#the pasithea powder spoilers

[clonerightsagenda]

The Pasithea Powder said the sexiest thing you can do is be an anti-monarchist and quit your job.

#the pasithea powder spoilers #kat listens to pasithea

[pasitheapowder]

happy belated pasithea finaleversary!! :) which moment(s) in the show made you feel this emotion most while writing? ->

What an extremely good question! Spoilers beneath the cut because I don't trust people!

In no particular order, here are three of them! Ask me again in ten seconds and my answers may have shifted:

Okay, but this one will never shift. It's the one! It's how Evelyn died! We've talked in various Q&As about how we didn't intend for this to be a mystery--whether you guessed it in advance or not, that's what the text wanted you to do--but we still knew that people would have a big reaction to finding out regardless of whether they had made a prediction and BOY HOWDY you did not disappoint.

Agent Cullen's death. The above was the longest-lasting Grinch Face Moment, but I think this was the most photorealistic Grinch Face Moment. That was our collective face, waiting for that episode to drop.

I'm gonna allow a tie here, because the ends of the Seasons 1 & 2 finales are spiritual twins, in that we gave you a moment where you thought everything might be working out, only to wrench it away and make things more complicated!

Honorable Mention: Episode 16. Duh.

#The Pasithea Powder #the pasithea powder spoilers #asks #davey-in-a-minivan #if you saw an earlier version of this where we forgot to insert the cut: no you didn't

[munchiezxx]

this is not how it went but A GIRL CAN DREAM

#the pasithea powder #the pasithea powder spoilers #😮‍💨 #yeah i guess i don’t have anything else to say about it #my art

[a-couple-of-notes]

assorted ramblings on the pasithea powder

I find it hilarious that in one of the Q&As, we learn that the creators really love this one episode of Hannibal where five people are stuck in a house, emotional bombs are dropped, and everyone is immediately in danger of dying--and then in "A Passage," three people are stuck in a spaceship, emotional bombs are dropped, and they're all pretty much in danger of dying (I mean, okay, they're not all bleeding out in a kitchen, but like--Sophie's brain is melting, the government is in pursuit, and Other!Evelyn did get shot, so it's close enough.) It's so cool when you can see pieces of what people love in their own work.

Someone else made a post about this, but learning that at least one of the creators read Animorphs makes so much sense and brings me so much joy. And also that shred of lettuce story reminds me in such a great and terrible way of that sliver of Hork-Bajir flesh in Cassie's teeth in #19.

You know, there could be a world in which these assorted ramblings devolve even further into Animorphs comparisons--for example, Yeerks and Others feeding off memories to create something that's an approximation of how the real person would act but not quite? Or, even closer, the Yeerk parasitism vs. the Eggaran mind-meld in Episode 18 (and even how that parallels Cassie and Aftran in #19, although the stakes are completely different). Or the easy parallels between Jane and Cassie and Sophie and Rachel that stick and fall apart in interesting ways once you examine them too closely--I'm gonna stop now.

Speaking of that famous mind-meld in Episode 18--it felt, in the most loving and thematically appropriate of ways, like such a fanfic trope? Like those pollen fics--you know which ones I'm talking about--except the characters are launched into another sort of intimate understanding of each other. And, you know, it feels like something that would happen to the leads of another show: this whole story has been about Jane and Sophie's struggle to communicate and be vulnerable with and trust each other--so shower them with feelings juice and make them work it out! It's why I was so glad that they didn't do that. Moreau and Jane get the mind meld shortcut; Sophie and Omikron do, too. But Sophie and Jane have to process and grow and communicate with each other all on their own. And it makes it so much more rewarding when they do.

My favorite ending narratively was Episode 11--that tightly-constructed ball of longing and trust and betrayal that makes you go, oh, of course it went like that--but Episode 33 was such a good finale, too. Getting to see them be kids again, essentially, reveling in memories when memory has been the thing that's haunted them for so long. There's peace. They're young. They'll be alright.

"A Passage" will haunt me, I can already feel it. The implications of the Evelyn interacting with Sophie being Jane's Evelyn and thus being not only a representation of what Jane thought Evelyn and Sophie's relationship was but also a fucked-up extension of Jane's own love for Sophie. All of Evelyn's snippiness toward Jane being, on some level, Jane's own self-recrimination. The fact that Jane could give Sophie both orders (to believe her and to leave) and Sophie didn't fly into the sun, and that Jane took the chance of that happening (for Evelyn? in the heat of the moment? because she knew the core of Sophie wouldn't fundamentally conflict with the idea of believing in Jane?) The tangled mess of Sophie wanting to stay with them anyway! God. This show is so good.

#the pasithea powder #the pasithea powder spoilers #I am too busy to write fanfic (really this time) but some might show up

[fyeahaudiodrama]

okay girlies, i'm finally gonna do it

i'm gonna listen to the very last episode of the pasithea powder

once more unto the breach we go

Episode 33: Jane & Sophie

"conclude the lurid tale"

she's not captain or lieutenant anymore ;-;

yeaaaah, get fucked war!

linda for the winda!!

fucking hot to trot again

new elinor lopez project? is it a dating show to find her next ex-wife?

yeah, that's right blanc, you keep her fucking nickname out of your fucking mouth

"when i'm home" she has a home ;;-;; and it doesn't feel like a creepy serial killer apartment ;;;-;;; (i assume)

anders gets to see his friend agaaaaaain

"i burned kind of a big bridge" yeah kind of a wilf-sized bridge

"oh god she's so terrible and adorable and i love her so much" i'm fucking dyiiiiiiiing

"you. need. me." "i really don't." fuck yeah jane

"i'm not significant in the overall shape of her life" oh. ouch. that...hurts to think about. rowley meant so much to the shape of jane's life and jane, while not totally insignificant to hers, was still just...one little piece. not even enough to make her brain start eating itself.

she's in a book club ;;;-;;;

she grows tomatoes ;;;;-;;;;

love that the general news publicizes the fact that jane and sophie are girlfriends. or that rowley watches the telescope and believes however elinor frames this whole mess

one last shout-out to david alegros's gay daughter's dad!! come help your old co-worker do experimental memory drugs!!

c'mon jane, sophie's a work-out gay, not an ace hardware gay

how long before mama green starts asking about grandchildren

mia and lea on a jet skia

oh jesus, jane clubbing, that's an image

hypnos: not even once: the carla de luca story

oh maryanne by annie moriondo, we're really in it now

super romantic lil b&e

"he got stung by bees there on multiple occasions" "he really loved bees tho" god what a fucking nerd

...i wonder if omikron likes bees...did sophie know evelyn liked bees enough for omikron to like bees too...?

is that DIEGETIC WELLINGTON RAIN?? my fucking heart.....

"ethics aside, and other podcast scientific issues"

they got their own place where george lives with them, i love them so fucking much ;;;;;-;;;;;

fuck, campus security. parkour to freedom, i guess?

oh...

it's over now...

i guess the only thing left for it now...is...

#the pasithea powder #the pasithea powder spoilers

[arianwells]

Leutenant Sophie Green? No, she isn't a leutenant anymore. Yes, she resigned. Yes, just told the Queen to fuck off. Yep, really said that. Can she talk right now? Oh, no. No. She's making out with Jane Gonzalez. Yes. Yes, right in front of the house. It's gonna take all day, probably. Yeah, sorry.

#the pasithea powder #the pasithea powder spoilers #I'm so giddy rn

[peternureyevplsdontbetraythecrew]

I'm so so happy, that was an incredible ending to an incredible story!!!! this was everything

#the pasithea powder spoilers #the pasithea powder

[baguetteish]

the gasp i let out when i realized that the intro descriptors for the finale ep were the same as the very first episode,,,, crazy!!

#the pasithea powder #the pasithea powder spoilers #baguette screams into the void

[smirk47]

god Pasithea Powder is so fucking delightfully layered on every re-listen.

I’m just starting a s1 re-listen (to allow the newest season to have MAXIMUM EMOTIONAL IMPACT, natch) and the way it builds out context gradually, and slowly reveals things about each character that totally re-frames everything while STILL making so much goddam sense for each character is SO. GOOD.

also just: the emotional complexity of the characters right from the jump - the familiarity, and anger, and grief, and humor all wrapped up together?? Just MWAH. Chef’s kiss!

Also also: really really enjoying this re-listen with the additional insights from the hiatus book clubs too! Especially the Regeneration Trilogy and De Profundis, which I had never read before my previous listens. Now that I HAVE read them, i just gotta say: I can totally see the influences and they are deliciously angsty and nuanced and I love it. Especially enjoying the sense in the epistolary format here that they are constantly mentally writing and re-writing their own self-narratives about themselves and each other with each message they send. VERY Oscar Wilde/Bosie and very very good.

random fave line reading/lines and other random things that stood out to me this time shoutouts for s1e1:

“I never got any better at time zones. Let me know when you get this.” sophie you are such a little shit and I love you.

the way Jane structures her messages like goddam formal essays to try to keep her emotional distance. Jane you are such a NERD and I love you also.

the way Sophie rambles and constantly interrupts herself to try to keep HER emotional distance

the way they both utterly fail at actually keeping their emotional distance more and more as time goes on.

the way Jane refers to sex as an “assignation”

the way Sophie intentionally/unintentionally overshares about certain things - “ I refueled there once and bought a sandwich that gave me the shits like you would not believe.” (lol) - as a shield from actually being open or vulnerable (not that she’d have a good reason to be willing to be open or vulnerable at this point, but still)

the shred of lettuce story - god i forgot that this was from right away in Ep1! OOF. It so powerfully conveys SO MUCH that’s at the crux of this whole entire story. Well done.

“Keep your gaze sharp and your guard up.” and “They should be screening your food, though” - Jane’s begrudging concern and affection that bleeds through just the tiniest bit despite the formality and little digs and despite EVERYTHING about her history with Sophie.

what a good show.

#the pasithea powder #podcasts #I meant to start this relisten MONTHS ago but just did not have the time or mental bandwidth #still - better late than never yeah? #pasithea powder re-listen #s1ep1 #uh #the pasithea powder spoilers #i guess? #just in cases #no I have not started s3 yet #and dodging spoilers has! #been! #tricky! #but mostly successful so far

[mongreldyke]

shoutout to my friend ( @cometzz ) for providing me with an image when jane and sophie kissed in e32 despite knowing nothing about pasithea

#the pasithea powder #the pasithea powder spoilers #dhole relistens to pasithea #kace

[suncrayon]

OH FUCK RIGHT OFF

#(affectionate) #the pasithea powder #the pasithea powder spoilers #podchat

[clonerightsagenda]

I would chide Sophie for not realizing that after disappearing in the custody of shapeshifting psychic aliens everyone who saw her would assume she’s a shapeshifting psychic alien pretending to be her but. I didn’t think of that either.

#major oversight here #the pasithea powder spoilers #perpetual ladies night 2k22 #kat listens to pasithea

[pasitheapowder]

What are Jane and Sophie's favourite colours?

The suspense at the end of Ep 31 is killing me! So whether or not they end up together forever (or even for a little while), I will make sure they're together forever in a bracelet.

Thanks!

Jane: Green, because everything.

Sophie: Blue, because basic. And great.

❤️

#episode 31 #the pasithea powder #the pasithea powder spoilers #asks #bekabloodhound #it's probably an emerald green #and a medieval manuscript blue

[munchiezxx]

regarding pasithea powder episode 30. it is somewhat comforting that not even a literal alien abduction and what was essentially a resurrection can stop these two from being the most impossible women in the galaxy. well done

#and i love them for it! #the pasithea powder #the pasithea powder spoilers

[davey-in-a-minivan]

YEA THE PASSAGE WAS NUTS. felt like a fever dream!

jane just showing up when sophie wanted to kiss her???

jane just drugging sophie??

then sophie bleeding out from jane giving her pasithea and having to just leave them

also when evelyn said “what am I Frankenstein?”

Evelyn having to share his feelings about each of them when he is just sharing what Jane & Sophie see him as because he is an other

and then the whole like “should we just have a threesome?”

complete chaos and angst

MAXIMUM CHAOS. MAXIMUM ANGST. JUICIEST THING I'VE EVER LISTENED TO UGH sophie being halfway through a voicemail where she LITERALLY SAYS "i loved him and i wish he weren't dead but part of me is glad he is because i get to kiss you now" and RIGHT THEN JANE WALKS IN. WITH HIM. y'know i was trying to sum up pasithea powder the other day and ended up with "a sci-fi thriller and queer romance featuring memory-altering drugs, belligerently homoerotic voicemails, aliens, war crimes, and the worst decisions you've ever seen two women make" and let me say with MAXIMUM AFFECTION that that bonkers decision-making is on full display in a passage like. when you're holding a hammer every problem looks like a nail, when your name is jane gonzalez and you're holding a syringe of pasithea powder--!

#the pasithea powder #the pasithea powder spoilers #the idea of a creator-made au episode is so fun all by itself i'm so glad they did that

[fyeahaudiodrama]

it's sunday night, i got me a bowl of curry stuffs, and i'm ready for a new live-listen of the pasithea powder and all the emotions it seems this one will entail

Episode 31: The Words

"the AWARD WINNING journalist ELINOR LOPEZ........and her queen"

oh elinor, never change

oh no, two episodes, oh god oh fuck

the custody battle for jane gonzalez (affectionate version, fuck off all living agents of the queen) begins

NO.

NO.

YOU FUCK RIGHT OFF, BLANC.

"mommy" you take that word RIGHT out of your mouth

"she'll know what to do" oh incredibly wishful thinking jane

"anders will be able to handle this" on about the same level as misguided but i agree with you, sophie

"i'm gonna call cullen" OH NO SHE DOESN'T KNOW

jackie, molly, how could you do this to me

sophie didn't get to be the best man at anders's wedding ;;-;;

"it's my right to make you feel bad about it" "what could you possibly be doing that's better than this" ;;;;;-;;;;;

we don't have to stop after another two episodes, right? we can get a spin-off about most polite secret agent anders li, right?

the message about sophie's mom's messages......

oh no, is this

OH GOD IT IS

oh noooooooo

[lays down on the ground] culleeeeen

well at least now we have the way these nerds flirt to cool down with

"i guess it could've been for a friend" yes anders but that would require blanc to have had friends at any point ever

why is this conversation triggering "you're out of touch/i'm out of time/but i'm out of my head when you're not around" to play in my head

do i need to make pasithea out of touch thursday a thing

"AND I LOVE YOU"

"there's never enough time"

augh

AUGH

AUUUUGHHHHHH

PENULTIMATE EPISODE

#the pasithea powder #the pasithea powder spoilers