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This blog is a table of contents for all the threads I've posted to Twitter since joining in October of 2012. So far I have posted threads from October of 2012 through November of 2018.
Every once in a while I like to do a thread reviewing some of the stuff that was happening in my personal life as I wrote these Twitter threads.
I am a Democrat, and I finished out the 2018 election cycle by doing a lot of volunteer phone banking with One Colorado, my home state's leading advocacy group for LGBTQ Coloradans and their families.
A lot of folks all across America worked really hard to achieve a "Blue Wave" -- an overwhelming amount of elections that were won by Democrats.
My work was certainly not unique. In fact, a lot of Americans did way more volunteer work than I did in the 2018 election cycle. But for my own personal life, my experience in 2018 had been unique. I participated a lot more in the activities of the Colorado Democratic Party. As a result, I got a lot of really great insights into how the party-politics process works.
While I'm extremely thankful to have had that experience, I can also say the experience showed me that party politics in America is, at the least, broken. It's hurting our country on a lot of different levels. And we either need to revisit how we're doing party politics, or just revisit party politics altogether.
As I've mentioned a lot in the past, I spent from 2015 to 2017 in the arts scene in Colorado. I essentially left that scene because I felt like I was getting bullied out of it, with nobody, in the whole arts scene, standing up to defend me. It often felt like I was fighting against everybody in the scene, all by myself.
I can honestly say that, while I never felt so completely disliked in politics, I eventually did feel like I wasn't wanted in a lot of the various aspects of politics. I've wrestled with that feeling over the years, not quite willing to bow out of politics disgracefully, like I did in Colorado's art scene, just because there's too much need for liberal loudmouths in Colorado politics. However, I still, even as of today, don't feel like I've found my place in politics yet.
I spent a lot of November of 2018 writing a new fanfiction, which I posted online in December of 2018. The fanfiction is called Paranoia Gotham. It's a fanfiction crossover of the Harley Quinn and Paranoia Agent universes.
Paranoia Gotham is probably the only long fiction story that I'd written since 2009 that didn't have something to do with fetish. The story is really a straight fanfiction, like the old, funny fanfictions of the 1990s. I do my best in the story to focus on the characters in the story, and to write them faithfully, so that fans of those characters will feel like they're really reading those characters.
So as 2018 came to a close, I wrote a few threads discussing various aspects of Paranoia Gotham, a story I'm still pretty proud of, even today.
My personal life felt like it was on an even keel going through toward the end of 2018. I had two steady consultant gigs, and even, I believe, at times, three gigs. I was able to go to more movies and plays, which made me happy. And I was reading a lot of books.
I was still very affected emotionally by FOSTA-SESTA, the federal law passed in early 2018 that basically made life a lot more difficult, for sex workers especially, but also for anybody who practiced any kind of expression of sexuality online.
I wanted to help address the bad effects of FOSTA-SESTA. And I figured the top priority along those lines was helping in the fight for sex worker rights. So, as 2018 ended, I was starting to read more books about sex work. I was also trying to involve myself, however I could, in the fight for sex workers' rights in Colorado.
At the same time, I was finding that there were people other than sex workers who were hurting because of FOSTA-SESTA. One big example of that was the Tumblr purge in December of 2018. A lot of people -- even sex workers -- didn't care about the Tumblr purge. Many people, in fact, made fun of the people who had had years of art deleted from Tumblr as part of the purge, who had lost their livelihoods because of the purge, and who had lost their communities as part of the purge. Some of these people were sex workers.
It became clear to me that, while I could continue learning about sex work and helping in the fight -- however I could help (usually by donating money and retweeting people's tweets) -- for sex workers rights, I couldn't really expect sex workers to help people like me -- fetish artists, especially ageplay and ABDL artists -- in our fight for our rights.
So, even as I was just starting to read books about sex work, I was also starting to read books relating to the topics that, in my opinion, always seemed most under attack when fetish artists on sites like Tumblr were attacked.
Quite honestly, I strive even today -- I mean, literally today -- to find a way to make my attempts (really, they're nothing more than attempts) to help the sex work community mesh with my attempts to help other folks in the fetish and fetish art world. I wonder if I'll ever succeed. I'm starting to doubt it.
Thank you for reading. And thank you for visiting my blog. Please enjoy.
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