#diversity in podcasts

[murderandcoffee]

diversity win! the two knights who are both best friends and rivals are bisexual (but neither of them knows it yet)!

[owlinks]

tandem // "what we did."

[yoursonlucifer]

moonshine is fat!!!!!!!!!

[utilitycaster]

*person who repeatedly complains that all actual play is D&D voice* Oh I stopped listening to TAZ after Balance and dipped in for Ethersea but never really got into Amnesty or Steeplechase or any of their mini-series. No, I haven't checked out Candela Obscura or any of the CR one shots...heard weird things about the Monsterhearts one. Yeah I'm more into D20 now...no, haven't been keeping up with Mentopolis.

[andromerot]

someone needs to do a study on fiction podcast fandom twitters racial headcanons for characters. literally how did they all decide unanimously that jonathan sims was south asian

[yescking]

happy pride fellas

[macabresymphonies]

Only five episodes in, but do I sense romantic tension between Arthur and John? Or am I so affection starved that simple acts of kindness register as romantic to me? Find out the next episode...

[bo0bydrake]

i have got to emphasise on the fact that this is huge actually- gay rights in football is something that's just barely discussed. during the world cup in qatar, captains were banned from wearing a one love captain's band because it was too political (it was just a band with a rainbow heart on it), homophobia and racism is practically rooted in the songs sung during matches and there are no out players in the premier league, or more generally, there is only one (1) out player in the top leagues. having a character simply just,, be with another man and also a footballer in the premier league is a huge statement and will hopefully aid in trying to make football a better space.

[watcherglowcloud]

hey if the bad guys in my favorite shows could stop interrupting right when there's abt to be some rly tender gay shit going on that'd be great

[bisexualamy]

my project falls in between the cracks of different overlapping artistic areas (it's not a film it's audio, it's audio fiction not audio journalism) but it really is something else that i qualify for a lot more grants now catered to "gender minorities" bc the other half of my production staff is a cis(het) woman tbh it feels a bit like a slap in the face.

i am a trans person writing about other trans people yet i do not qualify for so many of these grants for gender minorities bc they're specifically for "women and nonbinary people". i am a trans person who does not qualify but so many cis women do.

talking about transmasc erasure is exhausting bc ironically ppl get so hung up on the man part of the trans man identity and i just want to shake people and say i'm trans i'm trans stop forgetting that i'm trans. my experiences with systemic gender discrimination are closer to women (trans & cis) and nb people than they'll ever be to cis men's

[sh4d0w-gl]

Does anyone know of any good BIPOC or sapphic fictional podcasts btw ??

Just cuz

1. i don’t want to limit myself to just content created by white people i want to support other cool things made by BIPOC !!

2. I’m either not looking hard enough or there’s hardly any!!!

3. WHERE ARE THE FICTIONAL SAPPICS!!!

I’ve heard of one called Mabel? Was thinking I’d check that out :0??

[hephaestuscrew]

I think it's funny that today I've ended up posting about hyper-competent aroace Rosalind Ursula and utter loser aroace Rudyard Funn. The two ends of the Aroace Podcast Character spectrum...?

[gammija]

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[twigsandhearts]

"Twigs and Hearts is an amazing project! I feel really inspired by this amazing team of young, independent, and passionate creators. This podcast truly feels like a labour of love, with a diverse cast of characters (because we all know how much representation matters) and a surprising story."                             - Teresa CR (she/they), voice actor

[dullahandyke]

Oh also I've figured out why I jive w calling myself a neckbeard so much n I think its bcos of the reclamation of it all. Like 'neckbeards' r mocked and belittled as unmanly, repulsive, and perverted, and while I certainly understand the archetype and the reason why the men it targets (violent gamergaters and so on) need to be scrutinised, I keep getting hung up on the fact that they are near unanimously represented by an image of a fat man with a neckbeard and struggling hygiene. Many of the traits that I see in my myself are used as visual shorthand for bigotry, and are used to inspire disgust in those watching. The reality of the matter is that men of all appearances are guilty of perpetuating bigotry, harassment, and violence, and by pinning our imagery on those we deem ugly, we only reinforce older ideas of what a man should and should not be (ugly, fat, nerdy). Even in liberal spaces, this imagery is proliferated near and far (cough cough ironic soyjak), and whenever I see it, it is a reminder that in a lot of people's views, appearance does reflect morality. I will defend neckbeards to the grave, certainly not because of their politics or character, but because I hate to see people falling into the same traps of appearance-based evil which can be used to draw a line to bigotry.

Like, I'm a fat slob of a girlboy, and my beard hasn't yet graduated to my cheeks, but still I adore it. Despite my adoration of it, however, when I look long and hard at myself in the mirror, I see soyjak and people making fun of the amish for not shaving and every stereotype of the gross fat nerd. My facial hair will one day be more typically attractive, and I'll have that coveted gentleman-lady appeal, but until then, it sets me apart even in genderfuck spaces when I see people laughing at Emperor Nero not for his atrocities but for his chinstrap.

I don't know where I'm going for this. Fuck it, I am dirty and gross and perverted, and the fuck are you going to to about it? When I buy an oppai mousepad, it'll be a lesbian win operating on so many levels of subverted norms that it'll make someone's brain explode and it'll make me very happy.