OOH!! I just found "Crawling Chaos," that'd work perfectly for the battle early in book 1 against a hive mind leech monster summoned by a blood cult.

After listening to a few different songs, I don't think they'd fit the tone of the video essay, BUT they'd work very well for a fiction series I've been hyperfixated on that I've been wanting to animate. For example, "Hastur" would work really well for a certain really tragic scene from book 1 I have in mind (I won't specify because it's a spoiler if you ever intend to read the series yourself).

Fantastic!! Can I actually get a link to your music to listen to while writing? It's unlikely to end up a central theme, but I do intend to have the fact that I used to be a genetics and genomics major back when I could afford college be a sort of "beat drop" at the relevant moment.

Before I deleted my Xitter account back in 2023, I ended up being blocked by a lot of transphobes after dropping my college transcript (doxxable info censored, of course) in response to being told that I "don't understand basic biology."

I'm hoping to get in contact with my professor from back when I was in college, Michael Turelli, to invite him to interview for the video, but he's likely busy.

Plz just pet me. I need friendship

Thank you!!! ;u;

Thank you!!!

I have no idea. She used the topical spray.

I am new ;-;

Thanks. I'm awake again after a 26-hour mini-coma and have had some cookie dough and fruit juice. I'm gonna play Minecraft now.

sue their ass to pay your medical bills

Yeah, while the cervix isn't 1:1 with a urethra, the idea of cramming objects into a tiny hole that was never meant to have objects inside it works well to compare them. I've had a catheter put in before prior to a surgery (they wanted to do a pregnancy test "just in case" even as my appendix was about to burst) and imo the IUD insertion was much worse.

Several years ago I had to have a catheter put in prior to an appendectomy (they decided that testing to see if I was pregnant first was more important than scanning to see what was going on with my appendix, but I was in too much pain to urinate on my own) and yeah the IUD insertion was worse

This is probably a hot take but I still think the guy in the left image (who was 17 at the time of initial controversy) had a chuni moment fueled by the propaganda he'd been fed that had consequences that (while obvious to most other people) he did not foresee.

Obviously what he did wasn't ok, being a dumb teen doesn't justify anything.

But he was denied the chance to learn from his mistakes.

After being put through the wringer by the general public, he was turned into a speaking puppet for the right by opportunistic fascists who saw his mental vulnerability and (metaphorically) burned him at the stake the minute he started defending leftist positions years later.

As I understand, the right turned on him eventually for supporting "woke" ideals.

I think this is a gross case of fascism-flavored child stardom. You can disagree, I don't intend to argue. I don't know him personally. I only know I was that level of dumb at his age, too.

I just feel weird about lumping in a kid who was exploited by the same right-wing opportunists we're opposing with said right-wing opportunists.

While it may be obvious to us that shooting a protestor is bad, he likely saw the guy as a bad guy he needed to save people from. Delusional, yes, but ultimately rooted in his upbringing and developing neurology.

He was exploited a different way than we're being exploited, but he was still exploited by the same people exploiting us.

For all we know, his past actions haunt him, and no amount of therapy could ever help him recover fully from the weight of his own mistakes.

I am neither telling nor asking anyone to sympathize with him. I just wanted to get my perspective out there.

It is entirely possible that I'm just a big softy who doesn't want to believe that kids can be evil.

Or maybe I'm right on this one specific thing. I'm not sure any of us will definitively know at any point. I sure as hell don't know with any significant confidence.

"There is no try, only do or do not... and you did not."

The way I see it, I'm glad that the real avenger is probably back home, snug in bed, and this transphobic rich kid is in a cell. Probably won't face more than some prison time and a fine, but that time is plenty for the tracks of the real guy to fade.

I tried to check Yes but the box isn't working :( is it a mobile limitation or am I just dumb?