queer and mad in more ways than one

Haha I take a bite

hi guys, i need to visit a neurologist and pay off my rheumatology visit as my health is getting worse and were trying to figure out what the issue is. I am unable to work a normal job and am a self employed commission artist, So ive set up a new goal on my ko-fi to help with my medical stuff as well as finishing my very last class for my degree.

I age out of my insurance next year and have so much i need to get done so i do not lose access to my meds and care, both physical and mental, and unfortunately I am getting worse as time goes on.

Please consider spreading this and i would be overjoyed if anyone would be able to commission me :,)

I had randomly generated 2 words, which is where “mole interest” came from. I failed to consider that by generating a new tag, it wouldn’t have had enough posts already in it to prove what I now call “the mole interest effect”.

But now it does.

In 2023, we said “fuck it” a la mythbusters and ended up doing whatever it took to get #mole interest to trend. And it did. And it happened to be September 11th that day, and we managed to get #mole interest to trend ABOVE #9/11.

"where are the audio dramas made by poc??"

they are here. they exist and they are plentiful. you just need to stop listening to the same show 3 shows made by white men on repeat. it is always so painfully clear to me the difference between people who are fans of Audio Drama as a medium and people who are fans of (insert big show here). When their chosen fixation fails to provide the representation that they claim to advocate for, they make up for it via diverse headcanons instead of listening to shows Made by marginalized communities.

The Gospel of Haven (@thegospelofhaven)

Apollyon (@observerpix)

The Holmwood Foundation (@theholmwoodfoundation)

Remnants (@remnantspod)

mentioned this in the tags in my previous reblog but-

if you like things like paranormal investigators, psychic detectives, cursed objects, folklore beings in an urban setting, and/or podcasts where the narrator is addressing a specific in-world listener (like Alice Isn't Dead or Mabel), then you'll love Hi Nay!

(the characters also kinda give me Penumbra Pod vibes so far but I'm still only on the first few episodes, and idk how much of that is a boss baby vibes scenario bc I do tend to just get "Phoenix Wright Vibes" from anything that has detectives in it lol - so by extension anything that Has A Detective In It has a similar vibe to everything else that also has a detective. at least to me)

adding:

Nowhere, On Air (https://nowhereonairpodcast.weebly.com/) - basically sapphic Canadian Night Vale! I haven't listened to the full thing yet so unfortunately I can't say much more, other than that Jesse has a very soothing voice and she uses it to describe strange and disturbing things!

Deadwood - @deadwood-podcast (https://deadwoodpod.carrd.co/) - set to release this fall! I only found out about Deadwood yesterday but I'm so hyped for it!! cosmic horror that spits in the face of hp lovecraft and complex sibling dynamics are EXACTLY the kind of things I'm interested in, can't wait!

Station Arcadia - @stationarcadia - dystopian diesel/steam/cyber/solarpunk queer anthology (I think there's an overarching plot but I haven't listened to all of it yet)! idk if it fits the "women +/ poc" specs exactly (and I can't tell if those were meant to just be examples or if they're what this post is specifically about, sorry if I got it wrong!), but the team is definitely gender diverse in other ways from what I could find

also - compiling suggestions from the notes (mainly for personal reference but if anyone else gets some use out of it then that's cool too! thank you to anyone who contributed any of these!):

Waiting for October by d.j.sylvis and @monkeymanproductions

Kalila Stormfire's Economical Magick Services - @stormfireproductions

Janus Descending by Jordan Cobb

Primordial Deep by Jordan Cobb

Null/Void by Cole Burkhardt

Tides (https://www.tidespodcast.com)

Diary of a Space Archivist

Burst

The Strange Case of the Starship Iris

Mabel (https://mabelpodcast.com/about-2)

The Way We Haunt Now

Under the Electric Stars - @undertheelectricstarspodcast

Half Past Blue Noon - @bluenoonpodcast

Store 236 - @store236pod

Hey Oliver, Are You There? - @hey-oliver-podcast

Inkwyrm

Brimstone Valley Mall

Woodbine

Re:Carmilla - @re-dracula

Camlann - @camlannpod

The Night Post - @thenightpost

Life with LEO(h) by Octavia Bray

The Dead Letter Office of Somewhere Ohio by Rat Grimes

Overbrook

Fresh Meat

At the Bottom of the Garden

Mercy: A Queer Eldritch Western

Nightlight

Kiss: The Audio Series by Xperience J

Timestorm created by Dania Ramos

Small Victories - @wgc-productions

Before the Tone - @knaveofheartsad

The BookMarks

Parkdale Haunt

Englewood After Dark

"where are the audio dramas made by poc??"

they are here. they exist and they are plentiful. you just need to stop listening to the same show 3 shows made by white men on repeat. it is always so painfully clear to me the difference between people who are fans of Audio Drama as a medium and people who are fans of (insert big show here). When their chosen fixation fails to provide the representation that they claim to advocate for, they make up for it via diverse headcanons instead of listening to shows Made by marginalized communities.

The Gospel of Haven (@thegospelofhaven)

Apollyon (@observerpix)

The Holmwood Foundation (@theholmwoodfoundation)

Remnants (@remnantspod)

And then these people come to a piece of art that like. Actually has themes and good writing and a coherent vision, but they're still trained on The Giant Trash Heap That Must Be Sorted Through, so they start their routine of excising fun yaoi moments and throwing the rest in the trash, except now the rest is like. A professionally made passion project by a group of skilled writers with a hundred years writing experience between them, and this fan is writing the same coffee shop AUs as ever. And it makes something that feels same-y and fandom out of something unique and well-made and, well, interesting.

And like. That's their prerogative, more power to them, but it makes me wanna pull my hair out to talk to these people about a piece of media I actually care about beyond that Trash Heap level.

Arthroacantha carpenteri