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@exiliaex what did you think it said?

@exiliaex on a couple levels it does happen to me but I assume it happens to every transfem content creator online and I only have the distinction of managing all my own socials. irl tho it has happened a couple times but less if I'm surrounding myself with friends so it's less of a 1v1 and more of a gank hopefully

I'm always supremely put out when I get approached by cisgender women who specifically want to advance transphobic arguments directly to my face. I don't know what they expect to get out of that but it bums me out immensely.

tgirls uploading random selfies to bluesky and having their notifs swarmed after twitter kicks the bucket and entire libraries of girldick posts are lost

playing around with a rough sketch of a piece about the concept of a fetish object and "artificial intelligence" programs, kind of coming up with some new descriptive language

"My own sex, I hope, will excuse me, if I treat them like rational creatures, instead of flattering their *fascinating* graces, and viewing them as if they were in a state of perpetual childhood, unable to stand alone. [...] I wish to show that elegance is inferior to virtue, that the first act of laudable ambition is to obtain a character as a human being, regardless of the distinction of sex; and that secondary views should be brought to this simple touchstone."

-Mary Wollstonecraft, "A Vindication of the Rights of Woman," 1792

big joel response vid uploaded and scheduled. just gotta whip together the other ones and I'll mostly be set for july on the channel

@exiliaex thank you. your kindness has helped me perservere and see the best in others.

new plan: thinking of making every video essay that goes live in july a kind of response video, to grab people's attention. then slowly over the next couple months covering more stuff as topics independent of commenting on other youtuber's videos. I've already got some responses lined up so I think it'll work nicely.

I've been wondering lately whether rage is all I have left. Sometimes it has felt as if there were times when only anger kept me going. My only counter to that feeling is that there are people who have carried me when I couldn't keep going, so I know compassion also matters.

New patron video is up! It's a very short essay about Little Women.

https://www.patreon.com/posts/june-2023-patron-85228383?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link

I've also already decided that next month's patron essay and possibly the following month's as well will be discussing even more women's literature, some american and some british.

I'm thinking it has to be the justpearlythings response, the next noah smith response or the black aragorn video, but all three will take some research, so we'll see as it all unfolds.

big joel response is scripted and done. gonna record, edit and schedule the upload tomorrow, along with the little women patron essay. the comes reworking the blade essay and deciding which other essay to upload in july.

is big joel a communist or a socialist? or just vaguely kind of left or liberal? it came up while I was writing and I kind of left it open but I do wonder

@exiliaex thank you! hopefully people who watch it understand why I made it, I think it's important

@exiliaex I've actually got a few, so I'm thinking of making this a short series: his interpretation of the ending of avatar the last airbender, his interpretation of a shakespeare poem and some of his ideas about death note are all on the table. the avatar video is coming first.

in other news the little women patron essay will be up soon, probably this weekend. going to try to finish the big joel response in that timeframe as well.

@exiliaex I find this to be a difficulty of the deployment of the language of the "nation" in "first nations" rhetoric; it brings a lot of baggage on all sides about what that actually means in politics