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Cecil winning sexyman has me in my nostalgia. I haven’t listened consistently since probably 2016, and haven’t listened at all since 2020, but I decided to relisten.

It feels like coming home. Carlos’s hair is still perfect, his teeth still resemble a military cemetery. Khoshekh is still hovering three feet above the floor in the men’s restroom, though I know one day he will get a way to stop levitating, and everyone is still hailing the Glow Cloud though I know one day it will join the PTA. Raydon Canyon, The Dog Park, John Peters (you know, the farmer), The City Council.

It’s all still there. Our friendly desert community is still there waiting for us.

Podcasts I'm listening/have listened to:

101.7 OUROBOROS (11 + bonus content)

Alice Isn't Dead (3.10 + bonus content)

Archive 81 (35)

Archive Admirers (29 + bonus content)

Camp Here & There (34)

Death by Dying (7 + bonus content)

Deviser (7)

either (16 + bonus content)

Hello from the Hallowoods (165 + bonus content)

Hi Nay (26)

I Am In Eskew (30)

Incident Report Number 31 (8)

Into the Hollow (8 + bonus content)

Juno Steel (2.02 + bonus content)

The Magnus Archive (200 + bonus content)

The Magnus Protocol (28 + bonus content)

Malevolent (45 + bonus content)

Micro-Comos (9 + bonus content)

Mnemosyne (2.14 + bonus content)

No Such Thing As A Fish (546)

Old Gods of Appalachia (70 + bonus content)

Rebel Robin: Surviving Hawkins (6)

Records from the Reaver (16 + bonus content)

Second Citadel (1.10 + bonus content)

The Silt Verses (45.2)

Stellar Firma (76 + bonus content)

Syntax (45 + bonus content)

Wayward Guide for the Untrained Eye (9 + pro/epilogue)

Welcome to Nightvale (255)

Wolf 359 (61 + bonus content)

You know sometimes all you can do is scroll out your rolodex of fictional podcasts characters and go “hmmm which queer criminal am I going to channel to get through today?” Because sometimes I need a lesbian truck driver’s determination, and some days I need Peter Nureyev’s ability to completely zone the fuck out unless I am actively talking, and sometimes I just need to be an eldritch horror.

me after ep. 9 of black mouthed dog

*steve shell voice* there are things in these hills, family, things in these hills darker than you could imagine... but we're going to put them in your mind anyway. but always remember the real monsters are systemic injustice and corporate greed. but the real real monsters are actual creatures of the inner dark that will tear you apart and scatter your soul with your innards. but the real real real monsters are the people in power who are in fact summoning the actual creatures from deep within the choking earth in order to perpetuate systemic injustice and corporate greed. but the REAL real r

Hear me out ...

Old Gods of Appalachia but a studio Ghibli film.

I know a lot of people associate them with cottage core vibes, but there is a lot of magic, horror and, especially a miyazaki's, commentary on progress of man vs man and the nature world.

It would be beautiful.

God I wish I could draw in Miyazaki/Ghibli style 😭 but I'm afraid drawing to much of it would permanently alter my own style.

okay. i'm up to episode five now, so, by increasingly popular demand lol:

my initial thoughts about old gods of appalachia

i think it's really smart in what it relays as "appalachian horror," because this is actually what The Appalachian Gothic is supposed to give

what i mean is it's not just like the usual spoopy mythical forest/"don't investigate the noises in the woods" stuff alone. dgmw, obviously i love the urban legends

but the gothic of an area or time period needs cultural elements tied in to really make it chilling, and this does it well. it stands out in the way that it incorporates the genuine horrors of humanity in appalachia with the supernatural element everyone is drawn to about these mountains. it's very creatively done

like in the barlo, kentucky saga i am currently listening to, it's the dangerous coal mines and the near-possessed preacher turning all hellfire n brimstone at the behest of the haints. it preys (i use this word positively here) on this mix of very specific but common fears, both existential and otherwise, held by residents of the appalachian south. love it

as an aside, i love the narrator's accent because it sounds like mine :') a lifetime of code switching means mine isn't quite as strong unfortunately, but our pronunciation habits and colloquialisms are next to identical, so there manages to be this like warm and nostalgic feeling to it, too

because it's honestly so nice to hear my accent and my family's accent as a critical part of a superb story being told, and not just as a vehicle for mockery and stereotypes :')))

all in all... it is Good Shit

Podcast we started and either we have finished them or not

Magnus Archives-Not Finshed

Welcome to Night Vale-Not finished

Malevolent-Caught up

Red Valley-Caught up

Old Gods of Appalachai-Not finshed

Camp Here and There-Finshed

Two Princes-Not finshed

The Siltverse-Not finshed

Penumbra podcast(Junoverse)-Not finshed

Wolf 359-Not finshed

Here is a updated on my podcasts

Magnus Archives-Finshed

Magnus Protocol-Not finshed

Welcome to Night Vale-Not finshed

Camp Here and There-Finshed

Malevolent-All caught up

Red Valley-All caught up

Old Gods of Appalachia-not finshed

Two Princes-Not finished

The Siltverse-Not Finshed

Penumbra podcast(Junoverse)-not finshed

Wolf 359-not finshed

I’m on the last season of Wolf 359 as we speak and I struggling on whether to start Fathom/Derelict, Red Valley, or Old Gods next.

This is coming from a TMA/TMAGP, WtNV, Malevolent, and TPP lover. Which one do I go for fam?

how do i get the magnus, malevolent and silt verses enjoyers on speed dial about fathom/derelict. we have lesbian scientists. painful backstories. research stations in the ocean. we have good fathers. there’s corrupt businesses. and underwater vaults. and robots struggling with humanity. and spacecraft. and agent blayne first name agent last name blayne. and existential themes and—