#sti podcasts

[beanyowl]

once again facing off with my rsd after sending my paper to my family for proofreading knowing my sister will be brutal

already got the feedback yesterday but have to sleep on it to not feel as personally attacked and embarrassed about what I originally wrote

[somethingpositive4positivepeople]

SPFPP 265 Freedom in the Questioning of the Unknown

After losing the audio where our guest Lauren shared surviving abuse in a marriage, we FINALLY got to revisit the convo. Apologies in advanced just because my mics didn't have the setup I thought I bought, so there's significant moments of background noise between the pug and Lauren's partner. Basically this sounds like every other podcast episode haha. I think this episode will connect with people who've aimed to fix people, and who live by loyalty due to their religious ties. Some people sty in relationships too long after their expiration date, and Lauren shares a story that demonstrates that well.

[rainbluealoekitten]

this is definitely not a witchcraft blog but regardless i do participate occasionally with online witchy theatrics and i have an opinion i'd like to share.

there's too much pressure on learning the basics and not enough resources that teach damage-control.

this is in relation to fear-mongering discourse, bc almost every witchy "content creator" (hate that term) and almost every witchy book, podcast, whatever, seems to put a focus on protecting yourself, putting up wards, easy peasy baby beginner witchcraft. which! yes, that is important, but it also means that it perpetuates the idea (and often full out says) that you should never do blood magic. you should never talk to these entities. you should never make bargains, you should never do divination without cleansing, you should never curse, bla bla bla don't go outside at night!! it's spooky!!!

great, now we've got a bunch of witches who are scared shitless and won't actually do anything beyond blow cinnamon through their front door.

there are a lot of people who claim to be teachers, but a good teacher is someone who pushes you. not someone who limits you.

some witches love to tell you to fuck around and find out, but again, only provide resources on warding. we've got witches who ward so much that they can't even get friendly spirits to talk to them. banishment is seen as a basic skill, but if everyone is too scared to practice their craft, they're not going to even end up with an entity to banish!

i'm starting to ramble, but my point is that i want to see more content, more books, more generalised resources that teach you how to unfuck a situation. not prevent it, unfuck it.

you did blood magic? great, it's not always going to work out, here's how to unbind yourself from this entity, now you know to do this slightly differently. you've done a curse and it's backfired? don't panic, these are some ideas on how you can undo your spell, and next time you might want to choose your words/ingredients more carefully. you wandered into the wrong part of the woods and upset some ancient spirits? it's more common than you think! luckily, there are plenty of ways to go about this situation.

etc etc. people do dumb shit. that is part of life. just like with sex ed, teens aren't going to abstinate, they're going to be too scared to go to an adult when they get an sti.

yes, some practitioners will basically stop practicing out of fear of doing things wrong, and many others will do things wrong and end up entirely alone, scared, and with no resource that can guide them out of it, all because you should have known better, you should have warded, you should have stuck your head in a fucking hole.

anyways. this is the end of my rant but i hope it also comes off as encouragement to anyone who is in some way sharing their practice and sharing resources, especially the much wiser witches who have fucked around, please share what you've learnt. <— i'm asking this in a very sincere, very hopeful way, i really wish it was normalised to share spells and prayers and basic actions to help witches through really tough times.

[copperbadge]

Where My September Babies At

There's a scene in the novel where Eddie mentions that studies show children born in the first three months of the year have distinct advantages over their later-born peers. A reader pointed out some issues with the thesis, so it's a good thing I remember where I picked that trivia up, because maybe I got it wrong!

I can go back and listen to the podcast where I heard it, but I thought I'd google around first in case I could find something faster to confirm/disprove the thesis. I didn't find what I was looking for but I did find a BUGFUCK INSANE breakdown of what is likely to a happen to a child depending on their birth month.

I make no claims to this being accurate; they absolutely do not cite their sources and the whole page reads like bad clickbait, but anyway tag yourself, I'm gonna live to be 100:

January – Higher risk of developing Crohn’s disease, epilepsy, and Alzheimer’s.

February – Increased risk for death from lung cancer.

March – Higher risk for certain kinds of heart disease.

April – Increase risk for becoming an alcoholic or developing an eating disorder.

May – Lower risk for developing chronic illness.

June – Higher risk of developing vision problems.

July – Increased risk for developing autism and asthma.

August – More likely to be labeled as a problem student.

September – More likely to live to see 100 years of age.

October – Higher risk for insect bites, chest infections, and STIs.

November – More likely to be left-handed, the risk for heart problems and lung cancer.

December – Lower risk for allergies and asthma.

[crochetedblorbos]

"Stay safe out there."

Character Name: Mistholme/The Audio Tour Guide

Fandom: @the-mistholme-museum [Podcast]

Voiced/Written By: Dom Guilfoyle

Yarn Used: Body: CraftSmart Value - Black Interface: CraftSmart Value - Heather Gray Voice: CraftSmart Value - Black Headphones: CraftSmart Value - Black

Basic pattern here.

Do you have any fucking idea how much it sucks wanting to hug something that not only literally but canonically doesn’t have a body? A lot.

Oh, my sweet, innocent, naive, trusting little Guide. Never lose that childlike wonder, no matter how much about the world you learn. And never lose your love of storytelling. I had hoped to finish Declan and the Guide before the finale of Mistholme, but I figure I finished close enough to the end that I can still ride that high. (Also, if you haven’t listened, go listen. Now. If you liked TMA’s format of “seemingly unconnected/only loosely connected stories that slowly coalesce into a coherent storyline that can, will, and must break your heart a thousand times over and have you begging for more”, you’ll love it.)

The Guide went through a lot of transformations over the course of the show, both in terms of personality and in terms of…existence, I guess. Without spoiling too terribly much, I rather got the impression at the beginning of the podcast that there were physical audio tour guides you would pick up at the entrance to the Mistholme Museum with the latest version of the Guide on them that you would then turn in before leaving, but by the end, you could—and frequently did—download the Guide directly to your phone. So how do you convey that as something you can give the hugs it so richly deserves and desperately needs?

This is a fun one to write up, because…well, for the most part, I didn’t vary the basic pattern. As mentioned, the Guide doesn’t have a body, but it does have a personality, so I just made a black, person-shaped void to be its “body”. Where it varies, though…is the head.

Interface: I wanted this to look like the display screen of an audio tour guide, so I stitched in the back loops only of the stitches forming a square where a person’s face would be beginning with R60 and ending on R71. Then I embroidered a sound wave onto it. Simple enough to describe. Surprisingly only slightly more difficult to execute.

Headphones: You’ve probably figured this out by now, but I will absolutely make my life as complicated as possible in order to avoid having to sew too many pieces together. I think these turned out pretty damn good, though! Pattern is as follows:

Earpiece 1:

R1: 6sc in magic circle, sl st in first sc (6 sc). R2: Ch 1, 2sc in each st around, sl st in first sc (12 sc). R3: Ch 1, [sc in first st, 2sc in next st] 6 times around, sl st in first sc (18 sc). R4: Ch 1, [sc in first two st, 2sc in next st] 6 times around, sl st in first sc (24 sc). R5: Ch 1, sc in first st, ch 2, skip next st, sc in next 23 st, sl st in first sc (23 sc, 2 ch). R6: Ch 1, sc in first st, sc in ch sp, [inv dec, sc in next 2 st] 5 times around, inv dec, sl st in first sc (18 sc). R6: Ch 1, [sc in back loop of first st, inv dec] 6 times around, sl st in first sc (12 sc). R7: Ch 1, inv dec 6 times around, sl st in first st (6 sc).

Sl st up to ch sp.

Headband:

R8: Ch 1, 2sc in ch sp, sc in next 4 st around gap, sl st in first sc (6 sc). R9-17: Ch 1, sc in each st around, sl st in first sc (6 sc). R18-22: Ch 1, sc in first two st, hdc in next st, dc in next two st, hdc in next st, sl st in first sc (2 sc, 2 hdc, 2 dc). R23-27: Ch 2, hdc in each st around, sl st in first hdc (6 hdc). R28-32: Ch 1, sc in first two st, hdc in next st, dc in next two st, hdc in next st, sl sti n first sc (2sc, 2hdc, 2dc). R33-42: Ch 1, sc in each st around, sl st in first sc (6 sc). Fasten off.

Earpiece 2:

R1: 6sc in magic circle, sl st in first sc (6 sc). R2: Ch 1, 2sc in each st around, sl st in first sc (12 sc). R3: Ch 1, [sc in first st, 2sc in next st] 6 times around, sl st in first sc (18 sc). R4: Ch 1, [sc in first two st, 2sc in next st] 6 times around, sl st in first sc (24 sc). R5: Ch 1, sc in first st, ch 2, skip next st, sc in next 23 st, sl st in first sc (23 sc, 2 ch). R6:    Ch 1, sc through first st and first st of end of headband, sc through ch sp and second st of end of headband, inv dec through end of headband, [sc in next two st, inv dec] five times around, sl st in first sc through end of headband if necessary (18 sc). R7: Ch 1, [sc in back loop of first st, inv dec] 6 times around, sl st in first sc (12 sc). R8: Ch 1, inv dec 6 times around, sl st in first st (6 sc).

Sl st down to bottom of headpiece.

Cord: Ch 34. Sc in 2nd ch from hook, sc in next 5 ch, sl st into next ch, turn. Sc in back of ch 6 times, sl st in first sc. Ch to desired length.

Join to head next to interface.

[sanjerina]

So my colleagues and clients at work are daring me to start a podcast that’s basically “why doesn’t anybody teach you this?” about both mental health stuff (managing mood, tips for living with other people, self-regulation, understanding context) and things you SHOULD learn in school but don’t (basics like health, home ec, and civics that have gone the way of the dinosaur.) I go on a charming rant about this shit basically daily.

With the usual caveats about me rarely completing any project that I start aside — what do you want your nerdy queer neurodivergent middle-aged Aunt Sanj (licensed mental health counselor) to tell you about? If I had a few ideas I might be able to knock something together, and if it was worth doing for my own sanity, maybe I could get guests on to correct me when I inevitably say something ignorant. :)

Today’s rant brought to you by “you’re keeping all of your lifetime’s worth of pictures backed up only on the cloud?” and “okay so Depo will (probably) protect you from getting pregnant, but you still need to use a condom because of STIs” and “you just graduated from high school and you can’t name five countries in Africa?“ and “wait, you’ve been on anxiety meds for three years and no one has ever taught you to breathe into your belly?”

[giovaneanziano]

Quando cammino sono solito ascoltarmi podcast scemi, per ridere, quindi spazio da Power Pizza Podcast a Tintoria. Nella penultima puntata era ospite Stefano Nazzi, famoso giornalista e podcaster famoso per analizzare i delitti nostrani e oltre. Ad un certo punto gli chiedono “perché non hai fatto puntate sul Mostro di Firenze” (ndr IO AMO TUTTO CIÒ CHE PARLA DEL MOSTRO DI FIRENZE ascoltato cose, guardato altre, letto libri) e lui risponde “no, troppo lungo, dovrò fare più puntate per capire. Come Zodiac”. Zodiac. E chi cazz’è mo. Vado a cercare sul Google e trovo un podcast di Lucky Red letto da Luca Ward che parla di una delle ultime idee che Pacciani sia innocente (ma va direi) e che il Mostro e Zodiac siano la stessa persona. 6 puntate da 50 minuti l’una e ora IO NON VEDO ALTRO NON ASCOLTO ALTRO RAGA SONO INTRIPPATO IN TUTTI STI ENIGMI E COSE HO FATTO 25 km OGGI SENZA ACCORGERMENE PERCHÉ PENSAVO ALLA TEORIA DELL’ACQUA

[orotrasparente]

a me piace sentire il daily mix di spotify però sti spaccimm e podcast comm rompn o cazz ma c m n fott a me della storia delle autostrade italiane

[mermaidsirennikita]

I need a recommendation for a contemporary romance novel that is not a billionaire, sport or workplace romance that is Open Door to explicit open door?

I'm sorry billionaire romances might as well be fantasy novels IMO.

Fortunately for you I ONLY read open door to extremely explicit open door so all my contemporaries are along those lines lol

The Roommate by Rosie Danan. The heroine has to get a last minute roommate after the friend she thought she was in love with bails to go on tour with his band... and she ends up living with an adult film star. They do start working on a project together late in the book (not a film) but it's not a workplace romance at all lol. So fun!

Glitterland by Alexis Hall. M/M, a down on his luck bipolar author has a one night stand with a radically different (in a class way and a personality way--this book handles UK class stuff really well) glittery sparkly guy, who then unexpectedly stays the weekend at his place and they sort of fall into a relationship together?

You, Again by Kate Goldbeck. A 21st century take on When Harry Met Sally, the hero and heroine meet when they realize they're both hooking up with the same girl. After some rough starts, they eventually end up as friends... but obviously, there's a ton of UST and he's falling in love with her and she CANNOT deal with that reality.

Forget Me Not by Julie Soto. Borderline workplace because the heroine is a wedding planner and the hero is a florist she's using for a wedding, but functionally not. This is a second chance romance; they were together in the past, but she's a commitmentphobe (as a commitmentphobe, I love a commitmentphobe hereoine) and screwed it up. So now they're thrown back together for a new wedding, and it gets Complicated. Also, there's an amazing scene were they're in the bath together and she's ranting out work stress and he basically is like "let me help" and reaches around to... help.

The Other Side of Disappearing by Kate Clayborn. This one is a bit softer on the sex, but it's definitely not closed door. The heroine's mom ran off with a con artist years ago, and the con artist was the subject of a famous podcast before he disappeared and kind of left it on a cliffhanger. The podcaster and her sort of protegee (the hero, a very Soft ex football player) show up to pick up where it left off, and the heroine and her sister end up on a roadtrip to find the mom together.

Friends Don't Fall in Love by Erin Hahn. The heroine was an up and coming country singer before she got cancelled for singing a protest song about gun control. Her fiance, another country singer, then dumped her, and she impetuously hooked up with his collaborator/friend. Years later, he's her landlord, and they start collaborating again to revive her career.

I would also recommend Kylie Scott's Stage Dive series (rock stars, but not billionaires); I like all of them, but I loooove Lead (the frontman for the band, a recovering addict, lives with his assistant/sober living companion; she realizes she's in love with him, and as a no-nonsense bitch is like "I'm quitting", to which he says, "NONONONONO"; has a scene where they fuck on the kitchen table to get it out of their systems and he like, immediately stagger-runs away) and Deep (the bass player has a one night stand with the drummer's new baby sister-in-law, and oops, she's PREGNANT).

Kristen Callihan's VIP series (again, rock stars but not billionaires) is also very good, though I don't like the first book. I do recommend Managed (about the band manager becoming platonic nap partners with the new photographer/social media manger; he's uptight and she's Not, he sniffs her dirty panties, she undoes him, it's great); Fall (one of the band's front men is recovering mentally from a suicide attempt, finds out he has an STI, is super ashamed and spiraling mentally... then becomes friends with the girl who's like, house sitting for another bandmate, I think? And she's a Professional Friend?); and Exposed (the band's publicist, their childhood female friend, enters into a FWB situation with the one member of the band she can't stand).

Kennedy Ryan's Skyland series is good, too. Before I Let Go is about a divorced couple that realizes they still have feelings for each other; This Could Be Us is about a rich housewife whose husband is thrown in jail for financial crimes, unexpectedly finding love with the forensic computer guy who turned him in.

Helen Hoang's books are really good too, but I especially love The Kiss Quotient, which is about a woman on the spectrum who hires a male sex worker in an effort to become better at dating (it's actually so sweet... also hot).

Of course, I enjoy Talia Hibbert--Act Your Age, Eve Brown is probably my favorite, but that's a bit of a workplace book, as she works for him at a B&B. Otherwise, try Get a Life, Chloe Brown, which is about a woman with a chronic illness deciding to take control of her life, and her neighbor helping her out and in the process falling in love with her.

Fwiw, I think all romances are kinda fantasy!

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

Hi Sex Witch, I was wondering if you had any book recommendations for easing prejudices/self judgement regarding STDs?

hi anon,

I haven't read any such books personally yet - and it doesn't seem to be a very full field - but in looking for an answer to your query I discovered Strange Bedfollows: Adventures in the Science, History, and Surprising Secrets of STDs, released in 2021 by sex educator Dr. Ina Park. it sounds pretty dang cool, and I'll definitely be checking it out as soon as I can! maybe it's time for a sex witch book club?

in the meantime, you may also like this episode of the podcast Unladylike; it's a few years old but sticks out in my brain as a great exploration of living with the stigma of herpes.

this video by the perpetually applicable Dr. Doe breaking down the facts about STIs with 0 judgment and some pretty cute puppies

and the works of Ella Dawson, a writer well-known for being extremely candid about living life with herpes

[battleangel]

Why Cant I Be Naked Outside?

Ive been naked inside of my apartment all day for the past two days.

Im a full-time freelance podcaster.

What started out as pure laziness and a response to an arthritis flareup turned into a thought experiment:

What would happen if I went outside naked right now?

Why cant I go outside like this? Who am I hurting?

One of the biggest bullshit programming in American soeicty from the literal time we are "born" is you cant be naked outside.

Lifelong conditioning, programming, brainwashing and endless reinforcements.

And I literally cant walk outside right now naked without potentially being arrested, harrassed, assaulted, raped, abducted and/or killed.

The societal programming against public nudity is both conscious and subconscious, subtle and overt, transparent & hidden, embedded & obvious.

Why cant I go outside naked?

Bullshit automatic responses:

•Safety

•Hygiene

•"Public decency".

Lmao.

"Order & morality".

Big fucking yikes.

Why does the state have an "interest"?

Hygiene is such a crock.

The people who say omg!hygiene like the ones who commented my tiktok in my underwear are all full of shit.

The lie is vaginal discharge, menstrual bleeding and STIs (genital warts & herpes, etc) could potentially infect and/or transmit diseases, bacteria, germs, etc on public chairs, benches, seats, stadiums, etc if people werent wearing underwear.

So, they claim not wearing underwear is "unhygienic" therefore public nudity laws are necessary.

So, if I go outside in underwear that covers my butt and pussy and nothing else, were good to go right?

Ofcourse not, because there are topless laws for women.

Nipples are outlawed.

There isnt the slightest pretense about hygiene.

They just screech about "teh childrenz!" (who also have nipples btw) and "public decency" and they throw in a lie about how its "unsafe for women" when they would be the first ones out there raping the first woman who had her tits out.

Yeah, okay.

Its not about "morality", "order", "decency", "hygiene" or "safety".

Its about motherfucking control, repression, paternalism, the patriarchy, misogyny, sexualizing the female body, the contrived creation of the "forbidden" and the "taboo", its about making people hate their bodies, shame, repression, forced guilt, sex is bad, hiding the body, no confidence, never flaunting, women never owning their sexuality, Madonna/whore complex, virginity as a prized communal possession, virgin as status and trophy, women presenting themselves to men to be consumed, women presenting themselves as objects of desire, equating femininity with demureness and being ladylike with being pure innocent and virginal, female obsession with clothes hair makeup jewelry endlesd adornments plastic surgery dieting through othering their own bodied by keeping it hidden under bras underwears Spanx Skims undergarments girdles slips tights stockings skirts dresses jeans pants shorts corsets socks knee highs thigh highs, othering mystifying commodifying & pornifying the female body by keeping it hidden in real life from men until they lose their virginity and creating an environment where men depersonalize the female body and make it a vessel of their endless wet dreams and masturbatory fantasies.

If everyone was naked from jump street (we are but we dont stay that way), noone would give a shit.

Nudist colonies and beaches are like that, nudity is the everyday norm so noone reacts, cares, stares, points, ridicules, insults, harrasses, etc.

They all just go about their day at the beach, eating, shopping -- so then, why cant we all do that at non-nudist colonies & beaches?

Please.

They want the rapes, sexual assaults, molestation, sexual abuse, hebephilia, pedophilia, sex addictions and compulsions, sex disorders, repressions & traumas.

Its a tool of societal control to control the populace just like violence is.

US has the most violence per capita in the world.

Gun deaths, shootings, stabbings and murders.

It doesnt have to be this way.

They want it this way.

Why are my vulva, labia and nipples such a problem?

Why has my naked female body been so sexualized, otherized & dehumanized?

Why is a natural thing -- my naked female human body as is -- something that is met with such force, sexualized violence, oppression, repressed desires, rage, outrage, anger, terror, shock, revulsion, arrests, being killed while in custody, jailed, convicted, fined?

Why cant I just walk outside like this, fully naked, and check the mail all of two minutes away and then walk right back to my apartment without saying anything or interacting with anyone?

Why does my landlord care?

Why does the mailman care?

Why does the white stay at home Karen, her dry ass husband and Little Timmy and Madison care?

Why does the maintenance man at my apartment complex care?

Why do my three neighbors in my apartment complex -- all male and single -- one downstairs under me, one upstairs and one downstairs in the unit next to me care?

Why does the person walking their dog care?

Why does the doordash delivery driver care?

Why does the school bus driver care?

Why does a naked female body elicit such strong, visceral, ugly, vicious, violent, unhinged responses?

[xplainthexmen]

In which Gambit does Stardust; Wilbur Weston holds no one’s redemption; Gambit is unequivocally bisexual; Lucifer is kinda goofy; and we still don’t know what’s in the box.

X-PLAINED:

Family businesses

Gambit vol. 2 #1-4

What Gambit’s been up to

Some peculiar parallels

Father Miguel Bonavita

Sister Katrina

Father Marcelo

A box

Tante Mattie Baptiste

Olivier Stoker and/or Lucifer

Fancy captions

The Cross of Redemption

Anielle, who may or may not Hanael and may or may not also be a fallen star and/or angel

Gambit’s subconscious

Octopus Gambit

The Grigori

Sibyl

Cerberus

Wormwood

Pew surfing

CyberFork

Spitting locusts, sadly

A bad take on the trolley problem

An ambiguous ending

A pecular transition

Genre displacement

Warlock as a form of art

Elon Musk’s closest X-villain analog

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[enibas22]

Im Doppelinterview mit dem KURIER Devid Striesow und Tom Wlaschiha: „Wir wurden zusammengeworfen und es hat funktioniert"

https://www.berliner-kurier.de/show/devid-striesow-und-tom-wlaschiha-auch-superhelden-haben-ihre-schwaechen-li.363618

Im Doppelinterview mit dem KURIER:Devid Striesow und Tom Wlaschiha: „Wir wurden zusammengeworfen und es hat funktioniert"

28.06.23

Tom Wlaschiha und Devid Striesow verstehen sich abseits der Arbeit gut. Clémence Losfeld/Hans Lucas

Es ist die erste Zusammenarbeit zwischen Tom Wlaschiha und Devid Striesow und es hat sofort gefunkt. Die zwei Ausnahmetalente stehen aber nicht gemeinsam vor der Kamera, sondern im Tonstudio. Für die deutsche Podcast-Serie „Marvel's Wastelanders: Star-Lord“ auf Audible leihen Tom Wlaschiha Superheld Peter Quill und Devid Striesow Waschbär Rocket ihre Stimmen. Nicht nur vor den Mikrofonen, auch im Interview mit dem Berliner KURIER wird deutlich, dass die Chemie zwischen Tom und Devid einfach stimmt.

Tom Wlaschiha: „Ich kann keine zwei Sachen gleichzeitig“

Berliner KURIER: In „Marvel’s Wastelanders: Star-Lord“ geht es um zwei gealterte Superhelden, die in eine von Superschurken regierte Welt zurückkehren. Das heißt, Sie beide spielen die Guten in der Geschichte?

Tom Wlaschiha: Unsere Charaktere haben zumindest den Anspruch, die Welt besser zu machen. Aber wie Sie schon sagen, sie sind etwas gealtert. Deswegen hatte ich mich anfangs gewundert, dass ich für die Rolle angefragt wurde. (lacht)

Devid Striesow: Ich mich beim Waschbären auch. Ob das mit der Optik zusammenhängt? (lacht)

Sind Sie beide dem anhaltenden Podcast-Trend erliegen?

Tom: Ich höre schon viel, vor allem beim Autofahren, aber ich kann keine zwei Sachen gleichzeitig, also etwas hören und Lesen zum Beispiel.

Devid: Es kommt wohl auch auf die Tagesverfassung an. Aber generell ist es bei mir eher die genau gegensätzliche Entwicklung. Bei langen Autofahrten höre ich viel klassische Musik und denke viel dabei nach. Ich hole mir immer weniger den Input von außen.

Das ist für Sie beide die erste Marvel-Erfahrung, zumindest beruflich. Haben Sie sich denn zuvor als Zuschauer mit dem Thema beschäftigt?

Tom: Wir sind keine absoluten Experten, aber über die Jahre hat man den ein oder anderen Film geguckt und ich würde unsere Erfahrungen als gefährliches Halbwissen bezeichnen. (lacht)

Devid Striesow: Meine Kinder haben mich da ein bisschen an die Hand genommen.

Tom Wlaschiha und Devid Striesow hatten zusammen viel Spaß im Tonstudio. Clémence Losfeld/Hans Lucas

Devid Striesow: „Wir haben als Schauspieler sofort zusammen funktioniert“

Devid, Sie sprechen den Waschbären Rocket Raccoon. Woher haben Sie die Inspiration für die Rolle genommen?

Devid: Ein sprechendes Tier zu spielen war erstmal eine ganz neue Erfahrung für mich. Da muss man sich vorher ganz genau überlegen, wie man das angeht. Ja, ich war vorher im Zoo … (lacht) Ich habe ganz viel ausprobiert, mit der Stimme viel experimentiert und dann hat sich langsam herauskristallisiert, was gut funktioniert.

Tom: Man muss die Figuren vermenschlichen. Das trifft aber auch auf die Superhelden-Charaktere zu, die keine Tiere sind. Dem Zuschauer macht das Hören ja nur dann Spaß, wenn er sich selbst darin wiedererkennen kann. Und auch Superhelden müssen menschliche Züge haben.

hre Rolle, Peter Quill, wird in den Marvel-Filmen von Chris Pratt verkörpert. Hatte er irgendeinen Einfluss auf Ihre Interpretation?

Tom: Nein. Es hätte auch nicht funktioniert, wenn ich mich an ihm orientiert hätte. Man muss einen eigenen Zugang zu der Rolle finden, sonst wird es am Ende nicht stimmig. Ich habe mir „Guardians of the Galaxy“ zwar noch mal angeguckt, aber nur, um in Stimmung zu kommen. Die Filme haben ja mit der Geschichte von „Marvel’s Wastelanders: Star-Lord“ nicht viel zu tun. Es gibt außerdem ein englisches Original von dem Hörspiel-Podcast, in das ich kurz reingehört habe, um mal ein Gefühl für die Stimmung zu bekommen. Aber viel wichtiger war, dass die Chemie zwischen uns beiden stimmt.

Kannten Sie beide sich vorher eigentlich?

Tom: Wir kannten uns vom Hallo sagen und ich habe natürlich einige Sachen mit Devid gesehen, das lässt sich ja nicht vermeiden …

Devid lacht.

Tom: Moment, ich war ja noch nicht fertig. Ich wollte sagen: Das lässt sich ja nicht vermeiden, wenn man gute, deutsche Filme schaut. (lacht) Mal im Ernst, ich habe mich sehr gefreut, mit ihm zu arbeiten.

Devid: Die Situation ist ja meistens die, dass man als Schauspieler zusammengeworfen wird und dann sollte es im besten Fall gleich funktionieren. Das war in unserem Fall aber auch so.

Tom Wlaschiha: „Im Osten hatten wir keine Superhelden“

Warum glauben Sie, sind Superhelden immer noch so wichtig in der heutigen Gesellschaft?

Devid: Ich glaube, es ist die Sehnsucht nach einer schnellen Lösung in einer Welt voller Probleme, die auf einen einprasseln. Es ist eine Ur-Sehnsucht, dass es mit einem Paukenschlag eine Lösung gibt. Eine kindliche und normale Sehnsucht der Menschen. Deswegen glaube ich, wird auch die Sehnsucht nach Superhelden nicht weniger.

Tom: Im besten Fall haben die Superhelden ja irgendwelche Superhelden-Qualitäten, die normale Menschen nicht haben und die man sich selbst auch wünschen würde.

Und was wäre das bei Ihnen?

Tom: Alle Sprachen sprechen können. Ist das eine Superhelden-Qualität?

Devid: Ach, da würde ich mich einklinken, das finde ich auch toll.

Welche Superhelden-Qualitäten haben denn Rocket Raccoon und Peter Quill?

Devid: Sprüche kloppen. (lacht)

Tom: Das ist ja das Charmante an der Geschichte, dass die beiden Superhelden sind, aber auch große menschliche Schwächen haben.

Das heißt aber, die beiden haben nicht wirklich irgendwelche Superkräfte?

Devid: Ich bin ein Waschbär, der sprechen kann … (lacht)

Tom: Und ich habe die Verantwortung von uns beiden.

Welche Superhelden waren Ihre Vorbilder in der Kindheit?

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Tom: Wir sind beide aus dem Osten, bei uns gab es keine Superhelden. Das war tatsächlich so. Ich hatte eine relativ superheldenfreie Kindheit. Alles, was aus Amerika kam, war ja sowieso sehr suspekt und galt als Schundliteratur.

Devid Striesow: „Ich kann nur in meiner Muttersprache spielen“

Auf welche neuen Filmprojekte von Ihnen können sich die Zuschauer demnächst freuen?

Devid: Es kommt bald eine Serie von Axel Ranisch, die auch auf dem Münchner Filmfest läuft – „Nackt über Berlin“. Eine sehr schöne Geschichte über einen Jungen und sein Coming-Out, ich spiele seinen Vater.

Tom: Vor ein paar Wochen ist die Serie „Mrs. Davis“ erschienen. Die läuft aber nur auf Peacock in den USA. Eine brandaktuelle Story – es geht um eine Nonne, die in einen Konflikt mit der künstlichen Intelligenz gerät. Ich spiele einen katholischen Priester.

Tom, Sie drehen mittlerweile sehr viel im Ausland. Ist es Ihnen dennoch wichtig, zwischendurch auch deutsche Filme zu drehen?

Tom: Das ist mir total wichtig. Deutsch ist meine Muttersprache und in der hat man noch mal einen ganz anderen Zugang zur Rolle. Egal, wie gut man eine Fremdsprache spricht, man wird nie das Level erreichen, das man in der eigenen Sprache hat.

Devid, Sie haben keine Ambitionen, wie Tom mal in einer internationalen Produktion mitzuwirken?

Devid: Tom hat das gut erklärt. Bei mir ist es so, dass ich diese Tiefe und das Spektrum an Ausdruck nur über meine Muttersprache hinkriege. Ich fühle mich sonst so beschnitten, könnte man sagen. Ich würde mich damit nicht wohlfühlen, weil ich dann parallel so viel darüber nachdenken müsste, ob das alles so richtig ist, was ich mache.

Tom: Sprache besteht ja nicht nur aus Worten, dazu gehört auch Intonation und Sprachmelodie. Das ist in einer Fremdsprache schon extrem schwer.

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knighthooded replied to your post "Happy Day After Oscars Day"

oh man I've for some reason kept putting off going to see The Fabelmans (partly due to those trailers you mentioned) and Aftersun (because I need to be emotionally ready) but it sounds like I've got some tickets to buy

amelodie replied to your post "Happy Day After Oscars Day"

I've similarly been putting many of these off, so thanks for the insights and encouragement! I'm really curious about these parasocial critic friends though. Who are some of your favourites to follow?

Oh man, my close personal friends! Many of them responded to The Fabelmans and Aftersun so similarly to me, while also some others really did not!! But maybe the true ~magic of the movies~ was the different ways they affected us all along.

Here are some of my folks and where you can find them:

Richard Lawson, Chief Critic at Vanity Fair His reviews are on VF.com, and he's one of the co-hosts of the 'Little Gold Men' podcast, one of my stalwarts. Next week I believe they will be doing my FAVORITE episode of the year, the one right after the Oscars where Joe Reid (stay tuned) comes on with his spreadsheet of what's coming out this year and, sight unseen, they have to make their wild guess of what's gonna win Best Picture. Do they replay their predictions from the year before too? Oh you bet. A riot. I'll add the link once it drops.

David Sims and Griffin Newman, co-hosts of the 'Blank Check' podcast David is a film critic at The Atlantic, Griffin is an actor and comedian, and 'Blank Check' is their podcast where they cover directors' filmographies, in...depth. These episodes are long as hell. You know you're lost in the sauce when you realize that's become a feature not a bug. I have an intro episode! It's the start of their Bob Fosse miniseries from last summer, on his first movie musical, Sweet Charity (1969). I mean first of all you should absolutely watch Sweet Charity, dazzling and a hoot, but even if you don't see it first, this episode is so great. A lot of it is from their dossier on Bob Fosse (the Fossier), as the introduction of this series, so it's a lot of fascinating history and context of both Broadway and Hollywood at the time, but also they're just all in a particularly bouncy mood and it's a treat to listen to. Ben Hosley, their weird little sound guy of a producer, is basically discovering in real time that maybe he loves musicals?? It is so fun. Anyway. Lots of running bits, sure, lots of guests also (hi Richard!), LOTS of hours, but I just vibe so much with the way these two love movies.

Joe Reid and Chris Feil, co-hosts of the 'This Had Oscar Buzz' podcast Let's just stay on the podcast train for a stop longer. Joe and Chris are both Oscar historians and freelance critics, popping up on places like Vanity Fair and Vulture. Their podcast has the pretty brilliant premise of covering movies that once had dreams of Academy Award nominations, but it all went wrong. Their appreciable cattiness is perfectly suited for this. They also have really good film festival recap episodes, for the current year. Edit: Ahh I forgot my intro episode! It is this one from February on Magic Mike XXL, a film I have not seen, with special guest, their friend Pamela Ribbon, the reason we got this moment, and every moment in this episode where I almost crashed into something laughing.

Emily St. James, of, sigh, I guess just Twitter right now Emily was recently laid off from her job as a cultural critic on Vox, in the on-going horrors of the media job landscape. I'm sure she'll be somewhere else soon, and can't wait. I've actually followed her longer than anyone on this list, and this is where this gets so delicate and complicated!, but you may actually be more familiar with her under her old name, as she's been a noted voice in especially TV criticism for decades, and really shaped The AV Club for years.

Fran Hoepfner, Bright Wall/Dark Room, 'Fran Magazine' First found Fran through BW/DR, where she still turns out incredible essays on the regular, now a loyal subscriber to Fran Magazine, her stellar newsletter, and she is easily the best Letterboxd reviewer in the business (not a business). She's just so astute and so funny, how the FUCK does she do it! Best in the business!

Demi Adejuyigbe, of one million things but on Tumblr: the 21st of September music videos He's just on Letterboxd, but we should be so lucky. Any time I have relayed a Demi Letterboxd joke to someone they've lost their mind. Most recently it was him calling the white love interest in RRR Phoebe Waller-Bridgerton.

I've just realized that of course, ALL of these people are also on Letterboxd. Haha what a dumbdumb! I've gone back and made all their names links to their Letterboxd profiles.

Well I hope this is more than you asked for!! Will update with more people I've surely forgotten.

[dhaaruni]

i'm curious to hear your thoughts on the demisexual podcast

So we're talking about this article, and its corresponding podcast.

Here's my response under the cut.

I read the article and listened to the podcast and I still honestly think demisexuality is fake lmao. It doesn't make you queer or otherwise ~unique that you wait to have sex until you know and trust the person, especially as a woman where there are substantial risks to casual sex, and I don't just mean pregnancy and STIs. I said this a while ago but for the first month or so when I'm seeing a guy or going on a first date, I always let someone know, whether it's a friend or my parents, because the reality is that many men are violent, and having sex with someone you don't know puts you in a vulnerable state where it's easy to be victimized. The way I frame it to men, namely those who'd never dream of being violent to women, is that 1/4 of women are victims of sexual violence but 1/4 men are not sexually violent since most predators are serial assaulters. Does that make sense?

I totally agree with the idea that it's really cringe and even harmful that we're encouraging teenagers to construct permanent identities to temporary feelings. Plenty of young teenagers are uncomfortable about sex, and claiming that state is permanent will only mess with their minds as they grow older and more comfortable with their sexualities. If you're 14 and uncomfortable with the idea of sex, you aren't demisexual, you're just 14 lol. I think parents should validate their children's identities obviously but allowing them to define themselves on things they may not even feel in a few years is detrimental to their development.

I think that there is kind of a tie between demisexuals and incels, both male and female. There's been a lot of focus on male incels, who want to have sex with women but can't do so for a number of reasons, but I think that female incels do exist although of course, a major difference is that male incels traditionally blame women while female incels blame themselves. It's not female incels who are shooting up colleges over not getting laid, it's the Elliot Rodgers of the world. But that said, I almost feel like female incels will cling onto demisexuality or even asexuality in a way to detract from the pain of social rejection. Like, if they're demisexual or asexual, they can rationalize their not being considered sexually attractive by others as a moot point since they only feel sexually attracted to those they have emotional connections with anyways or not at all. It's kind of a coping mechanism, you know?

There's also something to be said about adults who still identify as demisexual like it begs the question: why? Why do you need a unique identity that literally means "I only have sex when I feel comfortable with my partner?" That doesn't make you unique, that makes you a normal person. I think there's something to be said where women are uncomfortable being like, sexual adults but not sexually available like it's almost as if women are conditioned to feel apologetic for not being sexually available at the beck and all of men, so they construct this whole silly identity so they have an excuse to say no so to speak.

Speaking anecdotally, I've honestly a lot of hate for being selectively sexually available like I 100% got more slander (so to speak) in college than either women that were celibate or women that were very promiscuous because I always had agency. It was my choice, and I don't mean that as a feminist statement or anything, I just was conditioned to not do anything unless I felt like it, and that carried over from not taking my medicine as a little kid and ending up in the hospital with pneumonia as a result to refusing to have sex with people in college unless I felt like it in which case I'd have sex with them 2 hours after meeting them lmao.

Sorry for rambling but I hope this was interesting to you! Let me know what you guys think as well.

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PORTFOLIO 📄

Howdy! We are the BMMA401 students from STI College Cubao, and here lies our portfolio in compliance with the requirements of the Writing for New Media final task performance and practical exam which will include the Vlog, 2 Podcast Scripts, and 1 Audio.

➤ MIDTERMS PERFORMANCE TASK

Creating a VLOG with a content featuring whether the tourist spots, or tradition/culture/festival, or food, or product, in the area which one of our groupmate lives. Us, Group 4, decided to go for promoting a popularly known food business; Primablend, being the oldest bakeshop in San Mateo, Rizal and is established in 1970! Our vloggers truly had fun promoting, as well as eating almost all of the menus while enjoying their time at Primablend. Click the indicated link above to check out our vlog now!

➤ PRE-FINALS PERFORMANCE TASK

Featuring the Podcast Script we wrote in compliance of Pre-final TP which must talk about the changes that happen in the Philippines brought by the audience and their feedback to online content about the Philippines. We chose to revisit the brutal hostage crisis that occurred at Quirino Grandstand in Manila thirteen years ago as our podcast gave opinions with how massive the impact of media was while the crisis were happening. The link indicated above will show the entirety of the podcast script!

➤ FINALS PERFORMANCE TASK

Finals is at long last here! For this one, it is already an individual project wherein we were tasked to write another podcast script summarizing our experiences throughout the course Writing for New Media. The blog must express an insight regarding what the students can contribute to new media writing, including our journey and the specific impacts toward our view on the new media platforms and their dynamics while learning in the mentioned course.

Here are the members of BMMA401 - Group 4, including each of our podcast script and audio link in compliance with the requirements of the Writing for New Media final task performance.

⋮ Caguan, Emanuel

⤿ A GENERATION OF CHRONICALLY ONLINE PEOPLE

⋮ De Jesus, Joshua

⤿ Anything and Everything

⋮ Delos Reyes, Janalexis

⤿ Exploring Horizons

⋮ Hilario, Madeleine

⤿ Media Medicine Podcast~

⋮ Huidem, Charis

⤿ CHA[T] HUID[ME]

⋮ San Pedro, Geryk

⤿ New Media Airlines

⋮ Santos, Jannah Nicole

⤿ New Media Journey

⋮ Solis, Jericho

⤿ A Rollercoaster Ride

⋮ Toleco, Reandro

⤿ Daily Rean Podcast

⋮ Tolentino, Rendhel

⤿ Defying Obstacles

⋮ Zapanta, Lemuel

⤿ SURENEY