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Hi, I’m Mach! I post a lot of rants on here, especially about media I like.

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Getting back into reading after not really reading every day is so weird. Like wdym it’s good for my brain to read my whimsical little stories and not just spreadsheets and bad news?

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Guess who finally finished Unwitness Protection Program: Diseased Residents?

⚠️You know the drill.⚠️

So a few things I got out of it:

-I’m not sure how I’m gonna separate superhero William from cryptid chaser William ever again, but using this format to show how powerless he really was before he became Wisperer was genius. Before he could phase through walls and summon will-o’-wisps, he really was so normal and it makes me sad to see him so normal, even if he’s still in dangerous situations.

-Norah, the girl you are… every gifted and talented kid who felt like their worth was tied to their academic success and achievements just started weeping. She’s so kind and I love seeing a character who, despite The Horrors™️, still chooses to be soft and kind. The bomb was kinda concerning though.

-Isaac is DEVASTATING as a character. Complicated family dynamics will be the death of me, and Condi does a fantastic job of portraying just how difficult it is to balance his complicated hatred of his dad mixed with his guilt over disappointing his mom, and despite everything, trying to do as much good as he can even when he’s told he’s not a good kid. All he wants is to help, and even when it hurts, even when it nearly kills him, he does all the good he can. Someone get that boy a loving dad.

-This perfectly balances what I love about both Blood In The Bayou and Prime Defenders. The small-town setting, horrific monsters and complex family dynamics of BITB mixed with the gut-wrenching remembrance that these are KIDS in these situations and watching them be both kids and heroes absolutely kept me on edge the whole time.

Would recommend. Also, Norah knowing how to make a bomb is so, so accurate.

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Non-911 fan living with a 911 fan here, are you guys okay? Idk what’s happening, but I’m here to talk if you need anything…

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Heathers fans, tell me if this already exists: a fanfic of the end of the movie, but if JD lived and went to prison. Told in the same format as the movie— Veronica’s “Dear Diary” spiel— but an adult Veronica having to stand as witness against him, watching the case turn into a media circus, feeling the guilt of the whole thing…

Bonus points if her diary from high school gets used as witness, but her testimony buys her a plea deal, so she’s just stuck with the guilt and no jail time, but everyone knows she’s complicit.

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⚠️SF/DAWTDE SPOILERS⚠️

I feel like if Derek (D3rlord3) would have lived, he would’ve started an Ask Me Anything blog. He would’ve been popular too, but just because nobody would believe the batshit crazy stuff he was saying about the Universe.

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Imagine hating on me while I'm in my room fujoshi-ing out over Fish & Chips and SlimeKnight

Like, I'm such a big yuri enjoyer, but I've been very yaoi-pilled recently, and I am blaming it on Charlie Slimecicle, bizlychannel, and Wifies, it's all of their faults

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You. You get it.

[furiosa-femininst]

Asking AI to remove clothes from anyone should be enough to put people on the sex offender registry for life

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This is for one fandom overlap group and one group only (with implied spoilers):

Is D3rlord3 just Thanatos from JRWI: Apotheosis in a different font?

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I’d lose my mind to save yours on New Year’s Eve, but you’re not nerdy enough to understand.

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JRWI fans, what are some moments from the show that impacted you emotionally? It could be a moment that made you cry or even something that changed how you look at life. ⚠️This is NOT a spoiler-free zone, so anything goes.⚠️ Quotes, scenes, characters, anything.

I’ll start: in Prime Defenders S2E29 “Chaos Style,” The Weight Of The World stuck with me a lot. Seeing a visual representation of what happens if you don’t ask for help, targeted towards someone who feels like they have to do everything alone, was insanely eye-opening for me.

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Y’all ever rediscover a book series from high school that you forgot about but changed you fundamentally? Because I just did and I was Not Ready™️

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forgot about this little thing i made a while back fdklsjfl

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I think one of the most interesting things about Minecraft is the same thing that makes D&D so important for creatives and those who want to learn to lean into it, which is that you can do literally ANYTHING in it with enough imagination. I think that’s why Minecraft ARGs have become so prevalent, from the early days with the Herobrine myth and Aphmau’s popularity to the hugely popular DreamSMP and now things like StateSMP and the Wifies videos.

Seeing people take a game that is fairly simple in design but with nearly infinite ability to customize through so many routes (not even just mods, anything you can think of) has given way to a new online gaming experience focused around the possibilities that this opens up. People are bored with television and entertainment nowadays and want something more tailored to their interests. Plus, sites like YouTube and TikTok make it so easy to be seen and to interact with people who share those same interests, leading to people being able to connect over them and create large-scale projects like these.

I’ve made the D&D comparison because, while D&D comes with modules and books, so many people have preferred to homebrew their own worlds, leading to so many epic series becoming mainstream, like Critical Role, Dimension 20 and (my personal bias) Just Roll With It. As long as you know your way around, the world is your oyster.

I think this is an incredible shift in itself, not because we’ve never seen creativity like this— it’s always existed in some way. But when ARGs and indie projects are becoming mainstream, I think it’s something that the whole world should watch out for. When the people are bored of the same copy-paste content from streaming services, they turn to smaller projects with actual heart and soul behind them. Minecraft ARGs blowing up is, from my perspective, the result of the people putting entertainment back into their own hands rather than relying on larger platforms, and reflects how much the new model of streaming is failing its consumers.

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I fear I’m about to become a new kind of annoying because I watched Ish’s Civilization SMP and I just have one thing to say:

Glory to Westhelm and Saparata is the GOAT.

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(Quick spoiler warning for Blood In The Bayou)

Do y’all think when Rand died at the end of BITB (bc the way that ended, there’s no way he survived) he ended up in some kind of Limbo with Rachel and was disappointed that he wasn’t in Hell? Not because he was excited to be there, but because he couldn’t tell his mom not to worry about him going to Hell, and he knows she’ll always believe he did?

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Fiction Podcasts With the Most Fanworks on AO3 (As of December 26, 2025)

[DECEMBER 2025] TOP 25 FICTION PODCASTS ON AO3 FOUND IN FANDOMS > OTHER MEDIA

The inspiration and legwork for this was heavily drawn from @bakanokiwami 's Top 20 Podcasts.

To make this ranking, all series titles in Other Media were copy-pasted to Google Sheets, rearranged according to number of fanworks, and then manually filtered since not all podcasts were marked as such. I followed @toastystats 's guide, which you can find here.

The numbers in the second column indicate how much they rose/fell in the rankings since my July 24, 2025 rankings. "new" means it's their first time appearing in a ranking.

The numbers in the ^# light grey column represent how many fanworks it gained since my July count. (I don't really know how to do retrospective counts, so I left the ranks I added blank.)

The data for this was taken while logged in, so locked fanworks are included in the count.

In bakanokiwami's yearly analysis, they exclude web series like Critical Role and Dimension 20 which release audio-only versions, but are primarily known as web-series. Out of curiosity, I've constructed a version that includes web series/other media that release podcast versions that you can find here.

All nonfiction podcasts and larger franchises where audio is not the main medium have been excluded (ex. Dr. Who audio-dramas).

Bards of New York is a new addition to the rankings!

Our runner up, in rank 26 is Unprepared Casters with 303 fanworks.

All mistakes are mine and mine alone, please let me know if you catch any.

Once again, seriously go check out @bakanokiwami's analyses! They're way prettier than mine, and they get all the credit for doing the groundwork!

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So I just started Unwitness Protection Program (finally got Patreon back, about to be a menace on here) and I wanna take a minute to gush about something UPP does so well without even trying: capturing genuine weird kid culture.

⚠️Spoilers for Unwitness Protection Program⚠️

I went into this with two primary thoughts:

1. Oh, cool! More Call of Cthulhu, I missed that on their page!

2. Oh shit, William’s back!!

Our boy Wiwi’s already a great example of the weird kid in an authentic way, and that’s what I think makes him so lovable at first glance. He talks to himself without realizing it and does the “brooding emo boy that’s actually just a dork” thing in such a way that you feel like you went to school with this kid. He’s the kid in the corner of the classroom doodling in a notebook while listening to Pierce The Veil and Nightcore praying the teacher doesn’t call him. We all can name a someone we went to school with like that, if you weren’t that kid yourself.

Norah and Isaac add in variety, and we get the music kid/band nerd and the athlete that’s lowkey weird about his interests and grew up alongside the weird kids, but instead of growing up to bully them, leaned into it. Add them into the conversation and we get a lot of GENUINE nerd conversation and online discourse brought to life. They talk about Therians, wolf kids, Undertale and Tumblr. It feels REAL, it feels like something you’d genuinely hear from a group who grew up with this stuff. Even still, Isaac is worried about being “socially acceptable,” since he’s still somewhat popular compared to Norah and William.

Also, Isaac breaks my heart and I love him. That’s it, that’s the post.