museofwriting

Podcast: Critical Role
Episode: S1E53: At Dawn, We Plan!
Time: 3hr 37min, 362% of goal
Commentary:
Keyleth's joy at Fassbender is contagious, I love her.

Also I'm so happy it really did turn into them planning at dawn XD

Episode: S1E54: In the Belly of the Beast
Time: 4hr 27min, 445% of goal
Commentary:

Me halfway through this episode: they have been preparing to attack this dragon for AN EPISODE AND A HALF and I am TENSE and AFRAID

Me once they start fighting the dragon, looking ahead to see there are two hours left on this episode but the NEXT episode is the one named after the dragon: don't like that at all

Total Listening: 8hr 4min, 807% of goal

Podcast: Critical Role
Episode: S1E50: Best Laid Plans...
Time: 3hr, 300% of goal
Commentary:
Me: oh they're out of combat and they're just going to start the next episode setting up camp and junk, I'll just let it play the first few minutes while I'm finishing queueing some stuff up on tumblr and get ready for bed

The first few minutes of the next episode of Critical Role: Grog is fucking dead


Also I legit teared up at Reginald's goodbye to his daughter??? God that scene was so real and so sad

Podcast: The Flop House
Episode: #170 - Transformers: Age of Extinction
Time: 1hr 12min, 120% of goal
Commentary:
I did not need to hear the sentence "a robot's clitoris is located in its steering wheel" — although I won't argue with the delightfully nonbinary implications of that word choice

Podcast: Noble Blood
Episode: #31 - How Tycho Brahe Saw the Stars
Time: 38min, 63% of goal
Commentary:
ah, another person to add to the list of "historical figures so batshit that it's entertaining just to look up facts about them"

Total Listening: 4hr 50min, 483% of goal

Bolded means I listened to an episode today. Strikethrough means I’m all caught up and waiting for the next episode, or the podcast is complete!

The Adventure Zone | Adventures in New America | Alice Isn’t Dead | BomBARDed | The Bright Sessions | Bubble | Can I Pet Your Dog? | Conversations with People Who Hate Me | Creature Feature | Critical Role | Ear Hustle | The Flop House | Good Morning Night Vale | It Makes a Sound | The McElroy Brothers Will Be in Trolls 2 | My Brother, My Brother, and Me | My Dad Wrote a Porno | Noble Blood | Oh No, Ross and Carrie! | The Orbiting Human Circus of the Air | The Penumbra Podcast | Queer as Fact | Sawbones | Shmanners | The Thrilling Adventure Hour | Welcome to Night Vale | Within the Wires | Wolverine: The Long Night | Wonderful!

Podcast: Critical Role
Episode: S1E24: THE FEAST
Time: 3hr 56 min, 393% of goal
Commentary:
I WAS SO TENSE THAT ENTIRE EPISODE. HNNNNNNNNNNNNNN VAX PLEASE DON'T DIE
I did collapse laughing at "You look uncannily like a gentlemen we just ate dinner with." Vax: *thick American country accent* "aw really? That's crazy!"

"Grog, a goliath of... interesting dress."
RIP Grog's beard. Vax, how could you.

Podcast: The Flop House
Episode: #117 - Seeking Justice
Time: 1hr 8 min, 113% of goal
Commentary:
"That's just how this group gets rid of people they don't like, they label them pedophiles and get them killed."
Me:
Me:
Me: *stares infinitely into the void*

Podcast: Noble Blood
Episode: The Desperate Young King Charles II
Time: 33 min, 55% of goal
Commentary:
*yoinks all of those details about the six weeks he spent on the run for Writing Reasons*

Podcast: Queer as Fact
Episode: 24. Tove Jansson
Time: 1hr 16 min, 127% of goal
Commentary:
Snork the Moomin is going to fight Hitler

"They banned female homosexuality." "That's both validating AND offensive!"

Total Listening: 6hr 53 min, 688% of goal

Same deal as with the reading -- here's a catch up post for the past couple months :D

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The Adventure Zone

• Current
• WELL THIS ARC IS GETTING FUCKING REAL
• I have absolutely no idea what's about to happen and I'm so friggin scared but I love it. This arc very much feels like our Crystal Kingdom equivalent, where the plot comes crashing in and bigger things are really set in motion
• I'm working on relistening to Balance but I only got to one episode this month, the first episode of the Rockport Limited Arc. Many good shenanigans were had, all the same

Adventures in New America

• Current
• I have to say I was not expecting that from IA. Buddy I hope you know what you are doing. I'm relatively certain you do not.
• I feel like we're heading towards a climax but honestly it's hard to tell. I'm still not even entirely sure how many levels of fiction are happening here.

The Bright Sessions

• Current
• The Bright Sides episode this month was. Way, way, way too close to home. I feel seen.

Conversations with People Who Hate Me

• I didn't get to the episode that came out right at the end of the month, but otherwise current
• The "Hypocrite" episode that came out this month was... interesting. I appreciate that Dylan is trying to be self-aware, even if I disagree with some of his comments in this episode

Critical Role

• S1E11-S1E15, out of 141 episodes in the first campaign.
• I'm actually started to get more invested in the characters!! The Temple Showdown was the first time that I was actually on the edge of my seat for a battle
• I immediately need a 100k fanfic of Vax and Gilmore getting into gay shenanigans together
• I have discovered this is an excellent thing to listen to while practicing calligraphy

The Flop House

• #101-#104, out of 278 episodes currently
• I still wish that they'd spend less time on the fanmail but I do think the podcast is tightening up without losing the wandering tangents that make it entertaining — they're finding a better balance of it all

Good Morning Night Vale *NEW*

• "Good Morning Pilot"-"The Traveler" | 18/33 episodes currently
• I feel like I ought to listen to this podcast since I'm doing my own reviews, lol
• I appreciate the behind the scenes talk, and everything Hal has to say about Steve Carlsberg lol, and the interviews are good, but my god are they terrible at keeping their focus. And it's not even that funny or entertaining when they wander off into tangents, I really don't care that much what they have to say about random spin of topics each week

My Brother, My Brother, and Me

• Episode 224-230, out of 448 currently
• I listened to so much less McElroy content this month than has been my average for the past year and a half and so every time I turned on an episode I was just like MY BOYS, THEY'RE HERE

Oh No, Ross and Carrie!

• "Ross and Carrie and the Homeopathic Overdose: The Watered Down Edition"-"Ross and Carrie Meet Mark!" | 13/188 episodes currently
• I'm sort of officially on the position that I don't love the way they talk about religion but I like hearing their point of view on things –– and just the mad shit they get into lol

The Penumbra Podcast

• "Season 1 Q&A"-"The Full Penumbra Tour" (season one extras) | 25/69 episodes currently
• The extras were super fun, I was so happy to see my Western lesbians back
• I really want more from the Concierge as a character now

Sawbones

• "Chocolate"-"The Gut Hole Romance" | 87/265 episodes currently
• That's an unintentionally funny bracket of episodes lol
• I like how some of the episodes are getting more nontraditional and exploring topics that we don't necessarily think of as medical but still tie into medical history because humans are fuckin weird

The Thrilling Adventure Hour

• #125.1-#132, out of I'm not sure how to count it anymore
• Didn't get to all that many episodes this month but that Red's baby storyline was WILD

Welcome to Night Vale

• Episode 19A & 19B, out of 143 episodes currently
• Continuing my relisten again, finally! Currently posting reviews for each episode as I listen to them, see the ones from this month here: The Sandstorm Part A | The Sandstorm Part B

Wonderful!

• Episode 31, out of 73 episodes currently
• Just the one episode this month, but Griffin and Rachel being happy makes me so happy

Didn't get to listen this month: Can I Pet Your Dog?, The Orbiting Human Circus of the Air, Shmanners
Completed or on hiatus: Alice Isn't Dead, Bubble, Ear Hustle, It Makes a Sound, The McElroy Brothers Will Be in Trolls 2, My Dad Wrote a Porno, Within the Wires, Wolverine: The Long Night

Bolded means I listened to an episode today. Strikethrough means I’m all caught up and waiting for the next episode, or the podcast is complete!

The Adventure Zone | Adventures in New America | Alice Isn’t Dead | The Bright Sessions | Bubble | Can I Pet Your Dog? | Conversations with People Who Hate Me | Critical Role | Ear Hustle | The Flop House | Good Morning Night Vale | It Makes a Sound | The McElroy Brothers Will Be in Trolls 2 | My Brother, My Brother, and Me | My Dad Wrote a Porno | Oh No, Ross and Carrie! | The Orbiting Human Circus of the Air | The Penumbra Podcast | Sawbones | Shmanners | The Thrilling Adventure Hour | Welcome to Night Vale | Within the Wires | Wolverine: The Long Night | Wonderful!

Podcast: Critical Role

Episode: S1E14: SHOPPING AND SHIPPING
Time: 3hr 21 min, 335% of goal
Commentary:
OH SHIT LORD AND LADY BRIARWOOD
Also I very very much was not expecting the Vax/Gilmore interaction but I'm very very into it. I'm also picturing Gilmore as Jeff Goldblum in Thor: Ragnarok but with a beer belly

Bolded means I listened to an episode today. Strikethrough means I’m all caught up and waiting for the next episode, or the podcast is complete!

The Adventure Zone | Adventures in New America | Alice Isn’t Dead | The Bright Sessions | Bubble | Can I Pet Your Dog? | Conversations with People Who Hate Me | Critical Role | Ear Hustle | Good Morning Night Vale *NEW* | The Flop House | It Makes a Sound | The McElroy Brothers Will Be in Trolls 2 | My Brother, My Brother, and Me | My Dad Wrote a Porno | Oh No, Ross and Carrie! | The Orbiting Human Circus of the Air | The Penumbra Podcast | Sawbones | Shmanners | The Thrilling Adventure Hour | Welcome to Night Vale | Within the Wires | Wolverine: The Long Night | Wonderful!
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