#Radio stuff

[aeolianblues]

Also! Guys I'm doing a 2004 special on my show tonight, in fact, it's not really my show anymore. We're combining two shows together to have a 3-hour chunk block of just 2004 music!

[zeemczed]

Alright, @iwilltrytobereasonable. Here's a list of some stuff that I've seen in my days in radio.

A syndicated right wing radio show sent over their tracks digitally. For a solid week they did not send the right files, and we replayed the SAME last segment over and over and over again. I told the engineers, who shrugged and said "the problem's on their end". I shrugged because I hated that show.

A radio station down the hall would go off the air at 6 PM every night because of a software glitch; as soon as ABC news started I had to bolt down the hall and hit the space bar to manually start the next block of music.

A station was hit by a bolt of lightning, the transmitter fried. It spent SIX MONTHS on the low-power backup. You couldn't get the station if you were inside a building.

You'd think that each station would have an engineer to keep them on the air, but in practice each cluster of stations in an area had one, seeing as how they were in one area. But, uh. Sometimes it wasn't even that. Sometimes you had one engineer commuting between 2-3 clusters as needed.

A remote transmitter (needed for when you were on location) had a tendency to overheat; during one concert I had to hold it against a sack of ice the entire time to keep it cool.

A hard rock station unexpectedly got two tickets to a concert last minute, and the DJ decided that the contest would be "ENTERTAIN US." You had to come to the parking lot in front of the station and do... something. We had a guy do 120 down the street in front of us doing a wheelie on a motorcycle, the same thing but also flashing us, two college girls doing a short skit ending with them making out (and for what it's worth the skit WAS actually funny), and several things that would get someone arrested if I mentioned it.

A complete hard drive crash took one station offline. We had "crash disks" - mix-tapes with station bumpers - pre-made in the event of an emergency. We ended up cycling through the three crash disks for eight hours until a backup was located and set up, and when we finally got it online we realized that it hadn't actually been backing up for months.

A country station had a series of concerts at a local amusement park. Not only did we hardly have anyone interested in tickets every single day, we ended up BEGGING people in the park to stick around for the concert and waiving the ticket cost.

More nepotism than I can shake a stick at.

I was hired for one job because a board op just... didn't show up. And I did. So I was hired.

And there's more, but... that's just what comes to mind immediately.

The old sitcom NewsRadio is not a comedy. It is a documentary.

“What do you mean the tower is gone? Are you sure you’re in the right place? I actually used more colorful words than that,” Brett Elmore recounted to NBC News. “He said there’s wires all over the ground and the tower is gone.”

[goldsnek]

Mixed signals! 😋

(This all started with my buddy @/K1NGKYO on X suggesting Al's first sentence and we had fun with it o´∀`o )

[vivitalks]

can't stop thinking about brennan saying "i'm going to describe something very heartbreaking now." how often does he break the kayfabe just to warn one of the players about the next thing he's going to say?? so much tragedy in dimension 20 but it's here, this moment, that is devastating enough that brennan takes a moment to give a warning: i'm going to describe something very heartbreaking now.

adaine abernant grew up lonely and abused in the shadow of a cruel, perfect aelwyn who could do no wrong. adaine didn't even want to find aelwyn, and every step their adventure took in her direction was a step adaine asterisked with a loud proclamation that she hated her bitch sister and didn't care about finding her. and only after discovering that aelwyn had been a months-long prisoner, tortured at her parents' hands, only after hearing a destroyed aelwyn apologize, does adaine consider that maybe aelwyn was a victim, too. and she overcomes her childhood resentment. she sees the bigger picture. she rescues her sister. she protects her as they sleep, and aelwyn's magic protects them in return. it is, maybe, the first time adaine truly feels that she has an older sister. and there's hope now. aelwyn has been broken down, but also redeemed, and they're together now, and adaine can help her, and they can be a family, because people aren't perfect, but aelwyn said she's sorry. and adaine goes into her mind and sees all the self-loathing she never knew about, and even more than that the fear of their parents, and she understands aelwyn so perfectly in this moment, all bitterness and spite dissolved, just a young woman taking a leap of faith and being rewarded with family, finally, a sister she never got to have, who actually loves her and believes in her and wants to keep her safe.

and then aelwyn's memory resets.

and in an instant, adaine loses everything she never knew she could have.

pretty heartbreaking.

[zorangezest]

(switcherooau) your new everything :)

im retreating into my cave to work on some big ol oc projects now—have this while I’m gonee

[weirdystar]

I saw a video of a deer being carried out of a building while screaming and I couldn't help myself.

[cherirumiko]

Flowers 🌹

This started as a lil warm-up and ended as a mini comic kajlsd I hope you like it! <3

[whatisamildopinion]

sorry but I just KNOW Riz and Penny have the most unhinged text chain known to man happening off screen

[abesetacringe]

absolutely normal about the new lore drop

[aeolianblues]

actually do you want my notes from the Indie88 interview with Fontaines? I’m using it for my radio show tonight because I like to keep the suspense™ in case any of my eleven (11) listeners (of whom I know at least 2 have told me they keep their radio on at low volume 24/7 to avoid total silence) don’t want tonight’s show spoiled. If you want to become a 12th listener sure. If you’re someone who wants to text me mid-show I Will love you forever, only problem is I know most of you are not in North America and so asleep!

Regardless, I’ll post juicy deet's of the interview after my show tonight. Hooray!

[nerdynuala]

Little thingy for the latest chapter of Of Saints and Sinners because it has so many scenes that are awesome for illustrating them and I wanna draw them all

And also because the fic has me in a chokehold, who am I trying to fool

@morningstarwrites is probably so tired of seeing me around but it's their fault for making me fall for these two awkward old men

[goldsnek]

Teeny follow up I made of this comic !

[totallyhinged]

i’m normal about him i swear

find me elsewhere: p*treon | e*sy | insta

[jenijro]

My dumbass be like “oh give me more podcast recommendations” knowing damn well I have at least 500 other podcasts to listen to

[eternalgyu]

pink pngs

like or rb if u use !!

[weirdystar]

Some adorable kisses! I need to art kisses more often.