Shonalika @shonalika@deadinsi.de

so my first proper vlog is up! and it's about... #mastodon!

as ever comments on the actual video appreciated - and shares offsite too, so we can try and bring more people over ^^

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQwREOg0a9s

so a couple people have been requesting that I set up some kind of a payment thing like patreon. earning from anything I do would obviously be super useful especially as I decrease my hours to spend more time on leftist vlogs and music videos and stuff that is generally at least less horribly corporate than my current day job

trouble is pateron just upped their cut and in any case I'm not sure which service to go for, or how to approach it in terms of "rewards," or whatever, like that feels... weird? or perhaps I just don't know how to approach it.

if you were supporting, what would you want? which service would you wanna use? would you be interested at all?

basically this is all new to me and any and all opinions would be good ty ~

@maloki sometimes it's definitely a case of not having enough spoons, but other times even if the will is there I find myself inarticulate. in debates I often only realise the words I needed after it's over lol.

when it comes to discussions with other leftists on the other hand, I feel like everyone else just seems a lot more clued up than I am half the time. which is good, it means I'm constantly learning and questioning my own stances. but also it can make me feel unqualified to contribute to any discussion on basically anything

I can figure it out but it takes a bit of work. whereas people on here just casually fire intelligent rhetoric at each other and on top of that have the gall to pretend to be idiots on the side?! fuckers

trouble with going in a more discourse-y direction is that sometimes I just don't have a clue what anyone's talking about

I’m very glad of all these people tooting things like “morning! eat capitalists and poop rainbows”

it is genuinely reassuring to see these snippets of people continuing to be doggedly humorous and unabashedly themselves no matter what, esp when I’m feeling a bit down <3

I’ve noticed that pretty much anyone of any not man gender will sorta identify as a femme under the right circumstances. I think the key factor here is really just being Not Men

the restaurant across the road has been "Opening Soon" for almost a year.

there is currently a guy in the window with headphones on having a good old dance and entertaining passers-by. he stops whenever his (presumed) employers walk past and pretends to be looking in a bag on the floor.

the restaurant will probably never open but this is the best start to my day I could have ever asked for

enjoying using my bandcamp earnings to buy another artist's music on bandcamp

was threatened out of bed this morning by soggy cereal

extremely offended whenever a so-called friend does a stream without me being available to watch it tbh