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A blog about my favorite FICTION podcasts.

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how you can help palestine

Donations

palestine children's relief fund

palestine red crescent society

help bring down israel's weapon trade - palaction

save palestine - islamic relief canada

click to donate - arab.org

send medical supplies to gaza - palestinian american medical association

NOTE: journalists based in gaza are saying that donations are not going to help atm. what will help is a demand for ceasefire. so please contact your local MPs every single day demanding as such. palestine need a ceasefire right now, not money (i will update when monetary help is needed)

if you want to donate, do this instead:

help buy e-sims for people in gaza so they may remain in contact with the outside world

Petitions

petition to investigate war crimes committed by israeli military

demand ceasefire - amnesty.org

open call for immediate ceasefire

american government call for immediate ceasefire

american government to stop funding israeli military

ceasefire and increase humanitarian assistance - oxfam au

location specific petitions

gaza call for ceasefire - oxfam (UK)

end israeli occupation - parliament uk (UK)

email your MP - medical aid for palestine (UK)

stop fuelling genocide - action network (USA)

call congress and demand a ceasefire - uscpr (USA - they provide a script of what you should say, so don't worry about it)

note: you can call everyday. they tally the number of calls per issue. so more calls = higher chance for them to take action. p.s. you mainly go to voicemail so don’t worry about phone call anxiety. fight through it just this once please.

australia call on israel to stop attacking palestinians - apan (AUS)

sign to send letter to MP for ceasefire - nccm (CANADA)

ceasefire now! - ijv (CANADA)

cessez-le-feu et un couloir humanitaire - le mouvement (FRANCE)

write to your député - assemblée nationale (FRANCE)

skydda civilbefolkningen i gaza! - mittskifte (SWEDEN)

singaporeans call for immediate ceasefire (SIN)

contact your elected reps and demand a ceasefire (GERMANY)

write to the EU demanding a ceasefire (EUROPE)

template of letters you can send (EU)

guide on how to contact your MPs in EU

multiple actions you can take to help palestine - plant een olifbloom (NETHERLANDS)

includes: links for donations, emails to MP, emails to media, links to petitions and demonstrations

den haag, maak nú werk van vrede in israël/Palestina - the right forum (NETHERLANDS)

Campaigns

friends of al-aqsa

❥ UK-specific

urge your MP to speak up for palestine

hands off al-aqsa

stop administrative detention

petition for UK to stop arming israel

❥ International

boycott puma — email them to end their partnership with israel

boycott coca-cola

palestine action

join the resistance

islamic relief canada

urge your MP to rally for ceasefire

text campaign for people living in USA

text CEASEFIRE @ 51905 to call for a ceasefire

BDS movement

get involved in boycotting companies associated with israel

please let me know if you have any more links. i will add them to a follow up post.

UPCOMING PROTESTS

[20thcenturystarlet]

New York City ballet production of Midsummer Nights Dream

[thepeelingrenoir]

The fact this isn't a painting is a testament to one of the greatest feats of set design and production I've ever seen.

[thepeelingrenoir]

My god just look at this! The lighting, set design, photography... I've just never seen anything like it.

[sisaloofafump]

This is from 1966 and you can see over a hundred photos on the NYPL digital collections website. It is absolutely gorgeous. These are just a few of my favourites.

Plus Puck's face here:

[jadewolf-writes]

@alwaysdearie

[your-weekly-ish-pod]

The Night Road

In a land without day and night, where Light and Night are the dividing lines between civilisation and all else, a caravan of misfits and outcasts must find their way through the dark to whatever lies on the other side.

Arlo Harker has just been appointed as Chronicler of the Road. As such, his job is to keep an account of his Caravan as it braves the darkness to travel from city to city, and report on the Road and its changes.

But this new role comes with expectations of leadership that Arlo doesn't feel fully comfortable with. Especially as he already has his hands full with his young daughter, who is still grieving her mother and is new to this life. On top of all of this a voice seems to be following Arlo, waiting for him in the dark, twisting what used to be familiar into something to fear.

The nuanced social commentary of its fantasy world and the interesting and charming characters in the podcast easily won me over. I really hope you give it a chance too.

[your-weekly-ish-pod]

Here's the pod's site

The RSS feed

And the creator's patreon!

Get more from Dom Guilfoyle on Patreon

Get more from Dom Guilfoyle on Patreon. Creating Fun and Spooky Stories, such as The Mistholme Museum!. Support Dom Guilfoyle and get exclus

[elierlick]

Cal Calamia won the LA Marathon's nonbinary division more than a month ago, but the organization still refuses to award them a penny. Cis runners receive funds from a $25,000 prize pool, but trans winners get nothing.

[genderkoolaid]

Los Angeles Marathon nonbinary champion receives no prize money

Cal Calamia won the race again, but left mostly empty handed.

In March, the ASICS Los Angeles Marathon offered a dedicated registration division, allowing nonbinary and gender-nonconforming people to register and appear in results under this category. The top three winners of this division are awarded medals but are not recognized on the main podiums, unlike the winners of the cisgender categories. They also don’t receive prize money because there is no nonbinary category in the elite divisions, according to The McCourt Foundation and the LA Marathon rules. “I was definitely the only nonbinary person there,” Calamia told The Advocate. “It’s kind of a privilege, but it’s also lonely, because you’re like: ‘Wait, where’s the community?’ I think that through running and advocating for nonbinary divisions, I’m hopeful those numbers continue to grow.” Calamia, who uses they and he pronouns, says they were thrust into activism through their running career because of the need to advocate for themselves within the running spaces. “I was sort of thrust into this larger activism role to be one of the people representing all the trans and nonbinary athletes,” they said. Calamia participated in a 26.2-mile marathon in 90-degree heat, pushing through the urge to give up or slow down, while also aware that there would be no financial reward at the end. Their cisgender peers running alongside them were motivated by a $25,000 cash pot—the most the LA marathon has awarded in recent years. [...] “World Athletics and USA Track & Field set our industry standards, and we look to their regulations,” LA Marathon spokesperson Meg Treat told the Los Angeles Times. “But at the end of the day, the category is small. And while some of the runners will clock fast times, many of them are going to be finishing alongside our everyday athletes as part of the general field. We’re watching how the competitiveness of that category develops and we’ll evaluate potential changes.” Treat noted that the category represents only 0.54 percent of participants. World Athletics, the Monaco-based governing body, bases elite categorization on sex assigned at birth. “The dispersion of prize money is up to the races,” said spokesperson Maggie Durand in an email to the Los Angeles Times. Though Calamia says some cash would be nice, they are now involved in advocating for changing the issues trans and nonbinary athletes face on a larger scale. In 2023, Calamia was granted a landmark exemption for his use of testosterone while competing. One month later, they won the nonbinary division of the New York City Marathon and were later declared ineligible to receive the cash prize because they did not meet the requirement of running sex-specific New York Road Runners races in the year, a rule that was added after they had already registered for the race.

[lgbtcharactertournament]

ROUND 5 — Match 18 of 18

Owen/Isabel (I Saw the TV Glow)

Identity: Trans woman, implied/Word of God Notes: Implied throughout the film, but confirmed by Justice Smith. Propaganda: "There is still time. This isn't how life is supposed to feel. I found my heart. I found yours too. It was still beating. AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH"

vs. Nova NoStar (InCo)

Identity: Aromantic and Asexual, implied/Word of God Notes: Shows disinterest in romance in-source, and is directly referred to as aro-ace by the creator. Propaganda: "Nova is an interstellar messenger and also spy, whatever people are willing to hire her for; she travels from planet to planet and she takes pride in being prickly and independent. She’s NOT lonely and if she keeps saying that maybe she’ll start to believe it! I love the slowburn friendship between Nova and Hatov, Nova slowly letting herself feel the feelings of grief and guilt and desire for friends that she’s kept locked down for so long. Nova and Hatov initially start as such an oil-and-water mix but they are ultimately so good for each other to slowly learn to move on and open up to the potential for change. It is such a great portrayal of this slow-building friendship! And at the same time Nova is doing her own investigations: into her past and this planet’s secrets. Mostly just by talking to people and listening to them, which most people don’t ever really do. She is so good at what she does when she is On A Mission. And the mission is to figure out WHAT is up with this planet that shouldn’t exist."

Who should advance?

Owen/Isabel

Nova NoStar

Voting ended onMay 26

[lgbtcharactertournament]

ROUND 5 — Match 18 of 18

Owen/Isabel (I Saw the TV Glow)

Identity: Trans woman, implied/Word of God Notes: Implied throughout the film, but confirmed by Justice Smith. Propaganda: "There is still time. This isn't how life is supposed to feel. I found my heart. I found yours too. It was still beating. AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH"

vs. Nova NoStar (InCo)

Identity: Aromantic and Asexual, implied/Word of God Notes: Shows disinterest in romance in-source, and is directly referred to as aro-ace by the creator. Propaganda: "Nova is an interstellar messenger and also spy, whatever people are willing to hire her for; she travels from planet to planet and she takes pride in being prickly and independent. She’s NOT lonely and if she keeps saying that maybe she’ll start to believe it! I love the slowburn friendship between Nova and Hatov, Nova slowly letting herself feel the feelings of grief and guilt and desire for friends that she’s kept locked down for so long. Nova and Hatov initially start as such an oil-and-water mix but they are ultimately so good for each other to slowly learn to move on and open up to the potential for change. It is such a great portrayal of this slow-building friendship! And at the same time Nova is doing her own investigations: into her past and this planet’s secrets. Mostly just by talking to people and listening to them, which most people don’t ever really do. She is so good at what she does when she is On A Mission. And the mission is to figure out WHAT is up with this planet that shouldn’t exist."

Who should advance?

Owen/Isabel

Nova NoStar

Voting ended onMay 26

[oshun67]

Older Black gay men in long term relationships are rarely covered or seen by main stream media.

[northgazaupdates]

Teen’s organs failing & NO TREATMENT in >1 MONTH

19-year-old Khalil Al Habil's liver and kidneys are failing. Shrapnel damage from the bombardment that killed his baby brother Omar has gone mostly untreated due to a lack of funds and resources. The ill effects of this damage have progressed to the point that the organs are losing their ability to function. Khalil urgently needs 3 rounds of treatment to combat the effects of his deteriorating liver and kidneys.

We've paid off the first round of treatments but Khalil has two treatments that he still needs. The second costs about $1,250 usd, but we haven’t made much progress in more than a month and his condition is getting progressively worse. We need to meet this second goal ASAP!!!

Current: $10,052 out of $10,407 usd (12 May)

Need to raise: $355 usd

Help Khalils family get a better life

Hello, my name is Khalil, I'm 19 years old, from Gaza.

Vetting information linked in the last reblog of this post, courtesy of murderbot

[el-shab-hussein]

Please help my friend Mahmoud if you can. His family continues to live through ordeals one after another. In the past couple of years, he has been struck with shrapnel twice, once in his back and once in his brain, his wife had to undergo cancer treatment for stage 4 cancer on her own, they gave birth to a baby but weren't able to feed him and he starved for days if not weeks, a wall collapsed on their tent and they were stuck under the rubble for 15 minutes before being rescued, and just recently their 5 year old son has passed away and now they have to pay off the debt they took on to pay for funeral expenses. Please help my friend Mahmoud @mahmoud0qassas

Pay Abdalqader Aldabbagh using PayPal.Me

Go to paypal.me/Abdalqader97am and type in the amount. Since it’s PayPal, it's easy and secure. Don’t have a PayPal account? No worries.

[el-shab-hussein]

PLEASE HELP HIM, HIS INFANT SON NEEDS FOOD URGENTLY.

[chemicallywrit]

Guys, I had such a weird week. I was sick, things were buck wild at work, I wrapped up a three-year D&D campaign—very emotional. Luckily, audio drama was there the whole time.

🍦 This week’s episode of Small Victories from @wgc-productions was comparatively bare bones. Little meta, just the fallout from our big reveal last week. What we get instead is somehow more heartbreaking: an outside view of how Marisol is acting through her dad. He uses the word “lucid.” Thank God she’s finally getting help, but I can’t help but wonder if she’ll see her past and future selves again, or if getting help for her ills means engaging with those parts of herself in a less visceral way. Where does the story go from here? I can’t wait to see.

🫶 This might be weird, but I love the way Wellman talks about religion in @hellofromthehallowoods. It is so easy to write off Kelly-Anne Wicker, but the great strength of Hello from the Hallowoods is that no one ever is written off or ignored. We always get to see their point of view, at least for a minute, and Kelly-Anne’s brief moment is shockingly compassionate. We also get to see how Kelly-Anne’s bigotry and hatred evolved into the beliefs of her daughter Johannah, for whom it is harder to be compassionate; but then again, even Johannah loves and lost someone. As an additional note, I’ve been waiting for that argument between Percy and Diggory forEVER. So cathartic. I love this show.

🧨 I haven’t talked about @theredactedunit for a while simply because what they do is kind of seamless—a monster-of-the-week procedural style audio drama is actually incredibly hard, especially writing it in the way we’re used to tv shows doing them, slowly building character beats and overall plot into the weekly stories. Like listen, i like the Magnus Archives/Protocol as much as anyone, but they do not do this. The plot building in TMA is relegated to separate scenes from their weekly monster, and that monster sometimes references back to the overall plot, or else the plot later tells you that it was relevant all along. That’s fine, but I think the skill lies in the integration. [Redacted] never tells a story unless it builds the world, or tells us something about the characters we didn’t know before, or reveals a little more about what Jordan was and Jacob has to become. It is so deftly woven and good, especially in this week’s episode. I need to know everything about Val right now immediately please? There’s a new player on the field?? Sea Monster friend??? It’s really good, guys.

🟢 catskull is ending this week, and folks, if you want a horror story that’s truly harrowing, a tragedy that Could Have Been Prevented, this is it. I was so honored to be a small part of this show; the real talent lies with the writer, actors, directors, sound designers. It’s so good, please check it out.

That’s all for me, y’all have a good week!

[chemicallywrit]

Hello and Happy Audio Drama Sunday! It's a really nice autumn day here, and I'm going to go look at birds. Here's some audio drama that stood out this week!

👻 As I think I've mentioned before, it's not that hard to make me cry, and this episode of @storiesfromylelmore did it right at the end. I think it was the juxtaposition of the very normal episode starring children solving a local mystery and the extremely kind thing that they ended on, thanking the ghost of the haunted house. Like, it was a small gesture and maybe it didn't do anything, but...how sweet. I love these kids.

📼 I THOUGHT IT WAS DEAD BUT IT'S BACK! Babalu is a slice-of-life story about knowing who you are through a person who barely knew you. Our titular hero finds a bunch of tapes with her mother's voice on them, who died when she was still very small. It's a subtle kind of story, with a sort of creeping dread built of knowing something terrible happened here, and also watching Lu go on dates with...crypto bros. *shudder.* The world of this story feels very lived-in, and I can't wait to see how it builds.

🪐 This week @iriscasefiles had the audacity to end. Can you believe? What a show. I said this in the tags on another post, but I think Starship Iris was the first show I listened to that showed me what audio drama could really be--artful, clever, incredibly written, but also incredible representation, an outlet for the writer's linguistic interests, a story that's made me cry and yell out loud and sing along. Whenever someone complains about Firefly, I tell them to listen to Starship Iris. It's better in every way. This last season has been an incredible encouragement to me, and in this last episode, hearing Arkady Patel (of all people) toast to keeping the faith brought me to my knees. I always will. Thanks, Jess Best. This is one of the greats.

🫥 I was so lucky to be able to work on a show that premiered this week, a horror story from Andas Productions (Temujin's team!) called catskull, based on the novel of the same name. It's hard to describe catskull, because yes, it is a story about a teenager fighting against the evil in the world and in himself with a mask and a baseball bat, and yes, it's horror, and yes, it's not going to end well--but it's so much more than that. It's not for the faint of heart--they hired me to write the content warnings and there are a lot of them--but it's so worth the listen. I love this show, I'm so happy I got to work on it.

💀 HEY YOU. YEAH YOU. Look, if The Holmwood Foundation doesn't meet their goal and make season two, I will perish. I will simply pass away. I need it like I need vitamin D. (D stands for Dracula.) If you can support them, please do! I'm doing my part!

Hey dudes. Thanks for reading. Hope you're feeling as good as I am right now. Keep the faith.

[nigft]

on that note please read catskull by myle yan tay it’s an excellent book on the inherent violence of a repressed society as represented by a very stressed jc student who commits acts of vigilantism. I finished it in two days it’s so good

[trashburgersblair]

Go listen to Catskull !!!!!!!

It's an audio dramatization of the book of the same name by Myle Yan Tay and it's so so so so good.

It's beautifully written and voice acted. It's extremely visceral at times and it's amazing.

So you! Go listen! It's good!

[fictionfrequency1]

Audio Drama Sunday

I finished something on Canva this week that I’m looking forward to using in an article, and that’s the only interesting thing I’ve done. I hope everyone’s had a good week.

👹 @theredactedunit — Postmortem: Vestige - S1E19: Hooked on Phonics: oh no. Firstly, Jordan’s character left me gutted; that place ruined his life. He actually wanted to be a good brother and to keep people alive. Secondly, at least Jacob is a good friend! He has a guys night with his coworkers, he helps Lucas with projects and he doesn’t rat people out!! I’m sure Lucas owing him a favour won’t come up again 👀

🌅 Beneath the Cosmic Waves — Episode 4: Solitary Creatures - Episode 6: The Only Way Out: evil (early?) retiree Evelyn is becoming my favourite character. She runs a cult. She maybe secretly cares. She can’t do intense main character stunts because she’s 63. Yes, we’ve got characters with moral compasses, but we support women’s wrongs.

💭 Project: Daydream — PD 8 - May 15th: aw, 4815 has shut herself up in her office. Her line to CID at the start about needing someone to do all her fucking filing was devastating. And if you’d asked me to guess what she wanted to tell 6… that probably wouldn’t have been it.

❤️ The Polyester Podcast — How Pilates Girls Became an Incel Dogwhistle: why is this the nonfiction podcast I’ve chosen to be obsessed with? Give me feminist takes on internet discourse (that I’d never normally care about) and I’m desperate to learn the details.

☕️ Higher Grounds — The Summer of ‘62 | Episode 1 - Nineteen Dollars and Eighty-Three Cents | Episode 4: Tumblr is not the target audience for this fiction podcast, but it did make me cry several times. Higher Grounds starts with the death of a rock frontwoman at the coffee shop she ran with her friends, and has a reporter interview the people left behind. It’s less about what really happened to Elle, and more about four women growing up through the 1960s to the 1990s. It covers everything from race riots and the Vietnam war, to first loves and music careers. Pick a trigger warning, though, and it’ll probably be there.

[wastelandfreeradio]

Hello folks!

I’m not on Tumblr often but I think I’d like to change that! Tell me about your projects too!

Wasteland Free Radio is a post-apocalyptic audio comedy series. Imagine Fallout, Welcome to Night Vale and NPR all had a baby together. (Yes, all three of them)

It’s kinda queer, kinda sci-fi, and kind of everything your stepmom ever asked for!

Listen to our newest episode here!

[achill3a]

No, I didn't forget about @podcastgirlsweek! I am still recovering from some wrist pain and couldn't draw anything new for it, so here's the first of two posts (with some of my first unseen doodles of them from like, right after I first read the script and was like "holy shit this is so cute") to rep a sapphic ship from @breathingxspace.

This is Heck (the four armed cyborg herbo shipbreaker) and Cat (snarky depressed foul-mouthed owner of a noodle shop). They made their debut in a "childhood friends turned 'not-speaking-to-each-other' turned frenemies to eventually lovers 50k slow burn" episode of the anthology series.

I love these two idiots so much, thank you @scottpaladin for creating them and for writing such an incredible script (and for including them in season 4)! I will probably keep drawing and rotating these two in my brain for the foreseeable future.

Speaking of other drawings, the Breathing Space account posted a few that I did over the course of recording if you'd like to check those out too!

[leonardcohenofficial]

i'm about a quarter of the way into the fantastically researched and written yiddish revolutionaries in migration: the transnational history of the jewish labour bund by frank wolff (DM me if you'd like a PDF copy it's very dense but really spectacular work) and it really amazes me how many lessons we could stand to learn from the organizing that was being done by the bund in their, as wolff puts it, "persistent striving for a humanitarian socialism" that was specifically and explicitly antizionist, transnational, pro-yiddishism, doikayt, and secular

[leonardcohenofficial]

update: PDF link can be found here!!!!!