#Critical Zone

[jafar-panahi]

Critical Zone (2023), dir. Ali Ahmadzadeh 🇮🇷

A night in the life of a drug dealer in Tehran. Shot without the government's permission with first time actors.

[detectiveneve]

accidentally clicked on the for you page and got hit with the most annoying video game opinions. that was so scary.

[oestermann]

Zukünfte (12): Vom globalen zum planetarischen Denken

Bagger im Tagebau Hambach Smokeyharry, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0, via Wikimedia Commons Lange Zeit hat der “moderne” Mensch unterschieden zwischen Erd- oder Naturgeschichte einerseits und Menschheits- oder Zeitgeschichte andererseits. Die erstere war Angelegenheit von Geologen oder Paläontologen und hatte keine Berührungspunkte mit der Historie des Menschen. Der…

[forhandsthatsuffer]

Critical Zone (2023), dir. Ali Ahmadzade

[letterboxd-loggd]

Critical Zone (منطقه بحرانی) (Mantagheye bohrani) (2023) Ali Ahmadzadeh

January 13th 2024

[nodalshift]

B2 Crater, Syberia

[aroacesetitoff]

not romantic not platonic but a secret third thing (in the same adventuring party)

[heytherecentaurs]

The quality of D&D actual play shows has only steadily increased over time. Every player is better than when they started, every DM is better, every member of each production crew is better, the editing and sound design in the podcasts is better, the encounter design is better, etc… I absolutely love the stuff from 5+ years ago and it’s only a testament to the people involved that they’ve made things better. We’re living at the best possible time for D&D content and there’s enough variety that you can find something to your taste. And that’s just great.

[chocopinda]

A slightly festive Fearne for the upcoming holidays~

[sgt-tombstone]

Ghost: you look tired, Johnny

Soap: yeah, I didnae sleep well last night, I went to bed early but tossed and turned for forty-seven hours straight

Ghost: that’s literally not possible

Soap, leaning into the bit: actually, I was on a plane going from *stops to think for a second* east to west, so I was in the air for fifty hours but it was only about eight hours local time

Ghost: is this your way of telling me that you only got three hours of sleep last night?

Soap: yeah…

Ghost, fondly: you’re so fucking stupid, sergeant

[jafar-panahi]

Critical Zone (2023), dir. Ali Ahmadzadeh 🇮🇷

[the-uncanny-dag]

The main appeal of Dungeon Meshi that made it an instant hit in the Anglosphere is that it's fundamentally the same as all those tabletop campaign shows, except you can have good character writing, high concepts, funny comic relief & interesting plotlines without having to sit through countless hours of meandering, inside jokes for a group of 5 people in their 40s & metagaming every week

[oestermann]

Zukünfte (10): Von Grenzen und Faltungen

Wie können die planetaren Grenzen in der Politik und bei Entscheidungen des Alltags wirksam werden?

Caspar David Friedrich, Winterlandschaft, 1811 (Staatliches Museum Schwerin) via Wikicommons Die Politik hat sich im Ringen um die wirksame Strategie für die Metakrise unserer Tage verheddert. Die eine Regierungspartei setzt auf eine Strategie des grünen Wachstums, die andere weiß nicht, was sie wollen soll und die dritte ist sich mit der Opposition einig und will zurück zu einem fiktiven status…

[bakanokiwami]

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TOP 10 PODCASTS ON AO3 BASED ON NUMBER OF FANWORKS (2013-2022)

YEAR = November 6 (or closest date to it if unavailable) of that year

To make this bar chart race, all series titles in the Other Media Category on November 6 (or the closest date to it) of every year were copy-pasted from Wayback Machine to Google Sheets, rearranged according to number of fanworks, and manually filtered since not all podcasts were marked as such. Then I inputted all the top 10 data to Flourish to turn into a bar chart race.

Some web series like Critical Role and Dimensions 20 released audio-only versions of their works too, but I left them out since they were listed was a web series on ao3 and more known as one too. 

Similarly, radio shows which only had podcasts years after they started are not included. That means Cabin Pressure, which I accidentally added in the 2022 Top 20 ranking last week, is not included here because it was only rereleased as a podcast in 2019, and 90% of the fanworks it has now are from before 2019.

All nonfiction podcasts have also been excluded (Not that there were many), because with RPFs, it’s hard to tell if the fic in question is just based on the podcast or because of the things the person has done outside of it. 

The bar race starts on 2013 because there were no podcasts in the Other Media category before that year.

The first podcast fandom to post on Ao3 was We’re Alive on January 1, 2013, followed by The Thrilling Adventure Hour on January 27, 2013, and then Welcome to Night Vale at June 2013.

In 2014-2016, Sparks Nevada Marshal on Mars, a segment from The Thrilling Adventure Hour, was also in the top 10, but I didn’t included it since it’s not its own podcast.

TOTAL = the total fanworks of all the top 10 over the years, not the whole podcast fandom itself

Thanks for understanding and hopefully I didn’t miss anything! Apologies for any mistakes, I’m still a podcast noob.🙏

ETA: Locked fanworks aren't included in the count because Wayback Machine can’t view those, only Ao3 users can.

[its-your-mind]

ah yes. the twins. from the dnd show. yeah the guy and the girl. yeah of elvish descent but left their family early. right. relied on each other for everything and always knew where they were in relation to each other. joined up with some loveable doofuses to save the world several times. yeah one of them died and it really fucked up the other one and they blamed a member of their party for it. being separated was Not Good for them. uh huh yeah one of them eventually became an emissary of the raven queen. why the fuck are you talking about mexican food now. what does that have to do with this.