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Hi, I miss you 😭

WE MISS YOU (things are cooking!)

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omg help this is so funny i just went to go look through the pod episodes and thought "why not start with episode 57, the one episode that is not tied to a direct comic strip" and was immediately greeted with "i wanna meet the weirdo who decided to start with episode 57" ... just needed to say yeah. me

HI WEIRDO, WE ARE SO GLAD TO MEET YOU

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thoughts on the webtoon rerelease and what it means for the fandom and author interactivity?

So I have to tell you, and maybe this is because I am turning 98 on my next birthday (July, mark your calendar), I don't understand what Webtoon does other than just be like, a fifth venue where this comic is available to read (after the Tumblr, the dedicated OMGCP website, the Kickstarter books, and the First Second ones)?

Here are two ideas I have:

Idea 1: Because Webstoon is actually built to host webcomics, it looks and functions for this specific webcomic much better than anywhere else it's already hosted? Tumblr is the platform it was made for but it also wasn't built for serialized storyteling and archiving, that website is ass and has never worked, and the comic wasn't made for the static medium of the graphic novel so there are some ways it's never translated. And, again, not to be in my 120s, but I was engaging with webcomics in the early-mid 2000s when platforms like Keenspot facilitated webcomics consumption. Webtoon is more similar to that platform than anywhere else you can read Check Please. Maybe it's even more ideal.

Idea 2: It seems like Ngozi has, over the past couple of years, intermittently tried to generate new interest in the comic. She has posted a few times about wanting a TV show. She has posted on her Discord about having new ideas for OMGCP stories and/or projects. I can think of two (not mutally exclusive) things she might be getting out of putting OMGCP on a new platform. One, she may miss the story/characters and, after three or four years away from the project, enjoy getting to think about and see people dicussing her OCs again. Two, if she does intend to do more with the comic, either by expanding the canon or adapting it (or having someone else do it), showing that it's getting engagement on a new, seemingly more relevant platform in 2024 might help her demonstrate that there is a current audience for it. And actually, I wonder if being able to say that it was popular when it was the most-funded webcomic Kickstarter in 2016 and is successful on this other site in 2025 might make the case that the comic is evergreen in its popularity and will always find an audience so it should be made into a show that can be sold multiple times to various streaming platforms over its lifespan -- or, you know, some shit like that. Then again, is 250k-ish views on that site popular? Just to clear I do not know.

Of course, I also don't know this woman, and these are only some theories based upon, like, how things seem to work. I've never truly engaged with Webtoon because like, I already read this comic 90 times. And certainly my initial reaction was "why would you read this week-by-week on Webtoon when the entire comic is totally free right now both here and here?" So maybe there is something about the community reading experience, week by week at a regular pace, that is appealing to readers. I never got that experience; I lived through a maddening yearslong cycle of anticipation and regret. But maybe this steady year or two of posting will be healthier for whoever is reading it there.

Then again,

I’m posting the Parse triology to Webtoon over the next few weeks how do you think Webtoons readers will handle it? Comment below! (doesn’t even wait for an answer) it’s been nearly a decade—I’m a decade older—the fact that some people reading in 2015 didn’t understand that Parse was a good character but a damaged person who was actively bad for jack

Wait, excuse me, HOW was he bad for Jack???? The comic never tells us this actually? You know what, NOT TODAY, I'll see all of you in hell.

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I just re-listened to your Parse episodes (which are literally the only podcast episodes I have saved on spotify) to hear your excellent commentary and feel even more crazy about certain character choices.

Just want to drop in to say that I love the pod, and I'm delighted to see that you guys have something in the works!

We are delighted you still want to hear us!

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>;) >;) >;) >;) >;) >;) >;) >;) >;) >;) >;) >;) >;) >;) >;) >;) >;) >;) >;) >;)

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Listeeeeenn, when I think about the fact that on the tv show we don't really know Lestat (Parse), we have only seen him through the stories told by Louis (Jack) and Armand (Bitty)...I feel like I'm on fiiiiiire

pacing furiously around my apartment about this

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hi, hello, hope this finds you well. just a quick question, is the podcast over now we have lestat? 😭 maybe you could do one final special episode about iwtv?!

also, is parse lestat coded? and does that mean bitty is armand?!

anyway, i miss listening to you! ❤️

i need to know who fucking sent this because approximately seven minutes ago while I was almost home from a work event that was technically in my honor that took up five and a half hours of my Saturday when I could have been writing vampire mpreg or whatever, and no I am not fucking kidding, literally seven minutes ago, I was considering whether I should reblog this post of tomato's and add "I wonder how Lestat is at flip cup"

TOO EERIE

anyway if I have my druthers about me, and of course that is always very circumspect, NO the podcast is NOT over but YES we will do an episode about Ew, TV, don't worry, we have already discussed it

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since Sekrit mentioned IWTV anyway, just to let you know how it’s going as of yesterday:

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been listening to some of the episodes again (specifically "is this podcast mean") and the discussions are so interesting because y'all brought up the concept of fandom as a sort of counterculture vs the mainstreaming of fandom and i spoke to another author recently who said (paraphrasing) that there's a common concept these days of fandom as a safe space, but they sought out fandom as a place for transgressive ideas, not safety. so. just thoughts i suppose.

i think this comes up in fandom all the time!! like not to bring this into my sacred check please podcast (SORRY) but I just saw someone ranting about this in uh interview with the vampire fandom, making the point that fan studies inaccurately constructs or characterizes fandom as a transgressive space, but actually it's not, and all I have to say is like, both/and??? but the inherent tension in this space is that the larger it is the more contradictory and complementary perspectives and approaches you're going to run into. I think at this point it's pretty well established what the initial impetus for doing this type of media slash fandom was (oppositional readings) but like all academic positing this is a pattern and a trend but not a universal truth, you know?

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i got my spotify wrapped and you guys are my most listened podcast! thanks for being my favourite comfort podcast. i re-listen to the episodes all the time

WE LOVE YOU!!!! happy new year!!! <3 <3 <3

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kent is laura palmer.

I (tomato) tragically haven't seen Twin Peaks! but I'm willing to defend this take this the combination of principle and osmosis (blond, disappears, their absence is a haunting presence...?)

@camilliar, what's your take?

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In this episode, tomato and Sekrit discuss first jellies, then peanuts butter, for the full 1 hour, 23 minutes, and 22 seconds. 

Read along with us: 3.6 PB&J | Blog

(P.S. for posterity's sake, tomato discovered @omgcheckplease had blocked her upon trying to find these very links!)

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REUNITED WITH WIFI!!!!!! give me a couple of hours to be dysfunctional but by hook or by crook, no matter WHO’S crying, this episode is gettin up tonight, babey 

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SORRY! wouldn’t be me without blowing through a self-imposed deadline for a variety of reasons, reasonable and unreasonable, including but not limited to my own idiocy and also beloved family members deciding they could not stand my attention being elsewhere and throwing a series of increasingly elaborate tantrums in order to guide my tender ministrations away from my computer screen and back towards them. episode actually-for-real coming later 2day when I’m reunited with WiFi

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we’ve determined that Sekrit is not blocked. this is either a very funny tumblr malfunction or an even funnier anti-tomato block

episode up later tonight! 

in other news, I think Ngozi might have blocked me (tomato) from @omgcheckplease, which, if true, both hurts my feelings and is extremely funny. Ngozi, it’s been an honor

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episode up later tonight! 

in other news, I think Ngozi might have blocked me (tomato) from @omgcheckplease, which, if true, both hurts my feelings and is extremely funny. Ngozi, it’s been an honor

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hi i wrote a fic inspired by your kiss the ice discussion and then forgot to tell you. but it's precanon jackshitty getting high, talking about their dads, & hooking up

SCREEEEEEEEEEEECH I AM ON MY WAY TO CHECK IT OUT RIGHT THIS SECOND