Jenn Dolari @dolari@driveinsaturday.org

Thoughts Before Bed

"Well....boogers."

And now I burned dinner. If I didn't have work to do tonight, I'd probably just go back to bed.

While this is currently the least of my worries, my living room TV blew out.

Having a month, y'all. Having a month.

So, there are people out there who really feel that I'm being paranoid about Trans Rights and that's why I don't want Trump in. So be it.

This video will give you a very good VERY logical reason as to the MANY reasons why his Presidency is a Bad Thing. Not from a biased news source, not from people who will suffer from his Presidency. But from someone telling you WHY voting for him is bad Idea.

I know I'm preaching to the 95% of the choir. This is for that 5% that still think he's a good idea.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bTpbDL5dcg

Heh, someone arranged all of Max Miller's Tasting History in historical order. :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBX3rgsmQbw&list=PLVHh3QIgIPBCFK_u1fMAClBakVaJeDBaQ

One of these things is not like the others.
One of these things just doesn't belong.
Can you tell which thing is not like the others
By the time I finish this song?

I usually thank people for voting, regardless of who they vote for. My reasoning being they at least put their money where their mouth is.

I can't in good judgement do that this year for people who vote Trump. Not when the stakes are this personal.

Your trans friends see you.

"When reached for comment, Megatron said, 'Of course I supported her transition! I'm a megalomaniacal dictator with delusions of godhood, not a monster!"

https://tfsource.com/3rd-party-figures/cs-03-starqueen-collection-space/

"You have not heard the Little Mermaid musical until you've heard it in the original Klingon."

::looks worryingly towards Canada::

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyUzlMyV_Hc

You heathens may keep your so called candy corn. I for one am a person of impeccable taste.

I find it super sad that I may be losing the apartment, and I got my yearly rent increase...and it's STILL just $50. $1675 a month is STILL an absolute steal.

So plants go through puberty? Cause...my guy got BUFF.

This is so fucking amazing. Yeah it has its silly moments being a Try Guys video, and this episode focuses on male fashion when you're a transitioning trans man (and it's GOOD to see the trans-man experience). But that last five minutes. I cried so hard.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7X0rzEmgA8

My Little Town as seen through Google Earth VR.

Godzilla's Eye View

There is one thing I'll criticise the new Ranma series for: it's exactly the same story. Sped up a little, and more of a focus on the martial arts, but it's the same story.

When I got word I'd made the final pass of scripts for the Trans Comedy Award, I seriously sat down and began thinking of how I wanted to do what would be "Closetspace UK." Closetspace is a very specific story I'd created in 1992, and the (what would have been 2015) UK adaption would be that same story with some changes to match a UK setting (Setting the story in London's Shepherd's Bush instead of Austin's Hyde Park, making Allison Pakistani instead of Mexican).

But the main change I wanted to do involved the episodic stories. Each episode of Closetspace UK would toughly match up with the webcomic. So if you read the comic, you'd be spoiled for the story. Or if you wanted to know Allison's secret before it was revealed on TV, you could just read the comic.

The solution? Change the endings.

The stories would be roughly the same, with cultural changes, but the endings would be readapted. I'd likely have revealed Allison was trans much earlier to the audience and made her secret her video game addiction. Victoria would have been trans and not a drag queen (I've already adapted that in the comic she's a trans drag-queen), and likely not die (her death from AIDS being on of the big markers that I wrote this in the early 90s).

The idea would be, you get the same story, but new things to see and experience. Something I wish the new Ranma series had done. I've seen quite a bit of the series somehow, and there's no surprises or changes (other than putting the ice-skating episodes back where they were supposed to be in the first run) from the original series.

"Ballots are arriving for the 2024 presidential election, and this may be my last chance before you fill in that circle or punch out that chad that I can talk to you about your choice."

https://www.ebar.com/story.php?ch=news&sc=news_columns&id=335921&title=transmissions:_closing_argument

Watching a TV Show on Hulu, and something just felt off about it. I realized it's playing too fast, for some reason. Turns out, Hulu is playing the European PAL version of the show (which are sped up by 4%) for some reason.

I wonder why they do that in the digital years, when all players can play all formats. Especially when it's not in the original broadcast format. (Maybe it doesn't exist anymore?)

"You see, writing isn't just explaining the pretty pictures in your head to someone. It's an art form, and you're painting a story out, letter by letter. You have scenes you intertwine like poetry. Metaphors and similies to bring how the power and feel of actions and environments. You have scenes that reflect where the character is at the beginning, and how they have grown at the end. And that, sir, is why I began and ended this script with a masturbation joke."

Actual thing I wrote today. The quote that is. The other thing? Did that a year or two ago. The writing that is.