mir 🫶🏻 (they/them)

they/them 🫶🏻 community care advocate ✨ oh, 25 years old ✨ ✨ I’m 25, and all this shit proves I’m alive ✨ lauren shippen superfan 💚 ask me about audio fiction! 🎙️ super passionate about all kinds of media, photography, sunsets and charcuterie boards taylor swift liked my tweet 10.03.22

[leavesbian]

this week really healed a piece of me and fueled my soul in a way i didn’t know i needed. which is truly on brand for anything lauren shippen related for me. tribeca festival in nyc was so much fun, so glad i got to do it with my friend, all to see our favorite maker of stories, two thousand and late really helped me with escapism and catharsis in feeling all of the feelings about the world and laughing about it a little and grieving and god she kills it as the main character AND the demon (what can’t she do??!?). thank you lauren for being so considerate and kind and caring. it was the absolute best seeing you again after so long and being on the same wavelength about it too. so special to me. then two days later i crossed the country to colorado to go to my first podcast convention, the audio fiction convention. i found myself thinking about how many different versions of myself this past week was for- that found this tbs chaos found family at a time of such loneliness and held on for dear life, screamed into the void about these pods at any and every opportunity, who’ve found little bits and pieces of themselves they didn’t realize were missing until they heard them through a beloved character. can’t believe I get to be in community with so many folks who feel similarly about audio fiction IN REAL LIFE! every conversation i had and every session attended fueled my passion with this medium even more. all these people also see the beauty in having whole stories told by audio and being able to see the characters and spaces in your mind’s eye and getting to experience others’ with fan creations?? such a beautiful space that allows fans and creators to connect. learned so much. the most incredible part was getting to meet some of my besties that i’ve known for years/months that i met through loving atypical podcasts and we got to scream about them in person together!!! and the atypipals, the whole reason i found these friends and get to bother lauren all the time and live react to pods together online- we got to hang out in person!!! I MADE LAUREN ALMOST CRY IN PERSON TWICE! that has been a goal for so many years. and so has going to a podcast convention !!! i’m so unbelievably happy and grateful and feeling all of the feelings. if i met you this weekend, just know it meant more than i can say. see you all online, can’t wait for next year- and all of the events I can possibly go to forever. 💚

@thelaurenshippen @pandoradeloeste @whatsaterrarium @nickysowl @alihylton

[thelaurenshippen]

MIR!!!!!!! you said all of this better than I ever could have!!!!!! what an unbelievably special week. I'm so glad I got to share it with all of you and my heart is so so full!!!!!! 💚💚💚💚💚💚💚

[stylesnews]

Harry at the Together, Together Tour in São Paulo Night II (July 18th)

[stylesnews]

Harry at the Together, Together Tour in São Paulo Night II (July 18th)

[atypicalartists]

We are SO proud of the accolades that our angry little show has received - along with being selected for the Tribeca Showcase, we were nominated for an Ambie, selected for NJ Webfest and HollyShorts, and won Best Writing and Best Lead Performance and the Colorado Webfest!

[thelaurenshippen]

When we submitted to Colorado Webfest, there wasn't a specific category we were submitting before. So it was a real surprise and delight to not only take home Best Writing but also Best Lead Performance?! I never submit myself for acting awards and mostly act in my shows because I can hire me for free so this was such a lovely acknowledgment to get for playing Harper and Havoc :)

[leavesbian]

since tumblr is limitless

I’ve mentioned this countless times, but I found this podcast when I had nowhere to turn. before I knew it I had binged the first two seasons in less than two days, doing nothing but listening and falling in love with Sam’s wit and Caleb’s heart and Chloe’s quirkiness and Dr Bright’s amazing therapy and Mark’s distance + broken love. I caught up quickly and then season 4 came around. Damien, while frightening me a bit, continued to remind me of JD from Heathers. I felt safe in the aura of Dr Bright’s office, witnessing Caleb and Adam’s cuteness, and listening to Sam talk about her cat. I had been completely engulfed by this show in the best way possible. through social media I started to find out about the cast and what was going on in their lives (pun intended, live-streams of Lauren and Briggon are my favorite things) and that put me more in touch. I can’t thank you enough for actually taking the time out of your day to not only talk to a huge fan but make them feel validated and heard and even more loved by the people they look up to???? I really don’t know where I would be without this story, these characters, and their beautifully brilliant VAs. Sam was the first character to really show me that my anxiety wasn’t me just overreacting, that I had a voice and I was capable of gaining some independence. actually, hearing her sessions was really the first thing that ever helped me realize anything positive about my anxiety. The Bright Sessions means so much to me. more than I could ever express no matter how many times I try. I learned some important things about myself and my relationship with my mental health from this story. I can only hope that other people can get what I did out of it. my journey was crazy and hard and it felt never-ending, but I made it and The Bright Sessions helped me get here. so Lauren, Briggon, Julia, Anna, Andrew, Ian, Mischa Stanton, Evan Cunningham, Charlie Ian, Alex, Alanna Fox, and the rest of the cast and crew of this strange and unusual- but also extraordinary- podcast: thank you for guiding me to my adulthood. @juliamorizawa @briggonsnow @thebrightsessions @anna-lore

ps @thelaurenshippen that book tour in october......my birthday is in october 👀👀👀👀👀 would give ANYTHINg to be able to hug you and tell you how much your writing has meant to me and make you cry in person 💗💗 just putting it out there

[leavesbian]

what I wouldn't give to be able to tell this version of me that their song recs are on TWO lauren shippen playlists AND they are mentioned in the official playlist notes

[thelaurenshippen]

Rip Mark Bryant you would've loved six seven and Rip Joan Bryant you would've hated six seven and also constantly be tormented with it by Mark 😔

wowwww so true, Mark would have absolutely tormented Joan with that

[leavesbian]

desperate hollow, lauren shippen // talking to the moon, bruno mars 🌕

if you know anything about me, you know I love the sky- so of course that comes with loving the moon. I loooooove that it reminds sawyer of tex. this one is mostly my own photos !!! thought the stage lights from the concerts would kind of have a moon shadow effect and the willow orbs from eras tour always made me think of the moon too.

there is now a pdf and epub of all of the free chapters, through chapter 5, on patreon! highly recommend joining a paid tier and journeying with us for the next 17 weeks (!!!!!!!!!!!) as we discover more of tex and sawyer and etta and barlowe and hudson and desperate hollow 🧡

[dyingenigma]

you look at some photos and just burst into tears

[loverssolace]

Indigenous Arrowheads, from Southern Ontario, Canada (The traditional territory of Haudenosaunee, Anishinaabeg, Mississauga, Attiwonderonk, and other First Nations).

[readysetjo]

Look your cat in the eyes today and tell them that I think they’re sooooo cute and we attack at dawn 🤗

[laufeysons]

BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER REWATCH -> New Moon Rising (4.19)

[sergal]

hello this is your google account. did you know that you are trying to log in. to. your google account. would you like five emails about how you logged in to your google account.

[cottoncandylesbo]

oh what's the point

[cottoncandylesbo]

warm sunshine. good food. smell of old book pages. cicadas shake outside my window. branches rustle. the sun and clouds relax above me. the blanket is soft against my skin. i keep forgetting this is all just here, whenever i want to remember it. i can feel any time i want.

[theartofangirling]

everyone say thank you to that one anne hathaway twelfth night promo image for all it's done for fandom

[chemicallywrit]

This was a GREAT week for audio fiction AND i fixed my work shoes AND if we’re lucky there will be a bunch of rain this week!!! Which is good, we need it. It’s a million degrees out. So happy audio drama Sunday!

📚 @somethingsamissatjunipershouse’s last episode was from last week, but i couldn’t resist. Wyatt has officially graduated from annoying bystander to poor little meow meow. And I’m liking Finley’s plan! If they can keep their head around Juniper of course. Surely nothing will go wrong. (I wonder if Wyatt will remember what’s happened to him…)

🔥 I don’t love every crossover Forgive Me does, but this one with Two Thousand and Late was stupendous. I love the way a third person brings out more in Harper and Havoc’s relationship. It honestly makes me wonder if Havoc is lonely riding around in Harper’s head.

🦴 BONE MECH BONE MECH BONE MECH i have very normal feelings about this week’s episode of @eelerschoice. The fact that the bone singing brought on this accidental necromancy is just. So cool. Almost as cool as a BONE MECH

❄️ Counterbalance from @trilunis is always excellent, but the raw emotional pain coming from Rakha this episode is HEARTBREAKING. I knew those nerds were friends. Is that enough to save them? I can’t wait to find out.

🕰️ Calling All Adventurers from @thetowerarray never misses, but I’m obsessed with the mystery they built throughout this season and solved in this week’s episode. It is incredibly well-structured and I love how it works. AND THEN the automaton showed up!!!! This show rules.

🪐 I was so excited to see @scifis-finest appear on my dash—more audio drama criticism! I love that they built a little audio drama scaffold for their reviews, very fitting. If I have one complaint, it would be about the mixing. (I couldn’t hear Slack without turning the show up loud enough for Anna Maria to blast my eardrums.) But the reviews were so thoughtful that I didn’t mind too much.

That’s it for me! Have a good week!

[reginasphalanges]

Buffy the Vampire Slayer 6.19 Seeing Red

[jorts-lad]

Got a request for Caleb and Adam stuff from @cold-cheetos so here you go! I originally wasn’t going to do something this big but I remembered that when I was reading Infinite Noise I wanted to do this scene but never ending up doing it, so I decided that this was a good opportunity to actually do this.