DIARIES II (ABOUT ME)

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DIARIES II (ABOUT ME)

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71 minutes

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Jul 3, 2023

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Chi Chi reads once again from his diaries.
"When you are not watching
I prepare myself for you."

Only available on SIRENS for patreon subscribers: patreon.com/imsopopular

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Jul 3, 2023

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I’M SO POPULAR is an audio program from the end of the world by American drag queen in Japan, Zach Langley Chi Chi. Scream into the abyss, find another way: discussing with anyone and everyone homosexual beauty, art, culture, Madonna, Marxism, J-Pop, James Joyce, drag, death, all of it, none of it. What can be salvaged.

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DIARIES II (ABOUT ME)

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