#programming update

[weeklyfrogpod]

Happy Monday!! We're on hiatus through the end of the year, as you know, BUT

YOU are this week's froggy friend. that's right. YOU. Especially if you vote for our FOTY 2024!

[pangur-and-grim]

my old man yaoi is getting published!

you can grab a pre-order here

[calicojack1718]

Programming Update: Cosplaying 19th Century British Poets

Ye Olde Blogge is going on summer holiday so there will be complications. To find out all of the fun and the details of the complications, read the post.

Howdy y’all! Programming update here. In five and a half hours — it is 9:30 AM in Phnom Penh as of this writing — we will be winging our way off to Zurich and later by train to Tuscany! There, we will be cosplaying 19th century British poets for as we summer in a villa in the rolling hills outside of Tuscany. I’ve got two weeks of Mary Shelley costumes prepared! I’ve re-watched the Dr Who…

[genshin-impact-updates]

Happy Birthday, Navia!

As the renowned President of the Spina di Rosula, isn't it normal that I receive so many gifts for my birthday? This bottle of perfume looks great. Let me give it a try— Mm, it's like a sea breeze carrying the scent of roses. It suits my style perfectly, doesn't it? I can tell that it's a gift from a friend who knows me well! Let's see who's the sender— Haha, just kidding, I already knew it was you. You have excellent taste!

[cookiesnpaste]

an assortment of clown doodles that idk how to caption

[emilywaters]

Best ripple effects from the genshin 5.6 livestream

KAEBEDO REVIVAL

RAGBRO REVIVAL

Kaeya edit renaissance

Just overall Mondstadt renaissance

Hexenzirkel theories

Our yearly reminder of Alice's international terrorism

This truly was our Genshin Impact 😔✊️✊️

[puffycinnabunny]

“a synthetic being loses control of their sanity”

[gummi-ships]

Kingdom Hearts Re:Chain of Memories - Halloween Town Sora & Riku

[jojo-schmo]

Eyo, the Forgotten Land Roleswap just got renewed for another season 😤✨

[leohtttbriar]

i know that uhura’s role in tos was written to be like a radioman (the guy in wwii movies who carries the phone on his back sometimes) meaning that the “communications officer” role evolved from radioman to linguist in the time since tos aired. but that makes uhura in tos really interesting with a retrospective read of her character, applying things novels and later iterations of her have fleshed out, because she doesn’t do any visible linguistic work in any tos episode. she does security and navigation and piloting and engineering which sort of makes her seem like a valuably flexible sort of many-skilled officer.

it was probably both enterprise with hoshi and the 2009 movie that really cemented the idea of “communications officer means linguist or at the very least polyglot” instead of it just being an uhura-quirk. uhura in the 2009 movie does a lot of engineering/operating work of comm equipment and is implied to speak a lot of languages on top of be able to interpret subspace “noise,” so to speak (like, there’s no way it’s radio. it can’t be radio. star trek takes place across distances of lightyears—when they say “signal,” i’m assuming it’s not radio). and of course strange new worlds has run with the linguistics angle and made it even more explicit that yes she studies linguistics, linguistics is a core part of starfleet academic infrastructure, to the point where whole episode plots are written around the act of translation.

the retrospective addition of this expertise to uhura makes what she is in tos a character even more focused on leadership and, idk, becoming something like a captain, because she doesn’t seem all that specialized. she’s more of a kirk-like character, or janeway or sisko, characters that have a specialized skill but have set it aside mostly to pursue some sort of command. obviously this wasn’t the intention of her character. writers of uhura have mostly just stumbled on the idea of her as a polyglot (according to wikipedia, first introduced in the novel uhura’s song, so) and been like “neat idea! makes sense! explorers need to learn languages!” and kept doubling down on that idea until we get to an origin-story uhura in snw that (wildly) speaks 37 languages, for whatever definition of speak or language, i guess.

what all this overthinking on my part has generated is this idea of uhura very much like a futuristic-captain aubrey or a captain sisko not nailed down to one station, hanging off the shrouds of a solar-sail ship’s rigging, looking beyond, in the most romantic and idealized version of an explorer. i think a lot of people read/write female characters as being more down-to-earth than the whimsical leader-on-the-sea or more nurturing than than the hardened captain-of-a-ship, partly why janeway and burnham are so wonderful to me. but it’s fun to imagine tos uhura being the exploring-captain archetype, amongst the political structures of the 60s. like the additions to her character over the years have solidified that romantic adventurer portrait of her in tos, when the idea of her in command would be the least welcome.

and the fact that she was shown to be excited about a solar sailing ship in snw, like sisko was in ds9 for that one episode, i think emphasizes this read of her—and that her character-journey in snw is going to be how she goes from bookish linguist to “hanging-on-a-shroud-on-a-sunsail-ship” looking out to “sea”.

[weeklyfrogpod]

Hey froggy friends! We're taking this week off for some rest and relaxation.

.....but hey, if you're a US American and haven't yet, GO VOTE! Today if you can, tomorrow if not! The administration has a direct impact on federal conservation efforts and distribution of land, and YOU have a direct impact on the administration! Vote!

[updatingranboo]

please redirect all your starkid musical asks to bug @end3rboy as he can’t see them here and he will love to talk more abt it LMAO

[omeletcat]

I FUCKING LOVE HEATHERS i recently watched the musical and i cannot listen. to any song that isn't Candystore, dead girl walking, beautiful or big fun.

i wasn't expecting so much suicide in the musical tbh, and also thought that heather (the red one) would be more of an antagonist but she just died.

[genshin-impact-updates]

Version 5.4 Special Program Preview

Dear Traveler, it's announcement time!

The special program for Genshin Impact's new version will premiere on the official Twitch and YouTube channels on 1/24/2025 at 07:00 AM (UTC-5)!

This special program will feature juicy details about new game content and developments in Version 5.4. It will also "drop" some redemption codes and other goodies!

Make sure to follow us, Traveler. We'll see you there!

Twitch

YouTube

[the-hot-zone]

recommendations for @mail-me-a-snail & honestly everyone who follows me bc y'all know i give out recommendations like candy. i think especially you may like I think love is something that happens to other people and HOW TO BE A DOG (the latter is similar to Your Faithful Servant).

[emilywaters]

Genshin 5.6 theories and thoughts

Albedo is guilty, but it's justified, and there was a really good reason (maybe it was under orders from rhinedottir?)

Ifa will heal Neuvillette (they kept talking about ifa being able to heal other dragons during the live, so it seems a little obvious (unless that was a red herring))

Potential Istaroth lore drop?

5.7 will be windblume with Dornman Port Mondstadt extension (manifesting 🙏🙏🙏)

Fakebedo lore

Omg, what if Fakebedo is the person Albedo killed, and he had to dispose of the body in a way it couldn't be revived, hence improper disposal of human bodies?!!

Dainsleif will make an appearance

Traveller will discover incriminating evidence in Albedo's office (also, why aren't people more hyped about Knights of Favonius HQ second floor reveal???) But will also realise he killed Fakebedo and will hide/destroy the evidence so Albedo will be ruled innocent

Kaeya and/or Venti will know about the hidden/destroyed evidence