#bevfank

omg i forgot that mobile doesn’t show proper messages? so this has been sitting in here for 2 weeks, thank you! @bevfank

from this ask 

1. your favourite playlist (made by yourself or someone else)

i make monthly playlists of my current favorites, so I guess right now it’s my april one. the big little lies master soundtrack is also a go-to

3. your favourite “grounding” activity (anything that involves using the hands/doesn’t involve “spacing out” or escapism - something like gardening, knitting, dancing, cooking)

yoga

5. 5 tv shows that cheer you up

parks & rec, great british bake-off, schitt’s creek, grey’s anatomy (pre season-8 lol), broad city

7. your favourite board game

Sorry

9. a quote that you would consider getting tattooed or putting in a frame

I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am. (Sylvia Plath)

11. a tip or hack you’ve learned that makes cleaning or tidying easier

my mom always taught me to clean as you go when cooking or baking, that way you never have a huge pile of dishes to do when it’s all over, you can just relax until the food is done :-)

13. the last so-bad-it’s-good joke you heard

everything is kinda funny in that way now?

15. the last tv episode that made you laugh out loud

15) Outfit

Oooooh. It’s hard to not pick one of Steve’s suits, probably the Civil War one. Although despite whatever else was going on in Age of Ultron, I really liked Natasha’s suit! The blue that lit up up the sleeves and stuff, it was cool.

If I’m picking non-uniform outfit it’s Peggy’s red dress.

17) Guardian of the Galaxy

Gamora for sure!

19) Weapon

Cap’s shield - although I really like Tony’s early suits too, like up until the first Avengers.

21) Power 

Wanda’s telekinesis/energy manipulation/mind powers are GREAT. But anticipating, it’s going to be Captain Marvel’s powers.

23) Origin story

Again, I really love Steve’s in his first movie. We learned a bit about Peggy’s too in Agent Carter and I loved that.

25) Non human creature

Answered!

27) Defender

Yo Insurrection is my favorite. No shame.

Always happy to answer podcasting questions!  @reblogginhood and I don’t actually do a huge amount of pre-recording prep in terms of discussing what to cover beforehand; we keep it pretty loose.  With S3, we would watch the episodes on our own time Thursday night, and then usually exchange a flurry of text messages, and then watch it again a second time on Friday via rabb.it so we could watch it together and live-chat during, to point out things like “don’t let me forget to mention that one thing Monty’s mom did” or whatever.  Then once we were online we’d usually run through a pretty loose outline of what order to go in that for most of the podcasts was plot-by-plot; like, “okay, let’s do Polis first, and then Arkadia, and then ALIE.”  For the S1 recaps, we’ve both seen them all so many times that we don’t usually watch them twice, we just watch them together and text notes/thoughts to each other and then chat briefly before we start to record.  The only times we’ve had to really plan out a lot in detail were when we were briefly attempting to cram 2 episodes into one podcast, which we abandoned because it just wasn’t a format that worked for us (we’re too verbose); but we trying to figure out if it was better to do one episode and then the second, or talk about them both as an overarching 2-part story, was tricky. 

Anyway, I think a lot of people have different techniques for this, so it’s really all about figuring out the system that works for you guys, but for me and Erin, we’re basically just hitting “record” on exactly the same kind of 4-hour conversations we were having about this show after every episode before we even started having a podcast, so our format is basically just like “what do we think is interesting here” and we often don’t get to every single plot point or character.  We’re really just freestyling off a very loose script most of the time.  But don’t be afraid to try a bunch of things before you settle on a system that works for you; I think I took really detailed notes for the first couple podcasts before I realized I could do just fine with a couple bullet points, but for the other podcast I cohosted (The Giantist’s Person of Interest podcast with @brittanias and @abigailkanes) I took really detailed notes as I watched because I knew I wouldn’t get a chance to watch it twice before we recorded and it’s full of tiny little details I didn’t want to miss.  So it’s just a matter of finding what works for you.

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Weird! How do you find them?