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Valeria Santiago @vluisasantiago.bsky.social · 5d

baby appreciation post

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Valeria Santiago @vluisasantiago.bsky.social · 8d

ok uh.

wow.

thank you.

jesus christ this is a massive relief.

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Valeria Santiago @vluisasantiago.bsky.social · 8d

watch as Carmen fumbles with tarot way more than i fumble with tarot (way less than this i promise)

Slender4Gender @slender4gender.bsky.social · 8d

Our final Tarot Reading crossover from #S4G2025
( youtu.be/jOdqk5mcwEw )

Featuring:
RedRedHat ( @redredhat.bsky.social )
For Auld Lang Syne www.youtube.com/@ForAuldLang...

And, of course, the magnanimous yet egotistical Alleyman Tarot, created by @pubgob.bsky.social

S4G 2025 In-Character Tarot Read - RedRedHat

YouTube video by Slender4Gender

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Valeria Santiago @vluisasantiago.bsky.social · 8d

well. rent is due tomorrow and i am hella short, so let’s try this again, i guess

Valeria Santiago @vluisasantiago.bsky.social · 28d

Hey all, I’m going to be starting another leg of travel in November and I want to get a head start on saving for that—and ofc can always use help with rent in the meantime.

Feel free to hit me up by DM about video editing jobs/commissions of all kinds—or you can just send money. Either, or.

Support Valeria Santiago | Instagram | Linktree

Drifter from NYC. A big fan of couches.

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Valeria Santiago @vluisasantiago.bsky.social · 11d

i am in a cool, odd place w/ this; even though the skeleton of it is gonna essentially be the original Restoration script, enough little stuff is being changed that i’m worried about spoiling stuff for folks??

ended up making a MAJOR decision today, that changes PLENTY textually for the final act…

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Esther Dyol 🏳️‍⚧️ @girllaxative.bsky.social · 13d

rt if u agree

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Valeria Santiago @vluisasantiago.bsky.social · 14d

here’s the thumbnail for the new RvB Re-Restoration episode. should be public by november(?)

i also dropped a short clip from an early draft on my patreon, for whoever’s interested…?
www.patreon.com/posts/139611...

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Valeria Santiago @vluisasantiago.bsky.social · 14d

oh. oh wow

Valeria Santiago @vluisasantiago.bsky.social · Aug 28

the central theme of the og show—about the obsession with narrativizing & exploiting mental illness for pseudo-awareness (or straight up personal catharsis)—resurfacing in the 2025 internet, is so fun. Jay and Alex being gross exploiters without Tim’s story is fitting and i can 100% dig it

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MichaelO @michaelo2k.bsky.social · 17d

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Valeria Santiago @vluisasantiago.bsky.social · 17d

two years on HRT today.

something i have learned in that time: joy is now non-negotiable. finding it everywhere i can. 🏳️‍⚧️

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Valeria Santiago @vluisasantiago.bsky.social · 18d

I’m glad I made that video. And I hope my content in general Shows My Ass on my blind spots with academia.

Folks that enjoy my essays bc I am “knowledgeable” ought to know this:

I am leading with a feeling. Everything else is supplementary. Without the emotion, my work means very little, imo.

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Valeria Santiago @vluisasantiago.bsky.social · 18d

The “Literal” essay is about 75% “feeling” and 25% “proof”—a ratio I *still* question the intensity of, to the latter. If art is a vehicle for empathy, and if I ever feel I must “prove” my feelings as legitimate…

…I don’t know. Feels like so many of us already have to do that *outside* of our art.

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Valeria Santiago @vluisasantiago.bsky.social · 18d

This might be why I typically move away from researched essays—well, that and, I am atrociously poorly-read & retain information embarrassingly poorly—because art is, to me, a process of feeling. If I can “adapt” my feelings through an essay, I then feel my piece need not “justify” its value.

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Valeria Santiago @vluisasantiago.bsky.social · 18d

—so the entirety of my personal experience with Art As Metaphor would either have to be presented as fact, or as a willful misremembering of fact. Both are valuable (I ended up with this lens either way); but one is informed, is more “convincing.” That is a can of worms unto itself.

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Valeria Santiago @vluisasantiago.bsky.social · 18d

It’s weird, working on a piece that’s both academic and personal; that Conclusion does not work for me without the personal layer of it being around the same time I first engaged with Art As Metaphor.

Without that angle, the essay cannot exist. But it also needs to be validated by the information—

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Valeria Santiago @vluisasantiago.bsky.social · 18d

There is also, of course, the layer of the information being archived *on their ends*—I am terrible at maintaining my own logs of both work & interaction, and luckily, my old English teacher and the Vonnegut Archives have a better handle at… archiving. The latter, I suppose, is less surprising?

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Valeria Santiago @vluisasantiago.bsky.social · 18d

This was a scary process—not because I had expected not to hear back from the people I had reached out to, but because the thesis of the video depended on the events happening as I remembered them.

I was lucky; there are whole essays I had done in the past that fell apart at this stage.

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Valeria Santiago @vluisasantiago.bsky.social · 18d

In recent viewing of well-researched essays that do great archival work—& reflecting on my priorities w/ essays as exploration beyond intent—I wanted to spotlight my one true attempt at academia, since it turns two years old tomorrow: the final Conclusion of my “Literal” Essay (beginning at 42:35).

How To Solve Art (feat. Jane Schoenbrun, Nick Nocturne & More)

YouTube video by Valeria Santiago

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Valeria Santiago @vluisasantiago.bsky.social · 19d

was gonna do an essay about Every Frame a Painting and the restructuring of the modern video essay but was elated to find in my binge of @lily-is.online videos this week that i am out of business with that one, folks, this is a good one

Art Won’t Save Us from Capitalism

YouTube video by Lily Alexandre

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Valeria Santiago @vluisasantiago.bsky.social · 21d

just finished watching the one where moya splits herself into separate realities, bad news folks tv ended in 1998, it didn’t get any better than that

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axolotl lovely / fka frog k ⚧️🏴‍☠️ @vaporlight.bsky.social · 21d

trans people aren't the downfall of civilization no matter how many monster truck show people who pivoted to blasphemous megachurch spectacles say so. they weren't right about pokemon cards or e-drugs or whatever, they're not right about this. it's a stalking horse for social domination by losers

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Valeria Santiago @vluisasantiago.bsky.social · 22d

for folks enjoying the RvB fan project that wanna know more about what i’m doing on the machinima/action side of things: here’s a breakdown of some of the stuff i shot for the “Celebrating the Music of RvB” video a few years back. you can expect a lot of this kind of VFX stuff in future episodes!

"Celebrating RvB's Music": VFX Breakdown (2023)

YouTube video by Valeria Santiago

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Valeria Santiago @vluisasantiago.bsky.social · 22d

for folks enjoying the RvB fan project that wanna know more about what i’m doing on the machinima/action side of things: here’s a breakdown of some of the stuff i shot for the “Celebrating the Music of RvB” video a few years back. you can expect a lot of this kind of VFX stuff in future episodes!

"Celebrating RvB's Music": VFX Breakdown (2023)

YouTube video by Valeria Santiago

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Valeria Santiago @vluisasantiago.bsky.social · 22d

“oh great—you broke my voice filter” girl i fucking wish

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Valeria Santiago @vluisasantiago.bsky.social · 22d

smoking a whole pack at once to cope with the fact that Tex from red vs. blue was absolutely my gender awakening and that is why i am still fixated on this show nearly 20 years later

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