Hot take: Nonbinary masc AMAB people still treat the femme AFAB people around them the way that men treat women and the obligation to use precise and careful language about their queerness is blame-shifting coercive control and emotional labor, used as a distraction for their behavior.

The men who make being kind to them painful. The men stuffing their misogyny behind any marginalization they can claim. The men who act like rejection victimizes them. The men who become haters when they realize I both outwork them and see through their grift. Y'all deserve to see yourselves.

I've decided to cast the husband/rapist in Expectations as a long-haired progressive queer-coded white guy, because that demo needs to see themselves represented on screen. And to every one of those guys from the last decade of my life who's pushed me along the path of villainy: yes, I mean you.

GO SEE I LOVE BOOSTERS THIS WEEKEND. *ON* OPENING WEEKEND. IT'S IMPORTANT.

If I had a wealthy matron who gave me no-strings money to spend and invest as I see fit, the Bay Area film industry would be thriving. I'd be paying people to make interactive narrative games, I'd be doubling down on film businesses and orgs here, I'd be investing in infrastructure development.

Boots is part of an Oakland org called #MakeItBay that advocates for local filmmaking. If you want to decentralize film from LA/NYC, go see I Love Boosters and help us grow the momentum here, so we can build and ship our extremely replicable economic film incentive model from our Town to yours.

Oops, All Witches wins Outstanding Horror/Fantasy AP at LA Webfest 2026. Huge shoutout to my witches and to @nightlingbug.bsky.social, @brandesstoddard.bsky.social, @wildrosemage.bsky.social, and @dandillon.bsky.social for the lovely Witch Class. And a joyous Beltane to all of you, let’s party.🔥🌸🌕

Uranus in Gemini (my sign) is off like a shot to an auspicious start. Now to see how LA Webfest goes on the first of two full moons during my birth month. Broh, I won Best Director outright. Geeked. Maybe I can make a career out of this. So happy for my witches and Annette!

Often when I check back in on Bsky, Vox likes to remind me that they're trash and that it's a pity that they're one of the last remaining journalistic conglomerates. Never forget that they were co-founded by Matt Yglesias and Ezra Klein. #RIPPolygon #RIPSeeker

This is what white heritage boils down to. I am genuinely ashamed to be white. This is what you want to pass down to "white" people? This? Setting the world aflame? That's the history you want to elevate? That you want us to be proud of? Being the arsonists of humanity? Fuck whiteness.

What's getting in our way of us stopping them? Would anyone else agree that the Democratic Party has been quite a roadblock and a bottleneck? That they tend to stifle and stymie and defang and sanitize our legitimate concerns with our trajectory, rather than fight the fucking bullies?

I consider American Black people indigenous to the Americas because we kidnapped a whole *other* indigenous peoples and destabilized *another,* *different* continent to bring them over here. White people ruin everything we touch. Kill the white man inside you.

I defer to people who are indigenous to the North American continent for guidance on the US' domestic policy, and to people indigenous to the South American, African, and Asian continents for guidance on our foreign policy. I want them making the decisions.

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I'm so heartbroken for Delores Huerta and all of the women who carried it silently for decades for "the greater good." At this point, if it requires women's exploitation, violation, and silence, it can't be classified as good.

The distance from Iran to California is 1,000 miles longer than Iran to D.C. It makes NO SENSE for Iran to strike California. The White House had the Marines blow up artillery shells over Camp Pendleton in October. Shrapnel fell all over the I5. If we start dying here, it's a false flag.

I wander back onto Tumblr for one cursed second and walk straight into yet another misogynoir aimed at Aabria, this time for CR4. The TTRPG/AP space keeps demonstrating that as much as folks hide their hands behind their "outcast" identities, they throw the same stones as mainstream culture.

GIRL. 3 for 3. Really battling myself over choosing humility or 💅 I started publishing my own work and *immediately* got into conversations with exactly the people I want to talk with and *immediately* received recognition as a media maker. Shoulda started years ago. What a trip.

Finalement, j'ai mon tatouage Parisien. Le meilleur souvenir. Il s'appelle: "Death is not the end OU ne touche pas des os" I fuggin love this city.

Hi Imani - I'm directing this question to you, but it's tangential to your thread so I'm pulling it into a qp. What does unionization look like in the AP space? I think I'm not comprehending the scale/scope of the space enough to understand how collective bargaining would serve the people in it.

That's two for two official festival selections! First podcast, first sound design, first time as a Dungeon Master - my imposter syndrome can kick rocks. Also, I love my witches. 💚🩵❤️💜

ChatGPT's psych profile of me based on all chats: "You're not trying to make art for an audience. You're trying to design a world where the audience and the art become the same thing - and you're struggling with the fact that the real world requires you to behave like they're separate first." oop

The flaw I see in this is that journalists are not the only profession that informs the people and holds government accountable. Artists do it too. The current system concentrates artistic exposure and influence in the elite body and denies the people the means to practice craft at similar levels.

Send them to Mars, seal them into their bunkers.

Smallpox blankets.

Who controls the British Crown? Who keeps the metric system down? We do. Who leaves Atlantis off the maps? Who keeps the Martians under wraps? We do. Who holds back the electric car? Who makes Steve Guttenberg a star? We do. Who robs cavefish of their sight? Who rigs every Oscar night? We do.

So, in high school I got a bit into "Illuminati and Freemasons in the music industry" conspiracy theories. The imagery and symbolism that Beyoncé and Gaga use has always been quite interesting to me. (Roc Nation!) But I set that stuff aside. It was unserious, illogical, unreasonable. Right?

Someone remind me what all those Catholic priests got caught doing. And how many youth pastors? It's almost like it's endemic to the religion itself.

I'm not being flippant, but as long as we're on topic: You know who else raped a 14 year old girl and then ritualistically sacrificed the child? The Christian God. The Almighty Father. ... Are we coming around on this being a demonic religion yet?

As an abuse survivor, I'm pretty nervous about the reaction I'm seeing from people who "just don't understand" how we got here. I lost 95% of my friends when I finally named what my ex had done. Some of them, the white men, immediately had his back. In this metaphor, they're MAGA.

Welp, now I find out that my favorite independent art supply store, which houses my favorite local black box theater, is closing at the end of March. Really feels like the tech oligarchs are succeeding at wiping all of the creative weirdos out of the Bay.

It's been difficult to respond to what's being unearthed right now, because I listen to Black and Indigenous women so I knew this is where we'd end up and I don't have anything of value to add. I'm horrified but not at all surprised. Hell, Oops, All Witches was my (tame) take on this history.

Holy shit, this was the beginning of the end of independent journalism in the US. Gawker died, and then we watched every other outlet collapse into each other until everything left was owned by private equity vulture capitalists or billionaires.

What's your name? I'm Sara Brink. I ran for AD15 in 2020 just for the opportunity to point out that Buffy Wicks bought that seat with Ron Conway's money. He spent about my whole year's salary supporting her in 2018 - for him, the equivalent of the price of a latte for me. Identify yourself.

Motherfucker ... I reiterate once again that the Bay Area is not progressive, and the normal people here are in danger. I want this to be a joke.

Who else remembers the full page ad Trump ran in the NYT against the Central Park 5? Remember what he called for? Remember what he thinks is appropriate punishment for rape? And that was one adult woman, let alone scores of children.

What if — just hear me out — we only allow Natives to govern for a bit moving forward. Cause if I can tell ya one thing, it’s this: Out of every demented, fcked up thing in those files, Native people will not be in it. Because Native people don’t have money or power here. See the correlation?

But, you see, men are scared to approach women now and they are so lonely.

eyyyyyy 🎉 I did not do myself any favors with my interrupted release schedule, but still got there as a total unknown in an oversaturated market in less than a year!

The “forefathers” of America didn’t call us “Merciless Indian Savages” in the Declaration of Independence for nothing. Your leaders — all of your presidents — have been doing what’s in those Epstein Files to Native people here since day ONE. It’s the original “Every accusation is a confession.”

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Infuriating. The same year the city of Oakland established a local film incentive, ONE SINGLE COP made $500K in unaccounted-for overtime reviewing collision reports, making his total compensation higher than the incentive's $600K budget. Guess which got cut due to city budget shortfalls.

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You could actually structure your moral code around the idea that law enforcement doesn't exist to execute people. You don't have to create perfect victim narratives, you can just refuse to accept that the state gets to kill people.

@EricLeeAtty via X: Children screaming and crying heard as a possible uprising of ~1500 underway at the ICE Children’s Concentration Camp in Dilley, TX. Multiple jurisdictions responding. Parts of the prison are on lockdown with reports of large groups of children being shackled together and moved.

I went to college in St. Paul. I have nothing but good memories of living in Minnesota. I have no idea how to respond to what's happening in the Twin Cities, except that I can feel my anger and resentment growing that there's been barely any federal presence in the Bay since 2016.

In which Ash, Annette, Andy and I bid farewell (for now) to Aelia and the Great Loom that binds us all. Also mentioned: Ofelia's rrrl big choices, Emmett as sweet baby witch Riz Gukgak, Nia's loving spider nightmares, TamaGODchis. I really missed a pun when Andy described the Weaver as a debugger.

Strong start to the year.

These lil video essays are right up my alley vibes-wise and production-wise, but I found myself feeling thoroughly seen listening to this one. Broken Sky was an incredible feat of my creative, organizational, administrative, and production capabilities. But add all that on top of this 👇👇👇