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bookgeekgrrl · 2 months

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My media this week (10-16 Mar 2024)

📚 STUFF I READ 📚

🥰 Art Thief, Heart Thief (odetteandodile) - 58K, stucky white collar inspired AU - enjoyed how author took the WC set up (fbi art agent, criminal consultant) and made it theirs & perfect for stucky

💖💖 +195K of shorter fic so shout out to these I really loved 💖💖

Midlife Crisis (profoundalpacakitten) - MCU: stucky, 7K - reread, forever fave - the quiet, piercing, understated tenderness in this fic is unmatched

Progredi (justanotherStonyfan) - MCU: shrunkyclunks, 37K - the next installment in the fabulous Honey Honey series

Pistachios and Rose Water (goldsaffron) - The Old Guard: kaysanova, 15K - J&N spend 10 years putting down roots, building a home & collecting a found family as Nicky learns to express his love through food

Consensual Catfishing (foresthearts) - Stranger Things: steddie, 32K - modern AU, told via social media - delightful story! adored these characters & their voices and using all different sorts of SM to tell it. brilliant idea, adeptly executed. the art is also pretty great

they're going to send us to prison for jerks (greatunironic) - Stranger Things: steddie, 16K - another really fun modern steddie with a strong social media AU premise

Os Impurum (the_deep_magic) - The Eagle | The Eagle of the Ninth: Marcus Flavius Aquila/Esca Mac CunovalMarcus/Esca, 18K - solidly good fic about marcus/esca post canon, esp marcus discovering some new things about himself 😉

📺 STUFF I WATCHED 📺

Ghosts (US) - s3, e5

Game Changer - s6, e3

D20: The Unsleeping City: Chapter II - "For the Hoard!" (s7, e15)

D20: The Unsleeping City: Chapter II - "Treachery at Gramercy" (s7, e16)

D20: The Unsleeping City: Chapter II - "Two Sides of the Same Coin (Part 1)" (s7, e17)

D20: The Unsleeping City: Chapter II - "Two Sides of the Same Coin (Part 2)" (s7, e18)

D20: Adventuring Party - s3, e12-16

Um, Actually - s9, e2

D20: Fantasy High: Junior Year - "Cursed Out" (s21, e10)

D20: Adventuring Party - "Cool Ranch Communion" (s16, e10)

D20: Tiny Heist - "Big Little Crimes" (s4, e1)

D20: Tiny Heist - "Chicanery at Shoeby's Casino" (s4, e2)

D20: Tiny Heist - "Scheming and Scoring Fairy Dust" (s4, e3)

Agatha Christie's Marple - "The Secret of Chimneys" (s5, e2) [shout out to @leupagus for this rec; they were not wrong about the acting choices made here 🤩]

🎧 PODCASTS 🎧

Worlds Beyond Number: Fireside - Fireside Chat for WWW ep001 The Open Door

What Next: TBD - Instagram’s Pedophile Problem

Desert Island Discs - Cillian Murphy, actor

WikiHole - Lenny Kravitz (with Paul F. Tompkins, Drew Tarver, and Heléne Yorke)

This Cultural Life - Andrew Scott

Pop Culture Happy Hour - Our 2024 Oscars Recap

The Atlas Obscura Podcast - The Grave of XYZ

Vibe Check - Hey, Sis: featuring Morgan Parker

WikiHole with D'Arcy Carden - Fear of Dolphins (with Kumail Nanjiani, Emily Gordon, and Jonah Ray)

The Allusionist - 190. Craters

WikiHole with D'Arcy Carden - Tetris (with Adam Pally, Jon Gabrus and Blair Socci)

The Atlas Obscura Podcast - The Lighthouse Keeper

⭐ Vibe Check - A Special Conversation with Afeef Nessouli

Short Wave - What We Know About Long COVID, From Brain Fog to Fatigue

⭐ Decoder Ring - Why Stylists Rule the Red Carpet

⭐ 99% Invisible #573 - Toyetic

You Are Good - My Best Friend's Wedding w. Sam Sanders

If Books Could Kill - Lean In

The Atlas Obscura Podcast - Law of the Tongue

Imaginary Worlds - The Nine Lives of Red Dwarf

Today, Explained - Lip gloss, gum, and the Pill

Dear Prudence - My Ex Had Sex With My Brother. Help!

What Next: TBD - Is TikTok Cooked This Time?

Short Wave - Are We On The Brink Of A Nuclear Fusion Breakthrough?

Pop Culture Happy Hour - Love Lies Bleeding And What's Making Us Happy

Endless Thread - The Music Man, Part 1

Welcome to Night Vale #244 - A Multiplicity of Kevin

Today, Explained - Hollywood’s still not back

99% Invisible - The Power Broker #03: David Sims

Off Menu - Ep 233: Frankie Boyle (Live in Glasgow)

⭐ Hit Parade - Gotcha Covered Edition

🎶 MUSIC 🎶

The Donnas

Smooth Rockabilly

Respect: '60s Iconic Women

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haveyouheardthispodcast · 4 months

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#the allusionist #poll #arts #this is one of mod kat's favorite podcasts

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thoughtportal · 1 year

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Erwin Schrödinger is one of the "fathers of quantum mechanics". He also sexually abused children. Trinity College Dublin recently denamed a lecture theatre that had been named after him - but his name is still on an equation that won the Nobel Prize for physics. And a cat.Writer and historian Subhadra Das recounts how and why you rename a university building, and retired physicist Martin Austwick considers that renaming an eponymous equation or theory might be more difficult than unscrewing a sign from a wall.

#Allusionist 169. The Box #The Allusionist #Erwin Schrödinger #quantum mechanics #physics #schrödinger's cat #history #podcast #podcasts #names #eponym #science history #science #word history #words

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inwhiches · 1 year

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Episode 167: Bonus 2022—

“in which I, Helen Zaltzman, over the year 2022, have brought you ...

https://www.theallusionist.org/allusionist/bonus2022

#the allusionist #helen zaltzman #in whiches #podcast

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tradedsymmetry · 2 years

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The concept for aural emojis was just brought up on a NON-FICTION podcast, I am LIVING 😂😂😂 that's one of my favorite Arden products 🤣

It's episode 105 of The Allusionist, I would explain the context if I wasn't so exhausted but the episode itself is about brand names of food that spell things differently (like Wyngz, cheez, e'ggs, chick'n etc) whether to convey that it's an imitation or some other reason, and it comes up around minute 7.

#arden podcast #the allusionist

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sophiainspace · 2 years

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This was a brilliant discussion of the history of the term 'queerbaiting', including some 1950s history about literal queerbaiting by cops that I'm ashamed I didn't know about, then on into fandom history where the term only shows up again in the early 2000s, and exploration of how the meaning shifts from there. The Allusionist does some great deep dives into language in its cultural context - this month they're exploring queer-related terms - they looked at 'rainbow washing' a couple of weeks ago.

#the allusionist #podcasts #queerbaiting #lgbtq+ language

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quoththemaiden · 4 months

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I don't know what to do with the existence of Titivillus the Typo Demon, but this 20-minute podcast about him was fantastic.

(I'm not going to tag this with #good omens fanfiction because it isn't Good Omens fanfiction, but it also isn't not potentially related to Good Omens fanfiction...)

#the allusionist #podcast #titivillus the typo demon

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lefthandedbastard · 7 months

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Things that come with being a nerd and also a lesbian: having a little crush on helen zaltzman

#lefty.txt #allusionist podcast

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degenezijde · 2 years

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[The Allusionist] 156. Rainbow Washing 🅴 #theAllusionist

https://podcastaddict.com/episode/141017806 via @PodcastAddict

#Pride #Pride month #Queer #Language #Rainbow washing #The Allusionist #Podcast

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copperbadge · 6 months

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For NaClYoHo you recommend putting on a 20 to 40 minute podcast episodes to clean to. Can you make any recommendations? The majority of mine run well over an hour for each episode.

I feel like podcasts have kind of gotten longer in general, is that just me? Maybe it's the pandemic, or maybe just my tastes shifting. In any case, a lot of mine run long now too, but looking at my playlist here are some shorter podcasts I recommend:

PEMcast -- put on by the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, MA, they cover a wide variety of artistic and local cultural topics (their latest is about the bats the museum is hosting!)

99% Invisible -- about "invisible" designs that shape our world. "Used To Be A Pizza Hut" is a great episode, and their partnership with Articles Of Interest about Hawaiian shirts was brilliant.

Criminal -- True crime reported on by an extremely smart woman with a beautiful voice. It's not the typical true crime podcast in that she approaches it more like longform journalism, and sometimes the crimes themselves are very whimsical. She also does "Phoebe Reads A Mystery" where she reads one chapter of a public domain mystery novel each day; I recommend Dracula and The Portrait Of Dorian Gray, although there's a variety of lengths on those.

Bridgewater -- A fiction podcast featuring Misha Collins as a skeptical specialist in mythology who delves into the mystery of his father's death many years before. I stopped listening after season one, a bit disappointed in the denoument, but most of season one is great and I am actually going to try to listen to S2 as part of NaNo.

"City Cast" Your Local City -- not every city has them, but City Cast is a locally hosted show in most major cities about what's happening. City Cast Chicago is EXCELLENT.

Mailin' It -- the official podcast of the USPS, which sure is....something. It's fascinating to listen to in an anthropological sense, but also the subject matter is occasionally quite compelling. I especially like episode 7, "Stamps, An American Obsession".

The Allusionist -- all about how words shape our lives. I got into it with 145, "Parents", about gender identity and pregnancy/birth, which informed both Infinite Jes and Royals/Ramblers.

Levar Burton Reads -- Levar Burton reads SFF short stories charmingly. (This is on the longer side but most are still under an hour.)

Cautionary Tales -- Tim Hartford looks to history and what it can teach us; I run hot and cold but I stick with it because of gems like "The Art Forger, The Nazi, and the Pope", "Wrong Tools Cost Lives" and most recently "Photographing Fairies" (about the Cottingley Fairies and how Elsie Wright was, actually, the photoshop genius of her day.)

Mob Queens -- I will forever recommend Mob Queens, a single-run series about Anna Genovese, who dunned in her mobster husband, took over some of his business, and lived a queer and fabulous life with her butch partner as a gay nightclub doyenne in midcentury America.

Also most don't include lengths but the Participation Form Results Sheet has a spot for "what media are you going to use" and people have been putting suggestions. Readers, feel free to add your own suggestions in comments or reblogs. (Remember, I don't repost asks sent in response to other asks!)

Happy listening everyone!

#naclyoho #national clean your home month #podcasts

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bookgeekgrrl · 1 year

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My media this week (14-20 May 2023)

📚 STUFF I READ 📚

🥰Masters in This Hall (Lilywhite Boys #3) (KJ Charles) - Barnaby's in deep trouble, John wants vengeance and they both have to contend with a certain Lilywhite Boy who is extremely displeased that his name's been taken in vain…

🥰(Lily)White Wedding (Lilywhite Boys #3.5) (KJ Charles) - free short story - "Susan is getting married; Alec and Barnaby are bonding or at least drinking."

🥰A Rose by Any Name (KJ Charles) - free short story reuniting the long-lost brothers Robin from Gentle Art of Fortune Hunting and Toby from A Thief In The Night

💖💖 +489K of shorter fic so shout out to these I really loved 💖💖

The Curse of the Deserted Heart: A Tantalising Tale of Love and Adventure Amidst the Dunes of the Lost City That Will Thrill, Chill and Delight You! (kyaticlikestea) - The Mummy: Ardeth/Jonathan, 34K - Jonathan accidentally becomes a best-selling author thru writing a version of their adventures. Very fun, great character voices.

PRE-ORDER NOW (spqr) - Ted Lasso: Ted/Trent, 9K - Trent's book is about to be published. My love for a hot mess Trent Crimm is boundless.

📺 STUFF I WATCHED 📺

Um, Actually - s2, e10, e17-21; s3, e1

The Brokenwood Mysteries - s9, e6

Ted Lasso - s3, e10 [x2]

🎧 PODCASTS 🎧

You Are Good - School of Rock w. Jamie Loftus

⭐You're Dead To Me - Leonardo da Vinci (Live)

Hit Parade Plus - Champagne Supernova Edition

Re: Dracula - May 15: Lizard Fashion

Welcome to Night Vale #228 - Diplomacy

The Allusionist - 174. Eurovision part 1

The Allusionist - 175. Eurovision part 2

Re: Dracula - May 16: This Man Belongs to Me

The Atlas Obscura Podcast - Voynich Manuscript

⭐Switched on Pop - Listening 2 Daft Punk: Homework

Shedunnit - The Evolution of Margery Allingham

⭐Vibe Check - The Summer of “Could”

ICYMI Plus - Quiet Luxury is TikTok’s Latest Nonsensical Fashion Trend

The Atlas Obscura Podcast - Theatricum Botanicum

⭐99% Invisible #537 - Paved Paradise

Song Exploder - Madison McFerrin "Run" (feat. Bobby McFerrin)

Pop Culture Happy Hour - Primo

Re: Dracula - May 18: It was No Dream

The Atlas Obscura Podcast - Fugitive Train Wreck

⭐Re: Dracula - May 19: Surely in the Toils

Into It - Are We Into 'Fast X,' Martha Stewart, and the Vitriol Toward Che Diaz?

Pop Culture Happy Hour - Fast X And What's Making Us Happy

Dear Prudence Plus - I Think My Dad Is Cheating On My Mom. Help!

The Atlas Obscura Podcast - Chile Pepper Institute

Endless Thread - Come to the Orchestra

You're Dead To Me - Agatha Christie

ICYMI Plus - The Internet’s Biggest Secret

🎶 MUSIC 🎶

Eurovision 2023 (but just the good songs)

Käärijä

Lord of the Lost

Presenting Daft Punk

Presenting BLACKPINK (블랙핑크)

Feel Good! K-Pop Dance Music

The ArchAndroid [Janelle Monáe] {2010}

The Electric Lady [Janelle Monáe] {2013}

Dirty Computer [Janelle Monáe] {2018}

Janelle Monáe

Heavenly '80s

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northwindow · 1 year

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favourite podcasts? (If u don’t mind sharing)

yeah totally! here are some—

a recent favorite is you must remember this, the film history podcast by karina longworth. the show explores everything hollywood's first century can tell us about the surrounding cultural ideals, shifts, etc. and it's so impressively researched by someone who knows a ton about movies. i started with the most recent season called “erotic 80s” and now i'm in the middle of “make me over” which is about hollywood and the beauty industry. cannot wait for the next season "erotic 90s" but thankfully there's also a huge back catalog.

aack cast, jamie loftus' podcast miniseries about the cathy comics. you don't actually have to know much about cathy to enjoy this lol, the comic is sort of a gateway to investigate the lives of boomer women when it comes to feminism, consumerism, work, etc. it's a mix of interviews, jamie's writing, and even some narrating of the comic strips. i really like all of jamie's shows, she has a really natural style that is funny and curious and heartfelt. her lolita podcast is another favorite that is stylistically similar but obviously heavier territory.

between the covers with david naimon is a longform author interview podcast, i love it because david is best interviewer i have ever heard in any context. he really close-reads his guest's books and comes up with these very thoughtful thematic questions that draw out conversations about craft, social justice, society and culture, feelings, and a million other tangential things. i would recommend starting with an episode about a book you've read before, but now i use it for recommendations or just to listen to interesting people talk even if i don't know their work previously. i also really like commonplace with rachel zucker which is similarly in-depth, it has a different but also wonderful interview mood.

some other shows i like: the allusionist, everything that branched off you’re wrong about (YWA, you are good, maintenance phase, if books could kill), twenty thousand hertz, decoder ring, literary friction, poetry off the shelf, vs., thresholds with jordan kisner, articles of interest, american hysteria. when i just want to listen to friends talking i like poog with kate berlant and jacqueline novak. and the podcast form of democracy now for news. always looking for new stuff if anyone has suggestions! ❤️

#i also like the poet salon but it’s been ages since they updated #i loved reply all before it imploded but now it’s like a sad memory

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thoughtportal · 5 months

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Sterling Martin was in grad school, studying C. elegans worms, when COVID19 hit and suddenly he found himself in lexicography, as part of a team creating a Navajo-English dictionary of science terms.

#allusionist #podcast #COVID #podcasts #language #science #dictionary #navajo #lexicography

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honshew · 9 months

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top 3 moments of today, august 26th, 2023

i made an ugly but still tasty french omelette for breakfast. i've been trying to get better at it since i saw someone make it on a show. i'm still very bad at it

i have a cat friend in the neighborhood that i always meet in the same spot on my daily walks around 7p, just before sunset. it runs to me when i call and will demand i pet it aka bumping its head into my hand before it gets its fill and continues about its day. today, it joined me for a bit of my walk and i watched it catch a grasshopper

i listened to the podcast the allusionist, hosted by linguist helen zaltzman, and learned about william sharpe/fiona mccleod and their very supportive ally and wife elizabeth

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#honshew text #lately i've been thinking about how i do not want to miss my life!!!!!!#so i'm going back to listing things that i'm grateful for/made me happy/just in general made my day a little more interesting #maybe i should come up with a tag

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masteraqua · 4 months

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does anyone have recommendations for educational podcasts? i really like The Allusionist, but i'm running out of episodes in the backlog to listen to 🥺

#the allusionist is fantastic btw #if you enjoy language and etymology please check it out

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tradedsymmetry · 2 years

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This was recently explicitly said on a podcast i was listening to and I was thrilled to finally have a clear answer about it then, and then extra thrilled to get this question on this "commonly confused words" quiz that caught my eye when i was looking up "procatalepsis"

Also my first thought with the explanation at the bottom was, "I'm bisexual, which means I'm attracted to every two people I see." lolol

#words #procatalepis is when a speaker gives an objection to their own point and then immediately answers it.#to try to strengthen their argument by dealing with counter-arguments before they can even be brought up #i just love that there's a word for it!!!!#it comes from medieval latin from greek that meant literally 'art of seizing beforehand'#etymology #etymology is so cool. listen to The Allusionist if you agree (and like podcasts. and british accents)#earlier i was thinking about whether the two words 'up to' will ever become one word. like 'up to 50% off' or 'up to 100 points'#but just... 'upto 50% off' lol #wow okay anyway clearly its time for bed soon haha

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