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Earlier today one of my favorite episodes of this show went live! Chapter 28 is available wherever you get your podcasts.

Chapter 28

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This episode features Nichole Goodnight, @thatgizzard, @athansmusic, Khai Truong, and @doomedbythenarrativ

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Chapter 27 is live for everyone! Im sure things with Hera and Demeter will be fine- at least until next week :D

Chapter 27

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This episode features Leon Egan, Marguerite Kenner, @totcoc0a, @taytayheyhey, Cody Heath, Alasdair Stuart, and Asher Amor-Train

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Happy Audio Drama Sunday! Don't wait for someone to make your favourite thing. Make your own favourite thing!

@hinaypod Episode 64 - Anak (Child): This one was a heavy one, particularly for Sauvard. Two different ghosts of the son you accidentally killed in the space of about 20 minutes? Dang. I think what Mari said was so important though – he's more than just the memory of his death. I think the second ghost proved that. And we got the Pocket origin story! It was so, so sweet. So much love in that magical item. ✨

@wanderersjournalpod 2.4 - Familiarities: We're starting to see more threads of how Pluto and Marigold's stories are woven together. I'm looking forward to the shrine and library visits to see what more Marigold can uncover. Pluto had some interesting interactions, and I was especially excited to hear someone mention Marigold's disappearance from the village. If Pluto does tell the people about them, I'm sure we'll get quite the reaction... (Also, hearing that the initials J.W. were somehow significant, my brain's first thought was "Journal's Wanderer!" Because that definitely makes sense, brain.) 📔

@forgedbondspod - Chapter 26: Wow, for someone who doesn't want anyone to know what's going on, Zeus sure knows how to get so many people involved. At lease Hades and Poseidon were about to talk things out a bit, and seem to be on better terms now. I also love Hades and Persephone's relationship. He's so supportive of her! The conversation between Hera and Demeter is going to be interesting. 💍

@vestaclinicpod Episode 27 - Dark Orbit Blood Letter: I have never felt more seen as when Rai said he reads his lab notes when he's feeling sad, and that Xael reads Faye's letters when she needs a little laugh. I listen to Faye's case notes when I need a pick-me-up, so I'm just like them! "[SOUND: Soupy XAELEST noises]" – incredible description in the transcript, no notes. Also I'm pretty sure I have the same look on my face as Rai every time he specifies that Xael is turning a seafoam colour around Faye; seafoam like someone's hair? Hmm? 😏 And then she tried to end her altiraans early when she thought Faye was seriously hurt! I've got some concerns about Rai, with him always being in the lab, the drifting off, etc. Grey and Zen sounded so adorable though. ⚕️

@re-dracula Week 14: Farewell to the Demeter and her Captain. Dracula's laugh and the Ratcatcher song at the end of the Captain's final note were haunting. So too were the description of the storm and the arrival of the ship to the harbour. At least he got the funeral and respect he deserved. Whitby had now better be on its guard! 🦇

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Chapter 22 is live right now wherever you get your podcasts! What better way to follow a party than checking in with Hera and Zeus's disaster marriage?

Chapter 22

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This episode features @doomedbythenarrativ, Khai Truong, Nichole Goodnight, and Alasdair Stuart

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It is my honor and privilege to welcome you, dear listeners, to Forged Bonds

Episode 1

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This episode features @totcoc0a, @taytayheyhey, Alasdair Stuart, Nichole Goodnight, Skylar Johnson and Mike LeBeau

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Home. // 01/06/24

i dont think Home is something you find.

i think it's something you build

bit by bit,

piece by piece,

until you can sit down one day and say,

"this is it

"this is Home."

and then you stand back up

and you keep building.

not because it isnt Home–

but because it is.

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Dan Hays Colorado Snow Effect 4 (with detail) 2007, oil on canvas

[kitsuonyo]

https://kitsu-onyo.carrd.co/

Here’s my card with information about my commissions and my artwork!! Feedback, reblogs and signal boosts are appreciated <3

Kitsu's Commissions

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Do you take requests?

Yeah! Absolutely

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how did u choose your name/url?

it was a name turned nickname turned url :)

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Which palette challenge?

this one! it's quite long, and i dont know where it comes from, but i chose a random one whenever i feel up to + remember to, and then make smth of it !

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240 - Sunrise // 3.2.22

@kitsuonyo​ challenged me to a random color palette drawing challenge. Here’s the first

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With tears in your eyes, you fled. The last spiteful words of the doctor echoing in your head.  “No,” you thought, “Whatever that thing is, it isn’t Doctor Moors anymore.” Familiar halls and doors passed you as you slammed through the main gate and out into the lot of the old research center.  As you slid into your car, you couldn’t help but wonder if maybe it was right.

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Since // 10.22.21

A phrase in my feed caught my eye. "20 years" was trending. 

"People share their memories and experiences 20 years after the first Surge," the caption claimed.

I press my home button and– yep. June 21st. The first time the world turned upside down was exactly 20 years ago. 

When I was in primary school, we learned about the Surges on the anniversary of the second Surge. They say everyone remembers exactly where they were during the Surges– my mom was out for lunch in lower Manhattan while on vacation in NYC. She said it was terrifying, she just stood there shocked. Unsure what to do, if she could even do anything at all. 

It used to be that every anniversary, she'd spend the day distracting herself, doing just about anything but acknowledging what day it was. In the years since, she's attended therapy, and support groups for "witnesses". She barely even flinches at the memory anymore. 

I wasn't born in time for the Surges, but I can sympathize with how traumatizing it must have been. Still, it's always been hard to relate to those who saw it happen. Even the oldest of my peers were something like 4 when it happened. A lot of the people who do remember call those of us who weren't around for it ignorant, or insensitive for criticizing all the rash decisions people made after it happened. I don't think that's fair. We don't see it through the same lens they do, we didn't watch it happen. All we have to judge them on is what happened next. The rights that have been violated, the opportunities that were robbed from us, the people who were killed in the pursuit of some spectre of evil who caused this all to happen. Hell, in some circles, bringing it up in even a semblance of a critical light is taboo.  I heard last November, a congressperson was almost shot on the steps of the capitol by some lunatic because they said that 'hey, maybe fucking killing people was a little much' after nineteen-and-a-half years.

I don't know. Maybe I am just insensitive. Maybe after 13 years of it being drilled into my head, I actually don't, in fact, understand the situation at all. Maybe it really was some spirit of absolute evil in east Asia who did this to spite us specifically, while also, in the process, making everyone's life much harder, their own included. Who knows? 

Who knows.

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when It happened // 9.20.21

There was no sound when It happened. 

No alarms, no fanfare;

The gates of heaven and Hell didn't open up, neither angels nor devils spilled onto this mortal plane.

But everyone felt it. 

How could you not? When the entire world is suddenly turned upon its head, all at once, it's impossible not to notice.

When factions no one has ever heard of, and ones that no one ever even knew existed, suddenly pop up all at once, and begin fighting themselves and each other in equal measure, everyone takes notice. 

No one ever cared to stop, and think about what we could learn from It, or that maybe, just maybe, It actually did some good. It was just so much easier to pick up our long-lain swords, and begin fighting over the bad. And it was even easier, now that It had given us new blades to hurl at one another. 

If I had had the time to think, I bet I would've thought it sad that the walls we had finally torn down were rebuilt so easily. But I didn't. After all, I too had noticed. And I too now had swords, old and new, thrown at my feet. 

And it saddens me to say that I wielded them with a fervor that I would never hold again. 

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sleep with a baseball bat // 9.19.21