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scrubjayspeaks) wrote2018-07-15 08:15 pm
scrubjayspeaks) wrote2018-07-15 08:15 pm
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Trends Like These - episode 7/13/18
I enjoyed--for a certain value of "enjoy" that can involve this much frustrated rage and sorrow--Laura Kate Dale's summing up of the terf activity at London Pride. The double standards in policing, just for a start! Barf! Also, Courtney's noises are great every time. The weighty sighs and groans of just, just baffled disgust perfectly capture my emotions.
Wired - In the age of despair, find comfort on the 'slow web'
*sigh* Look. Your site is garbage. The original article is here, if you can find it on the hideous frontpage layout. But the podcasts are here. But oh, not this podcast. This is the spoken edition, which is over here. ...really???
All that being said, I'm charmed by the train ride and the virtual walking tours mentioned. I would quibble slightly--this seems like slow media or slow entertainment, but it doesn't seem web-specific, beyond being the method of delivery. I just--I guess I expected some kind of website-based slow experience. Perhaps that would be more of a game, or a hypertext story? IDK, I was envisioning something else.
Tunnels - episode 101
New! It surprised me to have an announcement right off the bat, added retroactively. They warned that the first season didn't have the highest production values, but they promised it would get better. Which endeared me! I want to stick with them just to see them figure things out, because damn it, we all start somewhere. Plus, their "commercial break" was just a plug for a bunch of podcasts the creators love, which is the sort of fannish love I want to see. (And now I have a half dozen more shows to check out.) Apparently, I am VERY MUCH in favor of shows about weird towns/locations. I am all about that regional gothic, which, hey, no shock there.
The Bridge - episode 05: Shenanigans
This is rapidly becoming a comfort listen for me. The style, the acting, the sound effects, the mix of weird and touching and creepy and silly--it all comes together so perfectly. I want to know what Bob is. Is it Bob, am I hearing that right? Zodiac Killer joins Audubon Society is such a goddamn delightful phrase, and I anticipate really enjoying hating these people.
99% Invisible - episode 303, Right to Roam
I feel a little guilty. This is the sort of thing that I am philosophically in favor of, but I would lose my fucking mind about in practice. If randos just wandered across my land at will, I would vibrate into another plane of existence in anger and fear. I am a territorial animal, I know. But it was really interesting to hear the history of this sort of free access. That it lost popularity in the U.S. due to freed slaves after the Civil War was unsurprising, but it made me long for a very niche alternate history story where right to roam remained active here. I have no idea what the point of such a story would be.
I enjoyed--for a certain value of "enjoy" that can involve this much frustrated rage and sorrow--Laura Kate Dale's summing up of the terf activity at London Pride. The double standards in policing, just for a start! Barf! Also, Courtney's noises are great every time. The weighty sighs and groans of just, just baffled disgust perfectly capture my emotions.
Wired - In the age of despair, find comfort on the 'slow web'
*sigh* Look. Your site is garbage. The original article is here, if you can find it on the hideous frontpage layout. But the podcasts are here. But oh, not this podcast. This is the spoken edition, which is over here. ...really???
All that being said, I'm charmed by the train ride and the virtual walking tours mentioned. I would quibble slightly--this seems like slow media or slow entertainment, but it doesn't seem web-specific, beyond being the method of delivery. I just--I guess I expected some kind of website-based slow experience. Perhaps that would be more of a game, or a hypertext story? IDK, I was envisioning something else.
Tunnels - episode 101
New! It surprised me to have an announcement right off the bat, added retroactively. They warned that the first season didn't have the highest production values, but they promised it would get better. Which endeared me! I want to stick with them just to see them figure things out, because damn it, we all start somewhere. Plus, their "commercial break" was just a plug for a bunch of podcasts the creators love, which is the sort of fannish love I want to see. (And now I have a half dozen more shows to check out.) Apparently, I am VERY MUCH in favor of shows about weird towns/locations. I am all about that regional gothic, which, hey, no shock there.
The Bridge - episode 05: Shenanigans
This is rapidly becoming a comfort listen for me. The style, the acting, the sound effects, the mix of weird and touching and creepy and silly--it all comes together so perfectly. I want to know what Bob is. Is it Bob, am I hearing that right? Zodiac Killer joins Audubon Society is such a goddamn delightful phrase, and I anticipate really enjoying hating these people.
99% Invisible - episode 303, Right to Roam
I feel a little guilty. This is the sort of thing that I am philosophically in favor of, but I would lose my fucking mind about in practice. If randos just wandered across my land at will, I would vibrate into another plane of existence in anger and fear. I am a territorial animal, I know. But it was really interesting to hear the history of this sort of free access. That it lost popularity in the U.S. due to freed slaves after the Civil War was unsurprising, but it made me long for a very niche alternate history story where right to roam remained active here. I have no idea what the point of such a story would be.