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A fair warning to my viewers: If you try publicly defending me, you WILL be incessantly and viciously harassed by Nazi filth, useful idiots and people with severe internalized bigotry.

If you don't have the skin for that, if you're the kind of person who nukes their social media when they get harassed, then don't do it. Please prioritize your own safety over defending me.

You can't hide the truth forever CD! I know you're actually two transwomen in a trench coat!

Oooh, way to out yourself my dude

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CD! How do you respond to the allegations that you're a cool gal who makes cool stuff?

When will people STOP fucking LYING about me?!

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Hey baby girl, what about those several Other allegations towards you

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They've been refuted a dozen times. It's not my fault if you're too much of a bitter asshole to accept that 😁

Hello CD,

I know about your boundary of people recommending you things when not asked and being pushy about it. I would like to ask if you have any preferences on how we should approach you to ask your opinion on media we, as your audience, aren't sure you have engaged with? English isn't my first language, so I'm not sure if "Do you have any takes on XY?" could be read as a veiled recommendation, even though it's just ment as an honest question. Sorry if this is a bit rambly.

If I haven't mentioned it, it's safe to assume I have no take on it.

All this Patricia Taxxon and ISFF stuff that's been going on has been breaking my brain. I'm seeing so many people, even other transfems, talk about the "dangers of pro-pedophilia rhetoric" but not seeing any of the actual pro-pedophilia rhetoric.

What happens is people pick apart their lies and half-truths in these harassment campaigns, and in response they just yell to their followers that "@transfemgirljuststandingthere is pushing pro pedophilia rhetoric! GET ANGRY!" when the rhetoric was little more than "Stop lying."

The only reason pedophilia gets brought up by actual people in this situation is when we talk about how your hysterical, hyper-emotional gut reaction whenever anyone says the word "pedophile" is making you behave in extremely irrational ways. You are falling for propaganda.

And if you're an overly-emotional sack of shit who screams like a feral beast whenever the word is mentioned, you're going to lash out as the completely accurate statement that you're an irrational boob being taken advantage of by bad actors.

The important part is always this:

Patricia Taxxon and ISFF are not pedophiles. Brittany Johnson and Crimson Ender are Nazis who are lying to you.

You and other critics often say it's possible for something to be objectively good while not liking it. But can you give even one example of that? Nobody ever does.

Star Wars - Andor.

An objectively well-made show and probably one of the best things to come out of Disney Star Wars, and one of the few things to get anywhere close to the level of writing and character work that KOTOR 2 set 21 years ago.

However, I've watched exactly three episodes of it, and I can't stand it in the slightest. I'm that bitch who doesn't give a shit about any Star Wars property that isn't about the conflicts between the Jedi and Sith, and I'm so sick and tired of the way the series lingers on the Rebel Alliance while refusing to move on.

Every Star Wars fan goes through a phase where they're like "Star Wars would be good if they just got rid of the Force" but that's usually when you're a dumb teenager.

I'm curious, why do you gas up Imoen so much? You talk about her so much, so what's the deal?

It's pretty simple anon: Imoen is my favourite character in all of fiction

Force Lightning anon. As someone who has only really seen the movies and played some of the games I could only really say Mace Windu, though he was pushed out of a window by it so idk if that counts. I was more pointing towards Luke almost being killed by Palpatine in Return of the Jedi, which clearly showed that Force Lighting is quite painful to the person being hit by it.

Painful, but Palpatine was electrocuting him for quite a while.

Conversely, if you just jolt someone in the abdomen, they're down for the count without having to kill them. This fundamentally highlights the difference between a power being ontologically evil, and the person using it maliciously.

I agree with your overall statement about the whole Dark Side - Light Side thing, but killing someone via slowly electrocuting them to death is a lot crueller than instantly killing them with a lightsaber stab to the chest.

You'd be right.

Now, can you name any character in Star Wars that was actually electrocuted to death?

Also: Lightsaber wounds to the chest don't instantly kill people

All of them either survived, or held on long enough to feel every agonizing second of what had just been done to them.

Still, the Dark Side is about being selfish while the Light Side is about being selfless. That makes them respectively evil and good

Not at all!

It's not inherently evil to want to better yourself. And plenty of evil has been done in the name of improving others or society at large.

This is always the problem with cloaking your characters in Taoist, Bhuddist and Jainist imagery while taking all of your actual philosophy from a racist, gender-essentialist, radical Christian nutcase who'd give HP Lovecraft a run for his money.

I'm surprised I haven't seen you or anyone in your inbox use "Imoencest" as a portmanteau.

There isn't an official ship name for Gorion's Ward/Imoen. I jokingly said "Candlecest" at one point.

How do you square away your interpretation of the Dark Side with Lucas saying that there is no "Light Side" and the Force is just the Force, with the Dark Side being a corruption of it?

In general, I've never accepted interviews in my critique, analysis or writing. A creator can say whatever they want in interviews, it doesn't actually matter.

Lucas' statements on the Dark Side is undermined by a very simple concept: It isn't canon. There isn't a single version of Star Wars that has ever adhered to this idea.

Return of the Jedi showed Luke rocking up wielding Force Choke. The first Force Power we see on screen is fucking mind control. And even when Disney reset the canon to get everything back to basics, Rey straight up pulls out Force Rage during her fight with Kylo. Then you have Mace Windu's special "Dark Side but Not Dark Side" lightsaber form.

Using the Dark Side in limited quantities is something every Force User does. I think the best example of this is Electric Judgment. Plo Koon used Force Lightning, but did so to effectively be a taser to stun a man who had taken a young girl hostage. There's two ways to look at this power.

An example of Legends not understanding the real Force as Lucas intended.

The Jedi using the Dark Side and giving it its own fuckspecial name to make it sound more just because it's apparently different when they do it.

And if you're not keeping up: The second one is WAY better of an explanation. Like, Electric Judgment doesn't exist. You just used Force Lightning. That's not Vapaad, Master Windu, that's Juyo. You're using the Dark Side, fucking own up to it.

And the thing about the Jedi is that their own ideas about the Force aren't free of evil. Sure, the Jedi by and large favor diplomacy, but the thing about diplomacy is that it's very easy to come to a diplomatic solution when you walk in with the deadliest weapon in the universe attached to your belt. You see this in The Phantom Menace, when the Jedi show up to negotiate on the Chancellor's behalf, the Nemoidians are terrified. They're afraid to go into the room with them.

The Jedi's philosphy is fundamentally "Speak softly and carry a big stick. You will go far."

And let's be honest here: How the hell is Lightning more evil than sticking a rod of superheated plasma in someone's body? That's like saying a taser is more evil than stabbing someone with a blowtorch.

Lucas can say whatever he wants in Interviews about the nature of the Force, but none of what actually goes into the work ever adheres to that. And what's worse, all the best Star Wars media is the stuff that throws that shit away at the first opportunity.

Sure Lucas can say the Dark Side is a perversion, unfortunately Nihilism Grandma said that's cringe and then threw a chair at him.

imoen is some random thief/support character npc nobody else gaf abt that you project your sister fantasies onto bc you're a incest gooner. weeb type shit. go take more nature walks.

Aww, the BG3 troglodytes are mad :3

So you would canonize the Imoen incest romance?

90% of it is already canon

If you were in charge of the Baldur's Gate series overall, what would you canonize and de-canonize?

Canonize

The Trilogy

The Stayed Mortal ending

The Ward and Imoen travelled together until their death

BG1 NPC Project

De-Canonize

The novels

Every tabletop module

Baldur's Gate 3

Is it true you only wrote The Sith Resergence just to spite Rian Johnson and fans of The Last Jedi?

I think that was the film we changed the least.

We ironed out the idea walking home from TROS.

My favourite part of the response to the Imoen Romance video is all the people going "what the fuck? Why is this cute? This is not supposed to be cute!"

The are people buying BG2 just to play it and they are so utterly confused at why they want to.

One guy said it game him his "most confused d'aaw"

Welcome to the freaking Twilight Zone.

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