#dinner's on me podcast

[bookgeekgrrl]

My media this week (12-18 May 2024)

the fucking contempt that dripped from his voice!

📚 STUFF I READ 📚

😊 Tea and No Sympathy (who_la_hoop) - 70K, drarry - enjoyable enough, set 2 yrs post war, draco gets stuck in a time loop & learns some things

😊 That's What You Get For Waking Up In Vegas (Oh_i_swear & ThePirateStorm) - 96K, shrunkyclunks - cute & entertaining - ymmv depending on your threshold for lots of britishisms in the dialogue of two ostensibly american guys + highly unrealistic kid behavior

😊 head above water (yourblues) - 91K, hocky rpf, started almost too slow burn for me since I don't know the characters involved but well written & compelling enough that I wanted to know & then about halfway thru I was fully in

😍 This, You Protect (Infinite Coffee & Protection Detail #1) (owlet) - 64K, recovering WS Stucky, one of the preeminent classics in the Stucky fandom featuring Cat Eleanor, The Olds, grilled cheeses and sheep pj pants.

💖💖 +56K of shorter fic so shout out to these I really loved 💖💖

Kelly, the Well-Meaning and Very Confused Barista (chaya) - MCU: barbershop quartet, 6K - "An outside observer confuses the 'barbershop quartet' as one woman with a really bad habit for cheating. Complete fluff." - I really love a well-done outsider POV

and now you will not be alone any more (pocky_slash) - X-Men: cherik, 5K - "Erik gives driving, sewing, and cooking lessons, soothes nightmares, bolsters self-esteem, and still can't figure out why Charles keeps smiling at him like that." - love stories where Erik's like a feral cat that accidentally domesticates itself without realizing it

📺 STUFF I WATCHED 📺

Girls5eva - s1, e2

That '90s Show - s1, e1-2

The Unicorn - s1, e1-2

QI - series U, e9-15

Murdoch Mysteries - s16, e21

The Brokenwood Mysteries - s10, e3

Dead Boy Detectives - s1, e1

D20: Fantasy High: Junior Year - "Ragenarok (Part 1)" (s21, e19)

D20: Adventuring Party - "Only Cowgirls Get the Blues" (s16, e19)

Doctor Who - s1 (series 14), e3

🎧 PODCASTS 🎧

The Atlas Obscura Podcast - Musée Mécanique

Re: Dracula - May 12: What Manner of Man is This

The Atlas Obscura Podcast - To the Moon and Back with Rebecca Boyle

Shedunnit - Bonus: The Chalet School

The Sporkful - Bringing Georgia O’Keeffe To Life With Her Recipes

99% Invisible #581 - It's Howdy Doody Time!

Decoder Ring - How the Jalapeño Lost Its Heat

WikiHole - Nathan Lane (with Zach Woods, Jeff Hiller and Katie Dippold)

Under the Influence - The Gong Show: Ads That Could Never (Ever) Run Today

The Atlas Obscura Podcast - Bonnie and Clyde Ambush Museum

WikiHole - Patrick J Adams (with Bowen Yang, Mary Beth Barone and Marie Faustin

Points North - The Legend of Heike's Tombs

The Allusionist - 194. Word Play 4: Good Grids

Pop Culture Happy Hour - I Saw the TV Glow is weird and transfixing

Switched on Pop - Is pop music just fast food? (with Gastropod)

The Fandom Show - 29: The Golden Girls (with Tricia Black)

Dinner’s on Me - Zachary Quinto

99% Invisible #582 - Rocket Man

Vibe Check - Saying the Quiet Part Out Loud

Re: Dracula - May 15: Lizard Fashion

Pop Culture Happy Hour - Looking to the past and future of Black Twitter

The Atlas Obscura Podcast - Underwater Sculpture Gardens

Welcome to Night Vale #248 - Mother Lauren

The Fandom Show - (NEW) Doctor Who

Re: Dracula - May 16: This Man Belongs to Me

Wild Card - Why Chris Pine gave up on being perfect

Wild Card - Chris Pine on performing the role of "movie star" + more Issa Rae (Wild Card+)

The Atlas Obscura Podcast - Gabbing Goblins with Colin Dickey

Dinner’s on Me - Harry Shum Jr.

Persuasion by Jane Austen - Persuasion 1. | Meet the Elliots

The Fandom Show - Our Flag Means Death

Short Wave - Scientists Reveal Mysterious Origin of Baobab Trees, Rafiki's Home in 'The Lion King'

Dear Prudence - My Mom Forgot to Take Her Medicine and “Accidentally” Made Racist Remarks. Help!

It's Been a Minute - Bumble & the trap of modern dating; plus, living ethically in COVID's aftermath

Endless Thread - Catfish for dinner

Strong Songs - "Easter Theatre" by XTC

Dinner’s on Me - Danielle Brooks

Re: Dracula - May 18: It was No Dream

99% Invisible - The Power Broker #05: Brandy Zadrozny

Wait Wait… Don't Tell Me! - Maya Hawke

🎶 MUSIC 🎶

Sweetheart Soul

The Romantics Radio • Familiar

The Essential Survivor [Survivor] {2014}

My Supermix

AM In The A.M.: '70s Pop Morning

"Beach Baby" [First Class] radio

#sunday reading recap #bookgeekgrrl's reading habits #bookgeekgrrl's soundtracks #fanfic ftw #dropout tv #british comfort murders #i'm all caught up on qi eps #having an endless search for a 30 min show i can watch during dinner or laundry folding that won't take up too much brain #the romantics #survivor #'70s pop music #99% invisible podcast #decoder ring podcast #pop culture happy hour podcast #the fandom show podcast #dinner's on me podcast #the allusionist podcast #vibe check podcast #endless thread podcast #re: dracula #persuasion by jane austen (ballarat national theatre) podcast #the atlas obscura podcast #welcome to night vale #it's been a minute podcast #shedunnit podcast #switched on pop podcast #the sporkful podcast #wikihole podcast #wild card podcast #strong songs podcast

[writhe]

passed thru canada today which was my first time ever in canada. in western mass now

#WITH OLIVE!!!! #9 hours in the car wasn’t too bad with music and podcasts and a call w olive and a w franklin #beautiful hitting the mountains around sundown everything was so verdant and green and golden and then pink for such a long time #and then me and olive walked into town and she got me dinner and a really good ale #sleeping under a wool blanket now #the drive felt so nostalgic

[coconut530]

Some derps for the past three Malevolent episodes ~ 🕷️👩🏻🎄

#Malevolent #Malevolent Podcast #Sorry the first two are like sosososo late I just like… forgot to make them #But those episodes were like sososososo much so can’t blame me #But today was BENEVOLENT DAY #WHICH WAS THE MAIN ATTRACTION #GOD ALL OF IT WAS SO SO SO SO SO FUNNY #THE SITCOM AESTHETIC THE APRON THE MAILMAN THE TELEGRAM ALL HIS FRIENDS AND FAMILY AND THE SAD TRUMPETS #AND THEN THEM TRYING TO GET THEIR SPIRITS UP AND PLAYING BABY IT’S COLD OUTSIDE #“IF WE HOLD HANDS THE FANS WOULD DIE” IS JUST HILARIOUS I TELL YOU #BC WE WOULD #AAAAANYWAY AND THE -ARTHUR’S FAMOUS IDEAS!!!1!!1!1- that go horribly sometimes but uhhhhhhLET’S NOT MENTION THAT #😂 OSCAR BLESS UR HEART AND AT LEAST YOU HAVE AN ARM IN THIS EP #EDDIE HI I BARELY REMEMBER YOU BUT HI #KRISTIAN NOEL PEDERSON HELLO SIR I LOVED YOUR MUSIC AND IT’S SO WEIRD TO SEE SOMEONE ELSE IN MALEVOLENT BUT YEAHHHHHHHHH #AND KAYNE! BEING MISCHIEVOUS AND STRANGE AGAIN! THREE HOURS IS NOT ENOUGH SIR JSYK #THEM AFTER LIKE ACTUALLY READING THEIR LINES THE DELIVERY I CAN’T— #AND DINNER! I KINDA WISH LIKE LARSON OR BUTCHER SHOWED UP BUT OH WELL VERY GOOD HOLIDAY SPECIAL MADE ME LAUGH A LOT YAYYYY MERRY CRIMES

[subsequentibis]

staff meetings where ppl are encouraged to share personal victories are fun bc yr coworkers are like 'my husband of 50 yrs and i have opened a side hustle small business selling leather stachels' 'i am eight months pregnant and i just won the local quilting derby' 'my three year old son jackson performed a one man king lear for an audience of thousands' and you're like 'i am eating two meals a day that have nutrients in them. and im good at video game.'

#ignore me #look this sounds self depricating but i am actually very proud of myself for both things #im REALLY good at video game. #and i make dinners big enough that the leftovers cover lunch for the next day. not only that but i actually eat the lunch. WIN. #and anyway my Big win (producing podcast i like) i can't tell them about bc these people cannot know who i am online.

[icarus-on-air]

not awake enough to process anything that's being talked about at this conference but hey i sketched these

#malevolent #malevolent podcast #malevolent fanart #john doe malevolent #arthur lester malevolent #it is 10 pm and i have been in a ledge session since 2 pm someone kill me #actually we had a dinner break but that doesn't mean i'm anymore awake

[nicoscheer]

I’m not crying you are crying yes I’m crying

How is he not freezing to death

His fucking eyes 🫠

Come on Barbie let’s go party

Love the leadmill for posting this story like half an hour before Miles went on 🤣 like for a millisecond I was like huh Alex what you doing

Love love that SETLIST (and the little commentary about the transition songs and especially “commentary”) (also damn sure it ain’t correct cause there are videos of cry on my guitar and never taking me alive so …)

Okay but like why he looking so pretty in that BeReal like he’s performing live and still it looks like he’s posing fucking model

I am living for all them Maxie pics

INTERSTELLAR DRESSED IN LEATHER DRINKING BITTER BOY

She has also uploaded a bunch of videos to her Miles Kane highlight

Miles slowly waking back up at around 1pm 🫶🏽🤣

#14/12/2023 #miles kane #Maxie #Sheffield #Christmas show #please let Alex show; I mean we know he’s in England/london soooo he’s probably at home (his parents) for Christmas #Instagram #also poppy TURNER sorry I can’t breathe #shoutout to whoever did that green room sign #Sheffield. yeah I mean Sheffield is like a second home to me: Miles Kane for Chris talks music podcast may 2022 #lol I can’t 🤣🤣 Amanda posted story with Louise and Matt in it and we know with near certainty that Amanda and Matt are currently/mostly #living in LA #so Louise posting her bye Paris and subsequent Eurostar story was a real joke cause she ain’t in England but Alex most likely still is #okay okay getting better so Louise is celebrating her birthday without Alex I’m guessing 😂 cause Amanda posted a dinner pic and there’s no #way Alex is just out of shot #yup confirmed Matt posted a pic from the other side there was certainly nobody but the three of them #max probably a lil overwhelmed with all the love and cuddles he was getting #he kept his promise and played killing the joke 🥹🥹🫠 #not Miles still up reposting stuff at 3am 🤣😭 #absolutely in love with that BeReal #absolutely in love with all the effort he put into this (and most likely every future) one man band show like with the intro songs ands al #he looks so so happy and god does he deserve it

[mrswhymrhow]

the only "fanbase" experience i liked is eskew solely bc i dont consider it having a fanbase bc from what i remember it was literally just me and my mutuals talking about it loudly. i wonder if it did get a bigger following since the silt verses came out

#and the people who werent my mutuals were making posts for us all to hand around like theyre our dinner for the night #were u guys there when silt verses was coming out. did u guys notice anything #i didnt gaf abt it unfortunately. i miss carpenter though she was really cool... #but the way everyone drew her so young when i imagined her like in her 30s and looking way older made me so mad #everyone didnt know what they looked like. no one ever knows what podcast characters look like they make them look like infants

[polithicc]

allowed myself to rot in bed for 2 hours which helped me so much, so now im getting up and doing things

#I have 3 1-hour podcasts to listen to #this is perfect #also before allowing myself to be sad in bed i showered and had dinner my brother brought me

[drinkingdeadpeopletea]

i love that hieronymous said exactly two lines in that entire episode and one of them was stating the obvious and the other was a totally innocent-sounding statement that also managed to be a lie. he's the perfect character <3

#midst podcast #i love DOUBLE AGENTS! #other things he did this episode: took a 'tense and challenging sip of wine'. held his wife's hand 'reassuringly'. looked aghast. #you go king you sail right through that dinner while kozma lazlo claims to have caused the disaster whose effects you just saw firsthand #and which directly endangered the people you care for <3 while kozma lazlo (very possibly) claimed credit for all YOUR hard work with the #breach that i suspect she had little to nothing to do with and that she shouldn't have been just throwing around even if she DID <3 #i love love loved that line about how only WE notice hieronymous is tense. he wouldn't have gotten this far if he couldn't keep it together #this guy makes me feel crazyinsane. i'm desperate for him to either get to do something impossibly badass AND/OR for him to get caught #and for something horrible to happen. ideally we get both. #midst #midst spoilers #midst podcast spoilers

[knightofleo]

Björk: Mother, Daughter, Force of Nature Photographed and filmed on location at Björk’s home in Iceland by Viðar Logi. All wardrobe courtesy of Björk

#bjork #björk #fossora #atopos #ovule #fashion #fashion photography #‘’Nonetheless after listening to psychology podcasts she became fascinated with Jungian victimhood archetypes #trotting them out at dinner parties and insisting that friends too identify their flavor of victimhood’’ #i appreciate that the people in björk's immediate orbit are probably of the more readily open-minded sort #but if anyone had lobbed that subject at me unprompted i would've flat out ejected out of that room ff

[andiaquarium-moved]

IM HOOOOOME HAI

#aaand post #i have a headache but i feel great i got dinner sat at a bar and saw a live show of a podcast i dont listen to #fun afternoon for me

[the-conversation-pod]

Everything old is new again, in four shows that might make you consider calling up an ex…or not. Ben and NiNi talk The Warp Effect, The Director Who Buys Me Dinner, The End of the World With You and Individual Circumstances.

TW: discussions of suicide 30:06-36:12

#the conversation #ben and nini's conversations #podcast #on art #spring 2023 #spring series #season 2 #s2e5 #the director who buys me dinner #the end of the world with you #individual circumstances #the warp effect #Spotify

[suashii]

wah my brain is fried @ ~ @

#💭 manon’s mind #i had an exam this morning #and spent the rest of the day studying for the rest #+ + preparing for my interview tmrw #gonna wind down w some dinner & and podcast #hope my lovies had a great day <3 #a virtual kiss from me to u ^3^

[kingofmyborrowedheart]

*Emerges from recording my podcast covered in blood*

#my back is killing me again #Payton podcasts #need to match up all the audio clips and edit #just had some dinner

[army-of-bee-assassins]

god i wish i didn't have some weird fucking kitchen anxiety where i can't cook dinner unless i'm home alone. normally i can meal prep in the afternoon when my landlord/housemate is at work but she's had a friend staying with us for almost two weeks (!) now who is here at literally all times. and i need to cook food to eat for dinner but i don't want to i don't want to i don't want to

#i have been given zero information about when this person will be leaving either!! #i was told she was here for thanksgiving but it is almost a week past thanksgiving now and she's still here!! #and ofc it would be rude for me to ask #she has a job tho i know she's gotta be leaving soon #also she is a perfectly pleasant person i just want to be home alone sometimes!!! #idk why i'm like this i wanna blast music or a podcast i wanna not worry about how i look or my clothes #i wanna make a mess and not worry about cleaning it immediately #i fucking miss living by myself #i've been eating frozen dinners the past two nights and i was gonna cook today #but i just didn't want to and now it's almost 5 and the landlord will be home soon #and i don't wanna eat another frozen dinner but i also can't afford to just eat out again #i think i have some ramen and that's a tolerably simple and easy thing to cook quickly #so i'll probably do that #i am gonna have to cook on friday whether people are home or not #bc i'm not gonna cook on the weekend when they are guaranteed to be here #i hate that i'm like this and i should fucking get over it but also i don't want to #i enjoy socializing outside of my home but within my home i want to be fucking by myself #j.txt

[fuckthisshitimin]

Eat

"You don't cook."

It's all Sebastian can think to say, all Sebastian can think at all. His mind is a blur these days - nightmares, and the new meds, maybe? He can't remember when it started to feel like that, it's far from an all time low still, so he'll take it.

There's a heavy looking stewpot on the kitchen table, Styx had to move a couple (a dozen) empty coffee mugs to put it here, and he started cleaning another pot, taking a pack of uncooked rice out of his pocket like it's something absolutely normal to carry.

"Nah, I don't like to cook, not the same."

It's maybe one of the first things Sebastian had learnt about Styx. Mysterious, foul-mouthed Styx. A stray black cat that miraculously let him into its life.

"Then why are you cooking?"

"Well that's what best friends are for, right? Suffering mild inconveniences to make sure the other doesn't fucking die?"

Sebastian attempts a laugh, but it doesn't seem to be what Styx is going for. He rinses the pot, fills it with water, turns the hob on. He doesn't add salt. Sebastian always boils saltwater. Well, except for coffee. Which reminds him- "Bastian, how long have I know you?"

"Five years." He picks his current mug up from the ground, waltzes around Styx to refill it with coffee, put it in the microwave. He watches the mug rotating, sickly porcelain under the yellow light. He doesn't remember what he was doing before Styx came in. It's nearing eight in the morning, maybe he was off to bed.

"And do you know how old I am?"

"No. What, have you finally decided to tell me?"

"Dream on. But I've been around for decades before you were born, and chances are, I'm gonna be around for decades after you're gone. You're gonna die on me, mate."

Strange thought. Strange idea, to say it out loud. Sebastian knows Styx is old - too old. Like a vampire or something. He opens the microwave before it beeps, blows on the coffee to assess the temperature. Just a little more. Thirty seconds.

"And I made peace with that. Mostly. When you stormed into my life like the petulant nuisance you are I thought 'Oh, shit, I'm gonna follow this idiot till the day he dies'," seventeen seconds, "and so I know, I always knew. But I'm not gonna let you wilt away like a houseplant."

Five seconds, Sebastian takes the mug out. Blows on it. Just right. "I don't know what you mean."

"You're melting."

Again, a strange choice of words. Styx chooses strange words all the time. Again, Sebastian is tired. Sitting on his bed might be his best choice. He crashes there. "When was the last time you ate a full meal?"

"I dunno. Yesterday? Dinner?"

Instant noodles. It's a meal. It's literally a meal. It's not that long ago, and he had snacks, too. Lots of snacks. Too many? He didn't count. There were moments he had to eat something, and he did. Surely that is enough.

"You can't do this shit to me, Bastian. D' you know what it feels like, to be skinny?"

Of course he knows. His noodle arms are here for that. For all the time Sebastian has known him, Styx has never been particularly thin. His thighs are full, his arms, soft, his stomach round. He puts the stewpot on the second hob, curry, maybe. "I don't-"

"I've fucken been there, kay? And right now you don't see it, but I see it."

The water boils, and Styx pours the rice in it, before joining his best friend on the bed. Dirty laundry by his pillow. The duvet is out of the sheets. It's a bit of a mess, but Styx's place is messier, and Sebastian lights a cigarette. Misplaced satisfaction, like his ribs when he scratches his back. He remembers he was real skinny once, too, he remembers he liked how small his boobs got when he ate just a little, just a little less - now his chest is flat, it is not an issue. The ribs, still. A drop of left-over euphoria.

Styx opens his mouth wide, and Sebastian wonders if he got a new piercing for his tongue, but he points at two teeth. "Those are fake. The real ones died in my mouth because I was too fucked in the head to eat properly." He should have lowered the heat on the rice - and salt, he didn't put salt in. Sebastian doesn't get up to correct it. He looks at Styx's teeth.

"Being underweight hurts. You get used to it. Get used to being cold, all, the, bloody, time, you bruise more easily. Everything bruises. Sitting on the floor for too long. Leaning on the fucking wall. And you don't really notice, because it's normal now."

There are red and purple bruises all over Sebastian's knees. He didn't do anything too extreme. He bruises easily. Always has. Probably. He pulls the duvet towards him, covering his legs.

"Wounds take longer to heal, too. And you get sick. And you get used to it, too, I got used to my throat being sore like I got used to my knees aching after walking a fucking mile, and it took a decade to get my head out of this crap. You're smart, Bastian, like me. Don't think you're too smart to fall for this shit."

He is, still. He eats enough. He toes the line. He's not underweight - or barely. He is, just barely. He did the math. He can still work. His body is okay enough.

"Because that's not how it works. It's worse when you're smart, cause your mind is so goddamn good at tricking you, at arguing against the people telling you you're not okay, telling you you can toe the line between a disordered eating and an eating disorder just for science, as an experiment - but you're just getting worse."

Sebastian thinks it's maybe the longest he's ever heard Styx talk at once.

"Fucking around and finding out with your health is bullshit. I should be dead, Fen." It's been years since Styx called him that. He can't imagine a world where Styx is dead. No, no. "This is an experiment, but you're the subject, and the rot in your brain tries to convince you you're the scientist."

The smoke on Sebastian's tongue brings nausea. He doesn't like the feeling - scrutiny. Helplessness.

"Not eating is not gaining control. I promise. I swear to Christ."

It rings like a doom bell. It echoes in the empty pit of Sebastian's stomach, where guilt lives, allowing no roommate.

"Shit."

"Yeah. It's shit. I took some books, so I can stay a few days. But I'm not leaving until you eat."

Black eyes. Wet and shiny. Sebastian isn't hungry - and he knows Styx has a point. He knows there is a rot in his brain, that lies. It speaks with his voice, when it promises he'll eat later. It likes his bones bare. It recoils at the thought of getting better. Fatter. Happier. It recoils beneath Styx's eyes.

"Okay."

#sebastian fen #ed mention #cw eating problems #styx night shift #eoin macnamara #night shift #night shift podcast #nsp #watch how hard i can project my issues on my new blorbos #but yeah i don't have a scale but i think i've been losing weight /again/ #and it sucks and a friend called me out #and i had a real dinner tonight #remembering the part of me that likes the bones is NOT the part of me that wants to be happy #i want my body to be comfortable again