#Caleb Michaels

[jenijro]

I’m never going to forget how Adam’s first line in the bright sessions was “what the fuck is that supposed to mean???”

[jashiethh]

"Together we make green"💚

Bright sessions holds a super special place in my heart, and I can't believe it's been over two years since I first listened to it :(,,,, Additionally, Adam and Caleb changed my brain chemistry, I can't explain the feelings I felt when I finished the College Tapes😭I love all of them dearly <33(Even Damien...he makes me sad though) I want to put more bright sessions art after finals too agghhhh

[cometsandstardust]

no one on campus knows i’m listening to doug eiffel try to explain the concept of dying to the ‘dear listeners’

no one on campus knows i’m listening to jonathan sims start the apocalypse

no one on campus knows i’m listening to “one way or another, together”

no one on campus knows i’m listening to mr. bonzo

no one on campus knows i’m listening to sally grissom take away her own choice

no one on campus knows i’m listening to celia betray sam and abandon him to a catastrophic dimension

no one on campus knows i’m listening to daniel powell realize he’s not quite human any more

no one on campus knows i’m listening to alexander hilbert betray his whole crew

no one on campus knows i’m listening to caleb michaels get lost in his own and others rage and beat damien to the point that he ends up in a coma

[soggycroutons04]

"You keep me green." -Caleb Michaels (The Bright Sessions)

[thelaurenshippen]

*trips and another fiction podcast falls out of my pocket*

hello, it is I, Lauren Shippen, maker of many audio dramas, including the daily @breakerwhiskey. after having so much fun doing that podcast every weekday, I thought "what would be the opposite of doing a daily podcast?" and here we are, with a yearly one. New Year's Day is a yearly podcast about what to make of your life when you live forever and is a collaboration between me and my dear friends Andrew Nowak and Briggon Snow (who you may know from @thebrightsessions). here's the elevator pitch:

Every thirteen years, two old rivals meet on New Year’s Day to discuss their lives in the intervening decade. They lead separate lives but share one earth-shattering secret: they’re both immortal.

new episodes will come out every january 1st - for this first jan 1, we released 3 episodes, so that the main story could get underway, but moving forward it will be only one a year! which is a real change for me obviously! and will certainly be an interesting challenge from a storytelling and audience building standpoint.

on a personal note, this show is a continuation of what I've been trying to do with @breakerwhiskey and what I hope to do with @maxinemilespod later this year, which is to independently produce fiction podcasts. I could go on and on about how tough 2023 was on audio drama - and independent art in general - but suffice to say, having a career as an independent artist is hard. we're making this show - as with @breakerwhiskey - for the sheer love of it, and we hope you love it too.

happy new year!

[chickwiththepurpleguitar]

I Did It!!!!

Thank you so much to everyone who sent me prompts to help me reach my 2024 writing goal. As of about five minutes ago, I completed it!!! I wrote an average of 500 words every day for 366 days, and you guys were SO great and helpful in me getting there. To celebrate, my final writing of the year is 5 snippets about some of our favorite blorbos celebrating New Year's Eve together. I asked five friends to pick the pairings, so I'll tag them next to their snippet. If you're still waiting on a prompt to be filled, I do plan to get to them in the New Year, but probably with way less haste. You guys are awesome, thank you so much for reading my work!

Julie & Flynn: for @joyandthephantoms

“Okay!” Julie says decisively, settling herself up against the headboard of her bed with her notebook poised in her lap. “Who wants to go first?”

Flynn, lying on her stomach down the bed from her, feet kicked in the air as she taps her pen against her own notepad, says, “You, cause I’m still working through some of mine.”

“Well, hurry up cause it’s almost midnight.” Julie holds her notebook up like a hymn book and begins to read. “First of all, my word for the year is!” Pause for dramatic effect. “Ease.”

“Ooh, love it. Very Eat, Pray, Love. Go on.”

Damien & Mark: for @starchemist

“So, uh,” Damien says, voice low and gruff in the dark of the hotel room. They’re lying tucked up against each other, Mark’s back to Damien’s chest, Damien’s arm wrapped around him. The Ball Drop, still about forty minutes away, is playing softly on the TV, but they’ve been much more focused on each other than Times Square.

“Yeah?” Mark says when he doesn’t go on, barely a whisper.

“New year usually means, like. New you, and all that bullshit. Resolutions. Airing your grievances and whatever.”

Mark turns his head to look at him. “I’m not telling anyone about us.”

“Oh, thank God.”

Willie & Alex: for @skeletaltoad

Their friends started counting down about a minute and a half ago, because Reggie gave a whole speech on December 23rd about how “it’s really not fair that the last ten seconds of the year are the only ones that get recognized, when really we’ve been counting down since midnight on last New Year’s Eve” etc etc and wouldn’t shut up until they agreed to start the vocal countdown at 90.

Willie and Alex haven’t been counting with them. They’ve been sitting on the floor of the Molinas’ living room, holding hands and staring into each other’s eyes, preparing themselves for their first New Year’s Kiss.

Nick & Carrie: for @queenofthequillandink

At 10:00, her dad goes to bed, so Carrie sets Nick up on the couch in the den with about fourteen blankets and The Holiday on streaming.

At 11:00, she paints his nails a festive shade of pink and orders a large pizza with everything for them to share.

At 11:30, they make twin hot fudge sundaes with about a million toppings each. 

At 11:45, Carrie puts the Ball Drop on and makes fun of Ryan Seacrest, as per tradition.

At midnight, they ring in the new year. A year of healing, of friendship, of peace. Still by each other’s sides.

Caleb & Adam: for @staystrange

“How’s the party?” Adam says on the screen, a red solo cup in his hand.

“Loud,” Caleb says, rubbing absently at his chest, and they both know he doesn’t just mean the volume. “I wish you were here.”

“I know, me too. We’ll ring in next year together.” Adam glances over his shoulder, and Caleb can hear someone (probably Caitlin) shouting from the next room. “I’m being summoned for the count down.”

“You’ll come back to kiss me, won’t you?”

Adam smiles at him— the tiniest smile ever, which means it’s the most real. “Of course I will. Happy New Year, babe.”

“Happy New Year.”

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[imgonnagetkilledbynutstink]

I love the college tapes cause the important gist of it is that it's about two stupid men who are incredibly in love with their gorgeous perfect boyfriends and it's awesome

[maircries]

In traditional mair fashion, I’m joining another podcast fandom 800 years late so who knows if anyone out in the ether will see this but. I’ve been listening to the bright sessions and Caleb has very much become my Favorite which translates to “I want to put him through the Horrors,” but I’m honestly so surprised no one has really beat me to it?

Like, listening to safe house part ii and:

I heard these and I was sooooo ready to find and read all the fics in which he tortured himself and self flagellates. So I was pretty shocked when there wasn’t much?? And like there’s bits and some fics with ptsd and panic attacks, but (maybe I’m just projecting) these little bits (ESPECIALLY the “like I want to be dead”) had me hoping some people had written about him and depression, especially as an empath. And I know Adam has depression and I definitely see that addressed in fics and how it affects Caleb receiving it, but I just think it’d be Neat to see him deal with it coming from himself

Anyways we’re having a great time

[thegaycousin-upgrade]

I was relistening to The Bright Sessions and Adam’s FIRST LINE on the whole show is “what the FUCK is that supposed to mean” ICONIC! That’s iconic as hell. Also him going “oh well that’s good” after Caleb says he likes him.

Adam is gold. The green boys are gold. This episode is gold. This season is gold. The bright sessions is gold. The atypical universe is gold. Lauren Shippen is gold. I love it here.

[sol-draws-sometimes]

Am I late to the trend? Hell yah! Do I care? No!!

Adam’s freckles are in the drawing, open/tap the drawing for higher res

[do-you-ship-it-polls]

Do you ship it?

[jenijro]

Dude I love the college tapes because there literally isn’t even a single braincell in the main scooby doo squad.

Well unless you count Marley Jason Beck who is the one with even half a braincell.

[douglasfeiffel]

The college tapes: *Caleb voice* omgggg i miss my boyfriend so much >.< theres some weird happenings on campus though ...

The AM Archives: *Joan voice* How do we sucessfully reform the prison system in a way that causes the least amount of harm for those involved... how do we deal with grief and betrayal... will i ever be forgiven for what I have done...

[ineedyoutheretokeepmegreen]

Having the Adam and Caleb playlists on my phone is the BEST (I’m an Apple Music user). Listening to them really makes you feel all of the emotions in the best way (even the sadder songs). I highly recommend checking them out!!!💚😇

I have also attached links from The Bright Sessions website that lists all of the songs from each playlist if you want to listen to them too (including all of the other characters too!)

@thelaurenshippen @thebrightsessions @briggonsnow

[jamcoffee]

a friend sent this to me and it reminded me of a few Men

[thelaurenshippen]

How did you come up with Caleb's power changing for tct? It's not something we encounter in the original series, but holy crap the parallels between Caleb's new ability and Damien and knowing how much baggage and crap that comes with that will never fail to make me nuts. And it's such a cool thing (objectively) that an empath can start to make their power reverse. Where did that idea come from?

(Also did you know that in Caleb's very first episode Dr. Bright asks if he's worried about making someone do something they don't want to do and i literally scream every time i hear that)

GREAT question!

it really came, first and foremost, from knowing that we needed to provide Caleb some internal conflict re: his ability - TCT takes place so many years after the end of TBS, but fundamentally, the Bright universe has to be about struggles with abilities at least to some degree. but with the amount of work that Caleb had put in to understand and control his ability, the conflict couldn't be about that. so what to do? change the way his ability works. we talked about it a bit like a pokemon evolution, and the way that his ability changed was definitely inspired by what we'd done with Damien in the past. in fact, iirc, I think we discussed Caleb going through a similar kind of evolution back after he beat up Damien, but ultimately decided against it at the time.

also, no, I did NOT know that about Caleb's first episode (I know, I know, I wrote it, but I have never revisited the first season really), so clearly it was on my mind since the beginning!