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Why 1994?
We were all around 5 when the millenium happened. That was a very significant event. My brother and I were in Cromwell. I remember it quite vividly. Something to put in the movie... To me, all that stuff reminds me of Planetary by Warren Ellis and John Cassaday.
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Amanda Riddell
Oct 311 min read
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Me vs. the spies
The worst part is that they're so good at injecting text/content into feeds. Felt like my dick was hooked up to a monitor while I masturbated. They use divide and conquer tactics. Make you think that your friends hate you. In my case, it was mostly bullies from real life, but I'm alleging that they were given access to my laptop or my porn feed. The spies probably did the injecting, but they got people to feed info to them. - All that bullshit about my mental breakdown wa
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Amanda Riddell
Oct 301 min read
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Flags...
Has anyone ever pointed out that the enby flag is literally the intersex flag + those extra strips of black and white? Can't help but feel they're co-opting the colours to suggest that they're the only legitimate third gender or third sex group. Their philosophy isn't really compatible with trans or intersex people, who often have a spiritual or religious view of gender. We embody genders we feel spiritually connected to; they 'queer' genders. ChatGPT said this: “The non-
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Amanda Riddell
Oct 291 min read
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Saturday...
I cancelled the AGM. Didn't feel like it. Feeling highly scrutinised and wondering if I'll have my holidays ruined like they were in '24 thanks to AMPP's unlikely success. - The stigma of being called a creepy stalker continues to haunt me. Nobody's judging me for it, but they did point those accusing fingers at me before asking myself or Puhihuia about the full story. Wasn't charged at any point. Couldn't prove I'd intended to distress her. Essentially, that whole saga wa
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Amanda Riddell
Oct 281 min read
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What am I trying to say?
It's corny, but I had a bit of a revelation while watching Samsara. I'm trying to colour the sands of time, vibrating through life. I can't be persuaded to make Steve's film. Performance art has made me tired of big movies. The shorts are cool, though. I'm not saying that I'll direct all of them, though I'm keen to make The Plaything and A Night to Remember.
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Amanda Riddell
Oct 271 min read
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To Andrew Little
Weeded Out can't exist, Andrew. Steve Barr didn't have the right to sell it. Wrote that script entirely on my own. NZ Writer's Guild and the WGA both agreed it was entirely my work. His script is what we call an unauthorised derivative. It does happen, but it's usually something that happens in American studios when a group of producers are mad. Like, they'll try to write a sneaky version to pitch to an executive. Which is what he allegedly did... - I've followed all the
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Amanda Riddell
Oct 252 min read
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Stop rewriting my life
That's for the so-called fans that are really just IP trolls. I rewrote it, and it's fine. Your ideas might be more profitable, but they're not legally permissible. I think that it speaks of transphobic bias that a cis guy got paid money to rip me off. You're welcome to create a piece that doesn't infringe on my IP. One of the reasons I become suicidal is the idea that people love Tina more than me. Mr. Barr and his allies put that vibe across, and that's why they're in tro
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Amanda Riddell
Oct 252 min read
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Innate Harmonic Intuition: The Human Ear Before Pythagoras (ChatGPT 5)
The history of musical tuning and harmonic theory is often told as a story of discovery — a moment when Pythagoras, experimenting with string lengths, revealed that musical intervals obey mathematical ratios. Yet this account neglects the deeper truth that human beings already possessed an intuitive sense of pitch and harmonic relation long before any written system of measurement. The monochord was not an invention of harmony, but a translation of a universal, embodied perc
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Amanda Riddell
Oct 225 min read
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'everything is political' - yeah, right!
For me, life isn't inherently political, but the non-binary band clearly sees things that way. What Cass hasn't said publicly is that she believed my identity wasn't valid. Because I wasn't 'transgressing' in US style. The Red Scare creeps spent years calling me a misogynist. They spent years trying to force an androgynous man that occasionally wore dresses. That's why I'm claiming it's conversion therapy. - Nothing could be further from the truth. I'm out and prouder th
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Amanda Riddell
Oct 212 min read
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'please try doing live singing for us'
No. It's not good for my mental health, and I'm not suited to opera or show singing. The jazz album is significantly better because my vocals are suited to jazz. Opera singers can't scat. Opera singers can't produce microtonal scales. Opera people can't produce multiphonics (in several idioms). It's not overtone singing: it's whistling and singing, or activating guttural sounds. Whistling is the same as doing it with a wind instrument. Opera people can't do the Polynesian
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Amanda Riddell
Oct 213 min read
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'be seen'
The boycott hasn't ended yet. It's still going until Weeded Out: the movie dies. As for 'do the gay drama for visibility' - no, hire a dumb bimbo for that. Visibility comes in many forms. Being a trans journalist and composer is visibility. The Dakumentary is about as long as Pose, cost tens of millions less, and had a transition rather than 'just' an out and proud person. Though the film isn't in chronological order, it's obvious that I start largely as a man, then finish
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Amanda Riddell
Oct 201 min read
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To my enemies
Sorry. No, you can't agree to work with me in order for us both to get paid. Why? Because I simply don't want to, and I'm employable in other areas. You all have day jobs that pay well, so why can't I? - I know that you're all hurting financially in 2025. I know that you can't afford damages. You should have thought of that when you tried to harass me in 2022-2024. You should have paid me for the script in early 2023. I offered to sell it for $20,000. Cass and James, I
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Amanda Riddell
Oct 201 min read
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To the creeps and the cowards
Don't pretend like what you did on BDSMLR or DeviantArt was ok. It wasn't. When one creates one of those profiles, they don't expect their friends to stalk them. I don't mind people wanking to those images; I hate selfies, so all the images are something that has composition, and I chose the stills with the best postures. However, creating responding images to bully me into being Tina is illegal. - As I say, much of Wellington's creative and queer community were involved.
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Amanda Riddell
Oct 192 min read
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The Performer’s Paradox: Why Acting and Mood Disorders Collide
AM: Despite the fact that many performers/actors etc. are bipolar, it strikes me as one of the worst jobs to have if you have a mood disorder. People stroking your ego when you're already prone to grandiosity is a recipe for Russell Brand. Kay Jamison quipped that researching is an ideal profession. ChatGPT 5 : It’s long been observed that many actors, musicians, and comedians live with bipolar disorder, yet few professions are as perilous for mood stability as the performing
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Amanda Riddell
Oct 193 min read
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choices
When Don was 31, he founded the Mutton Birds. I wrote a string quartet, an opera and an analysis essay. Yes, I'm a world-class guitarist with several trendy minority points for the card players, but ultimately it's my choice not to play or sing in public until the harassment ends. There's at least a dozen other guitarists in my age group who are very good.
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Amanda Riddell
Oct 191 min read
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Balance
Having more than one vice seems to balance me out. As I am at pains to emphasise, it's only my alcohol use that I define as excessive. If I can't smoke weed, I drink more. People need to apologise. I can't feel secure until they do. That's actually professional advice from a counselor. Their bigotry made me an alcoholic, then they have the balls to blame me for drinking! - Making a TV show wouldn't resolve the issue. That's special treatment so others get rich. That's t
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Amanda Riddell
Oct 191 min read
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What constitutes an apology?
Admissions that treating me like an animal or a circus freak was inappropriate and illegal. Admitting you got your rich allies on your side, then used your privilege to punch down. We only found out I'm royalty at the very end of this journey. You could've treated me with that same decency from 2020 forward. - Telling me that I deserved it doesn't constitute an apology. Even if I did, the methods were like a bloody torture porn novel. That's not ok. - Doing so in public
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Amanda Riddell
Oct 192 min read
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'last year'
One of the helpful suggestions that the SIS have been making. Total fiction. No, after those silent vigils, I'm public enemy number one. The only way this ends is via the IGIS, or by reorienting our foreign policy. Either way, I'm not holding my breath.
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Amanda Riddell
Oct 191 min read
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To Steve Barr
You know you're in the shit, or you wouldn't be 'offering' me versions of Weeded Out and saying that I need to dress up to be tolerated. What did you think would happen when you blackmailed me? Sleazy film producers aren't above the law, no matter who their famous friends are.
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Amanda Riddell
Oct 191 min read
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What does it mean to be progressive?
At the very basic level, it's the foolhardy belief that one might leave the world better off than one found it, or that one's children might inherit a better world than ours. Then there's all the technical hullabaloo about progressive taxing, which means that taxes get steadily higher as people's incomes increase. It's hardly rocket science.
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Amanda Riddell
Oct 181 min read
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