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still gotta record this one and the wi spa essay. also gotta finish writing the justpearlythings and keith woods essays. hoping to hear back through email from contacts I'd like to interview for the magic the gathering raceswapping video.

finished the tim pool essay. was about four times longer than I had intended it to be but it'll probably make for more satisfying watching/listening this way.

One difficulty of being a creative is that creators are dependent on their social spaces, and those spaces can be not just very cliquey and exclusive but also very antagonist, rewarding conformity over strong ideas. This produces environments that can feel very toxic to writers.

Some other ideas:

-Home Alone: Lost on Little Saint James
-Madea's Hanukkah
-Santa Claus vs. Dracula
-365 Dalmatians: A Christmas Tail
-Let's Fuck Krampus
-Die Harder
-Heavenly Piece: Santa's Shootout
-How the Grinch Made COVID

Alright, while we're still in summer I need everyone to note that Christmas movies are required to be insane this year. I need directors this year to bring a certain kind of "How the Grinch Did 9/11" type vibe to Christmas.

NEW VIDEO! My essay about iilluminaughtii, Brian Deer, hbomberguy and YouTube plagiarism is finally up! In it, I fact-check hbomb to see if he was fair to iilluminaughtii, I check with her work for any important mistakes and ask what we can all learn from this.

https://youtu.be/_kwT6p9q9Gc

Tomorrow kicks off a great series of video essays on my channel this month, premiering every Friday! I like to think I've stepped up the thumbnail game a bit for some of these.

by far the most annoying part of the video essay writing process is watching through parts of a video another time to transcribe the parts I want to cite in the essay word for word

guess I also should have specified I only meant the script of the wi spa video is done, but I've temporarily moved on to writing the justpearlythings response. feels good for now.

wi spa video script is 29 pages with an additional five pages of sources. came out of my room and everybody was like "where were you all day" and I couldn't say "snorting facts to get a youtube high"

alright, iilluminuaghtii, big joel and wi spa videos are done. hammered out that wi spa script in 24 hours. the power of mania. onto justpearlythings and keith woods slavery videos.

I did not set out to make a response video to aba n preach but I guess we're doing that now as part of this other video

that beautiful warm fuzzy feeling when you finish formatting your reference list for your essay and it has 35 references all laid out perfectly... just *chef's kiss*

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

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.