Good day!

the new season has been out since mid-April and we are already halfway through it. i know the WTNV team has been posting about it on their social channels for months leading up to it. i dont think we are doing anything differently, promotion-wise, than we did with the first three seasons which seemed to find their audience much more quickly.

personally i find it rather frustating given the amount of work we put into this show, but im not really sure what to do about it. i know part of it is down to the fact that audiofiction is a far more competitive field than it used to be, and there's also so much noise and chaos in the world these days that its hard to find anything, and so many terrible problems that fiction feels less important.

Scission

Chapter 24: Teacher, teacher

Is now up on AO3 (slightly late 🫩).

This chapter is... Hmm well, I'll see what you guys all think 🤔 I will remain with my usual anxiety that it's a meandering mess. For now I sleep.

It's probably still packed with errors...

And Garden's estate or [manor] — yup, I use square brackets to note to myself to return to something — has got a stupid name that is inconsequential to the wider story. I meant to check the manga to see if there was a canon name, but forgot about it (hence why it was left in there). I couldn't find a canon name, so it got the Chai Tea treatment.

@abluescarfonwaston’s idea

Sonic: So, why did you beat everyone up here?

Blaze: I was objected to constant mistreatment by these ill mannered individuals the likes of which I dare not speak. And rather than showing any remorse for their actions they proceeded to insulte me in a manner most arrogant. I was forced to take punitive measures.

Sonic: You can drop the formalities.

Blaze: *101% done* They pissed me off so I beat the living shit out of them.

"The funniest possible outcome of the AI mandate era is about to be HR departments discovering that 'sincerely held religious belief' under Title VII has a much lower bar than they assumed, and Pope Leo handed every Catholic employee a written excuse," wrote Corey Quinn, a software-startup founder in San Francisco, on X.

Employers could wind up in court if they outright dismiss workers who request a faith-based exemption from using AI, said Ashley Herd, a former McKinsey counsel and head of North American HR who now advises managers and employers on workplace issues.

ID: A youtube comment with 11 likes by Niceone, it says "I've lived 46 years without knowing this. How nice of life to save some of the best bites for later." End ID.

like why is the park locked after 5pm so I can't go and sit under a tree after work? to punish rough sleepers for the terrible crime of being homeless and alive

why do I have to buy a drink, beg for a code and fuck around with an awkward keypad for 5 minutes in order to take a piss? because fuck homeless people

why do I need to provide proof of address and photo ID to do everything? because we had to create a really hostile environment for migrants

why can't you sit anywhere? well because god forbid people sleep when they're pushed out of shelter. can't risk that.

Her name was Juniper Blessing, and she was just doing her laundry.