#Familiar Affections

[theballadofmortimerlepastorale]

SLW 2023, episode 30 (2023_08_26)

FIRST LIVE BROADCAST AS A TWO HOUR SHOW!

Broadcast: KTQA-LP 95.3 FM Tacoma, streaming address at KTQA.org

Voice-Over/Intro, music in the background: playlist selection #1

01. Nick Cave & Warren Ellis - The Rider Song (London, England 2005)

02. Tom Waits - Big in Japan (Los Angeles, California 1999)

03. Bauhaus - King Volcano (Northampton, England 1983)

04. Einstürzende Neubauten - The Garden (Berlin, Germany 1996)

05. Judy Collins - Dress Rehearsal Rag (Denver, Colorado 1966)

Voice-Over/First Break, music in the background: Black Light District - Cat Parkour (Kyiv, Ukraine 2022)

06. Nuxx Vomica - Perpetual Night (New York City, New York)

07. Ascenship - К​​​а​​​л​​​и​​​н​​​и​​​н​​​г​​​р​​​а​​​д (Indianapolis, Indiana 2023)

08. ben. - Holy City (Lily Of The Valley mix)(Northern Ireland 2023)

Voice-Over/Second Break, music in the background: Black Light District - New End (Kyiv, Ukraine 2022)

09. Distance H - Reason to rush (feat. Liset Alea)(Paris, France 2023)

10. Familiar Affections - Human Warmth (Buchs & Sargans, Switzerland 2023)

11. Preoccupations - Fever (Calgary, Canada 2016)

Voice-Over/Top of The Hour Break, music in the background: Black Light District - Pale Blue Dot (Kyiv, Ukraine 2022)

12. Das Noir - Made Of Flesh And Blood (Athens, Greece 2023)

13. Depeche Mode - Death's Door (Basildon, England 1991)

14. Death And Vanilla - Perpetuum Mobile (Malmö, Sweden 2023)

15. Replicas - Waiting (Tacoma, Washington 2022)

16. Stu Phillips & Glen A. Larson - Knight Rider (Hollywood, California 1982)*

Voice-Over/Forth Break, music in the background: Black Light District - Traction (Kyiv, Ukraine 2022)

17. Licorice Chamber - This Love Is Dark (Codename Lola Mix)(Tacoma, Washington 2021)

18. The Sisters Of Mercy - Valentine (Leeds, England 1983)

19. Joy Division - Dead Souls (Manchester, England 1980)

20. The Cure - Just One Kiss (Crawley, England 1983)

21. The Velvet Underground - The Murder Mystery (New York City, New York 1969)

22. Nick Cave & Warren Ellis - The Rider Song (The Proposition)(London, England 2005)

23. Other - A Summoning (Seattle, Washington 2021)

Voice-Over/Last Break, music in the background: Black Light District - House Arrest (Kyiv, Ukraine 2022)

*REQUESTED MUSIC

[tomlivingspace]

I know you.

[novelconcepts]

Obviously next week could prove this all dead-wrong, but I don’t think the trial’s quite over. I don’t believe the end of that episode actually took place, because I’m pretty sure we’re still firmly in the “punish Agatha” phase. Rio’s suddenly gone. Alice seems to be dead by Agatha’s hand, and no one—including Teen, who has always been on her side—seems primed to believe she was out of control. The others have been sucked beneath the power of the surrogate son who not only just told Agatha to fuck off, but went full-Wanda to do it. It just all seems too tailored to cut up any of the character progress Agatha’s made on the Road thus far. Getting harassed by her ghost mother and hearing her son’s voice don’t feel like a complete tear-down. This does. It feels like more trial.

[yepmimix]

i like to think reapers tend to intimidate people upon first meetings (often unintentionally) its part of that good ol reaper charm. something about their mere presence just makes people's bodies freeze up.

[aroaceleovaldez]

apparently pjotv twt was being weird about book!Percy's eyes being green because they don't think the ocean can be green (???) so consider this a sequel to my Grace siblings eye colors post and here is some visual references of green water for all your Percy inspo needs:

And for reference, the water around New York-ish where Percy is usually is somewhere around this color:

or some alternatives:

or here is a nice hazel green if you want his eyes more on the brown side, which is very common in freshwater ponds and streams:

or if you want him to have totally brown eyes - water rich in tannins will appear brown, greenish-brown, or very dark brown - this is sometimes called "blackwater" due to often appearing very dark or having low visibility:

[cutiesigh]

「Demo WIP」 Can y'all watch my plant real quick? 🍈

[myrfing]

venat’s weirdness in that murdering one guy would have been the same as murdering Everyone On Earth to her. the polar nemesis to the omelas child society she will just hit the sunder button rather than have a single person or group be deemed expendable. the only one other than hermes to be concerned with the cosmos/the world outside the egg. arguably her desperation to have the wol be born and live is her most selfish act. hope incarnate. crazy ass character of forever

[glow-worms-are-believers]

Back in Brainiac (dp x dc)

"Great Expectations!" Mr. Lancer exclaimed and Danny's eyes slid open as he prayed to every god he'd ever heard of it wasn't another ghost attack, only to find himself looking at an unfamiliar blonde boy sitting on Mr. Lancer's desk, looking as surprised as the teacher himself.

Now, randomly appearing teens were strange enough on their own, but randomly appearing teens with their green-tinted skin were even more so.

The whole class was alight with buzz as everyone started talking and squirming in their seats trying to get a better look at the boy.

"Another ghost attack?" Sam said quietly from behind Danny, but the half-ghost boy shook his head.

"My ghost sense didn't trigger."

"What is it then?" Tucker asked as he held his PDA up to record the scene for future reference.

Danny shrugged. "Beats me."

The green boy slid down from the desk and the chatter died down to an almost perfect silence.

"What century is this?" the boy asked and Danny saw his friends perk up.

"What did he say?" the halfa heard Kwan ask.

"He wants to know what time it is," Star answered.

"Can't he read a clock?" Kwan huffed.

The chatter grew again, and Danny sighed.

"The 21st century," Danny announced loudly enough to cut through the noise and a few of his classmates turned towards him at the sound, but he was barely aware of it as the green boy's gaze came to rest on him.

"You're in the 21st century," Danny repeated as the other boy's eyes seemed to scan every single part of himself with laser focus.

Then, the boy inclined his head in the half's direction. "Thank you," he said, and then turned towards the classroom door and walked out.

The class stood silent for a second or two before devolving into even more chaos. Even Lancer's "quiet down!" did nothing to mitigate the noise and Danny took the opportunity to turn to his friends.

"Well, that happened," Tucker said as she looked towards the open door the guy had walked through.

"Something tells me we haven't seen the last of him," Sam pondered as she clasped her hands together in front of her.

"No kidding," Danny answered with a sigh.

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

ORV is about enduring the horrors in real time.

(for @everyonesfavoritebastard)

[luminique]

Do you think Lighter's the type of person who likes being hugged randomly? What if his lover decides to give him a hug out of nowhere because they wanted to "hug his sadness away"?

tbh i can sorta see it but he does have some sharp parts on his person so i don’t think he would like you to get hurt.

with that said though, i don’t think he would ever be against a hug from you. he does freeze up for a moment, trying to decide whether to punch whoever just did that, but then he’d look down and see your arms around him. also, i think he finds it comforting in a sense. no words being spoken but he understands what you’re trying to do. actions convey emotions and he could tell from how tight you were holding onto him that you would be distraught if he was gone. it doesn’t go away but it does subside it, the feeling of regret lingers on in the back of his mind.

[lightningant]

talking with a friend about snape like severitus as a genre is too tempted to make snape realize that harry is a poor little abused boy and go out of his way to protect him. he is a child-hater who tasked his only friend with being the sole proof of the world being capable of good and thus interpreted her death as nothing more than the death of that goodness. he barely cares about her love for harry. his reaction to finding out harry's family hates him [details unclear] is to simply retire "you're spoiled" as an insult and continuing to bully him. however mean you think he is he's not mean enough. he's a horrible little man. the catharsis only hits when snape is like oh okay it is impossible to rage against each other indefinitely and children are deserving of grace. the world is deserving of grace. am i deserving of grace? by releasing lily from her role as the arbiter of the world's kindness and brilliance he is forced to bear the horrifying burden of being responsible for the current amount of kindness around him. starting with harry who is currently trying to start a screaming match

also the most important part of severitus (TO ME) is that harry trusts snape's bad attitude as a comforting constant in his neglected child mind and snape being nice to him is inherently a source of conflict because harry doesn't like it. and the kindness he is afforded from snape recontextualizes his neglect in ways that upsets but validates him because its something his abusers should have also done yet snape who he hates twice as much could do it. do you understand. am i making sense

[torchstelechos]

I am of the opinion that Isabeau probably wakes Siffrin up at night years after the fact to just whisper I love you to them like he was planning to during the clocktower sleepover and Siffrin promptly bursts into tears, it probably becomes a regular thing when Isabeau wakes up in the middle of the night after the journey is over

[twentyfivemiceinatrenchcoat]

sugu/reader timeloop au . is this anything

[grumpysunfish]

Can we like. Stop projecting modern day western class discussions into mdzs. Or better yet stop talking about class altogether since so many of you are clearly ill prepared for it.

I love mdzs for how complicated and different it is from what I'm used to and seeing all of that get whittled down into the same old tired money/power = bad when it is so much more than that. It's a completely different system and culture. Western capitalist critiques isn't going to cut it people.

[aroaceleovaldez]

in your most recent tyson post, you said something about leo being distinctly autistic-coded and I was wondering if you could elaborate on that? it sounds really interesting (sorry if you've already posted something on this, I couldn't find anything though)

Of course! I do have a specific tag for talking about Leo's autistic-coding/traits - [here], and [one for Nico as well].

The main aspects with Leo being autistic-coded actually have a lot to do with Nico being autistic-coded, because it's the comparisons between the two that most clearly indicate Leo is autistic-coded rather than it just being his ADHD or etc.

So with Nico being autistic-coded, it's very clear in the Titan's Curse that he's intended to be autistic. First, the first series has a repeating pattern of secondary characters being very distinctly neurodivergent-coded in different ways (Annabeth's adhd/dyslexia, Tyson's down syndrome-coding, Nico's autism-coding). With Nico's introduction, he's pretty stereotypically autistic and we're given a lot of descriptors about him that are notably not attributed to him being ADHD, like it would be for other demigod characters. He doesn't register social cues such as people getting annoyed at him, he's asking/making inappropriate or impolite questions/comments, he gets particularly upset about change (such as Bianca joining the Hunt) and generally gets emotional, and one of his most notable traits he's introduced with is the fact that he has a special interest (MythoMagic) - and we're shown that this special interest particularly colors how Nico navigates the world. While ADHD has hyperfixations, we don't really get much acknowledgement of hyperfixations with demigods usually - Annabeth gets a little, but most others don't and it's not nearly as focused-in on as Nico's is.

Then as the series continues we see these traits stick with him and him start to show or voice more traits that similarly indicate he's autistic: He regularly mentions how he doesn't understand living people and prefers the company of the dead (social issues). He has more notable stims than other demigods (twisting his ring, fiddling with bones, etc). He's indicated to have strong sensory preferences (usually wearing mostly black/aversion to bright colors, usually wearing layers/his coat, multiple times he's described as wearing loose/baggy clothing or clothes too big for him). He has specific comfort items (his ring, likely his jacket(s) as well). We later get even more information about his special interests (Mythomagic/mythology/history and an older interest in pirates - the latter he specifically notes likely heavily influenced his feelings towards Percy). He struggles with emotions and facial expressions and tone. He struggles particularly with ostracism and feeling like he doesn't fit in and has something distinctly different about him from the people around him (who notably, all have ADHD, which indicates it isn't the ADHD that's making him feel that way), and other characters regularly describe him as being off-putting because of his strange behaviors - again, different from specific ADHD traits they recognize. And that last point is kind of notable because we have Hazel and Bianca for comparison - we know people are off-put by both Nico and Hazel because of being children of Hades/Pluto and their powers/aura, but other characters get past that general feeling of discomfort way faster with Hazel. And even after characters get past the death stuff with Nico, there's a second thing that they aren't moving past that isn't a factor with Hazel (Nico's autism).

So that brings us to Leo - Leo is paralleled to Nico a lot. And there's some very specific traits about him that we know are autistic-coding because of how they're used with Nico: He similarly struggles with social cues/etc, and in a very similar parallel to Nico describes how he prefers the company of machines to people because machines make more sense to him. He has similar types of clothing/sensory preferences (again some stuff with layers but also - pockets! He likes having pockets and things to put stuff in! He's even introduced as having a jacket with lots of pockets), and he has a distinct special interest (machinery) that we specifically know heavily influences how he views and navigates the world (constantly comparing things to machinery, describing things with machinery metaphors/terminology, etc etc). He even describes his entire general worldview to Hazel and it's a machine metaphor. He also similarly struggles with ostracization like Nico does, the only difference being that Leo specifically puts on a persona to compensate for areas he knows he's lacking in and very explicitly describes it as a means to make people like him, because without it he normally struggles to fit in (He's masking!). We also see notes of characters describing that similar discomfort with Leo's behaviors that they do with Nico, except without the aura of death this time. And when we're in Leo's POVs we see a very stark difference between his masking and his actual personality/behaviors such as his internal dialogues or how he behaves when he's alone. Also, like Nico, he stims more than other demigods, though for Leo it's more attributed to his ADHD. Leo also, more often than most, similarly struggles with tone and reading the room, such as making misplaced jokes/comments or etc.

But yeah! It's really interesting. Also it's just a fun thing that ADHD/dyslexia and autism have comorbidity, so it makes sense that we see demigods who are also autistic. It's also really fun to look at how other characters are coded in the series, what coding looks like in the riordanverse specifically (usually it's tied into the mythological stuff - like Chiron being in a wheelchair but he's actually a centaur, Grover being introduced as having a muscular disease but he's actually a satyr, demigods having adhd/dyslexia, Tyson being coded as having down syndrome but he's a cyclops, etc etc - it's a lot of specific metaphor stuff that I've talked about a bit before), and to look at how characters are compared to one another.

[daydreamerdrew]

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