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The time has finally come to close the first half of our story Chapter 24 is live wherever you get your podcasts!

This episode features Mike LeBeau, Skylar Johnson, @totcoc0a, @taytayheyhey, Cody Heath, Nichole Goodnight, and Asher Amor-Train

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doing an elective summer school programme again this year so I am taking recommendations for horror/other fiction podcast series to check out during my commute !! please please I need more recs desperately 🫶🏻

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> go to an online space

> ask the people there whether their resources are international or just for americans

> they laugh and say "they're good resources sir"

> they're for americans

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[ID: The Bernie Sanders "I am once again asking" meme, edited to read, "I am once again asking for you to listen to Trice Forgotten." End ID] (ID by @anothergoddamnmystery thank you!!)

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if the world were a more just place, Pham Thi Anh Trice Forgotten would be the Tumblr sexywoman she deserves to be. She's a sword-wielding lesbian pirate who is actively writing a rivals to lovers 500k story in her head about her childhood best friend/rival for the entire show. She's mean. She's ambitious in the gayest possible way. She even plays the bamboo flute

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*shoves more Alestes art in your face cuz i like her*

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A new day and a new podcast recommendation video! This time we have pirate, food, and mayhem: It's Trice Forgotten, created by Nemo Martin and produced by @rustyquill

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starting another abandoned/hiatus/dead podcast with only one season convincing myself

it's ok I won't get attached

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mentally i’m having a yuri sword fight on the netoansom

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Alestes, Siva and Anh from that one new podcast yknow

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TRICE FORGOTTEN IS A PODCAST ABOUT QUEER P(IRATES)OC, BOYS!

I’m drawing the characters using their voice actors as faceclaims :3

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A Captain Alestes doodle I drew the day Trice Forgotten came out! Go listen to it right now!

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It is too early for ship art but i decided that I don't care i rly like this sketch so enjoy

Here's the og sketch as well because i like it:

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Have Siva and Noor named the stingrays?

this question has plagued me for months - because yes, of course they would, but naming is HARD (and thanks for asking, i love any excuse to talk about my children :D)

I think maybe Siva (when they're freshly caught) is trying to clean the tank and is like "move out the way செல்லம் (chellam)" [translation: "dear"?] because it's something people have said to him when he's in the way of cleaning? And Noor, who ofc doesn't know Tamil, assumes one of them is just fully called Chellam, so that becomes its official name

One is named Private Pearson, the person mentioned in ep2 who gave siva an empty crate to draw his maps on, because it needed a name and siva hasn't given Pearson a return gift yet - what better than the honour of a name

And uh. someone who actually knows Arabic can correct the 0.5 seconds of research I did for this one, but Noor maybe names one Basimah ["smiling"?] because like. :3

(also FYI stingray faces are NOT as cute as i remembered them being. just spent a horrifying amount of time being haunted by TMA creepy ghoul expressions trying to find a non-terrible photo of the smiling face ;__;)

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Can we get a breakdown of everyone’s fave food? Alestes loves potatoes, Noor loves radishes, what about the others?

(I love that this is my life)

Siva: Idiyappam (string hoppers) with shaved coconut is his safe food (he complains about having to help nani make them but the texture is something that can't be found in camp food)

Baker: there's a type of smoked salmon that he only got at home because of the type of wood used, and he misses it every day he's away

Inez: Ensaymada, especially with keso de bola

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Hello!! I absolutely love trice forgotten and I was so over the moon excited to hear the name noor for the first time cuz that’s my brothers name! I never get to hear it very often in fiction. Also I absolutely love the occasional Islamic phrases noor will use. Can I ask how you came up with which languages and ethnicities you wanted your characters to be?

hello friend! :D I'm excited that you're excited, and as you can tell I love the name Noor so i hope they live up to your excitement!

i chose the languages and ethnicities based on the diasporas i grew up around in London, especially when those weren't/aren't seen in British media - Tamil Sri Lankans, Yemeni people, Filipinos, non-mainland Chinese and West Africans - my friends and family are these ethnicities because of where the British have been - and though more and more reprentation has grown of trans white people and of queer east asians, the people i grew up near have had their cultures and histories forgotten and forgotten in the western canon.

I'm far and away from being any kind of expert on the cultures in the show, but they are at least slightly more familiar to me; i ate in British Tamil households, so know marginally more about them than other South Asian cultures.

I think Baker and Alestes are the outliers - both of their backgrounds were built from historical figures I'd read about while doing preliminary research - one study on Chinese South Africans, and one on the history of Black Nova Scotians - both related to the British trade routes between the Americas to South Asia, swinging around Cape Town.

As for languages, they all speak English because all of their countries of birth have been colonised by the British - but I wanted them to have the mixed-race/diaspora/migrant struggle of having too many better (/worse) words tumbling out of their mouth. There's no English term that encapsulates insha'Allah for Noor. Alestes swears in Hokkien because Baker didn't speak any and couldn't tell her off, but she doesn't know Hokkien, or isiXhosa, she's always lived on the outer edges of people who do.

anyway, very long ramble that could simply have been: because my friends' backgrounds made it easy for me to start researching!

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What are the last names of all the characters? We’ve got Inez and Gabe and Anh but why don’t we know the others?

Hello friend!

Soooo a couple of reasons for this, depending on the character!

1) naming conventions of First Name Surname aren't universal - from what I understand, Sri Lankan Tamils typically don't have a surname and so where necessary will use a parent's name as their surname on forms - only Siva doesn't have parents to loan a name - so he's just Siva

2) some Black people in the 18/19th century did not want to be (or were not allowed to) carry their *white* father's surname (see Alex Dumas, father of the author). This doesn't track 1-for-1 with Baker, but he chose to just go by Baker for a myriad of reasons. it's not like there's passport forms he has to fill out.

3) inversely, some cultures have surname-forname structures (Anh, Anran), or surname gives familial tie (Gabe, Inez) and so it's important for the characters to foreground this.

4) mystery, anonymity, personal - some characters don't want to give more of themselves than they wish.

tl;dr, character choices!