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thelaurenshippen · 4 months

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*trips and another fiction podcast falls out of my pocket*

hello, it is I, Lauren Shippen, maker of many audio dramas, including the daily @breakerwhiskey. after having so much fun doing that podcast every weekday, I thought "what would be the opposite of doing a daily podcast?" and here we are, with a yearly one. New Year's Day is a yearly podcast about what to make of your life when you live forever and is a collaboration between me and my dear friends Andrew Nowak and Briggon Snow (who you may know from @thebrightsessions). here's the elevator pitch:

Every thirteen years, two old rivals meet on New Year’s Day to discuss their lives in the intervening decade. They lead separate lives but share one earth-shattering secret: they’re both immortal.

new episodes will come out every january 1st - for this first jan 1, we released 3 episodes, so that the main story could get underway, but moving forward it will be only one a year! which is a real change for me obviously! and will certainly be an interesting challenge from a storytelling and audience building standpoint.

on a personal note, this show is a continuation of what I've been trying to do with @breakerwhiskey and what I hope to do with @maxinemilespod later this year, which is to independently produce fiction podcasts. I could go on and on about how tough 2023 was on audio drama - and independent art in general - but suffice to say, having a career as an independent artist is hard. we're making this show - as with @breakerwhiskey - for the sheer love of it, and we hope you love it too.

happy new year!

#the bright sessions #mark bryant #caleb michaels #lauren shippen #briggon snow #andrew nowak #audio drama #new year's day podcast #atypical artists #chambers and fogg

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femmehysteria · 5 months

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I'm doing a series of "Best Character Named X" polls where all the characters have the same first name but are from completely different media, feel free to send in name/charcacter suggestions, I'm posting one poll a day, check my pinned post for active polls

#best character named x #poll #poll game #mark watney #mark grayson #mark zuckerberg #marc spector #mark bryant #mark sloan #the martian #invincible #the social network #tsn #moon knight #the bright sessions #greys anatomy

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spacizia · 9 months

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I haven't listened to TBS in like. almost a year, but I had to draw this. it was my calling

#fanart #the bright sessions #damien gorham #mark bryant #text meme #i have an idea for another one.. maybe ill draw it later #tbs #he 100% lied through his teeth on that test

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misterpoofofficial · 9 months

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miss this pathetic man

#damien #damien gorham #mark bryant #tbs #the bright sessions #poofy doodles

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jellywizard01 · 2 months

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redraw of this post

i am re obsessed with tbs and the old line up was bothering me.......

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0-patches-0 · 5 months

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Drew this a while ago for a friend and was reminded of it because I'm trying to draw them again but drawing ladies is so much easier and nicer

also I wanted to draw some of that toxic yuri I keep hearing about

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jadlz · 6 months

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sorry but mark being the person who teaches damien how to care for others again after a lifetime of viewing them as essentially puppets is so powerful . Intentional on marks part or not he literally ripped open damiens ribcage and pulled out his beating heart ! Its no wonder damien is so obsessed w mark like he literally taught him what it meant to love . After mark we see damien open up to people like rose enough to actually make a friend and (in SFP) he talks abt how he regrets everything and . Man.

#i dont have a thoughtful way to end this post im just thinking about the power of love #the bright sessions #damien gorham #mark bryant #damiark #tbs

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fandomscraziness22 · 2 months

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Now I'm shattered in pieces With missing bits A shell of who I was A jigsaw puzzle where nothing fits

aka i love this song (as heartbreaking as it is) and made some art! thanks @thebrightsessions for giving me a beautiful musical episode and inspiring a new experiment for me!

#the bright sessions #tbs #together again #tbs musical #mark bryant #art #inspired by

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charliar · 13 days

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Hi @thelaurenshippen and @thebrightsessions !!

I first started listening to "The Bright Sessions" in 2020. During lockdown I got really into audio dramas and after it's been sitting on my list for some time I decided to finally start it. And I haven't stopped listening to it since. "The Bright Sessions" became my favorite podcast ever and I couldn't even tell how many times I listened to it all. It got a special part in my heart.

I didn't like Oliver at first. Didn't pay much attention to him in "The Am Archives" and honestly I was kinda annoyed when he showed up in "The College Tapes". That was until episode 714. When I heard him say "Can you stay?" I couldn't stop thinking about it for the whole next day. In the following week I had this episode on loop. Right now, I can basically quote it all the way through. These three words completely changed my view on Oliver and from that point on he became one of my favorite characters ever, in all kinds of media. Him and Mark got me back into reading, as well, as writing fanfiction which I am so utterly grateful because since lockdown I struggled a lot with reading and writing. I've got absolutely obsessed with Mark and Oliver to the point everyone around me knows who they are. It's been years since I got so attached to a character or a ship and I'm so happy it happened to be them.

It's my birthday this week. Last year I decided that I'm going to get my next tattoo as a gift to myself and when I was talking with my sister about my future tattoo plans I said I really want to get something related to TBS but I don't really have any idea. So when she suggested a quote I knew exactly what I'm gonna get. So I did. I got three words that had such a impact on my life even though they aren't something you'd expect to do so. This quote means so much to me and I'm so incredibly happy and proud of this tattoo. This podcast means so much to me and I'll forever be grateful that it exists. So thank you Lauren and thank you to the whole cast and crew for creating something so incredible 💜

#also the second photo is featuring my sister's cat #her name is Cinderella :3 #the bright sessions #tbs #the bright sessions podcast #tbs podcast #oliver ritz #mark bryant #the am archives #the college tapes #podcast tattoo

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grendel-menz · 2 years

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chloe and some guys

#art #my art #tbs #the bright sessions #chloe turner #mark bryant #damien gorham

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ineedyoutheretokeepmegreen · 3 months

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Having the Adam and Caleb playlists on my phone is the BEST (I’m an Apple Music user). Listening to them really makes you feel all of the emotions in the best way (even the sadder songs). I highly recommend checking them out!!!💚😇

I have also attached links from The Bright Sessions website that lists all of the songs from each playlist if you want to listen to them too (including all of the other characters too!)

@thelaurenshippen @thebrightsessions @briggonsnow

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thelaurenshippen · 6 months

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Hiya Lauren! I remember a while back you reblogged something about mark being romantically involved with nearly all other queer atypicals and it did mention oliver/mark as unrequited and I wonder if you could elaborate a little more on that?:D I'm just curious:) You don't have to of course! Ty!

oh gosh, I WISH I remembered this - I don't reblog very much that isn't fanart, so I'm having a hard time recalling what post this would've been and what I might've said/added to it!

I don't think of Mark/Oliver as unrequited at all. That said, in The AM Archives specifically, we were not writing toward that ship - it wasn't the intention and we had no idea that Andrew and Kristian had that chemistry until we were recording the whole season all at once. And then we weren't sure if we were going to get another season at all! So there definitely was a period when I was more uncertain about it, mostly because it was unclear what the future would hold for any of the characters.

While they don't get together in The College Tapes, I do think that they very slowly figure things out in the months and years afterward. In the TCT planner (which is technically the last bit of canon that exists in the Bright Universe, in terms of timeline), there's heavy implications that they're living together - or at least spending a lot of time together - and I think all of us who made The College Tapes were thinking of them as a romantic ship when writing that show.

They both have buckets and buckets of trauma and unresolved issues (as did Mark and Sam - and their inability to work through it together/the way they first met and got together, etc. is one of the reasons they didn't ultimately work out) so I can't say what their future holds, but as far as I'm concerned, they're headed toward romantic involvement the last time we hear from them (or already there).

I hope that answers your question!

#answered #brytz #the only couple I can say with ABSOLUTE certainty are together forever #is caleb/adam #my answer on everyone else changes every other day tbqh #but my opinion doesn't matter!#bc the likelihood I'll ever make canon about any of them again is slim!#mark bryant #oliver ritz #i'm sorry my memory is SO bad #as the pals discord will tell you #my memory of my own canon is shoddy #tumblr reblogs are FAR beyond my recall lol #but if you remember what the original post said I'd be super curious!#once again andrew nowak's chemistry with literally everyone makes me ship two characters I never meant to ship #*cough* mark and damien *cough*#at least with oliver it was like 'oh okay this COULD happen and be good what a relief'

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ivymeadowzs · 3 months

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and if im just thinking about how mark feels like broken puzzle pieces that dont fit together and oliver literally being INTRODUCED by saying he likes a puzzle and figuring out difficult things thats MY business

#i dont even know if this was a deliberate choice or not #but i thought about it once and tbh #i havent stopped thinking about it since #like #if thats not some soulmate shit right there??#mark bryant #oliver ritz #brytz #the bright sessions #tbs

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thearchivistswilltolive · 1 year

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#the magnus archives #tma #the bright sessions #tbs #jonathon sims #jon sims #the archivist #mark bryant #repressed trauma boy

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infiniteeighthfloor · 10 months

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average tbs character ends up in several traumatic Situations isn't a statistical error, but Mark Bryant who ends up in Every traumatic situation surely isn't helping

#the bright sessions #mark bryant #bug's house

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0-patches-0 · 4 months

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something was wrong the last time I drew the line-up and I finally figured it out, Owen was too short!

So now I fixed it!!

Also not to play favourites or anything but have an extra genderbent (not really cuz i hc Chloe as enby regardless) Chloe or two

Also genderbent!Chloe teasing genderbent!Sam about genderbent!Mark

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