People Who Listen To Altogether Too Many Podcasts: What Are The Arbitrary Rules You Make Up For Yourself?

People who listen to altogether too many podcasts: what are the arbitrary rules you make up for yourself? DO you make up rules about what you're "allowed" to listen to and when, or is that just me?

Rules like:

Podcasts are divided into Current (ones I'm caught up with), Catching up (ones where I'm working through the back catalogue), and Replay (ones I've heard all of but am listening to again because of love)

Current shows are for home, Catching up and Replay are for out and about

BUT if I have 10 or more unlistened Current episodes then I have to get that number under 10 before switching to Catching up or Replay, even if out and about

Only one Replay and one Catching up show can be active at any given time, I have to finish a whole season before making a different one active

It sounds like I'm forcing myself to eat my veggies here but honestly making up rules like this is the only way to not get overwhelmed and lost – if I didn't do this I'd constantly be starting shows and forgetting about them and then fretting that I'm 2 episodes into 15 different things

from the commission pileup i'm trying to speedrun before leaving for the states:

will update yall once i put it through a coffee wash to really get that riversilt/dredge from the primordial muck effect

I'm sending @midnightburgr to @thesiltverses -verse to pick up Paige and Hayward for a shift. Those two are creative problem solvers and I think they deserve a little holiday in a world where creative problem solving solves problems and then your friends give you a high five and make you waffles, instead of creating new problems and also inviting terrible punishment and suffering for your hubris

Game: choose a podcast character (or three), and then a second, different podcast to send them into for a while.

It could be to bully them, to give them some relief, or even just to see them interact with the characters that live there.

(Confirmed in an email to the mailing list – can't find an online copy I can link to just now)

West End Hadestown cast recording confirmed coming soon (but which cast??)

Dónal Finn was such a perfect poor boy working on a song it's been days and I still can't stop thinking about it. Like. His lalalas/If It's True seriously rewired my brain.

(shoutout to @yatorihell and Pip who accompanied me on the road to hell and Irish Orpheus <3<3<3)