#ilyaas BABA

[gooseontheinternet]

forgot to also post this here

“Unfinished portrait of the Vatakina Eligida before the Great Disappearance”

go listen to @backagainpodcast !!!!

[backagainpodcast]

when will the narrative learn that perhaps i DONT want to be burdened with the unimaginable weight of prophecy

[natdrinkstea]

all these kids talking about "are you a soldier, a poet, or a king" and not even listening to @backagainpodcast !!!!! a beautiful heartbreaking fantasy show with an entire system based around that song!!! full of love and warmth and queer women with swords!! guys what are you doing!!!? go listen to baba!!!!!!

[irisbellemoon]

Summary: 

Ilyaas is slightly nostalgic for her old world. Callia learns a language she once hated.

The Callia/Ilyaas fanfic I’ve been raving about is finally finished!!! Hope y’all like reading it as much as I liked writing it.

[feedingsquirrels]

in celebration of our beloved show winning, I posted another chapter :)

[backagainpodcast]

ItMe sprinted so the rest of us could walk (oh my god oh my GOD listen to InCo hatov is my baby boy)

this week's archive entry was in annaliese's voice, a character whom i would like to remind everyone cannot possibly be from actual germany because actual germany does not exist in this universe, and therefore the accent im doing for her isnt German (Badly) but Alien (Perfectly)

[fyeahaudiodrama]

Considering myself tagged by @podcastgirlsweek - pick your favorite podcast woman who is also one of my favorite podcast women!

Make a poll of your favorite female characters (no limits – as many or as little as you want) and see which your followers like the most

[miralines]

Me: I love Cassian! His friendship with Ilyaas is so great and I hope he can learn to stand up to his parents!

Ilyaas: “…and even godsforsaken Cassius Rex…”

Me:

[fyeahaudiodrama]

oooooh let’s see

madge of fawx & stallion, incredible, iconic

fellow migraine sufferer colette kingmaker histories (who is at least…part-time gal? i’m not sure how exactly she’d define it at those point), and also, more personally, daphne kingmaker histories (and the version of her in my head who went on to fund her own criminal gang)

ilyaas baba, tired, ace, trying her best

jane pasitheapowder, someone get that poor woman a charcuterie board

yaretzi hfth (i am not immune to pretty wolf lady)

mari & laura hinay, one has magic and milk tea, one has a fire axe and goes in swinging, what more could you want

rosie & zara innbetween, may they eat raw eggs and cuddle raccoons forever

keryth ylelmore, you’re doing amazing sweetie!

I see many a post about people's favourite little fiction podcast guys. But who's everyone's favourite fiction podcast gals? I would like very much to hear about your blorbos.

[gooseontheinternet]

doodles of cassian and ilyaas at dinner from @backagainpodcast

(with their respective pride flag colors bc i coincidentally had those color pens)

[backagainpodcast]

Baba episode 27 spoilers:

Callia has a hobby that's not Rebellion TM

Incredibly unsubtle parallels to s1-e1/2/3

Ilyaas acts the fool

Oh Hellos-esque title

[chiropteracupola]

the city, and what may or may not happen to it.

(the queen of rhysea, @backagainpodcast)

[irisbellemoon]

writing that callia/ilyaas fanfic... it's hard...

[feedingsquirrels]

doing a @backagainpodcast relisten of the last few episodes and it’s MAKING ME MISS CASSIAN this isn’t fair actually

[backagainpodcast]

I love to use BABA to unwind from having a rough day. Also this is once of the best concepts I have come across though out the media that I consume. The outro gives a glimpse of hope when this bard needs it the most. I hope that everyone sees the positive impact of this podcast. Thank you. Also do you have any advice for world building.

hello dear one! Thank you so much for your kind words :)

One of my favorite things about art is that it is always in conversation with others :) I'm so glad that you love BABA, but it wouldn't be what it is without every other story I've ever read and have fallen in love with first!!

And thank YOU for listening all the way through the outro -- I always mean it, every time. I hope that you have a wonderful day, I hope that you know all the ways you are loved.

I fear I do not have much advice in the way of worldbuilding, as I'm notorious for just... adding things in when I feel it and praying for continuity. There are definitely better people out there to ask than me, but what I always come back around to are the... little human things, I guess? If you ask me where water comes from or crop rotations or if there are sheep I will be making that answer up in the moment or giving a big 'ol shrug of my shoulders. If you look too closely, you'll realize Rhysea isn't even turtles all the way down. It's more a house of cards in a hailstorm.

However, what's important to me, always, is trying to find ways to make your characters care about the world around them and for the world to care about your characters in turn.

Ilyaas is a forgiving narrator for this --- she falls in love with everything she sees and she tries to cling to it, and she's a big part of me, and the things that I care about are stories and food and traditions and words and fancy engraved swords, so that is what Rhysea has a lot of. Perhaps my world-building advice is to talk at length about the things that make you happy? And to build those into your world?

As much as I wish I could, I derive no joy from sitting down and listing out Rhysea's top exports and the name of every Laerd and their children. It would make Rhysea so much cooler, I'm sure, but it would drive me crazy in the building it. However, when Ilyaas starts to talk about the lottery system or the way cycles work things become intersting to me and I like to spend the time with them. Perhaps my world-building advice is to write a scene and fill in the world, rather than creating a world for the sake of a scene?

I think my only real piece of advice is to add in what feels interesting to you, the writer, rather than what you feel like maybeee you should have in order to have a Real Serious World. Love makes everything feel real. Write in what you love :)

[backagainpodcast]

anyone else have that Very Specific Experience of being like, six, and fighting with a parent over your church outfit and ultimately losing the fight because you're, like, six, but then sitting the entire car ride and the entire serivice absolutely INCANDESCENT with rage because the feeling of the scratchy little ruffle lace socks you're wearing against ur chubby little american girl doll ankles makes you want to commit a war crime? yeah. that's the vibe here.