DnD Show Sideblog

In tuesday's episode of Dirty Laundry, Ally Beardsley mentioned using cryptocurrency. Not only that, but they attributed their use of it to starting testosterone. As someone both aware of how cryptocurrency completely fucks over the environment and who will be (fingers crossed) starting testosterone soon, I'm feeling very split about consuming content they help create, including dimension 20. For the time being I'm going to stop watching dropout tv shows, and I don't intend to consume, produce, or spread any dimension 20/dropout tv content. I am also considering canceling my subscription to the service.

Part of my knows I'm overreacting, and my hurt is in no small part due to how much unearned trust I put into them. That's on me. The other part of me is disgusted with the normalization of crypto use, and I want to do at least the bare minimum of showing there are still folks out there who are against it.

The bit starts with Lily offering Ally a referral link to some credit card, and Ally offers to send her a referral to Ethereum (in my opinion, if it isn't a joke, which I don't think it is, this removes the possibility that it was something they did in the past and don't do anymore at the time of filming).

Grant then asks them what crypto they own (present tense). Ally says, “I started testosterone, and when you do that, you have to buy crypto. And I didn’t want to, okay? All of a sudden now I’m, night and day, I’m on Reddit. I’m on websites. I’m buying crypto." (again, present tense).

Afterwards they joke about having immediately lost $800, but don't say it in a way that makes me, personally, think they've stopped.

I admit there's sort of a jokey tone through the whole thing, but I think that's because they're a comedian on a comedy show. It'd be weirder if they were fully serious.

They've also made a joke about crypto before, again tying it to starting T. I admit the tone I get from this, a sort of resigned oh haha this happened outside of my control, is the best argument I've seen so far for them being not entirely a crypto bro. But it's pretty flimsy at best. I'm not really convinced, not from one joke tweet that could be interpreted several ways, especially when they've straight up said they're buying crypto.

To conclude: I don't think they were joking. Unless they've stopped trading crypto since the episode was filmed, I have no reason to doubt they are still doing so. Unless they straight up say they aren't trading crypto, I'm going to assume they are. The evidence is on them at this point.

If you want to keep watching dimension 20/dropout tv content, thats fine. I'm not trying to convince anyone to drop it. I'm not trying to call out Ally or get them canceled. I'm just trying to explain why I'm not going to be in the fandom anymore.

And then there’s Skip.  Takes over Norman, and it’s your typical brain slug situation at first.  The obligatory shenanigans while figuring out bodily mechanics, the cases of mistaken identity.  Except at some point, there’s a shift.   Because Norman comes with so much baggage, Skip has to dive deep into his memories to understand why people are after this body.  And the more he searches, the more he understands about the person he’s taken over, the person whose body this was.  All of a sudden, the body is not “just” a body. It was someone else once, and it was their way of engaging with the galaxy, for better or for worse, just like Skip is using it now.

Cerebro slugs need host bodies in order to participate in the galaxy.  That’s what they’re designed for, it’s what their biology enables them to do.  But as Skip has come to realize, that’s not all they have to do and it’s certainly not all they can do.  They can choose to try and understand the person who was there before, to think about the legacy (good or bad) that the person leaves behind, to decide how they will move forwards in light of the past, even if their decision is to start anew. 

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