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my favorite gays-on-a-spaceship audiodrama podcast is back for the third and final season and I accidentally... made more fan art... this time based on an off-hand comment someone in the fan-run discord said 🫣 thanks @iriscasefiles for letting my brain fixate on a fictional fascist regime instead of the real one I'm floundering under you're the best 😘😘

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This is a heavy topic I'm about to ask. I don't know if it's even appropriate to ask on a public board anonymously. There are heavy parallels with the story of Starship Iris and the reality of the massacres in Gaza right now, all the bombardments and blitzes and chemical weapons. Initially it was something that I thought was coincidental in s2. But now I ask, is it deliberate? And will you handle this serious topic seriously?

Hi there. I want to use this opportunity to state for the record that Starship Iris absolutely did not use the genocide in Gaza as any kind of inspiration. The idea of me, a total outsider, exploiting that real and recent suffering as grist for a fiction podcast strikes me as ghoulish, and I don't use that word lightly here.

Aysha, Emily, and I plotted out Season Two, which sets up the war, in like 2018 or 2019, when the main worry was that people might draw parallels between the Regime's attacks on Telemachus and Russia's attacks on Ukraine. Again, any similarities are unintentional. When you write into your plot that one entity with more military power is attacking an area with less military power, there's only so many ways it can go. Armies have been blockading and bombing population centers for as long as there have been population centers, and the technology to blockade and bomb.

I did have a moment of wondering if we should hold back on the show until the tragedy in Gaza was a little less recent, but honestly, the sad fact of the matter is that I suspect by the time it has at least retreated from western awareness, another army will have attacked another population center, and the cycle will start over.

The only way that the recent real-life wars of the world have influenced the story of Starship Iris is to make me wish I hadn't written Glim in 3.00.5 being quite so glib about life being better for them personally since the bombing started. I think in retrospect the stress of being attacked at any moment by high-powered explosives would loom way higher in the consciousness. But this is a regret and not an actual writing decision.

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it's a song in the folk tradition, which is to say, as it spread it changed to suit the new singers, so there is no one definitive version. i think the verse arkady sings is sometimes part of the song and sometimes not. hope that helps!

FIRST EPISODE OF TSCOSI S3 MADE ME CRY AT WORK AAAAAAAA

@iriscasefiles full version of Landers Never Stand Down when? 👀 (Please? Pretty please?)

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hi! if you mean the version heard briefly on the show, it's available here!

FIRST EPISODE OF TSCOSI S3 MADE ME CRY AT WORK AAAAAAAA

@iriscasefiles full version of Landers Never Stand Down when? 👀 (Please? Pretty please?)

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Dwajjhah Ferin! Episode 3.01 is live!

You can listen here, or most places where you find podcasts. You can back us here for cool perks, including early episode listening.

Next episode comes out Thursday, June 26th.

Summary: Getting (some of) the band back together

Note: Please listen to mini episode 3.00.5 first, if you haven't yet.

Transcript: Available here.

Be advised this episode contains discussion of war, discussion of death, and a depiction of a residential area being bombed by a government.

This episode features:

Rae Tay as Juniper Liu

Sharafina Teh as Voice

William Mericle as Chuck Weathers

Julia Morizawa as Piper Tanaka

Lucille Valentine as Kestrel Colvin

Rukhmani K. Desai as Sana Tripathi

Ishani Kanetkar as Arkady Patel

Ella Whomersley as ELLA

Vrai Kaiser as Thasia

Cindy Chu as Violet Liu

Jackie Andrews as RJ McCabe

Jamie Price as Brian Jeeter

Bri LeFever as Krejjh

Nate Dufort as Max Gavins

Rain Corbyn as Swarnsh

Chris Choi as Jin Seon Park

Aaron Catano-Saez as Julio

Written by Jessica Best

Directed by Lauren Grace Thompson

Production Coordinator Eleanor Hyde

Sound design by Jeffrey Nils Gardner

Opening credits music is “Fear for the Storm,” written by Jessica Best and S.E. Winters and performed by Chiron Star, with Erin Bauman on vocals and harmonies arranged by Jamie Price. The closing credits music is “Rocket Science” by Amber Devereux of Tin Can Audio.

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the first full-length episode of the third and final season of Starship Iris is up right now on Patreon, for those pledging $15 or more per episode. if you would like to join their number, please take a solemn oath not to spoil anything for anyone else, and then mosey on down to our Patreon page.

if it's not in the cards for you right now, that is totally fine! the episode will be dropping for everyone tomorrow, Thursday June 12th.

if you need me until then, I will be lying face-down on my floor, feeling a LOT of emotions.

-jess

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Mini Episode 3.00.5 is live!

Listen here or wherever you get your podcasts. It's a portrait of San Ramos, and a prologue to Season Three. It is also essential listening before Episode 3.01 drops this upcoming Thursday, June 12th. You can read the transcript here.

(Be advised this episode contains discussion of war, and of an area being bombed by a government.)

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psst... the second mini episode of the third and final season of Starship Iris, which functions as both a sketch of life in San Ramos and a kind of prologue for Season Three, is currently up ad-free on Patreon for $15 and up backers. It releases to the general public tomorrow.

Previously, pledging $15 and up per episode got the backer the name of their choice inserted into the show, but since everything is done, the new $15 and up perk is listening to the episodes a day or two early without ads. Also, there used to be a cap on how many people could back us at that level and I have removed the cap!

The lower tiers also have fun perks, and our Patreon backers are what make the show possible, so please consider supporting us!

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See you later.

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out now!

At long last, it's here! Our first mini episode, made possible by our generous Patreon backers, is a summary to get you up to date on what's happened so far. So sit back, relax, and let Arkady recount the last two seasons in her inimitable style.

Link to the episode here, or via your favorite podcatcher.

Link to the transcript here.

Be advised this episode contains discussion of mental health, war, and violence.

Ishani Kanetkar as Arkady

Written by Jessica Best

Directed by Newton Schottelkotte

Sound design by Jeffrey Nils Gardner

Production coordination by Eleanor Hyde

The closing credits music is “Rocket Science” by Amber Devereux of Tin Can Audio

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coming soon

two days until the first mini episode of the third and final season drops! it's a review episode, like "Airplay" was for season two, so you can get a quick reminder of all the bonkers things that have happened so far. @thevoicefromthestars does a truly excellent job, with superb directing from Newton Schottelkotte and absolutely brilliant sound design from @euripidesredux.

to celebrate, we're putting all our merch on sale for the next week, some up to 27% off! so if you saw our recent designs and thought, "someday..." maybe now is someday enough?

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Poster by @anyaboz

Odessa is not alone...

[Transcript] Content Warnings - mild swearing.

Come along with us: Spotify Apple Podcast Pocket Cast RSS Feed Website

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All the words I couldn’t say to you

All the damage I’d have wrought

That old house, those rotted memories

Burned easier than I’d have thought

— The Well, The Crane Wives

I really liked the underpainting on this one.

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hey, so i semi-regularly check the tags #tscosi and #starship iris so that i can reblog fanart, especially when the show is actively coming out. in the leadup to starting to release the third and final season next month(!), it occurred to me there should be an avenue of tumblr where people can post without worrying about whether or not the person who wrote the dang show will read their takes.

to be clear, i haven't seen anything lately that feels like something i shouldn't see, but still, i've been in fandom long enough to know that these spaces are ultimately for you and not for me. so in that spirit, i'm taking a leaf from the discord for patreon backers of Keep It Steady and preemptively blocking anything tagged #nsfj (not safe for jess). so if there's anything you wanna post but don't want to share with me, for any reason, feel free to tag it #nsfj, and i will continue on my merry way, none the wiser.

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do my eyes deceive me? is my favorite podcast ever returning?

we're coming back, folks! <3

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oh hey, I almost forgot—

to celebrate the upcoming season, we put the theme song on spotify and itunes!

please help spread the word!

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please help spread the word!