Shadiversity

Shad M Brooks, known on YouTube as Shadiversity, formally known as I Am Shad, or often simply just called Shad, is a male Australian YouTuber known for making videos about medieval culture and fantasy. He analyses the realism depicted in medieval fiction, especially major Hollywood movies, and decifers if he feels that their castles, weapons, characters, and battles, among other things, are realistic to how things actually happened during medieval times. He is also an aspiring author who has a series of videos on creative writing where he'll make vlogs either dicusssing certain topics in that field, or harshly critiquing writing samples sthat his fans have submitted in to him.

Featured Channels

 * 1) Matthew Jensen
 * 2) ThegnThrand
 * 3) scholagladiatoria
 * 4) Knyght Errant
 * 5) Because Science
 * 6) Skallagrim
 * 7) Medieval Review
 * 8) Roland Warzecha
 * 9) Lindybeige
 * 10) JoergSprave

Personality & Personal Life
Shad has an outgoing and humorous personality. His videos are often described as Infotainment or Edutainment, because he's talented with both educating his audience of the subjects that he covers, but also entertaining them with a bit of humor as well. He has four kids, three boys and and one girl, and a wife. After years of trying and failing to get officially published as an author, he decided to go through with self publishing, which he has yet to completely do.

Creative Writing
This is Shad's least frequent series, but still one of his most popular among his fans, which he started during July of 2017. As an aspring author himself, and someone who has been writing stories for around 10 years or so, he started this series in an attempt to help those fans become better writers. The first video, How to Write a NOVEL, was simply an introduction to this series, going over the broad strokes on what it takes to become a writer and how difficult it can be. After that he made a video going through and ripping apart his first ever manuscript, pointing out many of the novice mistakes that he made eight years prior to that video. This was to lead into a series of videos where he accepts submissions of writing samples from his fans. Before he did that, however, he wanted to show that he's just as harsh with his own writiung as he would be with theirs. In addition to those videos, he also occasionally makes videos where he talks about specific topics when it comes to creative writing.

Shadiversity's Patreon Introduction
SWORDS! Do you like swords? If you do there's a very good chance that you'll love my YouTube videos, especially if you like other medieval and nerdy things.

If you wish to support me or express appretiation for my work please become a Patron through Patreon.

Trivia

 * 1) Shad actually built a small, makeshift, medieval style castle in his back yard for his children.  He showed it off in a vlog-style video which also featured his kids, titled Meet the Shadiversity children and their castle.

This page was created by JakCooperThePlumber on November 4, 2018.