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It’s the beginning of the third quarter, so we have another JK Geekly update for you. Hey, hey, Geekly Gang! Kyra Kyle here. JK Geekly has continued a once-a-day production schedule for several months now. Woo hoo! We’re keeping a couple of months ahead with most of our schedule, so by the time you’re reading this, we’re probably working on autumn/winter posts. Autumn and winter already? Is 2025 ending this quickly? Yikes!

Quizzes

We kept up with our quizzes, but we may slow production of one or two types (multiple choice and matching). Not too many people are viewing these. Instead, we have a new quiz type: Sweet Emoji. These quizzes will have a topic and a set of emojis for clues. Can you figure out what each clue means based on the emojis?

Next month (August 2025) will feature a Sweet Emoji quiz every Tuesday and Thursday. When the calendar reaches September, we’ll weave Sweet Emojis with Color Palettes, Timelines, and Multiple Choice/Matching. Multiple choice and matching won’t go away entirely; they’ll just alternate on the day one would appear. Let us know if you like this new kind of quiz.

TV Show and Movie Reviews

Geekly began posting TV show and movie reviews the day after the show or movie dropped, but we’ve found that the Friday or Saturday (or even the following Monday) after the show or movie drops is plenty of time to gather our thoughts and provide a longer breakdown of what we think. We’ll continue with this trend going forward. Let us know if you have a preference for when we release show and movie reviews or first impressions.

Whatcha Series

The Whatcha series is going strong. The Geekly Gang enjoys sharing what they’ve been doing over the past month, and you get to know us better. We’ll continue cycling through “Whatcha Playing?,” “Whatcha Watching?,” “Geekly Tunes,” and “Whatcha Reading?” every Wednesday in that order. You won’t have to wait long to see what the Geekly Gang has been getting into lately. Feel free to share what you’ve been playing, watching, listening to, and reading. We’re all part of the Geekly Gang.

Friday Potpourri Turning Into Writing/Design Diaries

Sure. We mentioned TV show and movie reviews earlier, but that’s only one type of post you may see on a Friday. Geekly has been testing the waters with memes, Geekly castings (where we fan-cast upcoming movies), and deep dives. Our first Geekly casting involved the MCU X-Men. Our first deep dive was Autism Representation in the Big Bang Theory. Let us know which of these posts you like best. We’ll continue with Geekly castings and deep dives, but they’ll be woven in with our usual Monday/Saturday posts. This will free up Fridays for writing and game design diaries.

Kyra Kyle will get even more personal with their writing and game design process. Beginning this September, they’ll alternate between the two diary types.

Quick scheduling note for this month’s deep dive. With so many releases occurring during July (the bulk of IronHeart, Superman, and Fantastic Four: First Steps), we won’t have another deep dive until August, but we’ll make up for it with a double dose of deep dives.

JK Geekly Discord Server

We haven’t seen many people join the JK Geekly Discord Server. We’re struggling to advertise it. We’ll post it here again and see if we get any new users and figure out other ways to promote the server. We’d love to see you on Discord, Geekly Gang.

Closing Thoughts

That’s all we have for now. We’ll have another one of these posts ready for October. Until then, stay safe, thank you for reading, and wherever you are, we hope you’re having a great day.

Here is the second of our quarterly JK Geekly updates. I don’t know if we’ll continue doing these. Let me know if you like to see them coming. I figured this would be a good way to let folks know what we’re up to and what we have planned.

Hey, hey! Kyra Kyle here. Geekly has been chugging along with our new editor Season and new writer Skye. We’re staying a good couple of months out with our schedule. By the time you’re reading this, we’re probably working on summer posts. Yay!

Our regularly scheduled content being set this far in advance affords us to review the occasional TV show or movie. We’ve increased our weekly content.

Quizzes

We’ve been releasing color palette quizzes for the past few months. We hope you’re enjoying them. Here’s a link to the ones we’ve already produced. A new color palette quiz has been released each Thursday. Which ones are your favorite? Which franchises would you like to see get a color palette quiz?

We also reintroduced older quizzes that Geekly used to make and began posting alternating quizzes (among multiple-choice, matching, and timeline quiz types) every Tuesday. Since we have plenty of color palette quizzes (to match the number of the other quizzes), we’ll begin cycling through all four quiz types (to include color palettes) every Tuesday and Thursday. We’ll continue with this schedule until at least the next update in July. Let us know which quiz type you like best.

TV Show and Movie Reviews

Geekly has been keeping up with the weekly release of Disney+ and Max shows centered around the Marvel and DC Universe. We plan on covering some more movies, specifically ones that will release this summer. We can’t wait for Fantastic Four and Superman. Summer 2025 movies are looking great.

Let us know if there are any shows or movies you’d like for us to cover that we aren’t already covering.

Geekly News

We’re still figuring out how we want to present Geekly News. Should we go with a big headline with smaller stories throughout the week or weeks? Or should we come out with focused news stories for individual topics? We could always do a weekly Geekly News with no headline, too. In short, Geekly News is a work-in-progress.

New Weekly Posts

The Geekly Gang is filling out the rest of its weekly schedule with two different types of posts. We’ll start with the Whatcha Wednesday posts. Each Wednesday, the Geekly Gang will share which games they’ve played, shows/movies they’ve watched, books they’ve read, and even which songs made the previous month’s soundtrack. Feel free to join in the fun, because you’re part of the Geekly Gang, too.

Our other weekly post is inspired by Harper Ross, one of JK Geekly’s commenters. These posts will be called Geekly Casting and will be released one Friday each month, starting with April 18, 2025. Skye’s our resident movie geek, so she’ll share her ideas on who should play certain roles. Season likes to conduct research, so she’ll unearth casting rumors. And my contributions may vary. We’ll see. Again, you’re more than welcome to share who you think should play which role, Geekly Gang.

But Geekly Casting will only post on one Friday of each month. The rest of the Fridays will have various posts. We’ll make it up as we go for Potpourri Friday.

Fantasy and Mythological Creatures

We’ve struggled to get the fantasy and mythological creatures series off the ground. We figured this might be the case. It’s difficult to coordinate with more people, but we will produce this series whenever we get the chance.

Stop me if you’ve heard this before, but Geekly intends to release a series of game mechanism posts where we send game designers a questionnaire about specific game mechanisms. XD We do intend to do this and hopefully, the pitfalls we encountered with the fantasy and mythological creatures project will inform us on what to do with the board game mechanism series.

JK Geekly Discord Server

We started a JK Geekly Discord Server. We’ll try to be active on this server as much as possible. Discord could help with reaching out to potential content creators and you. We’re all part of the Geekly Gang. Let us know what kind of posts you’d like to see. We could even hang out on the server and play games. Who knows?

Closing Thoughts

That’s all we have for now. We’ll have another one of these posts ready for July. Until then, stay safe, thank you for reading, and wherever you are, we hope you’re having a great day.