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My media this week (10-16 May 2026)

📚 STUFF I READ 📚

😊👂Service with a Smile (Blandings Castle #9) (PG Wodehouse, author; Nigel Lambert, narrator) - Uncle Fred is back at Blandings, this time under his own name, but still spreading sweetness & light, tormenting Dukes and helping the course of young (& older) love run smooth thru a judicious application of lying and blackmail.

🥰👂‍ Mirage City (Evander Mills #4) (Lev AC Rosen, author; Vikas Adam, narrator) - excellent entry in the series (though I did have to have it vetted for me from a friend before I would try it 😆but these are NOIR so I gotta know beforehand if anyone important dies, etc! (they did not, all is well. (well, as well as can be in 1950s San Francisco)))

😍 Platform Decay (The Murderbot Diaries #8) (Martha Wells) - it was just so damn good, I had to reread in ebook form!

😑 The Road to Roswell (Connie Willis, author; Jesse Vilinsky, narrator) - audio increased annoying levels by at least 20%, so switched to text which helped slightly (text also helped because it just goes faster.) Overall, just engaging enough to plow though but I never lost that low level thrum of annoyance (and I'm at least 10% annoyed with myself for bothering to finish.) The bits I did like were just swamped by what I did not. Absolutely the biggest UGH was the whole 'here's a man and a woman of an equivalent age ergo romance!' despite there not really being any chemistry. I've got zero patience for that heteronormative nonsense (esp bc i've been reading virtually no cishet/mainstream stuff so my tolerance level for that bs is in the basement)

😍👂‍ [Podfic] when i die i’ll sacrifice (more than enough for the afterlife) (notcaycepollard, author; quietnight, narrator) - 41K, Natasha/Maria; reread (via podfic) of THEEE BEST post-EG fixit for Natasha.

💖💖 +204K of shorter fic so shout out to these I really loved 💖💖

shane hollander's guide to bottom prep & ilya rozanov's guide to supportive intimacy (bisexualbuckley) - HR/GC: Hollanov, 13K & 10K respectively - both fics are hot, intimate, tender

I Wanna Be Somebody To Someone (Someone To You) (stabthroughme) - HR/GC: Hollanov, 36K - Ilya gets traded to NY, he becomes Scott's annoying younger cousin basically - good AU, skillful interweaving canon events

None Family With Heart Beef, A Hollanov """Fake""" Marriage (dairaliz, DiabolicalWorldwriter, jennisaisquoi) - HR/GC: Hollanov, 1K - hilariously funny not!fic (would love to see more of this kind of things, where folks just throw their unformatted ramblings from the discord into ao3 to share) with extremely entertaining cold read podfic - love it when a cold reader loses it, another level of shared experience

The Ways We Enter Each Other (Vee (Vera_DragonMuse)) - HR/GC: Hollanov, 16K - win conditions #8 - another stellar fic in this series! Ilya gets his ears pierced on a whim, which leads to shane taking care of him in a myriad of ways

📺 STUFF I WATCHED 📺

Party Animals - LIVE: Party Animals Can WIN LAS VEGAS SERIES Against Loco Beach Coconuts In Nevada Rubber Match!

Home Town - s10, e1-4

Maine Cabin Masters - s12, e5-10

Mythical Kitchen | 100 Years of Disneyland Food

Ask Hank Anything - Are Billionaires Dropping Inventors in Volcanoes? (Siobhan Thompson)

Fireside Chat LIVE With Liam O'Brien & Sam Riegel

Parlor Room - s2, e5

Mythical Kitchen | Sam Reich Eats His Last Meal

D20: Adventuring Party - "Zaeth is a Guided Missile" (s24, e6)

D20: City Council of Darkness - "The Sunday Scoop and Spiteful Spirits" (s30, e6)

Taskmaster - s21, e6

🎧 PODCASTS 🎧

What Next: TBD - Does Anyone Like A.I.?

Pop Culture Happy Hour - What it’s like to watch movies and TV early as a critic (Pop Culture Happy Hour+)

Explain It to Me - Chems in your cosmetics

Short History Of… - The Golden Age of Railways

Re: Dracula - May 11: Pray for my Happiness

Pop Culture Happy Hour - The Sheep Detectives

No One Saw It Coming - Beware gifts from Soviet spies

What Went Wrong - Cabaret

⭐ 99% Invisible - Ask Your Doctor About

It's Been a Minute - Progressive women are fed up & fighting back (feat. IHIP News)

Throughline - Four voices from the Great Depression

Re: Dracula - May 12: What Manner of Man is This

⭐ The Allusionist - 227. Draculae part 1: Enter the Castle

Shedunnit - The Silent Passenger

Pop Culture Happy Hour - Fun movies we missed

The Unbelievable Truth - Series 33: 3. Words, Bears, The French and Mushrooms

Handsome - Mae Martin's Dad asks us a question… with puppets!

Unexplainable - A better Black Death story

⭐ Code Switch - What the Savannah Bananas have to do with race and baseball

⭐ Sidedoor - The People in the Pictures

Decoder Ring - Decoder Rings Back | Duck, Duck, Jeep

Song Exploder - Key Change: Emma Straub

Ologies - Special Episode: Wall to Wall Secrets, Sorry!

Today, Explained - Is it a bad book or is it AI?

Cannonball - The Devil Wears Prada, Workers Get Nada

The Dogs Were Good (Again) Podcast - The Best Dog Grooming Transformations We’ve Ever Seen!

Endless Thread - Manifesting an online rom-com existence

⭐ Twenty Thousand Hertz - Age of Audio: The Inside Story of Podcasting

Vibe Check - A Fountain of Regret

What Next - SchadenFriday: Ben Shapiro’s Short—as in Abrupt—Decline

Re: Dracula - May 15: Lizard Fashion

Welcome to Night Vale #288 - Doubles Anonymous

Broken Record - Wyclef Jean | Live from On Air Fest (with Sam Sanders)

Handsome - Pretty Little Episode #91

Hit Parade - Dancing With Himself Edition

Re: Dracula - May 16: This Man Belongs to Me

ICYMI - Right-Wing Creators Are In Their Flop Era

ICYMI - Bonus: The Influencer Caught Snarking On Herself

Wait Wait… Don't Tell Me! - We make Ken Jennings relive the worst moment of his life

Pop Culture Happy Hour - Obsession and What’s Making Us Happy

🎶 MUSIC 🎶

Billboard Top 40 March 19, 1988

Billboard Top 40 April 24, 1982

Billboard Top 40 August 15, 1987

Billboard Top 40 May 18, 1985

Billy Idol

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My media this week (15-21 Jun 2025)

ngl lads (gn) i wish packing a flat you've lived in for 27 years was this easy. i am going thru it. 😤

📚 STUFF I READ 📚

😊 🎧The Beast of Littleton Woods (Lady Hardcastle Mysteries #12) (T.E. Kinsey, author; Elizabeth Knowelden, narrator) - more low-key adventures with Emily & Florence - the cozy mystery comfort read I really fucking needed this week

😊 War & Peace and the Redemption of Bucky Barnes (ThePirateStorm) - 51K, stucky modern no-powers AU - bucky's a writer, steve's a single dad with a teenage daughter, they have a meet ugly that quickly turns around - enjoyable read, I was quite chuffed I correctly identified the IRL book series that Bucky's is based on

😊 🎧Murder at the English Manor (A Miss Underhay Mystery #20) (Helena Dixon, author; Karen Cass, narrator) - Kitty & Matt get roped in to investigating the disappearance (murder) of a maid from a local estate (whose folks are trying to facilitate a 'Dollar Duchess' marriage and would prefer no unpleasantness)

😊 Fall Into You (Dylan Morrison) - very enjoyable contemp queer romance with a really great meet-ugly, explored a lot about how messy and contradictory and complex people are and also about how fucked up family dynamics are. -

💖💖 +39K of shorter fic so shout out to these I really loved 💖💖

Favorite Things (ann_anotherthing) - Stranger Things: Steddie, 17K - more adventures of middle-aged men 😂🥰 I just fucking love this universe/these versions of them (most of it a reread due to a new chapter being added)

Fates (E_Greer) - Justified: Boyd/Raylan, 22K - a wibbly wobbly timey wimey trip - AN starts "buckle in we’re doing six alternate universes" with a super cool guide on how to read each section (I am making it sound way more complicated than it is! Also it's just a banger fic, so enjoyable. I love these two)

📺 STUFF I WATCHED 📺

WIRED | Tech Support - Film Historian Answers Old Hollywood Questions

Murderbot - s1, e6-7

Game Changer - s7, e6

Parlor Room - s1, e5

Um, Actually - s10, e11

D20: Neverafter - "The Trials of Baba Yaga" (s16, e18)

D20: Adventuring Party - "It Happened" (s11, e18)

D20: Neverafter - "The Ending Of All Things (Part 1)" (s16, e19)

D20: Adventuring Party - "The Orange Fairy in the Top Hat" (s11, e19)

D20: Neverafter - "The Ending Of All Things (Part 2)" (s16, e20)

D20: Adventuring Party - "Three Cheers for Jesse Harron" (s11, e20)

D20: Cloudward, Ho! - "The Path Out of Gath" (s26, e2)

D20: Adventuring Party - "Meaty, Meaty Combat " (s21, e2)

D20: Cloudward, Ho! - "Secrets at the South Pole Station" (s26, e3)

D20: Adventuring Party - "Wonder Awaits" (s21, e3)

🎧 PODCASTS 🎧

Pop Culture Happy Hour - Materialists

Short Wave - Why Weed's Signature Scent Has Changed Over Time

The Atlas Obscura Podcast - Dylan’s Mailbag: Trips We’d Never Go On, the First Places in the Atlas, and Worst Bathroom Experiences

Short History Of… - The Spanish Flu

Welcome to Night Vale - Deeper Than Purpose, Older Than Thought

No One Saw It Coming - Where freestyle swimming really comes from

The Sam Sanders Show - Can Faith and Queerness Coexist? (ft. Jeff Hiller)

Pop Culture Happy Hour - The Life of Chuck

Code Switch - The administration's fight against antisemitism is dividing Jews

⭐ Vibe Check - Everything Comes Back to Love featuring Danez Smith

Switched on Pop - "Manchild" and other songs about male incompetence

Decoder Ring - The Boston Cinematic Universe

Decoder Ring - Decoder Ring Plus | The Boston Accent Is Wicked Complicated

Wild Card - Kyle MacLachlan daydreams about the future

⭐ Song Exploder - Key Change: Shirley Manson on Siouxsie and the Banshees

Shedunnit - Book Club Fact File: Lady Molly of Scotland Yard by Baroness Orczy

99% Invisible - The Red, the Black, and the Green

Pop Culture Happy Hour - Watch This: Pee-Wee As Himself

Short Wave - Why Emotions Run High For Sports Fans

⭐ Endless Thread - Pics or this episode didn't happen

Pop Culture Happy Hour - 28 Years Later And What's Making Us Happy

Short Wave - What Makes South Korea's 'Super Divers' Special?

It's Been a Minute - Welcome to midlife, Millennials. Are you in crisis?

The Sporkful - The Hidden History of Regional Burgers (Reheat)

Sherlock Holmes Short Stories - The Adventure of the Second Stain

Ologies - Aquaculture Ecology (SUSTAINABLE OCEAN FOODS) with Ben Halpern

Handsome - Pretty Little Episode #44

The Atlas Obscura Podcast - AO Mailbag: Is It Normal to Share a Checked Bag With Your Boyfriend?

🎶 MUSIC 🎶

my 'Liked Music' playlist

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In the world of medicine, race-based diagnoses are still very real : Code Switch

We've probably said it a hundred times on Code Switch — biological race is not a real thing. So why is race still used to help diagnose cert

So Tumblr, I listened to this podcast episode a while back and I think it's something that more people should hear. It talks about a fallacy in medicine that has been perpetuated since 1931. It's one of numerous cases where someone years ago came up with an idea that Black People Are Different and it has become what the medical establishment considers a fact. When someone actually went to dig up the source, it was completely ridiculous and yet that fallacy goes on to affect people's diagnoses.

33 minute listen, and the transcript is available at the source (NPR).

[omyheart]

And America moves on, America moves forward. I think to a large extent, white power structure waits for us, as black people especially, to quiet down. Settle down. Get it out of our system. In terms of unrest, in terms of online protests, I'll be writing my column, and that moment will happen. But whether or not it will result in any concrete change, is really up to people who may be least involved with the trauma. It matters whether or not people who are not affected by this do something.

Jamil Smith, on Code Switch episode “A Decade Of Watching Black People Die“