Valeria Santiago

finding a movie-spinoff of a tv show on Letterboxd and reviewing every episode on there as separate movie reviews until Letterboxd caves and puts full shows on there

im right

missing the days when movie and tv scenes ended at least six seconds after someone finished talking; now a new scene starts a millisecond after the last syllable is uttered. shut up this is a real problem and it happens a lot

FOUR*. i blame beer

do u feel old yet @slender4gender.bsky.social was for months ago

Taking another swing at compiling all my poetry from a year-plus of homelessness into a book. Here’s a dedicated space for that.

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"We should go find her… would be a fun thing to put on video, right? Maybe I’ll even edit it tonight – kill a couple hours."

Finished one drawing of Carmen and immediately started another… had a lot of fun with this set :] (2024) #redredhat0 #redredhat

That said (😏),

If you haven’t seen my essays on communal art, the western apprehension to metaphor, and the practices of revisitation, reaction, and injecting personality into Play, here’s a neat lil playlist.

Be kind; I talk out of my butt, but also, my soul (which is butt-shaped)

this all came about a week ago when i complained that games like YGO have the potential to be like playing cards in their malleability of cultural use. the show introduced Deckmasters and Dungeon Dice ages ago, I wanna see a million other versions of this thing pop up. make em silly and weird

taught my engineer friend Yu-Gi-Oh and she came up with some rly fun supplemental game modes for play. my favorite is “Mr. Bones”, in which an extra non-player hijacks your graveyard of all its monsters and does one big attack at the loser of a dice roll at the end of both players’ combined turn.

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It’s been ten minutes since last time, you know what that means: Val is asking for money again.

I’m saving for a car.

YouTube video by Valeria Santiago Episode 3 - Please Insert Quarter | Red vs. Blue: Re-Restoration (FAN REMAKE)

Alright—this is the last of this fan project you’ll be seeing for a few months.

Gonna start traveling again soon (and working on other things), so when I’m situated again in 2026, I’ll pick up work on it again.

Until then: Enjoy Episode 3 of Red vs. Blue: Re-Restoration.

baby appreciation post

ok uh.

wow.

thank you.

jesus christ this is a massive relief.

watch as Carmen fumbles with tarot way more than i fumble with tarot (way less than this i promise)

well. rent is due tomorrow and i am hella short, so let’s try this again, i guess

i am in a cool, odd place w/ this; even though the skeleton of it is gonna essentially be the original Restoration script, enough little stuff is being changed that i’m worried about spoiling stuff for folks??

ended up making a MAJOR decision today, that changes PLENTY textually for the final act…

rt if u agree

here’s the thumbnail for the new RvB Re-Restoration episode. should be public by november(?)

i also dropped a short clip from an early draft on my patreon, for whoever’s interested…?
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oh. oh wow

two years on HRT today.

something i have learned in that time: joy is now non-negotiable. finding it everywhere i can. 🏳️‍⚧️

I’m glad I made that video. And I hope my content in general Shows My Ass on my blind spots with academia.

Folks that enjoy my essays bc I am “knowledgeable” ought to know this:

I am leading with a feeling. Everything else is supplementary. Without the emotion, my work means very little, imo.

The “Literal” essay is about 75% “feeling” and 25% “proof”—a ratio I *still* question the intensity of, to the latter. If art is a vehicle for empathy, and if I ever feel I must “prove” my feelings as legitimate…

…I don’t know. Feels like so many of us already have to do that *outside* of our art.

This might be why I typically move away from researched essays—well, that and, I am atrociously poorly-read & retain information embarrassingly poorly—because art is, to me, a process of feeling. If I can “adapt” my feelings through an essay, I then feel my piece need not “justify” its value.

—so the entirety of my personal experience with Art As Metaphor would either have to be presented as fact, or as a willful misremembering of fact. Both are valuable (I ended up with this lens either way); but one is informed, is more “convincing.” That is a can of worms unto itself.

It’s weird, working on a piece that’s both academic and personal; that Conclusion does not work for me without the personal layer of it being around the same time I first engaged with Art As Metaphor.

Without that angle, the essay cannot exist. But it also needs to be validated by the information—

There is also, of course, the layer of the information being archived *on their ends*—I am terrible at maintaining my own logs of both work & interaction, and luckily, my old English teacher and the Vonnegut Archives have a better handle at… archiving. The latter, I suppose, is less surprising?

This was a scary process—not because I had expected not to hear back from the people I had reached out to, but because the thesis of the video depended on the events happening as I remembered them.

I was lucky; there are whole essays I had done in the past that fell apart at this stage.

YouTube video by Valeria Santiago How To Solve Art (feat. Jane Schoenbrun, Nick Nocturne & More)

In recent viewing of well-researched essays that do great archival work—& reflecting on my priorities w/ essays as exploration beyond intent—I wanted to spotlight my one true attempt at academia, since it turns two years old tomorrow: the final Conclusion of my “Literal” Essay (beginning at 42:35).