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"netflix’s homophobic values" --- pfffff. Netflix made She-Ra gay. Are you kidding me? Take a chill pill and watch Melody fall in love with a Black guy, you hypocrite.
netflix continuously platforms bigots
just because one show is gay doesnt mean other characters cant be gay
melody was written as a gay character in the podcast and then she was made straight in the show, she was not made straight from day one. dan also canonically has no romantic interest in her. i know this is all from listening to the podcast, but if you actually read my post or cared about the show, you'd know that
i dont "need to take a chill pill," i just dont like homophobic shows being produced
netflix isnt your friend, its a media conglomerate that earns more money than your tiny brain can conceive of - you starting arguments on the internet about it doesn't even ping on their radar. they have already made money from archive 81 and the rest is nothing to them. you mean as much to that company as i do.
trying to call me a hypocrite doesnt work in this context, because im not personally making gay characters straight, or anything in a similar vein
trying to pull the "its racist to not like dan/melody" card is offensive any way you slice it - neither of the characters casting makes erasing a lesbian okay. i wish there were more interracial relationships seen in media, but there shouldn't be a competition between "gay couple" or "interracial couple." both should be made without erasing the other.
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redraw of i think my first piece of archive 81 art (back in 2021)! i changed my designs for rat and dan a bit:-) im very happy w my improvement ^_^ original under the cut
#yes i gave them cat ears. i think theyre silly^_^#archive 81 podcast#archive 81 netflix#<- spite tag#a81#rat archive 81#rat a81#jacob lester#daniel powell#dan powell#redraw#artists on tumblr#digital art#queue
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twitter people complaining how archive 81 was canceled on netflix....listen to the podcast....I beg you....the podcast will heal your sickness
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i finally finished archive 81 and i dont think ive heard words more devestating than "we're going to make more later this year"
#that was 4 years ago guys#haha what. what. what. please? what.#i genuinely dont know what im supposed to do now#i got too attached#i refuse to watch the netflix show#this is fucking devestating#archive 81#a81#archive 81 podcast
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people miss the fact that archive 81 is a horror comedy and also has gay people it’s so sad
#fuck netflix god....#anyways. if it gets cancelled they can at least not turn nick straight#im so sorry melody you deserved so much better#a81#archive 81
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imo a good out of universe touchstone for the tom/harry relationship is dan/mark archive 81. it’s very much what if just some guy endured unspeakable horrors and his best friend was in love with him and catty about it. also i just know tom would give up his humanity to become some sort of fucked up cosmic horror entity if it meant protecting harry
#as always everyone go listen to a81#fave horror podcast ever#the third season especially is soooo good#don’t watch the netflix show it sucks
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i was just trying to find some music from the podcast and now im mad about the n*tflix adaptation all over again bc this shows just how much they failed the source material by cutting out all of the eldritch horror to try to turn it into a “more marketable” generic cult story
but at the same time this is so insanely funny. the fact that people had to ask if this was real
like sure babe. the adaptation of the extreme-scifi-eldritch-horror podcast is totally based on a true story. static man exists in real life and hes my best friend
#rat is a real person and he lives in my walls <3#god i hate netflix#archive 81#a81#just. im so mad abt it. especially with what they did to melody obviously#but on top of that they cut out all the scifi unspeakable horror?? like. thats the whole point of the podcast.#so glad the netflix version got cancelled after one season <3#forever mad @ netflix for taking advantage of the favt that a81 is super obscure so the majority of people would even know abt the source :(#god i wish i didnt get into the pod so late bc its so good but i cant TALK abt it to anyone
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It seems as if the archive 81 tag is no longer fully populated with Netflix gifs and once again is a relatively empty place with occasional podcast fanart. Nature is healing ❤️
#the fact that the Netflix version exists is a crime but people seem to not be posting about it as much so that’s good#anyway if you haven’t listened to the podcast please do#and I will not forgive nor forget Netflix for straight washing#ghost posts from their box#archive 81#a81#a81 podcast#archive 81 podcast#podcast#fiction podcast#audio fiction#audio drama
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oh the horrors
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anyone got any podcast or video recs
#preferably in english not bc i can’t look at subs but bc this is for background while i work#i’m out of things to watch barring biting the bullet and watching the a81 netflix series
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god this is so dire who read one piece east blue saga and thought wow i wish coby was in all of these chapters youre deranged youre deranged just put tashigi and smoker in early if you really cant handle arcs that stand alone
#i forgave what netflix did to melody pendras a81 but i can never forgive what they did to nami#one piece
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Im sorry his excuse (as a brown man agent to a white woman) is to say they decided to go with diversity casting? A. What a shit lie B. What a fucking myth to perpetuate ?
#ten percent talk tag#well ....hmmm i watched all the a81 Netflix show#thats Longer than ten percent#mb i can grit my teeth n watch until the second episode
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SUIT: There is something preventing me from removing it myself but... there is a carving knife on my desk
ID in alt
#archive 81#digital art#suit archive 81#caroline levi#a81#archive 81 podcast#archive 81 netflix#<- the hater is filling the tag out of vile disgust
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TELL ME ABOUT THOSE PODCASTS!!! TELL ME WHY YOU LOVE IT AND WHY IT STUCK OUT!!!!!!!!! I LOVE PODCASTS!!!!!!!!
my friend, you have activated my trap card in such a major way, this is the special interest that has me writing a dissertation in one of my friends discords, they had to quarantine me in a thread because of how much I love Archive 81. I'll be quarantining myself below a read more so I dont clog up dashes.
Archive 81 is a podcast about ritual, stories, and sound. It's also a REALLY, REALLY BAD NETFLIX SHOW. DO NOT WATCH THE NETFLIX "ADAPTATION", PLEASE. (this is whats in the discord thread, by the way, a currently ongoing compare and contrast of the podcast and the show where im breaking down why the show is so truly fucking terrible)
There are currently three seasons to A81, and two miniseries that exist between the second and third season, and after the third season. All are equally important and I sincerely recommend listening to each season in order, and not skipping the miniseries. However, each season is very different from the last, so I will pretty much be focusing only on season one to avoid spoilers.
Archive 81 season one is about Daniel Powell, a capital G Guy who has just taken a job with the Housing Historical Committee of New York State to digitize some old tapes. If you've listened to The Magnus Archives, this premise may sound familiar to you, and I promise if you enjoyed that podcast you'll like A81 as well.
I think that the first episode of A81 is a masterclass in setup, and really I can talk about it forever but you should just go listen to it, it's only 16 minutes long and seriously sets everything up so, so well. But I'll go over the basic premise here, partially because I really do just like talking about it.
First episode Dan gets set up by his boss, a condescending man named Davenport, in his new temporary home: a concrete bunker in the middle of nowhere with no internet and limited cell service. Sounds super normal and not sketchy At All! Oh, also the stocked food consists of mainly canned peaches, there's no sheets on the bed, and the power goes out intermittently. Again, just ideal living conditions.
And there's one more thing! Dan has to be recorded, constantly. 24/7.
So he's set up and immediately set to work, Davenport leaves and Dan slots in the first tape.
This is where we meet Melody Pendras, a journalist working for the Urban Preservation and Development Department of New York State and god, don't these departments and committees just sound so official?
All of Melody's tapes take place in the mid-90s and contain a series of interviews that she conducted in the Visser Apartments in New York. See, the apartments are kinda... weird. To put it mildly. There's voices that disappear when you turn the corner, music that comes from nowhere, and a cult run by someone named Samuel.
See, this is where I have to geek out a bit about the first episode in particular. Its, *insert hand flaps here* its so good.
The first tape that Dan puts is Melody's first time going in to Visser. She introduces herself, the apartment, and gives us the beginning of her story. The second tape Dan puts in is Melody's last time going in to Visser. She's panicked, talking about Samuel and how hes evil and a boiler room and how shes got a plan and -
the tape cuts off, damaged, warped, something.
This is how the story hooks Dan, showing him it's beginning and almost-end. Leaving him to figure out it's middle and the mystery of what actually happened to Melody.
At the end of the first episode, we meet Mark. Mark informs us that what we just listened to was a tape sent to him by Dan, before Dan went missing. He's not sure what to do, but is hoping that, by putting these tapes out here, someone who knows something will come forward.
This is how the story hooks us, showing us it's beginning and almost-end. Leaving us to figure out it's middle and the mystery of what actually happened to Dan.
And that's the first season. We, the audience, parallel Dan the whole way through. Its just, so good, for reasons I, again, don't want to spoil. But this parallel becomes important in The Golden Age, the miniseries between the second and third season.
Speaking of the second season, this is why I think the switch was so jarring to a lot of listeners. The first season gets us to relate to Dan so closely because we are him in a way, and the second season breaks that parallel. Well, this and the uhh. cough. there's a community created content warning document for the show, and the second season required a breakdown of body horror into four different types. so. yeah. If you're not a fan of Bad Meat Noises, it... may not be for you, sadly (season 2 is my favorite season).
The third season I will talk a bit about because it again turns a 180 to the point where a brief summary is not much of a spoiler. This is partially because Dan is not our main character! Instead we get to meet Nicholas and Christine, half-siblings who are attempting to preform a ritual left by their horrible occultist father.
When I say season two is my favorite it is by the smallest margin. I adore this whole entire show so, so much. Including the miniseries. The third season is fucking excellent, and if you find yourself turned off by the second season then honestly go ahead and scooch up to the third, with a stop at The Golden Age on the way. You'll be a bit confused, but ok.
There are also transcripts of the show available (the lovely unofficial ones which are fantastic but not finished, and the official ones) if you don't want to listen to the Bad Meat Noises but don't mind reading them, however I really strongly recommend against this. Sound is a huge part of the show (rituals, stories, and sound, remember?) and the sound design is really good.
Again I can talk about A81 all day, and when I finish my lecture on the podcast versus the show (evil, terrible) I'll clean it up and post it on here, because I'm actually rather proud of it so far and I'm not even halfway through my talking points.
Hopefully this has convinced you to give A81 a try! Seriously, the whole first season is 10 15-18 minute episodes, you can chomp through the whole thing in an afternoon.
Thanks for giving me a space to talk about it :3 <3
#corvid caws#a81#archive 81#a81 podcast#its so good and the things it has to say about stories are very important to me#seriously i love it so much#like#so so much
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just binged the whole of archive 81 and kinda sad to find out the last few episodes (Left of the Dial) which was meant to bridge seasons 3 and 4, came out in 2019 and nothing's been released on the feed since.
looking around online, there was rumblings of them releasing a new podcast called Wavelength that got reported on a bit when the bad Netflix adaptation came out, but that was over a year ago now.
Wavelength's official Twitter hasn't had any activity since the 8th of February 2022, where it apologised that the trailer would have to be delayed.
on December 13th, 2022, Archive 81's Twitter feed retweeted something that Marc Sollinger had posted to 'spread the word', but Marc's account has been deleted so it's impossible to tell what that was about. weirdly, there's a comment underneath from December 14th implying Marc's account was already deleted only a day later, so whatever the announcement was it didn't stay up long. judging by another tweet from December 10th also linking to Marc's deactivated account it may have been about getting funding for some project, which is odd considering their Patreon is still up and seemingly hasn't updated since May 2019.
the Facebook for Archive 81 hasn't updated since 2022 when they posted the trailer for the Netflix Adaptation, and the one for the Deep Vault last posted in June 2019. one of the last posts on A81's Facebook talks about the show and reassures fans that it "will NOT impact the production of the podcast" as they "still have complete creative control of that".
even Archive 81's tumblr stopped reblogging fanart and updates in February 2021.
so, uh, yeah… anyone got any idea what's going on with Dead Signals? at this point i'm just kinda concerned something bad happened to one of the creators, especially Marc given that Dan's Twitter is still active and posts semi-frequently. am i just missing some announcement somewhere?
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NETFLIX A81 GOT RID OF THE CITY IN FAVOR OF TIME TRAVEL?!
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