Our Lady of Immaculate Depression

i love that all fiction podcasts are lumped into a big fandom blob even though they’re all so different. and the funny part is we haven’t even listen to all the same podcasts.

I like the fandom blob! It makes audiodrama feel like one large community, and it makes it easier for shows from first-time creators to self-market and for listeners to organically find new shows.

Is it being a fool…? Or just having the COURAGE OF YOUR AWESOME FORMALIST CONVICTIONS????

yeah.......yeah!

Listening to the Harbingers rn (I’m on episode 9) and I’m sure there’s a plot-relevant, thematic plan for how all the rings are found and who gets them, but I also think it’d be funny as fuck for one to just. Be a family heirloom. Great-great grandpa found some weird shit in his backyard fucking ages ago and now you’re realizing that your heirloom jewelry is actually a magic ring that puts you at the level of 1) the guy who teleported a heart halfway across the world 2) an influencer who sells out stadiums and 3) Australian guy know for doxxing people.

I should clarify I want this to have the same energy as those posts that go “look at what we found in our backyard we use it as a doorstop and it’s our tradition to kick it on our birthdays :)” and then it’s a WW2 landmine. Look at the weird ring our granddad dug up we use it in lieu of a coin for heads or tails. It’s really sturdy so our aunt used to hang plant pots from it. Sometimes we use it for target practice.

I need all the hyperlexic statistical outliers on tumblr to look up what’s meant by low literacy, it means like, can’t read the notice from the electric company that says they’re cutting you off. Can’t read your doctor’s instructions on how to treat yourself at home. It means “school system failed you so badly that it might kill you”, if you’re reading simple fiction for fun you are already so far out of the window of maximum concern

transitioning was easily the best decision I've ever made, you should try it.