#dangerous times at chillhaven high

[doggogills-but-worse]

okay listen. i love jrwi, i really do. i love riptide and prime defenders, and the community has been pretty good, i have a lot of mutuals that are super cool. but the attitude and ferocity in which people defend the lgbt rep in the show? mh. not it.

podcasts as a medium have been incredibly full of queer creators making wonderful stories, including ttrpgs. especially ttrpgs!!! most of jrwi’s lgbt rep has been behind a paywall (and that was a joke for 90% of the series), or a joke (i’m looking at you fnc canon kiss), and the rest is vaguely implied. correct me if i’m wrong on this, i’m not caught up. i don’t really care about what the folks say off mic about characters, to be quite honest. there has been little indication of the actual queerness of characters in any form beside an npc who wasn’t even fully created by the showrunners. and that is my point. the lgbt stuff that people latch onto are things that have either been questions answered off mic, or things that the fan community has expanded upon that were only hinted at in canon, or just headcanoned.

im not saying that this is wrong, or the series is bad because of it, but the attitude that the fandom has towards it is... a lot for what is actually there on screen in earnest. it’s not the most lgbt podcast with fantastic rep that you say it is. there are so many podcasts with the kind of representation and characters that you are looking for. again, it’s not a bad podcast because of this, but we’ve gotta stop acting like it’s queer as hell.

so here are some podcasts with fully fleshed out, explicitly queer characters (with their corresponding vibe):

Dungeons & Daddies (s1: riptide, s2: pd)

The Broadswords (apotheosis)

All My Hexes (admittedly unfinished but still good)

A Horror Borealis (bitb)

Bombarded (riptide)

Fantasy High (of course) (pd)

Wildbranch High (pd)

Kollok 1991 (pd, bitb)

Monster Hour (s1: pd, kinda apotheosis)

$2 Creature Feature (pd)

Dice Crisis (riptide)

Hope’s Hearth (i haven’t started this one yet, but it’s on my list)

The Storyteller Squad (pd)

Dangerous Times at Chillhaven High (soooo much pd vibes)

Shrimp and Crits (bitb)

Pest Control (s1: riptide but modern, s2: early pd)

The Unexplored Places (they have many seasons, i can rant about them for hours tbh)

The Monster’s Playbook (pd, kinda bitb)

and that’s just the actual plays

again, i love jrwi, but we have got to stop hailing it as an exemplar of lgbt actual play podcasts because it just isn’t.

#rambles #jrwi #jrwi pd #jrwi rant #jrwi riptide #jrwi apotheosis #jrwi fandom #i'm just so tired #i am just very exasperated #with the whole thing #dnddads #fantasy high #wildbranch high #kollok 1991 #monster hour #the storyteller squad #with podcasts being my big hyperfixation right now #dangerous times at chillhaven high #shrimp and crits #pest control podcast #pest control pod #the unexplored places #the monster's playbook #podcasts #actual play podcast #raise your standards folks #that's all i'm saying #its so frustrating when there is so much out there to explore #terrified of how this will be received but i had to say it #jrwiblr

[salamancers]

i think everyone should listen to dangerous times at chillhaven high, because i am in love with this podcast

#ive tried SO HARD to not listen to it at the speed if sound #which i tend to do with mew podcasts #because i just really want to be able to sit with the plot and the reveals a bit before devouring the next episode #it takes a few episodes to get into but if you get to episode 3. you immediately get. something great. as in. something bad. but good :) #not the text post tumblr deserves

[thedivinemagnet]

I don’t WANT to go to sleep. I want to listen to monster of the week actual play podcasts.

#this is a joke I wish desperately to sleep #also my recs are: the unexplored places dangerous times at chillhaven high and monster hour #talking