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[riskystandard]

psst I’m on twitter a lot more than tumblr nowadays. i finally made an unlocked account so if you wanna see what I’m up to go follow @risky_standard over there!!

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a character from a Fiasco campaign I played with some friends a long time ago. His name is Ace Diamond

sketch under the cut. I might eventually finish this, bc i really like how the sketch turned out.

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[riskystandard]

sometimes on your epic friends at the table relistens, you find factions that you have to art about (i did the three of these in… an hour? posting to force myself to exist on this tumblr again. also hi, i’m back!)

[martletradio]

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MIDNIGHT RADIO EPISODE 3: VANISH

Reflections on what is lost with the passage of time, and a reason for coming back home.

David McManus is the Announcer. Courtney Dietz is Sybil McIntyre. Cory Ensle is the Presenter.

Midnight Radio is written by Bobbie Parker. Original music by Morgan Jackson, who can be found at wedidthetimewarpagain.bandcamp.com. Show cover art by Em Broude, who can be found at riskystandard.tumblr.com.

Content warnings for this episode: static (0.00–0.15), discussions of terminal illness, parental abuse, and death.

A transcript of this episode can be found here.

If you like the show, please reblog, subscribe, and review.

[theradioghost]

Episode Three is here!!

Did I trick you into thinking I didn’t write something sad? I did. I did write something sad.

[martletradio]

Hello there, friends and listeners! Are you excited for the launch of Midnight Radio? Here’s something to get you more excited – this gorgeous cover art is by @cornenslart, one of our amazing actors! Episode One, “Letter,” will be released on June 10th.

You can subscribe to Midnight Radio right now on iTunes, on Google Play, or at our RSS feed. You can also follow us on Twitter at @martletradio.

[martletradio]

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MIDNIGHT RADIO is a new audio drama about what it means to be haunted, the things we leave behind after we die, and the significance of a voice on the radio to a young woman alone in the dark.

We are thrilled to announce that Episode One of Midnight Radio will be released on Sunday, June 10th.

You can subscribe to Midnight Radio now on iTunes and Google Play, and at our RSS feed. For updates, follow us here on Tumblr or on Twitter! Please subscribe and share the word, and don’t forget: you’ll hear from us again soon.

Content warning: this audio contains static.

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i found a friend @riskystandard

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[riskystandard]

every other even, you absolute fool

gee wonder who sent this!

2: Shoe sizelike 8 women’s? i have average feet

6: Age you get mistaken fori look about as old as i am but people think i’ve turned 21 which... nope

10: Want any piercings?not really? i have my ears and never actually wear earrings so like i like the idea, but i know i wouldn’t follow through

14: Biggest turn offssmoking and not listening

18: Most traumatic experiencewell that went from 0 to 100 huh? probably the time someone i really cared about told me i was a toxic friend and only cared about myself and then never interacted with me again. mostly because it left me thinking she was right for a while and i guess i’m still coming back from that

22: What I want to be when I get olderidk, successful? rich (lmao)? someone who gets to make an impact

26: My biggest pet peevesI HATE A LOT OF ASSORTED SOUNDS. chewing with your mouth open, mostly

30: What I hate the most about work/schoolam about to start a new job tomorrow so idk about that yet, but the worst thing about school is everyone comparing how stressed they are. like, i get it, we’re all stressed, but like.... let’s have fun anyway?

34: What I find attractive in womentbh everything

38: My childhood career choicei wanted to be a newspaper editor? because I guess I thought author was overplayed. but before that i wanted to be a ballerina

42: The last thing I atekraft mac n cheese because i am, after all, a college student

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ignore the paint on my hand

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I’ve got a Vibe today

(Foster • he/him)

[riskystandard]

It’s “Shasta,” not “josta.”

thanks but no thanks

[thimbleoflight]

Okay I love them, I LOVE them, you know I do, but I cannot listen to these people talk about queerbaiting in the AMAs.

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[frith-in-tombs]

Yeah, so, this post resonates so much that it seems a good place to note that the one thing I find intensely frustrating about Gabriel’s writing/direction is his insistence on ambiguity for basic facts about his characters. And I absolutely GET and LOVE that it’s not a show with any romance in it, but actually my queerness is really important to me and my self-identity and place in the world, and that’s the case when I’m not flirting with anyone. I would be uncomfortable with people I’m close with not knowing I’m queer. And that’s just me, I know, but refusing to have sexuality ever ever come up over this really intense period of time in this really close group of people… is so fucking straight. 

(I get why Jacobi wouldn’t share that until he finally, finally decided he might be on the same team as the rest of them. But to do the same with the other characters is not justified. Unless they’re all straight, which is the only case in which it would never come up. And that is not ambiguity.

You. can’t. have. both.)

[thimbleoflight]

Yes, yes, yes. Exactly!!! I get and love the lack of romance too. And I really get that frustration with the insistence on ambiguity. They are not ambiguous about anything else! They do a monthly hour and a half long AMA where they talk about the character’s favorite foods and favorite drinks and D&D personas! It is just these things. Ambiguity in this, as with all identities, is going to cause the audience to default away from any marginalized identities.

“You can’t have both” is exactly what it feels like from this side of the speakers. thank you for adding this to the post!

[captainfaygeleh]

I don’t watch the AMAs, but this is so frustrating to hear. Especially because the show is over. How hard would it be for them to pull a JKR and be all “yeah everyone’s queer,” or “xyz are queer.” What the heck do they have to lose at this point? I’m very pro “death of the author” about this which is why I have no desire to watch the AMAs anyway, which might be the old school fangirl in me wanting creators to go away and let me have my fun, but honestly, how hard would it be for Gabriel to say, “Yeah Jacobi was totally in love with Kepler, and Kepler strung Jacobi along because he’s an asshole and probably he didn’t know what his own feelings on the subject were because he’s allergic to feelings and the truth.”

I would be so fine with that sentence. (To note, it’s my own personal HC, but whatever) but I think it would mean so much to listeners to even have that.

Again, I don’t watch the AMAs, but have they answered any ?s about Lovelace’s sexuality?

[thimbleoflight]

People ask them every month and every month the answer is “we aren’t talking about that.” They’re incredibly tired of hearing the question, it’s… actually getting pretty uncomfortable. (And I get that, too. They’re damned if they do and damned if they don’t–if they don’t answer, everyone will complain about not getting an answer, if they JKR it everyone will say “you were too cowardly to write it into the show.”)

I also am super pro death of the author, but I’m the type of fan who wants to know what everyone’s canon favorite ice cream flavor is. It was just so frustrating in that moment, because Zach Valenti, who I have a lot of respect for(!!!!!! this is really, really not me bashing the creators!!!!), turned to the camera and was like “I don’t know what queerbaiting is,” and kind of went on to describe his idea of what it meant from context, which is the point at which I kind of paused it and wrote up that whole post, because that’s when I realized that it sounds like what the writers are hearing is “it was MEAN to not include more gay characters!!! It was mean to make Jacobi and Kepler each other’s favorite person and then not make them in love!”

Which of course, yeah, if that’s what you’re hearing, seems like a pretty darn irrational thing to say. But it’s just not what was being said.

[isabel-sofia-lovelace]

yesssss to this. it hurts when the creators keep saying “we don’t talk about their sexualities because we don’t want to focus on romance/sexual identity/whatever” as if being queer or being trans is only relevant if characters are kissing. and it’s especially disingenuous to do so while providing backstory/context for central characters that involves male/female relationships. minkowski has a husband; eiffel has a child with a woman. those relationships may not be central to the narrative, but they impact the characters and their choices in tangible ways. to depict those relationships while not creating space for any analagous same-gender relationships reveals an unacknowledged heteronormativity underlying the narrative choices.

minkowski and eiffel are not stated to be straight, and they could certainly be bi, or pan, or trans, or ace…..but the only thing we know is that minkowski loves a man and eiffel loved a woman. their is no canonical depiction of them being anything other than straight. that isn’t representation. meanwhile, for queer representation, we have fisher, who is the first character to die in the chronology of the show, and jacobi, who is never depicted in any kind of romantic and/or sexual relationship, and who only mentions his sexuality once. that isn’t on par with how relationships between men and women are portrayed. and in the absence of meaningful queer representation, heterocisnormativity is implicit. when the only relationships mentioned in relation to central characters are “straight,” queerness is not afforded space.

I love wolf 359 so much, but silence does not serve as queer representation. in our struggle to have our love, our desire, our existence recognized and respected, we have always had to fight against silence. against absence. against nonexistence. we have had to be loud. because where our existence is not spoken, straightness and cisness become the default.

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Foster (he/him)✌🏻

[riskystandard]

happy tdov it’s ya boi all I do is take bathroom selfies (they/them)

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mulberry 🎶

(portrait of @pryce-and-carter)