you know that feeling, when you read an essay on a topic you're adjacent to, or nowadays watch a video essay/listen to an audio essay on said topic, and all of the ideas are things you already knew and agreed with or don't really have a strong stance about etc, but they say a bunch of words for things, which you didn't know had a way to say them?
I've done that a bunch lately. Here's a list of a few video essays that hit this, I lose text essays fast and I haven't found anyone other than myself making audio essays these days (the scene is there, it's just extremely difficult to find your audio essay unless you make a video out of it).
The Autistic Horror of Don't Hug Me I'm Scared (season 1) by Patricia Taxxon, from which I feel a little more confidence describing my own trauma where my autismus is somehow involved.
World of Warcraft Classic And What We Left Behind by Dan Olson (FoldingHuman), from which I've figured out more of how to describe the kinds of games I like to play and make.
I don't remember which one it was but an hbomberguy video essay helped me word better the necessity of the niche reviewer and proud display of your own media bias as any critic, which has helped me explain to people, in private, some of what's going wrong in game reviews and what's being done right in niche music reviews that naturally prevents that mode of failure.
Buying a PC With Dell: My Journey Into Hell by Super Eyepatch Wolf, which I can just link to people to show why I care so much about truthful, complete, clear, and multi-format documentation of any tech being listed for sale up-front, to show that unclear listing is extremely harmful to the people who might want/need it, and prevents many people from buying at all even though they want/need it.
full bias statement: I had a complete linguistic reset at around 10 years old and learned english mostly by talking to people on various website chatboxes and teamspeak, and I am autisal. I can't really write the word "autis" with the m at the end or the word "autistint" with the nt replaced with a c. I was not ever in special ed, though experienced some similar things to what's apparently common in special ed. I am Canadian. Essays selected by having run into them; I recognize 3 of these items are by people who work together a lot, and that's likely how I ended up at them. I am strongly biased against video essays which require constant viewing, due to being visually-impaired and distractible, and stop opening video essays from people who mandate constant viewing. I am strongly biased against essayists who attempt to provide retellings but are obviously-unreliable, such as that guy who's really proud about having been on infowars and says all journalists are bad despite being one.
