#book club podcast

[hiddenbookcasepodcast]

Happy International Asexuality Day from us at The Hidden Bookcase. Here are some book recommendations we love featuring ace representation to celebrate!

[threepatchpodcast]

TPP Episode 146: A Study in Fic - "Demonology and the Tri-Phasic Model of Trauma" Part 2

NEW EPISODE! Our very special "Study in Fic" series continues, where we give Good Omens fic, "Demonology and the Tri-Phasic Model of Trauma" the book club treatment. Join long-time fans of this fic, @foxestacado and Charles, re-read this fic with first-time readers, Sofia and Topher, and discuss chapters 5-10.

LISTEN at: https://three-patch.com/2024/01/18/episode-146/

Missed our discussion of Chapters 1-4? Listen here! https://three-patch.com/2023/10/11/episode-145/

[readinthedarkpod]

Come one, come all! Today we bring you the best of the best, from all across the land, to compete in the ultimate competition. Who will be crowned as the biggest, most pathetic, simp of all time? Listen to find out.

Our Challengers: Thomas Cresswell from Stalking Jack the Ripper by Kerri Maniscalco Vektal from Ice Planet Barbarian by Ruby Dixon Damianos of Akielos from The Captive Prince by C. S. Pacat Rhysand from the A Court of Thorns and Roses series by Sarah J. Maas Lorcan Salvaterre from the Throne of Glass series by Sarah J. Maas Edward Cullen from Twilight by Stephenie Meyer Oliver Marks from If We Were Villains by M. L. Rio Benjamin Evans from The Darkest Part of the Forest by Holly Black Cardan Greenbriar from The Folk of the Air by Holly Black Kaz Brekker from Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo Oak Greenbriar from The Stolen Heir by Holly Black Prince Corrick from the Defy the Night series by Brigid Kemmerer Matthias Helvar from Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo Hal Cavendish from Down Comes the Night by Allison Saft Nathaniel Thorn from A Sorcery of Thorns by Margaret Rogerson Jamie Westenberg from Two Wrongs Make a Right by Chloe Liese Follow the hosts at @figonas @adxmparriish @hazelsheartsworn @laequiem

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[starwarsbookckub]

We had our second podcast episode recorded and just about edited to go out this week but then a windows update decided to delete it?!

It was our Ahsoka special too. Now I have to think about that show again if we re-record it.

[emiko-matsui]

if you wanna listen to naddpod you should know this about the hosts: brian murphy is a straightman to his inner most core and he's the funniest person alive, these things exist simultaneously and would not exist without the other. emily axford is clinically insane to a point where it's easier to not try to follow her logic when she says things. jake hurwitz is a certified cool guy but he's the biggest loser in a room of nerds playing dungeons and dragons. caldwell tanner can only be described as exactly what a 1930's cartoon describes as a rascal. three of them are a throuple and the fourth is their boss.

[podcast-bookclub]

Happy Audio Drama Sunday, everyone! Some updates this week regarding our plans for the audio fiction convention, so hang tight with me here:

Firstly - it's official, it's happening, time to get excited! The event will be held from Friday, January 31 to Sunday, February 2nd 2025, so be sure to mark your calendars! It'll be virtually through our Discord server, with panels streamed through Twitch.

Applications for those interested in being involved are live now and will be open until September 30th. If you have any questions regarding involvement, feel free to open a ticket in the server, or email finch@podcast-bookclub.com.

Application links:

Panelists

Event Volunteers/Panel Hosts

Artists

That's all, have a great week! We're looking forward to sharing more information both for attendees & generally about the event in the coming months and hope y'all are as excited as we are for this adventure ✨

[oswednesday]

how many people are you following and how many followers do you have?

just you and me buddy

[communistkenobi]

I’m listening to the podcast Game Studies Study Buddies review the book Engineering Play by Mizuko Ito. They’re discussing the theory of fun that gets argued for in this book, specifically in the context of children’s “edutainment” games that are/were common in North American primary schools (idk if they’re still popular, but I played a lot of them when I was kid) - that saying “I’m having fun” for children in this environment is a non-confrontational way of disagreeing with authority, that “having fun” is a good rationale for not listening to adults, not putting away the toys or getting off the computer or etc. Children grab onto the fact that playing these “edutainment” games and other “fun” activities they’re forced to do in school is premised on the idea that children learn better (and can be fooled into learning) when they’re “having fun.” This is despite the fact that the definition of “having fun” is often very different for adults in positions of authority than it is for children, but it is a shared language children can use to articulate their resistance to authority in these educational settings in a way that is not immediately read as hostile/anti-social (or at least, less so than outright saying “I don’t want to do what you’re telling me to do”).

And the hosts connect this to the concept of ‘escapist media’ - they call it “the rhetoric of non-obligation,” this idea that you can engage with a piece of art and intentionally not think about its political or social content as a way of “having fun,” that “having fun” is necessarily divorced from any critical evaluation of art, and that this rationale of having fun is sufficient to explain this mode of engagement. But when placed in the context of adults describing their relationship to mass produced art, it’s no longer a child bucking against authority, but rather a person resisting some larger critical discussion they perceive as authoritarian or otherwise intruding on their “fun” by being critical - in essence, viewing critical evaluation of a piece of art as a de facto argument to stop having fun, that the only reason to do this critical evaluation would be for the purposes of telling other people to stop having fun.

Obviously I don’t think everyone using the term ‘escapist media’ are like, automatically and universally behaving like children or anything, it is a widely popular term whose casual usage doesn’t mean you’re committing to that form of argument. But I do very frequently see people use their enjoyment of ‘escapist media’ as a way of like, articulating their desire not to confront critical readings of whatever they like, always placing “critical thinking” (a very loaded term) as this necessarily miserable, upsetting, unfun activity that can only ever intrude on an emotional state of “having fun.” And this includes a lot of discussions online about the benefits of “critically engaging” with media, that while it may not be fun it’s still necessary because it makes you more a moral/smart/sophisticated/etc person. and I think that is a very miserable way of approaching critical engagement

[yoursonlucifer]

"emily axford not interested?" [in a mysterious vampire woman with a long cape]

love murph just being like you? my bisexual wife? not attracted to a hot woman? are you sure?

[hiddenbookcasepodcast]

It's ahistorical autumn at The Hidden Bookcase! We're setting sail with Natasha Pulley's The Kingdoms, with Hidden Bookcase editor Kit Lovick along as a guest. Let's talk timelines, tortoises, and tube stations ⚓🕰️🌊

🐢 Listen on Spotify 🐢 Or find us wherever you get your podcasts 🐢 For transcripts, visit planarprod.com 🐢 For closed captions, head to our YouTube

[ttrpgbookclub]

Tabletop Book Club, a podcast for tabletop enthusiasts with no time to play tabletop games. TTRPG Book Club is a new podcast where Barclay Travis (@barcstravis), Finch Edmund (@finchmund), and Bee Alexander (@beealexander) read (or reread) a TTRPG each month and discuss everything they love about it.

[readinthedarkpod]

2 Light 2 Lark: The Starstick Strikes Back… or something like that. That’s right baby, we’re back to cyberbullying Alex Aster except this time, we’ve dedicated an entire episode to it. Join us as we dissect Nightbane, the sequel to Lightlark.

Be aware: silences may be longer than they appear.

Join our book club @wornpagelibrary!

And if you want, follow the hosts @adxmparriish @figonas @laequiem and @hazelsheartsworn

[starwarsbookckub]

First SWBC podcast ep has been recorded!

Hyperspace Comlink Strikes Back!

[emiko-matsui]

emily axford was the first worm girl back in 2016 when she, heartbroken, asked her husband "you wouldn't fuck me if i was a rabbit?"

[joenhead]

Here’s a semi-old Band o Boobs doodle!!! I miss them a lot my stupid silly found family….

One Big Bed means a lot to me and yeah I did cry when I first listened to it SO WHAT

I should draw them again sometime soon.

[podcast-bookclub]

Audio Fiction Virtual Convention Interest Check

Happy Audio Drama Sunday!!! While we've got some new shows kicking off today, we've also got a survey regarding a potential future event for the bookclub. Online conventions have been much more common in our pandemic-affected world, and we'd love to help bring one to life in the audio drama/actual play community. :)

An online event of this scale would be quite a pivot from our colloquial work, so we'd like to have some foundational data from y'all before diving in too deeply. If you've got a minute, we'd appreciate your answering this interest check form we've set up.

If you have any questions, you can reach us by email at finch@podcast-bookclub.com, or by opening a ticket in the server.