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psst hey, how long do i wait before i uh go ahead and post my semi-canon (only approved by one unwell writer, specifically me) fic i wrote about tim and grant the fenwood house ghosts on ao3?

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I'm curious (and in need of new content) what everyone's podcast experiences are like, so, in the tags or replies, what's...

The first podcast you listened to?

The most recent podcast you listened to?

Your favourite and/or comfort podcast?

A pod you think deserves more appreciation?

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Pleade note i am the dumbass who tries to write down lore quotes for the unwell episodes and forgets the transcripts exist

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Continuing my work on an unwell podcast document, it is now 12 pages long, i have gotten through 4 episodes, and its really a lot of fun to do, though slow work. Im considering trying to actually make it a wiki, but i really dont know how to do that, so google doc is all i got.

I also noticed a lot of things about the writing, specifically how much actual foreshadowing season 1 has that is brought back in season 5. I wonder if the writers plan that out from the beginning or actually go back and relisten to find terms and moments to reuse effectively. Like, in episode 4 we get a dove breaking the window of Fenwoods attic and flying through the house, and that comes back in season 5! Its really cool i just wonder what their approach is.

Anyway the doc has a ton of parts. I list most of the works first, i want to add on their other projects to it as i see them in other things. Then i have character summaries that im working on filling out. Then i do each episode, where i mainly write down scene summaries then lore notes. I should probably clean up my scene summaries because i write my own commentary in as i listen but hey, i think its more fun that way

Highlights include:

For Chester "affiliation: delphic order (cant wait to put former there)"

For wes "affiliation: worker at fenwood house, possibly god"

For russell epstein "affiliation: dots boything"

In reference to season one wes and lily "liky hates this goddamn child" "lily confronts wes aboit not taking care of dot properly (because lily externalizes all her issues)" "wes leads the group away (so they dont hesr lily cussing out dot)"

Anyway if anyone has a good guide to creating a wiki i could use it, otherwise ill have to scroll through google

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Im so bad at remembering the lore of unwell that i have started a relisten just to make a summary document for myself so i can try to piece together the lore of this podcast

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The bad thing is i forget that i both follow unwell podcast tag and dont blacklist spoilers when i fall behind on episodes... and tumblr puts those on my dash...

In good news though, i am now very excited to see how my heart will be broken!

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Title doodle I made of @unwellpodcast ‘s “dot” I love her character!! I feel like she definitely has a hippie vibe so I tried to reflect that in her character design

I feel like I rarely ever see artwork for this fandom !! (Feel free to share)

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So uh. Just listened to the new unwell episode. Just listened to it. Wes. Wes babie. Babie boy Wes... why.... why do i think... you might be a god....

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Havent listened to the new unwell episode yet. I'll be doing so today but. My bet. Its about Lily trying out her first Silas murder plan.

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Rudy was the first person who didn't run away screaming after meeting Norah and treated her like a person and equal, because of him she got to meet the rest of the Fenwood crew and was no longer alone in a dark observatory. I'd cry too if I was her

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Here to announce i made an unwell discord server! Why? Idk, to make me more anxious or something...

But please, if you wanna chat to ppl about unwell, come and join us! We're a bit of a ghost town right now but that will be solved the second we start about rudychester. Season 5 shall be going out with a bang here!

This is my first time trying to make a public discord server so if anything doesnt work for you, feel free to dm me

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I’m listening to welcome to night vale and it shows

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i relistened to the new episode and now im sad again :')

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Alright this is my THIRD time relistening to 5.1, lets dump ALL my thoughts then:

-first of all, one of the best opening story sequences. I love when unwell does this framing, and it is always well done. "We may be going home soon" is a line that disturbs the shit out of me, and once again unwell's sound design is absolutely incredible with all that the dogs do. I do also want to see silas get his teeth punched out.

-i could talk for hours about chester this episode. But i just want to say both the writing and pat kings performance were perfect for him. The way he aporoaches the house practicing what to say, and specifically stumbling through all their namea, then is immediately thrown off by the house being casual is so comedic and him. I really want to know how pat king manages to sound that pathetic, its amazing. Hes also amazing later in the episode where hes freaking out over norah and wes.

-"come in!" "Mrs. Harper? Its me? Chester Warren?" "What of me yelling come in didnt you understand?" The way the cast acts is so fhdjsjjdjdbsjs seeing dot tentatively accept chester is so nice, while she still keeps bullying him a bit throughout the episode. Its such a good dynamic on full display.

-abbie is a bastard. Its perfect.

-"lily-an"

-"i can eavesdrop from here!" "Tell him to speak up!" AND THEN CHESTER ACTUALLY TALKING LOUDER IS FHDJDKSKNFNDA. Once again character dynamics are shining this entire episode, and having chester play the straight man to their antics is a good role for him.

-"i dont know how to proceed!" Have you ever met a man so pathetic-

-chester is a 24/7 mental breakdown at this point. Yeah this is what i wanted from season 5.

-i should write a fic where chester reads rudys will and all that-

-When you arent exactly a found family because you fell apart and didnt know each other long enough but in the end your the only person left to stand over their body-

-Abbie getting their character development shown off this ENTIRE EPISODE we're so proud of them learning to handle their own emotions.

-also lily WES IS A KID TF ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT???? Like yeah hes a ghost but come on. Tinee.

-chester refusing to enter the house is such a good character detail. My guy needs help.

-and now we're at the norah scene where she needs SO MUCH THERAPY

-once again applause for the sound design making Norahs voice have an interesting echo that isnt distracting!

-dot immediately asking Norah to stay there in rudys room absolutely made me and my friend start screaming at her. Im glad it turned out well but we both kind of just had a spittake

-btw dot actually sticking to joking about norah being her daughter is cute and hilarious. Like yee girl you got found familied

-wes being the only one to grive the way chester knows how to handle is so fucking funny to me actually-

-now this is the point of the episode for me that i freak out for. Chester not remembering ghosts or wes. I have a lot of general thoughts about this episode regarding it and 4.12s status, but i will say this specific scene mightve been good to include at the start of the new season rather than the end of last because i genuinely dont remember if wes and chester know each other. Im sure they should, and im sure chester does know about ghosts, but its been months since i heard the last few episodes, so i start to question my own knowledge. Its so unsettling and uncomfortable and i think seems like a good point of tying an audience effect to the plot. Like, its good metatextualy. And if im completely wrong and chester wasnt meant to know these things then. Idk. Bully me in my askbox

-regardless, once again im applauding pat king for the best, most pathetic performance ive ever seen

-chester and abbie getting into a theological debate is the type of content i need while im being forced to take a terrible theology class

-the mugs as a joke in this episode are goddamn hilarious. Its also nice how they manage to make some history with it, despite the audience not seeing it, its more in the little things of dot and lily joing its bc "shes fancy" in such a way it feels like they both know the joke. Its nice. Also wes getting fenwood house!!!!

-the way they manage to audibly convey dot walking over, snatching the alcohol of chesters hand, and drowning it is fucking skillfull and hilarious

-lily and norah getting the final mourning scene broke me. Norah crying broke me. I have nothing really to say about that scene other than it was good and made me wanna cry.

-the rain beginning is terrifying me. I am so ready for this season i am so hyped.

-FINAL THOUGHTS:

- if i could start season 5 in any way, it would be like this. This is all i wanted and more. The character dynamics and cast performances that (for me) are the pinnacle of unwell are on full display, its acknowledging a life changing event from the last season, and everything that happens in the episode is incredibly gripping on a character level

-the episode i think masterfully balances both a tone of mourning and humor, often getting into some darkly humorous places, and seems to be a concerted effort by the entire team to balance it. The writing, acting, design, all really make this tone work.

-can i keep mentioning the acting? The actors are incredible

-i get the feeling this might be chesters last appearance. I dont want it to be, but this feels like it could also be a send off to his character, and i wouldnt blame the writers if they did so, just so they had a smaller cast to focus on in the finale. I hope chester returns though, hes somehow become a bright spot in the show for me, and i blame his actor

-im also very concerned for what will happen to lily this season. Shes definitely struggling a lot with guilt, and i dont think shes going to be making the best choices. Regardless, i love her and norahs friendship, and she and chester also got a weird friendship that i think should lead the two to try to kill silas together.

-for my final thoughts, i deleted what i wrote about this and 4.12, but to summarize, i just hope the writers didnt feel pressured to write this episode, but that this episode serves as a good leadin to the rest of the season.

-i loved this episode, and it has already become one of my favorite. Unwell season 5 is delivering!

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I will relisten to the first episode of season 5 of unwellpod later to do a full react, im still reeling from how fucking good it was but:

Chester not remembering Wes... will the towns ghosts slowly disappear? The town retract its magic?

I thought the scariest thing they could do this season was lean into the magic, or take it away with wes and norah leaving, but i didnt think theyd be so insidious as to wipe the knowledge of magic slowly from the town...

I was legit horrified

Amazing choice, cant wait to see what happens, im scared!

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Reverend Silas Lodge

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No idea if this is just me but when i find this episode on the unwellpodcast website i just got the last episode of season 4....

Out now on the feed: Unwell S5/Ep1- The Farmhouse and the Flood

He's here He's not here None of us really know