#podcasts are hard for that sometimes

[echoes-fandoms]

My Top 100 Ships (#82: Kevin/Carlos)

Source: Welcome To Night Vale

Fanfiction Rating: D+ Only 124 fics for this pairing, and a lot of them are not the dynamic that I prefer, but there are a few baller fics and also it looks like new ones since I last read WTNV fics in 2017!! I will be checking those out for sure.

When Did I Start Shipping Them? Desert Otherworld arc! The two of them were trapped together and I was like ....hmmmmm!!! Why Do I Ship Them? It's a bit of a silly ship, but I love Kevin as a character and I thought their canon interactions were fun during the otherworld arc. Something about the tension between Kevin and Cecil's identities makes me fond of this ship in conjunction with Cecilos, but with the added fucked-upness that I like in my ships. The way that Kevin's brain has been rewired for pain and pleasure to cross over, and blood with comfort.... can't get enough of that shit!

Favourite Fanfiction Tropes/Staples? I specifically need my Kevin/Carlos fics to walk the line between 'not too fluffy' and 'not 100% bleak'. I want them negotiating Kevin's fucked up perception of things, but not entirely falling into it or negating it.

[quisters]

Arthur must constantly be passing out with his frankly atrocious lack of blood at this point

[tinyblackturtle]

when Durretar said: "Rodents in my lair... and kittens who the think they're cats."

Brian Murphy you fucking poet.

[helenvader]

Some puppy-eyed Halbrand to wrap up the weekend.

If he was lying in this scene, he truly is an excellent liar. And S2 break my heart even more than S1 should that be revealed. But I am here for it, show.

[kyunsies]

hello friends it’s been a month i hope you’re doing well <3

[hamandeggbun]

girl's night!! 💟💕 (click for quality:)

[tvrningout-a]

so!! my anxiety's been kinda bad these last several days bc of personal stuff, which is partially why i haven't gotten much writing done -- the other part is that i've just been busy! but i just want to apologize if this continues, especially if i'm not around as much, or if i tend to hyper-focus on specific things. i'm not feeling my best right now, so if i'm quiet or take forever to reply, pls know it's not you!! it's all me :' )

[bluejayblueskies]

turns out i'm still mad at how everyone in t/ma treated jon actually

[microsuedemouse]

gang... taking some clothes out of my years-old mending pile and actually mending them? extraordinarily satisfying.

[stargoyle]

[[vent in tags]]

[sassytail]

Y’all I made a character for an episode at the beginning of the season who I had a lot of like; plans for? She was gonna be this dark brooding figure who referred dramatically the time before she lost her wife…….. but it turned out her wife left her bc she kinda sucked. And her companions were The Guy Her Wife Left Her For; really a lovely man. and that guys nephew. And, in the end it was a really funny episode and a really fun game! But the character ended up feeling kinda one- note!

In this tale; she was a hardened dwarven warrior whose love of her blade, crafted for her by her one, won out over her love for her one and lost her, in the end.

But like, what I really love about ftlcast, the podcast I’m on, is that now I’m picking her up again, a little further along in her story, at a very different point in her life, around a new group of characters.

And also in a completely new genre. So now she’s a Space Missonary hot gruff butch with a Huge Cyber Axe with a big green hard light blade, and a sad mysterious backstory. She gets to be that hero archetype a little bit with the added benefit of the fact that the audience knows it’s a cheap veneer already bc they saw her at her most pathetically angry.

Anyways the format of our podcast is cool and unique and lets us tell cool stories like that sometimes. Bc of our fun genre hopping thing! And while I’ve only really gotten intentional about character arcs in recent seasons, it’s structurally present across all our previous seasons bc that’s built into the format of the show.

[essektheylyss]

Okay, I am going to try SO SO HARD to actually keep up with One (1) podcast even without a commute so I'm listening to all of the newly-released Worlds Beyond Number things including the short preview, and I am quietly cackling over, underneath all the crosstalk of, "Games are fun and we're really fun!, Aabria just, "I'm not fun."

[fortheturnstiles]

listening to a podcast episode about i’m not there 2007 and the host just said he hated the movie . im this close to turning it off

[theladyragnell]

A stranger at a party releases Brennu Zahin from an enchantment, and while he recovers, they write letters. They shouldn't have much in common, but Elyn of Procyon is determined to be his friend, not just his rescuer.

A fic for a different D&D campaign than usual! This is the Godsfall campaign, what I was writing epistolary recaps about over at @letterstosestrilles over the past five years, and this is the first non-recap fic!

This is 32k, a slowburn romance with lots of epistolary elements and trauma recovery (mind the warnings), and a decent introduction to the campaign since it’s an NPC’s viewpoint of it from level 8 on. If it intrigues you, there are links to the blog at the end!

[asyipyip]

girl its so embarrassing but i love jonmartin so fucking much i havent cared this much about a ship since like. high school

[audhdwitch]

spell log 9.23.2023 money jar

a slightly different version of a spell i've previously used for getting gig-based work, reworked to suit on-hand materials and to pull that part-time job i applied to recently.

materials:

jar

appropriate sigil + tools to write the sigil on the jar's lid

$2 bill

pouch (doesn't need to be fancy. this time i just used a folded up half of a paper towel secured with a rubber band)

rice

"hard work pays off" powder

coins

citrine

(optional) "spun gold"

steps:

gather materials and do whatever you gotta do to get settled and into your headspace. personally, the path to least resistance on this for me is getting high and throwing on my money draw playlist on spotify.

affix your sigil to the lid of the jar. my jar is awesome and has a chalkboard lid, so i just draw it on with chalk. if you don't have an awesome jar you can also just paint it on or draw it on a scrap of paper and affix it to the top with tape or something. set this aside.

fill your pouch with a bit of rice (seriously, you don't need a lot. maybe a few tbsp max) and sprinkle in some "hard work pays off" powder. secure the pouch however you see fit so that nothing falls out. set this aside, too.

optional: spin your gold, if you haven't already, and set that aside as well. (adapted from the lovely @breelandwalker, you can "spin gold" by methodically wrapping golden thread/embroidery floss/similar fiber around a spool or three, and tying it off. i had to look up how to do this and tbh i still am not sure i totally got it right, lol)

time to put stuff in the jar! i do it in a Particular Order to minimize the Bad Sensory sound of coins clinking against glass but honestly stuff can just Go In There. the order i do it in is: $2 bill, rice + powder pouch, pour spare change all in there (i always make a Big Deal of slowly pouring the coins in for the Vibes. the $2 bill and pouch going in first really helps muffle the sound). nestle that citrine in there; i have a lovely palm stone that always fits like a dream. optional: toss in those spun-gold spools now, if you have 'em.

close the jar and seal however you see fit. i wrap a little hand-woven thingy around it left over from the original iteration of this spell. set in a semi-prominent (or at least easily accessible) location and let it work its magic!

notes:

you can charge this spell over time by adding spare change.

when your jar gets full, grab some of those paper coin rolls and start rolling. deposit your full rolls, or use them to buy yourself a little treat. any coins leftover that didn't make a full roll go back in the jar to continue accumulating!