Lola Sebastian

Netflix is taking the video down from YouTube after it got 50K views in one day. I'm working to resolve this, but if you'd like to watch it in the meantime, it's still available on Nebula and my Patreon. Nebula: nebula.tv/videos/lolas... Patreon: www.patreon.com/LolaSebastia...

rest in peace violet baudelaire you would have loved "sick beat" by kero kero bonito

visited home for a few days and my Dad handed this to me and said "we meant to send this as a gag gift after your Chip Chilla video did so well but kept forgetting. merry late slash early christmas. hope it's still funny."

I talk about my stalker for the first time in this, and some of the comments are genuinely hideous. I've "hidden from channel" but no, "if they don't touch you it's not that bad" is not okay to say to anyone. Mostly because it's not true, but also because it's so minimizing.

incredibly annoying how OCD has yet again become a buzzword meaning "person behaving badly." No, not every puritan has "moral OCD," and speculating on whether or not groups of strangers have OCD does nothing but further stigmatize people with OCD, already one of the most stigmatized conditions.

AI bad because it is fundamentally capital's attempt at privatizing the concept of thought (among other bad things)

i kinda want to challenge the idea that media analysis is on a time limit. my essays often come out after "the moment" has passed, and i'd like to change that. but also, when creators chase trends constantly, the quality of their work declines bc sometimes topics need to be mulled over for a bit.

hi again

Voted in advance voting on Monday. Voting day for BC elections is tomorrow!!

rest in peace to them on this day in particular

still working on this, thanks for your patience folks 💜

I think I have to agree with this tbh. One thing that's kept me from fully embracing Obsession is that it kind of feels like it's wavering between the horror of what Bear's done to Nikki, and embracing the dark comedy of Nikki's possessed state, to the detriment of that central message.

people arriving super late to the movies honestly astounds me bc there's 30-45 minutes of trailers and other PSAs AFTER the movie is supposed to have begun. why and how are you entering after the inciting incident.

my best friend & i relate heavily to these two since childhood so i have to assume they'd have a really lovely time crashing out & being artsy together

Carrie reboots tend to soften/gentrify the main character so that audiences don't have to confront the possibility that as high school students they too would have laughed at the weird unattractive religious girl who doesn't know what periods are.

we always retweet Rhiannon Giddens

Also back on bluesky to boost this. Life is worth living!!!!

i dont think he said that

my latest video is now on YouTube: At the start of this year, Netflix remade Free Solo (2018) but this time, ✨LIVE✨. Alex Honnold scaled a skyscraper with no ropes, no harness, no parachute. The end result was... certainly a spectacle. youtu.be/ZkwBO8UWJls

Um okay I hate to do this but ever since I had to pay for a bunch of school and visa stuff all at once I've been struggling to cover costs and have been without my prescriptions, including my ADHD meds and HRT for months now. If anyone can help so I can get back on track, I'd appreciate it.

one bonus of living in Vancouver BC is when it's not raining it looks a lot like this

new theory are we sure david foster wallace isn't embodying people and writing further works through their social media posts

what if the restorative justice we cared about was restorative to the victims and not their rapist? Wouldn't that be a fun fresh new concept?

it was smart of jacob geller to only post about what he did to his 50k followers on here instead of to his 1.5 million youtube subs or on his patreon. that way fewer people know about it and he limits the financial hit

public, free to read, not paywalled, not grifting - i posted this to my Patreon because i use it as my blog.

I have a few thoughts. www.patreon.com/LolaSebastia...

you can also watch it on Nebula :) nebula.tv/videos/lolas...

simpsons edit for your weekend www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3-A...

many great episodes in the early seasons of The Simpsons but "Round Springfield" is probably the one that hits hardest for me tbh

I think what I resent the most is that all of us, especially the women who worked with him, were a part of his rehabilitation (at least image-wise) without us ever getting to choose if that was something we wanted to participate in. He didn't let us or his audience make a choice. How ironic.

i was assaulted in 2016 and can tell you with *certainty* that i'm not over it just because it was a decade ago. i can't speak for anyone but me but i can say that when you hop online and say "we should approach with nuance this complicated situation that happened a long time ago," survivors notice.

“It was a long time ago” “it was a one time thing” “it’s clear he feels remorse” “it’s not worth ruining his whole life over something like this” “what if what he did wasn’t even that bad” “people deserve second chances” these are the same defenses every victim hears about their abuser. every time

I can’t stop thinking about these (leftist, supposedly) people who in the face of horrific allegations default to “won’t someone think of the rapists” - you guys are telling on yourself.

All of this. I also want to add that, in my research, I found that a lot of “inconsistencies” in a victim’s story actually came from gender bias affecting investigators’ record keeping and interview methods.

We live in a society that punishes people who are assaulted. We question them, we shame them, we disbelieve them. Many survivors instinctively do that societal work for us. Survivors question themselves, they shame themselves, they don't believe their own version of events. We've trained them!

yep. it's a personal favorite and has certainly influenced why/how i make videos.