sarah zedig! 🍉🐐 @sarahzedig@shrike.club

KEEPING LOST TIME: a review of DARK

my latest video essay, about the quite good 2018 german time travel murder mystery show DARK and the structural limitations of streaming television. may or many not include discussion of certain other media of the misplaced and housebound varieties ;3

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

my arm's too long... i can touch my toes without bending over...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJ35GHa9_Xo

kill all terfs with guns and knives

i'm a goat, i do video essays and marxist media analysis #introductions

https://www.youtube.com/c/letstalkaboutstuff
https://comradery.co/sarahzedig

tunic is a good video game and i made a good video essay to talk about why :)

https://youtu.be/MTuD51hl1ec

are you a "adding cheese and bacon to kraft mac n cheese" can't cook bitch or a "once caught the kitchen on fire trying to boil a pot of water" can't cook bitch

IT IS DONE. it took me about as long to edit this down to an assembly cut as it did for me to shoot it in the first place

now the fiddly part: actually editing the video. this one's gonna be REAL clip-heavy so i'm gonna have to do a lot of digging and a lot of finessing to fit everything in. but that's tomorrow me's problem. for today... i am satisfied

the tedium.......

new video looking pretty good :)

rewiring the home theater

like what really hit home both times was that despite this being a parody movie where all the comic book stuff is meant as a cypher for a semi-autobiographical trans coming of age story, it's still genuinely a VERY GOOD comic book movie. it is very intelligently interrogating the batman mythos from a place of care and investment, it's fanfic-as-analysis-as-art, which is a rarity even in the world of batman parody videos that The People's Joker clearly emerges from. it's just good man idk

thinking today about what this movie does with carrie kelley by positioning him as being groomed by batman, who pays for his transition and pampers him until soliciting for sex. how this intervenes on frank miller's fascist power-fantasies in dark knight returns. how this intervenes on "lol batman and robin are secretly gay". and how it's still somehow nuanced enough to never feel like a heavy-handed bit of fanon. ACTUAL DC WOULD FUCKING NEVER

so good!!!

bout to watch The People's Joker again :)

the power of the communist project is not that socialized medicine/free public transit/education/housing etc are actually more efficient and profitable if you do the math. it's in the story communism proposes: of a world unbound from the profit motive and its inequities, where people of all races, genders, and abilities possess equal unconditional dignity of life and labor within a society that exists by all of us, for all of us.

arguing anything less is a compromise to the fascists

there is no appeal to numbers and studies and "objectivity" that can stand up to a eugenicist's conviction in race science. you can't beat a terf fairytale by distributing spreadsheets. doing so accepts the bigot's frame, "no, actually--" it doesn't matter. you already let them win.

the fascist tells a false story with true ideological conviction; the liberal annotates those falsehoods and leaves ideology to the imagination. this approach has only ever strengthened the fascist's conviction