Limetown Prequel Novel says gay rights, sorry i don’t make the rules
cherry valley forever
Xuebing Du

shark vs the universe
taylor price
Alisa U Zemlji Chuda

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trying on a metaphor
One Nice Bug Per Day
Sade Olutola
todays bird

oozey mess
Claire Keane
occasionally subtle
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will byers stan first human second
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Limetown Prequel Novel says gay rights, sorry i don’t make the rules
I was listening to the new The Bright Sides episode with Zach Valenti, and it struck me how good of a VA Zach is. When I started listening, I kept expecting to hear Doug Eiffel, to get confused about the characters because I’ve listened to 60+ episode of Valenti as that character. But it never happened.
Sure, the voice was the same, but Arthur Sax is a different person. You can hear it in his intonation, in his sighs, in his anger and frustration, in his stubborn determination, he is not Doug Eiffel. And while part of that is the writing (nice work Urbina!), most of it comes from the fact that Zach knows how to embody a different person so well. Whenever really good voice actors appear in different lead roles, it feels like I’m watching Sarah Paulson in American Horror Story walking in as different characters with different hair, different moralities, but that same killer smile
Honestly the latest bright sides was a blessing and let me just say that Zach Valenti and Julia Morizawa are the power voice acting pair that have ventured separately into every podcast imaginable but have only now been pinned down in the same episode of something
I don't know if Symphony Sanders has been publicly out before the last episode of Good Morning Night Vale but she casually brought up she was bi during a discussion about the need for good representation and my heart skipped a beat, I'm so glad she shared ♥
humanity owes me monologue
12.10.18: arkady patel, the strange case of starship iris
“No, Jeeter, sorry, that is bullshit. You know what the other half of that story is? It’s the people on the bottom, struggling to survive.
I grew up on a jail planet. We played in garbage. I didn’t see a tree until I was eighteen. I don’t give a shit about the weight of human history.I don’t give a shit about empires and nations and civilizations, but I will tell you one thing: this doesn’t get to be the end of humanity. Humanity owes me. It needs to be around long enough to collect.
I vote Plan B.”
I stan how fucking petty the entire crew of Starship Iris is
Amy is either the backstabber we’ve always known she is or she the one who is going to pull the rug out of Ramados and laugh as she bleeds
Either way, she is a ticking time bomb and I can’t wait for the explosion
Presenting General Traft as he would have appeared during his time with the Elves, featuring his Honorary Elf Name: Gy’y Fy’Ryy
OK, actually this podcast was a mistake.
-kicks door down- TBTP FANDOM HOLY F*CK
what.
WHAT?
I guess this wasn't in some sort of development hell after all
@surely-you-jess
damien once he calms down and takes a fucking nap
your woman and your lizard
These past few episodes
Sir Damien just needs a nap and a Snickers and he’ll be good
So I have a theory about where monsters come from in the Second Citadel. Since we started on the Spiral Sage arc, we’ve been dealing with a lot of doubled perceptions. Caroline sees a fortress, Rilla sees a snail. Rilla sees Quanyii, Caroline doesn’t. Damien and Angelo see a building, Talfryn sees a giant shell. Damien looks at a tapestry of the Spiral Sage and sees an old man with a spiral shield, Helicoid sees a snail, and Angelo (which is super interesting, hold that thought) can see both. The rest of the tapestries inside the fortress seem to show monsters and humans living, working, (sleeping???) together, and as the Spiral Sage is associated with the time of the First Citadel, we can assume that the rest of these images are too.
Damien’s reaction is telling as well. He sees monsters as being against the natural order, as inherently evil and chaotic, and that’s what he’s always been taught, and that’s what he’s determined to believe. What causes him to doubt is any implication that monsters and humans might not be so different after all. With Arum, it’s his eyes that cause the doubt - there’s something almost human in them. And he’s an architect, he’s intelligent and articulate, skilled - not some lumpy misshapen brute thing. With the Spiral Sage, it’s the idea of monster society - they can have Senates, and communities, and democracy. They have a court system. They have civilization. Hell, in some ways, they have unity. These are all things that Damien has been raised to believe are entirely human traits. With the tapestries, what seems to tip him over the edge is that they present a society where humans and monsters are so similar, so compatible, that they can live together (and live together) in peace.
Damien finds this confusing, upsetting, terrifying - it threatens the very foundations of his life and belief, and he pins it all on Arum. Arum, with his human eyes and intelligence and frequently civilized behaviour - he’s the source and the representation of Damien’s doubt. He has stolen Damien’s tranquility, and so he must be destroyed.
Isn’t it convenient that there’s an obvious monster-shape for him to pour all that into, instead of him having to deal with it internally?
“ Personally, I’m a mess of conflicting impulses—I’m independent and greedy and I also want to belong and share and be a part of the whole. I doubt that I’m the only one who feels this way. It’s the core of monster making, actually. Wanna make a monster? Take the parts of yourself that make you uncomfortable—your weaknesses, bad thoughts, vanities, and hungers—and pretend they’re across the room. It’s too ugly to be human. It’s too ugly to be you. Children are afraid of the dark because they have nothing real to work with. Adults are afraid of themselves.“
Richard Siken, Spork Editor’s Pages: Black Telephone
What if humans used to be monsters? What if humans made monsters? Maybe, at the time of the First Citadel, people used to be like the moon - human and monstrous at once (cf. Lady of the Lake). A large part of magic in this universe is about strength of will, right? You could, if you really, really wanted, force out everything monstrous about yourself, everything that threatens your tranquility, and give it life, and send it to live somewhere far away from you.
In the First Citadel, humans and monsters lived in harmony; not just with each other, but with all facets of themselves. The dual images in the tapestries represent people who were as human as they were monstrous. And then someone, maybe the original Damien, started to doubt. This can’t be me, they said. It’s hideous, it hurts, this doesn’t belong to me. I don’t want this. Cast it away. Grant me tranquility.
What if the First Citadel fell, not because the monsters attacked it, but because the people turned on themselves? They created monsters, so they could kill the bits of themselves that they didn’t like, that weren’t tranquil and ordered and easy, and they failed.
The First Citadel fell because it wasn’t unified anymore. The Second Citadel remembers that, and builds on it, but they don’t remember why.
Damien, put that knife down or so help me
The thing about Dreamboy is that it makes you viscerally feel the emotions it’s try to evoke. And not just big ones, like joy of anger. The writing and acting work together to make you feel very specific things like quiet unease, sexual malaise, the anxiety of being late for work, etc. It makes you empathize with Dane on an incredibly personal level, and it does it better than most of the podcasts I’ve listened to. TLDR, listen to Dreamboy!
Another great thing about Dreamboy is that it’s gay fiction that feels like it was written by a gay/bi guy, with a gay audience in mind.
So much mlm fiction is written by straight women for straight women. Even when I’m getting representation, it rarely feels like I’m the actual target audience for it. And it’s either completely sanitized of any references to sex at all, or it’s entirely about sex and everything else is just background.
Dreamboy cuts through these problems. The focus of the story is the emotions, the surreality, the mystery. Sex, and Dane’s sexuality, feel like important parts to the story, not the focus, but certainly not an afterthought either. It’s not a gimmick, or a way to make the story more interesting. It feels like it’s something important to the writers, something genuine and personal that they want to write about. And I’m really happy they did