Going through old posts to remove people's deadnames

Well most of it was accomplished May of this year, just updating people's pronouns and stuff and replacing their names and all that seamlessness, (seamlessness for the most part, that is,*) but only finished a few minutes ago? It was the switching of Cailin's and my correspondence to Facebook messenger, that made it difficult; where we had our Facebook-public names in the body instead of our wikispaces screennames, that introduced the difficulties I wasn't sure what to do with, from Correspondence 2/26/12 21:52 - 22:19** to Correspondence 3/25/12 22:45 - 22:56†

It was like, [deadname] Anderson Taylor, when Anderson wasn't even Cailin's real middle name... So like, what to do with that?; and I decided on keeping it for the Matrix reference, trans allegory and everything, (thinking of making Resurrections my first movie of 2022) but didn't get around to making the change till GALDANG SEVEN MONTHS LATER because of executive functioning stuff.

Anyway, reading through these and looking at myself from ten years on, it's something. Like here, Correspondence 3/25/12 22:12 - 22:28 when she was thinking of naming her blog Phylum Arthropoda, or maybe Phylum Anthropoda, which doesn't make as much since so she was pivoting away from it, or maybe make it on purpose and not on accident...

Eric Perazzo

You could go back to the man foot thing, and pretend you're...

And I leave it dangling. The answer is A FURRY. pretend you're A FURRY. I couldn't even bring up being a furry to her, lest baleful looks of judgement or whatever, and she was a woman all this time and dropped so many hints about it if not outright coming out and I couldn't even, frigging, well anyway. I've examined that feeling many-a-time. I've got more to say about the receipts of that, I'll, unpack it to you later, if you want me to. We come out on our own time.

*excerpt from my personal Google Docs diary, talking about this post, in which I don't update Arin's name or pronouns: I mean sure searching for “ hi” and replacing all hises with her and hers and all hes with shes is easier than searching for both “her” and “she” and replacing they, she’s becoming they’re and all, that’s tougher, but also there’s this part where I say “that girl (or woman?)” kind of deal and that’s tougher to do with gender neutral language, a lot more awkward and it seems so intrinsic to the sentiment, [...] but also I knew they were nonbinary and there’s a gradual evolution of the language you can track and I don’t want to damage that,[...] 

Also, as I further note in the Doc, there's a transphobic slur mentioned a couple of times in that post, but it's essential to the text? Just as this evolution of my language toward Arin evolves, essential to the text. It's, well we do our best, or try to, don't we.

**sorry about the broken link in that one, just image search Ivy the Kiwi?, it's the one where she looks sad.

also who the frick hasn't heard of I'm a Cyborg But That's OK? It's directed by Park Chan Wook and we're acting like it's some obscure thing. Maybe in America at least...? but it's got heccing Rain in it for hecc's sake. It's like when I first heard of Sleeping Dogs Never Bite, and it's like wow that's a weird obscure movie neat I feel like such a hipster for knowing it but it turns out it's directed by friggin Bong Joon Ho, and like if there's one Korean director more well-known than Park Chan Wook it's, the one who's won actual American Oscars...

†oh hey she brings up Eclipse Phase in this one, neat!