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requiem-on-water

Cat sleeping on a cushion (1892), oil on panel by Francisco Domingo Marqués

catsofyore

Warming the toebeans. 🥰 Photo from my collection, no date/info.

specialagentartemis

The Harbingers breaking bold new untread ground in the indie audio drama world by being heterosexual

griseldagimpel

I'll bet it's just hetbaiting. Just you wait, come season two, Adam will have a one-night stand with Kris and it'll turn out that all the times Amy and Andie professed their love for each other it wasn't strictly platonic.

specialagentartemis

This post was directly prompted by an exchange that included “can you IMAGINE what the Republicans would do if the Black woman president had an affair with a woman who has mind reading (and mind control?) powers. I’m not sure if there’d be a bigger media uproar over the gay thing or the mind control thing”

griseldagimpel

#In season 2 The Media forgets about Boston because this is way juicier to them -specialagentartemis

#the harbingers

specialagentartemis

The Harbingers breaking bold new untread ground in the indie audio drama world by being heterosexual

#so lit!!#the harbingers #heterosexual with great chemistry may i add

marshmellowteaa

Sherls & Company

janistarred

Started listening to sherlock & co a few days ago and this is genuinely so much more unhinged than I thought it would be, I want more

tearsandtelevision

i love his creativity

figglypuff

necrolentil

Goddamit i hate this fucking post. I hate it because obviously if “twelve” followed the same pattern as the other teen numbers it wouldn’t be “twoteen” it would be “seconteen”. Think about it. It’s not “threeteen” it’s “thirteen” as in “third”. It’s not “fiveteen” it’s “fifteen” as in fifth. So with that in mind, you count “first, second, third, fourth, fifth,” and so on, so eleven would be “firsteen” and twelve would be “secondteen” or “seconteen”. “Firsteen, seconteen, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen….” It just drives me absolutely mad everytime i see this post that this obvious pattern was overlooked and i cant hold in my rage anymore.

improper-integral

thalassata

child of divorce

specialagentartemis

“Do you have any idea how many times I’ve had to say the words “The Doomscroller” out loud? When talking to important people? When talking at the U.N.? I’m thirty-two and I’ve had to give my opinion on things The Doomscroller is doing with a straight fucking face. Fucking ridiculous.”

now THAT’S suffering

magichaddock

and i couldn’t say the name “Adam Blackwell” without thinking of the fucking gpu cards thanks to nvidia. even though Blackwell was supposed to be reminding us of the mathematician David Blackwell instead.

#the harbingers

specialagentartemis

Is Adam afraid he can’t do it? Is he afraid of trying something practical under pressure after such a long time burying himself in meticulous study? Or is he afraid that if he uses his power to save someone’s life, he’ll be opening the door to being asked favor after favor after favor that Only He Can Do that he won’t feel comfortable saying no to, losing his control over his own life? … or is he afraid that a practical demonstration of power will shatter his carefully constructed “I keep my head down and do not draw attention to myself” sense of safety?

He loses nothing by agreeing to try. Except the tense and tenuous peace he has been trying so hard to maintain.

magichaddock

all of the above 👆

#the harbingers #harbingers podcast #adam blackwell

specialagentartemis

“Do you have any idea how many times I’ve had to say the words “The Doomscroller” out loud? When talking to important people? When talking at the U.N.? I’m thirty-two and I’ve had to give my opinion on things The Doomscroller is doing with a straight fucking face. Fucking ridiculous.”

now THAT’S suffering

clansocreations

[said in the most Done With This Shit tone of voice I've ever heard in any audiodrama]

#harbingers podcast #the harbingers #adam blackwell

gabrielurbinatm

Did Adam know it was necessary to add Andrea Shepherd’s name to the spell teleporting her or was he just sort of winging that?

From Episode 7:

ANDREA SHEPHERD: Do you... need the word? Can’t you just go “make this thing go over there?”

ADAM BLACKWELL: No. I mean... yes, I could, but the more you rely on the universe knowing what you mean by “this thing” the more you leave yourself open to getting fucked over by a passing trickster god.

magichaddock

gabriel urbina, the OG passing trickster god

#Harbingers Podcast#Adam Blackwell#Andrea Shepherd#(Yes)#(I knew where we were going with this when I wrote 7)#(So there's a lot of seed-planting in that episode.)

#the harbingers

gabrielurbinatm

We see when Amy realizes she has a crush on Adam (thank you, Andie), but when did Adam realize he liked Amy?

There's some moment where he realizes he likes her during their days at Sinclair, but one of the big moments when things get unstuck in his head is when Andrea yells at him during her Christmas party in 2028.

So the moral, as usual, is thank you, Andie.

#the harbingers #thank you andie

gabrielurbinatm

no matter how many times i listen to the s1, i keep feeling like the ring count is off, especially when i listen to episode 12

because its like

teleportation

mind reading

knowing shit

sympathy(?)

flying

healing

traveling /going fast(?)

demons

dead

but... that's nine rings, no? why do they keep talking about eight rings? what am i getting wrong?

I've been asked about this a few times now, enough to make me realize that perhaps something wasn't as clear as I thought it was when I wrote it. It's not the greatest form in the world to just answer it here, but just to clarify what's happening with that count...

Okay, so let's break it down from the point of view of Episode 12.

The first four (movement, mind, divination, sympathy) are all accounted for. There's people out in the world that have them and are using them.

Then, before the commercial break, Adam, Amy, and McCandless translate two more tablets, which seem to point towards the Ring of Skies and the Ring of the Body. That's six so far.

And then, while Adam is out in the garden talking to President Shepherd, McCandless and Amy crack the basics on two more tablets, which allude to the Ring of Demons and to a ring that lets you talk to the dead. That's eight, which is the full set.

The confusion arises from an exchange that McCandless and Amy have shortly after the commercial break, in which they go:

AMY STIRLING: All right, so... “in this covenant is granted... the... dominion over... issues -”

JULIAN MCCANDLESS: “- or matters -”

AMY STIRLING: Right. “... of the...” I don’t know “daionica.”

JULIAN MCCANDLESS: It’s a slippery term. Lots of double meanings. But generally... “distant place?” “Far off place?”

AMY STIRLING: So another ring related to moving matter? To… speed? Adam what do you think?

Which is where a lot of people have been left with the impression of a phantom ninth ring that doesn't quite fit with any of the other ones.

The thing that to my mind was dazzlingly obvious (but which absolutely isn't, given how many people have asked about it) is that while Adam is off in the garden, Amy and McCandless realize that the "distant, far-off place" that daionica is referring to is... well, death. Or the place where things go after life. The ultimate distant place that we can't really reach, if you will.

So yeah - that's what's going on there, with that seeming discrepancy.

#harbingers pod #the harbingers