Hey Ace! Yeah sorry about that, I'm clearly not great when it comes to on-the-spot discussion of hot button issues, regardless of where I stand. I'm nervous enough to stream as it is, but when discussions get a bit on the serious side I just get super flustered and usually catch a case of foot-in-mouth. Which is why I try to avoid those kinds of topics on stream because I don't want to misrepresent myself, and is probably why I got so frustrated to see a lighthearted discussion of the IP turn into a discussion about the author's beliefs. I've since learned that to a lot of people that discussion is inevitable, but I've never really had a problem with separating the art from the artist and just wanted to chat about the HP series as a series. Which is probably what I should have said at the time, but instead I just babbled awkwardly, sat there awkwardly, and now here I am typing about it awkwardly.

So yeah I just didn't handle it well. For serious issues I really need time to write out my thoughts instead of just free-talking, because I get pretty anxious when I'm unprepared. (Honestly even now I'm anxious, coming back and editing this post just because I worry about being misread, you know? It's serious shit and I'm just so unused to talking about serious shit.) Trans people are rad, I don't really care about JK Rowling or what she has to say about life or anything like that, I just think Harry Potter is cool, and I'm usually not one to pontificate about my personal beliefs on-stream, so when I get put in that position out of the blue I get flustered and say dumb shit. Hope that clears my position up a little.

I'm sorry for making you uncomfortable! If it's of any consolation, I was also very uncomfortable.