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Okay! Obviously, I love Wolf 359. The available scripts for Wolf 359 are recording scripts, meaning they're inaccurate in a ton of places when it comes to finalized or improvised dialogue, and don't function well as transcripts (especially since the scripts for the live show and some of the mini episodes were never made available.) That said, I think everyone should read the scripts; the sheer amount of physical description that you can feel in the show, even if you can't see it... I guarantee it will enhance your listening experience. Most visual show to ever be an audio drama. So, in pursuit of both of these goals at once, I went over every word in the scripts, and wrote up new scripts for the unavailable ones. Some of the sound effects described - especially in early episodes - might not line up exactly, because I didn't want to mess with the non-dialogue portion of the show, but I hope this strikes a good balance and can be a useful resource.

#wolf 359 #w359 #i went back to standardize some s1 formatting last minute so um if i accidentally deleted anything in the process. let me know? #or if there's anything else that stands out but. it should all be there more or less. the dialogue should be accurate now. #do whatever you want with these. compare them to the unedited recording scripts. #use them for screenshots of things you couldn't accurately screenshot before. #use them as actual functional transcripts for dialogue you can't parse. though i had to make some choices with cross talk #especially in the sound and the fury where most of it isn't really meant to be heard and it doesn't easily. format together. #anyway. um. that's it! i hope someone finds this useful and i hope it gets some more people to check out the scripts. maybe.

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minkowski commanding

#wolf 359 #art #you're so good at this #the way you capture these characters is perfect. their body language is perfect #your eiffel and minkowski are so exactly how i see them #anyway. good joke to make about the episode that also gives us #'is that supposed to be hilbert? you sound nothing like him eiffel'

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my two favorite astronauts ever btw

#wolf 359 #art #OHHH I LOVE THIS... #soo cute they look great!! #love the colors and i love the way you draw fabric; hera's outfit is soo good. #and you know i'm a big fan of how you draw eiffel. my favorite guy doug eiffel. #you capture his spirit so well.

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circumstances surrounding the “leaked” documents about eiffel’s sentencing in need to know, as i understand them:

one of the very first things kepler does is offer eiffel, minkowski, and lovelace a drink. in true “at any given moment, kepler has about eighteen ulterior motives” spirit, it is, among other things, “hospitality”, sure, a test for eiffel, definitely, but… i think the main reaction he was checking for was minkowski’s. will she look at eiffel, or react to his reaction? how much does she know? how much does he trust her?

in don’t poke the bear, jacobi and maxwell stop lovelace from breaking into kepler’s server by pretending to be in on it with her: “she’s very good. it might turn into a problem.” / “i’ll run it by kepler.” two episodes later, files from kepler’s very secure server are “leaked.”

(the words "need to know" are spoken offhandedly by eiffel in the episode itself, but it also calls back to the excuse maxwell gives lovelace: "colonel kepler practically lives by the words 'need to know.' and, apparently, nothing i can say will ever convince him that i 'need to know' everything that's in our databanks.")

need to know opens with minkowski finishing an eleven hour shift, and then finding out kepler moved that shift to, well. now. she’s already frustrated and sleep deprived.

minkowski complains to kepler. jacobi and maxwell, on cue, barge in and complain to kepler. kepler assigns minkowski, jacobi, maxwell, and lovelace to punishment detail, taking eiffel out of the group because “you’re the only one who hasn’t wasted my time with pointless whining.” lovelace says: “um, i don’t think that i did any complaining either, so…” but that doesn’t matter. it’s just an excuse to remove eiffel from the group; he could just as easily have been singled out for special punishment. either way, it was going to happen.

hilbert isn’t there. not the most significant factor, since he’s already been effectively sidelined by kepler, but remember he already knows about eiffel’s sentencing, doesn’t care (about eiffel’s history OR about anyone else’s personal drama), and will later respond to minkowski asking by telling her to grow up and get back to work. it simplifies things to not factor him in.

consider the files themselves: we know from happy holidays that maxwell not talking to her family is common knowledge, but jacobi reacts like it’s news. we know from hera’s performance review flashback in memoria that kepler and jacobi were aware of “multiple attempted crew member homicides” in her record. the file about hera’s bentham directory was on kepler’s server. if there’s one person who would’ve been briefed on everything there was to know about hera, it would’ve been maxwell; her shock is entirely feigned. in fact, almost every reaction from jacobi and maxwell here is feigned. they’re black ops specialists who arrived prepared with divide-and-conquer tactics. there’s no reason they wouldn’t know these things. also note that none of the “leaks” reveal anything about the mission they didn’t already know, and that nothing about the si-5 is incriminating - if anything, it’s mostly silly and even humanizing. and, yes, all of that contextualizes maxwell’s reaction to “skiing?!”

eiffel’s file comes through last, once they’re already worn out. kepler sends eiffel to check on them at the same time so that he’ll walk in. jacobi shows minkowski the file. he lurks around waiting to see how her not-confrontation with eiffel goes, and then cements the thought in her head: what about you? are you going to care?

it’s true that there are aspects of the mission only kepler knows, but as far as information on the hephaestus crew goes (barring one very particular detail about lovelace)? that’s part of the job they were chosen for. when they kill the plant monster, kepler says: “you think we didn’t know about that thing? please. we listened to every log that you beamed down to canaveral.” kepler’s entire foundation is shaken when jacobi turns on him because this is how they operate: “have one person take the blame, say the mean things. meanwhile, the poor, betrayed little guy gets a bit more leeway - just enough to sneak up and hit you from behind.” the show is not subtle about any of this. you can pick apart any early-s3 interaction between two hephaestus crew members and an si-5 agent and see the same divide-and-conquer tactics at play. jacobi and maxwell are always - in morals, loyalty, job description - closer to kepler than they are to the hephaestus crew, and to even sort of believe otherwise is falling for that facade. it’s worth remembering that the hephaestus crew are prisoners. some of them were aware of it from the start, and some of them were lied to, but none of them were meant to leave. the si-5, on the other hand, went up there with a unified goal, and the knowing intention they would be, among other things, prison guards.

#wolf 359 #w359 #i see posts about this from time to time like hey they planned that didn't they? and well. yes. #i don't think that's a theory. i think it's the canon intent. and this is why. i think people on the whole also give jacobi and maxwell #... too much leniency. it's buying into the roles they play. even kepler's role as a strict disciplinarian is playing into this to a degree #... this is longer than i intended. sorry.

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Ada Limón, Bright Dead Things (2015)

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once upon a time, there was a little boy called doug eiffel. and doug had a superpower: he could get inanimate objects to reproduce sounds happening very far away. modern science calls this power ‘radio.’ … doug eiffel also calls it ‘radio.’

#you guys heard of doug eiffel

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hehe *wolf’s your 359*

#wolf 359 #art #cute!! i love the shapes and expressions here soo much #and agreed. every character in the live show (except hilbert. for obvious reasons) just looks like a version of their VA to me #maybe not exactly the same but certainly like they could be played by those actors #these are great likenesses!!

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@ the person who sent me an ask: thank you. i have thoughts, and i'll get to it. i appreciate everyone who still sends me things or thinks of me. i wish i could say it was getting better at all.

#i hate to complain here and i won't elaborate but i'm not comfortable in the space i used to complain in anymore either. #i'm not sure what to do. something in me has finally just broken and i don't know how to maintain it anymore.

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<3 love you

oh god. is my ongoing personal crisis this obvious.

#well i love you too. whoever you are #asks

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laughing at the fact that Eiffel lived with the plant monster for months probably. And he's canonically allergic to it. And he just had to Cope. Literally everything happens to that man

i know, right? guy with the ailments. no one else is sneezing over it, either. it's just him. it's amazing how many things happen to him that you wouldn't think would continue to be problems in space, statistically. he's got pollen allergies? plant monster in the vents. he's deathly afraid of spiders? guess what! he has the most incredible luck. bad luck, good luck, it depends, but he's sure got a lot of it.

honestly, no wonder nobody (including eiffel) noticed his decima symptoms at first, when he's always hacking and wheezing even under normal circumstances. he's got that horrible smoker's cough.

#hi sorry it took me a while to respond. thank you for sending me your eiffel thoughts 💙 #and i won't say it's everything but well a not insignificant number of things that happened to him were hilbert's fault. #asks

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i think what really bothers me about calling hera or lovelace "non-human" is that they are both traumatized, marginalized women in a show where those "non-human" science fiction aspects serve as a direct commentary about dehumanization and alienation. (made extremely clear by shut up and listen.) resisting dehumanization - internalized, interpersonal, carceral, corporate, cosmic - is a major theme of wolf 359 that impacts all of the characters in some way, but the ways that hera and lovelace are othered mark them as especially vulnerable. that's why, for the purposes of the story, the details of AI integration on earth or the exact nature of the dear listeners' clones doesn't really matter. those things are primarily mirrors that reflect real-world issues on a very personal level, and so are best understood in the context of wolf 359 in terms of what they mean to hera and lovelace specifically. they are represented as fundamentally human people who have been made to feel as if they're not, hera's humanity is linked to lovelace's, and in both cases that humanity is narratively connected to their womanhood. ("you are never touching that woman ever again." + "that woman? for the last two weeks, she was the only person who even tried to resist what pryce and cutter were doing to us.") and i just... think all of that is worth keeping in mind.

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Hello everyone, update on the Wolf 359 10th Anniversary project! The project is split into two parts; a fanworks anthology that will be hosted online for public viewing, and a thank you note that will be sent to those who worked on the podcast including staff, writers, and voice actors. Submissions for these parts will be curated separately.

First, please take a moment to look through the submission guidelines which can be found here.

Next, the submission forms are now live! Here they are:

Fanworks Anthology form

Thank You Note form

And lastly, if you have any questions feel free to reach out to me or @commsroom. Thank you!! 💕📻

#if anybody else wants to check it out

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is ur 10yr anniversary project still open? i want to submit a thank you note i really really want pls can i do this pls oh pls

yes, absolutely!! it'll be open until the end of june; you can submit a thank you note here.

#i've been meaning to send reminders to people who filled out the interest form. but then i had one of the worst months of my life. #still getting to it i promise #asks

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the most laid-back man in casualsberg 🎧 (once again drawn for me by @jamisonrivv!!)

#wolf 359 #w359 #doug eiffel #i love this soo much. do you see him #this is such a charming style and suits him so well but even more than that it's like. it feels more like an observed drawing #an accurate caricature of Some Guy more than a drawn character. do you know what i mean. i love it. #art

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happy april fools day folks! wolf pack visits disneyland

inspired by this post :)

Disneyland is probably Eiffel’s ideal habitat. Pop culture, junk food, roller coasters, etc

Hera could talk for hours with the park animatronics

Minkowski seems like the kind of person to have an annual pass

Lovelace loves big fast roller coasters but the rocket ship ride has a special place in her heart <3

The only ride that Kepler likes is Space Mountain. You ever ride Space Mountain? Big roller coaster!

Maxwell (ipad kid) and Jacobi (has games on his phone) VS Kepler (has several long stories queued up)

Hilbert refuses to participate in anything fun, so he ends up carrying everyone’s stuff

Cutter convinces Pryce that the best way to see the park is through the eyes of a mascot costume. Rachel is their chaperone.

#wolf 359 #art #help. these are so cute and/or absolutely harrowing. #eiffel wants to go to the disney star wars park so bad and he has a whole personal conflict with that vs his opinions on disney star wars #nothing could stop him from wanting his own lightsaber. the price could stop him from getting it. very possibly. but not from wanting it. #and i love hera's dress soo much. she looks lovely in yellow. #the one of lovelace and minkowski is also adorable. i don't think i've said it as much as i've said it about eiffel #but the way you draw lovelace and minkowski is SO much like how i see them too. #also i still think it's entirely plausible cutter would've known walt disney and tomorrowland in universe was goddard funded #but that's a whole other discussion.

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last time i was talking about eiffel's favorite holidays, i didn't consider april fool's day, and that was a grave oversight because not only does he consider it a holiday, it is one of the holidays to him. between "unbelievable. the first time in three months we've had, like, downtime and i can't think of a single way to prank everyone else. me! the master of the prank!" and the time he hid a randomized buzzer in minkowski's quarters (and made a bet with hera to see how long it'd take her to find it), and his lame attempts to scare lovelace in the hiccups method... that guy is a menace. eiffel would be so, so annoying on april fool's day. it's one of the few things he actually plans for in advance, and he still forgets like 80% of the stuff he sets up until his own pranks backfire on him, sometimes days later. and he's so bad at lying that even when he does remember, he looks too eager and hangs around expectantly and everyone else can recognize he's waiting for them to fall for his trap. and on top of that, minkowski knows a thing or two about traps, and every year she'll disarm one of eiffel's and then set it back up so it'll get him when he checks to see why it didn't work. this happens every year. eiffel still thinks he's a genius.

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“Could you refuse me if I asked you / to point again at the horizon, to tell me / something was worth waiting for?”

— — Ada Limón, from “Stillwater Cove,” The Hurting Kind

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