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ITS GREAT LAKES AWARENESS DAY!!!!!

On this excellent day, be aware that this is the largest group of freshwater lakes in the world, covering over 95,000 square miles and reaching depths of over a thousand feet. They are beautiful freshwater seas.

Also when you die in these lakes, the very cold, oxygen-poor conditions at the bottom preserves you perfectly for all eternity. You will not rot and nothing will eat you. You will exist for as long as the Great Lakes do. Many shipwrecks still have the crew on board. Be Aware.

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Happy Audio Drama Sunday! I am requesting a group hug. Bring it in. Thank you. ❤️ Now allons-y.

This week I lost my grandma, and so spent a lot of my listening time re-visiting some of my favourite comfort shows. Those include @tellnotalespod and @storiesfromylelmore. The care and compassion of TNT, and how both silly and ernest SFY is bring me great joy and comfort. 🫂

@hinaypod Episode 56 - Dambuhala (Giant): Hearing Donner and Mari together post-Christmas episodes is everything. They are so cuuuute! I love that they went back to talk to the Waheela, and that she had so much to say about the ancient beings of the world. So much lore for us to try to make sense of! And it raised some interesting questions about Mari herself... ✨

@forgedbondspod - Chapter 16: Di and Ares' conversation was so funny from an outside perspective, knowing what Di knows. I was also internally screaming at some points Di. The surprise for Phae and Hera was so sweet! Their friends really care about them. Oof, another tense conversation between Hermes and Zeus. What could big Z possibly want with Circe (renowned for her knowledge of potions and ability to turn people into animals) and Hecate (associated with boundaries [of cities, borders, doorways, between worlds like the living/dead or mortal/immortal], witchcraft, herbalism and the moon)? I don't trust him one bit. 💍

@vestaclinicpod Episode 23 - Code Squeaky: Another one of my comfort shows, just when I needed it. I immediately listened this a second time, just to make sure I absorbed all of the Calyxy and Prof lore! Their relationship sounded so lovely. And all that with the squikir rustling around the vents in the background. As soon as Sec told Faye that the Prof used to adjust the vents above him, I just KNEW there would be something hidden away up there. Something with a weird shape...weren't Faye and Sec looking for something with a weird shape to connect to him? 🤔 Also very curious to see what was on that comms. ⚕️

@monkeymanproductions Waiting For October S1E7.5 - Yvonne: I absolutely love a monologue, especially when it's voiced by the talented Tina Case. We hear Yvonne struggling with her place in Karo's story, her own wants and needs, her own story, and whether they can all coexist. There are some big feelings that both Yvonne and Karo are dealing with, and I really hope they find a way through it all together. 🎃

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It's heeeeeere!

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Okay ms.rona wrap it up hoe

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also a poem from the new, unreleased collection. very possibly my own all-time favourite.

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while i was definitely gonna go on hormones no matter what the one thing that fully convinced me was seeing a tweet that was like "youre already on hormones and you hate it" like that really unlocked something in me

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To me the most fun part about fix-its is placing dominoes.

Tragedies often consist of escalating series of actions and circumstances which, in isolation, were not clearly leading to the tragic end but form a chain of cause-and-effect directly towards it in hindsight. In equal but opposite fashion, I love starting with small inoccuous changes to canon that in themselves do not obviously fix everything but start a new chain that leads to a better ending.

It's kind of impossible for fix-its to feel fully natural– the reader by definition knows what the original ending was and that this ending will be happier because the writer wants it to be– but it is possible for them to not feel contrived. A big deus-ex-machina, or a character breaking with their pre-established tragic flaws to suddenly make all the "correct" decisions almost always feels unsatisfying to me.

But a few carefully placed small domino pieces slowly knocking over bigger and bigger tiles until the entire story has radically changed? That's a lot more fun.

It recquires the author to both correctly identify the original chain of cause-and-effect and understand the characters well enough to know how they'd react to different circumstances. Because if the story feels like it's fixing the wrong problem or the characters don't act like themselves the magic is lost. But when it works? When it clicks and the reader sees the domino chain laid out in front of them? It's beautiful.

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explaining you idiots to my non-interventionist godfather who lives on a boat and doesn't use the internet

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to all the warriors who will feel pressured to shave their legs now that it’s warm enough to wear shorts… HOLD THE LINE!!!

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does anyone have the screenshot of the comment on the youtube video of molten iron slag being poured where it's a guy describing his experience witnessing the same thing written in the most beautiful prose imaginable

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Re reading the original hunger games is so funny bcus katniss can literally read haymitch's mind like what. I'm dying of thirst but haymitch hasn't sent me water, that must mean that there's some nearby!! And one kiss is one pot of broth!! Like she even acknowledges that it's strange when she's like oh to peeta this would just be a pot of broth. Haymitch will give her one look and katniss knows immediately what he means and she's right every time

Meanwhile peeta is like your dress really suits you and you look nice :) and katniss is like he's trying to kill me

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oh my god the whole pasithea powder fandom is online right now

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i was wrong about a lot of this but i was RIGHT WHERE IT MATTERED 😮‍💨 (episode 16 cleaning house)

It's Bracket Season!

Why? Why not. Check back every other day (ish) for a new poll until we crown the ULTIMATE PASITHEA EPISODE. Do I know how to seed a tournament? No, but that doesn't matter here.

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my pasitheapowder tier list as well although i truly love them all <3

thank u @finnisterre for the template!

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i made a tierlist of pasithea episodes using the template @pasitheapowder designed and @finnisterre built!!!