#midnight pals

[bitterkarella]

Midnight Pals: Omens

Arkasha Stevenson: submitted for the approval of the midnight society, i call this the tale of the first omen Stevenson: it's about a plot to breed the antichrist King: wait this sounds familiar Stevenson: yeah it's based on The Omen King: no that's not it

King: wait! i've got it! King: this is totally ripping off Good Omens! King: it's the same set up! Lovecraft: you're right! even the name is similar! Barker: wow, i hope someone gets fired for THAT blunder

King: neil! Neil! did you know that the omen is ripping off your book? Neil Gaiman: steve, good omens is a parody of the omen King: King: what Gaiman: i mean, even the name is similar Gaiman: that should have been a clue

Gaiman: you must understand, steve, that once the omen was the biggest thing in horror Gaiman: we believed its grip on man's imagination would last the ages! But alas... it is forgotten! Gaiman: forgotten like the fading filaments of a dream in the morning light! King: oh ok

Gaiman: now, like the great ozymandias,king of kings, memory of the omen has scattered to the howling winds of the glittering desert of oblivion Gaiman: and like prometheus the titan of old my torment knows no bounds Koontz: neil! did you know the first omen ripped off your book?

Gaiman: no young dean for you see the omen actually predates good omens Koontz: huh? but it just came out! Gaiman: no see the original omen came our before the good omens book Koontz: original omen? book? Koontz: i don't understand

Mary Shelley: sup fuckers Shelley: so neil i hear they ripped off your book Gaiman: no i Shelley: i'd be real pissed if someone ripped off my book Gaiman: they didn't Shelley: i'd give em one of these [pantomimes shivving]

Gaiman: please! no one ripped off good omens Barker: oh they definitely ripped off good omens Poe: seems pretty obvious, yeah Gaiman: edgar! he's just stirring up shit! Gaiman: you know that! Gaiman: why are you believing him now? Poe: no he's right, it's an open and shut case

Neil Gaiman: it's not a rip off! good omens was literally an omen parody! Gaiman: if you won't believe me, ask terry! Terry Pratchett: hey is anyone hungry? i could really go for some soup right now

[eelerschoice]

Vote for us (and our friends) in the Audioverse Awards!

Good day to you eel enthusiasts, it's December, you know what that means - tis the season…for the Audioverse Awards!

If you enjoyed Eeler's Choice we would love for you to vote for our little Eel show in the New Productions category. We would also love for you to vote for some of the other productions our lovely eel cast are in, because we know that like the spotted garden eel we thrive best in a teeming ecosystem full of our eel buddies.

In the new show category we would love you to listen and support:

Camlann the postapocalyptic Arthurian fantasy which has among an amazing cast, Fay Roberts our dastardly Principal Adept, being Welsh but in an entirely different way. They are crowdfunding for Season 2 right now!

The Grotto, a show about trauma caves full of banging tunes, which features David Ault, (who plays grouchy old Blethin Stormsinger)

... and Submitted for the Approval of the Midnight Pals, in which Daisy waterboards someone, Lou is drowned, repeatedly, and David is resurrected, possibly by bees, and honestly that's not the weirdest stuff that happens in that show.

And of course, last but by no means least, the Silt Verses our beloved, our inspiration, our precious crab friend, whom we love very much, and with whom we share B, Rissa, Rhys, Kale, David, Tanja, Rae, both of us, like…half the cast, please vote for them in the Existing Productions category!

Head to https://audioverseawards.net/vote/ before the 21st of December to check out all the many wonderful shows nominated this year.

Finally, regarding Season 2 of Eeler's Choice - we will return to Eskmouth with Season 2 …. when it's good and ready - but - it is at least written! All being well, watch this space in the new year for news about crowdfunding and other eel related things. Have an eely good Christmas, Yule, Candletide, or whatever you celebrate this winter, or summer if you're in the Southern Hemisphere. Byeeee!

[noonecanhearyouscreen]

Submitted for the Approval of the Midnight Pals Season 2!

Submitted for the Approval of the Midnight Pals is a fiction podcast based on The Hugo Award Winning microfiction series "Midnight Pals" originally posted on Twitter by Bitter Karella https://twitter.com/midnight_pals. The series stars classic horror authors Stephen King, Edgar Allen Poe, Mary Shelley, Clive Barker, H.P. Lovecraft, and Dean Koontz all gathering around a campfire to tell their stories like in the classic kids horror anthology "Are You Afraid of the Dark?".

Our first season premiered last year to much success and all of our episodes are currently available at http://www.midnightpals.com/ or wherever you like to get your podcasts.

We are currently crowdfunding our Season 2 which will feature parodies of Hellraiser, Angela Carter's Red Riding Hood variations from The Bloody Chamber, The Watchers, Interview with the Vampire, "A Shadow over Insmouth", Richard Bachman, and Rebecca. If you like a healthy dose of laughs with your horror, we just might be your jam.

[legowerewolf]

[clansocreations]

[Disclaimer: this is a bunch of art history facts and tidbits masquerading as Midnight Pals fanfiction. I am so bored. Midnight Pals is by @bitterkarella , it's very good and you should read/listen. hello good day and I am so sorry]

Nièpce: Uhm. Bonjour. I would like to introduce you you all this new thing I made called a heliograph?

Caravaggio: who the fuck invited the chemist.

Hopper (looking at the heliograph): I like it. It reflects the tristesse and pointlessness of the world.

Genteleschi (talking over Hopper,to Caravaggio): who the fuck invited you.

Stieglitz: I like it and I'll argue your case but you must NEVER bring up the word "Kodak"

(A cartoonish brawl breaks out in the background)

Nièpce: What's a Kodak?

(scene)

Turner: I would like to introduce to you my painting Snow Storm – Steam-Boat off a Harbour's Mouth Making Signals in Shallow Water, and going by the Lead. The Author was in this Storm on the Night the "Ariel" left Harwich

(Everybody looks at the painting)

Hopper: but what's the painting called.

Turner (sarcastically): it was called many things by the critics.

Turner:...

Turner: you can call it snowstorm.

(scene)

Duchamp: I would like to introduce you to my painting "Nude descending a staircase"....

Gauguin (startling out of deep sleep): Tits??

Gauguin (squinting at the painting): .....

Gauguin: go fuck yourself Marcel.

Genteleschi (nursing a stab wound from the earlier fight) That's what you should do, then you'd stop making women sick.

(murmurs of agreement)

(scene)

Dramatis personae:

Nicephore Nièpce, an early pioneer of photography (his heliograph is today regarded the first photograph ever)

Alfred Stieglitz: American photographer, part of the pictorialist movement that heavily pushed the "photography is a form of art too damn it" angle after the Eastman Kodak company released the first commercially viable photo camera and photography went from a totally obscure nerd hobby that only a few people could even pull off to something that everyone could easily do.

Caravaggio: Renaissance painter. Most of the information that exists on him are court records of his stab-happy crime spree and that he once sued a guy for painting in his style which is a 21st century dick move. He got thrown out of two different cities for the crime of stabbing a guy fatally in the balls. This is really all you need to know about Caravaggio.

Artemisia Genteleschi, renaissance WOMAN and absolute badass. There were woman artists back then but not many and she could already paint at a professional level at age fifteen or sixteen! She got admitted to the academy of arts!! She sold her paintings internationally! She was really really good.

Edward Hopper, member of the school of so called "American realism" and probably clinically depressed according to my classmate who did the presentation on him. If it looks sorta realistic and exudes a sense of isolation and loneliness even if there is multiple people in the painting, it's probably one of his. (He was part of last year's art history final and I thank whoever looks kindly on highschoolers that I was able to retain some information from that presentation as well as.my classmate for picking him off the list)

William James Mallord Turner

British landscape painter. Regarded as Britain's Favorite painter (these days)

He was supposed to be the subject of my presentation but I begged my teacher to let me do Marcel Duchamp instead. I have since seen the errors of my way.(more on that later) Snowstorm is currently on loan to the Lenbachhaus, an art museum in Munich Germany, and I went to the exhibition and stood right in front of it. It's really something.

The things the critics said about Snowstorm were "soapsuds and whitewash" and "all of the contents of his (Turner's) pantry"

Now Turner had a certain "fuck off" attitude to artistic people pleasing but according to a contemporary source called John Ruskin (I think) he read that scathing review and went "soapsuds and whitewash! Soapsuds and whitewash! I wonder what they think the sea's like!? I wish they'd been in it!" which I think is hilarious.

And finally Marcel Duchamp.

What the fuck do I say about him? I have done the presentation. I got a 2 (that's pretty good!) And I still struggle to understand what the guy was even doing. His most well known contribution to art is an upside down toilet. Or well...a photo of that that was photographed by Stieglitz.

He was french I guess that's what I can say about him. I was like "oh he did Object art. I do object art. I'll like what he made" but it turns out that "object art" is a really vague catch-all term. :) who could've guessed. I like Tom Every more (look up the Evertron. It's the world's largest scrap metal sculpture and it is freaking phenomenal. THAT'S what I wanna do. Not Marcel Duchamp. I wanna make whimsical shit like he did or weird shit like Luise Bourgeois did. They're my art heroes. Not Marcel Duchamp. just wanted to make Gauguin look bad cause he was a thoroughly unpleasant person who I wouldn't touch with a six meter pole )

[embracing-the-ineffable]

@bitterkarella this has Midnight Pals written ALLLLLL over it 🤣

furious that i am not a playable character in this game

[visually-corrupted]

After Midnight by Donka Nucheva Ellectra

[turtleplushi]

More drawings I did yesterday (technically today? Past midnight I think)

[thesulkycroissant]

I think Midnighter, upon meeting Batman, should spend the rest of the time .5 seconds away from punching him. I say this as someone who loves Bruce deeply. These characters were not created to coexist.

[dvandom]

Mary Shelley: (pulls out switchblade)

Percy Shelley: (produces a small slice of wickedness previously concealed by a clever mechanism)

Percy, calm the fuck down  (x)

[alieonya]

okay but like. what would've happened if stain was in ua and became a pro-hero?

because stain, aizawa, yamada, kayama, and shirakumo were all in high school at the same time when they were teenagers. he just went to a different school as them, but dropped out because he hated his classmate's ideologies.

maybe akaguro (stain) enrolls into ua? or he was transferred early on into it somehow because of poor behavior due to his growing anger towards his classmate'e behavior? he would've been in kayama's grade since they're both a year older than aizawa, shirakumo, and yamada.

he probably wouldn't have been able to pass the entrance exam/the hero course classes were filled, and he knew he had to train in order to have a high rank in the sports festival in his first year. he does so and gets a high rank in the festival, and then he's switched into the hero course?

if akaguro was transferred to ua and entered the hero course, he probably wouldn't befriend anyone and would adopt a mindset similar to shinsou's—but his reasoning is that he doesn't want to befriend anyone with "selfish desires".

then when the new first years are enrolled into ua, including shirakumo, yamada, and aizawa—i think aizawa would've gone into the general studies course first for the same problem as akaguro, of not being able to pass the physical entrance exam.

somehow, akaguro would've met aizawa and his first question is "why do you want to be a hero?". when he learns its not for self gain, he starts training him before the festival, and aizawa whoops ass in the sports festival like akaguro did in his first year.

they still talk and are fairly close before akaguro is dragged into the rooftop squad—the whole reason why i think he'd be dragged in is because kayama notices that him and aizawa are friends, and befriends him as well before dragging him to their spot.

akaguro would eventually start to lighten up, and become more laid back and open, by being around them—though he still doesn't agree with those who want to be heroes for fame, he isn't as overbearing about it. he helps teach shirakumo and yamada too, and maybe is able to save shirakumo? 🤷‍♀️

he starts out as closed off, cold, and maybe a little rude, but becomes more friendly and understanding by being around people who forced him out of being closed off. a group he finds himself enjoying and caring about.

i'm not sure what his hero name would be. maybe paralyzer? nightcrawler? 🤷‍♀️ anyways. as an adult he would've become an underground hero, maybe alongside aizawa if shirakumo does still die.

if shirakumo does die, and he becomes an underground hero alongside aizawa. he keeps tabs on aizawa and checks on him with random visits while on the job, and encourages him to follow kayama's advice to become a teacher—maybe he knew about her idea, and was just as concerned abt aizawa.

idk, just spit balling and don't really have any concrete ideas, i just wanted to ramble abt the idea. any add ons/ideas are welcome!! chizome akaguro my beloved underrated mha character <333

[bitterkarella]

Midnight Pals: No tweets

[at JK Rowling's Scottish castle] JK Rowling: Ha ha! Look at me! I'm possting on the internet! Rowling: "esstrogen turns normal men into rampaging ape beastss!" agent: joanne! stop! agent: you're posting too close to the sun! Rowling: "Gamer ssockss are AGP!"

Rowling: ha ha no one can ssstop me! Rowling: I'm JK fuckin' Rowling! Rowling: I'm a beautiful animal!! Rowling: watch this, i'm gonna poke imane khelif with thisss ssstick agent: joanne! no! Rowling: don't worry, itss a really long ssstick Rowling: i'll be fine!

Rowling: [poking imane khelif with stick] ha ha you like that, you liminal creature? you congenital eunuch? ha ha what are you gonna do about it? Khelif: that's it! Khelif: you've woke the dragon, now prepare to feel her breath!

Rowling: ha ha what're you gonna do? hit me with your massssive tessstosterone fissstss? Khelif: you and me, rowling! three rounds! sudden death match in the arena... Rowling: haha Khelif: the arena of the legal system! Rowling: Rowling: uh oh

Khelif: i'm taking you to court Rowling: Rowling: Rowling: [sweats] wayon jennings narrative voice: now ol' joanne's got herself in a heap o' trouble. how's that dang ol' snake gonna slither her way outta this mess?

JK Rowling: [shoving documents into a shredder] quick! ssshred it all!! shred fucking everything! Julie Bindel: but dark lord what should we tell your followers?! Bindel: they'll be expecting some patented jk rowling hot takes! Rowling: i don't know, jusst sstall them!!!

[mysterious circle of robed figures] Bindel: i've called this meeting to come up w a reason why the dark lord isn't tweeting Kathleen Stock: maybe we can say she's getting her castle fumigated? Bindel: no we used that when she posted the 'no toilets in hogwarts' tweet

Jesse Singal: oo! oo! i've got one! Singal: what if we say that 'having achieved all of her goals and ambitions, she has decided to retire forever' Bindel: no no that won't work Stock: could we just say that she's brumating?

Kathleen Stock: wait! what if we said she's on vacation? Bindel: hmm i like it! Stock: we could even embellish it with plausible details for additional verisimilitude! Bindel: like that she's... eating vodka-infused candy floss! Stock: exactly! that's very believable!

[midnight society] Barker: interesting, joanne hasn't tweeted in like 2 weeks Barker: seems kind of unusual King: oh i'm sure it's nothing Barker: looks like she's actually deleting tweets King: oh King: huh King: i wonder what that's all about?

Julie Bindel: [rising from bushes] ACTUALLY Jk rowling is actually on a jolly vacation right now so that's why she's not tweeting Bindel: it has nothing to do with any lawsuit! it's totally legit! King: where's she vacationing? Bindel: she's visiting her girlfriend in canada

Bindel: see, i have this postcard right here that she sent saying that she's having a great time on her vacation in vacationia and she's too busy to tweet! Barker: hey can i see that postcard? Bindel: um Bindel: no

Bindel: joanne says that she's having too much fun eating vodka-infused candy floss to be transphobic right now King: wow! i don't think i've ever seen her have THAT much fun before! King: this vodka-infused candy floss must be lit!

Barker: so you're telling me Barker: that jk rowling is right now drunk on vodka-infused candy floss Barker: a product which i am definitely sure exists and is real Barker: and being drunk has made her less vocally transphobic? Bindel: Bindel: [sweats] yes

[faunandfloraas]

Kittycatracha for @inloif Happy Birthday, Karolina! 🖤

[doctorloup]

Psst. Kids.... you want more funky little dudes hanging out around a campfire being weirdly horny and taking the piss out of JK Rowling? Chuck us a dolla?

Submitted for the Approval of the Midnight Pals Season 2!

Submitted for the Approval of the Midnight Pals is a fiction podcast based on The Hugo Award Winning microfiction series "Midnight Pals" originally posted on Twitter by Bitter Karella https://twitter.com/midnight_pals. The series stars classic horror authors Stephen King, Edgar Allen Poe, Mary Shelley, Clive Barker, H.P. Lovecraft, and Dean Koontz all gathering around a campfire to tell their stories like in the classic kids horror anthology "Are You Afraid of the Dark?".

Our first season premiered last year to much success and all of our episodes are currently available at http://www.midnightpals.com/ or wherever you like to get your podcasts.

We are currently crowdfunding our Season 2 which will feature parodies of Hellraiser, Angela Carter's Red Riding Hood variations from The Bloody Chamber, The Watchers, Interview with the Vampire, "A Shadow over Insmouth", Richard Bachman, and Rebecca. If you like a healthy dose of laughs with your horror, we just might be your jam.

[gazumirei]

Does anyone else just wants to buy a plush to deep frie it

Ok I'm going to bed now

Also the tags are about character plushies I wanna deep frie /jk

[pick-a-plush]

Hihi! I've been stalking this blog on the plushies tag but haven't followed yet ahah. I wanted to make a poll suggestion. Perhaps a poll between the palm pals Luna the Bat and the build a bear Midnight Shimmer bat? Those are my two current comfort plushies and wanted to send them in. ^^

Hi! I’m glad you’ve been enjoying the polls enough to make an amazing suggestion! These two are adorable, I can’t wait to see what everyone else thinks!