t really need it, but oh well, MPC downgraded me from flip-bots to this, but at least dis makes good space-filler to represent dat neck of the woods. And dere’s definitely room for one more thin bots within here, so that’s doable. And [he pulls out another box] de OC bots is a flip-bots. [He pulls out another box, sighing] Da Chris-Chan pack is a flip-bots, and [he pulls out the last two boxes] Sonichu ‘n Rosechu n’ Night Star packs are tuck-botses, though you can tell dat Sonichu ‘n Rosechu pack is thicker ‘cause there’s more cards in there. That’s the choice I had to go with on the web--on de Make Playing Cards, MPC website. And of course there is room in here, round here, for de eighteen promo cards. But also what you can do with this bots aside from storing all your lovely kit ‘n caboodle, a’course. . . [he empties out the storage box, fishes out a huge stack of cards from one of the other boxes on the table, and puts them into the storage box] is store your playing cards in’ere as well, which you can have ‘em like that, though maybe with a cardboard on one side or the other, to make a lil bit higher, maybe use one from one of those Pokemon TCG elite trainer botses, to make do, to essentially have ‘em like that. [He pulls the cards out and puts them back in on their sides] Or simply just. . . put ever’body on their sides, it’s easier when nobody’s in sleeves [he angles the box to show us] but it does well for--even when they are sleeved and. . . [he pushes the lid onto the box] that works well. [Baby and Sylvia tear past the table; the rattling of their bells and tags almost drowns Chris out] So ya got options! And as always, options are what? [He points at the camera] They’re good.

[He reopens the box and takes out the cards] So, anyways, yeah, I had stated on the earlier point, we are doing. . . product photographs, so I’m putting all these botses back in dis bots here. We will not be doing product images for, uh. . . [he holds up the printed adverts again] well, I guess we could since I have these printed out, an’ I only have like a few cards of each pack. Like, I only have two cards out of the Samurai Pizza Bots and I have like Nightvee–n–mm–CPU maker cards for, uh, this pack. [Sighs] I’ll make do. [He sets aside the main box and picks up the three boxes full of cards] But dis is essentially good behind-the-scenes footage, y’all are getting a treat to see, as I take dese product shots for da--de webpage. So as you can tell, in these three botses, which obviously dere, [he picks up one box, puts it back, and picks up another box] let me get this one, dis one actually has writing on it, and Cosmic Eclipse boxes. [He turns the bottom of the box to the camera, revealing that he has repurposed boxes from a Pokemon TCG expansion to store his cards. His name is written in pen beneath the logo] But I wrote--I used a gel pen, marked on the bottom of bots, [he turns the box to show us the other alterations he’s made] da bots tops, and of course I put a card front ‘n back, and I wrote on the inside bots [he shows us the writing: CWC’s Cards I] inside, on the bottom, da side that goes forward. So, for–I’m decently organized, you know, start, pony cards, ship cards, goal cards, just like my regu’ar collection. So, we’ll start, we’ll start by figuring out the arrangement for the deck cards, so, [he starts pulling out deck boxes and cards] we’re gonna need the deck cards, and I’ll definitely note on the prospective webpages that card sleeves will not be included, and I’ll make sure to clear the area. So, ‘n this is definitely a difference here, [he holds up two cards, one of which is apparently a variant version] I mean, you get this card in da deck, but you get this in the etspansion, de Chris-Chan etspansion pack, so, it’s like [shrilly] you buy de etspansion pack, you could easily swap this out for a better–for a better full-art with an additional effect.

So, anyway, [he starts laying cards out and rearranging the table space, setting aside boxes as he goes] so we got that card, we got that card, we got this card, and. . . [we’re getting cards ?] that were in the deck, so we have those four start cards and I have--ever’body else sorted out here, so here’s all the pony cards for the deck. . . [mumbling] ‘n da ship card, more ship cards. . . and here’s all the deck ship cards, ‘n [mumbling] and a’course the goal cards for the deck, so. . . get that out of the way. [Mumbling] And get this out of the way too. . . [more mumbling] Now, well, I wanna focus on the product, because I have watched da commercials over de--I have watched de many, many advertisements over da years an’. . . you notice I have da two playing mats underneath dese papers, so it’s like to. . . not to focus on any imagery dat’s underneath the product. Oh, I forgot one thing. [He opens up a random box] I ended up with a bunch of extra cards, ‘cause my advance-printed cards, some of them were actually larger than the typical poker size, so I ended up having to do reprints for myself, so. . . on this side I ended up with a tuck-bots versus de default flip-bots for de OC pack. So, nyaah, it was a learning process! Learning process. Gotta love to learn. I likes learning. {Editor’s note: HAHAHAHAHAHAHA} All right, so yeah, I just, I mean--since I don’t wanna unsleeve ever’body, that would be a time-waster, ‘n I wanna make sure de Secret Shipfic Fo’der is talked about. . . so, yeah-g-mm. . . gonna sample one of our start card, [shuffles cards] the kinda thing we I [loudly] n’yeah, dis is anudder prototypical thing I ended up with, [he fans out several cards to show the camera] dese choppy misprints on the back, aside from. . . [he pulls another card out of its sleeve] ‘n actually this’d be a good sample, so. . . so, n’yeah [he holds a card up to the camera] you can tell it’s larger than a typical poker card, so dat was my etsperience. I mean, it may not be as obvious when you’re. . . have ‘em in card sleeves, but. . . when you’re looking at ‘em in a deck perceptive [Editor's note: I assume he meant "perspective"} outside of sleeves, it [shrilly] it does make a difference! [Sighs] Thank you, children of [?] for waking me up to that.

So, anyway, I want a regular start card. . . [mumbling] put these back. . . I want a pony card with a typical back. . . [blows a raspberry and makes some babbling sounds as he fumbles with the cards and boxes] Dis is a learning process I had to go through in figuring all this out for myself ‘n everything. [Sighs] ‘N Magi-Chan was definitely able ta help me through all this, so. . . so muh--many props and thanks to him also. Um, [sighs] dose out of the way, we have our product pony card back, and [mumbles, pulls out more cards] okay, ‘n yeah, this’ll be our product start card, ‘n this’ll be our goal card, ship card, dere. We’re--we just need the backs ‘cause. . . they show the logo ‘n everything, and what’s typical in the pack, and it’s like obvious, if dere’s a start card in da pack, we’ll have da--we’ll have dat back face up. Pack or deck, it’s just, let ever’body know in de advertisements. So, yeah. I took photography in high school, as one of my classes, so I took some good photos. {Editor’s note: No, he did not} So, anyway, let’s figure out our arrangement now, so we got our kit ‘n capoodle [sic], n’. . . [mumbles while rearranging cards and boxes] all right, gotta figure out good lighting, yeah, deck boxes, yeah, [mumbling] deck boxes to the left, dere’s better lighting from dat side, from my right. So, want to arrange a few select cards, and dat’s anurr thing that you see, we’re gonna be having the three decks back side up, so this’ll definitely be another sleeves-not-included aspect and why. . . we’ll need those sample backs. [One of the cats wanders past and starts scratching itself offscreen, its bell jingling as he talks] This is a process. It’s a good process. Hmm. [He begins laying out the cards] So I’m trying ta--I’m deciding how I want to do this. I mean, yes, could, we could arrange ‘em in a fold like that. [He lays out two rows of cards in a fan shape, one above the other] Wanna just take a few off the top like that. Hm. [He shrugs] It’s a valid presentation, but I feel like we could do better, like. . . let’s make an etsample of the game, right? }}