#if you listen to the audio he says “me and a-” like he was about to say abed instead of danny

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we're getting into the cover compositions that start falling apart ! i really adore stan and mabel being outside the frame, bringing in the purple from step V, and the green from step IV . playing with visuals is neat ! drawing those pictures was less neat !

this was the hardest chapter to wrte and sat unfinished for WEEKS . chapter seven wasn't even going to exist, but six got so long i had to split it up . it was wild . for a long time i had no idea what they were even gonna be doing on this planet . there used to be a, like, fortress they needed to break into ?

the family splitting up was always part of the plan, but originally it was because there was a large gate they needed to get through, and ford was gonna go alone until dipper volunteered to go with him . that was back when i was gonna try and have ford persuade dipper into being his apprentice, like he did in the show, because it was weird in the show too . but that sucked and slowed the whole pace down . i much prefer the rift getting escalated for emotional reasons .

was a challenge re enforcing a lot of fords abilities, along with introducing the journal, and trying to find a way to make it entertaining . i really love the response to ford, and one of my favorite things writing him is the way he describes things in the stupidest terms . like the shampoo & conditioner comment . the 30 second audio clips bit makes me think of those shitty cheap plastic toys you'd buy at claire's, where you get like, one minute of an nsync song . i think mabel would have loved those honestly

originally ford was also way more of a dick about mabel, specifically, but i realized i hate that a bit and really tried to punch up how sweet he is on the kids . i'm glad i did that, because i think its a lot stronger narratively that the dude has no ill thoughts towards the kids - dipper's attitude is just him listening, absorbing, and projecting in a way that helps him regain some control over his home situation

lots to say about the kids and their deal, though that could be its own separate thing . i'll just say it went under a lot of revisions, and had a lot of conversations about it . my goal was to have some pushback on the idea that mabel is this emotionally enlightened bastion of truth . god i have a lot i could rant on this point, but i really want to get across it's not a good thing when your 12 yr old niece tries to give you a therapy session . like . that's a bad thing, overall, to be quite honest .

dipper's whole thing is just aaaaaaaaaaaa it's hard to be trans in 2012 . well it's hard to be trans in general . dipper pines i love you i want you to know that you sweaty weirdo . you and your sister are gonna be just fine

it's fun that the kids become less of a background element once both adults in the room start to pay proper attention to them . as i write these chapters, i like to imagine that mabel and dipper are just having a regular ass gravity falls adventure, while the adults are having to walk down trauma lane lalalalal

oh fuck we also get the man in the hallway with his mystery pendant . did anyone see that guy the fuck was up with that . oh well i guess that's not important L O L

oh fuck this was also the professional working relationship chapter what the fuck ... i'm gonna be honest i laugh about that everytime .... the entire scene where bill starts counting his teeth almost got cut which would have been fucking stupid . yes i am referencing macdennis with them . yes ford does tell bill to smoke a cigarette to get rid of the toxins . that's how it SHOULD be . that's how a working relationship GOES

anyways ford and stanley's home life was fucked the fanfiction the movie . yay

bill is in everyone's hallway if you force the perspective enough:

favorite part:

“Dipper, there are… certain quirks of demon containment that are easier to let happen than argue about.” Ford says. Teeth counting is one of the top ones. Along with letting Bill clip his nails when they’ve grown out too long, or cut his hair when it gets too shaggy, or… actually, there’s a lot of things Bill will throw a fit about if Ford fights him over it. Though Ford supposes he has his own list as well, including forcing Bill to do regular blood checks, and have consistent meals with appropriate dietary restrictions. Dipper, clearly, doesn’t get it, and Ford acknowledges he is too young to understand a professional working relationship.

in case anyone was confused about there being anything romantic okay . please review the above paragraph it is VERY clear about the nature of their relationship, thank you

The family gets separated by some stupid metaphors, the kids have some normal and healthy conversations, and both Pines brothers handle the situation very, very well.

Everything's going just peachy, so long as you ignore all the problems.

[random111sposts]

I want a Redacted listener who has a partner that is bothered by something but doesn't want to talk about it and the listener RESPECTS IT AND LET'S THEM BE

In fact, HAVE THE WHOLE AUDIO BE ABOUT THE LISTENER FINDING DIFFERENT WAYS TO SUGGEST TO THEIR PARTNER THAN THEY CAN DO TO DISTRACT SAID PARTNER FROM WHATEVER IS BOTHERING THEM (Like going on dates, movie night, eating out, snacking, etc)

NONE OF THAT "Come on, you can trust me" OR "I wanna help you" OR "You saved me, it's only fair if I help you"

JUST. MAKE. THE. LISTENER. ACCEPT. A. NO.

PLEASE, I WANT THIS

ESPECIALLY AFTER CUTIE, ANGEL, AND TREASURE KEEPS PESTERING THEIR PARTNERS TO DO SHIT

(Cutie with reading their partner's mind despite being told not to, Angel with pestering David to transform into a wolf despite him saying that IT IS REALLY PERSONAL AND SPECIAL FOR HIM SO HE DOESN'T JUST TRANSFORM WILLY NILLY AND TELLS ANGEL NO, YET ANGEL DOESN'T CARE AND PESTER HIM ANYWAY)

(And of course, Treasure being a person who has a saviour complex so bad that the first thing they do AFTER HOOKING UP is pester Porter to open up EVEN THOUGH HE ALREADY SAID TO LEAVE IT BE)

I LOVE THEM BUT I WANT MORE RESPECTFUL LISTENERS PLEASE

(I forgot but I think Freelancer is the closest to a listener that actually accepts when their partner doesn't wanna speak?)

[jolteonmchale]

GQ Interview (April 2023)

[aq2003]

omfg . radio play version of much ado with david as benedick from 2001

[seventh-district]

7am, eating cold leftover teriyaki stir-fry for breakfast and crying over blorbos

[dyketennant]

oh i can already tell i’m about to have some really unpopular opinions about the edge of sleep tv show

[bigdickevans]

i don’t know if this is gonna make sense but i feel like Wicked’s casting is bad for like. longevity. bc sure in the Movie Theater having the Movie Theater experience my ape brain goes oh! jeff goldblum! haha cool. then i exit the theater and turn on the soundtrack in the car. then i also listen to it the next day at home with earbuds. and maybe again the day after that in the shower with a speaker. and it’s like hmm. i don’t think seeing jeff goldblum as the wizard of oz is worth having mediocre moments in the soundtrack. that you should want me to listen to multiple times. “i thought he did fine!” fine? it’s. it’s Wicked. genuinely why on earth should i settle for “fine” ITS WICKED i feel like im going bananas.

[unproduciblesmackdown]

maybe bsol is that time jen tepper mentions when she was so upset about a review of a show of joe's that she broke a glass (&/or threw it out a window)

[variousqueerthings]

I note that I don't, and I never, was much of a fan of doctor-and-rose as romance, but that I -- rather than get annoyed at the romantic-coded scenes -- had a tendency to simply read them from a totally different perspective, and really maybe should have been a sign of sooomething different about me, that I continuously felt that the doctor's concepts of connection must be so alien, that to call it romance would be to diminish the actual Thing that they had, which was presented as such onscreen (to my mind then, now I realise what was happening, but I prefer what I had going on), which is basically that the doctor was a shell of a person, hurtling towards destruction (he would have died without rose in ep1), desperately lonely and sad and traumatised, and she retaught nine -- and by extension ten -- how to love the universe, at the same time as nine and ten taught her the same. (I think about the scene in father's day, where while they're arguing, rose says that she knows how sad he is, and he'll just hang around the tardis waiting for her -- she knew!)

and then on top of that with sarah-jane (which, I never watched the classics as a kid, so I didn't have that context for her beyond what the episode presented) it felt like that was sort of confirmed and made even more canon through this idea that the doctor is constantly mourning the inevitable deaths of their companions and would rather simply leave them behind at some point than watch that happen (and they've seen that happen before, although dying for a cause versus just... dying, because you die, while they don't, they just continue on and on, always seeking connection, always knowing that time will take them away, that's a whole other thing)

and then of course there's ten's... I would call it "sex appeal" because it's david tennant and with his performance there's immediately a bit of a focus on oh he's quite pretty and he faints/is knocked unconscious in both of his first episodes, and a lot more flirting, and the people want to see sparks or what have you... but the doctor as portrayed and written is still... not coming at it that way. yes yes girl in the fireplace but also, once again, doesn't work for me, because I find it soooo much more interesting that the doctor would imprint on A Life - and a life that they admire -- and speedrun the exact thing that they're most afraid of with their companions... that she ages and dies and it's the one thing that the doctor simply cannot stop

meanwhile rose is quite young and swept up in this whole massive adventure and very much reads the doctor not as an alien (frequently surprised by their alien-ness) and gets jealous of sarah-jane as if she's an ex, and renette as if she's... a replacement? but really it's more that the doctor met her at the point when she was about to accept her life as it was. not an exciting life, not a bad life, but always having to ignore the idea that there must be more to it than this. and the idea that she might be unceremoniously dumped back in that after seeing just how This the this could be, of course that's terrifying. and of course she's simultaneously taken with the dashing doctor and the jetset life, and worried she could be replaced, because to her the doctor saved her at 19 years old. in some ways the doctor created her (considering who she becomes after dooms day)

contrasted to martha who initially has a similar kind of experience, but the doctor doesn't meet her at the space she's in with them -- ten is leaning on her, like they did with rose, but not giving anything back unless kicking and screaming and traumatising her whole family. martha's trajectory is so so tragic, because she barely gets a taste of the splendor versus the horrors and the latter marks her for life. but she also knows to walk away from those overwhelming feelings, rather than give into them, she knows they'll never be rewarded and she also grows beyond wanting to be a crutch for the doctor (the fact that she then ends up as a soldier, well... ouch)

and then of course donna, who never has those fucking awe-feelings to begin with and whose connection with the doctor is explicitly de-romanticised but never placed on a lesser pedestal as if there's a hierarchy of alloromanticism. topples those pillars, never sees the doctor as anything but what the doctor is. good old donna. (sobs.) (but also... cautious hope for the specials.) (but also sobs.)

my point being. just don't buy alloromantic doctor, they're a near-immortal alien. it's such a dull simplistic way of reading their relationships to other beings. other point being. all those women who were making heart-eyes at ten, wish they'd met thirteen and had a... "yeah, this still works for me," moment. their horizons, too, are broadened by seeing More. (that or they realise they were never actually "in love" but just thought ten was a sexy skinny little snack and it blinded them.) (although jodie whittaker, too, is a snack.)

and lastly lastly ofc, is that if the doctor has a longterm (by doctor time measurement) intense relationship with anyone, whatever that might be called, it's the tardis. and that relationship is also so alien it cannot be quantified by human words for concepts

[seaweedstarshine]

Eleventh Doctor Chronicles: Sins of the Flesh is really good. Really really good. Experience with certain attitudes can be so isolating, surrounded by people who won’t bother to understand the impact of growing up in that environment (because the world's so progressive now, right), and so — I'm so glad it exists. I also liked the discussion in the interview commentary about how being a monster and doing monstrous things are not mutually exclusive. Like most things, homophobia is pervasive because it is structural. Religious fervor is not inherently bad — “your god is love,” Valarie says to Lily — but as soon as hellfire is brandished around, it's used routinely to empower monstrous things, in a way that becomes unsafe to debate. Especially for young & dependent people who can't escape it.

Conditional love. Moral panics. Purity culture. Self-hate. Mob mentality. This audio. It's timely.

I appreciated what they said in the interviews about not only about the research, but the four rounds of sensitivity readings. I wish the TV show had that level of care sometimes…

[heartbeetz]

I can't even really explain what it is about Anton's voice that I like so much. But I like it. It's good.

[silencingspellsongs]

every time my mind starts brewing up a theory on one storyline/character, it always leads me down a rabbit hole of needing to relisten to other videos for specific lore nuggets. like right now im on a loop of

relistening to Project Meridian > need to relisten to Sovereign State > need to relisten to Inversion (i've only gone through Inversion once and it was in my first week of listening to Redacted and let me tell you i had no clue who anyone besides David was (yeah he was the first playlist i sat down to marathon 🫣) and it still managed to completely destroy me emotionally) > need to relisten to Hush > need to relisten to Carpe Deus

Now i can't explain why yet but i've got theory-brain trying to connect these all together (especially Project Meridian and Sovereign State, i swear i heard one little thing during my Project Meridian marathon that has me all 👀👀👀 at Sovereign State) and knowing that Project Meridian and the Balance have updates coming soon really has me vibrating

[reinemichele]

Wait hold on

Do we count not regenerating as suicide??? Bc if we do, that means that the master has killed themself out of spite 4 times, 5 if you count the Lumiat as canon (I do), and 2 of those were simm!master and 2 of those were missy, and 4 of them were motivated by the doctor

[crossingxheart]

on one hand I am not sure if my current state of emotion is because the audio drama is really THAT good or if my standards are just focused purely on the fun factor but Wow I am shaken to my very core

[nightzskii]

dont mind this post

looking at old tags the best i can

[majinbangus]

》 18+ learning how to deal with guard dog!Simon's humping -> more here ft. this audio:

Soap says it's normal. That it's a way to show you affection, or get your attention. That he's just being playful. It isn't anything to worry about, in his words.

"If you want him to stop, you have to help him get his pent up energy out," Soap advised over the phone when you mentioned that Ghost kept mounting and grinding into you whenever you bent over (which was a surprising amount of times; you never realized how much you bent over in a given day).

How do you get his energy out, you ask?

"You play with him."

That's it?

"Aye, but keep me on the phone, sweets." You hear Soap shifting on the other side of the line, the faint sound of a zipper being undone. "I wanna hear you playing with the dog."

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"Pet's knocked out." Ghost picks up the phone to address Soap, listening to how the other man is lightly panting. It sounds like he just finished playing too. He smirks, looking down at the mess he left between your legs. Shame Soap wasn't here to see the results himself. "Made sure she won't be walking properly by the time you get back tomorrow."

"Good ol' boy." Soap breathes out, bringing his phone closer to his ear. "What about her? She play nice for you?"

"Always."

"Our good girl." Soap smiles and Ghost hums in agreement, absently swiping a thumb through your messy folds. Even unconscious, you squirm under the sensation. He doesn't pull away.

"You picked a good one, Johnny." He praises back, carefully settling between your legs. "Wanna hear her cry some more?"

"So soon?" Soap laughs in disbelief, but doesn't reject the offer. "You're gonna kill her, Simon."

"Maybe." He places the phone near your hip, making sure the speaker is on before letting his mouth hover over your sensitive cunt. "But she should learn not to leave her dog alone with his toys."