I don't think the dismembered goat's heart Sherlock left on the kitchen table was supposed to be a gift. I'm worried about what kind of goat diseases we might get now.
But Mariana and I have exchanged a few chocolates. And Archie gave me a big cuddle, that's a gift too.
My mom and I went to see a ballet, but the director announced that the opening act would be a men’s rights podcaster doing a talk about how to make women want to date you after you’ve rejected them. I walked out of the theatre in disgust, and my mom tried to convince me to come back, saying that the podcaster was only going to be on for an hour.
omg, your podcast episode on Somerton is exploding on youtube. How are you guys handling it? I've followed you for a while and it's wild to see a video suddenly get 80k views when it was impressive for the prior posts to break 1000. Hopefully nothing but good things come of it, but I imagine it's overwhelming!
Overwhelming, YES!
Thank you so much for asking and checking in. We're over 120k now and that's just on YouTube! We've also spiked in several charts on the podcast platforms these last couple of weeks. We actually charted in our 50th country! An exciting achievement, but honestly not the way we wanted it.
We've received an abundance of emails, DMs, comments, etc, and some of them are COMPLETELY ABSURD! Some people have made fun of us or reveled in the fact that we lost money, basically blaming us for not being smarter. Got a really goofy message basically saying we have the ideology of....terrorists?? But the most common criticism we've seen is basically making the "reverse-racism" argument that we're weird, horrible people for pointing out that James Somerton is a cis white guy. So, y'know, that's fun -_-
But despite all this, we've received an overwhelming amount of love and support! The positive far outweighs the negative. And to our surprise and delight, we've only seen 3 acephobic comments directed at us and/or the community so far. One of those comments was the good-ol' trifecta of acephobia, transphobia, and ableist, go figure, but given how big our episode got, this is PROGRESS! We don't recall ever seeing anything Ace-related to get this much attention but receive this little hate.
We watched the apology video and despite it being an objectively bad apology video...we're a little messed up and very concerned about the implication that James attempted to take his own life. Then he deleted the video, and never sent the promised email to Telos supporters. We, of course, have our own thoughts, feelings, frustrations, and even unique observations that were never mentioned in the original episode, but for now we've decided to keep these to ourselves.
We genuinely hope for his healing, and after this week's episode, we are unlikely to ever speak about him publicly again.
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I'm moving in today. That should be done pretty quickly. I don't have much to pack, everything fits in a suitcase and a cardboard box. Lucas is probably overjoyed that I'm no longer occupying his sofa. Finally, a bed just for myself. Some long-needed proper rest. My aching back will be grateful.