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Come hear me talk shop about the state of podcasting with this virtual panel from the Signal Awards! Managing Director Deondric Royster will be moderating a discussion with Joni Deutsch and myself about some of the biggest topics in the podcasting industry right now.
This is a free talk, so register below so you can be part of the conversation. (And if you're not able to make it, leave me some topics or questions that you'd like to hear answered during the event!)
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seeking refuge
closeup under cut!
#now that i think about it i fear there is a very blatant trend of the colors green and orange in my art. how have i never noticed thjs#anyway. i was listening to mag 160 mag 161 and mag 162 while drawing this👍 pain#this podcast and its influence on my emotional state#tma#the magnus archives#tma fanart#jonathan sims#martin blackwood#jonmartin#jmart#mag 160#eye contact#scopophobia#jaspers art
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If the batkids had a podcast
Redhood: I was a pretty easy child-
Nightwing: You were.
Redhood: Straight A's and everything. Like, I would be hanging out with Batman- (laugh) I would be- You know right?
Nightwing: Yeah.
Redhood: Just chilling. No patrol day. And he would be like "what do you want to do?" and I would be like- "Read! :D"
Nightwing *chuckles*: "Homework!"
Redhood: "Homework!". And then- And then I fucking died-
Red Robin: WHEZE.
Redhood: I fucking- Don't be a easy child.
Red Robin (chocking): Don't be a good kid.
Redhood: Don't be a good kid. Start- I don't know– Start throwing shit on fire or something.
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#this came to me in a vision#they keep doing this without Bruce knowing when he catches them they're like on top 1 listened podcasts in Gotham#and other I don't know 5 states#batfamily shenanigans#batfamily#batfam#jason todd#redhood#dick grayson#nightwing#tim drake#red robin#tim robin#robin tim#robin tim drake#batkids podcast
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Didn't we fucking all.
#John really stating the obvious here#this is not ''at times'' John. Arthur is getting straight up raw dogged by entities left and right#Part 32 The Widow#malevolent podcast#arthur lester#arthur malevolent#malevolent#john malevolent#malevolent arthur#john doe malevolent#jarthur
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tits out for Lunadeyis
#anyone else been in a constant state of art style crisis#the doodles turned out p good today tho I will say#idk why Gill has become so difficult for me to draw???? I used to easily produce the fish man what happened#also Liquidus Gilly debut#I still wanna do the clothing evolution thing but I will say my personal Liquidus designs are my favorite of the whole campaign#my art#sketches#just roll with it#just roll with it podcast#just roll with it riptide#jrwi#jrwi podcast#jrwi riptide#jrwi chip#jrwi chip james#jrwi chip bastard#jrwi jay#jrwi jay ferin#jrwi gillion#jrwi gillion tidestrider
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The really great part about Malevolent by this point is that Arthur and John have completely given up on what is essentially the primary plot of the show - getting separated. You are in the middle of an investigation to get your body and sight back Arthur, what do you mean you just want to drop everything and go back to England?
#This is not a complaint btw#I just have to wonder how long it is until they both just give up even the pretense of trying to separate#and accept that this is just their permanent state#malevolent podcast#arthur lester#john doe#malevolent#Podcasts
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Do you know this queer character?
Martin is MLM and uses he/him pronouns!
#probably gay but that's never been officially stated#martin i love you#martin blackwood#the magnus archives#tma#tma martin#tumblr polls#fandom polls#poll#mlm#he/him#podcast#lgbtqia#do you know this queer character
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two things all podcast men have in common: they are miserable and they are gay
#the magnus archives#tma#the sheridan tapes#woe.begone#w.bg#the penumbra podcast#red valley podcast#tagging podcast that aren’t stated to be gay but give off the vibes anyway#malevolent podcast#malevolent#the cellar letters
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Juno and Peter deserve at least one (1) more ball dance before their Penumbra saga ends
Based on this Linedecker painting
#tumblr don't eat my colors or quality challenge (failed)#sometimes you just see a linedecker and go into a fugue state because hey that's Blorbo from your podcast#ANYWAYS i'm gonna miss our favorite grumpy detective and homme fatale. good thing they live forever in my brain#they deserve at least one ballroom dance where they're not being increasingly petty. but then again#that is their brand#juno steel#tpp#peter nureyev#the penumbra podcast#art from the ally
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i totally agree that it’s ridiculous for people to write fics for films that haven’t been released yet, but the problem isn’t the smut itself. people have every right to write porn if that scratches the itch.
i think your main point is the most important: it’s impossible to write a thoughtful, inspired fic when we don’t even know the story it’s based on. no one knows who this character is or what he’s like.
at this point, everyone should just call a spade a spade and write pedro rpf. all they care about is seeing his face in different situations.
so my earlier post was not so much a statement on Pedro Pascal Character fanfiction/porn, but the commercialization of art and I interpreted the thoughts and opinions of others through the lens of the medium I most often express myself with, which is fanfiction.
let me be clear: i have no problem with smut - pwp or otherwise. people are allowed to write whatever they want, about whoever they want, with whatever tropes make them happy.
my overall focus (and granted it was probably very muddled by the end of those - what, like three reblogs?) was an interrogation of fanfiction as art, and the state of art in this modern era. and after doing some more thinking and listening to more people much smarter than me (thank you to everyone who dm-ed me directly to talk further about this), my opinion is thus: the creation of content (not art) is more ubiquitous today is not because we are getting more stupid as a society, not because of our failing attention spans, not because we are on the brink of moral collapse but because we physically do not have the mental strength to be intellectually curious as a direct result of constant, distracting, emotionally-draining stimuli.
i can explain what i mean below the cut with two primary examples, specifically regarding the shift in fanfiction cult, and yes, the prominence of smutty oneshots in the pedro pascal character fandom of which this blog is a part of.
I have been in various fandoms for almost twenty years. I have been writing fanfiction for almost that same amount of time. In recent years, I've noticed two trends that initially discouraged me, but that I now believe is a symptom of our adjustment to a modern, constantly online era.
A severe lack of engagement within the artistic artifacts of a fandom
The quality of the fanfiction itself (because yes I do consider fanfiction to be an artform) has gone down hill - mostly.
Lack of engagement:
Art is inherently created to be shared. This is especially true for fandom because the community lives or dies by how many people are interacting with each other and sharing ideas (news, theories, fanart, fanfic, etc). If you say a fandom is dead, it means there haven't been any new posts or fic about it in years. So I don't wanna hear it when people say, "oh write for yourself, you shouldn't be chasing engagement" because that is antithetical to the very concept of fanfiction.
In recent years, I have seen and experienced myself engagement in my work only so far as a like or kudo. This is not how it used to be. Message boards (yes I am that old) and niche fandom sites were constantly abuzz with media sharing and excitement, and everyone enjoyed some version of praise (unless you got hit by the antis but they're never fun anyway). Initially I blamed this drop in engagement on laziness: people just want the next thing, they can't be bothered to appreciate the hard work writers put in and they just see content and art as the same thing - stuff to consume.
But I myself am GUILTY of minimal reblogs and comments and I LOVE what I'm writing - the impact certain works leave me with is long, long lasting but for some goddamn reason, I can't sit down and praise the author's works. Am I lazy? Possibly, but this is also not an isolated behavior and it's on the rise: people do not have time to engage with fandom/fanfic like they used to. Most people I know have worked at least two or three jobs at some point in their lives to just to make rent. This gen z is the first generation in DECADES to be worse off economically than their parents. With an interest rate at 8%, who the fuck can afford the security of a home anymore? We work ourselves to the bone for scraps and the realization that The Dream has officially died. And so what do we want to do in the free time we do have? Engage with the very bare minimum. We want to read things that we can at best skim, things we don't have to think about or engage with in any meaningful way. We want a way to turn off the noise of the next apocalypse and sometimes the best we can do is the tap of a thumb.
Which brings me to my next point: what the fuck happened to thoughtful fanfiction?
But this question is inextricably linked to the points above: oneshots are easier to write, faster to write, and if you write fic that is basically "Mad libs porn" (without ever engaging in the actual medium because it is literally not released yet), you are doing the most minimal work for the most amount of engagement. But I can't fault ANYONE for doing that. It feels good to be told your smut is "so hot" or "this exploded my panties" and in this era where the time available to create is so fucking small and minimized of course you're going to write for the most popular character, whether or not you're interested in the source material because we want our art to matter to someone. Intellectual pundits loooove to lambast our "shorter attention spans" but fuck, when are we allowed the time to think - in between this "100 year storm" that's happened twice in the past five years, or the global pandemic that turned millions of deaths into a political punching bag, or the next video of a white woman crying wolf to the police over an innocent black man, or - or - or - or
In a day where reality and the world as we know seems to be holding onto a thread, we turn to comfort: comforting tropes (dbf to rape/kidnap fantasies), comforting fanfic (pwp), and comforting ways to engage with fandom. There is nothing wrong with wanting your art to be appreciated and there's nothing wrong with inherently wrong with pwp - but I do believe its symptomatic of a MUCH larger and more sinister movement within ALL art right now.
I come from the generation who banished fanfic authors for scrubbing off the filing numbers to their fics and publishing it as original content because, in our communities, they were selling out. Fanfiction is inherently an act of rebellion. Every time you write fanfiction you break canon, an established structure with its own rules and boundaries. So by trying to appeal to the masses, to curb your own writing to fit whatever is mainstream, you are doing a disservice to yourself AND to the art of fanfiction. If something you write becomes popular, wonderful, great, you are very lucky and there is nothing wrong with that either. But do not sell out your 13 beloved fans who WILL take the time to leave a comment, who WILL take the time to reblog because your weird little fic spoke to them on a fundamental level and now is with them for the rest of their lives - in favor of a 100 thumb taps.
If you've made it here, thank you very much for reading. I've added some links to some additional references to see how this concept of "populist" art is having a serious negative down turn in the quality of art, but is also not any one individuals personal failings:
Why the world is addicted to background tv by Kayleigh Day
How Modern Audience are failing cinema by Like Stories of Old
Rupi Kaur episode of Rehash podcast
I'm always here to talk fic and art and what makes you excited about your writing. Much love and please rest. We need you here.
#fandom#fandom thoughts#ppcu#populism#fanfiction#the state of art#the discussion of accessibility to art as form of intellectual gatekeeping was fucking fascinating on that podcast episode#rehash
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ok to be fair when i watched utena for the first time at 16 i definitely didn't fully Get It. like i still walked away like Woah that was life changing but i missed some very big themes/points and that's why i think rgu really really improves upon and deserves multiple rewatches. and i also think that watching the apocalypse arc for the first time becomes very personal, you take away what you need to take away from the show (or at least i did at 16). so i WANT to give grace to people who may have misinterpreted rgu because it's a complicated show but if people are writing blogs or videos or putting out long form media called stuff like UTENA EXPLAINED 😱 and still fucking miss the point um lol actually
#utena#this is not about somerton specifically but i remember being on the Road Trip From Hell#my first ever 9 hour drive in the middle of a blizzard. and jules was there trying to keep me not insane so we listened to a podcast ep#rgu#like an utena explained one and it pissed us off so much that it did actually distract me from the zero visibility fuck god why are#snow chains illegal in my state when we NEED THEM.......#ANYWAY whatever
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"I think Maturin as a naturalist kind of verges on the profound... together these two men are a dialectic which will deliver the world we live in, for better and worse. ...you have the scientific, rational, and you have the, y'know, martial... you can plug it into whatever fuckin' dichotomy you want, Dionysus and Apollo..."
— November Kelly, Kill James Bond! s3e8.5: Master and Commander
#aubreyad#hello I am posting another kjb aubreyad episode quotation#which does not encompass the fact that the next line is discussing stephen's 'gay little kimono'#nor abigail thorn's merry little 'hee hee they compose a dramaturgical dyad!'#and THIS is a solid part of why I do and have long enjoyed the aubreyad. it's So.#also I should state that this is also a podcast that understands what goeth on in the movie so very much ('get becalmed idiot!')
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If I had a nickel for every time a mortal was in love with an Eldritch god named Jo(h)n in podcast, I’d have two nickels; which isn’t a lot but it’s weird that it happened twice.
#tma#the magnus achives#tma spoilers#the magnus archive spoilers#malevolent#tmap#tmap spoilers#malevolent spoilers#i guess#look season 3 of malevolent has left me devastated#i smelled the slow burn of jmart from miles away#malevolent podcast#yes in this instance martin is mortal#imo he never reached an avatar state#im not technically done with season 3 of malevolent leave me alone#sonni talks#calli talks finally#op#if someone has already done this im sorry#its been living rent free in my head for days#kinda like john i guess#lol#martin blackwood#jon sims#arthur lester#john doe
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i’m just so devastated, exhausted, and emotionally drained. steve kornacki, thanks for your service. big fuck you to anyone who abstained, voted for trump, or voted third party.
#i wrote and rewrote angrier things in this post#my anger about men ESPECIALLY as a poc thinking abt moc actively voting against their own rights#thinking about how my school is already facing issues from republican senate bills having passed#thinking about how these republicans clearly don’t care about their wives and daughters and sisters#but on the overall i’m just so devastated#i voted for harris and the dem running for senate in a frankly pretty long shot state#and it’s like. i don’t know how people could vote and not know how many people they’re fucking over in the process#was that man talking on your fucking podcast just SO convincing that you decided ‘the economy’ was better with him????#go back to HS econ and get back to me#i’m exhausted. and i can’t even go to bed#us politics#kamala harris#donald trump#election 2024#notes from the prime minister
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Funniest historical events bracket
Details under the cut:
Oldest joke: "A dog entered into a tavern and said, 'I cannot see anything. I shall open this one'" (dw i dont get it either)
Straw Hat Riot: Wearing a straw hat in the autumn is a BIG faux pas. People straight up destroyed each others hats if they were wearing them after September 15th. Well. September 13th, 1922. Factory workers straw hats get destroyed, so they fight back, which has turned into a riot. And this has only escalated afterwards. People were arrested and hospitalised. Cops did fuck all except get their hats destroyed lol.
#polls#events round 1#sumeria#ancient sumeria#new york city#united states#straw hat riot#having dwóch typów podcast flashbacks with this one#was so tempted to use a one piece picture for the straw hat riot lmao
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Suggested Listening: Columbia Protests (as of 4/25/24)
Alright, folks, I've seen a couple different approaches to this situation, and I think there's something to be learned from each of the below. I know some of them have a contested reputation, but all media sources have a bias and I will be including some context on those biases.
The podcasts I'm sharing are:
The Daily (New York Times)
The Take (Al Jazeera)
Democracy Now! (independent radio broadcast)
Global News Podcast (BBC Radio)
It's come up a few times on NPR as well, but not in enough detail for me to include. I will be linking Spotify, but these are all available elsewhere, though official transcripts can take several days.
The Daily - April 25th, 2024: This podcast is a production of The New York Times. The paper is left-leaning, but has a noted bias towards Israel, and has run into trouble on trans issues in the recent past. The podcast is further left, though still more cautiously moderate than something like Democracy Now; the podcast has previously been responsible for fact checks against the more biased NYT opinion pieces.*
Why you should listen to it: This episode provides the most comprehensive timeline to what has happened, in what order, and why certain actions have been taken. It is notably more sympathetic to Columbia University President Shafik than other coverage, though that may just be the natural result of explaining the current political pressures. It is still more sympathetic to the protesters than to her, but I do think this is helpful for establishing a timeline of events. It is not the only one, and I will share another below.
* That infamous article about the alleged systemic sexual violence that Hamas committed on Oct. 7th was put through a fact checker by the podcast team when it came time to do an episode about it, and the inability to substantiate it led to not only the episode being cancelled, but the article itself being (quietly) edited to note that it was not substantiated. The NYT did not handle it well, but I want to make it clear that the podcast team is independent in many respects, and while I've taken issue with some of their episodes, they often have more comprehensive coverage of certain matters.
The Take - April 25th, 2024: This is a podcast from the English-speaking branch of Al Jazeera, a Qatari news organization that, while independent, does receive a certain amount of funding from the Qatari government. By that measure, I do hesitate to place it on a left-right scale due to existing outside the Western political spectrum. As a Middle Eastern, Arab news org, Al Jazeera provides a perspective much closer to the action than others, and one that is generally much more sympathetic to Muslim and Arab voices. It is also, like the others on this list, an award-winning journal. At this time, Al Jazeera is considered one of the most reliable news sources for information on what is happening in Gaza, through their Palestinian correspondents; they have also been banned in Israel as antisemitic propaganda.
I need to make it very clear that I am not in any way denigrating it for having Qatari government funding; the BBC shares many of those factors, just British.
Why you should listen to it: Al Jazeera got a reporter into the student protest encampment in Columbia, and got more direct interviews with some of the students on the ground. This is part two of their coverage of the protests; Part One (April 24th, 2024)provides another perspective of the timeline, which focuses on different factors, generally closer to the events in Columbia than the national factors.
Democracy Now! - April 23rd, 2024: This is a far left/progressive radio broadcast (repackaged for podcast streaming) that has been running since 1996. They often have interviews with people that I haven't necessarily seen other podcasts bring in, and while I would not consider them extreme, I do sometimes find that certain details get left out in pursuit of a more black-and-white narrative.
Why you should listen to it: Cohost Juan González has been in the field of progressive journalism for a very long time, but it's more relevant than ever for this episode: González was one of the original organizers for the 1968 Columbia protests that resulted in one of the largest mass arrests in NYPD history. The 1968 protests were massive, and deeply impactful on a national scale. González's perspective on how this current protest compares to the one he helped organize nearly sixty years ago is a fascinating way to think about the current events.
Global News Podcast - April 25th, 2024: BBC is a very centrist source for journalism, funded primarily by the UK government and advertising. As such, their coverage tends to lean in favor of the current party, though they do not 'toe the party line' as such. They do regularly platform right-wing activists, but they also have correspondents in the Middle East with a more progressive perspective. I would compare them to CNN in the US; ineffective in terms of opinion, and comparatively milquetoast on that front, but capable of getting access to high-level events that smaller networks aren't.
Why you should listen to it: ...honestly, this is just a 'round it out' kind of suggestion, to get an idea of what the international community is thinking of the events at Columbia. I don't think they necessarily contribute much in terms of factual discovery, but it helps with getting the lay of the land.
#phoenix politics#current events#gaza#palestine#pro palestine#united states#new york#nyc#new york city#new york times#nyt#the daily#the take#al jazeera#democracy now#juan gonzalez#bbc#bbc global news#podcasts#columbia#university of columbia#Minouche Shafik
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