Today I remembered JDR exists because I was going to mention Unicorn Jelly and JDR as the first step on my "when did you reach peak trans" journey in a longer post in that thread. Wonder what she's up to nowadays?
... 1.5 million words of Pony Fanfic and absolutely batshit TDS and Phobia Indoctrination. Still no job. Apparently she browbeat her husband into making her a video game, or at least the start of one?
Still no job. Got it.
Remember everyone, only TikTok, ran by the CCP, is free of right wing capitalist oligarchs. The other ones that will ban you for being right wing, constantly fuck with their users pushing things to the left, donated billions to Kamala and Biden? They're right wing, of course.
Also, I found the comment that made me realize my instinctive reaction was right:
Nowadays they call this "egg theory" ("trans people often express gender confusion without realizing they're trans or even expressing outright gender confusion via common behaviors") and she'd be breaking the "prime direggtive" ("Never intentionally tell an egg they're trans, they HAVE to figure it out by themselves.") by trying to "crack an egg," (suggesting / convincing a person with gender issues that they're transgender) but if it's successful the reddit tranny pedos consider it a win, and if it's unsuccessful then it didn't really happen, bigot. (The theory is most "eggs" hatch on their own and if you try and help you'll scare them away from realizing they're trans, possibly forever, or worse, scare them into getting help that isn't from reddit or discord.)
But yeah, an 11 year old kid talked with JDR and she tried to groom him into thinking he was trans. And it wasn't "have you talked to a therapist about this?" it was "you should choose to be a girl being a boy sucks." I saw this years ago and it confirmed the heebie jeebies I felt about JDR (and, although I wouldn't admit it until after I was out of the bubble and "Feminine Penis" by "Transbiens" became a thing and it became impossible to ignore the Troon menace, it confirmed the heebie jeebies I felt about troons in general).
Kinda sad she's just kinda circling her life down the drain and has been for the past 3 decades. Eventually the only breadwinner is going to want to retire or die in his chair, and then what the hell are the other 3 moochers living in the house gonna do? She clearly isn't going to get a job, those are beneath her. Maybe a patreon? She hasn't done anything other than extremely creepy MLP fic and reading around, she's burned a LOOOT of bridges over there -- and her webcomic is long since dead and her art style was quaint and cool in the 90s and 2000s, but now? Not sure it would work now.
Edit:
I do still have fond memories of her works. As pure Scifi, they're pretty amazing worldbuilding, especially when you remember worldbuilding wasn't really a ~thing~ back then. One of her comics has characters universe hopping for... some reason (need resources or just testing the tech or something) and the alternate universes with alternate physics were (and still are) mind blowing things that I've never seen any other work of fiction explore. A universe where entropy is nonexistent or reversed. A universe where there are multiple gravity axises (so there's the ground, and then a different ground 90 degrees from that ground, both with a sky, and you can walk on either). A universe where the physical laws result in torus planets instead of spheres. A universe with a "warping" special dimension, so if you go too far down you are actually above where you started. A universe where the big bang sent out infinite number of regular sized, plate-shaped continents in an infinite, single direction path, so you could (with enough time) go towards the "start" of the universe by just following the plates. People from a universe without the concept of light being utterly incomprehensibly terrified of the dark because in their universe, even enclosed spaces have SOME illumination using the local equivalent.
The big twist of Unicorn Jelly... I actually emailed her during it's original run, as it was getting close to the big reveal. I was close, but not quite there. I made a few more guesses and had it figured out about 2 weeks before the page came out spelling it out. I felt pretty darned smart at the time.
UJ, seeing it switch from a low fantasy to a sci-fantasy to a hard scifi story was a trip, even now that's pretty rare. I still remember one author note comment under a page. "This (some form of esoteric weather) is a fundamental force of the universe. It has ran like clockwork, never changing, never deviating, ever, for billions of years. Any change in this weather means something has gone
horribly, horribly wrong." I remember there was a real sense of foreboding when that page came out, because she had rather skillfully started building up this sense that the world was a lot bigger than the main cast (who, again, was basically a low fantasy witch and her autistic daughter + a few local town guards) and that there was something seriously fucked going on just out of view of the cast, and it was... far beyond them. When it says a "scifi epic with a definitive beginning and end" she's quite right and a lot of the stuff has foreshadowing that suddenly leaps out at you after it's pointed out much much later on in the comic/timeline.
PDH... Eeeeh. I generally didn't like it (and by the midpoint I had fallen off reading her works regularly) but the end had interesting stuff using alt-universe tech and what we'd call a Singularity or Transhumanism now. But it did give us the rather good TSH, and after I returned to both of them years later and binged it with more understanding of Transhumanist theory and other scifi tropes, it did finally click, and I liked it. A nice little endcap of all 3 works. Even with as iffy as PDH was, you still had things like the universe hopping and other, very weird universes, the interplay between them all, et cetera. One of the plot points made me cringe (one of the major storyline conflicts turns out to be the result of post-singularity AIs trying to avoid violating
copyright law) but, yeah. TSH added predestination paradoxes and timeline hopping fuckery to all of it, and although the TSH main character was annoying and stupid (the trans allegory was now so thick you could club someone to death with it) it did have it's moments. Her universe hopping and being unable to read anything in the alternate universe because "our language is the result of 3 different civilizations' languages being cobbled together via desperate sacrifices over millennia. Different timeline, different sacrifices, different language." Or somesuch. It stuck with me a bit.
Ponyfag shit... I could care less, but I almost want to read it just because the term "genocidal wish-fulfilment my little pony fanfic" has me wondering just how batshit she became over the years.
