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Follow me. The fog is thinner than it seems. I’m Matt Boothman. I’m the compère of the Merely Roleplayers podcast, where theatrical people p

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Forgot to add that Of The Sword also has its own tumblr which you should follow for quality sword reblogs: @of-the-sword

Swordtember is a podcast this year*

It's called Of The Sword. There'll be an episode every day in September – each one is a short story with a unique sword through its heart. It's produced by Tal Minear (of Someone Dies In This Elevator) and Ezra J. Wayne. And I wrote one of the stories, Driving The Point Home; it'll be the episode released on 19 September!

If you can't wait til then, you can get all Of The Sword episodes early and ad-free by donating to Tal's Ko-fi. All cash raised goes to The National Center for Transgender Equality:

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20 episodes from Of The Sword, debuting September 2023. Get these episodes early and ad-free! Plus, all proceeds are donated to The National

Of the Sword isn't popping up in searches in all the podcast apps just yet (too fresh!), but you should still be able to subscribe by copying and pasting the feed address into the search bar: https://feeds.megaphone.fm/ofthesword

For the full episode list and transcripts, head to the Of The Sword website:

Of The Sword

Of The Sword

A daily sword-based, micro-fiction anthology that will run in September 2023

*As well as the usual art-prompt Swordtember, not instead of!

I actually like that all media is now created to be thoughtlessly consumed within a single alloted month before it's destroyed by business guys whose stated favourite book is a dingy unread copy of The Art of War they left on their bedside to "reference". it's cool that everything is just one middling budget twelve episode season and half of it is dropped all at once directly onto streaming services so you have to sit down for six miserable hours to watch it in the most antisocial way possible. this is probably how art was meant to be consumed. this is how humans best process things, like death.

reblog and put in the tags the earliest songs you remember actively liking as a child (asking adults to play them for you, learning the lyrics, being excited when they came on the radio etc.)

Just going home...