Category: A Catch All

[Stitch After Dark] Round Six

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stitch wraps up 2023

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I use my YouTube channel approximately once a year to talk about the previous year. So, here we are. Here’s what I was up to in 2023 and what I hope to do in 2024!

Love to my loves, curses to my haters~

I plan to be my best-worst self this year!

Fandom Hot Take Corner – Week 1/Day 1

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For all our sakes, I’m trying to wring myself dry of free-pouring fandom thoughts by the 31st so here’s another rousing rendition of “No you don’t actually like villains if you get mad and weird when the bad guy in a battle shonen/star wars film you like actually has haters” featuring the jujutsu kaisen fandom.

Season 2 will be done soon and then I will be free from a really unexpected hell… the small circle of Mahito fans who think he’s actually a little meow meow baby boy who should “win” and that is being hated For No Reason. (I love Mahito an unreasonable amount. I enjoy the pain he causes. He’s good because he’s so dang bad. A widdle soft baby he is not and it is weird to see people act like he is/that should be the dominant fandom reading of him.)

Anyway, check the Villain Woobification article from last year that got me called homophobic, racist, and sexist! Think Your Fave Fictional Villain Is the Real Hero? Think Again.

Once Again No Webtoon Wednesday…

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I know everyone mourns when I don’t provide them with new webtoons to be irresponsibly invested in (like Lout of Count’s Family now on Tapas as well) but uh…

This time it’s because I am undergoing immense financial stress and I’m trying to speed run through hustle culture, figure out if floribamageorgia has loan sharks I can link up with, and eat/drink my feelings. 

If you’re on Patreon, you may have seen where I finally had an update about my current housing situation. I mentioned it in the GFM I’m doing for my sister and the niecelings, that my apartment was giving me trouble. The trouble is… mold everywhere in my apartment at super high levels that have been impacting my health and quality of life beyond that. 

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For The Second Time in Six Months, We’ve Got Messed Up F/F Discourse

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I don’t know how to tell the most absurd fandom brained fools that lesbians – especially trans lesbians – talking about how they feel alienated in fandoms dominated by cis male M/M content or are upset about the way media about lesbians and other queer women get treated by the professionals running studios… are not inherently terfy. 

It’s the second time since February that I’m watching people in fandom – who aren’t  trans femmes themselves for the most part – call trans lesbians TERFs or accuse them of having/utilizing “TERF rhetoric” for pointing out discrepancies in content volume or criticizing cis women or trans masc co-opting of “TERF” and “TERF rhetoric” to divorce them from trans women/misogyny in particular and claim that any slight criticism of fandom (of misogyny, of a lack of F/F, of racism) is in and of itself TERFy. 

And it’s the same people doing this. 

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Late August Updates

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I was one of the guests on Fansplaining’s 8th Anniversary Podcast Episode!

Here’s a quote from my segment:

One of the things that I’ve noticed that has both affected me as an individual and fandom at large is that fans are actively entering the fight against racism in fandom on the side of racism. They’re actively choosing to defend racists, defend racist tropes, to support people who are doing racist behaviors, and it is out of this sense that they need to protect their space and their energy. 

You can listen to the full thing HERE

I’m running a GoFundMe to try and help my sister and the niecelings get a little more financial stability as the apartment they’re in now is tiny and rundown. I just updated the GFM to let people know that while we’re off to a great start, we’re on a tighter deadline because the apartment complex’s new leasing company is raising the rent to almost $2000 a month so we don’t even have the cushion of the rent amount they were used to.

If you can share, donate, cajole any random celebs you know to donate… please do so?

Because I’d do it in a heartbeat, but my own apartment is currently trying to kill me so like… I’m not able to help my family the way I wish I could.

You can find the GFM HERE.

I’ve got a monthly newsletter that’s pay-to-read! It’s for NSFW/R18 content I’m reading, writing, or watching and while I will be posting the wildly out of pocket content I’ve been reading – I’m serious about how important FAKKU has become to me – there will always be clear warnings!

I’m working on the second installment to go live on the first of September but you can read the first one here!

And I’m actively looking for a career change! If you know anyone hiring for something I can do but that’s not pop culture or fandom journalism, please hit me up. I really want a career change and to not be beholden to the internet’s trends. If I’m gonna get shouted at all the time, I want it to be for stuff that people agree matters and for an actual living wage.

Thanks!

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Remember You

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Right around the time that my dad got sick (like when he moved in with us and we realized how sick he was), I’d restarted one of my regular rewatches of Adventure Time.

One of the things that will never leave me is the way that the episode with the song “remember you” (I think it’s also called that) captured what it felt like to lose your dad when he’s right in front of you.

As I watched this episode, even playing the song for him at one point, I realized that my dad was Simon and I was Marceline. He lost himself despite his best efforts and there was nothing I could do to help him remember himself. All I could do was remember him.

I really love this song and I always will, but I ugly cry every time at Marceline’s helplessness and the realization that Ice King will never be the Simon she loved again and that there’s nothing she can do to change it because the thing that has changed him so very terribly… Is the only thing keeping him in her life even in this diminished state.

I probably shouldn’t be re-watching the songs when I’m in an emotionally fragile state (aka always), but watching some of Adventure Time with my dad is some of the last memories I have of him before he ended up in the hospital and then in the care facility he was at before he died. Remembering him is all I can do.

And it’s really weird to miss someone who was a little bit distant from me because of how he was raised, but so much is happening and I keep thinking about how he’s the parent I could have told us all too he would have listened, and he would have supported me.

And I don’t have that anymore and I never will again.