#dangerous times at chillhaven high

[doggogills-but-worse]

okay listen. i love jrwi, i really do. i love riptide and prime defenders, and the community has been pretty good, i have a lot of mutuals that are super cool. but the attitude and ferocity in which people defend the lgbt rep in the show? mh. not it.

podcasts as a medium have been incredibly full of queer creators making wonderful stories, including ttrpgs. especially ttrpgs!!! most of jrwi’s lgbt rep has been behind a paywall (and that was a joke for 90% of the series), or a joke (i’m looking at you fnc canon kiss), and the rest is vaguely implied. correct me if i’m wrong on this, i’m not caught up. i don’t really care about what the folks say off mic about characters, to be quite honest. there has been little indication of the actual queerness of characters in any form beside an npc who wasn’t even fully created by the showrunners. and that is my point. the lgbt stuff that people latch onto are things that have either been questions answered off mic, or things that the fan community has expanded upon that were only hinted at in canon, or just headcanoned.

im not saying that this is wrong, or the series is bad because of it, but the attitude that the fandom has towards it is... a lot for what is actually there on screen in earnest. it’s not the most lgbt podcast with fantastic rep that you say it is. there are so many podcasts with the kind of representation and characters that you are looking for. again, it’s not a bad podcast because of this, but we’ve gotta stop acting like it’s queer as hell.

so here are some podcasts with fully fleshed out, explicitly queer characters (with their corresponding vibe):

Dungeons & Daddies (s1: riptide, s2: pd)

The Broadswords (apotheosis)

All My Hexes (admittedly unfinished but still good)

A Horror Borealis (bitb)

Bombarded (riptide)

Fantasy High (of course) (pd)

Wildbranch High (pd)

Kollok 1991 (pd, bitb)

Monster Hour (s1: pd, kinda apotheosis)

$2 Creature Feature (pd)

Dice Crisis (riptide)

Hope’s Hearth (i haven’t started this one yet, but it’s on my list)

The Storyteller Squad (pd)

Dangerous Times at Chillhaven High (soooo much pd vibes)

Shrimp and Crits (bitb)

Pest Control (s1: riptide but modern, s2: early pd)

The Unexplored Places (they have many seasons, i can rant about them for hours tbh)

The Monster’s Playbook (pd, kinda bitb)

and that’s just the actual plays

again, i love jrwi, but we have got to stop hailing it as an exemplar of lgbt actual play podcasts because it just isn’t.

[100frogsinatrenchcoat]

Zeke, Dick, and Vesper are soooo throuple coded in the newest chillhaven high episode lmao. Vesper and their two stupid adventure boyfriends. Dick and his two fucked up science partners. Zeke and his two partners that are just trying to keep him from doing dumb shit. They’re so silly I love them

[salamancers]

i think everyone should listen to dangerous times at chillhaven high, because i am in love with this podcast

[salamancers]

theres a discord!! its small but it exists!

Zeke, Dick, and Vesper are soooo throuple coded in the newest chillhaven high episode lmao. Vesper and their two stupid adventure boyfriends. Dick and his two fucked up science partners. Zeke and his two partners that are just trying to keep him from doing dumb shit. They’re so silly I love them

[100frogsinatrenchcoat]

!!!!

Zeke, Dick, and Vesper are soooo throuple coded in the newest chillhaven high episode lmao. Vesper and their two stupid adventure boyfriends. Dick and his two fucked up science partners. Zeke and his two partners that are just trying to keep him from doing dumb shit. They’re so silly I love them