Niklaus Hendrix was an honorary mention without propaganda.
Bruce Wayne AKA Batman (Batman: Bump In The Night):
What if Batman was the last line of defense between Gotham and the supernatural unknown? What if he did less punching and more paranormal detecting (but still a generous amount of punching)? What if he could exorcize, comfort, or rehome antagonists instead of just throwing them in Arkham?
Art of Bruce Wayne and Batman courtesy of @charaznablescanontoyota.
Do you ever feel like maybe the concept of "harmony" is just a thought-terminating cliche invented by the ruling class to punish the little man for daring to speak up about their mistreatment? Like by positioning "harmony" as good and "discord" as evil, the true message sent is that those who rock the boat will be thrown overboard? Do any of you feel like maybe chocolate rain wouldn't have been that bad? IN THIS ESSAY I WILL
uh anyway the first episode of The Friendship Factory's second season, covering "The Return of Harmony" parts 1 and 2, is out now. Listen to it here or wherever you get your podcasts.
I'm stepping out of the kayfabe of this blog for a second because I do need to apologize- the gist of the situation is that The Friendship Factory will no longer be able to offer transcripts for our episodes moving forward.
I have been handling the transcription work for the podcast as a solo project, which was a reasonable proposition for my work situation when the podcast started, but I no longer have the ability to contribute the kind of labor that goes into full transcripts for unscripted content of our length, particularly for a project that doesn't earn us any revenue.
I've known for some time that our situation wasn't going to be sustainable moving forward, but I'd hoped to have transcripts done to at least the end of this season. Unfortunately, I just can't keep up.
I really apologize to anyone who may have relied on the transcripts to access our show, and I wish I had a better solution. I hope you'll be able to understand even though this sucks really bad.
Trish Una (Riley Hopkins and Their Amazing Friends: Interstitial Infinity):
vote for trish una, girl who went to another universe, found out she was fictional / a tertiary character at best in her own story, and decided the proper coping method was to punch a guy to shreds
vote for trish una, girl who looked at carrie from the movie carrie and said "i could fix her"
vote for trish una, girl who fought a bear and won
vote for trish una, girl who put a part of herself into a machine in an attempt to control it and inextricably(?) linked the machine to her soul
vote for trish una, girl who might be the devil
Mod Note: This is only the Trish Una from the podcast Riley Hopkins And Their Amazing Friends. Do not vote on the basis of any other Trish Una.
Spanks Sinatra (Tidal Wave Games Podcast: SEE YOU, SPACE COWBOY...)
He/him lesbian drag king Frank Sinatra impersonator
Vote for my sad messed up drag king
Spanks is a he/him lesbian. come on. look at him
Anyway if it's rope/cable play you're into, Spanks has a move for that
Art of Trish Una courtesy of @charaznablescanontoyota.
Art of Spanks Sinatra by @violetfoxsketches.
Additional propaganda below the cut:
Trish Una (Riley Hopkins and Their Amazing Friends: Interstitial Infinity):
Trish Una, from the universe of Jojo's Bizarre Adventure, ensures that the hits start coming and they don't stop coming. Trush Ina, from JJBA, fights Rachel from Animorphs and wins. T. Una Sandwich, from Jimmy John's Brash Accumulation, is best friends with Shadow the Hedgehog and she's also my dad. T-Minus Uno, from Chipotle,
She is emotionally compromised and definitely not turning into her father
Trish "is it stands" Una is the type of motherfuckers you need to see to be believed. Trish & Carrie toxic Yuri. Trish the fucking Spirit of justice. Trish is the real one.
Please vote for my close friend Trish Una or else you leave without saying goodbye to her
TRISH "THE MONEY" UNA
This is propaganda for all the female characters. Voters please remember how pretty all women are and factor that into every single vote you make. Thank you.
#is that fucking shadow the hedgehog
yes! he's one of the main party members! listen to intersitital infinity on riley hopkins and their amazing friends!
Trish Una is a girl who is certain she knows what's going on. She shishkebobed Simon from Infinity Train. She is best friends with Shadow the Hedgehog, Mob from Mob Psycho, Alphonse Elric, and technically Shoka Sakurane.
Please vote for Trish she is so so sexy
Trish Una could take over a position of leadership in a preestablished location but could Virtue have a emotionally fraught conversation with carrie white?
Spanks Sinatra (Tidal Wave Games Podcast: SEE YOU, SPACE COWBOY...)
Is too old for this shit (is 30)
When not performing, is drinking. When not drinking, is beating people up for money. When not beating people up for money, is performing. Life is purposefully structured to avoid encountering a thought for as long as possible
Loves to use his fists
Is so tired
This is propaganda for all the female characters. Voters please remember how pretty all women are and factor that into every single vote you make. Thank you.
Don't forget that Spanks' name is Spanks Sinatra ok, this is very important. Appreciate my jokes.
Don't you want to reach over and give him a better reason to turn his brain off for a while?
Spanks self-describes as a "himbo", but he's really not; he's highly intelligent and analytical, with a lot of shit in his past, and at the time you meet him the most effective way he's found to keep his own brain from overwhelming him is by beating it into submission with a life of hard drinking and violence
Important note: Spanks is a woman, he just uses he/him pronouns for various reasons, most of which are that he's a butch drag king.
Also vote for him.
Vote for Spanks Sinatra!!!
Who are you going to vote for: the he/him lesbian who can bench press you, or the tangled bundle of Christmas lights in your attic?
Come ON, you're going to let the he/him lesbian drag king Frank Sinatra who is also a bounty hunter get beat by a pile of cold, unflavored spaghetti??? Seriously?
Audio propaganda with Sammy Sinclair.
Art propaganda of Spanks Sinatra being crushed by Husky, as mentioned in the above audio propaganda.
if you vote for trish we will publish another interstitial episode that has trish in it. this is not a goof or jape or joke, we have one in the chamber that just needs to be edited
Trish Una (Riley Hopkins and Their Amazing Friends: Interstitial Infinity):
vote for trish una, girl who went to another universe, found out she was fictional / a tertiary character at best in her own story, and decided the proper coping method was to punch a guy to shreds
vote for trish una, girl who looked at carrie from the movie carrie and said "i could fix her"
vote for trish una, girl who fought a bear and won
vote for trish una, girl who put a part of herself into a machine in an attempt to control it and inextricably(?) linked the machine to her soul
vote for trish una, girl who might be the devil
Mod Note: This is only the Trish Una from the podcast Riley Hopkins And Their Amazing Friends. Do not vote on the basis of any other Trish Una.
Spanks Sinatra (Tidal Wave Games Podcast: SEE YOU, SPACE COWBOY...)
He/him lesbian drag king Frank Sinatra impersonator
Vote for my sad messed up drag king
Spanks is a he/him lesbian. come on. look at him
Anyway if it's rope/cable play you're into, Spanks has a move for that
Art of Trish Una courtesy of @charaznablescanontoyota.
Art of Spanks Sinatra by @violetfoxsketches.
Additional propaganda below the cut:
Trish Una (Riley Hopkins and Their Amazing Friends: Interstitial Infinity):
Trish Una, from the universe of Jojo's Bizarre Adventure, ensures that the hits start coming and they don't stop coming. Trush Ina, from JJBA, fights Rachel from Animorphs and wins. T. Una Sandwich, from Jimmy John's Brash Accumulation, is best friends with Shadow the Hedgehog and she's also my dad. T-Minus Uno, from Chipotle,
She is emotionally compromised and definitely not turning into her father
Trish "is it stands" Una is the type of motherfuckers you need to see to be believed. Trish & Carrie toxic Yuri. Trish the fucking Spirit of justice. Trish is the real one.
Please vote for my close friend Trish Una or else you leave without saying goodbye to her
TRISH "THE MONEY" UNA
This is propaganda for all the female characters. Voters please remember how pretty all women are and factor that into every single vote you make. Thank you.
#is that fucking shadow the hedgehog
yes! he's one of the main party members! listen to intersitital infinity on riley hopkins and their amazing friends!
Trish Una is a girl who is certain she knows what's going on. She shishkebobed Simon from Infinity Train. She is best friends with Shadow the Hedgehog, Mob from Mob Psycho, Alphonse Elric, and technically Shoka Sakurane.
Please vote for Trish she is so so sexy
Trish Una could take over a position of leadership in a preestablished location but could Virtue have a emotionally fraught conversation with carrie white?
Spanks Sinatra (Tidal Wave Games Podcast: SEE YOU, SPACE COWBOY...)
Is too old for this shit (is 30)
When not performing, is drinking. When not drinking, is beating people up for money. When not beating people up for money, is performing. Life is purposefully structured to avoid encountering a thought for as long as possible
Loves to use his fists
Is so tired
This is propaganda for all the female characters. Voters please remember how pretty all women are and factor that into every single vote you make. Thank you.
Don't forget that Spanks' name is Spanks Sinatra ok, this is very important. Appreciate my jokes.
Don't you want to reach over and give him a better reason to turn his brain off for a while?
Spanks self-describes as a "himbo", but he's really not; he's highly intelligent and analytical, with a lot of shit in his past, and at the time you meet him the most effective way he's found to keep his own brain from overwhelming him is by beating it into submission with a life of hard drinking and violence
Important note: Spanks is a woman, he just uses he/him pronouns for various reasons, most of which are that he's a butch drag king.
Also vote for him.
Vote for Spanks Sinatra!!!
Who are you going to vote for: the he/him lesbian who can bench press you, or the tangled bundle of Christmas lights in your attic?
Come ON, you're going to let the he/him lesbian drag king Frank Sinatra who is also a bounty hunter get beat by a pile of cold, unflavored spaghetti??? Seriously?
Audio propaganda with Sammy Sinclair.
Art propaganda of Spanks Sinatra being crushed by Husky, as mentioned in the above audio propaganda.
if you vote for trish we will publish another interstitial episode that has trish in it. this is not a goof or jape or joke, we have one in the chamber that just needs to be edited
Update: after a lengthy meeting with Canter, I am being forced to state for the record that "Pinkie Pie is annoying" is the personal opinion of Shadowban the Evil Tumblr Pony, and not the official stance of The Friendship Factory podcast. I am listening and learning, and Canter assures me that after a long, character-building session digging an Omelas hole, I'll feel much more in line with the Official Stances.
Episode two is now live! This is a great episode that raises fun new questions like "How old are the mane six?" "Should Pinkie Pie's baking license be revoked?" and "What's the deal with cows, actually?"
Questions that definitely need to be asked, I'm sure.
Find the episode live on pinecast, or your podcatcher of choice.
# [Episode transcript can be found here!](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1bb89wsIhCmnnbC3cX1ggCcUqBOA57_tBuirZA0gXz8Y/edit?tab=t.0) Jo
The podcast initiative is live, DESPITE my Boss's neigh-saying. It's almost like I know what I'm doing!
Anyway, The Friendship Factory is now available on Pinecast, Spotify, and Apple Podcasts- click the link here if you don't want me to get fed to the rainbow machine.
I haven't had time to prepare a shill post for today about our upcoming Podcast Initiative (launching on Monday, March 10th) because my boss, Canter Everposter, has been busy having a meltdown on Bluesky and blaming it on nebulous "hackers," then taking the day off today to go "track down" the alleged "hacker." Which means I have to do all the damn work around here.
Hey. In anticipation of The Friendship Factory's podcast initiative launching this coming Monday, we've gone to the trouble of whipping up a quick promo so you can see what the show's all about.
...Yeah, sorry, my boss is saying I have to specify that the promo is a work of fiction and that the events depicted never happened. And also that the workers are "very happy" and "fueled by a love for the magic of friendship." So, uh, jot that down, I guess.
-SB
Transcript below:
[Industry machinery noises]
CAIN
Hey, Theo. You got a sec?
THEO
Oh, hey, Cain! What’s up?
CAIN
Well, me and some of the others were thinking… things around the Friendship Factory could be a little better, you know? For the workers?
THEO
I mean, sure, but… what can we do about it?
CAIN
Well… honestly, we thought it would be a good idea if everyone got together and started—
THEO
[GASP] A podcast?!
BEAT.
CAIN
What?
THEO
Cain, that’s a great idea! I mean, what would be better for our fellow workers than to raise their spirits with a podcast about the insane internet phenomenon that was My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic?
CAIN
Actually, we were thinking about forming a union—
THEO
Like, we can summarize the show episode-by-episode for all the people who hadn’t watched it, and see how our opinions on it have changed over the course of 10 years!
CAIN
That… sounds like fun, but I’d prefer dental—
THEO
And, of course, we can commiserate about our cringey fandom memories, like the strange terminology surrounding ‘plot’ and ‘clop,’ or that time you played a Pinkie Pie song for your entire orchestra class!
CAIN
You did what?!
THEO
Yeah, Cain, I think this is it. I think we’ve gotta start a podcast. You in?
BEAT. BEAT.
CAIN
If I say yes will you join our fucking union?
THEO
Of course!
[Friendship is Magic- Italian MLP theme starts playing softly]
THEO
Join us at the Friendship Factory, where every two weeks, these former bronies will have another pair of MLP episodes to review, discuss…
CAIN
…and maybe cause psychic damage from bringing up ancient fandom brainrot.
THEO
Oooh, yeah. Big time.
CAIN
Anyway — find us on your podcatcher of choice, and give us a follow on Bluesky and Tumblr while you’re at it! And, remember: friendship is—
THEO
—worth it if it means trading away our health insurance.
So the company basically doesn't care what I post on tumblr because they think it's a dead platform- I only got put in charge of it because I pointed out that it's still an active fandom space and, also, you don't have many other options in life when your cutie mark is the fucking tumblr logo.
That said, there are still some talking points I'm expected to hit so uhhh....
ONE- To address Tha Rumors, no, the Friendship Factory has not closed following "a lawsuit" of "any kind." For some reason, Canter thinks it's my fault you people think that? Please, spare me the write-up.
TWO- For anyone who was interested in our "Podcast initiative," that's still happening. In fact, fuck it. Episode 1 drops Monday, March 10th. Canter doesn't have the technical acumen to stop me, and I'm tired of this shit taking up space on my Lenovo.
If this is the first time you're hearing about it, The Friendship Factory is a rewatch and analysis podcast about the hit 2010s sensation My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic. Whether that sentence dealt you psychic damage or you still consider yourself a fan, you might enjoy listening to Theo @firstofthefourmoons, Cain @quietcrysis, and for our first few episodes, Paddington (@paddington.bluesky.social), as they delve into important questions such as: "What are the limitations of unicorn powers?" "Does Season 1 Rainbow Dash have any redeeming character traits?" and of course, "Why do pony wear corset?"
Just got a "48-hour shutoff notice" posted my door, saying my power is going to be shut off at 8am tomorrow (48 hours my ass) if I can't pay 600 dollars I don't have, but I don't get paid for like 4 days....in below freezing temperatures, with no way to cook without power, and with no way to contact anyone in my life if my phone dies. Please help me get through the next few days without freezing and/or starving, if you can...
Sexiest Podcast Character 2024 — Unscripted Bracket — Round 2-1
Who is sexier?
Indrid Cold
Trish Una
Voting ended onFeb 14, 2025
Propaganda
Indrid Cold AKA Mothman (The Adventure Zone: Amnesty and Dust):
he is literally mothman. in his human!sona he wears a wifebeater and red tinted glasses. he lives in a shitty trailer and drinks exclusively eggnog. he can see the future. he is literally mothman (it bears repeating).
This is only the Indrid Cold/Mothman from the podcast The Adventure Zone. Do not vote on the basis of any other Indrid Cold or Mothman.
Trish Una (Riley Hopkins and Their Amazing Friends: Interstitial Infinity):
Trish Una, from the universe of Jojo's Bizarre Adventure, ensures that the hits start coming and they don't stop coming. Trush Ina, from JJBA, fights Rachel from Animorphs and wins. T. Una Sandwich, from Jimmy John's Brash Accumulation, is best friends with Shadow the Hedgehog and she's also my dad. T-Minus Uno, from Chipotle,
Mod Note: This is only the Trish Una from the podcast Interstitial Infinity. Do not vote on the basis of any other Trish Una.
Sexiest Podcast Character 2024 — Unscripted Bracket — Round 2-1
Who is sexier?
Indrid Cold
Trish Una
Voting ended onFeb 14, 2025
Propaganda
Indrid Cold AKA Mothman (The Adventure Zone: Amnesty and Dust):
he is literally mothman. in his human!sona he wears a wifebeater and red tinted glasses. he lives in a shitty trailer and drinks exclusively eggnog. he can see the future. he is literally mothman (it bears repeating).
This is only the Indrid Cold/Mothman from the podcast The Adventure Zone. Do not vote on the basis of any other Indrid Cold or Mothman.
Trish Una (Riley Hopkins and Their Amazing Friends: Interstitial Infinity):
Trish Una, from the universe of Jojo's Bizarre Adventure, ensures that the hits start coming and they don't stop coming. Trush Ina, from JJBA, fights Rachel from Animorphs and wins. T. Una Sandwich, from Jimmy John's Brash Accumulation, is best friends with Shadow the Hedgehog and she's also my dad. T-Minus Uno, from Chipotle,
Mod Note: This is only the Trish Una from the podcast Interstitial Infinity. Do not vote on the basis of any other Trish Una.
