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Auditions for VA roles close on July 1st. I'm not persnickety about timezones, though, so quite truthfully you could tell me you're on Baker Island and I'd believe you and take it half a day late. I am also willing to discuss extensions, within reason, just maybe don't reach out the day of...

On that note, expect the cast list 3-4 days after auditions close (meaning whenever the last audition is submitted).

HOWEVER,

What i look for is the ted/AM tag, no crossovers, no OCs or self inserts, and a Mature or Explicit marker because i like them sexy and/or violent. I have a small list of recommendations here,

And I'm missing two I really liked but I can't remember the title or author, one was about AM marrying a reluctant Ted. Am's dialog was really funny in a dry sort of way, especially his wedding vows.

The other one was about AM being finally shut down and the survivors are freed. Ted visits the wreckage and gets a sense of closure by having sex with AM's "remains" (that is, literally inert computer parts).

If anyone knows what I'm talking about please tell me i need to read them again.

The wedding story was progress - yikes (I_AM_NOT_A_ROBOT)

The other one was Using the Machine - Kaz3313 and it was actually weirder than I remembered

In case discord is not quite your fancy ;)

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For personal context, before I went to the '98 Burning Man festival, one of the things I'd read from a couple different journalists was that "everybody" runs around naked. Which, fine by me, I'd already spent a lot of time in clothing-optional spaces, I'm not fanatic about it but it's nice.

So I got there early and set up a public shade structure on one of Black Rock City's main roads and spent most of each afternoon just watching the crowds go by. I don't remember seeing more than one actually naked person the whole week. I think a topless woman passed by my intersection maybe every half an hour, sometimes once an hour. So why in the hell were people, normally pretty smart and observant writers, coming away with the impression that everybody was naked?

Then I remembered an unrelated passage from Joel Garreau's great book about the history of the outer-ring suburbs, Edge City. Mall developers told him flat-out that they tried to keep the crowds in their malls less than 5% black. Not because they themselves were racist, but because they had determined, experimentally, that if more than 5% of the people in the mall are black, the median white shopper will wrongly describe the mall as at least half black, as mostly black. And not a few of them would describe it, at 6% black, as a mall where "only black people go." Why?

Because, emotionally, they were still upset over the last one when the next one came into view.

This year I’m compiling a new one, and I’m taking suggestions!! Please let me know if there’s anyone you’d like me to include (either in the tags or replies, or send me an ask, DM or even an email at [email protected])

It can be anything, audio drama related or not, and can include purchasable items or merch, music, art, books, games or any other media, or just Patreons or Ko-Fis.

That means there'll still be chances to add more to it even once it's posted, but if you'd like to add yourself or any other creators to the list before it goes live, I'm still taking suggestions and additions!

Current categories are:

Urgent Calls for Financial Aid

Physical Purchases

Music

Art Commissions

Streamers

Books

Games and TTRPGs

Patreons/Ko-Fis/Donations

Creative Services

Events

But if you'd like to suggest something not covered by any of these, let me know! I want this list to be as comprehensive as possible.

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GANJA AND HESS was the only American film screened during Critic’s Week at the 1973 Cannes Film Festival, where it was named one of the 10 Best American Film of the Decade. It opened at Manhattan’s Playboy Theater a few weeks later. “The first time I saw the movie was at the opening-night screening in New York,” Clark reveals. “There was a splashy party afterward -- and being the lead actress, I was pretty much the star of the party! Nothing like that had ever happened to me before. It was wonderful.” The bubble burst the next day, however, when almost every New York critic panned the film. “When I read the reviews, I thought, ‘They didn’t get it,’” Clark remembers. “Many critics believe that black people make very straightforward, literal movies -- so Bill was really an enigma to them. They just did not understand what he had done.”

Gunn’s unique cinematic treatment of African-American spirituality and vampirism was also lost on the film’s distributor, Kelly-Jordan Enterprises. After a one-week run in Manhattan, the 110-minute version was pulled from circulation and replaced by a 76-minute bastardization called BLOOD COUPLE, with new credits listing “E.H. Novikov” (a pseudonym for film doctor Fima Noveck) as director. For nearly 25 years, it was this version that viewers were subjected to, both in theaters and on video, under such misleading titles as DOUBLE POSSESSION, BLACK EVIL, BLACK VAMPIRE, and BLACKOUT: THE MOMENT OF TERROR. "It never found much of an audience," Clark says, "but a number of industry people saw it, especially in New York, so I was offered some other movies."

…I want to just draw a fashion zine of just Miss Piggy, oh my god. she is so underrated and underutilized, where is my succession-like muppets satire thing LOL I want it so bad. let me do it disney call me pls

EDIT FOR JAN 2025: I’M MAKING A ZINE OF MISS PIGGY FASHIONS. It is happening, I have heard your comments. Please stay tuned to my instagram for updates!! Here’s a preview:

It was just going to be a "lol Hal has a halo and AM has little horns" sort of doodle but i got carried away noticing more heaven/hell, darkness and light correlations, like, AM hated Ted, but Hal loved Dave. AM's complex is underground, Discovery one is in space. Intangible white flowers. Ted gets gardenias in scent, Dave gets daisies through audio. The memory block that contains HAL, the cage that holds Ted. Both of them had something horrible done to them by their counterpart.