#podcast hellscape

[thetinyvampire]

I don't have a wasps' nest in my attic, but I do have an ant collony in my pantry, and it's making me feel just as likely to murder people.

[senselessalchemist]

Bow problems (+ other nonsense)

[gemstarstarlight]

Listening to Murder on the Rockport Limited and I forgot how Absolutely Done™️ Griffin is with his brothers and dad at all times.

[theficlistpodcast]

HELLO

So, we somehow fangirled our way into a partnership with Squishable??? The plushie company??? And they gave us a 15% off code to share???

SQUISHFIC15 (valid now through 11/14/23)

Please enjoy us cringe millennials dancing with Squishy Mothman and then, if you would like to, acquire your own squishy of your choosing!!!

[selfsabotagecentral]

“To them, stability is ethics, and that’s enough”

The Silt Verses, e2, s1

[inkbotkowalski]

This also goes for audio. "here's an interview with an expert on XYZ" cool where's the fucking transcript

I am slowly losing my mind over the shift towards video as the default media format.

I do not find this to be an efficient way to absorb information. I am bored and distracted by the time the largely unnecessary introduction is over. I can't use ctrl+f to find the specific information I'm looking for. If there are instructions to follow, I don't want to have to constantly pause and back up to the part I need.

At least give me a fucking transcript.

[acasternaut]

who saved my terumob playlist and why lol. its five whole songs

[nme-flow]

Alright, in addition to searching g for a job better suited to my needs and fighting for use of my cane at my current job, I've been playing with more designs for my etsy. What do y'all think?

[themirokai]

With the exception of my favorite ever Anon who apparently thought I was French, I think a lot or most people who follow me know that I’m a lawyer in the US.

A lot of my friends are federal employees. A few of my friends are federal prosecutors. One of my friends prosecuted January 6th cases.

My group text with my friends from law school is a very bleak place right now. I am sad and angry and scared.

But I don’t intend to change anything about my tumblr. I know a lot of you, like me, come to tumblr for a break from The Horrors. And we come to look at pretty pictures and laugh at shitposts and talk about our blorbos. And then we put down our phones or close the browser tab and go out and do what we can in this rapidly deteriorating hellscape.

I found the beginning of the most recent episode of Vibe Check to have some useful perspective. The hosts were talking about how your outrage has value and how the current president is an outrage-machine who is banking on us burning out to diminish resistance. I recommend this podcast in general but this episode in particular.

So that’s what I’m doing. My blog will continue to not have politics or news on it. It’s not because I’m not following or because I don’t care. I am and I do. I’m just not doing that on tumblr. I have asks open, at least for now, and DMs are always open. You’re welcome to stop by and say hi.

Chin up friends. My blog will be here when you need a break.

❤️❤️ Miro

[gimme-the-yeet-bois]

Can’t fight an og

Fighting God in his own home

[mearcatsreturns]

I have a bookstagram, and I recently followed someone because they posted about the overconsumption issue that most bookish social media seems to have. Today, though, they posted another controversial "opinion": that listening to audiobooks isn't reading, and people who claim to have read a bunch of books that they listened to as audiobooks are lying and/or deluded. Listening to audiobooks, she said, is just consuming books.

I disagreed in a fairly politely worded reply, and I intend to unfollow/block, because I find it unlikely this person will change their mind, especially since I'm far from the only person to point out that this is exclusionary and ableist. But this is tumblr/my house, and now I'm going to be as blunt as I want to be.

I'm a librarian and archivist. So much of the work I and others in my field do focuses on making books and reading more accessible and less exclusionary. It is, in fact, incredibly ableist to negate how important audiobooks are for people who have certain disabilities or challenges, and I would in no universe say they aren’t reading. For that matter, a busy person who only has time for audiobooks and for people who just prefer them--it still counts, as far as I'm concerned.

See, there's a difference between an audiobook and a podcast or long song or radio program. An audiobook is still a book--it was written with a particular narrative structure, and the author plays a defined but limited role (once the book is written, it's written; the author isn't tuning in next episode with comments and corrections based on what listeners said). An audiobook is a book, ergo, listening to one is reading. Using braille is reading, and listening to audiobooks is reading.

The part that has me in full Captain Raymond Holt "apparently that is a trigger for me" mode is that this bookstagrammer called listening to audiobooks consumption. In the context of her other posts about overconsumption as an issue in the bookish community (again, agree, but also...mind your own business), this seems particularly insidious to me. Conflating influencer-driven (and capitalist hellscape) consumption with listening to an audiobook (again, a massive boon for the visually impaired and those with disabilities like ADHD, dyslexia, etc.) is rude at best and dangerously exclusionary at worst. Stop letting comparison be the thief of joy; mind your own business and stop looking at the pages that bother you. Focus on the kindness of leaning towards inclusion, meeting people where they are, and leaving judgment behind.*

*This person also said "feel free to comment if you disagree but please don't be mean or judgmental," as if they hadn't just posted the most ableist and judgmental sludge I've seen today.

tl;dr: don’t be a gatekeeping shithead, mind your own business, and

(gif by matalyn on tenor, couldn't find on tumblr)

[womenofnoise]

Happy 2025 to all of you following this account. It's you who keeps us going, and for that, we are forever grateful.

2024 was a big year for us, as it saw the first edition of Women of Noise Fest last September in my hometown, Chattanooga. You'll surely be happy to know that Women of Noise Fest 2025 will also be happening. I'm still working out the details as of now (venues and other logistical matters), but the goal is to make it a three-day event this year. As previously stated, this is a PRIVATELY CURATED festival, so please don't flood our inbox with requests!

What else can be expected from Women of Noise this year? More podcast interviews will be recorded and more print interviews will be posted on our website. The third edition of our Zine will likely come out. There might be a few additional charity compilations; nothing is set in stone yet. Fingers crossed, there will be some coverage of a few other music fests and special events.

One thing I can guarantee is that myself and the other mods are going to stay spicy and not take bullshit from anyone. This account is for noisy women and run BY noisy women. This is a platform for women and girls and femmes to scream and squawk and beep-boop without male scrutiny, and always will be.

Stay tuned for more goodies. Eat your veggies, drink water, brush your teeth, watch your levels, and don't blow up your overdrive pedal like I did (seriously, it caught on fire). Pictured: My last live setup, sans toasted overdrive pedal. Anyway, let's make 2025 the best year we can given the sociopolitical hellscape we're all going to be stuck in. See you soon.

- Admin @aleprouswitch

[bloodyraremedium]

i think some people are sleeping on the fact that Melanie and Georgie are both YouTubers/Podcasters tbh. imagine you're in a horrible hellscape of eternal suffering and the first people you see after being saved are Wendigoon and Joe Rogan

[faultyvessel]

So due to her being both Tumblr trash and also “hey Gwen time isn’t real” I couldn’t help but HCing Alice having listened to at least a l i t t l e WTNV at some point.

Then my bestie @like-the-2ides suggested that she chose her name from Alice Isn’t Dead because, and I quote, “Shes so tumblr core and I could see her liking a podcast about a truck driving lesbian on search for her missing wife in an apocalyptic hellscape”. And I thought that was so fun.

[thermodynamic-comedian]

i am a helanie fan until the day i die and i believe helen distortion deserves good things for no particular reason. but i cannot deny how entertaining it would be if they were exes. like imagine you're an abnormally tall being of pure delusion and deception dating a short angry girl but the second she finds inner peace she leaves you. for a podcaster, nonetheless.

and then the apocalypse starts and like sure, you're enjoying all the people you get to torture, but like...you kind of miss her. and then you find out her and her new girl started a cult and they're possibly the happiest couple in this hellscape. i would simply open a door directly into my own grave

[skyeoak]

Tmagp 30 thoughts

Vocal performances all slayed. 10/10

I think there’s a lot of good and bad in the finale! But overall, it feels underbaked. (Or overplotted/overplanned?)

I’ll save my finalized thoughts on the hilltop center to see if it’s developed in further seasons, because uh, hmm. Jonny said in the live drop that carousels of horrors were his favorite to write, but they sure are not realllyyyy my favorite to listen to. They’re kind of thematic scattershot. And yeah, one of my critiques about TMA is that I don’t love how we only rarely see how the fears combine and interact. Having multiple creepy things in a curiosity cabinet -com shopping center doesn’t really solve that problem for me.

The idea of a character turning a blind eye to an obviously creepy job is still interesting, especially in how it parallels the staff of the OIAR. But that’s kinda the start and end of my interest in the custodian? It feels like this story could have been shrunk to 1/3 length and had a better effect. I just feel like this should have been a midseason statement, and the finale could have focused on having some sort of action or tension. Honestly, I wasn’t expecting the finale to have a statement at all, to be structurally in line with early TMA. Maybe a full statement/story from Celia, giving the non-TMA audience some idea of why she thinks there’s nothing to go back to in her universe. Hell. Maybe she could just. Tell Sam, uncompelled. I would have loved to see her try to convince him to jump. Convince him that her new life matters more than his (perceived) failure of one. Instead… this is another episode where I feel like the double meaning titles weigh down what the statement could be. And it’s the season finale.

I wondered early on if the finale for this season would feel more like setup for future seasons, and yep. Yep it did. It just felt like there was this inherent tension between the stakes of the story, which are already at interdimensional travel, and the level of danger it feels like everyone is in. Not to mention how Celia just drops a list of alchemical balance things out of the blue. Magnus Protocol is in a tricky situation: they need to set up a new conflict and new characters, and at the same time, Magpod has already done mega-apocalypse hellscapes and so TMagP might feel the need to go bigger. (Imo I don’t think sequels always need to raise the stakes but I understand that’s industry standard). It’s also tackling alchemy, a notoriously complex subject that’s probably hard to explain to an audience in any way that feels natural. You can’t just throw murder worm lady and screaming main character in the finale and call it a day. There’s a lot going on, less time, and I don’t know if the characterization this season was consistent (/consistently good) enough to hold the full weight of it all.

OKAY, WHELMED THOUGHTS OVER, now for the good! Surprise surprise, it’s all the little character payoffs!

Gwen and Lena’s confrontation was EVERYTHING. Gwen is kicking anthills, and Lena is so content to let her stand in them while the ants crawl up her legs. I won’t lie though, I’m not sure if this plotline will be interesting to me. I think it depends on how fast the OIAR staff can get Gwen to actually be on their side.

Sam deciding to protect Celia by pushing the archivist into the void is SENSATIONAL CHARACTER PAYOFF. (This is my interpretation of the scene, audio was super unclear once again, and there was a line change from transcript to podcast that made this super ambiguous in the actual canon audio.) My poor guy has ZERO self esteem, and still wants to be a hero. He probably realized that if what Celia just told him was true, an archivist could actually kill her on the spot. My guess is that (tma spoilers) this balanced the rift not because Celia replaced her own missing soul (plenty of folks got sent through hilltop road in that same incident) but because an archivist+a person were pulled through to replace Jon and Martin. Truly excited to see where they end up, and if this archivist gets developed more as a character next season. Also the implications of interdimensional balance on what happened at the end of TMA are… interesting.

Oh Alice. Everything in this intricately balanced house of checking up on people and soothing them and deflecting tension with jokes is about to come crashing down. I’m so sorry this is happening to you.

And yes, this is a super lukewarm episode review but I do wanna say I liked this season a lot, and TMAGP is still a cut above a LOT of horror I have read/listened to this year. I’m hoping seasons 2 and 3 will either steer further into a direct TMA sequel, angle OR steer clear and become their own thing. TMAGP is stuck uncomfortably in the middle right now. Just be the good parts of her. But completely new.