#Length: <30 Minutes

[harry-potter-archive]

Potter Puppet Pals: The Mysterious Ticking Noise by Neil Cicierega

Description: Compelte (1 Video, 02:06)

Summary: Upon hearing a ticking noise, Snape decides to sing to it; other characters join in until the source of the ticking is found to be a pipe bomb, which subsequently explodes.

Published: Youtube; 2007 Last Updated: March 24, 2007

[tomb-mold]

together we can end the youtuber video essay industrial complex

[of-mutts-and-men]

Oh the struggle of wanting to shave my head again for ultimate comfort but also wanting to look like an elven prince with waist long hair. 😮‍💨😤

[boasamishipper]

i think the biggest problem of season 3 (of which there are Several) is the shift away from football being the crux of the story, which has undoubtedly resulted in the aimless, overstuffed, unfocused narrative we've been seeing for the last eight episodes. season one was as excellent as it was because whether richmond won or lost a match actually mattered; if they lost too many matches, they'd be relegated, and relegation was always treated as a distinct, tangible threat. there were stakes. and while season two had its issues with pacing and unnecessary subplots, no one would call it aimless. the characters had a goal (pun intended): to get promoted back to the premier league. if they lost too many matches, they would stay in the championship league. we as the audience were invested in whether or not richmond won or lost, and the narrative was all the stronger and more coherent for it.

season one asked us, can afc richmond avoid relegation? and we were invested in the answer. season two asked us, can afc richmond be promoted? and we were invested in the answer. now we're eight episodes into season three, and the overarching goal of the season, the question it is asking its audience to remain invested in, is...what? what are we building towards? is afc richmond's goal to win the whole damn thing? to beat west ham? to beat man city? to do just enough to avoid relegation again?

and because we can't answer this question, the narrative has suffered greatly. how are we supposed to believe beard when he says man city is the team's white whale if we haven't even seen them play each other yet this season? if ted's total football epiphany was so life-changing for richmond, why did we speed past all the matches this episode where the team won using that strategy? if this is all leading to a final nate-ted west ham-richmond match, why haven't we spent any time with nate at west ham? why haven't we gotten to see him grow and develop as a coach? at one point, the team was doing so badly that higgins suggested firing ted, who has been visibly struggling on and off the pitch - and the narrative did not give that suggestion the weight it might have had in season one or two. we spent an entire episode watching rupert, rebecca, and chelsea fight over zava - and then two episodes later he was gone, and we haven't so much as mentioned him since. just last season, sam was being heralded as the star of afc richmond, highly sought after by other club owners - but we haven't gotten to see any of his alleged brilliance on the pitch this season at all. i have to kick a little ball around, which those same people love me for, sam said in 3.07, that is, until i fuck up or miss a penalty, or i decide to fight back - a speech that was excellently delivered by toheeb, but loses some of its weight because we haven't actually gotten to see any negative reaction to sam missing a penalty or fucking up or deciding to fight back (not even in season 2 after the dubai air boycott).

(all this to say: i do enjoy the show. i love the characters, i've been enjoying the episodes as individual units, and i'll continue to tune in week after week. but for a show that once boasted football was life, it's sure been suffering since it decided to stop focusing on that.)

[katkat030]

I remember you mentioning “The Watchers”, who are they? Can you tell me some lore behind them?

This is a rabbit hole that I don’t fully have time to go down myself right now but there’s a gold mine of information here and it can be split into about 3 parts.

From what I know:

There’s the original Watcher lore which is canon to Grian’s Evolution SMP, which started in 2017 and ended just over a year later. My knowledge of the SMP is mostly second hand, but the premise of it was to run through all updates of minecraft in order from the earliest version (buggy, grainy, fairly difficult to survive) to the more recent ones (transitioning bit by bit into the game we know today)

Evo smp and watcher lore is really concisely explained in a tumblr post here.

from the Evo wiki: Grian's final episode of the server was of the dragon fight, where he joined The Watchers when everyone jumped through the portal after killing the dragon. His joining of the Watchers had a modified end screen poem, where a text color representing Grian and additional text mentioning some of the other Evo members was added in. if you follow the link to The Watchers you’ll get more information on what exactly they are!

Grian talked about Evo and the watchers briefly in a podcast a good few years back (co-run by the same person who voices the Hermitcraft recap actually, Pixlriffs!) - when he joined Hermitcraft in Season 6, it's my understanding that his version of watcher lore ended with Evo. Canonically, Hermitcraft!Grian isn’t influenced by them at all. This isn’t the case in fan lore, which I’ll touch on later. There happen to be some incredibly interesting example of a what-if-they-do-follow/influence/kidnap/affect-him by talented writers, so if you want fanfic recommendations just ask :3

Where it gets really interesting is that creator Martyn, ign InTheLittleWood, decided to continue a version of watcher lore. This "eyesandears" (<- tumblr tag for it. Will contain spoilers) watcher lore is only canon to his interpretation of the series, and isn’t a server-wide thing that others incorporate into their videos. This runs throughout the life series and includes cryptic poems/rhymes, elaborate reasonings for why canonical events took place, Jimmy’s canary curse, who remembers the events of previous seasons and so on.

Note that the life series isn’t scripted, and has very loose guidelines for how players should act besides adhering to the rules. Martyn therefore has the story adapt as the series evolves (pun unintended), and a great example of this was his stream after limited life (life series iteration number 4) ended. He’s also on tumblr, because of course. This is his vod - I don’t have the time to go through it again myself. It contains lots of spoilers, but if you hang around in the fandom long enough you’ll begin to recognise the winners of each season and a few key events/alliances/betrayals/plot points regardless. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

As far as I know, none of the other life series creators really know much about this or keep this in mind when the life series is going. It doesn’t influence them, nor does Martyn seem to go out of his way to incorporate huge amounts of it into his own pov. The lore adapts to what the players do, not the other way around.

There’s also the fanon (fan canon) watcher lore which is incredibly well (and quickly!) covered by Ezzriin, I’ll link that video here - this is more important for understanding why Grian’s depicted the way he is (and exactly what that usually entails).

The links I’ve included explain things better and more concisely than I can. Martyn’s 2 hour vod may take some time to get through, but I recommend at least checking out the others! :)

[robinsnest2111]

moots, I'd let you braid my hair in a heartbeat if we ever met up <3

[stagepresenceofapotato]

ishmael, the chokehold you have on my google search history 🤨

[mistpodfics]

If We Go, We Go Together written by mardia | @themardia

A Leverage Podfic read by mistbornhero for 🎃 pod-o-ween 👻 filling the challenge 🐺 werewolf 🐺and the podfic-bingo square 🎙️ repod cold 🎙️

Today the fact that Sophie, Eliot, and Parker are all werewolves is very, very relevant. Almost as relevant as the stab wound in Hardison’s stomach.

Podfic Length: 20:09 minutes

[harrydracompreg]

- Title: 'Unwanted — Beloved' by gnarf Reader: timothysboxers (AO3) || timothysboxers (tumblr) Prompt: Unwanted — Beloved - Gnarf - Word Count: 3,279 Duration: 23 minutes Rating: Teen and Up [PG-13] Contains: Child Abandonment, One Night Stands, Childhood Trauma, Depression, Grief/Mourning, Illness, Ambiguous/Open Ending Spoilers: No Spoilers Marked. Who is pregnant: Draco Notes:

Thank you to gnarf for writing this lovely piece, and for their consent for me to create a podfic! I hope you enjoy it. Many thanks to Tami for really helping and encouraging me to get this done, particularly with the cover-art when I was too cross-eyed to look at it any more and work out why it looked weird.

Summary:

Feeling tears sting at the edges of his eyes, Harry picked the baby up and scooted inside. Who'd do something like this? Who'd discard a baby on someone's doorstep? On his doorstep?

'Unwanted — Beloved' by gnarf Disclaimer: Harry Potter characters are the property of J.K. Rowling and Bloomsbury/Scholastic. No profit is being made, and no copyright infringement is intended.

[scholar-of-yemdresh]

No audio fiction podcast has it all;

Produced by and starring POC

Has Aroace/non sam Ace/non sam aro MCs

Has trans MCs(trans man trans woman, nonbinary/gendeequeer idc)

Has little to no romance and focus on platonic or hostile non-romantic relationships

It's sci-fi or fantasy, with horror elements(especially body & cosmic horror)

Not too long (like i can't deal with 100+ 2hr+ episodes lol)

This post is brought to you by my love for the The Silt Verses. Which is damn near perfect for me, such a shame the lack of POC(there's to my knowledge only one MC voiced by a POC yet the fandom overwhelming interprets his character as white while HC a character voiced by a white woman as black :/)

[wuxian-vs-wangji]

RIP Payu, who sends a flirty-playful text that clearly says "call me"... and then has to sit around for what I've decided is at least an hour, waiting for this moron to figure out you can use phones to speak to people in other places.

[green-fifteen]

I was shocked and amazed to discover that this author writes short, popular works in a popular fandom, has a blanket permission statement, and there don't seem to be very many podfics on ao3?? Please correct me if I'm wrong, but this seems a little like my own personal unicorn.

Title: [Podfic] In your dreams by platonic_boner @vegan-hermione

Duration: 00:24:56

Link to podfic

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[quietwings-fics]

Podfic: Authorial Intent by TheQuietWings

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Archive Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply Fandom: Supernatural Ship: Gen Additional Tags: POV Second Person, Season/Series 05, Chuck Shurley is God, not evil chuck or good chuck but a secret third thing, Writing, Drinking, Alternate Universe, Implied/Referenced Suicide Podfic Length: 00:22:35

Download/Streaming Links: AO3 - Google Drive - Internet Archive

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[starlightintheirwake]

The handcuffs are functionally unnecessary, yet the visual of Daniel Molloy restrained on his bed is the sort of thing religions spring from.

Armand's straddling him, nude and impaled on his cock. He could ride him all evening. He might even do it; for at least as long as it takes to get Daniel delirious with it.

He sighs in pleasure as he tips his head back, loose dark curls falling about his shoulders. Armand grinds his hips against Daniel's lap, and slides into his mind. Armand looks through his senses, searching for the angle in his own body that Daniel likes.

Armand finds it and snaps back to himself. He fucks himself on Daniel just like that, and he lingers at the edge of his thoughts the way he always does when they're together this way.

@infinitusvoces

[howtosingit]

someone teach Tim Minear how to properly write a 43-minute episode of television please and thank you 

[naomiknight-17]

I've been listening to The Magnus Protocol every day while I do dishes and/or my physio routine but now I'm all caught up and the season is over

I have to do dishes like right now

What... what do I do