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Day 4!

We're at the midpoint of Podcast Girls Week, but as we reach the weekend hopefully we're gathering steam. Here are today's prompts:

Nobody understands her like I do… Recognize a woman from a podcast you think is niche and/or underappreciated.

Or the eternal classic... AU

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Pride 2025

These Colors Don't Run!

this Pride remember your roots, fight the fuck back, remember your allies and friends and don't get distracted.

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Saint Sisko

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Some bts images of Avery Brooks directing from ds9.trekcore.com

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Avery Brooks as Hawk in Spenser for Hire's "A Madness Most Discreet" (1986)

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Hi Nay and the Duterte era

Content warning: journalistic images of Duterte era killings under the text "PHOTOS BELOW"

Know your limits and look after your mental health, but I think people should witness what fascism looks like, what it really looks like.

While Hi Nay is largely inspired by fun, semi anthology horror stories, a lot of it is inspired by the real life horror of fascism. I say that often, but this is what I actually mean when I say it. Spoilers for Mari's backstory:

In Hi Nay, Mari Datuin flees the Philippines after killing policemen during the Duterte era in order to prevent a "drug raid" in an impoverished baranggay that would have resulted in the killings of poor Filipinos. While the incident is fictionalized, it's a reflection of a common practice during Duterte's admin - drug raids where the intention was to kill civilians and plant weapons and drugs on them to make it seem like the police were successful. They even had a "quota" of drug related arrests or killings.

Ezra Acayan is an important and amazing photojournalist who was on site for the EJKs or extrajudicial killings that were happening every other night, and sometimes multiple times a night, during the Duterte administration, with Duterte's express approval.

At the bottom of this post are images that have stuck with me since the Duterte era. These images live in my head forever.

While Mari Datuin isn't based on me, she and I are very similar. She finds joy in life and presents herself as warm and caring, she can be funny and silly, but her experiences back home are based on the experiences of many Filipinos, even if fictionalized. If this is in my head, it's in her head too.

Her father was an activist killed by the AFP or Philippine military, which has in real life long engaged in the violent oppression and killing of indigenous Filipinos and the activists that oppose them. When it's not "drug pushers", it's "communists" that the state uses as justification for killing civilians.

Mari herself killed police with magic, in retaliation against the police's own culture of violence and killings against poor Filipinos.

Hi Nay is, I think, a reflection of how many Filipinos live. This was a nationwide trauma, most of us saw this and lived this. Most of us knew someone who was killed, or lived in an area where someone was murdered, or saw it on the news every night. Yet we still joke, we still love, we still enjoy a good story. Hi Nay isn't 100% about real life fascism because at the end of the day, it's still a story, but the spectre of real life fascism remains as part of the main character's life because it's part of my life. It's part of all Filipinos' lives, at least those who aren't in the pro-Duterte death cult.

His recent arrest brought back a lot of memories of living under Duterte, and how it shaped Hi Nay as a story and Mari as a character. Time heals all wounds, but you know what heals them better? Arresting the fascist murder that made our country a slaughterhouse and making him suffer.

PHOTOS BELOW

Context for this one: A secret jail was found in the walls of a police station where police were keeping people hostage for money.

Other important photojournalists who defined, in photos, what it was like to live in the Duterte era, was Raffy Lerma, who took the "La Pieta" photo.

And another image by Czar Dancel showing the "iconic" sign, "PUSHER AKO, WAG TULARAN" (I am a [drug] pusher, don't emulate me) which would be replicated across multiple murders.

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Hey all, Crips for Esims for Gaza has been purchasing E-sims for people in Gaza and need help to continue their advocacy!

We link them in our Hi Nay episodes but want to remind people to help out if they can and donate! They're an offshoot of the E-sims for Gaza program created by Mirna El-Helbawi, and allow you to, if you are overwhelmed by the E-sims purchasing process, streamline it.

You donate to Crips for Esims for Gaza, and they do it for you. Help these fantastic disabled activists if you're able!

Link in replies so Tumblr doesn't hide this!

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Just watched “Operation: Annihilate” during my TOS binge (one of my new faves and perhaps one of the gayer episodes, which is saying something) and the mention of Vulcans having vestigial third eyelids has me sad for the lack of fanart of Spock, Tuvok, et al doing the weird eyes half-open sleep thing cats do.

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I finished putting together the Irish-American heritage month display and Jesus CHRIST there are so few books about Ireland in our collection?? Once more, I must say:

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If your goals basically amount to "after The Revolution everything will be great because people will all have the Good Ethics and work together in my Perfect System and the Evil People with Bad Morals and Bad Behaviour who are making this world bad will be gone (killed/imprisoned/exiled/all converted to agree with us when they see our Perfect System)" then that's just fascism. I hate to say it but you've put a gay socialist hat on fascism.

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Assume there are other links going around but figured I would share as well--Mahmoud Khalil's family is raising funds for his legal defense and to support his wife, who is eight months pregnant. Please donate and share.

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@hinaypod valentines to give your SO (spooky other? significant ordo? whatever, just be a horror podcast couple, that always ends well)

(much credit to the people of the discord for coming up with the sayings to put on these!!!)

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HAPPY! VALENTINE’S DAY! EVERYONE! 🥳🥰🏳️‍🌈

We may be a horror podcast, but that doesn’t mean we don’t have time for love. Here’s an amazing Valentine’s Day piece of Murphy and Ashvin on the job by @iigo_art on Twitter!

Hope you’re having a lovely day fighting the undead with your partner. 

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I started this but got too busy to finish it so this is what you get and I'll add to it some other time

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IN HIS CHILDHOOD BEDROOM????????? MARI!!!! MARI!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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id: a full page comic of the "mari finds out donner's name" scene from hi nay episode 50, complete with dialogue from the same. donner is on a phone call outside, interrupted by an off-screen disbelieving yell of "MAGNUS?!". he returns inside to find mari sitting with pocket in her lap, chatting with nan. he winces as mari teases him, learning where his name comes from. as the conversation continues without him, he watches mari fondly. finally, nan speaks directly to him, drawing him back into the conversation. as he speaks, mari finally looks back at him, blushing faintly.

happy donner name drop day gang