#smart people podcasts

[performing-personhood]

Disappointed to report that there is not a single feminist smart people podcast discussing the brain-meltingly-offensive, incomprehensibly-acceptable-at-the-time 1979 Bill Murray vehicle "Meatballs"

I'm not smart enough to start my own smart people podcast, y'all. And this movie is SO FUCKING BAD that it escapes explanation. I cannot believe nobody is talking about this and I really need some smart people to validate me.

[izel-scribbles]

If you insist

Draw Noel and Dennis. I dare you

old man yaoi‼️‼️‼️‼️

plus a stupid lil comic i made

(arthur: do you trust him?

noel: 'bout as far as i can throw him.)

(arthur: how far is that?)

(noel: you'd be surprised)

[erismourn]

hi hello. fantasy ttrpg recs that aren't d&d or dungeon world

[topayitfoward]

Listen I know they were evil and bad and super evil geniuses but Maxwell and Hilbert deserved SOOO MUCH BETTER

[lucifer-kane]

every time i see an audio drama poll with tma or malevolent on it im like. god damn you're not even giving the little guys a chance here

[shippy-from-apocalypse]

Ok im Very sleepy rn it's 2 am bare with me

What do we think Jon would think of How The fandom sees him? And I don't mean this in a pedantic "oh fandom bad because dumbed down and Insert Petty Headcanon Disagreement"

I mean this entirely in a "How would Jon, The man who believes himself to be an Irredeemable monster who is to blame for everything that ever went wrong, react to Just so so many people listening to his shortcommings and ultimately seeing his side"

Like yeah everyone agrees he's kind of an asshole sometimes but he is so beloved by The fans?

I'm sure some people did but I've never seen anyone doubting his humanity or blaming him for the horrors™ he Just clearly understood as his fault? Like yeah Martin tried telling him it wasn't but what I'm getting at is

I love to think about what Jon would do If he saw just the ocean of people who listened to (what he considers to be)

the most unsympathetic person in the world becoming a monster and making choices that brought the literal apocalypse upon humanity

and pretty much everyone saying "he did the best anyone could reasonably expect and he is not a bad person for being caught in the crossfire of an impossible situation with no good solutions"

remember that time in mag 187 a lady grabbed jon in fear and he shouted and presumably pushed her away? and everyone and their mother defended jon's humanity because that was a textbook trauma response i think he would break down crying if he saw that

[drinkingdeadpeopletea]

i think what's really getting me about kozma claiming to have blown up the moon and also claiming to "be" the breach and basically equating "breach collaborators" and "my allies" in the same speech is that. the breach operative we've known since season one, the person who "is" the breach as far the story's concerned, is saskia. and midst is saskia's HOME! she built the black candle with her own two hands (metaphorically, at the very least), she LOVES it there and she loves those people :( and if we take kozma's story at face value, she just threw the "centerpoint" (according to imelda) of her own operation entirely under the bus and endangered the lives not only of innocent people but also of a bunch of her own operatives without their knowledge just to destabilize the trust and frankly that makes me kind of hope she IS telling the truth simply because that's the kind of betrayal i find absolutely delicious,

[transdimensional-haboob]

Wistfully thinks of Spellwind, I should make a headcanons up to ep 31 list its just my equivalent of like Skyrim or lotr where theres so much going on and so dense but god damn one of my favorite episodes was when two of my favorite characters became trees and the entire experience was like...they were tripping on shrooms but also one with the shrooms? Its like episode 8

and I love the dms orc captain that hates going on land and is there for the in between transportation from sea to sea land to land ferryman (not really I feel like its mostly hard to narrate and have a character at the same time) I just love captain buttocks' (yeah I'm pretty sure thats his name) humor and how him and djett ('jet') were closer in the beginning

I love ty and varsha together but I also ship smith with them as time went on, I can't tell who I want to joke as the third smith and varsha are friends to lovers, ty and varsha are irritated assholes to lovers, smith is just a jaded old fuck that loves his morons (he respects varsha a lot and thinks ty is an entertaining idiot)

Varsha and Djett are siblings they love each other like family and share different spells and potions and knowledge of interest notes

I feel like the only person really thinking too deeply about this tabletop story and wanted to drop a few lines of appreciation, I like listening to it to go to sleep since its so slow paced and gently spoken and the music and sound efx is so sweet

[corvidcall]

i wrote my post about haiku over a year ago and i still think a lot about how haiku. good. as a form of poetry, its so complex in a way that i think gets ignored constantly, so people think its dumb, and then they dont think that maybe they should look for depth in it.

anyway ive been using the ol' jstor 100 free articles a month to read a bunch of stuff about haiku. idk why, beyond the fact that i realized i could. and now i have even MORE stuff to say about haiku. but i already made my post!!!!! damn. guess i have to become a video essayist after all.

[lastparty]

pre tired of the word parasocial however thats truly my rship with this one womens football journalist

[dennnisreynolds]

seeing the sunny fandom slowly wake up rn is making me so happy. its like coming back to school after summer break and catching up with everyone again

[godsjoke]

I’m so happy everyone’s celebrating Eiffel’s birthday ⭐️

It makes me so happy expressly because this show is so wonderful, it’s just such a beautiful series yk. I love to see the fandom celebrating this beautiful & complicated man he’s definitely put a smile on my face more then ones.

Here’s to an excuse to re listen to Wolf 359 for the 359000th time…. oh and happy birthday that one guy jesus I guess.

[littletealights]

he doesn’t know what genre he’s in, you can’t blame him!!

there comes a time and a point in which a man must evaluate, examine even, everything that has happened to him and make a consideration, a guess, an estimation.

[literary-heights]

genuinely so upsetting how much i like nqd. it's like insane how good it is and i've never liked something so intensely that a thousand other people didn't like as much

[anerol152]

OoP #208

The Director: You know, Andrew, I actually met another version of you. He never got his degree or got that far in life. Trust me, this version of you is much better

Me: Better for who? You?

[katyspersonal]

I know this is supposed to be a stressful thing, but hearing everyone talk about dying from finals makes me a bit nostalgic and even jealous? I just miss university times so goddamn much.

It was really good to spend half of the day listening to the teachers talk about stuff I found interesting, and have to discipline myself to read/write to certain deadlines. (And to have much more free time..) Adult life with full time job just isn't the same. Every day is like another and new information isn't flowing as much but self-studying is less fun without a teacher and the whole class interested in the same topic. I even miss homeworks that I was putting more effort into than any sane person would! Much older and much more experienced people regularly praising my effort and depth of my thought was a crucial validation resource to think of it :')