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A message for anyone who has NOT YET LISTENED TO THIRST PODCAST

NOW IS THE TIME TO START!!

Podcast description:

To existing Penumbra Podcast fans who haven’t listened:

ABANDON THE IDEA THAT YOU HAVE TO CATCH UP ON JUNOVERSE OR SECOND CITADEL BEFORE YOU START LISTENING TO THIRST.

You can just start it! No one can stop you!

If you enjoy other stories from The Penumbra Podcast, you will almost certainly enjoy this one. The creators of the show clearly learned a lot of lessons from their time making the Junoverse/Second Citadel series, and the experience shows in Thirst. The sound design quality is well-done, there’s a vast variety of talented actors involved, and the writing is engaging and balanced

To non-horror fans:

As someone who is certifiably not a fan of horror and gets scared very easily, I promise that there is not a single episode of this show that has left me feeling overly frightened or anxious. The show definitely has dark themes and a general feeling of existential dread, but instead of giving me nightmares, my reaction after finishing each episode is always just excitement to see what’s going to happen next

That being said, obviously you can check content warnings, which are provided alongside every episode, with timestamps

To horror fans:

I can’t speak to this a ton as I’m not a horror fan, but from listening to behind the scenes content I can safely say this podcast has a lot of work put into the horror elements, and it does some really interesting exploration of many different themes, ranging from existential dread, psychological horror, death games, and even some other elements which have been recently foreshadowed…

Anouk Kalhara is THE haunted final girl protagonist

Somebody else could probably talk more about this than I could, but at least from seeing horror enjoyers talking about the show, it seems to really deliver on its themes and genre references

Reasons to listen (for anyone):

Genuinely compelling and nuanced female protagonist (Anouk Kalhara my beloved)

Relevant political themes and exploration of those themes

A cast of varied and unique characters with a range of personalties that you can pick your favorite from and get unreasonably attached to

An intriguing mystery that is still in the process of unraveling

Queer characters and themes, including a bisexual protagonist, lesbians, and a trans man as one of the primary characters

Lotssss of ingrained criticism of heteronormativity and amatonormativity

A very fun conceit of a fucked-up death game disguised as a cute romance-themed reality show

And more!

Why NOW is the time to start listening:

The show just announced it will be going on a two-month hiatus, which means now is the perfect time to catch up while no new episodes are being released

Because it’s good and deserves more fans PLEEASSEEEE 🙏🙏🙏

So that everyone can start posting about Anouk Kalhara immediately

Link to the first episode (Spotify link, but also available on all the usual podcast platforms)

keposhka

tired-fandom-ndn

I've seen a lot of fics disappear from my bookmarks, some 10+ years old, because they were added to an unrevealed collection. It makes me wonder if people realize what your fic being added to a collection actually means and if the authors approved it automatically without realizing what would happen.

If someone adds your fic to their collection, they can hide it! They can mark the collection as unrevealed and your fic will be unreadable to anyone other than them! If you're writing works for a surprise event, like a Secret Santa, this is really nice.

But if you're just writing and someone adds your fic to a collection for their own personal use and marks it as unrevealed, that. . . really sucks.

I bookmarked this fic in 2017, almost 5 years ago. Knowing me, the fic itself was probably at least a couple years old at the time I bookmarked it.

This is a 5+ year old fic that is completely inaccessible now because it was added to a collection that, as far as I can tell, is literally just for the collection owner's own reference. There's almost 30 fics in the collection, all of them unrevealed.

Please don't blindly accept collection requests and if your works ARE in a collection, make sure that they aren't being hidden without your knowledge or consent.

hex-fauna

Are you able to remove a work from collection after you allow it or is it just a story that's just fucked?

tired-fandom-ndn

Yes, you can remove your works! From the faq:

If you're the creator of the work:

1) Select the "Edit" button from the work's page and scroll down to the "Associations" section.

2) Select the red (×) beside the collection name you want to remove next to "Post to Collections / Challenges".

3) Select "Post" to apply the change. The work will be immediately removed from the collection.

I'm not sure if you get an alert if your fic is marked as unrevealed though, so keep an eye on the collections that your works are part of.

There's also an option in your preferences to accept collection invitations automatically. I would highly recommend making sure that that option is not selected.

butterflyinthewell

I realize this might be a dirty trick pro-censorship fandom harassers might try to pull on some people, so yeah.

Boosting for visibility.

kiayla

I think AO3 has changed this setting so you can now only opt to receive invites into collections but can't set works to be automatically accepted into collections (thank goodness). But in case that rollout is still in the works, I wanted to boost this post!

Bro who let Trafalgar law get on Instagram stories

#trafalgar law #one piece

eclipsepunki

feel better? 🤲🏼🫀

(garfield comic strip redraw!)

princessbuttercup

This just makes me almost cry a little bit like the feeling of someone loving you so much they don’t want you to sit in bad feelings and also it’s just so cute?? Law in his little blanket cocoon

sakura-rose12

Your Honor

I love him

animentality

the-muppet-joker

The hour has come. The final battle is at hand. Take this, all of you and eat of it. This is my body (the eyes of Kermit. The eyes of God). Take this all of you and drink of it. This is my blood. Olipop, the elixer of Famine. We all drink in the Dennys parkinglot, the birthplace of War. The shadow of the beast of Conquest circles overhead, the shadow of a long furby who means us harm. Standing at the horizen of existence is the princess of Death herself. Twilight Sparkle holds the thread of my life. But it will not be cut. I will defeat the antichrist. I am Kermit. I am Joker. I am Kermit. I am Joker. I am Kermit. I am Joker. I am Kermit. I am Joker. I am Kermit. I am Joker. I am Kermit. I am Joker. I am Kermit. I am Joker. I am Kermit. I am Joker.

imaginarygirltnt

kirschworks

I dreamt there was an episode of Columbo where he’s a rat. The trouble was that he kept getting distracted from the case by food he found in the gutter.