#one singular podcast

[coquettesamosa]

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[vvanillavveins]

The only thing stopping me from fully committing to the crossover hc that Arthur Lester is a Desolation victim turned Hunt avatar is my alternative hc that he could also be a Hunt victim turned avatar of the Eye. The logical middle ground is that several Fears are fighting for custody over god's favourite chew toy & John just isn't letting any of them win.

[osteochondraldefect]

another doodle dump . i think i sold my soul and carpal tunnel and last braincell to this podcast and you should too!

[artful-peculiarities]

Thinking about Ted singular from midnight burger podcast.. what a guy

[deathnoblade]

MALEVOLENT PART 45 SPOILERS

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NOEL GET MENTIONED LETS FUCKING GO!!

[acespirit]

The Arrest of Peter Nureyev

Peter Nureyev in Prison

The Escape of Peter Nureyev

Peter Nureyev Versus Herlock Sholmes Stuno Jeel

How Peter Nureyev Stole Christmas

[nexthenecromancer]

Someone will mention they like the cast of a podcast and the cast is just:

-Pathetic wet cat

-The smart one

-The hot one that doesn't get enough 'screen' time

-british

-What the fuck even is this person and why do I love them so much

[dennisboobs]

i took these because of glenn's secondhand pain hearing charlie's story about that guy getting sacked but his tits are absurd

[stolligaseptember]

so guess who's gonna relisten to the allie x episode of anatomy of an artist with a glass of wine on friday

[juniperhillpatient]

it’s so funny when people ask hilarious question with an obvious answer like my best friend eleanor neale asking her audience if it’s bothersome that her cat is in the background of her video like. queen what do you THINK

[eosphorusss]

☹️

[barnbridges]

fun fact about once upon a time at bennington, but matt jacobsen whose scary uwu remarks are being used in it and the article surrounding it hates it so that should tell you something.

[msdk-00]

yeah yeah be happy alone and embark on self discovery but also what do you do when the happiest times in ur life were in pseudo romantic relationships. nothing compares n i hate myself for it. even if i felt like i had to hide parts of myself i was soooo much happier and now every day i Rot. don't get me wrong i'm stretching and drawing and talking to friends and cooking myself meals but then i lay in bed and feel jealousy and regret and wonder y i feel miserable. am i not doing enough. it feels so hard to even cook or shower some days though

[mallratsys]

Video versions of podcasts will always be the bane of our existence.

[genderkoolaid]

keep seeing people who clearly think meaningful pro-palestine activism is harassing anyone online who is not constantly saying the exact words they want to see. like tell me why people are harassing adam conover for "ignoring what's going on" and when he posted a video about how he literally made an entire podcast episode about it. they go "ummm but why haven't you said #FreePalestine yet :/" and getting mad he said he isn't posting clips because it's too nuanced a topic to reduce to a single snippet. which besides all that. it's one of the biggest issues in the news right now i do not think you need adam conover to be posting the same links and information that are being posted everywhere on leftist social media? he is a singular guy whose social media presence is very focused on (American) labor struggles atm. why are y'all like this

[flying-fangirls]

Not to be an English major, but my genuine favorite part of Malevolent is how it handles its themes. Overall Malevolent tackles such profound and interesting ideas to chew on, but it's specifically the approach it takes to those ideas that really gets me going.

For example, one of the major themes across several seasons and characters is identity. The podcast asks pretty standard questions like "How do you define yourself?" and "How do others define you?" But it doesn't choose to stop there! It constantly expands on that idea, and it also asks things like "Which of those definitions is the 'real' you?" and "Are any of them right, are any of them wrong?" and "Is there even a singular definitive version of you?"

Malevolent works out from one idea and poses all these rich lines of discussion and questioning, and then just. Doesn't provide an answer! Or, at least, not a single, one-size-fits-all answer. Instead, it gives us multiple possibilities:

John's arc tells us that your identity is what you make— what you say, what you decide— and no one else's definition of you matters. Arthur's arc tells us that you can get stuck in a rigid, self-deprecating personal identity, so you need others' perspectives to help you see and love the real "you." Larson's story tells us that you do not have the right to selectively accept/deny parts of your identity and actions, and that others can see the whole of "you" whether or not you take accountability for it. Noel's story tells us that you can choose what parts of your past define you, and that leaving behind all the other versions of yourself can be beautiful and empowering. Kayne's story tells us that leaving behind other versions of yourself is akin to murder, killing off the pieces that you don't like and pretending like you've evolved past your own self. Yellow's arc tells us that your identity is fluid and can easily be influenced or manipulated by what others tell you, and by that point you've changed your own self-definition to something entirely new that can be just as true or untrue as the old you.

With all of these characters and with every other character throughout the show, we get a unique answer to the question "What is identity?" And if you look further at all the characters, you can break down their different arcs over the seasons and find even more answers just within that one character's development and story. And some of the answers we get correspond, and some of them contradict, and none of them are the right answer, and all of them are the right answer.

Malevolent takes one idea, and then it crafts an incredibly nuanced and humanistic exploration of said idea that adapts with respect to whatever situation or character it is applied to. And it uses this approach with all of its themes: identity, morality, guilt, grief, love, hope, etc.

Malevolent knows that life is messy, that people are complicated and contradictory and diverse and ever-changing, that no part of the universe or humanity can ever be explained or defined in a simple manner. Malevolent knows all that, and it wants to help us understand that too.

Malevolent shows us that nothing can ever be easily understood or answered, and it shows us that that fact is beautiful.