#the blood crow stories podcast

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Wondering where Jon Sims is? He is too powerful and would skew the poll, but rest assured I have not forgotten.

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[lunacias]

listening to my silly lil podcasts at work like 

[ratbastarddotfuck]

imo, to this day, The Blood Crow Stories is one of the best to ever do it.

[boombox-fuckboy]

any podcast recommendations for guys Going Through It. im a sucker for whump and i’ve already listened to TMA and Malevolent sooo

Fiction Podcasts: Characters Going Through It / Experiencing the Horrors

Gore warning for most, here's 15 to get you started:

I am in Eskew: (Horror) David Ward is arguably the Guy Going Through It. Stories from a man living in something that very much wants to be a city, and a private investigator who was, in her words, "hired to kill a ghost". Calmly recounted stories set to Eskew's own gentle, persistent rain. The audio quality's a bit naff but the writing is spectacular. If you like the writing, also check out The Silt Verses, which is a brilliant show by the same creators.

VAST Horizon: (Sci-Fi, Horror, Thriller/Suspense Elements) And Dr. Nolira Ek is arguably the Gal Going Through it. An agronomist wakes from cryo to discover the ship she's on is dead in the water, far from their destination, and seemingly empty, barring the ship's malfunctioning AI, and an unclear reading on the monitors. I think you'll like this one. Great sound design, amazing acting, neat worldbuilding, and plenty of awful situations.

Dining in the Void: (Horror, Sci-Fi) So, the initial pacing on this one is a little weird, but stick with it. A collection of notable people are invited to a dinner aboard a space station, and find not only are they trapped there, but they're on a timer until total station destruction: unless they can figure out who's responsible. And there's someone else aboard to run a few games, just to make things more interesting. The games are frequently torturous. If that wasn't clear.

The White Vault: (Horror) By the same creators as VAST Horizon, this one follows a group sent to a remote arctic research base to diagnose and repair a problem. Trapped inside by persistant snow and wind, they discover something very interesting below their feet. Really well made show. The going through it is more spread out but there's a lot of it happening.

Archive 81: (Horror, Weird Fiction, Mystery and Urban Fantasy Elements) A young archivist is commissioned to digitize a series of tapes containing strange housing records from the 1990s. He has an increasingly bad time. Each season is connected but a bit different, so if S1 (relatively short) doesn't catch your ear, hang in for S2. You've got isolation, degredation of relationships, dehumanisation, and a fair amount of gore. And body horror on a sympathetic character is so underdone.

The Harrowing of Minerva Damson: (Fantasy, Horror) In an alternate version of our own world with supernatural monsters and basic magic, an order of women knights dedicated to managing such problems has survived all the way to the world wars, and one of them is doing her best with what she's got in the middle of it all.

SAYER: (Horror, Sci-Fi) How would you like to be the guy going through it? A series of sophisticated AI guide you soothingly through an array of mundane and horrible tasks.

WOE.BEGONE: (Sci-Fi) I don't keep up with this one any more, but I think Mike Walters goes through enough to qualify it. Even if it's frequently his own fault. A guy gets immediately in over his head when he begins to play an augmented reality game of entirely different sort. Or, the time-travel murder game.

Janus Descending: (Sci-Fi, Horror, Tragedy) A xenobiologist and a xenoanthropologist visit a dead city on a distant world, and find something awful. You hear her logs first-to-last, and his last-to-first, which is interesting framing but also makes the whole thing more painful. The audio equivalent of having your heart pulled out and ditched at the nearest wall. Listen to the supercut.

The Blood Crow Stories: (Horror) A different story every season. S1 is aboard a doomed cruise ship set during WWII, S2 is a horror western, S3 is cyberpunk with demons, and S4 is golden age cinema with a ghostly influence.

Mabel: (Supernatural, Horror, Fantasy Elements) The caretaker of a dying woman attempts to contact her granddaughter, leaving a series of increasingly unhinged voicemails. Supernatural history transitioning to poetic fae lesbian body horror.

Jar of Rebuke: (Supernatural) An amnesiac researcher with difficulties staying dead investigates strange creatures, eats tasty food, and even makes a few friends while exploring the town they live in. A character who doesn't stay dead creates a lot of scenarios for dying in interesting ways

The Waystation: (Sci-Fi, Horror) A space station picks up an odd piece of space junk which begins to have a bizzare effect on some of the crew. The rest of it? Doesn't react so well to this spreading strangeness. Some great nailgun-related noises.

Station Blue: (Psychological Horror) A drifting man takes a job as a repair technician and maintenance guy for an antarctic research base, ahead of the staff's arrival. He recounts how he got there, as his time in the base and some bizzare details about it begin to get to him. People tend to either quite like this one or don't really get the point of it, but I found it a fascinating listen.

The Hotel: (Horror) Stories from a "Hotel" which kills people, and the strange entities that make it happen. It's better than I'm making it sound, well-made with creative deaths, great sound work, and a strange staff which suffer as much as the guests. Worth checking out.

[felondese]

the crows are probably last on my list of factions to try out. it's mostly because of yknow, everything we've heard about them from zevran. their training and recruitment methods are pretty vile, and i'd have a hard time defending them, as much as i do love crow characters like teia and viago and the crow stories in TN.

part of my problem too, i think, is the accent thing. if crows are trained from childhood, why doesn't crow rook have an antivan accent?

are they related to the amato or borgiani families from the podcast? they're strangely not antivan-sounding, but i think that's more of a budget issue than a lore one and requires some suspension of disbelief, unless there really is just an enclave of foreign nobles and their servants in antiva who have maintained their accents for generations?

or was crow rook purchased from abroad as an older child, from rivain or tevinter maybe? spent too much time away in some kind of foreign exchange program for child assassins? did house de riva decide to start recruiting older foreigners for some reason, as spies?

idk i can't make it work, so for now i have no plans for a crow rook. I'm sure it will make sense in game, but I'm kind of puzzled by them being a chooseable faction to begin with.

edit with alternative possibilities: trained to speak in a foreign accent for international job purposes but the trauma from training is too deep and they can't drop it or use their native accent anymore, even in antiva and among crows. now i'm even sadder. house de riva has opened crow enclaves in rivain and tevinter like franchise locations. they purchase local kids and train them up outside of antiva to use as secret agents/spies for non-antivan jobs. rook is not actually antivan but uhhh i dunno, brainwashed by training to believe they are anyway?

maybe if they're antivan-blooded kids raised in the foreign enclaves, they strongly identify as antivan-rivaini or antivan-tevene and their loyalty is still to antiva, a la italian-americans raised in america who have never been to italy? antiva is in part fantasy italy...

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Lee's Podcast Master List (Current)

This is def incomplete and not all caught up anymore and I lost all the podcasts I have listened to. Do with that what you will. Bolded are podcasts I talk about the most.

Currently Listening To

The Silt Verses

Welcome to Night Vale (relisten)

Listened

Audio Dramas:

2298

36 Questions

A Scottish Podcast

Aftershocks

Alba Salix

The Alexandria Archives

Alice Isn't Dead

The Amelia Podcast

The Angel of the Vine

Archive 81

Arden

ars PARADOXICA

Attention Hellmart shoppers!

The Black Tapes

Blackwood

The Blood Crow Stories

The Bridge

The Bright Sessions

The Bubble

Brimstone Valley Mall

Charlie’s Mailbox

Dead Serious

Death by Dying

The Deep Vault

The Directive

Dreamboy

Drywater

The Elysium Project

Empty

EOS 10

The Far Meridian

Girl in Space

Greater Boston

Hadron Gospel Hour

Herbarium Podcast

Here be Dragons

Heroics

Hosts of Eden

I Am in Eskew

Inkwyrm

It Makes a Sound

Jim Robbie and the Wanders

Kakos Industries

Kevin’s Cryptids

King Falls AM

Lake Clarity

The Last Movie

Lesser Gods

Liberty

lif-e.af/ter / The Message

Limetown

The Lost Cat Podcast

LUCYD

Mable

Malevolent

The Magnus Archives

The Magnus Protocol

The Meat Blockade

Misadventure By Death

OAKPODCAST

Old Gods of Appalachia

Olive Hill

The Orbiting Human Circus 

Organism

Orphans

The Penumbra Podcast

Point Mystic

Qwerpline

RABBITS

Return Home

Rex Rivetter:  Private Eye

Rose Drive

Rover Red

SAYER

Scotch

Small Town Horror

Space Log

Spines

Star Tripper

Station to Station

Steal the Stars

The Strange Case of Starship Iris

Subject: Found

SubverCity Transmit

TANIS

Tales of THATTOWN

Testing Connection

Tides

Time:Bombs

Tribulation

Tunnels

Uncanny County

Under Pressure

Unwell

Video Palace

We Fix Space Junk

Welcome to Night Vale

What’s the Frequency

The White Vault

Within the Wires

Wolf 359

Wooden Overcoats

Zero Hours

Improv/Dnd:

Hello from the Magic Tavern (On ep 300-something I think?)

The Adventure Zone (Balance, Amnesty, Graduation)

Other:

The Folktale Project

Heme Review

Lore

My Brother My Brother and Me

This Podcast Will Kill You

The Topical (Onion)

To Listen To

Camp Here and there

Red Valley

WOE.BEGONE

Hello From the Hallowoods

Midnight Burger

Midnight Radio

Moonbase Theta, Out

The Godshead Incidental

Janus Decending

The Petrol Station

Cthulhu and Friends

The Mistholme Museum of Mystery, Morbidity and Mortality

Kakos (relisten)

Mabel (relisten)

Old Gods of Appalachia (relisten)

Palimpsest

Second Star to the Left

The Sheridan Tapes

Who Watches the Birdwatchers?

The Vesta Clinic

Spirit Box Radio

The Dead Letter Office of Somewhere, Ohio

Dead Man’s Notes

Life With Althaar

Middle:Below

The Pale

The Secret of St Kilda

Last updated: 6/25/2024

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[audiofictionuk]

New Fiction Podcasts - 11th March - Part 1

Dust and Blood Audio RPG A fantasy Western narrative-play podcast, filled with high drama and hilarious shenanigans! Dust and Blood is created by Blake Alfson, Keith Curtis, Corinne Hill, Gale Parker, and Zach Parker, and posts on the first day of each month. https://audiofiction.co.uk/show.php?id=20240220-01 RSS: https://feed.podbean.com/dustandbloodpod/feed.xml

Unlucky Charm Audio Drama Sam Crowe has always had the worst of luck, but in his ever-optimistic view of the world, heads to Boston to pursue a lifelong dream. Along the way to his dreams, he meets Aaron Bazil, a painter who's been pretty lucky with his career so far, but with it came a cynical view of the world. Together, they change each other for the better and... worse. https://audiofiction.co.uk/show.php?id=20240301-03 RSS: https://feeds.castos.com/5x9m7

Crooked and Strange Audio Book Crooked and Strange is an anthology series, and a place to share some of my short fiction. https://audiofiction.co.uk/show.php?id=20240301-04 RSS: https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/crooked-and-strange-short-stories-by-lewis-darley

Autumn Falls- The Voices Audio Drama Kyle Silver comes back home to Autumn Falls. While there, strange things start occurring to him. Will Kyle Make it out alive? https://audiofiction.co.uk/show.php?id=20240225-01 RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/f1838b90/podcast/rss

What Happens In A Dream Audio Drama Welcome to the Dream World! Here, anything and everything is possible. The only limit is your imagination! This is a fictional audio drama based in a Dream World. Each episode may or may not be connected in someway, but they will all take place within the same world. As of right now, episodes will be put out as often as they can be created, but we will eventually be on a regular schedule. Hope you enjoy! Thanks for listening! https://audiofiction.co.uk/show.php?id=20230518-07 RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/e1ecea64/podcast/rss

Dad Magick Audio Drama A horror podcast. https://audiofiction.co.uk/show.php?id=20240304-01 RSS: https://feed.podbean.com/dadmagick/feed.xml

Hobo Code Audio Drama Hop a freight train with two hobos, a little girl, and her best friend who lives in a coffee can. Hobo Code is an epic journey spanning from the Roaring Twenties to the Great Depression, all the way to the Great Recession of 2008. https://audiofiction.co.uk/show.php?id=20240304-02 RSS: https://feeds.libsyn.com/511023/rss

The Last City Audio Drama In the climate-ravaged year of 2072, Pura stands as a miraculous green haven, a geoengineered paradise that protects lucky residents from the global catastrophes of heat domes, fires, floods, and droughts. Demetria Lopez is Pura's PR fixer, tirelessly promoting the city's idyllic image. But when she stumbles upon a dark secret that underpins Pura's existence, she must decide who and what she is willing to protect. https://audiofiction.co.uk/show.php?id=20240304-03 RSS: https://rss.art19.com/the-last-city

Stranded in the Void Audio Drama Blake Hooper, an astronaut aboard the Hermes V spacecraft, finds himself alone after a mission goes horribly wrong. His only way to keep his sanity is to broadcast messages back home, hoping someone is listening. https://audiofiction.co.uk/show.php?id=20210201-18 RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/47649320/podcast/rss

Mil-Liminal Audio Book Mil-Liminal is a bi-weekly, cozy horror podcast chronicling the adventures of a midnight shift gas station employee and all that implies. https://audiofiction.co.uk/show.php?id=20240213-05 RSS: https://feed.podbean.com/mil-liminal/feed.xml

Clempson Goes to Hell Podcast Audio Book Welcome to Dystopia: Clempson Goes to Hell, read one chapter per week. https://audiofiction.co.uk/show.php?id=20240213-06 RSS: https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/2291813.rss

Adventure Engines Audio RPG An actual play, TTRPG podcast where we build the world through play. https://audiofiction.co.uk/show.php?id=20240219-05 RSS: https://feeds.podcastle.ai/dbb0d83d-4b66-424d-b92f-842f6fbb5864.rss

Tales of the Risen Tide Audio Book A post-apocalyptic pirate adventure with the heart of an epic fantasy, Tales of the Risen Tide is the debut novel from British author David M Reynolds. Tune in every Monday and Thursday for a new chapter of this full-cast audiobook. On a map redrawn by the rampant sea-level rise of the twenty-second century, survivors war over the ruins of high-ground whilst pirates and slavers plague the vast new seas that surround them. But amidst the ashes of the world there remains a place for the young and the brave to call home: The Archon — a ship crewed by orphan thieves, escaped prisoners, and heretic runaways. They are the Archonauts, and this is their tale. https://audiofiction.co.uk/show.php?id=20240207-06 RSS: https://feed.podbean.com/talesoftherisentide/feed.xml

Andersson Dexter Investigations Audio Book In a queer-normative future that isn’t all rainbows and sparkles, the justice you receive depends on your job – assuming you can get it at all. Enter vigilante detective Andersson Dexter, whose beat covers both the physical world and the online universe Marionette City. Helping people who have nowhere else to turn, he’s making the worlds better one client at a time, but is it enough? The Andersson Dexter Investigations is a four-book cyberpunk detective series by Nebula Award finalist M. Darusha Wehm. https://audiofiction.co.uk/show.php?id=20240216-01 RSS: https://feeds.megaphone.fm/SBP5278124681

Das Magnus-Archiv Audio Drama Mach deine Aussage, stell dich deiner Angst. Die Türen des Magnus-Instituts öffnen sich und gewähren Einblick in die Fallakten dieses 'angesehenen' Forschungszentrums für das Esoterische und das Übernatürliche. https://audiofiction.co.uk/show.php?id=20240209-02 RSS: https://ingressive.podcaster.de/das-magnus-archiv.rss

[cultfaction]

Cult Faction Podcast Ep. 113: Buzz, Blood, and Armageddon

In this weeks episode we discuss Manifest, American Football, Ahsoka, Disney, Murder She Wrote, Netflix, Sophie Turner, That ’70s Show, The Crow, Toy Story, Wayne’s World, Shelter, Things Heard & Seen, Mr. Benn, Quantum Leap, Harlan Coben’s Shelter, One Piece and a whole lot more. Also this week’s dropzone host the trailers for Five Nights at Freddy’s, Spy Kids: Armageddon, Pet Sematary:…

[nicklloydnow]

“Kennedy crowed to me about his horseshoe coalition gathered round a campaign he views as fundamentally populist. And it’s quite a band he has put together: crunchy Whole Foods–shopping anti-vaxxers, paunchy architects of hard-right authoritarianism looking to boost a chaos agent, Nader-Stein third-party perma-gremlins, some Kennedy-family superfans, and rich tech bros seeking a lone wolf to legitimize them. Their convening can give the impression of weightiness, but if you so much as blew on them, the alliance would shatter into a million pieces. The only thing that seems to bind them is Kennedy, the current embodiment of a warped fantasy of marginalization and martyrdom that has become ever more appealing — and thus politically significant — in an age of disinformation and distrust in government and institutions.

That’s not to say Kennedy’s campaign is a joke. He is both an addled conspiracy theorist and an undeniable manifestation of our post-pandemic politics. He is an aging but handsome scion of America’s most storied political family, facing off against an incumbent who many in his own party worry is too old and too unpopular to win a second term. Far from an exile, he is an extremely well-connected person with unparalleled access to the centers of influence in New York, Hollywood, and Washington, D.C., who either has no idea what kind of fire he’s playing with, or does and is therefore an arsonist.

He is running a surprisingly potent campaign that, thanks to the lurid dynamics of social media and the boosts he is receiving from some of the wealthiest, most listened-to people in America, stands to grow even more disruptive, his deep thoughts on Rogan’s podcast translating into overflow crowds at his rallies. Lesser threats than Kennedy have played spoilers in elections before, and if he succeeds in helping burn us all to the ground, it will not be because he is an outsider, as he claims, but because of a political and media culture that has protected and encouraged and fawned over him his whole life — handing a perpetual problem child, now 69 and desperate for attention, accelerant and matches.

(…)

His vaccine beliefs hooked him up with a broader world of conspiracy theorizing. In 2006, Kennedy wrote a lengthy story, again for Rolling Stone, claiming the Republican Party had “mounted a massive, coordinated campaign to subvert the will of the people in 2004,” stealing the election in Ohio via Diebold voting machines — a specious claim that was seductive to Democrats who simply could not believe George W. Bush had won his reelection bid against John Kerry. Kennedy’s doubts in electoral results have persisted, and he recently equivocated to the Washington Post’s Michael Scherer about the 2020 election, saying, “I don’t know. I think that Biden won.”

Kennedy has also come to believe many other things that run the gamut from unproven to ludicrous to dangerously irresponsible. They begin with his conviction that the CIA played a role in the murders of both his uncle and his father and that Bobby Sr. was killed not by Sirhan Sirhan but by a security guard assigned to protect him; he actively campaigned for Sirhan’s release from prison against the wishes of most of the Kennedy family, including his mother.

(…)

Kennedy has also suggested that 5G high-speed-internet towers are being used to “harvest our data and control our behavior”; posited a link between mass shootings and antidepressant use; told Rogan that Wi-Fi pierces “the blood-brain barrier,” causing “leaky brain”; and claimed the presence of atrazine in the water supply has contributed to depression and gender dysphoria among boys since atrazine is known to clinically castrate frogs when dumped into their tanks.

Again: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has been polling as high as 20 percent.

(…)

But he does not really emphasize reducing costs and making medicine and health-care treatments more broadly available to more people. If this were important to him, he would not have allowed Rogan to pit him against Dr. Peter Hotez, the Texas physician-scientist making open-source, patent-free vaccines available to poor populations around the world, undercutting the extortionate pharma companies. Kennedy’s fight is about vilifying lifesaving medical treatments in favor of others that he has decided, based on inscrutable metrics of his own, are more holistic.

(…)

American Values is also a laundering of a lot of dirty Kennedy linen. There is but one mention of Chappaquiddick and lots of florid encomiums about how devoted everyone was to one another with little mention of the famously chronic infidelity that ran rampant in the family. He lauds ancient Grandma Rose for her “curiosity about people of all backgrounds,” including “fishermen, actors, cabbies, political leaders, bus drivers, tourists, movie stars, heads of state, strangers in elevators,” a list that suggests that the full and dazzling range of humanity may fall into three categories: famous people, people who transport them to places, and others they may meet by chance on Cape Cod.

(…)

He is leaning hard into his family in this contest; his logo even borrows the iconography of his father’s 1968 campaign. It makes it all the more awkward that almost no members of the Kennedy family are supporting him. Many have already publicly endorsed Biden, who employs at least three Kennedys in his administration. Kennedy’s sister, the filmmaker Rory Kennedy, told CNN, “Due to a wide range of Bobby’s positions, I’m supporting President Biden.” On the day Kennedy filed his paperwork with the Federal Election Commission, his cousin Bobby Shriver tweeted that it was “a good day” to remind everyone he had been an early supporter of Biden in the 2016 primary.

(…)

Kennedy and his second wife, Mary Richardson Kennedy, the best friend of his sister Kerry, announced their separation in 2010. In 2012, Mary hanged herself in an outbuilding of their home in Mount Kisco. More than a year later, the New York Post published excerpts of a diary from earlier in his marriage in which he kept an account of the 16 women he’d had sex with that year. In 2014, he married Hines.

One of the keys to Kennedy’s appeal with a certain segment of the population is his view of himself as an outcast and victim. When his inaugural campaign speech went long, he joked with the crowd, “This is what happens when you censor somebody for 18 years.”

(…)

Being shunned in any way for ideas that, when it comes to vaccines, are not just about individual choice but about our collective responsibility is perhaps anathema to people raised to assume their voices would be heard and understood as legitimate. Public-health directives during COVID were crude and sometimes wrong — messaging on masking changed repeatedly, masking outdoors now seems silly, the school closures lasted longer than they should have — but the objections made by people like Kennedy were not rooted in special advance scientific knowledge. Rather, they stemmed from the fury of normally powerful people affronted by the argument that their individual impulses put them on the wrong side of a moral question of communal engagement and compassion. It is a dynamic many managed to reframe as their willingness to stand in patriotic challenge to weak-minded, compliant, vaccinated sheep. And it is the type of environment in which men born with immense wealth and power — the kind who casually mention that governors have called and offered them Senate seats that they have turned down — can recast themselves as martyred heroes.

(…)

But of course he’s a poser. This entire campaign is a pose, as is his outsider stance. He is a Kennedy. He is the fifth member of his family to run for president. His sister Kerry was married to the man who would become the governor of New York, whose brother was a television journalist; his cousin Maria was married to the governor of California, who also happened to be a movie star. His grandfather owned a movie studio. He has written, in American Values, of attending the 1960 Democratic convention at which his uncle was nominated; he was 6, and his family stayed at the home of Marion Davies, the actress and the mistress of his grandfather’s good friend William Randolph Hearst. At that convention, Frank Sinatra hosted cocktail parties celebrating his family. Kennedy’s own wife is a star whom he met through another television star, his friend Larry David, who recently offered the Times this classic clarification about his relationship with the candidate: “Yes love and support, but I’m not ‘supporting’ him.”

Over lunch in New Hampshire, I asked Kennedy how his conversation with Republican New Hampshire governor Chris Sununu had gone following his address to the state legislature; Kennedy told me, “It was nice. I knew his father” — who was also governor. It can seem as if Robert F. Kennedy Jr. knows the father of every powerful person in America. Perhaps more important, they knew his father and his uncles and his grandfathers.

So he gets traction where no one else would. His relationship with the political media, which has published him, written about him, and seen him as a full and flawed and interesting human, has always been guided by his core identity as an insider, a member of the family that this country was taught to love above all others and to pity in their many public tragedies. As a journalist who has been told for decades that my empathy for the female candidates I often cover is probably overemotional and built too strongly on personal identification, let me just tell you that you should never stand between a white male political journalist over the age of 40 and his feelings about the Kennedys.

I was a young person in journalism in New York at the turn of the millennium when a lot of people I worked for and with were Kennedy’s dining companions, buddies, and neighbors. Peter Kaplan (another of my former bosses), then editor of the New York Observer, had been his roommate at Harvard and was one of his best friends. Kennedy and his cousin John Jr. — who ran the magazine George — were big handsome puppies who frolicked among a generation of political junkies who had grown up worshipping their dads and then wound up at the same schools, jobs, and parties as the sons. I saw this at Talk and the Observer and Salon; it was true at The New Yorker and the New York Times and The New Republic and The Atlantic and the places that published Kennedy from the 1970s on, providing him the mainstream credentials he cited when I asked him about his preparation for the presidency. For what it’s worth, in those same years, I was often asked to cover Trump, then a local celebrity and bargain-basement version of a Kennedy himself, an easy call to get a quote to fill a column, with every mention making his name more recognizable, his words more legitimate. How do we think these guys got here?

(…)

If he can have that effect on me, what must his draw be for those who have not spent hours reading about thimerosal and AZT and Diebold machines just double-checking that all this stuff he says with such assuredness is, indeed, nonsense? Imagine how strong it could be for millions of scared Americans who look at him and see shadows of people they’ve lost, of men the country has lost.

If he were your uncle, you would likely consider that he is fighting some serious psychological headwinds. His own uncle was assassinated when Bobby was 9. He was pulled from school at 14 and flown to the deathbed of his father, also assassinated. His cousin drove a plane into the sea on the way to Bobby’s sister’s wedding. One brother died in a skiing accident, another of a drug overdose. His wife died by suicide. All this in a family in which his grandfather’s dictum was “There will be no crying in this house.”

(…)

And it’s not benign. Because while, no, he is certainly not likely to win the Democratic nomination or ever become president, he could do well in a rogue New Hampshire primary in which Biden is declining to participate, and his performance in that state could trigger further distrust in our elections and throw more fuel on the legitimacy crisis that is raging across this democracy — a crisis that is dangerous, insurrectionist, violent, and terrifying. This campaign will mean his views gain a broader audience, and that too is terrifying when it comes to the erosion of the public’s understanding of disease, science, and public-health measures.

And then there is the bracing reality that, here in Trump’s America, another clearly damaged man, a man whose own close-knit family has waved red flags about his fitness for office, is getting this far in the anti-Trump party.

(…)

Not so distant from this performance of retro white machismo is the fact that at least some of the blame for this wretched state of affairs lies with Biden and the Democratic Party. When elected, Biden promised to be a bridge president: to formulate, alongside the equally senescent leadership of his party, a succession plan of some sort. But these aging leaders have not done that, so here we are with some of the anti-Biden energies among Democratic voters getting directed toward a man who looks like the saviors of old, a glitchy hologram of fabled politicians who once represented youth and hope.

He never, ever, ever should have been here. In this position. In these pages, in this context. He should never have been a politician or a public figure at all. He should have been a veterinarian.

In American Values, amid all his bizarre hagiography of his family members and rehashing of the Bay of Pigs, is story after story after story of pure delight and joy and love and fulfillment: There are the falcons and hawks and pigeons, the Komodo dragons, the matricidal coati, a red-tailed hawk named Morgan. There’s a California sea lion, Sandy, who “took up residence in our swimming pool” and “ate mackerel by the barrel, devouring everything but the eyeballs, which we found scattered like marbles across the pool, patio and lawn.” One day, after causing a traffic jam on the Georgetown Pike, Sandy, like the dragons, winds up at the National Zoo. And how about Carruthers, the 16-pound leopard tortoise brought back from Africa under the diplomatic protection of his uncle Sargent Shriver in Ethel Kennedy’s Gucci suitcase? Carruthers spent 21 years roaming the house at Hickory Hill in Virginia alongside “ten horses, eleven dogs, a donkey, two goats, pigs … a 4-H cow, chickens, pheasants, ducks, geese, forty closely related rabbits” and Hungarian homing pigeons, a nocturnal honey bear who “slept away his days in the playroom crawl space,” and a jill ferret who “fed her pups under the kitchen stove.”

(…)

But this country, with its political system built around white patriarchal ideals of who powerful men are supposed to be, and its very limited view of what other kinds of power might look like, has created too irresistible an opportunity for someone with a famous name, a tremendous ego, and a persecution complex. So here we are, eight years after Trump descended the elevator in Trump Tower, listening to a man talking about ivermectin and the fascism of Fauci and the castration of frogs and watching him run riot in a Democratic primary.”

“I’ve been doing my best to ignore the farcical presidential candidacy of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. His noxious views on vaccines, the origin of AIDS, the alleged dangers of wi-fi and other forms of junk science deserve no wide hearing. Polls showing he’s favored by 20 percent of likely Democratic voters over President Biden are almost as laughable as Kennedy’s views. It’s early; he’s got iconic American name recognition; and there’s almost always an appetite, among Democrats anyway, for anybody but the incumbent. His lies have been thoroughly debunked by Judd Legum at Popular Info, Michael Scherer in The Washington Post, Naomi Klein in The Guardian, and Brandy Zadrozny on NBC News.

But I’ve come to believe I have a responsibility to write about Kennedy because of my own shameful role in sending his toxic vaccine views into public discourse: I was the Salon editor, in partnership with Rolling Stone, who 18 years ago published his mendacious, error-ridden piece on how thimerosal in childhood vaccines supposedly led to a rise in autism, and how public health officials covered it up. From the day “Deadly Immunity” went up on Salon.com, we were besieged by scientists and advocates showing how Kennedy had misunderstood, incorrectly cited, and perhaps even falsified data. Some of his sources turned out to be known crackpots.

(…)

Now, Kennedy insists, as the The New York Times paraphrases him, that “Salon caved to pressure from government regulators and the pharmaceutical industry.” He repeated the false claim in his three-hour podcast conversation with Joe Rogan, another conspiracy loon, rehashing the debunked claims of “Deadly Immunity” and claiming that Salon pulled the piece after “pressure from the pharmaceutical industry.”

That’s just another lie. We caved to pressure from the incontrovertible truth and our journalistic consciences.

(…)

The pushback began almost immediately. I’ve already linked to our corrections, which with hindsight seem not to correct what were revealed to be the worst errors. Seth Mnookin, who happened to also write for Salon occasionally, was one of the most dogged debunkers, and his 2011 book The Panic Virus, which features a chapter on Kennedy and the Salon/Rolling Stone mess, ultimately helped convince us to retract the piece entirely.

Mnookin showed, among other things, how Kennedy misrepresented what went on at a 2000 meeting on vaccine safety convened by the Centers for Disease Control, at the Simpsonwood conference center outside Atlanta, where the claims of a link between Thimerosol and autism were discussed. Mnookin wrote, “Kennedy relied on the 286-page transcript of the Simpsonwood meeting to corroborate his allegations—and wherever the transcript diverged from the story he wanted to tell, he simply cut and pasted until things came out right.”

(…)

I tell this story, incompletely and imperfectly given the 18 intervening years, because Kennedy continues to peddle the lies he published and claim that dark forces cowed us and forced us to retract his story. The odious Joe Rogan has been going after vaccine scientist Dr. Peter Hotez on Twitter, after Hotez tweeted that the Kennedy interview was “awful,” “absurd,” and promoting “nonsense.” He offered Hotez “$100,000.00 to the charity of your choice if you’re willing to debate [Kennedy] on my show with no time limit.” Twitter troll and site owner Elon Musk has been amplifying Rogan and Kennedy and going after Hotez. On Sunday a Q-Anon believer came to Hotez’s Houston home demanding that he debate Kennedy.

(…)

I regret the role I played in spreading Kennedy’s anti-vaccine propaganda, and however it helped foment the harassment of Hotez. The vaccine-autism lie isn’t the only big lie Kennedy’s told. But it’s the only one I can debunk personally.”

“I'd prefer to explore what a noted misogynist who reportedly tormented his second wife — and then vilified after she killed herself — says about the 2024 election.

Here was actor Billy Baldwin on Twitter in April, posting a photo of RFK Jr. and his late wife Mary — who, he said, spent many a time crying on his shoulder about her terrible husband:

'If Bobby were half a man she would still be alive today. It will all come out. His campaign will be over in weeks. If these walls could talk.'

Mary, according to those who knew her well, was in agony over RFK Jr.'s ceaseless womanizing. He kept sex diaries, which Mary discovered and gave to a trusted friend. Should anything happen to her, the world might know who we're really dealing with.

In the back of each diary were ledgers listing all the women Bobby had been with — many friends of Mary's or women in their social circle — numbered from one to ten, indicating, like a teenage boy, how far each sexual encounter had gone.

(…)

After Mary's death, Bobby sanctioned friends, relatives and at least one sympathetic Kennedy historian to tell his version of events: Mary was a drunk, a hysteric, a crazy woman. It was a miracle he even survived the marriage.

The greatest smear job came via a Newsweek cover story, which branded Mary's suicide part of the Kennedy Curse — oh, the terrible things that just keep happening to this family!

Somehow, the author got access to a sealed 60-page affidavit in which Bobby accused Mary of having a personality disorder, of beating him in front of their son, of drunkenly face-planting into her dinner.

Mary's siblings called the report 'scurrilous' and 'full of lies.'

(…)

Nonetheless, Bobby went to court to fight Mary's siblings, who hated him, for her remains.

Once he won, he made a big show of having Mary buried in the Kennedy family plot in Massachusetts, the media getting unobstructed photos of Mary's casket.

Not two months later, without the required permits, Kennedy secretly had Mary's coffin exhumed from her grave and buried alone on the other side of the cemetery, no gravestone.

He didn't tell her siblings. In my opinion, this was his final revenge — if Mary dared to humiliate him by killing herself — because it's all about Bobby Jr., all the time — in life, he would do the same to her in death.

(…)

This is a man who smeared the mother of his four children in the most public way possible, who made her life a misery and who gaslit the nation into thinking he was the victim.

He is, in my opinion — and I'm not alone — not just mentally ill. He's a bad man.

The Kennedys have this generational sickness, their abhorrent treatment of women.

Why aren't we talking about it?

How is it that no one's drawing parallels to Bobby's Uncle Ted, the last famous Democrat to challenge an incumbent Democratic president — you know, the uncle who left a young campaign aide named Mary Jo Kopechne to die alone after driving off a bridge at Chappaquiddick?

The party line on Ted was always that he was terrible to women in his personal life but great at legislating for us.

Tell that to the women he destroyed, his wife Joan among them, painting her as the family drunk, the political liability. Sound familiar?

Women, to Kennedy men, are scapegoats.”

“By now, you undoubtedly know presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said at a press dinner last Tuesday night that COVID-19 was an “ethnically targeted bio weapon” designed by the Chinese government to be deadly for Caucasians and Blacks, but spare Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese.

(…)

The stunning moment was surreal and incomprehensible. But I’ve seen the video and heard the audio, so I know it’s true.

“COVID 19 is targeted to attack Caucasians and Black people,” said Kennedy. “The races that are most immune to COVID-19 are Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese.”

Sitting next to Kennedy at that moment was an Ashkenazi Jew, New York Post reporter Jon Levine. Check out his baffled expression on the video.

Contrary to Bobby’s hair-brained theory, I got the coronavirus. My son, brother, sister-in-law, aunt, uncle, nephews, niece, cousins and friends also got COVID. My neurologist’s medical partner got COVID and died. Ashkenazi Jews all.

Bobby knows who I am. My wife, Liz, and I donated to his Riverkeeper nonprofit organization and watched him fly falcons at the Hudson River home of then-Gov. George Pataki. Bobby should also know that Frydman is a Jewish name of European ancestry. I’m not Sephardic. I’m fair-haired and light-skinned. That makes me Ashkenazi.

You’d think his campaign manager, former Ohio congressman and Cleveland Mayor Dennis Kucinich, and staff would’ve prepped Bobby about the probability of Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese journalists being in attendance. In fact, there was a Chinese reporter from the Epoch Times at the table.

(…)

But even Klein, a prominent anti-vaxxer and good friend of RFK Jr. who’s advised him on Israel, is reportedly “worried” about Bobby’s kooky COVID comments.

“This is crazy,” Klein was quoted as saying. “It makes no sense that they would do that. I read everything. I was totally against the vaccine…I wanted to convince myself it was correct not to take it. I have never seen anything like this.”

The Anti-Defamation League also weighed in. “The claim that COVID-19 was a bioweapon created by the Chinese or Jews to attack Caucasians and Black people is deeply offensive and feeds into sinophobic and antisemitic conspiracy theories about COVID-19 that we have seen evolve over the last three years.”

StopAntisemitism added, “We have no words for this man’s lunacy.””

[dravenxivuk]

I'm listening to Season 2 of The Blood Crow Stories - Blackchapel while I work on my current ArtFight.

Western horror podcast with spoopy vibes and an RDR oc are going together perfectly

[zizz-asdf-re-r-o-u]

Kesha from Blood Crow Stories Season 3. Caught in a war between heaven & hell fighting over a dystopia cyberpunk nightmare as the Chosen One. Also a Black lesbian and she and her girlfriend also have great voices.

McKenzie from Mission Rejected

I just fucking love her. Convicted criminal for hacking the US government turned spy to make up for her crimes and is in love with another villianess whose trying to take over the world but also gets a satisfying redemption arc. Also very good voice acting.

Joan Bright from The Bright Sessions.

Julia Morizawa is a PHENOMENAL voice actor. The character is flawed as fuck but she's just trying her best sometimes at the cost of everyone's expense and breaks all kind of ethical barriers.

Buddy Aurinko from The Penumbra Podcast. Do i need to introduce her?

Savannah Roth and Vivian Lobdow from Darkest Night

I have no idea how to introduce them except that they're major spoiler warnings for Darkest Night and again have great voice actors.

Grell Sutcliff from Black Butler

Yes, confirmed she's a transwoman. I just like her a lot and have cosplayed her on & off for 5+ years.

Vesta from Fuck Humans

I'm beginning to notice a pattern that i like women with hot voices haha. Anyways, very fun domme, please step on me :3

Jinx from Arcane

Oh god she's complicated. But like just so well written???

Toph from ALTA

Also just everything about her is just great. Including in LOK.

favorite character from any media BUT it has to be a woman. in the tags now go (pls talk to me about your favorite fictional women pls pls pls pls)

[boombox-fuckboy]

Hello! I have come for the recommendations!

My favourite podcasts are in no particular order: The Silt Verses, Tma(specifically the more fleshy parts), SCP: find us alive, Archive 81 (loved the deer sounds), WOE.BEGONE (I really like the time travel system), and Not Quite Dead (there's something really genuine about it)

Many thanks in advance

Hm. I think you should try The Harrowing of Minerva Damson, The Blood Crow Stories, The Waystation, Desperado, The Department of Variance of Somewhere Ohio, and if you'd just like some gore, Darkest Night.

[ear-worthy]

Bass Reeves Mini-Series Podcast: The Man Who Inspired The Lone Ranger

 One of the most persistent and attractive myths concerns The Wild West of post-Civil War America. "Patriots" view it nostalgically as a time and place when "men were real men," frontier justice was meted out fairly to all, and guns were routinely used to settle all disputes. 

Sadly, none of those myths are true. Frontier justice was still hobbled by racism, gunfights were actually a rare occurrence, and most emigrants to the West were families struggling to make ends meet. That's why Parcast's latest mini-series Bass Reeves: No Master But Duty, from the Solved Murders: True Crime Mysteries podcast, is such a must-listen. 

It's drama wrapped in a history lesson.

 Bass Reeves: No Master But Duty follows Bass’ evolution from an enslaved man, to his escape becoming a fugitive in America’s most dangerous, lawless territory just before the Civil War. Bass became a warrior, and as a U.S. Deputy Marshal protecting and providing for his family, he faced countless risks and criminals on a daily basis. 

 Bass Reeves was one of the first Black Deputy U.S. Marshals west of the Mississippi, who went from beginning his life in bondage to apprehending over 3,000 outlaws in America’s most deadly frontier. All four episodes are now available for Parcast, a Spotify Studio’s,  investigating the life and legacy of the man widely believed to have inspired the Lone Ranger. Throughout the four-part mini-series, available exclusively for free on Spotify, host and arts-activist Darnell Ishmel takes listeners on a journey deep into the Old West, combining historical records, exclusive expert interviews including actor James Pickens Jr. and historian Art T. Burton, and a haunting original score to tell the story of one of the most prolific lawmen in American history. Eventually, Bass himself was put on trial as he stands up for his own innocence. In the final episode, as Oklahoma hurdled toward statehood, Bass faced unprecedented challenges, a firestorm of racial violence, personal tragedies, and a murder case where his commitment to duty is tested like never before involving his own son. Over the four-episode mini-series, Darnell Ishmel acts as our guide and guest host, exploring the exploits of a legendary figure of the Wild West. The man widely believed to have inspired the Lone Ranger… Who was born into slavery and became one of America’s most revered lawmen. 

His name was Bass Reeves.

  Episode Title: Episode 1: Bass in the Wild Episode Description: As an enslaved man, Bass Reeves fights hand-to-hand with his enslaver. Victorious, Bass escapes, becoming a fugitive in America’s most dangerous, lawless territory just before the Civil War. 

 Episode Title: Episode 2: U.S. Marshal Episode Description: Eager to protect his growing family, Bass becomes one of the first Black Deputy U.S. Marshals West of the Mississippi. The face of the law in a lawless land, Bass outwits and outshoots countless criminals. 

 Episode Title: Episode 3: Lawman vs. The Law Episode Description: Accused of murdering his cook in cold blood, Bass stands up for his own innocence - breaking himself financially. Not long after he frees himself, the Marshals become embroiled in a bloody war with a legendary Cherokee leader.  

Episode Title: Episode 4: Oklahoma Burning  Episode Description: As a firestorm of racial violence rages through the territory, Bass Reeves learns of his next arrest: his own son. Soon after, statehood and Jim Crow laws force Bass into retirement, while whitewashing covers up his accomplishments as Oklahoma's Lone Ranger. In search of justice, we consider his complex legacy. 

Check out Bass Reeves: No Master But Duty. You may never think of The Wild West the same way again. 

As Bass might say if he lived in modern society, "Do you feel lucky? Well, doing ya, punk."

[potato-jem]

3,12,13 :)

hi lys!!

3. What were your top five books of the year?

we are counting fan fiction, i don't care anymore (no particular order)

good girl, bad blood (a good girl's guide to murder #2) by holly jackson

literally jawdropping. i read the first book ages ago and i didn't realise it was a trilogy, so i picked up the next two. this book is so so so good. it addresses the toll the previous case she worked on put on her through her podcast as well as trying to do what the police department in her town can. i couldn't put it down. it was amazing.

all the young dudes by mskingbean89 (by default the sirius pov by @rollercoasterwords as well [probably better in my opinion])

probably one of the best fanfictions i have read ever. i couldn't read the last chapter through my tears. in fact, i haven't even finished the sirius pov, because i am that desperate to hold onto that bittersweet ache this story gives me. beautifully written, it is canon and i thank my lucky stars everyday that i was on this earth at the same time as archiveofourown.org

solitaire by alice oseman

loved this, mostly because i related to tori so much. no real sense of identity, no real desire to go out or do anything. i had to take a few breaks because i did not ask for a free psychoanalysis with my purchase

crime and punishment by fyodor dostoevsky

it took me a while to read it, but i got through it and it changed my perspective on a lot of things. i love how instead of just focusing on the murder and the risk of being discovered, it also showed the guilt that was practically eating raskolnikov from the inside

last night at the telegraph club by malinda lo

sapphic books my beloved <3 this book was so incredible. it was sad, it was sweet, the ending was the perfect combo of happy and miserable. it is also nice to see some sapphic poc representation, especially in a book set in the 1950s

12. Any books that disappointed you?

there are still a few books i am trying to get through, but it's really hard because they aren't to my taste or what i expected them to be. siege and storm by leigh bardugo is one, and i am trying to finish it so i can move onto the six of crows duology. klara and the sun by kazuo ishiguro is a bit like this as well. i have not finished either of them. one that disappointed and i did finish was you'll be the death of me by karen mcmanus (too predictable, solved it after a quarter of the book)

13. What were your least favorite books of the year?

WHEN YOU ARE MINE BY MICHAEL ROBOTHAM. this is maybe one of the worst books i have ever been subjected to in my entire life (number one spot will always go to the song of achilles by madeline miller [i'm sorry]) his characterisation of women is frankly disgusting and i had to dnf for my own sanity. when you advertise a book as a crime novel, focus on the crime. not the weird good for nothing police officer daughter of a gang leader and her weird stalker friend she rescued.

thank you for giving me a chance to be a hater <3

end of year book asks

[oots-digitalmedia]

Queer Rep in The Blood Crow Stories

Title: The Blood Crow Stories

    Status: Indefinite Hiatus

    Writer, Director, Producer: Ellie Collins

Cast: Angel Ashe, Leaf Ballard, David Benedict, Charlie Close, Ellie Collins, Trevor Garner, Justin Harless, Laura Houser, Evan Ivey, Jim Kelley, Peter Lalush, Gray Lin, Brandee Mack, Judson Ragsdale, Eric Ravenscraft, Joe Ravenson, Riki Robinson, Tyler Sutherland, Audrey Stadler, Emily Thomas, Amanda Whittle VanHiel, Daniel VanHiel, Lindsay Van Pelt, Zachary Vaudo,

    Queer Creators: Yes

    Accessibility: Transcripts and content warnings are in progress, available on their website here.

        Content Warnings: This podcast contains domestic abuse and gory violence, explicit discussions of child abuse, drowning, animal abuse/death, says that ppl who listen to the podcast will die

Summary: The Blood Crow Stories is an anthology series of horror stories. Each season we will tell a new, original story over the course of 20 episodes. Each season will have its own unique production and storytelling style.

Our first season highlights the story of the S.S. Utopia, a cruise ship in the early 1900's. Modern-day college student, Max, begins to do his thesis on the audio diaries of the passengers on the ship. What he doesn't expect are the horrors that are waiting for him among the tapes, and the true reason why the ship sank so mysteriously almost 100 years ago.

Our second season takes us out to the old western town of Blackchapel; a quiet mining community full of hardworking people. Sheriff Thomas has been married to his job for many years. However, when men start turning up dead, all in the same fashion, he sets out to learn about these murders plaguing not just his quiet town. There's a serial killer loose in the Old West.

S1: S.S. Utopia

Tags: bisexual polyamorous main charactercharacter, multiple bisexual characters, multiple lesbian characters, asexual character

S2: Black Chapel

    Tags: trans character, multiple polyamorous wlw characters, multiple mlm characters

      S3: The Neon Lodge

   Tags: Multiple lesbian characters, pansexual character, non-binary character, multiple agender characters, multiple gay characters, multiple polyamorous characters, multiple asexual characters

More identity and relationship details/spoilers under the break.

Check out our other queer podcast recommendations here.

Please feel free to offer suggestions and updates!

S1: S.S. Utopia

ID tags: Max: Bisexual and Polyamorous, Dara: Bisexual, Barry: Bisexual, Mary: Lesbian, Cindy: Lesbian, Leo: Asexual

Details and/or Spoilers: Max is dating Chris and Amelia, Cindy and Mary are dating

S2: Black Chapel

  ID Tags: Wyatt Whaley: trans, Jessamine Callaghan: poly wlw, Adelaide Callaghan: poly, wlw, Silver Shot: mlm, Everett Woodyard: mlm,

   Details and/or Spoilers: Jessamine, Adelaide and Clementine are married, Silver Shot and Everett Woodyard are in a relationship,        

S3: The Neon Lodge

    ID Tags: Kesha Charles: lesbian, Tiffany Harris: Lesbian, Prince$$: Pansexual, Non-binary, BR1: Agender, D4L4: Agender, Travis/Behemoth: Gay, Roger Destros: No Canon Sexuality, Klarity: No Canon Sexuality, Molly Shears: Bisexual Polyamorous, Trixie Q: Asexual, Gabriel Castle: Bisexual, Enzo Ford: Asexual Heteroromantic, Quincy/Leviathan - Bisexual, Agender, Zoe/Ziz: Agender, Flynn Stephenson: Gay, Jason/Berith: Asexual, Agender, Darrick/Mammon: No Canon Sexuality, Agender, Hermès/Astaroth: Bisexual, Agender, Sergei/Belfegor: No Canon Sexuality, Agender, Tobias/Asmodeus: Pansexual, Agender, Philip/Belial: Gay, Agender, LuLu: Asexual, Agender Cera/TBA - Bisexual, Agender,