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Oops, All Witches - Out now! @dancingstickman.com · 3h

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Jeangu Macrooy - Independent Girls & Nasty Evil Gays (official video)

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Oops, All Witches - Out now! @dancingstickman.com · 4d

A bunch of cops in Chicago got tear gassed by ICE and I can't decide how I feel about it.

This is what you get when the government has a monopoly on violence and no restraint.

Oops, All Witches - Out now! @dancingstickman.com · 5d

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A white text on black panel from The Oatmeal that reads "In my experience, the people who are excited about AI art also happen to be some of the most talentless fucking people I've ever met."

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Oops, All Witches - Out now! @dancingstickman.com · 8d

Just my twice-a-decade reminder that any dude who can manage basic conversational skills already got snatched up.

Oops, All Witches - Out now! @dancingstickman.com · 8d

How dare anyone blame the "male loneliness epidemic" on women when these dudes can't say anything at all about themselves (let alone anything interesting), take shitty pictures, don't smile, and/or say things like they're looking for "pretty squirters." The bar is in hell.

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Oops, All Witches - Out now! @dancingstickman.com · 8d

For the first time in years, I browsed a dating app for about an hour and was instantly reminded why I call myself a heterofatalist. "Tragically heterosexual," as my queer femme friends say. Never mind, I'll just go read a book.

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Oops, All Witches - Out now! @dancingstickman.com · 13d

I know the realities of being a female working artist in the US, but we are setting our own expectations for ourselves too low.

I've had lots of friction with men because I don't let myself be exploited, but I'd rather that friction than undermine my self worth. I wish more women felt the same.

Oops, All Witches - Out now! @dancingstickman.com · 13d

My experience has been that when I tell men in the film industry I'm trying to raise $50,000 for this short, they nod along and say that's about what it costs to do it. When I tell women, I've heard both "ambitious" and "delusional."

Are we our own worst enemies when it comes to fair pay?

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Oops, All Witches - Out now! @dancingstickman.com · 13d

I'm in development on a short film, and I spent the weekend at the Alliance of Women Directors Back to Set directing intensive. I'm crewing the film with all women/femme folks and it's my intention to pay cast and crew as close to a fair rate as I can get ($500/day for everyone).

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Oops, All Witches - Out now! @dancingstickman.com · 23d

I'm going to have to move away from my artistic ethos of building highly collaborative projects, at least temporarily. The only person I have any right to institute discipline with is myself, until I have the means and resources to create a real working environment.

Oops, All Witches - Out now! @dancingstickman.com · 23d

I haven't seen progressive organizers solve this problem; I certainly don't know how to do it in a remote creative project. People pleasing doesn't work, I know that.

The only groups I've seen organize effectively are businesses, because the contractual exchange lets them create the terms of work.

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Oops, All Witches - Out now! @dancingstickman.com · 23d

People pleasing is manipulative and controlling behavior, and it's ugly because it lends itself to feelings of persecution. That became my managerial practice for Broken Sky, which I don't like. But it was a question of how to get a group of volunteers strangers organized towards achieving a goal.

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Oops, All Witches - Out now! @dancingstickman.com · 23d

For that alone, I feel like making Broken Sky may have been a mistake. I made Oops, All Witches and Broken Sky both as a way to move into self-sovereignty when it comes to my career. But the attachment to the doing and the making of the thing itself ultimately undermined that self-sovereignty.

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Oops, All Witches - Out now! @dancingstickman.com · 23d

I made the choice I made, which was to attach myself to the project itself, and it turned out the way it turned out.

In attaching myself, I found myself engaged in people pleasing behaviors, my Achilles heel default mode that I've been trying to move away from for over half a decade.

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Oops, All Witches - Out now! @dancingstickman.com · 23d

In that sense, the question is not whether I should have detached from the outcome, but from Broken Sky as a project itself.

Cool concept? Innovative game format? Excitingly collaborative? Yes.

Something I'd have to carry mostly by myself while I am under-resourced? Also yes.

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Oops, All Witches - Out now! @dancingstickman.com · 23d

I've been trying to reconcile whether I should have backed out of the project when my intuition told me that this was how it was going to go, which was only about a month in. It was before we'd gotten any sign-on from anyone else, the only time I could have ended the project without making a mess.

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Oops, All Witches - Out now! @dancingstickman.com · 23d

I knew that the outcome that we got for Broken Sky was the likeliest outcome from the beginning, but it seemed to me that the only thing to do is fully go for it and see what I got.

But I also knew that the likeliest outcome was that I'd burn out, which happened in the second week of the game.

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Oops, All Witches - Out now! @dancingstickman.com · 23d

I've been reflecting on detachment, since it's obvious to me that detaching from outcomes is the only way to move through the world while maintaining internal equilibrium. It's not something I've mastered by any measure.

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Oops, All Witches - Out now! @dancingstickman.com · 23d

I tried to recount my experience as honestly as possible while taking ownership over the outcome. Even if the external circumstances of the project were not ideal, it was my responsibility to manage myself. I don't think I did that well.

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Oops, All Witches - Out now! @dancingstickman.com · 23d

My post mortem of Broken Sky published today. #BlueskyCoven

Over the last six weeks I've been recovering, reflecting, launching new projects, and working. But I'll be real, the things I mention in the episode - disappointment, exhaustion, an aversion to social media - have had me keeping to myself.

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Oops, All Witches - Out now! @dancingstickman.com · 24d

Aight, we back on our feet and back soon, folks.

Episode Four: Make Holy What Already Was, Part One (of five) is out on October 3.

Keep an eye out for episode two of Worldsbuilder publishing this Friday. It's my brutally honest post mortem for Broken Sky. #BlueskyCoven

Nia, Emmett, and Ofelia are surrounded by staring black eyes against a spiderweb. The text reads: Oops, All Witches Returns October 3

Oops, All Witches - Out now! @dancingstickman.com · Sep 11

Shit, we watched *somebody* in the news manifest their inevitable fate just yesterday. He was speaking that shit into the ether and taking action towards it constantly.

Best to be secure in yourself and leave everyone else out of it.

Oops, All Witches - Out now! @dancingstickman.com · Sep 11

Let's say you crave external validation. If you take action to get it, you're going to get it - but you're going to get *everything* validated. Not just the good stuff that you want to hear, but also all the insecurities that drive you to seek validation in the first place.

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Oops, All Witches - Out now! @dancingstickman.com · Sep 11

Been thinking about "manifestation" - it's not nearly as complicated as woo-woo folks make it out. It's combining thought and action to realize something in your mind into the world. But that's why it's important to be mindful of what you're manifesting.

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Oops, All Witches - Out now! @dancingstickman.com · Aug 4

A pointilist rendition of a crescent moon glowing in the sky behind a mountain, framed by a forest at the bottom.