Within the Wires

Fanblog. Further instructions and additional data accompanying the cassette guides for the Relaxation Study. Listen, Remember, Comprehend.

[birdlovesafish]

If I was Oleta I wouldn’t trust your ass either Hester.

#SaveOletaFromExtensiveStudies2k16

[within-thewires]

Within the Wires episodes 1-6: My heart breaks for Hester

Within the Wires episode 7: I'm crying for Oleta

[bethstar666]

Within the wires progression

Ep 1: Errr… What is this??

Ep 2: Okay, I kinda see where this is going? Maybe??

Ep 3: She cares!! That’s good right?! :) this is getting GOOD!

Ep 4: Oh no, she cares too much :( BUGS ?NOPE

Ep 5: *Ooooh* she cares like *that* ;)

*Remembers to breath*

[happierman]

So someone asked me recently where @j9andif and I got the inspiration for Within the Wires, and I mentioned that I had co-created a dance piece (Vulture-Wally) with choreographer Jillian Sweeney (also my wife) back in 2013 at St Marks Church in NYC. 

There was one section of that piece wherein Jillian (and dancers Tara Willis, Siobhan Burke, and Lydia Chrisman) created a patterned walking dance. Rather than lean into the rhythm of it with music, we decided to perform it to a poem. 

I thought I had lost that poem bc I couldn’t find the cassette we recorded it on, nor the original text. But I just remembered we had a visual recording of the thing! The video of that section is above.

I was really interested in old school relaxation cassettes at the time, so we went with that motif. And upon writing it & then putting it onto a cassette & playing it out loud, it seemed like one could create a series of relaxation cassettes that told an obtuse, ethereal, poetic story, one that required bodily focus, acute awareness of self to take in the whole story. That sounded hella fun to do, so Janina and I did it. 

And it has been hella fun.

[within-thewires]

[within-thewires]

You Time (Cassette #4)

Today’s scented candle is: I can’t believe it’s cabbage Today’s relaxing music is: 8:00 AM Construction Today’s bath is filled with: Valvoline

[raunchywaterwitch-deactivated20]

Anyone wanna talk about within the wires with me?

[within-thewires]

always.

What is one of your favourite things about the podcast so far?

[tylerzed-deactivated20200219]

Breathe in. and out.

[missbellesmagic]

I am so glad Hester keeps telling me to breathe because when she gets emotional sometimes I forget

[jetpack-island]

real talk, today’s ‘within the wires’ was just super intense 

[rinasaurusrex]

hahaha it’s fine i’m not broken inside or anything

[within-thewires]

You Time (Cassette #6)

Today’s scented candle is: Michelin and Cinnamon Today’s relaxing music is: Egg shells crushed into ground beef Today’s bath is filled with: Lobsters

[withinthescripts]

Cassette #7

Welcome to the Extensive Studies Lab Preparation Program. This cassette series will continue for as long as it needs to, to place you in the proper physical and mental states for invasive examination techniques.

Listen to these cassettes with authorized headphones placed upon you by the Institute’s high-level security team.

These cassettes will help you prepare for your examinations, which will be rigorous – but only if you allow them to be.

By trusting my voice, and practicing the proper calming techniques discussed in these tapes, you can safely and happily endure exercises that would otherwise cause you high levels of pain.

Mind over matter.

My voice will guide you through this preparation. You will trust only my voice – even if you are incapable of trust right now (which, to be honest, would be completely understandable) – and your body, to which you are indentured.

Listen. Practice. Implement.

Keep reading

[within-thewires]

one thing i've noted is the similarities of the strangers from episode 77 and a few beyond that and the thistle men from Alice isn't Dead. Their description seems similar, for example "They smell like compost" and "inhuman and evil"

After finally listening to Episode 10 of AID i can really get behind this. There was a description of the thistle men that strongly reminded me of the strangers in night vale.

[birdlovesafish]

Oleta- winged

Hester- a Latinized version of Esther. Esther who from the Bible, put her neck on the line to go before the King and save her people AND she succeeded.

Shit is about to get real guys. I can’t wait

[heliosapphic]

“the brown of your eyes” (Cassette #2)

“the width of your nose” (Cassette #2)

“the dark cloud of your hair” (Cassette #2)

These are canon features of the patient in Within the Wires. Draw and headcanon accordingly. 

[within-thewires]

So Cassette 6 is out and I haven’t listened to it yet but i’ve been tumbling and i’ve seen some stuff and oh boy i don’t know if i am emotionally ready for this one guys