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Also heavily cites Patel and Moore's

lcparty.org/library/2021...

i.e., regarding the unpaid nature of care work and paid labor's dependency on it: "Capitalism, however, could not survive a day [without the] appropriation of human reproductive labor, conducted largely outside the cash nexus."

Figure 1. William Blake, Europe, Supported by Africa and America, 1796. Source: Stedman 1796, 394.

November 14, 2025 at 8:58 PM

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Updated "Regarding Nudity (Censored or Not) as Educational, Not Criminal" to include some extra theory and exhibits. Featuring @barkingonmain.bsky.social and cat, @delilahgallo.bsky.social and @clockworkrhxbynn.bsky.social & @shipwreckvalaroy.bsky.social!

#sexworkiswork #transrights #freePalestine

"Raising Awareness" began as an e-mail to individual content creators on YouTube, but I figured I may as well share this dossier* on my old blog and 18+ website (a more secure means of archiving information than Google Docs). I've also updated and expanded on this post repeatedly from its e-mail form—adding substantial portions from my own Gothic (gay-anarcho) Communist corpus, my friends and I critiquing the Marxist-Leninist approach, specifically its sexist, queerphobic and otherwise exclusionary/reactionary elements that Bad Empanada currently contributes to; i.e., by punching down at me, but also my friends (e.g., my partner Bay Ryan, below). Despite these various renovations, this post retains some of its original epistolary* elements!

*Despite the academic elements and desire to teach contained herein, this post isn't really an "essay" like Bad Empanada posits (with a great deal of sarcasm and deflection, below); it's more a PSA that includes academic elements I added over time—to teach my audience mid-PSA, symposium-style! Even then, he still felt threatened enough—by my gay fluffy ass rightfully calling him out publicly for his bullshit—to publicly address it, himself, in bad-faith: "What is a [wo]man? A miserable pile of secrets! But enough talk! Have at you!" / "Now go away or I will taunt you a second time!"

"'BadEmpanada even up and told me that BDSM doctors aren't real.' Powerful quote. When will he be deplatformed for this?"

Notice how that's the only thing he mentions; i.e., because, while it's admittedly rather dumb to say on its face, the other shit is completely indefensible? Bad Empanada not only doesn't have a leg to stand on; he also doesn't have the guts to be openly bigoted on his main account.

"One of the most profound academic works of our time."

Someone's thin-skinned! This piece - while it contains academic
material within - isn't strictly an "essay"; it's a PSA; i.e., one
regarding your abusive behavior that, at the same time, functions
like a symposium. You know, the conversational side of academia?
Ever been? I digress; the entire thing could be written in crayon
on toilet paper and you'd still be a hateful bigot hiding behind his
own "academic" veneer (and my slutty/nerdy assemblage just as correct).

Also, cat go bitey-bite.

First, those who betray are cops, those who rebel rebels (e.g., Satan in Paradise Lost, 1667)—the former framing the latter as "more alien" despite capital alienizing and sexualizing all workers, pimp/whore; re: my PhD thesis argument, "Capitalism sexualizes everything" (source: "Thesis Paragraph," 2023), which occurs per a harmful division of nature (therefore labor) centuries old (and built atop older imperiums): man/woman, but also the modular colocations "straight white colonizer" versus "gay non-white colonized" (the class traitor still being a worker but one who betrays their class interests for the elite—often along cultural and racial lines); i.e., to modular degrees of imbricating persecution language (e.g., blood libel, sodomy/witchcraft accusation and Orientalism; re: "Idle Hands," 2024)—one that treats care work (including sex work) as paradoxically less valuable/more precious: something to discredit and cover up to pimp it, virgin/whore during mirror syndrome (to monopolize the Aegis aka Medusa's mirror shield to "pimp the Gorgon" [and her nudity's testimony to rape as an anti-predation device] by blaming the whore/victim, above).

Lucky for us, such traitors do not monopolize such things. To it, the very alien solidarity and intersectional consciousness I speak of (to challenge our pimps) includes Delilah and I

but also other people I work with, too; i.e., of differing modular oppressions; e.g., my friend and muse, Clockwork Rhxbynn and her girlfriend Valaroy (both trans):

So despite whatever Bad Empanada says, sex is a valid revolutionary weapon, one that ML prudes like him poop their pants about/try to pimp us for using (often against them for acting like pimps to begin with); i.e., "When the Man comes around, show him your Aegis!" (re: "It Began with a Whisper," 2025). [...] Furthermore, power is the poetic ability to reclaim our labor (and the land and sex) from knowing-better creeps like Bad Empanada.

Uncensored versions of the exhibit material, from Clockwork Rhxbynn and Shipwreck Valaroy (shared with permission).

November 14, 2025 at 8:58 PM

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Read the room, sis'. I call what you're doing being willfully dense, at this stage. Maybe he and you should have pinky promised? Gentleman's agreements are dumb, especially with cutthroat men like Joe-fucking-Biden.

1st slide: @skepchick.org's "Graham Platner is an Embarrassing Liar" (2025)

1st slide: ‪Rebecca Watson‬'s "Graham Platner is an Embarrassing Liar" (2025): https://youtu.be/1J0cNWs1hvE

Her: "Uh, no, I call that being very obvious and factual: I never wanted Biden to be president so I wanted him to keep his word and not seek reelection. Are you illiterate"

Me: "@RebeccaWatch Cute. Frankly, I think you're cooked if that's what you
expected from him. Must be nice to put your faith in an old racist, genocidal rapist like Joe-fucking-Biden. 'Like, gee-wizz, Biden? Do ya think you could maybe keep your promise, my dude?' Read the room, sis'; kindly pull your head out of your ass [and s]top defending the establishment system. Please and thanks. —a literate trans woman and activist"

A particular reaction someone shared with me regarding Rebecca Watson's dumb behavior: "Dis mio!" (Draw a cross.) "A Liberal!"

November 13, 2025 at 6:35 PM

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1st slide: @skepchick.org's "Graham Platner is an Embarrassing Liar"

2nd slide: her "The US Chose Fascism. Where Do We Go From Here?"

Rebecca thinks expecting Joe Biden, a genocidal maniac, to keep his promises is "being extremely tough" on him. Progressives sure do love to pick-and-choose. 😂

@skepchick.org's "Graham Platner is an Embarrassing Liar" (2025): https://youtu.be/1J0cNWs1hvE

Me: "As a trans woman academic and sex worker, it's been both disheartening and unsurprising to see so many 'progressives' defend a literal Nazi mercenary who served in the War on Terror and worked for Blackwater after Trump AND his initial tours. So it's nice to see you critique him. Though I will say, you haven't critiqued the establishment electorate nearly hard enough in the past (re: Joe Biden). Kind of a mixed bag from you, but at least you're not defending Platner, so yay, I guess."

Rebecca: "Uh I have always been extremely critical of Joe Biden so that's very strange to hear."

Me: "@RebeccaWatson Straight cap: "'As a progressive, I had really hoped that Joe Biden would keep his promise from 2020 when he said that he was going to be a one-term president' (timestamp: 0:53; source: Rebecca Watson's 'The US Chose Fascism. Where Do We Go From Here?' November 14th, 2024). You call that being
extremely critical? My ass."

Rebecca's "The US Chose Fascism. Where Do We Go From Here?" (2024): https://youtu.be/1J0cNWs1hvE

Me: "You know Republicans are fascists and Democrats are moderate Republicans, right? Case in point, Biden was the architect of ICE and an incredibly racist man dutifully funding Israel like all US presidents do. Roe v. Wade was abolished under his tenure and he's an accused rapist. Why on earth would you [expect] him to listen to you?"

November 13, 2025 at 5:48 PM

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Also included an an-Com critique of Marxist-Leninism; i.e., from Marx and Engels to Lenin, Stalin, Mao: citations from Patel and Moore's A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things (2017) regarding capital-state (American/Soviet) exploitation of care work/sex work:

lcparty.org/library/2021...

from Patel and Moore's A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things:

Figure 1. William Blake, Europe, Supported by Africa and America, 1796. Source: Stedman 1796, 394.

[…] reproductive labor [is] the work of caring for, nurturing, and raising human communities. Such work is overwhelmingly unpaid because it makes the whole system of wage work possible. Without unpaid work, especially care work*, wage work would simply be too expensive [emphasis, me …] But when we talk of reproductive labor under capitalism, we're referring to a very specific set of arrangements, ones that were rearranged through world ecology and persist today. Under these arrangements, some humans were confined to new political, social, and ecological units—households—the better to engage in care work in capitalism's ecology. Call this the Great Domestication. […] Just as Spanish colonists had bridled at Mayan sexual adventures, so the British demanded allegiance to their own version of sexual order and power, one that created the legal category of woman and set her in the household, the workshop of reproductive labor. But, of course, to use the term workshop is to mischaracterize how housework was viewed. It was considered precisely beyond the domain of wage work, a favor that women did for men, akin to the free gifts that nature offered enterprise. […]

*Ergo sex work, I argue; i.e., the whore and her exploitation (during the pimp's revenge) that requires said workers to rebel; re: in ways that reverse abjection, ergo profit and labor exploitation of nature as monstrous-feminine more broadly (the whore's revenge): the home vs the homewrecker upon which said home (ergo the state) is built.

re: https://lcparty.org/library/2021-01-10-10-04-52/175-a-history-of-the-world-in-seven-cheap-thin-raj-patel-jason-w-moore/file

Mao surrounded by young Chinese women, the sort that he would exploit sexually:

"Many of the women that Mao slept with were daughters of poor peasants who Li said believed that sleeping with the chairman was the greatest experience of their life. Mao was happiest and most satisfied when he had several young women simultaneously sharing his bed, and he encouraged his sexual partners to introduce him to others. He often told the young women to read the Taoist sex manual 'The Plain Girl's Secret Way,' in preparation for their trysts" (source: The Private Life of Chairman Mao [1994] by Dr. Li Zhisui; cited: "Mao's Private Life," 2016).

(exhibit 3: Artist, top-far-left: Liu Chunhua; top-mid-left: Jacques Louis David; bottom-left: Chen Yanning; top-right: Bungie; bottom-right: William Blake. City or nation, state revolutionaries [and their poppy-red sanguine] historically decay into tyranny—from Caesar to Vlad Dracul [the dragon a symbol of status, sex and power] to Napoleon to George Washington to Mao—both in and out of fiction, with "purely" fictional additions [e.g., Shakespeare's "historical" play and its famous line: "Et tu, Brutae?"] actually gigantic "vampire hauntologies" that bear a non-fictional stamp; e.g., Balor the Leveler [and his own "dragon's" red cape of power, top-right] built on top of stories of stories of stories; i.e., the narrative of the crypt; re: from Hogle's "The Restless Labyrinth: Cryptonymy in the Gothic Novel" [1980]. However cryptomimetic these seem, they nonetheless bear a kernel of truth [as all vampires do]: dictators suck. Stemming from and venerated by city-states to nation-states in ways that historically-materially decay due to the fallibility of men and corruptibility of the structures propping them up—they're what Marx would describe as "the tradition of all dead generations [that] weighs like a nightmare on the brains of the living"; i.e., while history repeats first in tragedy, then in farce [source: Marx' "Eighteenth Brumaire," 1852].

November 13, 2025 at 12:04 AM

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Finished essay on Bad Empanada: punching down at me—a #trans PhD, #an-Com, activist, sex worker and #rape survivor—but also attacking my friends in different intersecting minority communities, fighting for our rights alongside Palestine.

youtu.be/WDSQaOmFInE

#FreePalestine #SexWorkIsWork #Zionism

Trans Michigan youth from Eli Newman's "Out of reach: Where do Michigan’s trans youth go for care now?" (2025)—the kinds of people I try to defend through my work while standing up for foreign genocides, too.

source: https://bridgemi.com/michigan-health-watch/out-of-reach-where-do-michigans-trans-youth-go-for-care-now/

BE trying his very best to emulate Mao (but not really because Mao was a total man-whore): "People who talk about sex constantly and openly like it's their main interest must be dealt with. Make it taboo again" / "As a sex worker, activist and BDSM doctor, I'm not sure how to feel, here. XD" / "As a Maoist I only fuck with theory" / "BP true and devout Maoist confirmed?"

November 12, 2025 at 11:06 PM

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"Look what the little kid has become in the past seven years..." My drawing of #Nabooru from #OcarinaofTime

The model:
@darktendenciesx.bsky.social

Read her review: vanderwaardart.com/sex-work/mus...!

#Zelda #Gerudo #nsfwsky #housewife #stoner #switch #androgynous #shorthairbaddie #alt

My drawing of Vera Dominus as Nabooru from Ocarina of Time (1998): mooning the audience with a crazy arch while a solar eclipse blacks out the sun. Dark Link's chilling on his horse in the background, and Nabooru seems undeterred by the sandstorm all around her.

My commissioned reference for the Nabooru drawing: Vera Dominus arching her booty and wearing black thigh-high legwarmers and not much else!. She has big-ol' earrings, several tattoos, cute little tattoos, and a booty of the gods. A galaxy-themed room divider hands overhead.

The classic concept art for Nabooru from Ocarina of Time.

Vera's review, on my website (https://vanderwaardart.com/sex-work/muses/vera-dominus): 'Vera is a self-described "soft pleasure domme," one who offers pre-made content on OnlyFans and Fansly, but also her NO PVV premium Telegram. Customs and sexting are available upon request, and having sexted with her—and coming from someone who loves gentle mommy/femme dommes—Vera excels at that kind of service; she’s a stone-cold fox with an amazing ass and loveable boyish appearance, but also is hella sweet, and makes awesome content with her husband (re: Telegram). To it, playing with her made me feel very safe, but also heard; i.e., as she and I worked together for my book series! Well worth your money and time!'

November 10, 2025 at 7:13 PM

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But basically Bad Empanada's doing straight-up #incel shit at this point: 3/3

https://nicksmovieinsights.com/2025/10/raising-awareness-regarding-bad-empanada-and-his-fascist-behaviors.html

This post appeals to any who wish to help raise awareness about Bad Empanada and his abusive behaviors, online; i.e., his reactionary fascist behavior kettling trans sex workers like a sad little freak, despite him claiming to be an activist who cares about helping minorities by preventing genocide. [...]

As we proceed, please keep in mind that—yes, Bad Empanada might call himself this or that—and he'll certainly call me plenty of things while telling you not to read my work; e.g., "sex pest," "creep," useless eater," etc; i.e., despite my being a rape victim ("Going Mask Off: Showing Jadis' Face," 2025) and being someone who actively advocates for sex worker/minority rights, and sex education to prevent rape* in my community and around the world; e.g., my partner Bay Ryan is Maori, disabled, furry and trans—the very sorts of people that Bad Empanada called "useless eaters" when I rose to their defense (source skeet, Bad Empanada: October 2nd, 2025). In truth, he's kind of an incel (above), fascist and Zionist; i.e., punching down at trans, anti-Zionist and anti-fascist sex workers like myself (and other minorities; see: below). He's a TERF and a SWERF and if you scratch a SWERF, a fascist (ergo rape apologist) bleeds:

*Meaning (from my definition) "to disempower someone or somewhere—a person, culture, or place—in order to harm them," generally through fetishizing and alienizing acts or circumstances/socio-material conditions that target the mind, body and/or spirit) […] Rape can be of the mind, spirit, body and/or culture—the land or things tied to it during genocide, etc; it can be individual and/or on a mass scale" (source: "Psychosexual Martyrdom," 2024).

November 7, 2025 at 12:06 PM

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Further evidence of BE being bigoted towards GNC but also Indigenous People 2/3

Bad Empanada being bigoted towards GNC people, comparing gender-non-conformity to: "It's extremely Israeli to just focus this insanely hard on an innate identity to the point it's your username and every comment you make can be boiled down to 'I have the special identity and they don't.'"

from the comments, here: https://youtu.be/9RDJtsHxojQ

'as an Indigenous (Cree, yes I can get more specific but it's a tiny nation so it would be a little TOO specific for comfort) person in Canada who, like many others, finds "Indigenous" a bit stilted and awkward to use in a casual context and so when a particular nation doesn't apply, prefers "native" or basically anything aside from "Indian" unless it's in a VERY specific context, what turned me off the LAST time I stopped watching BE a couple years ago was, among other things, him DYING on the hill that "Indian" was the "correct" term for natives/indigenous people in the US and Canada and basically calling anyone who disagreed an idiot. There were a few other reasons I stopped watching that I can't remember, but I started watching again on and off last year when he starts showing up on my timelines/algorithms again. And guess what? He pulls the SAME DAMN THING. In fact I think this gets lost in the chaos, as indigenous issues always do, but that was originally where the latest discourse/controversy started with BE after the PhilosophyTube video.

BE jumped on people criticizing PT for using "Indian" in a context that most (aware) people living in Canada and the US would know is inappropriate. Then he chooses to DIE ON THAT HILL. Again. Plenty of Americans were trying to correct him and every time, he'd pull the "I'm not listening to Americans that's like saying you need to listen to Israelis about Zionism" and when you had actual Indigenous people weighing in he'd go off about "identity politics" and how trying to use "identity politics" made any native's point moot. All the while he kept pointing to one academic paper that did a poll on the preferred term, as he MISINTERPRETED the paper he was pointing to. And then he argued with anyone who A. pointed out how fucked up it is to talk over Indigenous lived experiences by slapping an academic paper down and B. the fact he was MISINTERPRETING THE RESULTS...'

From an e-mail to Second Thought, Hakim and Yugopnik:

'My name's Persephone van der Waard and I'm reaching out to ask you to stop supporting Bad Empanada, who is fascist towards people such as myself and my friends.

[...] I'm a trans an-Com activist, academic and sex worker, but also author of multiple books [...] Returning to the matter at hand, I am currently reaching out to you regarding Bad Empanada; i.e., someone who has been "crashing out," in recent months. In short, he's been exhibiting fascist tendencies towards trans people, as well as plural, furry and Indigenous folk, among others. [...]

In light of this mounting evidence (and BE's flagrant bigotry and hypocrisy), it looks incredibly bad for you and for Socialism as a whole that you continue to endorse his work, and makes me question your motives; i.e., supporting fascists =/= tactical unity, my dudes; e.g., Bad Empanada calling for slave labor against his critics and labeling minorities "useless eaters" (see: evidence, below). In a show of good faith, I would ask that you quit plugging his stuff (e.g., in your video, "The Fire Will Cease (Ft. Bad Empanada) - Episode 166"): [...] I would also ask that you publicly address these matters, as I know they've been brought to your attention before (on your subreddit before it was taken down). Please don't continue supporting BE, because he's straight-up grifting at this point.

full image and alt-text for red font @: https://nicksmovieinsights.com/2025/10/raising-awareness-regarding-bad-empanada-and-his-fascist-behaviors.html

An e-mail I wrote in February 2024 to Bad Empanada after he devalued Aaron Bushnell's martyrdom. He never responded.

November 7, 2025 at 12:06 PM

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Follow-up on my Bad Empanada exposé

nicksmovieinsights.com/2025/10/rais...

CW: racism, genocide and #fascism; fatphobia, ableism, rape, #transphobia, medical abuse, #whorephobia, and police brutality; some censored, fig-lead-style images of nudity tied to my sex work and activism 1/3

more in 🧵

https://nicksmovieinsights.com/2025/10/raising-awareness-regarding-bad-empanada-and-his-fascist-behaviors.html

CW: racism, genocide and fascism; fatphobia, ableism, rape, transphobia, medical abuse, whorephobia, and police brutality; some censored, fig-lead-style images of nudity tied to my sex work and activism with others

I may have shared this, here, already. However, I've put together/expanded a dossier of evidence on Bad Empanada not just being extremely bigoted towards me, but also my friends. The thing is, I'm trans, a sex worker and a rape victim, and he's wrongly accused me of being a sex pest/guilty of assaulting others; he's done the same with my friends/partners, calling us "sick," "degenerate," "useless eaters," etc, while sending his fans after us (re: disabled people, furries, Indigenous folk, sex workers and/or GNC people, etc). It's real Nazi, incel-level shit, and I wanted to share it here. I don't mean to overshare, and I've double-censored an already-censored image, fig-leaf-style, of myself doing sex work (an artistic nude), just to illustrate that I do while respecting everyone's boundaries. Frankly it's hard to get anyone to take me seriously when I am what I am (trans) and do what I do (activism, academia, anti-fascism and sex work). Even more discouraging is seeing larger channels continue to support him in light of his obvious crash-out and growing all-too-comfortable punching down at myself, my partners and my business associates.

(top-left) BE: Spend 5 seconds on this American liberal hugbox and you'll learn to appreciate the coming Trump crackdown. Go to town, Donald. / Post all you want. I'm not the plural systems pup who'll be going to camp.

(bottom-left) BE: We need to bring back labor.

Me: "This essay, "Slurs Aren't Activism," was written to critique Natalie Wynn, for her liberal Zionism, but also ableist critics like Bad Empanada calling her "narcissist" (affecting myself and my friends; i.e., being trans and/or mentally ill, including having various mental disorders).

(top-middle): Bluesky is where you go when you have 15 self diagnosed mental illnesses and want to be in an echo chamber with other people who also have 15 self diagnosed mental illnesses.

Me: Bad Empanada, you might as well call my friends and I "useless eaters," at this point.

BE: Of course, I legitimately think you should be in the mines.

Me: Why? I support Palestine and all areas in the global south exploited by capital. I support ending climate change, capital, the ruling class. But I also think trans women are women and people with disorders are people, furries are human, etc. These aren't mutual exclusive concepts.

Rights: "I love Hitler": Leaked messages expose Young Republicans' racist chat / Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

e.g., (highlighted examples): "Everyone that votes no is going to the gas chamber." "I'm ready to watch people burn now." "Great, I love Hilter." "Stay in the closet f----t."

Message at bottom (me, pointing to BE): Puritanical Ozzie expat who uses Nazi rhetoric to enrich himself while punching down at minorities; e.g., disabled people, plural folk, furries, trans people, etc.

November 7, 2025 at 12:06 PM

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Eren's black clothes and pale skin goes well with my usual green-and-purple poster scheme. 2/2

Another green-and-purple poster designed by Persephone van der Waard for her Sex Positivity book series: featuring Who Was Eren, who is lying back and showing the viewer their belly: while spreading and pulling back their legs really far. They have on a black top/eyeliner/thigh-highs and some sick tattoos (head, nose, tummy, crotch, flank and hands). Their pussy is wrinkled and cute.

Another green-and-purple poster designed by Persephone van der Waard for her Sex Positivity book series: featuring Who Was Eren, who is moon the viewer: while spreading their legs. They have on a black top and some sick tattoos (flank, pussy and crotch).

Another green-and-purple poster designed by Persephone van der Waard for her Sex Positivity book series: featuring Who Was Eren, who is mooning the viewer: while spreading their legs and arching their booty. They have on a black top/eyeliner and some sick tattoos (head, nose, flank, ankles).

November 7, 2025 at 10:28 AM

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Promo posters featuring the magnetic @whowaseren.bsky.social, who I commissioned and will be drawing for my book series! 1/2

I'll be reviewing them on my website: vanderwaardart.com/sex-work

#Gothic #anarchism #Communism #SexWorkIsWork #nsfw #alt #emo #fansly #tattooed #nonbinary #goth #goonsky

Another green-and-purple poster designed by Persephone van der Waard for her Sex Positivity book series: featuring Who Was Eren, mooning the viewer. They have on a black top/eyeliner and some sick tattoos (flank, pussy and calves).

November 7, 2025 at 10:28 AM

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The follow-up covers racism and transphobia in heavy meta/the Gothic, but also whorephobia. Some sex workers I feature:

@barkingonmain.bsky.social
@darktendenciesx.bsky.social @clockworkrhxbynn.bsky.social
@harmonycorrupted.bsky.social
@delilahgallo.bsky.social
@goddessasterinxo.bsky.social

Vera Dominus letting the audience know how she truly feels. Her butt is in the background, but out of focus.

Three sex workers I've interviewed before: Delilah Gallo, Goddess Asterin and Harmony Corrupted.

Clockwork Rhxbynn, a friend and muse, looking very provocative while blowing smoke out of their mouth at the camera.

My Maori partner/co-writer (and little fuck-goblin), Bay Ryan.

November 5, 2025 at 11:53 AM

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Today's essay has me, a white #trans #Gothicist and #antifascist, critiquing Heavy Metal Philosophy's good-faith follow-up response to me previously critiquing him critiquing Andrew Lee on #racism in #metal.

the video: youtu.be/PhNMg7H9dnM

works cited: nicksmovieinsights.com/2025/11/repl...

November 5, 2025 at 11:53 AM

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Essay addendum; re: on #‪MikeIsraetel 's race science. Many are defending Mike, but #SolomonNelson especially sucks; i.e., he's kept quiet on Mike's #racism despite knowing about it since at least January (links in🧵)

original essay (this addendum attaches to): nicksmovieinsights.com/2025/10/foll...

Anabolic Stick's video "Why Mike Israetel Needs To Be STOPPED" defending Solomon; i.e., by trying to imply the other man has been covering Mike's Racism (he hasn't): https://youtu.be/50p39zPR7JY

November 2, 2025 at 8:53 AM

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"Together in our finest form..." My drawing—of the tragic Green Prince and his gay ghost lover! Drawn for my #Silksong Symposium: nicksmovieinsights.com/2025/09/silk...

The models: @transguytyler.bsky.social and his husband.

Read their review: vanderwaardart.com/sex-work/mus...

Happy #Halloween!

My drawing of Tyler and his husband. Glowing candle light flanks the Green Prince as he gives his lover a giant glowing load.

My idea for their drawing (originally explained to Tyler by me): in-game, the Green Prince has a lover that the evil queen turns into a mechanical pair of dancers, the "duo" being a copy of the lover dancing with his beloved, the aforementioned prince. When you free the prince from his cell, he discovers you have killed his beloved--or rather, that you've set them free from the queen's technological "spell" of replication and undeath (the prison of a doll's body forced to dance forever inside her mechanical halls).

With my drawing of you and your husband, I thought I'd have a happier ending to their story than "bury your gays": the prince and his lover reunited, the lover returned to his natural form and the pair boning massively. The gender of the lover is "he," in game, so I thought that would work with you being a trans guy and your husband being the dashing Green Prince.

The reference image from a sex tape I commissioned Tyler and his husband for: Tyler on his back, spreading his legs while his husband goes in and out with that big beautiful cock. Tyler has on dark lipstick and eyeliner, and sports multiple piercings (face and nipples).

The scene from Silksong I am illustrating (without Hornet cockblocking our doomed lovers): "You who dare trespass this sacred chamber, ready yourself... to see is, and know us, Verdania's rulers, together in our finest form..."

November 1, 2025 at 2:31 AM

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"While my website is designed to promote other sex workers, Josey can help you set up your own; i.e., doing so at an incredibly affordable price." 2/2

From the review, itself:

We live in Gothic times; it's easy to feel alone and afraid, surrounded by mighty foes who mean us harm. To anyone who needs saviors like Josey in your corner, she offers a discount through word-of-mouth. That means if you've worked with me before (or this is your first time visiting my site), and are in need of added security like that which I just described, Josey's your girl. She's smart, careful and considerate, not just willing but able to help regarding that which for many sex workers might otherwise seem far-fetched, even impossible. While my website is designed to promote other sex workers, Josey can help you set up your own; i.e., doing so at an incredibly affordable price. So while my domains cost roughly $30 a year and Josey's hosting service (through her variable discounts) cost $30 a month, that cost would be the same through a giant company. Josey's a person who's there and willing to help with a variety of services; i.e., ranging from SEO and data management to personal and professional hosting to project management and all that entails! She not only works with sex workers all around the world; she also has a small team of developers, infrastructure and administration, not to mention they partner with FireMane Studios for all your graphic design needs, too! And if all that isn't enough, her site features a bevy of case studies and testimonials, too!

[...]

So what are you waiting for? Give Josey a try and tell her Persephone sent you!

October 29, 2025 at 9:50 PM

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A review of my security specialist:

vanderwaardart.com/site-securit...

Josey and Love Sudo helped me secure/archive my work. She specializes in helping vulnerable workers seeking protection from political violence—often sex workers (having been one, herself). 1/2

#security #sexwork

A photo of my savior, "my own personal Jesus Christ" holding a rubber ducky. A screencap of her website/company, Love Sudo.

The thumbs-up computer kid meme, a roaring endorsement for Josey and her own exemplary work.

October 29, 2025 at 9:50 PM

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A new promo page for @aliciaaxiom.bsky.social, including my review of her work, posters, samples of her work, my drawing of her (once complete), and more!

vanderwaardart.com/sex-work/mus...

Please go and support her (rates in 🧵)!

#trans #transgirl #nsfw #nsfwsky #ass #naughty #Communism #Gothic

Alicia Axiom's page on my website: https://vanderwaardart.com/sex-work/muses/alicia-axiom

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Sex work review: Equal parts flirty and slutty, Alicia Axiom has impeccable dress sense. She straight up kills her sets, poses and outfits but also works incredibly fast, delivering a top-quality product every time. Seriously, I've worked with a lot of sex workers, but never had someone put out a shoot that floored me like hers did (dat ass)! Clearly she takes pride in her work, but also communicates well to make sure the customer is satisfied: asking me if specific shots looked ok, or if any needed to be retaken. But frankly nearly every shot she produced followed my instructions without fail, and her androgynous body and stellar aesthetic frankly blew me away (think Millie Bobby Brown with a booty of the gods and none of the Zionist bullshit that actress portrays)! For a taste of the divine—something to depart from the normal and transport you somewhere a little more alien, naughty and exciting—give Alicia a try! She's sublime!

Another green-and-purple poster designed by Persephone van der Waard for her Sex Positivity book series: featuring Alicia Axiom, who is lying back and showing the viewer her booty, butthole, and girlcock: while spreading and pulling back her legs. Her long hair spills down her face. Her tits were there.

Another green-and-purple poster designed by Persephone van der Waard for her Sex Positivity book series: featuring Alicia Axiom, who is mooning the view. She has the cutest buns, but a lovely girlcock, balls, butthole and crotch, too.

Another green-and-purple poster designed by Persephone van der Waard for her Sex Positivity book series: featuring Alicia Axiom, who is lying on her side and showing off her body. Her shirt is pulled up to show off her puffy nip-nops. Her hard girl cock peeps out at the viewer from between her thighs. She has a womb tattoo.

October 29, 2025 at 8:39 PM

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If I "squint hard enough"? My dude, my friends and I are sex workers and he called all of us "useless eaters"; he demonizes us for being mentally ill while mimicking fascist talking points; in 2024, he called for us to be "made taboo again" (re: Stalin) 1/3

nicksmovieinsights.com/2025/10/rais...

In more recent coverage of him, I noticed BE's rhetoric sounds very similar to the 10/14/2025 Politico exposé on (relatively) young American GOP leaders: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zTw_3Drkgw

Originally from a community post Bad Empanada made, saying "People who talk about sex constantly and openly like it's their main interest must be dealt with. Make it taboo again," followed by him responding to me, saying "BDSM doctors aren't real" when I called myself one (which, I am); i.e., I—a BDSM doctor and trans woman—am not real (thus neither are sex therapists and paid/unpaid researchers, apparently).

source: https://www.youtube.com/post/UgkxNR_oK5vo0bZ7uFmuWms8-3ksQJULK7D2

October 28, 2025 at 9:09 PM

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A new promo page for @pupstar-darina.bsky.social, including my review of her work, posters, samples of her work, my drawing of her (once complete), and more!

vanderwaardart.com/sex-work/mus...

Please go and support her (rates in 🧵)!

#tgirl #girlcock #nsfwbsky #bigdick #femdom #Communism #Gothic

Pupstar Darina's page on my website: https://vanderwaardart.com/sex-work/muses/pupstar-darina

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Sex work review: Pupstar Darina is that curious case of the "grower" and "shower" (essentially pretty big when flaccid and even bigger when semi-/fully hard, above). Moreover, she's both neurodivergent and into pup play like I am, making her—while certainly not unpleasant to communicate with—someone who has specific communicative needs; i.e., that need to approached and handled with respect and care. Being a dom, though, she's good at communicating them—meaning if she has a particular concern to voice, she'll let you know quickly and directly. At the same time, she'll expect those needs to be understood and vocally acknowledged, in return (a "ten-four" in radio speak). This is hardly unusual in BDSM—insofar as relaying information helps prevent harm—but I did notice that Darina is fairly constant with it; i.e., she doesn't mask. This isn't her being rude, but getting her point across while making sure everyone's satisfied. I certainly was, enjoying myself tremendously while working together. To that, Darina is both incredibly considerate and kind, as well as exceptionally easy on the eyes—a tall, slender enchantment! Please consider supporting her! You won't regret it!

Another green-and-purple poster designed by Persephone van der Waard for her Sex Positivity book series: featuring Pupstar Darina, who is lying back and showing the viewer her giant honking girlcock: while spreading her legs and lifting her black top and showing her legs. Her long hair spills down her shoulders, her bangs showing off a lovely face. She has a "female" alchemy tattoo on her sternum and "T4T" tattoo below her navel.

Another green-and-purple poster designed by Persephone van der Waard for her Sex Positivity book series: featuring Pupstar Darina, who is mooning the viewer while kneeling on a mattress and arching her booty from a side angle. Her long hair spills down her back, her balls hanging like yummy fruit. Her legs are covered in cutting scars of various colors and ages.

Another green-and-purple poster designed by Persephone van der Waard for her Sex Positivity book series: featuring Pupstar Darina, who is directly mooning the viewer while kneeling on a mattress and arching her booty. Her long hair spills down her face, her balls hanging like yummy fruit. Her amazing butthole stares triumphantly at the world.

October 28, 2025 at 6:11 PM

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Defending a SWERF accelerationist is weird. As a fellow sex worker, queer person, and survivor, Cuwu was my friend and abuser--someone I wrote about concerning their overall treatment of me: vanderwaardart.com/2025/04/book...

Sharing the nudes is sharing the work we did together, as agreed.

The opening to my 2025 dedication if ludo-Gothic BDSM to Cuwu.

A snippet from said dedication: discussing how Cuwu was my friend and abuser.

A snippet from said dedication: discussing the agreement had between Cuwu and I.

A snippet from said dedication: discussing the relationship between Cuwu and I.

October 28, 2025 at 8:01 AM

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Someone can be abusive and memorable, even foundational to one's work. Cuwu, a sex workers like myself, very much was:

vanderwaardart.com/2025/04/book...

As for organizing, my book series occured over 70 informed labor exchanges designed to educate others: vanderwaardart.com/book_gothic_...

My dedication to Cuwu, two years after writing my manifesto.

October 28, 2025 at 7:33 AM

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youtu.be/9_lHDT-GNgU

This one? Uh, yeah, I have, dude—twice. I e-mailed them to Solomon, too.

In June (essay format): nicksmovieinsights.com/2025/06/whit...

This month (essay format): nicksmovieinsights.com/2025/10/foll...

You know, the essays I just shared with you: bsky.app/profile/vand...

My June e-mail to Solomon notifying him about my first essay.

Me tagging Solomon asking him why he won't talk about Mike.

Me tagging Solomon in my video reading of my second essay on him.

October 28, 2025 at 3:55 AM

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For context, in case anyone's wondering what he means by "her pathetic critique of a fitness YouTuber I follow"; re: Solomon Nelson being historically unable to mention Mike Israetel's blatant race science:

nicksmovieinsights.com/2025/10/foll...

#racism #whitemoderacy #solomonnelson #bodybuilding

A section of my first essay on Solomon Nelson, "White Moderates Don't Challenge Fascism" (June 10th, 2025).

A snippet from my second essay on Solomon Nelson, "Follow-Up: White Moderates Still Don't Challenge Fascism" (October 12th, 2025).

A communication between Solomon and I, where he refuses to investigate Dr. Mike Israetel for his blatant race science.

CJ McIntosh, the "former Space X, US Navy Vet" (red flag, there) who's ANTI-RACIST but sucks up to a white moderate like Solomon Nelson; re: an investigator of Mike Israetel who refuses to investigate Mike for his race science. Yep, that tracks.

October 28, 2025 at 3:31 AM

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