#The King Zone Podcast

[supermarcey]

The King Zone Podcast Episode 27 - "She's Claiming To See Monsters Now." Taking a trip to see Children Of The Corn (2020), The Boogeyman (2023) and The Boogeyman (1982)

The King Zone Podcast Episode 27 - "She's Claiming To See Monsters Now." Taking a trip to see Children of the Corn (2020), The Boogeyman (2023) and The Boogeyman (1982)

The King Zone Podcast Episode 27 “She’s Claming To See Monsters Now.” Taking a trip to see Children Of The Corn (2020), The Boogeyman (2023) and The Boogeyman (1982) Download HERE https://supermarcey.files.wordpress.com/2023/10/the-king-zone-podcast-episode-27-shes-claiming-to-see-monsters-now.-taking-a-trip-to-see-children-of-the-corn-2020-the-boogeyman-2023-and-the-boogeyman-1982.mp3 Welcome…

[bakanokiwami]

[2023] TOP 20 PODCASTS ON AO3 FOUND IN FANDOMS > OTHER MEDIA

To make this ranking, all series titles in Other Media were copy-pasted to Google Sheets, rearranged according to number of fanworks, and then manually filtered since not all podcasts were marked as such.

The numbers under each rank indicate how much they rose/fell in the rankings based on last year's (Oct. 24, 2023) rankings, which can be found here. The gray numbers in parenthesis indicate how much fanworks it gained since last year.

The data for this year and last year's rankings were taken while logged in, so lcoked fanworks are included in the count.

A few web series like Critical Role and Dimensions 20 released audio-only versions of their works too, but I left them out since they were listed was a web series on ao3 and more known as one too.

Cabin Pressure has also been left off the list this time since its podcast format was only released in 2019, years after it aired on the radio.

All nonfiction podcasts have also been excluded (Not that there were many), because with RPFs, it’s hard to tell if the fic in question is just based on the podcast or because of the things the person has done outside of it. Last year, I accidentally included The Misfits in the list since I didn't realize from its description that it was nonfiction.

The Two Princes (Podcast) ranks 21st in the rankings this year, and actually ranked 20th last year when the rankings are adjusted to exclude Cabin Pressure and The Misfits.

The College Tapes is actually a spinoff of The Bright Sessions.

Thanks for understanding and hopefully I didn’t mess up anywhere! 🙏

[ssupod]

New episode of Sixth Street Underground, a ZZZ fan podcast, incoming! Join us Thursday as we breakdown Jane Doe and Caesar King, share our first impressions from the Outer Ring, and discuss current events in ZZZ!

[actuallyafandomess]

Please help! I am in need of new a podcast of the beloved characters and humor variety. My favorites are

The penumbra podcast

King falls am

Dark ages

Taz balance

Eos10

Please give me recs to help me in the dark times of cleaning my house for family visiting

[wrongstation]

//SALT FLATS, DESERT HEAT, A NOT-QUITE-ABANDONED GAS STATION

//SOMETIMES YOU GOT TO STOP FOR DARTS

//SOMETIMES YOU COME AWAY WITH A LITTLE BIT MORE

“DARTS”

A NEW EPISODE FROM WRONG STATION

[b3crew]

Duck Amuck in Japan | Episode 21: Zenless Waifus and Bangboos | B3crew.com

It's been just about a year since King Baby Duck made the big move to Japan, as he reflects on how he's changed since leaving his Boston roots. However, that's not to say he's gotten used to everything, as a trip to the movies recently showed how hard it is not to laugh in a theater. (Also, what's so hard to realize that donuts are for breakfast?!)

Meanwhile, AFLM talks about what he experienced at Springfield Comic Con, and reveals more about his upcoming Solarion Sun novel! The new HoYoverse game Zenless Zone Zero drops, with our hosts trying to figure out what the best team setup is and -- most importantly -- who Best Girl is. Some big Ranma ½ news drops, and the guys continue to add first impressions to the Summer 2024 anime season.

[jmunneytumbler]

That’s Auntertaiment: What’s Jeff Watching? #15

Has David Rasche ever met Peter Gabriel? https://d3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net/staging/2024-2-28/372526921-44100-2-1f6c2159542ee.m4a

[gastricotv]

PONLE PLAY | 2024 - 006

[shaddytheguyislazy]

RIP Johnny Hardwick, I swear we recorded this weeks before. It's the two episodes of King of the Hill that Ken Penders worked on.

[supermarcey]

The King Zone Podcast Episode 26 - "We Don't Own Things, Things Own Us." Answering the Call of Cell (2016) and Mr. Harrigan's Phone (2022)

The King Zone Podcast Episode 26 - "We Don't Own Things, Things Own Us." Answering the Call of Cell (2016) and Mr. Harrigan's Phone (2022) #Podcast #PodcastNation #StephenKing #Cell #MrHarrigansPhone #Netflix

The King Zone Podcast Episode 26 “We Don’t Own Things, Things Own Us.” Answering the Call of Cell (2016) and Mr. Harrigan’s Phone (2022) Download HERE https://supermarcey.files.wordpress.com/2023/01/the-king-zone-podcast-episode-26-we-dont-own-things-things-own-us.-answering-the-call-of-cell-2016-and-mr.-harrigans-phone-2022.mp3 Welcome to this Podcast series from The Super Network with The…

[artbribery]

Following the trend of the Lazarus Pit being part of Ghost Zone or ectoplasm-adjacent, what if the Pit Madness was just a connection to the Ghost King?

As in, whatever the voices and the intent in the pits are just a leftover of the king’s emotions. So long as the king was Pariah Dark and he stayed that way in stasis, the waters remained in anger and madness.

So when the ruler changes, suddenly the madness is gone and instead it’s Danny’s feelings in Jason’s head like some sort of soulmate au (except only one of them is in on it).

Maybe general intent:

Danny feeling happy and content and loving his sister (and all those feelings are sent through the Force)

Jason: ‘Positive feelings? Positive feelings in my Pit Madness? It’s more likely than I thought apparently?’

Jason suddenly wondering why he likes the stars so much when he can’t even see them in Gotham. He responds to this by reading about the myths.

He knows he loves his sisters but suddenly he feels an acute appreciation for them.

Weirdly strong feelings about clones that make him wonder if he has clone, or is one himself, and he’s only known about it subconsciously and recently.

The occasional badgers-suck-and-fruitloops-too sentiment

If voices are a thing:

Jason is chilling on a rooftop at four am and out of nowhere:

‘Is green cheese made out of ghost milk?’ ‘Would that be considered vegan because the cow is already dead?’ ‘No, wait, that’s not right...’ ’do ghosts dream of electrical sheep?’

Danny being sleep deprived, accessing the ghostly radio satellite and Jason asking himself Why, Mulaney style, Why is this Tim-like monologue plaguing my Pit Madness?

Plus? (on the topic of radio?)

Free mental podcast w/ our host Danny and his audience of one: Jason (who maybe figures out how to make calls live; it’s not like it broadcasts anywhere else, right?)

(cue a certain demographic of the ghost zone, as well as select members of the League of Shadows, tuning in to this soap-opera)

Alternative to this: Danny uses this as a help-line for the ones affected by the pit and heckles them until they agree to get treatment. 

“It’s the one place you can’t escape.”

Potential for angst though: 

It had been a while since the Pit changed and Jason had gotten used to it sometimes being cranky/irritated/annoyed and happy/mischievous/light and so on in the wheel of emotions

So he is worried about the increasing feelings of hope/trust/love mixed with paranoia/wariness/anxiety coming in the last few weeks

The crawling dread and nervousness seeping through that starts mid morning and rises steadily, like anticipation or pulling teeth slowly 

But suddenly fear spikes and it is PANIC and DESPERATION, BREAKING DOWN---

H E L P

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Episode 4: 1.2 Special Program - Chili de Inferno

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ENG translation: If we believed that we were "kings", that wouldn't be us

An interview with Bojan Cvjetićanin for Slovenian newspaper Delo, originally published on 24.12.2023. Audio version by IG GBoleyn123

Original article is available here for Delo subscribers. Original article written by Lucijan Zalokar for Delo; photos by Jože Suhadolnik; English translation by a member of Joker Out Subs, native proof reading by IG GBoleyn123.

If you repost quotes from the interview, please link back to this post! And if you repost the photos, do not crop out the photographer credit.

With Bojan Cvjetićanin about the international breakthrough of Joker Out, the movie Kaj pa Ester?, about life on the road, football, sociology…

I met up with Bojan Cvjetićanin in Ljubljana's Stegne industrial zone, where the members of the popular pop rock (in their jargon: shagadelic rock'n'roll) group Joker Out created a rehearsal space for themselves two years ago. "Lately we've been on the road a lot, but this is still a great second home. If only you knew about the parties that happened here. There were fifty people dancing downstairs," he proudly looked from a small gallery towards the space that measures approximately thirty square metres. Even though the clock had just struck three in the afternoon, the 24-year-old Ljubljana resident had a long day behind him, which had been entirely dedicated to media obligations.

In journalistic circles, we often hear indignation about how modern day influencers - especially those who had gained their influence on social media - have no books on their shelves. Joker Out are first and foremost musicians, of course, but with 150,000 followers (Bojan's personal profile has 190,000) on Instagram, we can count them among the big Slovenian influencers. And there are plenty of books on their shelves.

I don't want to falsely portray the popular fivesome as enlightened donors to the Slovenian literary market: most of the books resemble those you can buy for little money in second-hand bookshops, or even get for free at library write-offs, but they still deserve praise for both the aesthetic sense and the content.

I also don't want to falsely portray the books as the only notable objects in the rehearsal space. There are also the golden plate for the Eurovision single Carpe Diem, which got over two million streams in Finland, a transfusion bag (Rh-) that Tomi Meglič¹, Cvjetićanin's biggest teenage idol, personally brought to them, and a small shop's worth of props given to them by fans: pillows with hand-embroidered patterns, plushies, bras with Instagram accounts written on them, various sweets, you could even find a vinyl from a Soviet cover band of The Beatles. If things continue like that, they soon won't have any space left for instruments, but those are just sweet worries. Joker Out, who were formed in 2016, are currently conquering Europe in a way that the Slovenian music scene has never seen before.

¹frontman of Siddharta, whose third album was called Rh-

I've heard that you approach your job with the utmost professionalism and that you wake up at five in the morning for media obligations.

That's true, today we started early in the morning in Maribor. The first few hours were the most tiring because we were constantly changing locations and driving around the city. After the third or fourth activity, we relaxed a little because we got to the studio. After that, everyone started coming to us instead of the other way around.

Slovenian cinemas have started playing the movie Kaj pa Ester? in which you play a boy who enrolled in high school just to get close to his ex girlfriend again. Did you have any problems with trying to get into the high school mentality?

We filmed the movie two years ago, when my memories of high school were much more fresh than they are today. But on the other hand, I played a boy who had just finished the ninth grade of primary school, so I had to put myself into the shoes of a primary school kid, which is much harder. We're also pretty different personality-wise. But almost the entire cast was around the same age, so too old. We joked about that a lot during filming.

Still, that's nothing unusual in the movie world.

Of course, there are 35-year-olds starring in High School Musical and no one is complaining.

Could you draw any parallels between a musical stage performance and filming a movie? You have to play a kind of role during a concert too...

I have to admit that it's completely different. On stage, I never feel like I'm performing. Of course I am actually performing, but I'm still in the role of myself, Bojan, whereas in the movie, I'm someone completely different. It might be easier to compare filming a movie with recording music in the studio, but there are big differences there as well. The biggest one is that for a movie, the director has the main and the final say. You have to trust him. When you film a scene, you don't even see what you've filmed for a long time. The movie in which I play one of the main roles will be played in cinemas, and I don't even know what I will look like on the big screen. It's different with music, because us authors listen to the songs a hundred times, a thousand times; we're the ones who make all the final decisions. That's quite a mental leap, but I didn't have too many problems with it, because I knew the previous projects of that team. V dvoje ('In a tandem') is my favourite Slovenian TV series. On the other hand, I needed time to get used to this new method of working. If I asked to see the scene we'd filmed one more time, but the director said it was good, we kept filming without hesitation.

You said that on stage, you are always in the role of yourself. Does the nature of that role change from concert to concert? And what influences it? The audience, the outfit…

The outfit has an influence for sure. More than I initially thought. Lately we've been playing with our stage look a lot and looking for the right combination. I currently find that the outfit suits me very well, it's just the shoes that bother me because they're too rigid. I have to change them. They're huge and massive, which makes me feel like I'm clumsily marching around the stage, whereas during rehearsals I wear sneakers and I'm therefore a lot more in the mood for dancing.

What about the language you sing in? Many people say that they feel as if by switching between different languages, they are also switching between their personalities.

I agree. When you change the language, your voice has a different colour and register, you come up with different jokes than in your mother tongue. If I lead a concert in Slovenian, Serbian, or English, I'm a different dude every time. This is also influenced by my notion that each time, I'm performing for a different group of people who are connected by a certain mentality. In Slovenia, I'm performing as a local for locals, and I feel like there are different "game rules" than for example in Croatia or Serbia. Elsewhere, I feel like I don't even think about this.

How did you get the idea to start creating and singing in English? You already broke through internationally with Slovenian.

Us creating in foreign languages isn't so much a result of wanting to break through internationally and the mentality that only English ensures global success. If we thought that way, we wouldn't have gone to Eurovision with a Slovenian song. We're primarily driven by a desire to learn new things, to push the boundaries... In the studio, it's similar to being on the stage. If you change the language, you're not only a different person on stage, but also inside your head. Your creativity is different. Playing with languages is actually also playing with your own creativity, because you enter a different space, a different mentality. The song Sunny Side of London could not have been made if we hadn't mentally transported ourselves to an English-speaking space. We want many more projects like that, not necessarily in English.

Can you be more specific? What kind of mentality do you associate Sunny Side of London with?

That song is a sort of homage to all the people who have suddenly become part of our story. Sunny Side of London has nothing to do with London as such. I was looking for a name of a well-known place with which to name all our concerts, and I decided on London.

The first time I said the words Are you guys real? – Is this really happening, are you really here and singing our songs? – on the stage, certain English phrases snuck into my mind. What the hell is going on? and so on. We also experienced, for the first time, foreigners coming up to us and talking about their own experiences connected to our music. That was something completely new for us. We listened to all those stories in English, as our fans of course can't speak Slovenian, even though they can sing our Slovenian lyrics. Sunny Side of London therefore emerged as a collection of all the experiences and stories that fans told us after gigs.

You've already touched on fans who sing your lyrics by heart from Finland to Spain. Could you highlight the nation with the best ear for the Slovenian language?

On the latest tour, when we visited Lithuania, Poland, Czechia and Croatia, there were moments when I felt like I was singing in Slovenia. In Prague, I filmed the audience singing Umazane misli without me. As if I were in Križanke, for example. But it's even more fascinating that people sing well in England and Nordic countries too. It's understandable that our Slavic brothers have the best ear for Slovenian, but northerners aren't far off either.

How much of your international success do you attribute to the Eurovision performance?

A huge amount.

If you had to express it in a percentage?

99.9.

Really?

Definitely. It was an incredible catapult. Whenever I ask the audience at our international concerts if anyone was already with us before Eurovision, a few hands shoot up every time, but those are rare exceptions.

How do you explain the fact that you finished in the relatively humble 21st place in Liverpool, but your visibility still grew in leaps and bounds?

We were very, very, very dedicated to the Eurovision project. We put a lot of time and energy into demonstrating to the people who were open to it that we weren't just a three-minute performance, but very much an existing band that has made many songs and that lives on stage. With time, and of course in connection with the Eurovision performance, more and more listeners got to know that. We clearly showed them: we are here, we are real, try it, connect with us.

Because they had so much different content available, this actually happened. I think it was also because they saw that Joker Out really was made out of five completely regular dudes from Slovenia who live a totally normal life, and at the same time we make music and have a great time doing it. That is already a slight deviation from what's been happening recently, when we're being bombarded from all sides by messages that we need to distance ourselves from each other, that we have to hate each other...

That was the sociologist in you talking.

That's true. The atmosphere in society nowadays is such that it emphasises individuality more than building a team. Young people, however, need and want to be part of a community. And we offered them that chance.

Where does your interest in social sciences come from? Your father is a gynecologist, your mother a pediatrician, and you have a degree in sociology.

I had a very good professor in high school. If you wanted to listen to him, he offered a lot of knowledge. Even though sociologists often think about society in an abstract way, the subject always felt tangible to me. I recognised it in very concrete life situations that I was trying to understand. At my final exams, I did a great job with sociology with very little effort – and then made a mistake and enrolled in economics. I wavered between those two options from the start, and in the end, what tipped the scales were the warnings of many people I knew that sociology doesn't have good employment prospects. I gave in to the pressure and very quickly realised I had made the wrong decision. I gave up on economics after the first semester. That was when I seriously threw myself into the band, we made Gola, and then I transferred to sociology and there was happiness all around.

You clearly won't work as a sociologist for a while yet, if ever...

But I am a sociologist.

In your soul?

No, as my profession. Us musicians are sociologists. A lot of sociological terms could easily be transferred into our environment. Locale, for example. In third year, the professor asked me several times: Well, Cvjetićanin, if you have a concert, is that locale or something else? And then I said it was locale and started rambling on. (laughter)

So you are a singing sociologist?

Exactly.

How do you explain the success of Joker Out from a sociological point of view? How do your songs address the zeitgeist?

I write the lyrics exclusively based on stories that really happened. Not necessarily to me, but to people I love. Therefore, I have a strong emotional relationship with the subject matter. My opinion is that there will always be people who will connect with the story if it's real. Because it's easiest for us to connect with real emotions. Our songs are love songs, they talk about finding yourself and personal growth, some are socially critical... I think that I have managed to find the right balance between being direct and being poetic.

I'll word it differently. The Beatles already sang about love and personal growth. And they weren't the first ones by far. Later on, those same themes were covered by hundreds of successful bands and an infinite number of slightly less successful ones.

I think that nowadays, we most often associate societal changes with technological development. Technological advances largely dictate the rhythm of our life. But those advances are mostly just a substitute for something that already existed in the past. The basic emotions have therefore certainly stayed the same. Love, fear, hatred... I think that the use of language is very important here. Even though the emotions don't change, the way we put them into words does. In music, too. I don't sing about a topic the same way my peers would have in the 1970s. Consequentially, our relationship with emotions is changing and evolving as well. As if our entire society is gravitating towards the point of holding the belief that it's better for an individual to feel less and less, and in a more and more censored way.

On the one hand, excessive use of social media and other media causes us to feel like distinct individuals. On the other hand, it connects us to the world and places us into a very wide picture. In every moment, we are only a click away from becoming cosmopolitan and being able to access all the information, events, and people, but at the same time, that's exactly what reminds us that we are a small and actually not very important dot on this planet. The magnitude of everything that's constantly available to us makes us feel small. I think that we mostly listen to, watch, and use those who manage to poke the spot that unnerves people the most in this context. If performers manage to break through the firewall of someone's VPN, then those people will also show their interest in an analogue way. Otherwise, they will only be a swipe away.

And now a question that's more psychological than sociological: do you ever try to get into the heads of the people who time and again show their interest in very analogue ways?

I have an infinite appreciation for their dedication, because for myself, I don't see the chance of a phenomenon exciting me so much that I would be ready to dedicate so much time and love to it.

So you've never been a very hardcore fan?

If, at twelve years old, I had to highlight one musicians that I would've wanted to meet more than anyone in the world, that would definitely have been Tomi Meglič. That hasn't changed to this day. The only difference is that we meet up with Tomi and we're friends. I still feel the highest possible level of respect for him. Every time he calls me, I am extremely proud of myself. But I still cannot imagine going to, say, Berlin tomorrow if Siddharta were playing there and I had a free day. I'd go to Maribor or Zagreb, but absolutely not across all of Europe the way the biggest fans do. Not even at twelve. I could sooner imagine that at that age, a football match rather than a concert would be the thing that excited me beyond all reason.

We're probably talking about two groups of celebrities that get worshipped as deities by the masses in Western society: footballers and pop and rock musicians. And this is probably linked to emotions again.

True. The thing that wakes up a person's sense of smell, sight, and all other emotions that overcame them as a child, is what has the best possibility of succeeding.

Now please explain how this is connected to football.

If I go to a concert by Siddharta, Big Foot Mama, Magnifico, I turn into a ten-year-old kid who will explode from happiness. There's no Bojan anymore. He gets lost. It's the same with football. When I watch it, I dream about how I played for Slovan² as a kid and what I wanted more than anything was to score a goal and for everyone in the stands to yell: Yeeeees!

²ND Slovan is a football club from Ljubljana

You don't score goals, but you are in a similar position that Tomi Meglič used to be in.

All the band members come from very loving families that have always provided us with a very good support system and instilled basic values in us that we internalised deeply. That is why everything that's currently happening around us hasn't gone to our heads in a way that would make us think that we're bigger or more important than anyone else. If we started believing that we were "kings" because everyone was clapping for us and singing our songs, that would probably be a very strong feeling, but that simply wouldn't be us. We mostly love to see all the people, because we know how much we mean to them and how much they mean to us. Without them, we wouldn't be able to focus on what's most important to us – our music. On the other hand, I can say with a thousand percent certainty that I would easily and happily do my job if I was performing at venues like Cankarjev dom. So, in front of a calmer audience, without unreal hype.

But what I would like most in the world is to turn into a footballer for ten seconds and score a goal at an important match. You know why? Because that is the biggest adrenaline hit that exists. When we perform on various stages, there's mayhem around us for two hours straight. But in football, when a goal is scored, that happens in a millisecond. You go from nothing into total chaos. Everyone loses their minds. I'd love to experience that. Well, I did – much like everyone who played football in primary school. When I scored a goal for Slovan and a hundred people in the stands clapped for me, I felt like I was on Maracanã. Imagine what it would be like to experience that on the real Maracanã.

It's interesting that you highlighted a loving and stable family background. Many of the biggest pop and rock stars in the world grew up in a diametrally opposite environment. From John Lennon and Janis Joplin to Prince and Rihanna. There are actually so many of them that we can talk about a pattern.

I know, because I love to read their (auto)biographies, and I agree with your assessment that their family circumstances are fundamentally different than ours. That is always my answer to the question when someone wants to know how debauched our tours are. When I tell them that we mostly drink water and tea on the road, they just can't believe it. But it's the truth, because we've realised three things. First, we enjoy what we do immensely, and from the experiences of many musicians, we know that you can almost definitely forget about a long career if you start doing everything that we perceive as the proverbial rock'n'roll lifestyle. A band like that breaks up sooner or later, either because of frayed nerves, or exploding egos, or because of money. Second, we've all had to go to work hungover and we know very well that it's unbearable. I especially can't imagine how we could stay healthy and keep our strength and our voice if we were constantly hungover on the road. In that case, the only short-term solution is drugs, which we fortunately [knocks on wood] don't do. And third: I'm sure that you have a much better time on stage if you're aware that you are on it.

Your international breakthrough doesn't have a precedent among Slovenian musicians. Would you dare to point out where the difference is, why you made it and not for example Siddharta, who had filled Bežigrad stadium and later did not hide their international ambitions?

We have to understand that Siddharta didn't have the chance to perform at a festival like Eurovision. It's hard to understand what it means for 160 million people to watch you. That is a bizzarely huge number. All this happened in the time of social media, and we had set up a pretty good mechanism in that area even before Eurovision, and then also used it, whereas Siddharta established itself as a band in the time of analogue media. I can't even imagine how it would've been possible to break through abroad from Slovenia at that time. Because even we are already – even though some things have opened up for us very nicely and we've been joined by the right people – finding out how much of an investment going international demands. Dreams of megalomanical earnings and a luxurious life brought on by a European tour shatter quickly. Even when you start filling up venues, you stay in a kind of hustle mode. You fight. Unfortunately, the costs in the music business are so high that performing abroad is more or less just for promotion for a long time.

You're probably thinking of logistical costs?

Yes. Some of my colleagues have total misconceptions about our earnings. They think that we're literally swimming in money, while we actually earn what amounts to a normal salary.

In March next year you will have eighteen concerts. You will start in Helsinki and end in Milan. How will you travel?

With a tour bus. We've rented it twice so far: for the UK tour and for the tour around Lithuania, Poland, and Czechia. There are beds on it, so we can sleep while driving from one concert to the next. The tourbus is prohibitively expensive, you pay almost half of your royalties for it, but it's the only way for a musician with such a packed schedule to survive in the long run. Sometimes people ask me why we don't travel with a van instead, but you have to understand that we sometimes have concerts two days in a row and the venues are 800 kilometres apart. If we spent all night in an uncomfortable van, then looked for a hotel in the morning and so on, we might be able to endure it for a week, but definitely not all month.

Do you ever sleep in a hotel?

Only on free days.

Will the March tour be your most exhausting one so far?

It will definitely be one of the more exhausting ones, but I am definitely happy that we will be able to sleep on a tour bus. We haven't been on a month-long tour yet, so it's hard to predict anything, but on the Nordic tour this year we played six concerts in five days, because we had two concerts in one day in Helsinki. We didn't have a tour bus there, we flew instead. That meant that after the concert, we got to the hotel at midnight, then we had to be at the airport at three in the morning, a few hours later we were already at the new location, we napped for two hours on a couch, had a soundcheck – rinse and repeat for five days in a row.

Let's not talk only about the negative sides of tours…

Of course. I love sleeping on the bus! I fall asleep like a baby who's being taken for a walk in a stroller. I can't sleep more than nine or ten hours in my bed at home, on a tour bus I easily get twelve hours. Maybe it's because it's constantly shaking a little. The other guys also sleep very well on the road.

But the most magical thing on tours is when I visit a city for the first time just because we have a gig there. That seems unimaginable to me. To meet new people, wonderful fans, to bond as a band, experience new, funny situations, to bring home a bunch of new inside jokes and incredible gifts that fans have made themselves. [Points towards a hand-embroidered pillow in the part of the studio where they keep the gifts.]

Elite athletes often lament that it's true that they compete all over the world, but they often only see the airport, the hotel, and the sports venue.

It's similar for us. When we travel with a bus, we only see the venue. If we happen to have a free day, we walk around the city, but we definitely don't visit all kinds of tourist attractions as some people might wrongly imagine. When we go to Paris, we definitely won't go to the Louvre, and we will see the Eiffel tower through the bus window if everything goes well.

But you meet a lot of interesting people.

That's true. I find it the most fascinating if we meet fans when we don't expect them at all. In a restaurant, on a plane… When we were flying to Poland, it turned out that one of the flight attendants was a big fan of ours. She told us that she was going to three of our concerts and brought us champagne and a model of a Lot Polish Airlines plane.

I was even more surprised in Helsinki. I went to some kind of dark club that had a techno music party. Suddenly I was approached by three people, two guys and one girl, and they told me that they were our fans and that they couldn't believe that they met me in that club. I also couldn't believe that people recognised me in the middle of Helsinki. What's going on?!

In the summer, you took a step back from Instagram for a while. What brought you to that decision?

Many things. I felt creatively empty. I also, for the first time in my life, experienced the internet – not just Slovenian, but global – being completely oversaturated with me. That started negatively pressuring me and eating me up. I thought about it a lot, and the first time I asked myself whether I'd be less Bojan Cvjetićanin if I didn't have an Instagram profile, I turned it off. Immediately after that, I wrote three songs; I felt as if I had cleaned up some of the mess that had built up recently. I returned to social media some time ago; with much healthier habits than before, I think.

How do you see social media? As a space for playfulness, for promotion, part of the job, part of private life?

I think that at the time when they started killing me, I perceived them too professionally. I had a feeling that Instagram was a platform through which I had to achieve all sorts of things. Lately, I prefer to joke around more.

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[wrongstation]

//A WEALTHY GERMAPHOBE

//AN UNTHINKABLE TROPICAL DISEASE

//THE CLEAN AND THE UNCLEAN

//ARE A WHITE SERPENT DEVOURING ITS OWN TAIL

ENJOY NIGHT 8 OF THE WRONG STATION PLEDGE DRIVE AND PERHAPS OUR MOST VILE EPISODE OF ALL TIME

“VERMIS”

[abeinginsand]

Dndads Color Wheel Challenge (A summarized description is in alt and detailed one is below)

[id: A colored digital drawing of a completed color wheel art challenge using dungeons and daddies podcast characters. There are two to three characters assigned to each of the eight color zones and colored in the selected colors hues. Taylor and older demon Glenn are in the red zone on the the top left with their swords. Nicky is reaching out of the orange area on the top right of the circle to ruffle his child's hair and Taylor's tail is wrapped affectionately around his arm. Paeden is behind Nicky while jumping up in the air. Scary is sitting down with arms crossed in the pink zone with Erica twirls a horse shoe behind her. Hero is riding her pizza delivery scooter in the purple area while Terry Junior holds out a lunch bag off to the side. Scam is a dark silhouette on the other side of Hero. Two phones surround him with the curling phone cords bordering each side of the purple area. In the dark blue section is Stud Stampler with his back facing the viewer. A film reel is curled around him and Jodie the hell king. The flames around Jodie are burning the film. Normal is hanging off the intact middle of the film reel and grinning with the Teeny mascot head beside him in the light blue zone. Mae Hailes is sitting with her phone in the same area. Erin and Sparrow are in the green area with leaves, flowers, and grass surrounding them. Lincoln has one foot in the green area and the rest of him is running in yellow. He breaks the film reel that is partly curled around Hildy. She is looking back down the film reel trail over to her friend Stud and her descendent Normal. End id]

[hell-drabbles]

Walking through the streets of Niflheim was strange

While it was normal for parts of hell to look devastated Niflheim managed to look both devastated and alive

Perhaps it was due to the fact their King Belphegor made his devils so rigid similar to the human military back in the human world

Not that you would be able to tell though,your only experience with the military was the mandatory military service you did,but even that felt a age ago, without a routine the days of hell seemed to blend and blur together.

Your attention is taken from the demons around you as you look forward again at the true reason you were here,you stare at Ra-On who was being lead on by Andrealphus who was the only reason you were here,on Andrealphus’s insistence Ra-On had gave in and folded like a wet tissue to his whims and visited Niflheim on the context that Belphegor wanted to meet him,though your certain the King of Niflheim definitely wanted something from Ra-On like all the other Kings did,you can feel the wrath welling in your gut like boiling blood,you calm yourself though knowing if Satan was here hedtake great pleasure in your anger.

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Niflheim was weird,no matter how grand the palace was or how polite or professional the demons were,it was strange,while the demons did fawn over Ra-On for being the descendant of Solomon,the shared looks and silent communication between the demons weren’t unnoticed by you,it was as if the entirety of Niflheim knew a secret that no one else knew,it was as if they were being extra careful to not set Ra-On or you off, that was none of your business though Niflheim could keep it’s secrets as long as it didn’t harm you or Ra-On.

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“You’ll be meeting his highness Belphegor now”

Andrealphus warns Ra-On while standing in front of a giant set of doors

“You’ll find that his highness is quite a tolerate demon,but still be sure to be respectful”

His look towards you wasn’t at all subtle,you stare back boldly with interest,his eyes interested you,how despite the milky white of his eyes signalling he was blind it never seemed to hinder him,and something about the scars on his pale skin scratched your interest,similar to most of the demons you’ve seen in Niflheim,all scared in one way or the other.

Ah,your zoning out again,before you know it your trailing behind Ra-On into the room,the carpet crunches under your feet in a way that reminds you of the thick snow you’ve seen in some places,your eyes taking in the room and how it differs to the other nations architecture.

“Welcome”

A voice that somehow reminds you of warm chocolate rings through the room, despite being nothing but sound,it was soothing on your nerves,it reminded you of cosy podcasts where the narrator had the perfect voice for reading stories,the type that made you want to fall asleep to,you look up and see the owner of the voice,a tall demon stands upon the steps leading up to a throne,he wasn’t sitting and was in fact standing with a wide grin that reminded you of Mammon in a way,his outfit was reminiscent of some sort of punk style from the human releam,a black jacket with silver studs and chains though your eyes followed the curve of his horns,how the black ram like horns were encased in gold at the tips,the gold bell fastened around his neck comfortably also reminded you of a cow,with the way his pink hair looked so unruly around his shoulders you mentally started associating him with a sheep.

“It is a pleasure to finally meet the descendant of Solomon”

The demon steps down the steps,boots somehow managing to click against the carpet as he makes his way down to you and Ra-On’s level,out of the corner of your eye you could already see Ra-On drooling at the demon,you scoff mentally with annoyance,but your attention is caught by something pink swaying behind the demon....it was a tail,the demon had a tail,now that you thought about it,this might be the first demon you’ve seen with a tail,the appendage sways behind the demon in a way that reminds you of a curious or mischievous cat.

The demon catches Ra-On’s hand in his claws and leans down to press a kiss to the skin which causes Ra-On to flush,your eyes narrow at this action, though before you can speak up about the unwarranted touch Andrealphus beats you to it.

“Belphegor,I have brought the Descendant of Solomon like you asked, though I’m sure he’s tired perhaps he should be lead to one of the rooms”

You click your tongue,ah so it seemed like this was Belphegor, though it did seem that Andrealphus was too casual with the demon,other nobles addressed their King with a title of sorts yet Andrealphus didn’t, perhaps Niflheim was just like that, Andrealphus did mention the King being tolerant.

Your eyes nearly don’t catch the minimal movement from Belphegor as his muscles seem to tense under his skin and his strange eyes flick to look to the side door,your eyes follow and for the first time you notice the door being ajar and there seemed to be a group of demons behind the door,all of various heights and stules and they seemed to be surrounding a short individual in the middle of the group who seemed to be glaring at Belphegor.

Belphegor let’s go of Ra-On’s hand with a smile

“But of course, Andrealphus...go show the Descendant of Solomon and his Companion to comfortable rooms”

Andrealphus nods and moves to lead Ra-On and you put of the door,you throw back a glance as you are basically rushed out,just in time to see Belphegor’s claws dig into his jacket as he rubs at the skin like it was tainted,the same hand that he took Ra-On’s in,you know Ra-On’s skin was oily,but to warrant this reaction?,there was something else about the King that ticked at you but you couldn’t tell what.

Andrealphus pushes Ra-On into the group as he smiles at you and pushes you to the front,but as you go you see the demon in the middle of the group wrap a hand around Ra-On’s hips like a possessive dragon.....

Ah,you understood now

I did some research,since whb is made by a Korean company and there's mandatory military service I wanted to add bits of that to Companion's lore

I don't think I wrote this well enough,but I did what I could at this current time,it's a long ass piece sorry

If you couldn't tell,Belphie is kinda a clean freak of sorts,not extremely,just doesn't like going to bed and stuff sticky

Oily is fine,sticky is just eh for him

I just spent all my braincells writing this so anything I wanted to put into the ending notes,I don't remember

-Dante Anon

I completely understand the feeling of just not wanting anything sticky upon my person. It’s really funny to me, because that implies Ra-on is just this sticky mess of a human being.

He is by the way, it’s not a lie. There are too many devils with a stink kink and he would use that as an excuse to not bother with showering until it becomes horrifically unbearable. Or until he catches the Companion’s eyes and is suddenly slammed with weeks of shame and goes on a scrubbing rampage until he gives himself a rash.

That last line made me laugh. Just ‘uh-oh, Companion’s ready to throw hands with the actual king.’ Of which they already did, many times before with the others, but they’re probably gonna go smarter about it by this point. Human strength just isn’t enough, they have to fight dirty to get their point across. A surefire way to piss off the Companion–of which there are many but still–is to force a separation between them and Ra-on, all the while refusing to explain shit because the Companion is… of lesser value, and therefore not worth the time.

Truly fitting the king of sloth, to not bother and just, glaze over their existence since they’re clearly not worth Belphegor’s effort. The Companion should find a knife or something and stab these devils as a warning. A knife specifically made to stab through devil flesh and bone.

What kind of relationship do you think your Belphie and my Companion would have? Do you think they'd get along eventually?

Anyways...

Just when you thought your anger may be a bit too volatile for its own good, you get a few gentle reminders from the devils themselves that reignites itself all over again.

Once more and again, you are made to separate from Ra-on. Cut off really, all to serve the whims of a devil.

The hierarchy down here was bullshit. You remember Ra-on being baffled but fascinated by it, clearly intrigued to see more and how such a thing can work. And you won’t lie, to see how these highly developed kingdoms functioned with this simplistic structure seemed like it would be a fun time.

And it would be fun, if you weren’t at the bottom of the ladder. You had nothing to special to you. You weren’t blessed with anything related to devils, angels or Solomon. And what makes this even more frustrating is the fact that this power structure isn’t based on arbitrary “I’m more special” contests. It’s a hierarchy that cannot be ignored, it’s baked into the very beings of these devils.

All the more reason for them to look at you and dismiss you as less than even a regular citizen. And the hilarious part about it? Ra-on is in no better position. He’s “special.” He’s “the most important being in Hell, in Heaven, on Earth itself.” He’s “the dirtiest human to exist.”

He’s a pet is what he is. A favorite plaything to spoil when the devils want, and take when they want. Beloved as he is, he’s still nowhere near their equal no matter how much the devils believe it.

“Devils can’t lie, right?” You growled out, keeping your hands at your sides because you know an outburst will lead to nowhere.

Andrealphus continued with that plastic smile. “Of course. We cannot.”

They cannot lie.

You’ll be meeting his highness Belphegor now.

“Who was that devil, then? The one being protected by all those other devils? The one you shoved Ra-on towards?”

There was silence, an empty stare made even more empty as Andrealphus closed his mouth and refused to respond.

Of course. Omission. That’s an answer in and of itself.

“Lapdogs. All of you. Playing with us like fucking toys.” It never matters how you position yourself, devils will always seek to chase you away, dismiss you, to grab something from Ra-on.

“Please, there’s no need to worry. His highness Belphegor will treat him with the upmost–”

“Shut up. You wanted to stay quiet, so you’ll be quiet.” You’re not in the mood and you don’t want empty platitudes.

That devil back there, the one that looked like a sheep and clearly wanted to keep his hands clean, what’s his role in the grand scheme of things? Why meet with him at all when he wasn’t going to linger?

Ah, you’re too irritated to think about it. As much as you hate it, all you can really do is wait. One thing’s for sure, you’ll make your disdain known. You’ve never been one to pretend otherwise, especially towards arrogant devils that think they’re above basic manners.

You’re not a bug to be so casually dismissed.