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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.

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There ought to be clowns, top three podcast episodes of all times.

[ID: a digital, fully coloured drawing of Rudyard Funn from Wooden Overcoats.

He's a pale man with black hair and sideburns. He's wearing a white nightgown and a bandage on his right foot. He's standing in front of a cupboard with the top door open. Next to his feet sits Madeleine, a small brown mouse.

Rudyard is looking with a tired expression and saying "Madeleine. There is a dead clown in the cupboard. /End ID]

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Saw two dudes transporting a huge metal chest by bike this way yesterday and thought to myself, that’s very Wooden Overcoats.

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I think what I personally really enjoy about AroAce Rudyard is that I know, in my heart, that he would not ONCE spend a single thought thinking he was broken. This man is fully convinced everyone else is just being unnecessarily weird, which really resonates with me, who also spend like 22 years of his life not even considering the possibility that there's something "wrong" with me and that everyone else is simply a little overdramatic over love and sex.

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"because, antigone, you don't exist" "oh... I've always wondered, I thought perhaps I was simply being paranoid--" "I mean you're just not on any company documents" she has so many disorders 💖

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I think the first law of being an audio drama fan is that you have to contemplate how the protagonists of every show show you've listened to would react if they wound up in night vale, and I sincerely believe that the funn twins wouldn't even register anything weird with the type of shit they got going on. rudyard sees dead animals falling from the sky and just runs to antigone like "if we can figure out how to bill this cloud then this could be a very lucrative source of income for us."

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There is something I cherish deeply abt characters who are smart but absolute idiots

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One of the things I think held King Falls back narrative (to me) is the over reliance on the fact that all the information came through calls on the radio show. I think there's a point in an audio drama where, yeah, there's this moving force like a tape recorder, or a radio show, that makes it interesting and brings people in.

But I think with kfam, especially towards the later half of the show, I think that was one of the biggest things holding things back. There was a point where information shouldn't have just been coming from on air calls and vague talk of what they did off air. With kfam I think it could have very much done well with episodes that were more narrative focused away from broadcast. People would want more personal things, but honestly doing personal things over the air wasn't as good as just having some episodes take place with just the characters themselves.

It's not a bad thing to move away from what something first started out as, and in some cases it might end up helping it out in the long run vs anything else.

#i get that limits create opportunities for creativity but it wasn’t serving it anymore.

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mincowski is so iconic from the start “but could there? be pain? could we use a gas that causes him a little pain first and then knocks him out?” girl boss

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wolf 359 is a show that poses many important questions such as “how much training do you REALLY need to go to space,” “is it still a war crime if you’re light-years away from the nearest living soul,” “how many times can you send one guy into the limitless void before he gets pissed enough to kill you about it,” “what if the ship of Theseus was a person,” “how many different ways can you kill someone without them dying,” and of course, “would that be fucked up or what”

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ok but i'm a blessie clone truther. the aliens cloned her she's fine and safe and healthy they gave her a whole planet to terraform i just know it.

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A Kepler & Jacobi commission done for @avesmonster using their designs!

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This is the Wolf359 good ending

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ep 12 / ep 34. birthday wishes for eiffel. ♡

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Hello Wolf359 community

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im having sooo much fun rn (visible tears in my eyes)