#podcasts about life experiences

[rosekasa]

i think what i adore about ladynoir beyond high school age (18 and over) is the opportunity it leaves for some of the most DELICIOUS best friends to lovers scenarios. because, like, two people who've been fighting side by side for years? who've known each other long enough to make jokes about it, haha remember when we were fourteen and you-- we AGREED to never speak of it!!!! who've spent so long learning each other inside out, even, in chat noir's case, getting over feelings, that the idea of anything romantic between them is so far off the radar that they don't feel the need for certain boundaries, because why would it matter if they made jokes about how attractive they find each other, about getting married, about how they could totally mess with the rest of the miracle team by pretending they're hooking up because it's so far out of the realm of possibility.

but then there would be that imperceptible shift. the moment where one of them makes a joke and it feels just a bit more loaded than it should. gazes lingering where they never lingered and playful smiles turning curious. the sudden awareness that, while maybe they were cuddling on a rooftop with their best friend, they were also wrapped up in the arms of someone they trust with their lives, and is extremely attractive, and, wait, if the only reason it was platonic before was because there were no feelings, what does THIS mean?

THE TENSION. THE PINING. THE INHERENT MESS OF BEING IN YOUR TWENTIES. PLEASEEEE

#as i go through more things in life i ache for ladynoir to experience it too #i want them to be at a grocery store and for him to reach out to tickle her and she turns around and makes a joke but their gazes linger way #too knowingly #i want them to sit down and have a 'okay like this is so tmi but isnt the concept of sex so weird??' conversation #i want them to joke about starting a podcast together #make impulsive amazon purchases that make no sense #find a song that one of them hate and then continuously play it on loop #compare spotify profiles and one of them steals the other's login to sabotage their spotify wrapped for the year #do you know i am so normal about ladynoir #♡alizeh talks♡ #tagged:ladynoir

[imsossleepy]

One of the first things Arthur did upon hearing his Wife was going into labor was drink himself stupid. One of the things we now know about his parents is that they were alcoholics to quite the degree. Arthur, whether he knew it or not, was just acting on what he knew parenthood to be. He didn’t know how to be a dad, he didn’t know how to be a husband, but he did know how to drink.

#malevolent #malevolent podcast #arthur malevolent #idk it was just a thought #may delete this later it depends on how I feel about this thought #just think about how one way or another #Arthur has always blindly waded though life #whether through experience or vision

[flufflecat]

Got to stolen century in my relisten and started tearing up at work because of magnus carving the duck. Just me in the back room, crying over the dish sink for normal reasons.

#the adventure zone #taz balance #taz #it gets me every time #I was anticipating that scene all shift #and wanted to leave before I got to it bc I knew I would start crying and didn't want to cry at work ahfkahfkka #unfortunately I had to stay an hour and a half late bc yayyy labor day #I also started tearing up at merle with the church of fungston. for some reason. #merle has never really made me that emotional before but I guess now in my old age I'm more struck by his love of life #i understand you better now merle. as a twenty-something I really see the appeal in being able to love life despite the hardships #(this is a joke. I am almost 24 and do not think I'm old) #(I do find merles brand of optimism very good nowadays though. I also have a zest for life and a need to complain about things) #I managed to not cry at the lup and Barry duet though which I am quite proud of #probably bc I spent like half an hour watching lup animatics last night and got my tears out then #I'm having a normal time #normal as hell #most people probably cry over podcasts at their grocery store job #I think that's a standard experience #especially when those podcasts are from 7 years ago and you're still not over them #standard #fluffle talks

[nerdetiquette]

Imagine how weird it must’ve been for Peter to wake up after experiencing his whole life with Slip just to be 17 and so so scared again

#I’ve been thinking about this for days #imagine living your whole life just to be brought back to the weird drug experience you had when you were a teen #you’ve aged a lifetime #god that’s gotta be so confusing #the penumbra podcast #tpp #tpp spoilers #tpp s4 finale #peter nureyev #junoverse #slipjackson

[kingdomoftyto]

"Carlos, if you could just pause your experiment for a second--if you could only hear me out, hear my hypothesis! I think once you understand the science of the situation, you--" Carlos opened the door. He was crying. She had never seen him cry. He was overwhelmed and unsure of how to express his emotions, since he usually only did so in carefully worded sentences, not with water from his body. "The science of the situation?" he snarled. "That Otherworld. I was trapped there, Nilanjana. I couldn't see Cecil for ten lonely years. I was kept away from the people I love, in that desolate place where you never get hungry and you never have to drink water and so you never live. It is a place that devours. It is a place that is empty. That is the science of the situation, and I study it so I can fix it. Only I can do that. Only these experiments can do that. I'm sorry, Nilanjana; I'm not going to stop so you can tell me what science is."

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#Tyto listens to WtNV #spoiler warning I guess for a book that came out a few years ago now #anyway yeah hi I finished the book #the resolutions to the plot and to Nils' character arc were pretty good. nothing to write home about but fun and serviceable #I personally get annoyed whenever a story pulls a ''you thought this romance would end with these two TOGETHER? lol NOPE'' #like we get it it's more realistic for whirlwind romances to end in a breakup and sometimes it's better for people to just stay friends #but firstly this isn't real life; it's fiction. with narrative devices and such. #and secondly WtNV of all media does NOT get to preach about realistic relationship trajectories when its lead fell in love at first sight #lmao I'm just saying. I'm not MAD about it or anything it just made me roll my eyes. #ANYWAY. that aside: it was good. and I do genuinely like the friendship Nilanjana builds up with Darrell at the end #but obviously the real star of the show was Carlos and the completely unprecedented character depth that they smothered him in. #not ONLY recontextualizing over a year's worth of the podcast but ALSO saddling him with LAYERS of guilt over the events in this book #he *KILLED* the *GODDAMN* *CENTIPEDE* #after his beautiful little speech about not killing things just because we don't understand them! #he was just SO traumatized by his time in the Otherworld and SO afraid for his family after Janice nearly got Got that he KILLED IT!!! #and THEN!!!! not only do they find out that the centipede wasn't responsible for the destruction!! #but it turns out it was HIS OWN MACHINE THE WHOLE TIME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! #his attempts to keep everyone safe were what actually caused the danger!!!! AUGH HE WAS ONLY TRYING TO HELP #HE'S JUST SCARED AND HE WANTS EVERYONE TO BE SAFE AND NOT EXPERIENCE THE SAME HORRORS HE DID AUGHDUSHGHDH #...anyway yeah back to my regularly scheduled episode listening tomorrow

[fictionadventurer]

The Springfield pictures on my phone are coming in handy as I go through the Lincoln book.

Wax figures of Lincoln's Cabinet from the Lincoln Museum

Banner from the 1860 Election in the historic Springfield Capitol building.

Sign from Lincoln's Law Office.

Historic Springfield Capitol building

#history is awesome #presidential talk #part of the reason i'm pausing the podcast to dig further into lincoln #is because i intended to look deeper into lincoln after this trip and never did #it's fun going back through the pictures with more context #though it would have been even more fun to have that context when i was there #the main reason i included that banner picture is because i got a nice surprise #when i saw hannibal hamlin's name and realized 'oh now i know that guy!' #it's fun to learn about history of a place you've actually been to #nice to be able picture lincoln's house and the state legislature whenever they mention them #though it is a struggle to roll back my imagination and remember the city doesn't look like the one i saw #pretty sure there was no museum across the street from lincoln's house #lincoln didn't have car traffic outside his office #lincoln probably did not go to the krispy kreme #which makes me very sad because that was one of the most profound culinary experiences of my life #(new item for the time travel bucket list: take lincoln to the krispy kreme) #there are other cool and useful pictures i wanted to show but unfortunately i had to avoid the ones with people in them #there's a great shot of the front of lincoln's office but my sister is standing right in front of it #and most of the useful lincoln's house photos have other tourists there #suddenly i'm worried that i wasn't supposed to take pictures inside the lincoln museum #if any angry museum workers see this i'm sorry #i only had an hour which meant we were sprinting through that place and i needed to be able to look closer later

[mythicalcoolkid]

Underrated "worst kind of thinkpiece article" contendor: articles about how we as a society need to examine [current trend] because naïvely buying into it ruined the author's life, only when you actually read the article it's clear that the author is in fact blaming a LOT of their personal issues on. Like. Marie Kondo

#m/cc #this isn't new either I remember this at least ten years ago in Reader's Digest #author got a Fitbit and loved it #got obsessed with tracking his steps. took long walks after dinner listening to podcasts. cared a lot about meeting his step count #felt really lost when it broke #like I do think there's something to be said about grind culture and diet culture and technology that exploits addictive tendencies #but this guy's problem was not the Fitbit and the Fitbit was not the thing making him miss out on other life experiences #he could have taken those walks WITH his wife #either liking the solitude of the walks or not communicating with his wife is not the fault of the Fitbit. the Fitbit counted his steps and #buzzed when he met his (self-chosen) goal #anyway. this is sponsored by remembering an article I read forever ago about how Konmari ruined the author's life #because she got into it (while grieving) and loved it and somehow missed the point and became obsessed with minimalism #Marie Kondo suggesting you keep what makes you happy or fills a need and consider getting rid of things you don't is not what's #causing you this anxiety about gifts. you are looking for something to blame that's manipulated you into this situation

[talentforlying]

hold please for magnus archives. HOLD PLEASE FOR MAGNUS ARCHIVES.

Web-aligned avatar of the Eye john constantine, marked by every entity but the End, with whom he made a deal: he stays alive, and unmarked, as long as he spends the rest of his days preventing the ritual of the Watcher's Crown from ever taking place.

qualifications: frequently appears in people's nightmares after saving their life, has a legacy of being seen watching his comic writers from across the street, maintains a wide web (ha) of connections through the world of the Entities, weaves plots around his enemies with incredible deftness, incredibly skilled at hypnotic interrogation, probably called jonah magnus a bitch to his face at some point. and then ran for his life, but it was worth it.

potential timeline under the cut because uhhh????? things added up A LITTLE TOO WELL here

constantine being obsessed with "magic" as a kid after an encounter with an unknown entity in his bedroom (all his engines) and searching voraciously for leitners his whole childhood. finally discovers one and through a scheme involving an elaborate fake seance, uses it to bind his father so he could finally run away from home - thus becoming marked by the Web

becoming marked by the Eye and placed on the avatar track when he thwarted a ritual attempt at newcastle by unintentionally drawing the information on how to stop it out of astra; whether thwarting the ritual or taking the knowledge killed her, he still doesn't know

sent to ravenscar, a smirke-designed building, and while there is marked by an avatar of the Spiral that feeds on madness; he escapes, funnily enough, by confusing it

goes to america to thwart the brujeria — a faction of the Dark — but fails, being marked in the process.

returns home to find gary lester being hunted by an avatar of the Corruption; sacrifices him to save him, but is marked in the process. midnite comments on this, and brings the markings to his attention for the first time

loiters, lurks, and blackmails his way around the magnus institute to research the entities and their marks; in the process, learns about the ritual of the watcher's crown, and is convinced by the head of the institute at the time (👁) that it would be saving the world if he pursued it

is marked by an avatar of the Slaughter that entices war vets to obliterate their own hometown

is marked by the Stranger when ritchie simpson's consciousness becomes trapped inside a computer and later possesses constantine in an attempt to break free (ritchie simpson & sergey ushanka should kiss frankly)

is marked by the Hunt when a serial killer murders his father, hunts him across london, and constantine is forced to kill him in self-defense

comes up against and is marked by a budding avatar of the Extinction when it nukes a town, though nobody knows it's even an entity by this point

learned the truth about the Watcher's Crown from an avatar of the End (the first of the fallen) while trying to save a friend's life. makes a deal with the End to dedicate his time to preventing that ritual from ever happening, in exchange for not being marked or attacked by its avatars for as long as he lives. decides, privately, to keep his options open, and continues to accrue marks when the opportunity arises.

when he's left homeless after his breakup with kit, an avatar of the Lonely hunts him through the streets of london; he manages to trick it and See it off, but not before it marks him

creates the golem of the demon constantine from clay to imbue with portions of himself, in order to trick another avatar into not killing him; bringing it to life marks him by the Flesh

is buried alive in glasgow during an altercation with an avatar of the Buried, which failed because of his pre-existing deal with the End

submerges his arm in boiling water during a trial of courage in a cult setting; the burns mark him for the Desolation

takes a dream-walking root to meet with an avatar of the Vast and negotiate being marked; is almost swallowed up, but tricks his way out, and escapes successful

jc: hellblazer constantine is finally marked by the End when he willingly stops his own heart in a plan to thwart the unknowing; when he comes back to life, he has no vital signs and is now eligible to conduct the ritual of the watcher's crown; last seen running for his fucking life (un-life?)

#( ooc. ) OUT OF CIGS. #RATTLING THE BARS OF MY FUCKING CAGE THE MAGNUS ARCHIVES IS A PODCAST AND HELLBLAZER FITS TOO WELL #feels like it would have been too on the nose to say brainworms #anyway i'm normal about this #this isn't necessarily like. a Verse or anything it's more a very sexy thought experiment.................UNLESS #( headcanons. ) I'M JUST LIKE THE BASTARDS I'VE HATED ALL ME LIFE. #( AU. ) YOU WHO WAIT AND WATCH AND DRINK IN ALL THAT IS NOT YOURS BY RIGHT. ( iv. )

[watchingthefog]

FINALYL SOMEONE AS INSANE ABOUT JONAH AS I AM. HELLO.

HELLO

[link for the comic that's from bc it took my forever to find so I could get a screenshot of it]

#i went into this podcast fully expecting Jon to be my favorite. and i do love him! #but. Elias. Jonah. #I'm obsessed with possession‚ what can i say? the Spn angels & demons fan brainrot that will stick with me forever :P #also i just think he's really compelling... his fear of death‚ the fact that he just wants to experience and know *everything* #“I’ve seen more than I could have lived in a thousand lifetimes‚ and every moment was so –” #is that not the draw of fiction in and of itself? is that not why we all devour stories? #i too have seen more than i could have lived in a thousand lifetimes‚ and i hope to see even more #i mean‚ the atrocities aren't that relatable... but a good blorbo needs to be at least a little evil <3 #i just love him so much 🥺 #Jonah treating everyone in his real life the exact way i treat fictional characters I'm obsessed with..... #“let's see what horrors we can put the Archivist through today” he says from his desk at his office as he tunes into his favorite tv show #and then he murders a guy in Jon's office and leaves the disfigured corpse for Jon to find (top 10 girlboss moments) #i truly am insane about him <3

[incorporealbagelbeing]

Thinking once again about Desperado Podcast and spiraling about side characters that have mentioned things that I think about constantly

#they gave us an angel that takes down others #people with insane powers and interesting magic systems #someone who created his own god #talias family and grandmother #who have snippets of an insanely rich backstory man id love to know more #literally details from all of the three main characters #all of what Samar was doing and going through throughout her life #and thinking about a storyline dedicated to her and her past and showing how she grew how she thinks who she was and teleportation #And her experience with transness too!!! and family #and also im thinking about the systems of magic and belief and how science and energy and how theres a huge plus and minus balancing act #hrng #it itches my brain #in a good way #desperado #desperado podcast

[kehlanies]

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#shup ut nicki #this has nothing to do with anything anyone is talking about so feel v free to ignore me dkdkdksk #but i just saw the emma chamberlain podcast where she talks about people constantly filming at concerts #and how there's and obsession with posting your experiences online #which is true! the sanpchat/instastories/tiktokification of documenting experience is...yeah #but i think concerts are different because concerts for a lot of people are a once in a lifetime experience #very few people have the income to see multiple shows in a year - some people will only ever see one concert ever in their life #after intentionally saving up for it. esp for big artists #why shouldn't they be able to record their experience? bc i gotta tell you if i ever get to see beyonce in person #i would start taking pictures the week before of the empty venue lol #the idea that someone shouldn't get to go back and relive or share a very rare experience for them has just always rubbed me the wrong way #(maybe bc i'm poor and the most expensive concert I've ever been to was the cheetah girls sksksk) #and like obviously its different if you're going to 50 shows of the same artist and taking pictures to brag. #but i think its fair to say 90% of people aren't doing that. hell 90% can't do that. #also i literally live vicariously through other peoples footage of their concent experience #so yeah. off the soapbox now.

[carfuckerlynch]

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#didn’t really clock how much my inability to allow myself to experience or express negative emotions is like. ruining my life. #i joke about it sometimes but it feels a little telling that except for the first few days after it happened i didn’t actually cry about #my boyfriend going radio silent for three weeks and then dumping me out of nowhere after saying that all of those things were things he #didn’t want. and then when we were talking it out after and i expressed that i was pretty blindsided by that. whole thing. and that it #sucked to not have any information for the last several weeks of our relationship. he just never responded. #<- other than the few days after the breakup i wasn’t able to cry about all that until. checks watch. saturday. like last saturday #almost three months later #and like. not allowing myself to exist in silence. i couldn’t listen to music for like a month after that. maybe more. i still kind of can’t #i mostly listen to podcasts and audiobooks or play youtube videos #my dreams haven’t been this bad since high school #odhran.txt #anyway. sorry about ^ all that. but also this is my house

[marlynnofmany]

I was a guest on a podcast!

That was a fun, hour-long conversation about science fiction, anthologies, and why writing doesn’t have to be a solo venture. Good times.

If anyone wants to hear what I sound like, go here!

If anyone wants to also be a guest on the podcast, go here!

I recommend both.

#podcasts #interviews #writer life #I should have name-dropped the titles of the things I was talking about more #oh well #learning experience and all that #anyways I said the most important ones #the book that just came out #and the Cool New Group that I get to be part of #verrrry exciting

[dnovep]

returning to my roots ☺️

#i used to rly rly love radio 1 & for YEARS couldn't fall asleep without listening to scott mills' podcast :'( #remembering watching d&p's radio shows live.. rushing to get hot chocolate before it started.. #remembering their final radio show :( #thinking about when the surgery (aled's old show) texted me back offering to have me on radio 1 & help me out but i chickened out #they got someone else on instead who had the exact same problem :') so it was the advice AND the knowledge that i wasn't alone #remembering the drive in to school listening to radio 1 #i had a blood test today & didn't have a flashback or panic attack & now i'm deleting loads of old photos on my ipad from yrs ago to - #- keep it alive #so i'm feeling extra grateful for all the growth and life and experiences i've been gifted over the past 30 & a half yrs :')