Jessie Earl

Star Trek Strange New Worlds 2.04 "Among the Lotus Eaters" REVIEW

Captain Pike returns to a classic Star Trek: The Original Series location... and it may cost him his identity.

Jumpgate #68 - The Hour of the Wolf

Time to start Season 4 of Babylon 5 on the Jumpgate podcast, my favorite season of the show! And I forgot how Game of Thrones this show becomes; cause oh boy is there a lot of political machinations and eldritch horror monsters!

July 2023 Update Video & Discord Link

Hey everyone! So there's been a lot going on lately. I've moved to a new apartment (and city!), we're about a month away from filming IDENTITEAZE and I've got big videos coming up. So I've been a bit overwhelemed haha. I talk about all of that in the video above, but I just want to reiterate... THANK YOU everyone for supporting me lately. TBH, its been a really stressful few months, both in good and bad ways, and its been really really meaningful to me to have all the kind and sweet messages ...

Analyzing Transgender Themes in Video Games

Hey all! I did a video about transgender themes in video games on Gamespot to finish off Pride Month. While the video is meant to be an overview of a lot of complex topics, I'm honestly glad Gamespot let me make this video, and focus it so heavily and in-depth on trans issues. Honestly, a lot of what I discuss in this video is stuff I plan to do even deeper dives at some point here on my own channel, especially the stuff I discuss about character creators. That being said, as Gamespot is wher...

Star Trek Strange New Worlds 2.03 "Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow" REVIEW

La'an takes a trip to the past... and shares a hotdog with Kirk himself!

Jumpgate #67 - Z'ha'dum

Sorry this one is up a bit late; I've been moving this week to a new apartment/city and it's been hectic. My whole body is sore and I still have a ton of boxes to unpack! But regardless, it's time for the season 3 finale of Babylon 5 on the Jumpgate podcast as Sheridan meets his dead wife, and then heads to the planet of Eldritch horror demon monsters... as one does! 

Star Trek Strange New Worlds 2.02 "Ad Astra per Aspera" REVIEW

Strange New Worlds may have just delivered Modern Star Trek's most powerful episode...

The Long Road #315 - Harbinger

Star Trek Enterprise continues with the first ever episode to future nudity in Star Trek! Huzzah. And Reed has to show off his masculinity! It's a fun time on the Long Road. 

Jumpgate #66 - Shadow Dancing

We're finally nearing the end of Season 3 of Babylon 5 on the Jumpgate podcast, and we finally get to see the crew bring the battle to the Shadows... and Franklin gets to have some face time with himself!

Star Trek Producer on The Power Labor & WGA Strike

I got to speak to Bill Wolkoff, the producer for Star Trek Strange New Worlds, about the ongoing WGA Strike, and the power and importance of labor.

Star Trek Strange New Worlds Season 2 Premiere REVIEW

Star Trek Strange New Worlds is back for Season 2! So let's boldly go!

The Insidious Violence of Civility Politics

The latest video is here. A history of civility politics and it's connection to racism, trans issues, gender roles and more and how they ultimately work to uphold power hierarchies. This is a rough one, especially toward the end, so take care of yourself <3 I'd love to hear your thoughts.

Jumpgate #65 - And the Rock Cried Out, No Hiding Place

Well, we hit on of Babylon 5's darkest episodes, and that's saying something, as Londo makes a move to take out G'Kar and move put in the political world. 

Star Trek Strange New Worlds Season 2 SPOILER FREE REVIEW

I've seen the first six episode of Star Trek Strange New Worlds Season 2... and it's amazing.

Unraveling the Spiderverse's Queerness

Hey all! I'm aiming to have my next video out to you all by next week early. It's been hectic and busy cause stuff is ramping up on Identiteaze (literally had a 3 hour meeting today to do like... a quarter of the shot list haha). But I also wanted to share out this livestream I did today with some amazing folks to discuss how trans and queer narratives appeared in the latest Spiderverse movie, and how that interacted with issues of identity, police, race and other themes throughout the film t...

The Long Road #314: Strategem

Captain Archer gets morally questionable while I get a surprise visit from Captain Pike in the best way on the latest Long Road podcast <3

Jumpgate #64 - Grey 17 is Missing

Well, we've reached perhaps the most INFAMOUS episode of Babylon 5, an episode considered so bad that JMS himself apologizes for it... but is it actually that bad? Vera and I have thoughts in the latest Jumpgate podcast!

June 2023 Patron Update & Discord Link

Hey everyone! I hope you're all having a good start to your summer if you're on my side of the world! Here's the update for this month and a quick check-in about my mental health, upcoming projects, as well as Identiteaze and how the potential SAG strike may affect it. TBH, it's been a rough month emotionally and it looks like there's still some bumpy road ahead, especially for Identiteaze and the strike, but overall, still hopefully working towards making cool things.

At the end of the...

Jumpgate #63 - Walkabout

Sheridan uses Lyta to test the theory that the Shadows may be weak against telepaths. Meanwhile, Franklin goes on a bit of soul-searching and encounters someone he quickly bonds with, leading Vera to queer the hell out of this show with a wild head canon.

Masculinity Video Trans Masc Addition

Hey everyone! So the second part of the Masculinity video went live today. It's technically a slightly different version from the Patron version. There's nothing huge of substance different between the version you all watch and the version live on Nebula and YouTube, as it's mostly just small tweaks I noticed after I released the Patron version that I wanted to fix. However, one criticism I saw on the first part of the video that I thought was a good one was the lack of trans masc viewpoints ...

The Long Road #313 - Proving Ground

Shran is back to continue his bromance with Captain Archer as we pass into the second half of Season 3 of Star Trek Enterprise!

Jumpgate #62 - War Without End Part 2

The One has arrived! And we get more Zathras... so at least there is symmetry as Vera and I dive into one of the biggest episode of Babylon 5 yet on the Jumpgate podcast

Jumpgate #61 - War Without End Part 1

Everyone's favorite character is back on Babylon 5... ZATHARAS! Oh and also Sinclair, who is also wonderful. I've been waiting for the entire series for us to get to this 2 parter, so I'm so excited to finally talk about it with Vera on the latest Jumpgate podcast!

Vera Wylde "Masculinity of Trans Women" Interview

The interview I did with Vera for the "Masculinity" of Trans Women video <3

Bellamy Rhea "Masculinity of Trans Women" Interview

Here's the full interview I did with Bellamy for the "Masculinity" of Trans Women video <3. 

Lily Alexandre "Masculinity of Trans Women" Interview

My interview I did with Lily Alexandre for "Masculinity of Trans Women" video <3 The ones with Bellamy and Vera will come later this weekend! Take care of yourselves. 

I need your advice.

Hey all; I'm wrestling with a decision. If you've watched the latest video I posted, The "Masculinity" of Trans Women, you know it's a really deeply personal video to me, one that I think might be one of the most important and emotionally vulnerable videos I've ever made for a lot of reasons. And I really... REALLY desperately want people to see it when it goes on YouTube... but I also know that it's 4 hours long. 

And so I'm debating splitting it into 2 parts, right before the sec...

Jumpgate #60 - Interludes and Examinations

It's time for Babylon 5's VERY SPECIAL EPISODE about drugs, and its... actually very well handled? Sadly that is less the case with Londo's storyline this time around but at least Sheridan gets to tell off Kosh to his face this time on the Jumpgate podcast. 

The "Masculinity" of Trans Women - PATRON VERSION

Hey everyone. So this is finally done. It's a big, vulernable and rough one on many levels, yet one that is really meaningful to me; in ways that I hope are clear. I hope that the place of empathy and caring I tried to make this video from is clear, and honestly... more than any video I've made in the past few months, I would love your feedback on this one. Positive, negative, constructive, thoughtful, joyous, and pained. I just wanna hear what you think. <3 

To forwarn; BIG TRI...

Masculinity Video - Comic Animation Showcase

Hey everyone; so I'm wrapping up my video on Masculinity soon, and while it's honestly been a rough one to make for very personal reasons, I'm really proud of a lot of what I do in it and I wanted to tease and showoff some of it to you. This is a segment of the video that I've been working on (and it's still in progress ) that I'm excited about where I had Thought Slime and Zoe Bee act out a scene from an autobiographic comic (Ducks by Kate Beaton) that I'm citing throughout the video and dis...