#Shanspeare :3

[vvanite]

when the youtuber dresses up based on the topic of the video, you KNOW the video essay is going to be good quality and actually be an essay

[thexie-and-stars]

this is my 11th rewatch of Plagarism and You [tube] since I watched it for the first time sick with covid in may.

Every time i watch it, I feel more and more upset. I grew up watching Illuminaughtii. When I found out I was autistic, I watched her video about vaccines and autism to learn. She stole everything.

Alexander Avilla, or AreTheyGay, was a very formative part of the queer subtext part of my brain, and knowing james somerton stole is makes me so fucking angry.

A lot of my friends watched James somerton, it was our introduction to queer theory, and now we have to wonder "did he even know what he was talking about?"

We in the queer community need to be so vigilant and careful, because it is so common for our work to be plagarised

So, here are 3 queer video essay recs.

Shanspeare. They are an enby video essayist who talks about toxic masculinity, online rascism and evrything in between!

Alexander Avila. He is a video essayist, also known as AreTheyGay. He has videos about being trans, the demonization self diagnosis, taylor swift and queer subtext

Strange Aeons. She's a tumblr historian, and she has a lot of really good videos, incluiding ones about tumblr cultrue, and dashcon!

[brood-mother]

i am actually so so fucking sick of right wing chuds getting shoved in my face every single day by social media "algorithms" despite the fact there is quite literally nothing in my online footprint that would suggest i was even vaguely interested in them. i don't look them up, i don't look up their talking points, none of my friends follow or interact with them, i block/hide every single fash or fash-adjacent loser i come across, i don't believe in engaging with online discourse in any way, not of the things i do actively seek out overlap with nazi grifters, and YET i open fb and its like "here's 3-4 matt walsh vids on your timeline in a row even though you keep hitting dont recommend and no-one in your social circle would piss on him if he was on fire", i open youtube and its like "for you: you REALLY want to watch some count dankula? no? how about 700 poorly edited video essays on why FEMALES are TEH EVILS!!!!! video james woke? you hate black people right? trannies are grooming your grannies (shocked face thumbnail)??? have you considered hitler did nothing wrong???" despite the fact the extent of my subs are like. hbomberguy, shanspeare and jenny nicholson and my watch history this week is mostly cute pottery videos. no wonder so many poor idiots get suckered in so easily. it feels literally inescapable........

[gossip-girl-co]

˚🎧⋆｡˚ ⋆ youtubers zia (aka me) thinks you should watch!!

we all watch a lot of youtube. or a little. depends on how much screentime you got on your devices. anyways, since I watch a lot of YouTubers and I like talking about the things I like, here are some youtubers I would recommend if your looking for any new ones (also, I won't provide reasons for all of these. it would become repetitive dude 😭🙏)

WURLD

jase I think

TomaNeko

BreDraws

Film Cooper

ItzKeisha

Louis Mclung

Ariyan Rosé

Shanspeare

StaticTokyo

CoCoCrazy

Kubz Scouts

MadMorph

Jaicemations

Eillot Sang

Cupopps

Love, Amara

Charo Lyn

mila tequila

ofelia

motley angel

Jennypark

TheAsherShow

Shady Doorags

iNabber

ana neu

Mohammed Agbadi

anyways !!! there are more (ofc,) but my fingers are very tired LOL. I hope that if you do check out these YouTubers, you like them, and if not? that's okay too <3 — zia

[sinsiriuslyemo]

So... this was my day:

6am: *wakes up and checks twitter/helps kiddo get ready*

7:15am: *gets home from taking kiddo to school* "I'm gonna finish that Drexyl fic today! 😈"

10am: *gets halfway through, takes a nap*

11am: *wakes up and scrolls through twitter while I eat*

"Damn it authortwitter, can we please have ONE month off?"

12pm: *switches to tumblr cause twitter is annoying lately*

12:30pm: *watches a youtube reaction video of Homeward Bound*

1pm: *does a load of laundry*

2pm: *goes with hubs to pick up kiddo from school*

2:15pm: *goes grocery shopping with the fam*

3:45pm: *gets home, puts groceries away and scrolls twitter again*

"Now there's fucking agents acting wild, too? Bro, what happens in this timeline?"

5pm: "Okay, I'm gonna go get dinner, find a youtube video to watch and then finish up with Drexyl after I eat 😈"

7pm: *opens youtube and sees a 6 hour video dissertation about 8Passengers, but it's from Cruel World Happy Mind*

"... I'm sorry Drexyl, but I have to watch this."

Seriously, such a well put together, factual doc that as always is led with empathy for the victims involved and did not exploit the situation in my opinion. I know six hours is a committment, and it is a committment, I literally just did it 💀 but bro, it gives you a complete break down of a distinct pattern that is an example of the absolutely worst thing that can happen with a family vlog channel. I'm not saying that all family vlog channels are bad, but I think a conversation worth continuing is should influencers that categorize themselves as being a family channel (or insta or whatever) be held to the same standard as kids who work outside the home (like, for example child actors, models, artists hell even little siblings of artists and actors, etc)? Is it exploitation for parents to constantly vlog about their lives and heavily feature their kids?

Last night I watched a different video essay by Shanspeare called Using Kids for Clout: The Downfall of Familt Channels and while none of the others that I've heard of are nearly as horrific as 8P (at least as far as we know) it's still worth asking, where's the limit with these forms of income as far as the kids are concerned and when is it considered labor?

Both of these are definitely worth a watch. Those two creators are pretty fucking awesome too, you shoukd check out their other content. So... anyway, how was ya'll's day?

[nin-varisse]

Tag Nine (or more) People You'd Like to Get to Know Better!

𝐅𝐀𝐕𝐎𝐑𝐈𝐓𝐄 𝐂𝐎𝐋𝐎𝐑(𝐒): Pink and all sorts of pastel colours <3

𝐅𝐀𝐕𝐎𝐑𝐈𝐓𝐄 𝐅𝐋𝐀𝐕𝐎𝐑(𝐒): salted caramel, sweet woodruff

𝐅𝐀𝐕𝐎𝐑𝐈𝐓𝐄 𝐌𝐔𝐒𝐈𝐂: Calm Indie, Disco Synthpop and Kpop (pls pretend you don't know that about me)

𝐅𝐀𝐕𝐎𝐑𝐈𝐓𝐄 𝐌𝐎𝐕𝐈𝐄(𝐒): The Lord of the Rings - The Two Towers, Pirates of the Caribbean - On Stranger Tides

𝐅𝐀𝐕𝐎𝐑𝐈𝐓𝐄 𝐒𝐄𝐑𝐈𝐄𝐒: Good Omens rn!

𝐋𝐀𝐒𝐓 𝐒𝐎𝐍𝐆: Mitski - My Love Mine All Mine

𝐋𝐀𝐒𝐓 𝐒𝐄𝐑𝐈𝐄𝐒: Final Space (still furious it got cancelled)

𝐋𝐀𝐒𝐓 𝐌𝐎𝐕𝐈𝐄: Mamma Mia!

𝐂𝐔𝐑𝐑𝐄𝐍𝐓𝐋𝐘 𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐃𝐈𝐍𝐆: LOTR re-read (in English this time) and the Ramses books

𝐂𝐔𝐑𝐑𝐄𝐍𝐓𝐋𝐘 𝐖𝐀𝐓𝐂𝐇𝐈𝐍𝐆: video essays by Shanspeare (highly recommend the one about tradwives)

𝐂𝐔𝐑𝐑𝐄𝐍𝐓𝐋𝐘 𝐖𝐎𝐑𝐊𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐎𝐍: a sketch of Finduilas, my love

tagged by: @maironsbigboobs tagging (no pressure): @ofperilousmood @inahandful-of-dust @swanhild @nopewood @elvenmoans

[cinnamong1rlblog]

Video essay recommendations? I've been trying to find good ones but it's kinda hard to find any </3

i really enjoy mina le’s videos, she mostly talks about fashion history (big interest of mine), i also recommend oliSUNvia, shanspeare, aini, jordan theresa, and final girl studios <3

[a-narcissists-warren]

i love these :333 Last Song: Story Of My Life by Bin Jovi

Favorite Color: Purple!!!

Spice/Savory/Sweet?: Sweet

Currently Watching: Shanspeare (youtuber)

Relationship Status: 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥GIRFERIEDN!!!!!!!!! 🔥🔥🔥MARKED BY AN ALPHA 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 YOUUUU SINK INTOOO MYYY CLOOOOTHEEESSSS (i'm sorry)

Current Fixations: object shows in general, pretty much.

Tags >:): @theglitchyboi @pickl-o get tagged!!!!!!! loesrs!!!!!!!!!!!!! (you don't have to keep this thingy going btw :3)

Nine people i'd like to get to know better:

Tagged by: @bell-of-indecision, thank you so much for tagging me <3

Last Song: Gmfu by Odetari,6arelyhuman

Favourite colour: Dark red, violet, pink

Currently watching: Death note, ep6

Spicy/Savoury/Sweet: Spicy

Relationship status: Single

Current Obsession: Mbti types and cognitive functions.

Tagging: @somin-yin @a-cloud-for-dreams @axepen @hinsaa-paramo-dharma @basic-bitch-alkali @rhysaka @blackknight-100 @squishywizardd @reykalot

[outer-space-face]

do u ever watch video essays? do u know any that you like off the top of your head? (no worries if not, just curious <3)

As I received this ask, I was watching Sarah Z's newest video essay about narcissism 😭 Good timing!

But yes, I watch a LOT of video essays and I have a whole playlist of some of my favorites lol.

One of my all time favorites is "Witchcraft, Gender & Marxism" by Philosophy tube. She has some incredible video essays all around, but this one is my absolute favorite! I also really love F. D. Signifie's video essays. He talks a lot about the manosphere, masculinity, black culture, and just has some really great deep dives. Big Joel also has some really great ones too!

Pop Culture Detective has some amazing ones but my all time favorite is the his one on the trope "Born Sexy Yesterday".

Shanspeare is also amazing and her recent video on Matt Rife is really great and delves way deeper than just the one guy lol.

A CRIMINALLY underrated video essayist that I love is Roughest Drafts. He makes a lot of video essays on literature and poetry. He chooses really good and interesting topics for each of his videos and I really live the variety! Same goes for Books 'n' Cats, another video essayist who does analyses on literature.

Lastly, I really love all of Sideways' videos. He makes video essays on music, music theory in media and musicals and I really learn a lot with his videos. I love his analysis on Into the Woods and on the live action Beauty & the Beast (and why it failed lol). Both are really great!

Sorry if this was a little long-winded, I just really like video essays and there are some really great ones out there!!

Thank you so much for the ask, anon!! <33

[v0idund3rth3v3il]

Hello I have come across your post asking about leftist content creators. Andrewism, F.D Signifier, Khadija, Big Joel, Alexander Avila, Tirrb, Shanspeare, and Matt Bernstein are all people who's content I have watched and enjoyed!

I actually watched shanspeare and I love her videos! ^^

I’ll definitely check the rest of them out! Thank you <3

[tqila-sunset]

Content Warnings / DNI

My pages are all-ages spaces BUT :

I am a 22 year old and my interests tend to be pretty common for that demographic

Things I consider "inappropriate" for minors I reblog to a NSFW sideblog

I re/post adult-oriented content but it should all get marked/tagged as such by the appropriate systems

As long as you've got your tags and settings set up you should be fine but I do not regularly tag posts for content/trigger warnings, so block me if that would make your life easier

Demographic Information / About Me:

I live and work in Magandjin on the lands of the sovereign Yuggera and Turrabul peoples who have had their land stolen by the British Imperial colony of Australia

Anarchist-Communist / Libertarian-Socialist

Nonbinary / Genderqueer Transsexual

Butch Fag

Bisexual & Polyamorous Kinkster

Disabled by neurodivergences related to mood + sleep disorders, anxiety, trauma, and AuDHD

blogs: personal - @tqila-sunset, art - @pinkopansy, writing - @faggot-dykeism.

Opinions:

Land Back is one essential part of the decolonial post-capitalist world we must build in order to protect life on earth from climate change and fascism

Systems of oppression intersect heavily thus all collective struggle must be informed by intersectionality & the communal knowledge + practices of those who live at the margins of society

I'm pro-Abolition of: capitalism, authoritarian states, nation-state borders, whiteness/white-supremacy/"The West", prison, police, family, British-American Empire, gender/sex binaries, psychiatric interment.

Kink and sexual deviance should always be at the heart of Queer Liberation and LGBTQ+ Pride

Online subcultures including fandoms surrounding creative media, political leaders/ideologies, and queerness are highly vulnerable to manipulation by capitalists, imperialists, markets, and other bad actors - enjoying a few pieces of art shouldn't be the basis of your entire social circle and we all must organise socially and politically both off and online

Interests:

Politics - particularly Anarchist & Communist theory & history

Natural diversity + social deviance (including sexuality and disability)

Philosophy & Theology

Media analysis, history & theory

Essays - including video essays

Counter-culture subcultures

Specific Art/Media:

Games: Elden Ring (+DLC), Disco Elysium, Dark Souls 3 (+DLC), Pokemon (Soul Silver, Black, X, Sword), Legend of Zelda (Breath of the Wild, Tears of the Kingdom), Bloodborne, Sims (2, 3, 4,), Animal Crossing New Horizons

Film: Godzilla, Parasite, Snowpiercer, Cutie Honey, The Nightingale, Guillermo Del Toro's Pinocchio

TV: Bojack Horseman, Breaking Bad, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, Steven Universe, Doctor Who

Podcasts: The Anthropocene Reviewed, Crash Course: The Universe, My Brother My Brother and Me, Dear Hank and John, Welcome to Nightvale, 99% Invisible, Sawbones, The Besties

Specific Artists:

Video Creators + Essayists: Trixie & the Golden Witch, FD Signifier, Jacob Geller, Natalie "Contrapoints" Wynn, Sophie from Mars, Patricia Taxxon, Lindsay Ellis, John & Hank Green, Abigail "PhilosophyTube" Thorn, Thought Slime, Cold Crash Pictures, Hbomberguy, Shaun, Verily Bitchie, Ro Ramdin, Mia Mulder, LextraYT, Leslie Exp, Foreign Man in a Foreign Land, Thomas Flight, Kat Blaque, Big Joel, Adam Conover, Broey Deschanel, Jim Stephanie Sterling, Noah Samsen, oliSUNvia, Shanspeare, Princess Weekes, Professor Flowers, Fab Socialism, Tirrrb, The Storyteller, Andrewism, lil bill, Thinkpiece Tribe, Philosynoir, Renegade Cut, Herby Revolus, Empire Wreckers, Dan Olsen, Nickolas Nameolas, Every Frame a Painting, Lessons from the Screenplay

Filmmakers: Jordan Peele, Bong Joon-Ho, Akira Kurosawa, Hayao Miyazaki, Hidetaki Anno, Guillermo Del Toro Lily & Lana Watchowski, Wes Anderson, Kristen Stewart

Actors: Dev Patel

Musicians: McCafferty, The Front Bottoms, Crywank, Sarah and the Safeword, Crass, She/Her/Hers, Against Me!, Flobots, My Chemical Romance, The Amity Affliction, Beartooth, PVRIS, Ludo

Writers: Errico Malatesta, bell hooks, Susan Stryker, Karl Marx, Zoe Baker, Julia Serano

Visual Artists: Junji Ito, Van Gogh

Game developers: Hidetaka Miyazaki, Hideo Kojima

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less abridged list of interests

last update: 2024-03-27

top/current favs are bolded.

tv: (items in progress are followed by a tilde~)

Abbott Elementary ~ Age of Youth/Hello, My Twenties Arrested Development Avengers Social Club Better Call Saul Breaking Bad Community Couple of Mirrors Dear Missy ~ Death Note Death Parade Derry Girls Elementary The Guest (ocn) Haikyuu!! Hannibal Hikaru no Go (Qi Hun) How To Get Away With Murder Hunter x Hunter (1999 and 2011 and all 1999 OVA and movies and 1998 pilot episode) The I.T. Crowd Los Espookys ~ Money Heist Naruto Parasyte Psych Psycho-pass Psychopath Diary Snowfall ~ Succession Taskmaster (uk, nz, mn) ~ Terror in Resonance The Bear The Good Place The Terror The Untamed/MDZS (live action and animated) - mydramalist profile - trakt profile (open to alternatives to trakt)- animeplanet profile

internet personalities/groups:

Angella Dravid Brick Immortar Dropout (Game Changer, Um Actually, Dirty Laundry) Extraction&Ire/Explosions&Fire Gianmarco Soresi Julian Clary Kat Blaque LBCRphotography NHRL NileRed Practical Engineering Ray O'Leary Shanspeare Technology Connections Vsauce Watcher William Haynes various gta rp streamers (nopixel and onx) various comedians found through taskmaster assorted vessayists (video essayists)

movie/film:

Carrie Dumplings (2004, short version) Ex Machina Raw Sorry To Bother You The Truman Show Thirst Tonde Saitama Videodrome What We Do in the Shadows Your Name Engraved Herein - letterboxd profile

music:

Ali Project Anamanaguchi Babymetal Beastie Boys ceo@business.net Chumbawamba Corrine Bailey Rae C418 Evanescence Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas Honne Kalafina Kiyotaka Sugiyama & Omega Tribe Kloud Kylie Minogue Leikeli47 Leslie Cheung Maxwell My Chemical Romance Placebo Rose Zhang Sade Second Hand Rose (cn) System of a Down Toby Fox 3OH!3 various edm and dnb some nopixel songs - lastfm profile

games:

5D Chess with Multiverse Time Travel Bloons 6 Cities: Skylines Hexceed Minecraft Osu! Pokemon (tcg + video games) Portal (1+2+portal stories: mel+reloaded) Tomb Raider series Toontown Rewritten Wolfenstein series Zoo Tycoon 2: Ultimate (with every mod) - backlogged profile (empty)

books/graphic novels: (soon tm)

Concerning the Spiritual In Art by Wassily Kandinsky

Kandinsky Und Ich by Nina Kandinsky ~

Hunter x Hunter (I have read everything past where the anime stops)

No. 6 (book or manga idk)

The Souls of White Folk: African American Writers Theorize Whiteness from Veronica T. Watson

Stories of the Sahara by Sanmao

(tbd) various horror/sci-fi short stories - looking for a book tracker that's not goodreads/amazon - manga section of anime planet

[sacrificethelamb]

screamed into the dumblr void; poked some smot; shanspeare released a new video… all is well again <3

pray for me besties, today has been fucking awful

[allherfaeriesmeetinjuly]

. the pipeline of watching youtube (sette edition): ssg + rosanna pansino > kyutie + sssniperwolf + jian hao tan + lucas and marcus > kpop > bestdressed > naomi rosenthal + simonesquared > mina le + shanspeare + karolina zebrowski + dangelo wallace + faline san + adam ragusea > dakota warren + jack edwards + kuncan dastner + broey deschanel + moderngurlz + greenisnotnick + alice cappelle + kaz rowe + jordan theresa + lisa fevral + khadija mbowe .

(bolded ones are people i’d sell my soul for /gen.)

[frayededges-archived]

– open starter

verse : any (but tvd/Iegacies verse would be fucking hilarious)

“vampires are no longer disease carrying bald gremlins, and YOU need to go get some bitches!”

[strawberry-s0ap]

literally no one asked, but if anyone’s looking for video essay recommendations, here’s a list of some of my favs! there’s some iceberg videos in there too :))

literally anything by thafnine (especially ‘the world of five nights at freddy’s)

the quiet sadness of mario galaxy - jacob geller (11:17)

how midsommar brainwashes you - acolytes of horror (27:31)

the rise and fall of girls go games - izzzyzzz (25:01)

the path: psychological horror in the woods -izzzyzzz (1:07:54)

an exhaustive look at pokemon omega ruby - ShayMay (7:15:29)

why you get spooked from 4th wall breaks - Daryl talks games (18:15)

why you should watch disturbing horror movies - super eyepatch wolf (25:18)

the silent hill everyone hated - totallypointlessTV (1:05:27)

the silent hill everyone really hated - totallypointlessTV (1:07:43)

silent hill: the full series retrospective - yourfavouiteson (8:45:16)

how media scares us: the work of junji ito - super eyepatch wolf (22:53)

the feminist horrors of jennifer’s body, teeth and a girl walks home alone at night - elle literacy (32:48)

the bottom of the rabbit hole iceberg - parallel pipes (1:30:11)

the aquatic anomalies iceberg explained - wideeyedwiseguy (40:55)

the desire to be sad: “tragically beautiful” art and romanticizing mental illness - oliSUNvia (35:09)

how hollywood demonizes ultra-femininity- shanspeare (13:34)

the crime of being basic, the illusion of being unique- shanspeare (27:28)

a deep size into the path - izzzyzzz (40:02)

the video game hoaxes and rumours iceberg explained - sourcebrew (1:11:46)

hitogata: japans most mysterious PSA - blameitonjorge (24:44)

the mariokart wii iceberg, explained: supercut edition- seedButter (1:06:35)

why ace attorney is a classic- nezumiva (3:36:08)

Saki Sanobashi - The Lost Deep Web Anime (Go For A Punch) - pezle (30:03)

the most disturbing anime you’ll never see - blooky. (16:46)

the rise and fall of america’s next top model - elle literacy (1:19:07)

the manga that lies to you - schnoz meister (36:07)

the best bad game ever made - totallypointlesstv (1:28:25)

a comprehensive history of internet horror - Redlyne (43:48)

silent hill called to me - liam triforce (2:08:06)

guitar hero and rock band retrospective - liam triforce (1:10:01)

i care very deeply about mario kart - liam triforce (1:36:03)

nintendo ds retrospective- liam triforce (51:51)

super mario galaxy- an impossible masterpiece- liam triforce (53:52)

super mario sunshine is… weird (and i love it) - liam triforce (1:01:51)

super mario 64 - more than a game - liam triforce (1:51:17)

digital horror:rebirth of creepypasta - sagan hawkes (2:35:39)

so, what’s up with don’t hug me, im scared? | an analysis- sagan hawkes (1:12:16)

the lost media of creepypastas - blameitonjorge (35:58)

the complete history of horror movies- magikarpusedfly (2:27:29)

a complete history of the A button challenge- Bismuth (5:22:14)

the complete cursed image creepypasta iceberg explained - Sacrow (2:51:41)

the complete japanese horror movie iceberg- Grief (3:03:25)

the found footage iceberg explained - Grief (1:23:26)

the complete body horror iceberg - Grief (3:19:30)

the massive horror movie villain iceberg- Grief (2:32:32)

why did we forget baldi’s basics (a retrospective) - minaxa (43:37)

a lot of these are horror based, so sorry if that’s not your thing!