Early Access: The Ship of Theseus

third example looks like tumblr, but I heard "twitter" from the video

Hmm. The line is "[some people] are hungry for articles that tell them being anti-porn is progressive, rather than anti-woman and anti-worker." So "anti-woman and anti-worker" as opposed to "progressive," not as opposed to "anti-porn." I realize that phrasing might be confusing...

Ian Danskin

After you said that someone is anti-porn instead of anti-woman and anti-worker, shouldn't it be pro-woman and pro-worker? That they don't like porn bc they associate it with exploitation of workers and especially women? (Not a swerf btw, just trying to understand the sentence.) Great video!

Gil

Love it. Even in rough cut format.

Kait Hatch

If you're still rerecording (and haven't already) could I just suggest dropping"preferred" from pronouns at the end?

Alex Hambrock

Good video! I wasn't sure about the metaphor at the beginning but as you got into it I realized that it made sense

Alex Hambrock

That sucks. (I am familiar with shipping, I watched Legend of Korra.)

Ian Danskin

...I have no idea if you spend any amount of time interacting with community of people writing, reading, and reccing fanfiction on Archive Of Our Own and Tumblr, but this kind of substitution-of-words game is something of a visible problem in those spaces - for example, I've seen or heard of people substituting "pedophile" for "fan of a ship* between an fictional character who is eighteen and a fictional character in their late twenties". My reflex is to attribute the bulk of this in fandom spaces to young hotheads blowing up their discomfort into Great Moral Questions Of Our Time, but it's worth remembering that it <em>is</em> something people do out of malice. * "ship", here, is a contraction of "relationship", and refers to the body of conversations about, fanart of, and fanfiction describing characters in a story being in - usually - a romantic, sexually-active relationship.

The Packbats

Yeah, I saw that during the edit as well! I *think* I've caught all the flubs that I'll fix in the final narration. Good eyes, nonetheless!

Ian Danskin

I'm on the fence about it. Maybe throwing in a footnote, though I'm guessing I'll still get people who don't notice it asking what it means. We'll see what I decide tomorrow.

Ian Danskin

Yeah, I noticed that in the edit. It'll be fixed in the final recording.

Ian Danskin

Great video, although there is a small error at 10:36, where it says "distort" the truth on the screen but you say "contort". I love all of your quality work, both from this series and from you video essays on games!

TERF and SWERF are terms that aren't super widely used. I recognized them, but had to google what they were as a reminder. This worked because I knew they were acronyms and i knew how they were spelled. Maybe there is a way to briefly define them, OR (easier) show the spelling in the video so people can look it up for themselves? Or am I the only one who doesn't hear or read those terms very often?

Small error but you said twitter on the example that uses Tumblr (about 2:20)

Alex Bryson

This video not including a major rewrite is really damn good news - it means you're getting into a reliable routine! Producing quality content is fucking hard; if you're able to ship one piece of work and managed to aim for its general final direction right from the start, that means you're getting better and better at seeing the whole picture sooner and what might/will work and what not.

Nikki