#Countdown podcast

[arlengrossman]

Keith Olbermann: Biden Should Make Use of the New Presidential Powers Given Him By SCOTUS!

[riptide-hiatus-countdown]

Update

For those who do not have the patreon, Grizzly released an update video on the status of Riptide. He spoke about working with a writing coach named Mariana (not qsmp) who is helping him with diverse characters, sensitivity checks, and world building.

When Riptide returns Grizzly said they were going to run Jay’s solo session first. He also teased the possibility of upping the quality by using maps and getting together more however it would most likely just stay as it was. They also spoke about bonus material like a recap however that would not come out for a while.

The release date of Riptide has also changed due to behind the scenes complications and to make way for wonderlust. It is said that it is looking more towards early August when recordings and uploads would start again.

In the meantime there are some things you can look forward to to fill that Riptide shaped hole in your heart. The first being Wonderlust. Wonderlust is a new JRWI campaign that is run by Bizly. It’s out and free to watch on youtube and spotify. Another patreon exclusive is a short campaign run by Grizzly featuring Milo Mumbles in place of Charlie as he is busy. If you don’t know Milo she ran a channel with Bizly called Spittake and whether or not you can watch Spittake to see some funny Bebo moments and get to see Milo absolutely dunk on said Bebo. Another lesser known campaign Grizzly didn’t mention is he is in the midst of a non-JRWI called Shadows Over Welde which is streamed live on twitch channel AlphaAniki. It is run by Jonah Scott the person who played Ichabod as a guest character a while back. It already has a few episodes released and for those interested Grizzly plays a representative of the reformed church of lolth called Zephrael so if you like religious themes I would definitely recommend checking it out.

In terms of this blog, as there is no confirmed date I am going to move the timers to continually be moving the timer back later and later, based on speculation, until we get a confirmed date so the date is not completely accurate and more of a way to see how much time has passed.

Don’t worry I miss Riptide too. But it ain’t lastin forever.

[amee-racle-ofmyown]

'It glowed, like an old neon sign. Seaweed dangled from its mouth, or maybe it was growing there like a– like a great, long beard. The whale was enormous — the size of a battleship. It was like a sea monster from an ancient myth.'

LESS THAN A WEEK LEFT UNTIL THE EDGE OF SLEEP TV SHOW RELEASES‼️‼️‼️

so I finally made some proper fanart lol (also I posted this last night but then fell asleep and apparently it just? never posted?? tumblr cmon)

[threebooksoneplot]

3B1P Countdown to Eclipse season: Day 1

Something else? Tell us in the comments!

Celebrate your very own I Was A Little Theatrical Back Then Thursday by tuning in to the Three Books One Plot Season 3 premiere (Wednesday 9/11/24) and listening along as we read Eclipse and The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner simultaneously this year!

Three Books One Plot is a Twilight podcast with a twist: we simultaneously read Life and Death and Midnight Sun! This season: we'll once again brave the dangers Stephenie Meyer wouldn't as we continue Life and Death and Midnight Sun into the Eclipse era. More info here.

[echoesoftheeldritch]

Hear that snarling behind you?

The shifting of the leafs as something comes ever closer?

You better run! RUN! FASTER!

It should be shaken off now, I think.

Take a load off. Sit at the fire. Tell us a story.

Echoes of the Eldritch is a Magnus Archives fan podcast that tells the story of a new archival crew in one of the worlds that the fears got sent to, as they learn to deal with their new frightening universe.

We are currently looking for plot and script writers!

Until 15. November you can send us your TMA-style statement (of 2500 words or more) via our discord server!

Additionally we are looking for:

- statement writers

- artists

- audio editors

- voice actors (for a few remaining parts)

These openings will not close in the near future and you don't need any experience to apply, we would love to have you!

For more info, and to send an application, join our discord!

You can also ask questions and find more information right on this blog!

Now, keep running! If they haven't caught you yet, maybe you can catch them!

[slyandthefamilybook]

so Candace Owens has been fired from the Daily Wire, allegedly for making claims about Rabbis drinking the blood of Christian babies. The replies to the tweet by the Daily Wire's CEO announcing her firing are definitely not full of neo-Nazis pledging their support for her, so that's cool

[didthekingdieyet]

come on sexyman competition. work your magic

[where-are-the-spooky-gays-2]

I've started writing a podcast and it's got me thinking about these two starting a podcast together about cryptids or creating a mystery podcast or something.

-g

Y E S I N E E D this!!! They absolutely would have a podcast where they talk about cryptids and other spooky creatures and I can definitely see them also doing a side series where they voice act a murder mystery or horror story they wrote together <3

[acepodcastweek]

One day til Ace Week

Ace Week 2023 starts Sunday, 22nd of October: that's tomorrow!

Do you enjoy fiction podcasts? Do you appreciate ace characters in ttrpg and audio drama shows? Want to show ace creators some enthusiasm? Why not join us for the first ever Ace Week Fiction Podcast Fan Event? You can find out more about the festivities here.

[goodmorningevildoers]

Tick-tock, delicious humans.

Tick. Tock.

[bronzebluemind]

It’s been 30 weeks since the World Cup finale, 3 to go.

[arlengrossman]

Olbermann: Putin Must Pay A Price

In 2021, President Biden had warned Putin of ‘devastating’ fallout if activist Navalny dies in jail. https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/16/politics/alexey-navalny-biden-putin-geneva/index.html Show us you meant it, Joe. Keith Olbermann explains how Biden should respond: Putin must pay a price for killing Alexei Navalny. “Start with the transfer of the $300 billion in Russian assets seized after the…

[riptide-hiatus-countdown]

Update

On the official website and patreon they posted some updates which I will relay to you.

TLDR: New Date is looking like March-June

[sshbpodcast]

The Worst Season of All of Star Trek?

by Ames

What’s the worst season of all of Trek? Season 3 of TOS? Season 2 of Picard? All of The Animated Series? Well your hosts at A Star to Steer Her By have a contender. We just finished our watchthrough of season 3 of Enterprise, and if we were mostly unimpressed by the first two seasons, we downright abhorred this one. For a season that’s ultimately one great big 9/11 allegory, it forgets what sci-fi in general – and Star Trek in particular – is meant to do with topical politics: use your imaginative medium to make people ask the Big Questions™.

This season doesn’t do that. 

Instead of pushing themes like what is moral and right during a time of terrorism and war, Enterprise spends most of the time letting Archer unapologetically commit war crimes with the underlying current of “it may not be nice, but it’s necessary.” Well, is it? It’s not until very late in the season that he even feels bad about all the people he manipulates, tortures, or kills. Among some truly, truly cynical episodes, there are still some diamonds, but we’ll let our Tops and Bottoms Lists make those arguments. So dive into the Delphic Expanse with us as we high- and lowlight this season below and listen to our scathing arguments on this week’s podcast episode (blast over to 38:19). America! Fuck Yeah!

[images © CBS/Paramount]

Top Three Episodes

That’s not to say the season is not 100% trash. There’s actually some good stuff in here – in fact, some of the best episodes of Enterprise we’ve seen so far, sprinkled throughout some otherwise drek concepts.

“The Shipment”: Ames One shining light in the early episodes comes in the one-off character Gralik Durr. He’s a Xindi-Arboreal who reminds Archer, as bluntly as he can, that not all Xindi should be considered responsible for the atrocities that are being committed by the Council, which is just what we needed to hear amongst a lot of episodes of Archer racially profiling people for things they have no control over. Thank you, Gralik.

“Proving Ground”: Caitlin You just can’t go wrong with a Shran episode. Jeffrey Combs was the breath of fresh air we pined for in a handful of bleak, exhausting, morally repulsive episodes we’d been saddled with. Is it contrived? Yes. Is there any good reason for Shran to be in the Delphic Expanse? Absolutely not. But what a freaking delight to watch Shran pretend to represent an Andorian Mining Consortium. Full marks; no notes.

“Azati Prime”: Jake It finally feels like something is happening in this season-long plot at about episode 18, when some consequential actions transpire. That’s three-quarters of the way through the season, mind you, but who’s counting? (I am.) We reach the Xindi weapon, Archer gets captured trying to kamikaze the thing, and there’s some really great ship battle. It’s also the first time Archer shows remorse for all the harm he’s caused.

“The Council”: Chris The homestretch of the season has picked up the pace in this whole Xindi War arc, and thank goodness. So much time was spent spinning its wheels that it felt like a success to have so much plot development in the last couple of episodes of the season. And finally (FINALLY), Archer switches this mission to one of diplomacy and collaboration instead of rage and torture. It feels like Star Trek for the first time in a while.

“Countdown”: Chris Same deal here as in “The Council.” We’re close to the end, so things are speeding to the resolution. Plot elements are getting tied up, the Xindi Council is way more fleshed out by now, and every decision has consequences for a change. Dolim and the other Reptilians also up the stakes by taking matters into their own hands, solidifying the realness of the threat of the weapon that was nebulous up to this point.

“Twilight”: Ames, Caitlin, Jake We get a good amount of agreement for this genuinely impressive, well-written, well-acted episode that deviates a little from the Xindi plot while also fitting into the season perfectly. The idea of the interspatial parasites causing Archer to lose his short-term memory is a great sci-fi concept, and the resolution is so clever that we’re fully onboard for a full reset ending that, in less skilled hands, would seem convenient.

“Similitude”: Ames, Caitlin, Chris, Jake But the episode that gets the vote of all of your SSHB hosts is a new twist on the “Tuvix” dilemma. Connor Trineer absolutely goes all out as his duplicate, Sim, and we feel devastated at the end when the inevitable occurs. Archer and Phlox are, frankly, monsters to do this to a person; there’s no debate on that. But what we walk away with is a heart-wrenching acting showcase for all the different Trip iterations we meet.

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Bottom Three Episodes

And now, what we’re all here for: shitting on all the bad things from this morally reprehensible season. From all the war crimes, to the racial profiling, to the missed opportunities and even more recycled shots, this season just plain has so many low points.

“Doctor’s Orders”: Jake Like how “E²” is just DS9’s “Children of Time” but with Enterprise paint (and not as good), this episode is just Voyager’s “One” but with Enterprise paint (and also not as good). If you’re going to entirely rehash a story your franchise has already done, at least change it up a little. Watching Phlox and T’Pol wander around while everyone else is put under just makes you think, “Dang, Jeri Ryan did this way better.”

“Chosen Realm”: Caitlin Every so often, Star Trek tries to make a point about religion and faith as compared to the science and logic of its main characters, and this is one of those times it bungles it. Like with Voyager’s “Sacred Ground,” this one doesn’t quite make the argument it thinks it’s making. And then it manages to somehow make a joke of all of it by having the religious factions be at war over something purely trivial. Blah.

“Rajiin”: Caitlin We could have called a mile away that Rajiin was up to no good and saving her was going to be a mistake. And it’s not like we were really missing watching T’Pol getting sexually assaulted all the time like in “Fusion” – we really didn’t need yet another oversexed scene of her getting pawed at by some villain or other. Everything was just predictable, boring, and repetitive.

“Carpenter Street”: Jake As if we haven’t had enough mind-boggling time travel from the Temporal Cold War arc, Daniels has to drop by and stir up shit again. There’s just something dissatisfying about the Detroit plot. The Reptilians’ need for all the blood types is just contrived. Bringing T’Pol of all people is just begging for Vulcan shenanigans. The whole thing should be Daniels’s problem and he refuses to do jack about it!

“North Star”: Ames As an episode that’s “Spectre of the Gun” meets “The Paradise Syndrome,” this one probably belonged in The Original Series. A Cowboys-and-Indians story feels entirely out of place in the current era of Trek, and that’s all the more bolstered by the fact that we’re in the middle of the Xindi arc and take a week off to dress up in spurs and ride horseys. The anti-racist message also seems just too easy, especially considering how racist Archer is being the rest of this season.

“Damage”: Chris Archer makes a lot of deplorable decisions this season. From ordering the Sim clone made in “Similitude,” to memory-wiping Degra in “Strategem,” to torturing that Osaarian pirate from “Anomaly,” to treating the first Xindi we meet in “The Xindi” like trash, he’s a bad captain. But stealing from the Illyrians might take the cake because these people were innocent and Archer acts like it was necessary. Oh, and making T’Pol a junkie was a weird writing choice.

“Hatchery”: Ames, Caitlin, Chris For once Archer is in the right in this episode! Purely incidentally, he’s advocating for treating the Xindi-Insectoid babies like people and not letting them die, and the rest of the crew mutinies because he’s not committing enough war crimes. But the episode undoes what could have been a moral lesson by having Archer’s mind be compromised, and it makes me throw things because they were this close, people!

“Harbinger”: Ames, Chris, Jake When the constant sexualizing of T’Pol is actually the highlight of your episode, you know you’ve done fucked up. First, we’ve got Reed being a Big Baby™ about Major Hayes being insubordinate – something that comes entirely out of left field. But even worse than that is Archer finding a being in some anomaly and deciding to torture him. We’ve never even met his kind before and his first impulse is to treat him like the enemy with absolutely no proof. God, I hate this season.

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Purportedly season four actually starts to pick up, so what do you all think? Was this the lowest of the low? Is it all [relatively] uphill from here? Find out as we continue to watch through Enterprise on SoundCloud (or wherever you podcast). Let us know your least favorite season of Trek overall over on Facebook and Twitter, and maybe commit a couple fewer war crimes than Archer. Just a couple.

[threebooksoneplot]

3B1P Countdown to Eclipse season: Day 2

Bald/nuance? Tell us in the comments!

Could Edward and Jacob ever have been friends? What exactly went down in that cuck tent, anyway? Speculate with us in the Three Books One Plot Season 3 premiere (9/11/24) and listen along as we read Eclipse and The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner simultaneously this year!

Three Books One Plot is a Twilight podcast with a twist: we simultaneously read Life and Death and Midnight Sun! This season: we'll once again brave the dangers Stephenie Meyer wouldn't as we continue Life and Death and Midnight Sun into the Eclipse era. More info here.

[echoesoftheeldritch]

Pretty hard to keep your wits about you while your skin is melting off, isn't it?

But God, it's so beautiful!

The searing white flame? The utter and total destruction? Nothing will be the same after this.

Maybe telling us a story will help you appreciate it?

Echoes of the Eldritch is a Magnus Archives fan podcast that takes place in one of the worlds that the fears got sent to. It follows a new archival crew in a new archive, as they learn to live in their newly frightening world.

We are currently in pre-production and are still looking for people to join the team! Experience isn't required, we would simply love to have you!

We are currently still looking for these people:

- script/plot writers (application deadline 15. November)

- statement writers

- audio editers

- artists

- voice actors (for a few remaining parts)

Interested? Find out more right on this blog, or by joining us on discord, where you can also apply to be part of the team!

We're looking forward to seeing you!

Now, burn this sight into your mind. Because soon enough it's just gonna be ashes and you'll want to remember what was taken from you.