#probably night vale but I haven't listened to it yet

[slyandthefamilybook]

every podcast have:

pathetic little meow meow

man who's off his rocker

the two most badass lesbians you've ever seen

[androgynousblackbox]

Welcome to Hazbin Vale. 3 [Appleradio, Radioapple]

"Good morning to all our dear listeners. Alastor is here to give you the warmest welcome to your favorite radio station. I know you all have great fun around here, I do too! It's nothing but laughter and joy on these parts.

But as part of this valuable medium that we all appreciate even today, on this age of fasting moving and gaudy technology, we must also remember to stay informed! The right kind of informed, where we seek to the truth of the matter without any biases or red tinted sunglasses.

In order to honor that, I bring you a bunch of exciting news. One of them is so important that I have it all on a little envelope with the words "Here. Happy now?" scribbled on top with… just about one of the most hideous handwriting I have ever seen.

I haven't looked at it's interior yet, but it's sitting right at my desk as we speak and I plan to share with all of you. That is the power of journalism in action, dear listener.

Before any of that, though, I would be remiss if I didn't relay to you something that our dear resident Rosie just told me when we were having our weekly breakfast together.

You all remember Rosie, don't you? The lovely, charismatic and oh so charming owner of the chocolate boutique not that far away from our station. It's a beautiful place, but it has always been dragged down by one small issue, one irritating factor that unfortunately ruined the perfect picture.

Unrelated to that, tonight the co-owner of the Chocolate Boutique has passed away. If you ever paid attention to the name on top of the establishment, then you will know who I am talking about. I never did so I don't. I think Rosie call them Claire, I want to say? That is probably close enough.

It was so gruesome too, isn't that funny? Whatever raccoon must have slipped inside of her house at night was truly having a creative mood because they spared no section to decorate it with the insides of Clara. Just not lungs anywhere. I guess that one must have been too tempting to let it go to waste. I can't say that I blame them, good lungs are hard to come by, especially for women that age.

Such a tragedy, listener. Clarissa for years has been the business partner of Rosie. They started it out ten whole years ago, after Rosie was coming out from a particularly bad divorc that later turned out in a rather joyful funeral. Rosie was so focused in trying to get her things sorted out properly that she didn't realize that the term of their contract was giving Clarinette a portion of their earnings that was far bigger she would have liked. But there was nothing to do about it because Clady was the one with the connections, the one who knew the right people and the right numbers to supply for their wonderful treats.

Oh, if only Rosie had found the notebook that she had hiding under her pillow before. It could have save her so many headaches and frustrating nights! Oh, she will insist that they were the best of friends, but you don't do business with friends. You get screwed by them and they expect you to tolerate it with a smiling face. Which Rosie had to do, as the lady that she is, until that raccoon slipped in through the open window in library of the second floor.

Not that me or her would know anything about that though!

In any case, don't bother picking up all the pieces you find. There is no point for her. Claennis already made her bed, so it's only time for her to lay on it. A devastated Rosie informed me that she will be having a party service this afternoon in order to celebrate the life of her death friend, Clarine, and of course everyone is invited to come in. It will also be a sort of re-opening with a new sign outside that contains just her name.

Come enjoy a discount of the 5% on their macaroons, they are absolutely to die for. I recommend the strawberry ones, those are my favorites.

Oh, well. Farewell, Clarisse. We will manage to find the will to keep going with your absense, I am sure of it. Rosie is already taking care of everything you left behind.

She told me that last night when we were having dinner at my house. That was at 20:30, for anyone who cares, around the same time that ravenous raccoon was satisfying it's hunger. Sinking it's teeth on those meaty lungs. Rosie was just telling me how much she loved and respected her friend. Isn't that a espectacular lady, dear listener?

You all know I am not much for parties. I prefer a nice evening with a book and some jazz at my side if I get to choose. But I might make an exception for this one ocassion in order to support a friend. It could be fun! So if any of my dear listener goes, we might shake hands there.

Rosie, dear, if you are hearing, the best of lucks as always.

Meanwhile, I did promised you more than one news today. Here it is. Just let me get that enveloped. I am going to be honest, it's lighter than what I expected, but I am sure that doesn't mean that is any less interesting.

This source of mine is shy, he doesn't like the attention, so he has kindly ask me to keep his name away from crediting for these foundings. He also told me there is nothing too interesting here, but let us be the judges of that.

As many of you would know, on our last transmission I had very valid and justified concerns regarding the identity of our newest resident. In my humble opinion, anyone with two braincells capable of rubbing together would have them too. A rich inventor of toys coming to a small humble little town? Having a daughter? With that stupid perfect hair and that pretentious name? To revive an old and abandoned toy store nobody cared about?

All very suspicious behavior, indeed. I could almost have shivers running down my spine just thinking about it. What could be behind that white smile of his? Drugs? Trafficking? Dog fights?

Maybe trafficked drugged dogs? Oh, listener, I just couldn't dream of letting such a potential dangerous criminal running around in our precious little town. Causing power outages and unwanted static. Not on my watch, no, sir!

So I had someone do a little research. Just to be safe, of course, I would never use it for anything else. That is for the police to care about it. Although why they haven't take care of it now is a valid point of criticism that we aren't indulging in right now. Waste of tax money if I ever saw one.

Wait, shoot, I forgot my glasses. Oh, yes, they there are. Alrighty, let's see.

Name… still the same. Still that joke of a awful name. I guess that makes sense, considering people can just change it. Fine, I will allow it, but what else?

He is a inventor that made a pool able to detect if a kid is drowning and from there is that his fortune started.

Well! There you have it, first strike! What a spoilsport! If parents are not paying attention to their children while they are on the pool, maybe they don't deserve an alarm at all! And with such obviously neglectful parent, those poor children are clearly only going to suffer more in the future! This is doing nothing but prolongue the inevitable. How evil is that?

But wait! He used to have his own toy store back where he comes from. HA! THERE IT IS, I KNEW IT! What happened there, mmm? Did it mysteriously go up in flammes? Did the ensurance company was immediately called, one hand on the phone and the other on the gasoline tank? Was the business not going that hot so you had to turn it up?

It says here that he closed it himself after his wife died. Mmm? Did you now? What happened there, dear old pal? A mysterious disease no doctor could verify? A stabbing on a cold case no one could solve? Did you do it yourself or you paid someone to do it?

Of… pancreatic cancer.

Huh.

Curious. The same thing that took my mother.

God bless her heart, that was 12 years ago. Has it really been that long already? Yes, 12 years.

I still remember how quickly the disease consumed her like it happened just yesterday.

Well, that… is tragic. It says here that after his wife died, he locked himself up on his mansion… did you had to write mansion, couldn't you just say house, who puts mansion in a report… for five months. According to friends of the family, Lucifer just wanted to get out of there as fast as he could before he could do something that he would regret. Maybe getting back to making the toys they both loved would help, he would say to people.

So he picked this town because when pointing at it with eyes closed in a map. It was a complete coincidence that there was a toy store waiting for him at all.

His daughter is named Charlie, is 3 years old and she likes duckies. There is clipping of a picture in which she posed with her dad for an article about some invention of his. I haven't seen her myself yet, but I can see the resemblance. At least we know that we won't ever need a DNA test to prove their relationship.

She has the same big blue eyes. Poor thing.

There is nothing more about her here. I would hope so, with just 3 years on this earth. Not even I would have made a thick report at that age.

There is a picture of the man in front of his new house during moving day. There are surrounded by a bunch of workers moving furniture and boxes. He doesn't look so tiny holding his daughter and smiling to her.

His hair is still so stupid. It's a little messy, some strands are out of place, but still looks… stupidly, ridiculously perfect. I don't trust a man with a hair that can do that.

Not that damn static again. What even is that? Fine, fine! I will put it down now, okay? It's back on the envelope, along with all the completely useless bunch of information. Is it fine now?

Is it?

Good.

But wait, that can't be really it, does it? Just some guy with a tragic backstory? That is it?

Not even a speeding ticket? Some accidental manslaughter? I could even take stealing candy from a baby!

Nothing!

Well, that is no fun! That is just so boring! And here I thought, dear listener, that I was about to make a break through that would be the talk for months to come. But this is so mundane and pathetically sad that now I just feel gross. It's weird, it makes me wish I haven't opened it up at all.

I am so terribly sorry for making you waste your time like this, dear listener. Some gossip has never harmed a fly, but this was maybe a little bit much. I just don't understand why I feel like I want to vomit when seeing this guy. Is my gut wrong? That would be a first.

I guess that goes to show, dear listener: do not trust the media with everything and don't believe everything you hear. Stuff can be a lot more complicated than what they seem at a first glance. Like windows that are opened up at night during pleasant dinners with friends in another house. Or impossibly disgusting shiny hair that doesn't want to keep on place.

My source was the Chief Officer Husk, by the way.

Now, the weather…"

[optical-vagueness]

that was... weird? unexpected for sure, in the sense that I expected some things that were different from this. those things weren't better and this wasn't worse.

I would love this to be the end for Kevin's development, because as they put it, it's a kind of loop. We know how it will develop later for younger Kevin. We know it will end with him adopting himself and restarting the cycle. It's a nice way of wrapping it up. There's a post someone else made with this point.

I would have liked to have Charles in this episode, if not something from Carlos. I hoped we could see more of his struggle, because seeing Night Vale being affected yet again by his research on the DOW surely brought back Trauma from It Devours!. But we didn't. And, as Charles is a theologist, this would have been the perfect moment for him to get development. But he didn't.

The thing that impressed me the most was the sound design for Cecil's distraction. That was crazy and actually made me wake up. Because I was lying on my bed with my pillow nearby in case I needed to hug it. I yelled "WHAT" at the revelation of Kevin as his own father. I was happy that Carlos stopped his research yet again. I hoped I would hug my pillow and feel nervous and wake up and start pacing my room.

But, well, I guess I need to relisten to the episode some other day, with good sleep (because I haven't slept for two days. Making a paper on Carlos is hard af) and then I will maybe get some stuff I probably didn't in this first listen.

But, please, I don't think it was necessarily bad. I would advise against making your conclusions this quickly. Many people disliked the UOWII arc and ending, but if you see it from another perspective, it's actually good (I did hug my pillow and pace the room and stim with my hands in a crazy way while listening to it. And I still do in each relisten). But idk, you do what you want I guess.

[capsgirl19]

I'm listening to Night Vale again. The first episode.

I haven't watched the last few episodes of ofmd, yet. I'm out of the country, and I tend to watch stuff with specific people, so I'm waiting until I get back, but I already know I will not be happy. Got a spoiler looking through some unrelated tags and it was... Probably about the only thing that could've made me lose interest in the show completely. I know I shouldn't have hoped. I know that no matter how telegraphed it seems, you never get a poly ending whether due to the writers failing to see what you do or to studio mandates. But with everything in the first season, all the non-normative relationship structure, the "we don't own each other," the fact that Taika Waititi himself seems to be involved in some kind of poly arrangement... I did hope. I hoped maybe I'd get a somewhat ambiguous ending, Ted Lasso kind of deal. Just something that would let me imagine the thing I wanted in post-canon. In my wildest, most unicorn-note-fueled dreams, I thought maybe they'd use the Riverdale ending to strongarm HBO for a poly resolution next season. But at the very least, with all Jenkins' talk this season about how much he loves Izzy, about his possibility as a romantic lead, I thought they wouldn't just kill him off for being in the way of the main couple's One True Monogamous Love. And I was wrong about that. And I'm really really fucking disappointed.

I thought it was a better show than it was. I thought it was... more invested in queerness than it is, I think, and now I'm in this limbo of waiting to watch episodes I know I will hate so I can formally cut ties, and I am listening to the first piece of queer media that didn't disappoint me.

I remember that so strongly. How at sixteen I just sat there dumbstruck as I listened, because I couldn't believe we could have something real. Something that wasn't just a truce, a nod to the shippers before moving on with business as usual, but that we were right. That it wasn't bait.

Our Flag used to feel that way to me.

[icanttalkimhavingacrisis]

Introduction Post!!!

hi!! lovely to see you - won't you stay awhile?

the basics:

name: Joy, short for Jonathan

age: 18

pronouns: he/she/they

orientation: omnisexual, polyamory

gender identity: genderfluid and pangender!!

timezone: CET (GMT +1)

my tops:

musicians: Twenty One Pilots, Måneskin, Hozier, George Michael, Wham!, Bastille, P!ATD, Tally Hall, My Chemical Romance, The Oh Hellos, The Amazing Devil, Lemon Demon, Kwiat Jabłoni

songs: Lavish, Bourgeoisieses, This is Love, ANARCONNASSE, Too Sweet, Sunlight, Midwest Indigo, Routines in the Night, l'altra dimensione, tous les memes

fandoms: marauders era, the lunar chronicles, the good place, grishaverse (haven't read king of scars yet tho), the cruel prince, some musicals (mainly Hamilton), DDLC, FNAF (I haven't played the games but I do really like the lore and songs), WTNV, AGGGTM, TØP lore

books: the cruel prince trilogy, red white and royal blue, they both die at the end, aristotle and dante discover the secrets of the universe, the midnight library, six of crows duology, 1984, animal farm

shows/films: the good place, loki, moon knight, the umbrella academy, heartstopper, hazbin hotel, legally blonde, tick, tick, boom!, hamilton, howl's moving castle

Hobbies: writing, reading, cello, painting, writing my own songs, D&D

miscellaneous:

I'm a band kid, I write songs and plays and stories and books ^^

I finished writing a book recently!! You can read it on AO3 here. Let me know if you want a pdf or epub version, I'd be happy to share!!

hogwarts house: slytherin apparently

grisha order: durast

godly parent: Apollo

divergent faction: amity (born candor)

hunger games district: probably eleven

I'm obsessed with Welcome to Night Vale (mountains are fake y'all, they were made up by the government)(although I haven't listened to a lot of it...)(Still love it tho ^^)

I'm absolutely a yapper, and love meeting new people, so feel absolutely free to dm me if you wanna chat!! <3

please consider using tone tags, I dumb as all heck

I have two younger siblings!! A brother and a sister :>

my people:

@andytheoverthinker - husband, partner, beloved boyfriend <3

@evee-refuses-to-die - squirrel extraordinaire, sweetest lil' insomniac

@lyionly - genuinely the most talented artist I know, best bio partner

@bjcf23 - favourite cousin ever <33

@astroocti - my drummer friend :D

mutuals: @erraticprocrastinator-alt @jess-of-all-trades @finnslay @moonysfavoritetoast @cazzythefrogking @chatter-crow @def-not-kaz-brekker @chaosgremlinlivinginyourwalls @waitingonadeathgodtocallmeback @saivamp @lemon-cosmoscollection @gay-for-zoya @agenaroace-a-fucking-disgrace @finleyforevermore @kaithe-enby404 @currently-becoming-potatoes @catinasink @vintagetee13 @clodoveah @ghost-of-a-poet @viago-vamps @ddlcbrainrot @pan-anarcho @gremleyn @discoveredreality @blue-bell-icecream @xrinnihil @artemisiamezzanotte @drifter-gaming @stqrgirl3 @my-castles-crumbling @winters-rose-daughterofcain @elliots1stshadow @daydream-of-a-wallflower @razz-is-queer @blood-slushy @starcrossedmoony @celestialserenity24 @justafanbutcurious @37x3

WAHHHH I LOVE YOU ALL!!! MANY HUGS AND KISSES FROM MOI <333

final section!! my bullshit:

#jonny writes stuff - my writing

#joy has thoughts - I say stuff

#joy on fandoms - anything fandom related

#joy on volleyball - I rant about volleyball I guess?

#joy has a strange mum - about my mother (sometimes I rant, idk what to tell ya--)

#joy on music - anything music related

#joy has friends - about my irls <3

#joy is gay for andy - about my beloved bf

#joy gets asks - I respond to asks!! May take me a while tho-

#the witchy saga - I post about witchcraft apparently

@joywritesbutitsactuallymystories - sideblog where I repost my writing

@prongsiedadeerest - my James Potter rp sideblog

my poems

my novel

my carrd for further contact info!!:

ok lovelies, that's it!! thank you for being here <3

[oldtvandcomics]

#frankly I haven't been watching enough movies and even less TV shows recently to give good examples#but there ARE quite a few books worth reading#the anti-capitalist scifi that you want is out there I promise

You know what, I might as well give a list if I'm at it. Anti-capitalism is not at all a subject that I'm looking for, but I did run into some books worth reading. If you like Doctor Who for its more political stories, then you will very probably also enjoy these books.

Science Fiction With Space Travel:

Sheila Jenné's Imperial Mars series is genuinely some of the best science fiction that I have had the pleasure of reading. Its central theme is to look at various forms of Government (18th century imperialism, capitalism, absolute democracy), and explore how they would and especially wouldn't work. Really, really clever and well-written books. Actually, just read everything this author has written, Bisection was great, too. The first one, Black Sails to Sunwards also works as a stand-alone, if you don't want to commit to an entire series.

Robin Banks' Heinlein's Finches series is a series of books that all work as a stand-alone, so you can read them out of order. I must admit that I haven't read all of them yet myself, but I have been recommending Space Cadets to everyone who will listen. Each book follows the lives of a different group of people, who all try to find their way in life in a dystopian space federation. What I really, really like about this author, is their eternal theme of finding your own place in life, regardless of what everyone tells you to.

Horror:

Chuck Tingle's Bury Your Gays is a truly brilliant exploration of the capitalist hellscape Hollywood has currently turned into, the way that art is being turned into a product, and the importance of humans behind the creative process, especially marginalized identities.

Welcome to Night Vale Year Two by Joseph Fink and Jeffrey Cranor sees the fictional town of Night Vale getting taken over by an evil corporation. It was GREAT. You can listen to it as a podcast, but the scripts have also been published as a book under the title The Great Glowing Coils of the Universe.

I would also like to point out, that science fiction exists and has always existed in languages other than English. I strongly recommend you to look into books and movies published in the Soviet Union and the Eastern Block before the change of regime. One, because there is some amazing stuff out there by some amazing artists, two, because we don't talk about them often enough, and three, because you have not seen science fiction criticize society until you have seen an Eastern author attack the bureaucratic nonsense they knew from their own lives.

Really, really not wanting to yuck on anybody's yum, if you liked the Doctor Who Christmas episode, good for you, but. Guys. It very much is not the anti-capitalist manifesto some of you are trying to make it out to be. Just because there is an evil corporation in a story does not mean that the story in anti-capitalist, or has anything deep to say. Some Doctor Who episodes do! Oxygen, or even Boom, if you want the obvious examples. But Joy to the World? Not one of those episodes.

Please, people, have some standards! You (we all) deserve better science fiction, that actually criticises the capitalist hellhole we are living in beyond the Doctor mentioning once that This Specific Corporation Bad.

[andromerot]

what fiction podcasts would you recommend? ^_^

man. being dragged into the cringezone. its ok... so from ages fifteen to seventeen i listened to a LOT of audiodramas and honestly a lot of them are not very good. but some are! and some are fun :) im making a list

mabel podcast: if you've followed me for over two hours you've probably heard of it is one of my favorite things in the whole world...i cant even begin to describe the plot but i recommend it to all of you because a lot of people on tumblr are like, into haunted houses, or into fairy folklore, or into fucked up codependent lesbians, or all of the above. so it truly has something for everyone. but its beautiful, it really is. will ruin all romance for you though. honestly its not even a podcast to me its more like a girl best friend. i can talk about it forever so if you have more specific questions about it feel very welcome to send them

i am in eskew: another favorite! this one is about very terrible city that loves a man very much and will not let him go #relatable. this one is a proper horror podcast though so i do not recommend it to anyone squeamish - but i really like it.

the silt verses: done by the same people as eskew, horror as well. i haven't finished it yet but its amazing. it's about gods. gods that are Weird.

welcome to night vale: this one is a classic (arguably, The Classic) and i think is a fundamental part of what is now considered cringe 2014 tumblr culture but honestly it is very funny and silly. its been going steady for like ten years, has over 200 episodes, which means it has some very bad seasons and some pretty good ones. i think its best era was like 2014-2016 or so but yeah it's very long and has some gems. it dares ask the question "what if a town was very fucked up?" which was then asked by four hundred other podcasts, all done badly. but wtnv is fun

wolf 359: yet another classic. fucked me up bad. its about a spaceship with some guys inside it. it predicted among us. the best character is hera the artificial intelligence with severe mental problems

the far meridian: this one is very sweet and tiny but i think its underrated. soft and surreal. a girl who lives in a lighthouse that moves every night searches for her missing brother and Encounters Situations

ars paradoxica: one of the few time travel stories i like in this whole world. i remember almost nothing about the plot itself but i remember it broke my heart a lot. a scientist accidentally timetravels to the middle of wwii and shes hired to do some war shit, which sucks for her but she has nothing better to do. that sounds boring but i swear its not. maybe it was i dont remember.

neighbourly: anthology based on a long street of fucked up houses or fucked up people living in houses. it has some pretty good episodes and some banger episodes. im friends in law with the guy who makes it. its cool

alice isnt dead: theres a woman called alice and she is dead. but, spoilers, she isn't dead. her wife starts working as a trucker trying to find her and goes all around the us trying to find her and things happen to her.

within the wires: its an anthology but each season is a story. the first one is really really good, the others are a mixed bag. its an alternate history thing but the genre changes

the penumbra podcast: this one has been added to the list with a huge sigh because like i cant lie it has been extremely influential to my life but also i hate it. it was very important to me. its bad. don't listen to it. unless you're a mentally ill teenager or you like old women a lot maybe try it out then. the old women are not the main characters

anyway yeah like getting into indie podcasting like this really altered the way i saw media from a young age and even if some of these are not as good as i remember them being i do recommend the experience. the only ones i really listen to now are the first three and every once in a while i catch up with the last but im angry about that one. hope at least one of these is to your liking. listen to mabel

[podcastenthusiast]

Me: Where's all the LGBTQ representation??

Me: *listens to podcasts*

Me: Oh hey there it is.

[exhausted-pigeon]

Was taged by @forcesofnatureunleashed (thank you 💜) so there is the meme!

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Three ships:

... only three? 🥺

Fuck this is difficult I ship pretty much everything, I have a veritable fleat of ship by this point, even just counting DC. And like I have favourites but tbh it depends on the moment and want I'm craving for a story, or even what fic I'm reading.

But if we go with ships I have more ideas I want to explore I can whittle it down to:

BruJay, JaySteph, HoodHunter (aka Bao/Jason)

I'm in rare pair hell, if only because for the first two there are very few authors that write them the way I interpret them

With the honourable mention of HoodStroke (aka SladeJay), JayTalia, JayTera, and any and all combination of them (plus occasionally Bruce) in a polycule

Also let's not forget the Gotham polycule of Jay/Steph/Roy/Lonnie/Bao/Duke/Harper that appears in many of my ideas, usually not the full hand, but I love to squish this kids together (btw the Roy there is a mesh of Young Justice, RHatO, and post-crisis, and usually a clone of the original Roy, you know, because I like to make my life more complicated)

Also Joyfire because it's hot as fuck

Now I'm done

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First ship:

Ehhh probably L/Light? My memories of when I started consuming fannish content are very vague but I think my fist true obsession was Death Note and by just chronology that would probably be the first ship I latched on

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Last song:

Forever Ray "If Had a Heart" I still love this song even more of a decade later that I discovered it in a playlist dedicated to Death Gods (if I remember the title was "For Gods of Blood and Bones" I think?)

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Last movie:

Oh Gods, I haven't watched anything in so long, ehhh maybe The Old Guard? It's surely the last one that I remember seeking out.

Like there are many others that I wanted to watch but I just haven't done the "job" of finding them.

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Currently reading:

... nevermind this is the hardest question.

What cont has "currently"? Because I have a pile of books that I have started and have yet to finish that it's absolutely embarrassing.

Look my ADHD has been even more of a bitch lately so this question will be on hold until my brain decides to collaborate again.

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Currently watching:

Very long YouTube videos while I draw/crochet, on what it depends on the mood of the day, but a good probably that it's something about history and historical fashion, media analysis, or leftist stuff

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Currently consuming:

Idk what this means but I will go with the podcast I'm listening: Malevolent, Horror Podcast N.9 (amazing if I just want something in the background or I just don't have the braincells to actually follow something more complicated), BS free witchcraft, Hex Positive

And I'm trying to get caught up on Welcome to Night Vale and the Juno Steel storyline from The penumbra podcast

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Currently craving:

If it's food: savory mochi

If it's in general: a girlfriend or ADHD meds (I'm still struggling to get my prescription for that 🙃)

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No pressure tags for anyone who wants to!

@redjaybathood

@cannibalisticcutie

@shhhenanigans

@dick-the3rd

@problem-bat

@someoneimsure

@iriascend

@dianartemiss

(ugh Forces you pretty much tagged all of my mutuals! Ok not all of them but surely a good half of them :P)

[gooses-trenchcoat]

only been two days since i was tagged which is basically an immediate response so woo

last song: birthday party by ajr. as the culmination of a full listen through my upbeat playlist (all 4 hrs 45 mins of it) which started with fresh concrete by bears in trees. also your favourite coat by bears in trees (for most recent on my phone) and somebody's incredible cranberry salsa creation on tiktok (shoutout to leo.im go find it it's hilarious)

fav colour: green (dark) or maybe blue (dark)

last book: i finished reading tsunami girl by julian sedgwick last week but i'm also still reading welcome to night vale (the first novel) by joseph fink and jeffrey cranor

last movie: must be wallace and gromit vengeance most fowl (bc christmas) and before that it was gremlins (for the first time ever)

last tv show: watched another ep of iwtv yesterday in an attempt to be able to engage with people i know who are. very into it. honourable mention to jelle's marble league (which finished yesterday)

sweet/savoury/spicy: probably savoury. but sometimes sweet

relationship: wouldn't you like to know weather boy (aroace)

last thing i googled: so funny story right. i have this super fun personality trait where i google almost everything in incognito mode (and i have no idea why) so my last search appears to be etsy, i have no idea what the actual last thing i googled was, and i'm giving a special shoutout to when i ended up on the wikipedia page for heterosexuality the other evening

current obsession: uhhh well. i got some new sims packs so that's come back for a bit (horse ranch and for rent), bridgerton? still? against my will and better judgement, trawling the time travel tag on ao3 for good ones i haven't read yet. also it's not technically really any more but like. hymn to virgil by hozier. listened to it for over 500 repeats in about four days when it came out

damn i give long answers ig anyways no obligation, free tag, etc etc @nycbirdenby @burnt-sunshine @fun-k-boards @s0upycat @threetadpolesinatrenchcoat

thank you @slashsleuth for the tag 😁 i havent done a little game in a long time

last song: fruit roll ups by waterparks

fav color: purple 💜😈💟🪻

last book: the absinthe underground by jamie pacton (it was ok)

last movie: wicked

last tv show: abbott elementary

sweet/savory/spicy: sweet usually

relationship status: single 😊

last thing i googled: the absinthe underground (needed the author lmao) before that it was turbulent waterparks chords

current obsession: ive been watching a lottt of jet lag lately!!! super fun travel show!!

looking forward to: signed parx print coming in the mail today 🫶🏼

tagging: @bergoozter @trashworldblog @outer-space-face @22psyduck :-)

[your-mom-friend]

I've been listening to WTNV and just finished Triptych

Holy shit

No seriously. Holy shit

Okay so this probably isn't going far beyond my blog, so to my followers who do see this and know nothing of Welcome To Night Vale, let me give you some context.

Obviously, spoilers if you plan to listen to WTNV, or haven't reached this episode yet (Year 4, Episode 73)

Night Vale in and of itself is a friendly desert community, where the sun is hot, the moon is beautiful, and myseterious lights pass overhead while we all pretend to sleep

It's a strange place

The podcast is in the format of the community Radio Show, where you're a citizen listening to the news as narrated by Cecil Palmer

Bear in mind, that WTNV, for all the wholesomeness and absurdity that exists in it, is also partly a horror podcast, and you'll occassionally get descriptions of gore and violence that are graphically detailed.

Early on in the series, you're introduced to Desert Bluffs. Night Vale's sister town that is sort of implied to be populated by doubles/dopplegangers of the Night Vale Residents.

Desert Bluffs has also been taken over by StrexCorp. A corporation that is basically Amazon if Amazon was allowed to publicly violate the Geneva Conventions and brainwash their employees. And have it be part of their publicity.

Desert Bluffs has their own Community Radio Station, with host, Kevin. To give you a sample of what Kevin sounds like, he says “Wow. What a perfectly wonderful, wonderfully perfect super day! I could not be more thrilled. The Smiling God blessed me with Its presence once again." In the most cheerful voice you can imagine. No, more cheerful. Bordering on forced-through-torture-by-Joker-venom cheer.

Cecil hates him with a passion. He is the opposite of everything Cecil is and stands for

In later episodes, StrexCorp takes over Night Vale and Kevin becomes the Radio Host with co-host Lauren Mallard. Here we see him being super passive aggressive towards her

Lauren: Sure Kev! Can I call you Kev? Kevin: hahaha, no, Lauren, by no means. (she deserved it though)

Anyway this hints he isn't super happy with Strex actually but is still on their side

Fast forward, Strex was defeated in Night Vale, things go back to Normal, Kevin takes up residence in the Desert Otherworld blah blah blah

Which brings us to Triptych. roughly a year after Strex is defeated.

Cecil hosts his show when suddenly a radio signal connects him to Kevin. Kevin from the past.

Not just any past, but Pre-Strex past.

This Kevin is...unsettlingly like Cecil. They like the same things and have almsot identical views. Most jarringly, this Kevin hates Strex. He assures Cecil that he and the rest of the Bluffs are making sure they stay a small local company. He sounds like a regular cheerful person instead of...whatever he'd become alter

It reconnects to a recent-past Kevin. This Kevin was from when Strex had recently taken over Night Vale. He reveals, rather cheerfully "Can you believe it? I actually tried to stop them from buying it [DB Radio Station]. I tired, very hard. I put my own body, this fragile thing, in between the Strex Representatives and the entrance to the building. But they forced their way past me using ethically brutal methods that left me forever physically changed!"

Again it reconnects, but to a future Kevin, who is old and withered and lives in a desolate area, who is (i think) now freed from Strex's control. He's tired, alone, and regrets that Cecil never got to meet the Pre-Strex him. They'd have gotten along splendidly.

Cecil then tries to reconnect to the first Kevin, and succeeds. Kevin asks him about the future. "Do we succeed? Does everthing go as right as right can be?" And Cecil...lies. He says that their revolutions against Strex will be successful, that he is happy and lives his life.

The signal is lost.

Guys this episode left me sad in ways I didn't even know I could feel. Because everything else you hear of Kevin makes you kind of loathe him. The way he talks and the things he says (think toxic positivity on steroids and trying to kiss corporate ass) makes your skin crawl and you WANT to hate him but

He's brainwashed. He was bright and young and passionate and hopeful and fearless and Strex did unspeakably horrible things to him and just...broke him. There's barely anything left of the guy he used to be. He smiles and cheerfully talks but there's nothing behind it. It sounds like it's been beaten into him till it's all he knew how to do. He doesn't know or say or do anything that Strex doesn't want him to and it's just so profoundly heartbreaking. He was once willing to give up his life to protect the sanctity of a free radio show where he could report and Strex turned him into a puppet for their own needs.

I just want things to get better for Kevin

[lindleland]

it's weird how often i forget that Welcome to Night Vale is like, probably one of the 5 media franchises that have most tangibly changed the overall course of my life. like it probably has had around the same effect as Homestuck on my life but unlike Homestuck I don't really feel any shame about that and don't get an uncomfortable reminder of how much it shaped my early 20s every other week.

Like, directly or indirectly, it's been responsible for me having most of my current friends, understanding my gender identity, a good chunk of how I express myself in both my art and my fashion, and yet I haven't listened to it since like 2018.

Even weirder still since at any given moment I am probably wearing at least one piece of Night Vale merch.

[gender-snatched]

in no particular order whatsoever, I present you some good queer media: ((very minor spoilers for some things))

- black sails! it's a series, 4 seasons, 30 something episodes total, I haven't watched it yet but someone just recommend it to me and it sounds amazing. they're pirates, it's got a lot of queer characters, characters of color, and it deals (really fucking well, from what I heard) with topics of racism, misogyny, cissexism, poverty and how all of these relate and how systems oppress marginalized people and a bunch of other stuff. there's also at least two different poly relationships (a triad and a V). also it's got legit really fucking good writing, like legit legit good.

- the penumbra podcast!! I have listened to this one and it's a fucking masterpiece. it's got two main storylines; the first one (Junoverse) is a noir detective type but it's in Mars in the future (with a non-binary he/him bisexual lady as a main character and it deals (really well) with a lot of mental health issues, mainly depression) and it turns into space pirates in the third season and I think there's only one canon cis/straight person in the whole thing everyone else is queer and the other main storyline (Second Citadel) is more classic fantasy knights and monsters with a lot of questions of morality and "what's really a monster" and a poly relationship (and scaley monsterfuckers) and honestly a lot of queer characters

- Welcome To Night Vale!! I feel like this would be right up your street, honestly. it's a podcast, it follows a radio show from this town, Night Vale, where a lot of really weird supernatural shit happens, and the radio host, Cecil telling us (the town) about what's up. it's really fun and weird, it's not scary at all if that's a concern, it's very explicitly queer (in the very first episode Cecil falls in love with a man and tells the whole town about it) and it depicts a very healthy gay couple and great character development and it's honestly really fun, you get to know a lot of the townfolk and their stories and it's great

- The Adventure Zone! it's an actual play podcast, the McElroy brothers (you may know them?) and their dad play d&d. they just finished their third campaign and are starting the 4th one this week I think. the first campaign is by far my favourite. it starts kinda rough, they're playing dnd for the first time and the story and characters are pretty weak, but by the third or fourth arc you can tell how much they've learnt in the process. the fourth arc is where the story starts picking up and by the end (there's 69 (ha) episodes divided into 8 or 9 arcs) you'll be sobbing your eyes out for the last ten episodes. it's classic dnd fantasy stuff with at least three explicitly queer relationships (one of the main characters is gay and in a relationship) and w at least one explicitly trans character. it was their first time, they tried and did fairly well tbh. the second campaign is shorter, settled in modern real life Kepler, West Virginia where basically cryptids are real and the main three kill monsters in a monster of the week type of thing. (one of the main three is bi and in a queer relationship, there's one nb they/them character). and the third campaign just finished, it's real fun too, three college students of a heroes and villains school, in a (fantasy) world where heroes and villains are like A Thing and The System sucks and the message is basically to overthrow capitalism lmao

I swear I consume more media than just podcast but rn I just can't think of any...

also not exactly queer media but:

- Phineas and Ferb, it's a classic, you probably watched it on TV as a kid (I did) but it merits a rewatch

- Gravity Falls, same thing, I'm still not over how fucking good this show is

- Steve Universe, I know things got heated up in the fandom at some point but I ignored the fuck out of everyone and enjoyed it anyways because it's good

- how to train your dragon, they're all good okay, they are, watch them again

- Big Mouth. you're like 15 right? you can watch big mouth, I highly recommend it, it's really good. it's for some queer characters but they're even the main focus of some episodes/storylines, but it doesn't even matter, the whole series is just really good.

- Megamind, it's probably better than you remember

- also, you're into star trek right? have you watched discovery? I haven't watched s3 yet but it's good

I went completely off the rails halfway through this but still, hope you check out some new thing!! (and if you do post about it, I wanna know) (also can you guess who I am? I feel like it's kinda obvious sjsksk)

- j

Thank you!!! I really like WTNV, and I've been meaning to watch/listen to those other ones! And I never actually watched Phineas and Ferb, but I've heard it's good. Gravity Falls and Steven Universe are both on my list! And I hella hyperfixated on HTTYD in sixth grade. Megamind is amazing!!!!! And I sadly can't watch Disco cuz I don't have Paramount+, but I wish I could!

And surprisingly I can't guess who you are but that's probably due to me being a dumbass who can't really tell typing styles apart

[actual-changeling]

thank you for the tag <3

favourite colour: I'm a big fan of muted greens and blues!

last song: Older by Searows and it has me feeling all kinds of ways.

last movie: uh. good question. I have actually no idea.

currently watching: I'm constantly rewatching Good Omens (obviously) and I'm keeping up with ofmd2 (I'm in pain over it). I'm also watching Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries which is one of my Nr. 1 comfort shows.

other stuff i watched this year: Barbie, Across the Spiderverse, Red white royal blue, Nimona, Doctor Who, First Kill (RIP), Elementary, Bones, Castle (rewatch), Grey's Anatomy (rewatch and so not up to date), Killing Eve, and probably so many more but I have like five memory disorders

shows i dropped this year: Criminal Minds. My ex is/was super into it and I haven't been able to uh. watch it again yet. Don't really want to anyway.

currently reading: Gomens scriptbook and a poetry collection called Letters from Medea by Salma Deera

currently listening to: Welcome to Night Vale and YES I am actually fully caught up. There's a lot of podcasts I wanna listen or relisten to though. Just gotta find the time.

currently working on: Too many fics and also my chemistry degree lol

current obsession/s: all above mentioned interests with an obvious focus on good omens (my therapist is both impressed and concerned) and ofmd2

Tagged by @dancingcrowley - ty !

TAG SOMEONE YOU WANT TO KNOW AND/OR SOME OF YOUR BESTIES

favorite color: blues, sometimes greens last song: Bohemian Rhapsody ;D last movie: Mad Max Fury Road - truly the movie ever (i actually had an alternate main that was basically a mmfr account... that i lost access to... might migrate that to a side blog if that fandom gets back in gear) currently watching: ofmd, rewatching gomens (obviously) - i actually have very little watching time other stuff i watched this year: vox machina, the great, wwdits, rewatching all of new who with my little duck (in this way i learned that loving dt may be a genetic trait) shows i dropped this year: ghosts - i want to get back to it but just haven't for whatever reason currently reading: The Crow Road for reasons that should be clear. let's just say that Muriel is gonna get... an education. Also just finished Persuasion currently listening to: my gomens playlist which is basically every song known to humankind at this point. also The Lucky Die podcast currently working on: a meta about celestial radar, have an idea for some gif sets, continuing my little things series, have an idea for some art... its been a hot second since i arted tho current obsession/s: Good Omens. Full stop. every time i think it may be cooling off we learn some new insane detail (do it again) and i get sucked right back in.

That was fun - thanks so much for the tag! Super non-pressure tags: @ok-sims @indigovigilance @speikobrarote @bluberryfields @drconstellation @actual-changeling @lineffability @lazulibundtcake... ahhh there's so many more but i'll stop. If anyone sees this and wants to play pls do!

[robotclownindulgence]

You've probably already heard about these but have you listened to The Silt Verses or Mabel? Both are horror and feature main female characters (and also a transman iirc in TSV's case, tho idr if that was stated in canon or just as word of god by the creators). Other than that maybe Alice Ins't Dead (same creators as welcome to night Vale), tho i don't remember if this one was full horror or just 'weird things happen'. Wish I had better recs but I'm not very into podcasts and these are the only ones I've personally listened to (at least for a while)

Thanks anon! I really do already know about these! The silt verses was really good, though i haven't listened to the second season yet, but i almost completely forgot about mabel. I've only heard good things about it so i should probably check this one out👀 same goes for alice isn't dead

[kisstheashes]

Another possibly lengthy addition: reducing work to being "it's queer!" Actually pushes your target audience away.

Going back to the Magnus Archives mention, the only thing I'd heard about it is that it's queer and a love story. Which...romances don't generally interest me, even queer ones, so I didn't bother.

It was only MONTHS and I do mean MONTHS after it exploded in popularity that I learned it's actually NOT a queer romance story, at least not totally, and that it actually is, as said, a cosmic horror/thriller. Now that is my type of genre.

But now I'd have 200+ episodes to catch up on if I want to delve into it. Which already podcasts are hard for me, because of my sensory processing disorder, so it's completely infeasible for me to try to catch up on 200 episodes of a thing that doesn't have any visuals. I maybe could have enjoyed it if I had known what it actually is, and listened as the episodes came out (as relistens to understand everything would be imperative).

The same thing happened with me and Night Vale. And pretty much every other "It's queer!" story that Tumblr rages over.

I didn't watch Good Omens because with the fanfiction way everyone talked about it, I knew...I knew everyone was lying. I assumed that it wasn't actually queer, and that there was no romance, and that it was another setup like Supernatural, where the writers wouldn't give you a queer story even if it's right there.

It turns out I was wrong, and it is queer, and it is a love story, but it's also so much more. It's a genre I genuinely enjoy (haven't watched it yet but after reading how Neil himself sees the story and characters I 100% plan to) and it's a story that I will probably enjoy, and yes! It is queer! But it's also more than that.

There is. So much good media. I have missed out on because Tumblr twisted it into being a queer story when it either isn't, or they twisted the genre into a fanfic romance, which is something that no longer interests me.

So, so often, I would look up a piece of media heralded as queer and find out it's actually straight, or the queerness is only implied, or merely stated once or twice, ect. So I stopped looking up popular Tumblr media heralded as queer. Because I knew, I knew I would just be disappointed. I knew that even if the queerness was there, it was 99% likely that it only popped up in one or two episodes/moments. And I got tired of trying things and finding out I'd been completely lied to.

And I'm queer! I'm lesbian! I'm genderqueer! I like queer stories! I write queer stories. But they're not queer stories. They're horror stories, or tragedies, or dramas with queer characters.

So when you want to say something is queer, instead say the genre, and that it has queer characters. That's a much better summary of what you want, and the media will actually reach more people.

we really need to work on recommending stories and introducing ourselves as artists as Queer and then that’s the end of the description lmao “I’m a Queer Artist/it’s got Queer Characters!” tells me absolutely nothing about the types of things you are trying to say as an artist or the aesthetic or the plot of the story?? like im DELIGHTED you and your work are queer but so was that netflix christmas movie with kristen stewart, so are the goddamn m&m mascots because we live in hell, Queer is not a monolith and it means something different to everybody please give potential audiences SOMETHING else to work with