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Bada Bingstream - Sopranos Season 1

Here is the private link for the stream, will go live at 6 (...ish) PT, but feel free to hang out in the mean time 🦆 

https://youtu.be/9046Y38Zvoc

Bada Bingstream schedule update

The first Sopranos club stream will (probably) be held this Thursday at 6 PT/9ET, and will publish the link an hour beforehand here on Patreon. I will be joined this week by Sopranos first timer (I was surprised too) Dan Olson aka Foldable Human, and probably some other Sopranos superfans. See you then!

Introducing: Bada Bingstream - Sopranos TV club

One piece of media I've never really touched on (besides a passing mention in one of the Game of Thrones episodes) is the Sopranos, in part because I didn't have much thesis-wise to say about it but mostly because there are approximately 45,000 video essays on YouTube with some variation on titles like "the Genius of James Gandolfini" and "the Genius Psychopathy of Tony Soprano." It's a hard show to describe - somehow "mob boss has panic attacks and starts to go to therapy, hijinks ensue" doe...

What I've been working on for the last year or so

Greetings from 7:00 AM-ish this morning, another day always tired #nofilter.

So I got scooped by NBC news, not that they ran the story sooner than they said they would, and I did give my blessing to mention the baby, but I no longer have a concept of "time." That said they DID have the worst headline in history which is of course a war crime that should be tried at the Hague (I really should kn...

Ma- June (???) update

Time flies with the world is on fire I guess? I know I keep frustratingly alluding to "health issues", and I really did intend to start producing regular-ish content in May, but obviously that did not happen. Without getting into details I did have a major surgery in May that was... maybe not a "surprise" but certainly was not planned (and no, it was not cosmetic... quite the opposite in fact.) But the long and short is that I very naively thought I could push some of our half-done smaller pr...

May updates

Hey guys,

As a few of you have surmised I’ve spent the last couple months dealing with stuff that has nothing to do with the Internet or career, for better or worse. I will say this – being out of the public eye has honestly been a pretty good call. I do keep an eye on things, and just looking at the culture, especially on places like Twitter and even YouTube, it just keeps getting worse and worse. Respect to people who keep trying to keep that hell space going in some good faith, b...

Ancient Pre-YouTube content

We've decided to add my ancient #problematic content as a Patreon perk in one place since there were so many unauthorized reuploads on YT we’ve been having to remove. They’re bad and you shouldn’t watch them, but they are available to all $2+ patrons for the time being.

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Pocahontas: https://youtu.be/Vp8Gp8nd4fM
Teen Witch: 2022-02-28 21:27:00 +0000 UTC View Post

failed update

I keep trying to write an update that will give some illusion that I have some kind of a path forward in mind, but every time I start it just all comes out rage and bile. I’m just so fucking angry I can’t function, let alone make coherent business decisions.

In some ways I regret the tone of the last post, not because of how it inflamed my agitators (well, not only that), but because of how much it upset people. In a way it was selfish, being so naked about how hurt and angry I was/...

Walking away from Omelas

This was going to be a YouTube video, but I just don’t have it in me to invite that kind of scrutiny, to be the last in the sick, sad line of YouTubers who get all weepy on camera and cry about how they just can’t do this anymore, boo hoo hoo. I had planned to move video content to Nebula, but I realize now that doing that is just keeping wounds wide open. My life ended nine months ago - what has been taking up bandwidth ever since then has been a ghost. It’s  almost funny, how man...

Love Never Dies: Magnificent Trash

It's time.

Discontinuing the $10/#passion/name-in-credits tier

Hey guys,

At the end of October we will be discontinuing the $10 tier, meaning this upcoming video (slated for release a week from today) will be the last one to feature names of Patrons in the credits of the video. Going forward patrons can still give as much or as little as they want, but there will only be one tier for everyone, and we will discontinue patron names in credits. This isn’t a reflection on anything patrons have done but is a completely internal decision; we will discu...

Last chance - Patreon-exclusive personalized bookmarks for Truth of the Divine pre-order

Only a few more days to preorder TRUTH OF THE DIVINE and to claim your personalized bookmark! The entry window closes on 10/11/21 - to enter, follow the link below and upload proof of purchase, and ... eventually, they'll send you a bookmark that I scribbled upon.

URL:  https://read.macmillan.com/promo/totdpatreonpreorder/

Narcissism in the MCU

Hoppin' into that always reasonable Loki discourse

Patron exclusive signed bookmark promo: (https://read.macmillan.com/promo/totdpatreonpreorder/)

Patreon exclusives - Signed bookmarks, paperback contest & much more!(?)

To make this extra confusing, I’m just putting this all in one post.

First, the Truth of the Divine pre-order bookmark is NOT a giveaway - simply go to this online portal (https://read.macmillan.com/promo/totdpatreonpreorder/) provide proof of pre-order, and in a couple months you’ll get a PERSONALIZED (by me, so we’re clear) bookmark in the mail. This is available to patrons of all level...

Reevaluating The Little Mermaid before Disney horks up another live action remake

I'm still quite tired tbh

Patron credits announcement

Hi all! This is Elisa, Lindsay's assistant. I'm the one who moderates all the YouTube comments, screens all her emails and the DMs you send her, and also the one who does the Patreon credits that appear at the end of her videos, amongst many other things.

If you want your name to appear in the credits at the end of Lindsay's videos and you are pledging $10, make sure you are pledged specifically to the #passion tier. Going forward, no one pledging exactly $10 who's not pledged to t...

"breaking my silence"

So you may notice this does not have Patreon credits, and when you get to the end of it I think you’ll see why. While some people will be glad I went this way, I know this will make some people very upset and they would’t want their name on it. Anyone who was a member at the $10 level starting in March we’ll make sure to have their name in the credits in the next video. In the meantime we’ll do… something for the $10 patrons in the next few weeks to make up for this. I don’t know ...

Soooo the Twitter thing

I'm posting this here because I feel like if I owe anyone an explanation it's you guys, so with regard to the Twitter thing - needless to say there is a lot of projection and assumption of why I did decide to delete it, but at the end of the day I took this whole debacle as a sign that I really need to rethink my "career," such as it were, because clearly this is not working.

Twitter and social media in general have become such an incredible source of toxicity, for culture in general an...

Tracing the Roots of Pop Culture Transphobia

There's a lot of anger in this one lol 

Borat in 2020

This is delayed because it's the rare sponsored video, and I'm still negotiating with Audible, so here is the Audible-free version, a Patreon exclusive for... however long it takes Audible to give me the go-ahead. Very nice.

Also I know that in the UK he's called "Baron Cohen" instead of just "Cohen" but I didn't want to rerecord all that, so oh well. Sorry SBC.

Omegaverse Part 2

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Who wants me to kill them (in a book)??? [CONTEST]

So I’ve come up on the writer problem of needing names for very minor characters, most of whom die, and I’m running out of film school colleagues to name them after. So, it made sense to bring it to Patreon! Do you wanna die in Truth of the Divine? Well now is your chance!

Because Patreon‘s terms of service says I can’t do anything that resembles a raffle, it has to be based on merit (and I have to choose, can’t be random). So basically, leave a comment below giving me your na...

Welp, I'm out of Patreon jail

So as some of you may have noticed, the post on the Omegaverse video links not to the correct video but to a Bane fanvid (for a couple weeks anyway). Well, SOMEONE sent a DMCA takedown to Patreon, and for reasons discussed in the Omegaverse video, Patreon had to honor the damn thing or they were legally liable. Thing is, all that meant was just that I had to unlink the alleged "infringing" content, I didn't even have to delete the post. Anyway, she sent the DMCA notice, I sent a counter-claim...

PBS It's Lit Banned Books

We're back to talk about the great literary history of censorship and book banning. 

Into The Omegaverse: How a Fanfic Trope Landed in Federal Court

The romance novel nightmare that didn’t exactly rock the courts but was a hot mess regardless. 

It's Lit: What Books Make Good Musicals?

Lindsay discusses book to musical adaptations. 

It's Lit: War and Peace

This week, Lindsay and Princess discuss the Russian epic classic of literature.

Axiom's End Book Tour

Everything you wanted to know about Lindsay's book tour/signings this week!

The Constructed Languages of JRR Tolkien

I hear u like elvish in your elves -- I wrote an hosted the latest episode of It's Lit, and today we are talking about Tolkien and conlangs! 

Can 'Death of the Author' apply to JK Rowling?

Lindsay shares some off the cuff thoughts about emotions vs academics.