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[pearl-kite]

Hi I know this is out of nowhere and sorry if you answered it before. Also totally ok if you don’t want to answer

But your blog got me super interested in the redacted asmr thing

I did some research and you seem to know a lot about so do you know if there’s any like, chronological order I should watch them?

Love your blog!

Absolutely no worries! I like getting stuff to respond to, it's the opposite of a bother <3

So Redacted Audio, formerly Redacted ASMR, is a channel on youtube with a, quite frankly, massive amount of audio, and since it's been running for over 4 years now it can be a LOT to sort through. Fortunately, he's done a really good job curating and organizing playlists for the different speaker-characters.

Everything is within the same universe, and many of the characters have interacted with each other. The context is that the location is a fictional city named Dahlia set somewhere in California, which is a "cornerstone" city for magical society. The best way to get a solid rundown on magic and the setting is to listen through the Freelancer Season 1 playlist.

This one is already arranged in chronological order* and also has the benefit of giving a sampler of sorts for a wider variety of speakers. One thing to be aware of ahead of time: While this was actively being published, Erik hadn't decided who the listener-character (nicknamed Freelancer) would be romancing, so it starts off with a lot of potential toward all of them except Caelum. As it went, there were polls in the discord server that he used to run, and popular consensus eventually narrowed it down to Gavin. The first time I listened was after all of that, and I was more fond of Damien, but I'm personally pleased with Gavin now, and this playlist has been one of my favorites to just revisit if I'm bored.

*Well, mostly. There was a point where the channel got a strike for some of the audios being too spicy and he removed and/or edited some of them to try to avoid being demonetized. The first Gavin audio is one of the ones that got edited, and #3 on the playlist accidentally got relocated. It's been a long time, but I think it was originally after what's now #6, the second Caelum audio.

Aside from that one as a good introduction to the channel as a whole, there are some "main" characters that have had the most attention.

One is a group of wolf shifters: David, the current head of the pack (Chronological for his listener. A lot of people aren't super fond of the earliest ones for him, #3-5, because the character evolved a bit and they aren't really representative any longer) Asher, his second Milo, another pack member, which is absolutely underselling him, he's one of my favorites

There are a couple of vampires: Vincent, the OG for the channel Sam, a common favorite who's listener is a member of David's pack

While most of the playlists are specific to character, there are a few thematic ones as well, all of which are chronological within themselves. Now, chronology with respect to each other can start to get a bit confusing, because of how long it's taken for some of them to play out.

If you want to get a feel for the characters before worrying too much about timeline, I'd listen through most playlists as they're arranged with one main caveat:

When you hit the audios titled Inversion, give those a pause until you've listened to more speakers. Inversion was a huge crossover he did that has 10+ speakers involved.

A personal favorite has been Vega. I'm actually super not fond of the first audio he's in, which is also in the Freelance list, so I skip that one when I relisten. The first one in this list is that one with the Freelancer, but the second and onward has a demon listener nicknamed Warden. We just got an update on his story today/last night and I've been a little unwell about it 🙃

I am realizing I could go on and on and on and I kind of have, so I'm going to stop there. Hopefully that's enough to dip your toes in. I'll gladly help out with any follow-up questions, too :3

[antiyourwokehomophobia2]

Man, old people were right. Listening to the morning radio is lit as fuck.

[divinekangaroo]

Today’s debate: Arthur Shelby is a delicate precious flower who must be kept wrapped in Japanese silk in a bower lest his virginity be cruelly taken from him

Who will stand for the position of the affirmative? *John cautiously raises his hand*

Who will table the position for the negative? *a resounding silence interrupted only by Arthur making desperate muffled noises through the underwear gagging his mouth*

[pc-98s]

i made the Silly Device

[riverdale-retread]

is english hiram's first or second language?

Hiram is actually a monolingual English speaker. He sprinkles in a mi amore or mija or whatever every now and then just for flavor. Actually, Mr. Luna, Hiram's father? He didn't speak Spanish either. Both their levels of comprehension of Spanish is like, a really smart dog, you know?

[steinbit]

finally had to bite the bullet and buy a new laptop since my old one is Literally just hanging on by a single hinge and a hope and it's SUCH a paaain setting up and transferring all my shit to the new one 😔

[girlytips]

Is there another name for girly kei? I've got complex reasons for not wanting to call my clothes "girly" and have been using the magazine name larme kei instead.

Unfortunately not. However, larme kei has been a used name in the past, even if it was just in the west. If you refer to your clothing style as Larme Magazine inspired, it'd be a good way to describe your fashion without calling it by an incorrect name or referring to yourself as wearing girly kei fashion.

[hairtusk]

i love disabled access spaces where it's blindingly obvious NO disabled people were consulted in the design

[orphyd]

Oh man I love unprecedented times 😁 love living through historical milestones every 10 days 😘

[meatmensch]

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[wutaijiemei]

by routed thru mandarin i mean i compared different mandarin translations and taigi>mandarin dictionaries and tled that to english so i feel like hopefully somewhere between those things lies a mostly accurate rendering. tho also i think there are some things where i would have done slightly more word for word if i were just posting a tl straight up rather than for subbing purposes where i wanted it to rly still retain its poetic quality rather than simply transmitting the meaning of what was being said T-T

[wool-string]

Some panels I liked

[icedtoastt]

The 2am uncontrollable urge to change your name

[visualkeisales]

LIraizo CD and wristband set ③(cds are unopened) $7