Time to Lump Natalie TF in with the Hypocritical Rich Bastards

I don't usually post personal updates on this site. I doubt anyone wants to read them anyway, but today is different. Today is a day when I stop feeling bad or guilty about a thing that's been gnawing at me for a while now. On a certain blog, there was a post critical of me and my use of AI. In all frankness, AI is what allowed me to turn back to captioning; it allowed me to make video content; it's given me a lot more peace with myself than I care to admit.

But within that post, there was a lot of viciousness at me and other people who choose to make TSF content with AI. In the since deleted post, there was a not-so-subtle accusation that this was all some sort money grab. As if I am flush with cash from writing TG Captions or using AI to make videos. I am still waiting for this imaginary money bin of gold to swim in.

And when she wrote the post, I did have a good month! Somewhere in the neighborhood of $50-$100, which I think mentioned in a comment but also warned it was short-lived. Sure enough, January has rolled around and we are back to a monthly loss from generating this stuff. So, yeah, I'm flush with all that NEGATIVE $100 in cash.

Every once and a while, I still visit Natalie's page. I generally like reading her insights and what she has to say. Today was just enlightening. I came across the following quotes:

Rich people just want to keep people away. [M]y investments still made me over $7,000 in unrealized gains this month...

Natalie is exactly the type of rich person she's trying to decry. She's a hypocrite of the worst kind. She's making more in A MONTH in passive income than my captions and videos make in a YEAR, and she's going to fucking guilt trip me about that? Are you kidding me? That is exactly the kind of rich-person behavior she is pretending to decry.

I certainly haven't done this for 10+ years because of the money that it brings in (or doesn't bring in, really), but I'm done feeling bad about the little bit that it does. I felt a sadness and guilt over Natalie's comments initial...maybe I should find a way to offer everything without making money? That guilt is gone. My videos and blog CAN HAVE ADS. Maybe I will even finally accept one of the sponsorships offered in my inbox? Who knows!? I'm certainly through with concerning myself with what one hypocritical rich girl says that kept me down for far too long.

Oh. (Part 2)

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She kept calling me up after that, often with a good amount of begging and pleading. I wouldn’t budge for several weeks...until she came up with a compromise plan.

There were a lot of forms and meetings with judges. However, after about six months everything was approved and scheduled, and I stepped out of government body swap chamber in yet another new, different body.

She had called in a friend, a guy who had both his own body die in the Shift along with the mind of the woman he ended up as. He just wanted to be a guy again -- any guy.

So she could have her body back. He’d have my original body. And this new body was all mine. No one would come pleading to me asking for it to be returned to them this time -- though in the end, I was sort of glad to help out while still getting exactly what I wanted...

Twinsies! (Episode 2)

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Deserved It

Andy knew that Marcy was probably enjoying this far too much. Even as the sweat blurred his eyes to the point where he couldn’t see, he could still hear the laughter of his former body.

And he hated to admit it, but he probably completely deserved it.

Before the Great Shift, he had never been nice to women like Marcy. He would mock them at the gym just like she was mocking him now. He guessed he probably made fun of her directly once or twice, though he wouldn’t have bothered to recognize her face before.

And then the Great Shift put him into her the body -- the type of body he would call a “whale” or some other terrible term, the type of body that struggled with only a few push-ups.

He told himself he could improve it and get this body in shape. But Marcy in his former body wasn’t going to make that journey easy.

The Void

I didn’t know where I was. I had remembered blacking out, and I woke up in this dark place with almost nothing around in every direction. The only exception was a woman who stood there dressed all in white.

“You are in the void now,” She said.

She responded to my questions before I even had the chance to ask them. “The voice is a very special place,” She continued, “You are free to leave at any time, but I suspect you remain here for a reason. Unlike in the outside world, you can be anyone or anything you wish in here. I was a man on the outside, but I remain here because I want to maintain this form. But as you can also see, it is empty and lonely in here. Even I will disappear shortly and return to my own void of solitude. But the choice is still yours. Remain here in the nothingness and be anyone you wish, or return to your own body in the real world.”