#a more civilized age

[boo-cool-robot]

"and i'll be clear, it is not simply a gay love story, it's a bisexual love story!"

In which Austin Walker derails his own podcast for 5 minutes straight to vehemently recommend NBC Hannibal

[clipped by @robotbytheriver]

#thank u nathan #I do not listen to amca or any of the non-fatt pods lol...it's fine because nathan will send me everything relevant #this is one of the highest pitches I have ever heard austin's voice reach #he's so right. you should watch hannibal. #he does severely forget to mention that the women fuck too. #austin walker #a more civilized age #is your social worker in that horse? #table friends tag

[guccigarantine]

Natalie and Austin doing the Zeb voice took me the fuck out

Austin: The fact that Zeb, Ezra, and Chopper share a room or whatever. I guess Chopper's not actually in there but just the two of them you know it smells crazy in there.

Natalie: He hangs out in there. It smells crazy in there!

Austin: You KNOW!

Natalie: Oh, god like mildewy towel smell?

Austin: You know Zeb has incense. Zeb has incense and Febreeze and he's like [Zeb voice] oh this covers it all up.

Natalie: [Zeb voice] No, it it it kills the odor.

Austin: [Zeb voice] It kills... the odor.

Natalie: [Zeb voice] Haven't you seen the commercials? The bubbles? They eat it! They eat the stinky!

Austin: That's a different product, Zeb. No.

Rob: You thinking of Scrubbing Bubbles?

Austin: No, it's Febreeze.

Natalie: No, the old Febreeze commercials.

Rob: Oh, yeah yeah.

Austin: Oh, do they have bubbles also?

Natalie: You spray it into the air and then it would zoom in into the molecules of the bubbles eating the stinky smell and then they would pop! and then it would be like ooo ocean breeze.

Austin: Right.

Natalie: That worked on Zeb and he's got a lifetime supply of Febreeze in there.

Austin: There's actually another bedroom it's just filled with crates of Febreeze.

Natalie: Yeah [laughs]. That's why he can't sleep there.

Austin: [Zeb voice] That's my Febreeze room. And that's why he can't kick Kanan out because Kanan's like you have a room you just filled it with Febreeze.

Natalie: You have Febreeze room.

#febreeze room is canon to me #AMCA #a more civilized age #star wars #star wars rebels #audio post

[damianwho]

Please, I beg of thee, if you like Andor, listen to A More Civilized Age, aka the only good Star Wars Podcast. One host reads the communist manifesto for like five minutes straight to examine how the Narkina 5 prisoners build solidarity with their fellow inmates and then later the hosts take turns reading and embellishing upon Luthen's sacrifice speech with a cowboy accent. What did he give up? Calm, kindess, his spurs, the open range...

#star wars #star wars andor #andor #a more civilized age #friends at the table #luthen rael #cassian andor #its so good #every deserves to hear this amazing show please

[cooltastrophe]

Also put in the tags how many you've listened to!

#friends at the table #a more civilized age #waypoint radio #fatt #personally I've only listened to fatt and amca

[clementineskesh]

He hates Mommy, Mommy hates him!

#i cant stop laughing the way all of them are dying while she goes nuts #ideal #a more civilized age #amca #Andor

[st-just]

For, uh, reasons I cannot properly explain, I have been listening to A More Civilized Age as background nose for the last couple weeks (making this the most brainspace I've devoted to star wars since that one RPG actual play podcast ended in 2019)

And like, mostly probably due to childhood Stockholm Syndrome nostalgia that left me imprinted with a real fondness for Prequel-era Star Wars' aesthetics, but I'm now left really wishing that someone eventually gets around to making, like, Andor but for the decline and fall of the Republic.

Or honestly just like a political economy of the Separatists that coheres.

#star wars #podcast #a more civilized age #musing

[wizardfvcker]

jedi luthen conspiracy but make it southern

#a more civilized age #andor #amca #clipping this podcast becoming an actual hobby #the way austin keeps yes-and'ing is incredible to me

[e-the-village-cryptid]

having the time of my life listening to the A More Civilized Age podcast on Andor because they were frequently like. absurdly correct in their predictions and on picking up on themes a couple episodes before they become more major and explicitly stated but then occasionally they are just wildly wrong and there seems to be absolutely no in-between

#they caught the whole 'nobody's listening' theme in ep 8 and said basically everything cassian does in ep 9 before they listened to ep 9 #their predictions of the finale were wildly accurate like episodes and episodes ahead of time #but one of them is convinced that luthen is a secret jedi who converts syril to the rebellion at the end of the season ajfjakakaj #a more civilized age #andor #an e original #they also have actual good character analysis on bix which is. fucking water in the desert to me

[unanimousredundancy]

Clementine Kesh is the Anakin Skywalker of F@TT and there are too many Natalie Watsons in the fandom.

#friends at the table #Partizan #the divine cycle #a more civilized age #amca #I get it #she’s a white woman #you’re gonna stan her #but y’all need to understand #someone who’s defining moment in the first arc was killing someone out of pettiness #isn’t gonna be saved by her prisoners teaching her war crimes are bad #she’s never had anyone treat her as a peer? #she treats no one as a peer #she just enslaves more and more #the reflecting pool is not different from the prison #really guys #it’s not the job of a prisoner to rehabilitate their captor #and Gur and SI acting transactional is bc Empire demands that #of us all #what could have saved clem #a bullet or blade #and even then we got a the Witch #I’m excited for Palisade so I can watch her fail more

[theguywiththewhitespot]

I’m excited for the person Ali Acampora will become when A More Civilized Age starts covering the Doctor Aphra comics.

#Ali acampora #star wars #a more civilized age #friends at the table

[haveyouheardthispodcast]

#a more civilized age #poll #tv & film

[citrusandsalt]

So was anyone going to tell me Michael Lutz, Cameron Kunzelman, and Austin Walker have a new pod on genre fiction or was I supposed to find it out doing my semiannual google of the wizard's quarter in an attempt to remember what length of a work it refers to

#ranged touch #just king things #homestuck made this world #austin walker #friends at the table #seriously though if anyone remembers wtf the wizard's quarter is please @ me #is it the last....fifth??? of a work? #help a bitch out #shelved by genre #a more civilized age

[gravything]

this year’s NYE marathon I actually started a day early and ended a day late because it was: rewatch Andor and relisten to the A More Civilized Age episodes between. I had forgotten about the five-star runtimes (a joke—they said it!) that mean this is over 30 hours of podcast!

(30h36m, including the two episodes with Adam Serwer and Kirk Hamilton, which I absolutely recommend—the latter in particular because it has a not-on-the-tin discussion about logistics-storytelling and how aesthetics or commitment allow you to play with affordances in your storytelling, alongside the score/score-history nerdery that is on the tin)

I’d never listened to AMCA, but I had listened to some early season of Friends at the Table, and when I first finished Andor I knew nobody else who’d seen it and was talking about it, so finding some familiar voices who were so so excited about it was awesome. I did listen to the whole (existing—just the first 12 podcast episodes) archive in just a weekend. Then I started at the beginning of their archive (but no I am not watching Clone Wars along with them).

Revisiting it, and simulating real-time fandom by listening to the ‘cast between watching the show episodes, was super fun. I switched to watching the episode after listening to the discussion—I remember the show pretty well but wanted to think about their commentary and discussion when stuff came up, because they draw on and weave with a lot of different considerations.

A good example of the kind of commentary they give: something happens in the show that makes Austin reconsider his conception of force ghosts, and he mockingly launches into a recitation of a just-the-facts origin of the “force ghost tech origin story” and then goes “no. shut the fuck up.” and diverts into an enthusiastic explanation of them as a narrative symbol instead.

As well: a theme in their Clone Wars commentary is they tie it to the US political situation in which it was produced and how that may have affected the storytelling or how that meaning may have changed.

This is a rec for both Andor and the Andor episodes for AMCA. probably AMCA in general too if you’re interested in Clone Wars or in hearing the AMCA crew keep talking.

#justgravythings #gravymas 2023 #a more civilized age #amca #gravy watches andor #gravy listens to amca #gravy watches #gravy listens #gravy recs

[clemkesh]

i need syril karn to hang out with clementine kesh

#the audience for this post is small but i know its out there #the amca girlies will understand me and my vision #andora #friends at the table #fatt #partizan #a more civilized age #syril could do yes kesh and clem could do i was a good deputy inspector

[clementineskesh]

Rob: I don’t think everyone did show up [to Maarva’s funeral thinking] “Today, we’re gonna fight the empire.” I think what's key here is that over the course of her speech, what she is saying is “We all recognize that it is time to fight the empire.” Nobody can look in themselves and take stock of all the things they have to lose, all the things they’re afraid of, nobody when they do that internal inventory shrinks from it. Because, and I think this is what he’s getting at in this is that when it is posed, when somebody sort of brings the moment to a head, there’s going to be a ton of people who are like “Now there is a choice before me.” And it’s actually a choice that’s already been made. [...] There is sometimes this idea that we come to our beliefs and our actions via a really open minded objective intellectual process, and we evaluate arguments rationally, etc., and this is how change happens. And I think, what’s kind of cool here, is that I don't think anybody, over the course of this episode, is persuaded of anything. Andor is not being persuaded in this scene. Andor is hearing things he’s already decided or put into action articulated. It is a feeling that he’s already following, now he is given words for what he is feeling and an outlook but he is not persuaded to it the way I think maybe Nemik sometimes intended. Nor is Maarva’s speech persuasive from the standpoint of ‘All these people on Ferrix were happy until she got everyone riled up.’ What it is doing is summoning this deeper-seated anger.

Austin: I mean, I think it persuades one group and it's the imperials that they are not in control. And that’s the match that lights the keg.

#a more civilized age #andor spoilers #andor #LET'S FUCKING GOOOOO #cassian does not need to be persuaded he is IN IT!!! he's BEEN in it!!! but he didn't have the words and people in his lief that he cares #about from clem and maarva to nemik have given him words to articulate what he's already doing!!!!! YES!!

[stellanslashgeode]

I’ve got a lot of Andor fans and fanfic writers following me. If you haven’t listened to the A More Civilized Age podcast’s coverage of the show you should take some time and give it a chance. They cover it on a political theory lens as well as a work of television.

#andor series #a more civilized age