Story Pile: Cobra Claws Are Coming To Town
Once more into Decemberween product, this time I recruit the help of Canadian Wildermyth Doc Destructo to talk about the shockingly enjoyable christmas special episode of the 1985 GI Joe Cartoon!
Here’s the audio of the conversation:
And here’s a link to the episode in question:
And here’s a link to Doc’s Youtube and Patreon!
Dread Readings — Granddad’s Gifts
Dread Readings — No Rez For The Weary
Dread Readings — The Thing on The Doorstep
Dread Readings — The Wind in the Willows
Speed and Haste and Waste
No transcript here, I’m afraid, this entirely came off the top of my head and had only one retake when the dog barked. Oh and right at the end when I stumbled on ‘idyll.’
Dread reading — To Build A Fire
Dread Reading — Robert W Chambers’ The Court Of The Dragon
A shout out to Jeb Wrench for reminding me of this wonderfully readable tale of Carcosa.
Dread Reading — Edgar Allan Poe’s The Mask Of The Red Death
No silly accent this time.
Dread Readings — HP Lovecraft’s The Cats
I Hate My Laugh
Dread Readings: The Romance of Certain Old Clothes
The original text of this Henry James story is from Wikimedia Commons. You can read along and make fun of how I slip up on words like constance.
Dread Readings: A Citizen of Carcosa
Ambrose Bierce wrote A Citizen of Carcosa, creating a city that would become permanently part of the horror mythos of modern English. The story captured the imagination, and inspired the use of the narrator in future horror and fear writers, and was done at a time in Bierce’s life between fighting confederate soldiers, shaking down millionaires for railroad taxes, and fighting in the Mexican civil war.
Dude was interesting.
Dread Readings: The Music of Erich Zann
What would Dread Month be, without a little dash of Howard Phillips ‘Jesus Christ What A Racist’ Lovecraft?
Content warning: There’s an unvoiced person in this story who is referred to with pretty typical cruel terms.
Dread Readings: The Raven
Last year, my sister told me that Edgar Allan Poe was from southern Virginia, and so he should not have a posh, British-style accent, but a southern one.
Game Pile: Fox Talks Pixelmon
Well this is a weird one.
I don’t play Pixelmon, and Fox does, and it’s interesting. So, I decided to talk to her about the game, and the worldbuilding the server she plays on is doing.
Story Pile: The Mighty Ducks (1992)
The Unused Pokemon Types, with Fox Lee (@MunchlaxRegrets)
This audio was originally recorded in March 2020. The intention was to use this audio, along with some video editing of our own original art, to demonstrate the designs we had in mind. Turns out that was a bad time to commit ourselves to a big project idea that maybe required drawing lots of art.
Nonetheless, here’s an hour and change of Fox and I discussing the different unused Pokemon types, and what we’d do to fill those design spaces, and how the ice type sucks.
Lovecraft Readings #4: The Statement of Randolph Carter
This month I’m going to take some time to read to you my ””’favourite””’ Lovecraft stories, then talk to you a little bit about them afterwards. Because this is Lovecraft, each of these stories deserves a content warning for general horror, but in this one specifically, uh
Huh
Actually, this one’s not actually super racist?
Neat!
Lovecraft Readings #3: Nemesis
This month I’m going to take some time to read to you my ””’favourite””’ Lovecraft works, then talk to you a little bit about them afterwards. Because this is Lovecraft, each of these stories deserves a content warning for general horror. In this one, because it’s a poem, it’s surprisingly, slur free!
Lovecraft Readings #2: The Colour out of Space
This month I’m going to take some time to read to you my ””’favourite””’ Lovecraft stories, then talk to you a little bit about them afterwards. Because this is Lovecraft, each of these stories deserves a content warning for general horror, but in this one specifically features cosmic horror, ego death, loss of children, loss of parents, general sanism, some things that I think are going to be kinda trypophobia-inducing like people ‘crumbling’ and a lot of animal endangerment. There is also some mild racism, like, no slurs, and there’s a bunch of just casual sneering at poor people.
Lovecraft Readings #1: Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn
This month I’m going to take some time to read to you my ””’favourite””’ Lovecraft stories, then talk to you a little bit about them afterwards. Because this is Lovecraft, each of these stories deserves a content warning for general horror, but in this one specifically, content warning for suicide, self-immolation, beastiality, racism, racism, racism, racism, racism and racism. I bleep the slur ‘g*psy’ in my reading, and am occasionally unable to contain my exasperated amusement at just how stunningly racist this is.
In the notes on the reading, I mention Atun-Shei Films, and a statement he made in this video.
An Interview About The Vampires
Brinkwood is live on Kickstarter, now. This is an interview with Erik the Bearik, one of the game’s developers. In this interview, we talk about the game, the things the game is about and the way the game’s values inform its narrative, rather than the typical marketing overview. We mention in this conversation this thread by Orion Black. And this other thread by them, which you should definitely check out.
Thanksgiving Day 2018
Christmas Morning, 2017
For Context: As with my Thanksgiving Day audio, a few years ago I learned that there are elderly people who write Thanksgiving day letters to unparented/unfamilied queer youth who feel alone and isolated during the holidays. This is my attempt to contribute to this genre. I apologise if it is too short or too long – this is something I do rarely.
It is very possible you might find this embarassing or cringey. You are not obligated to listen to this at all but I hope it gives you some comfort during the holidays.
Audio Download
Thanksgiving Day 2017
For Context: A few years ago I learned that there are elderly people who write Thanksgiving day letters to unparented/unfamilied queer youth who feel alone and isolated during the holidays. This is my attempt to contribute to this genre. I apologise if it is too short or too long – this is something I do rarely.
It is very possible you might find this embarassing or cringey. You are not obligated to listen to this at all but I hope it gives you some comfort during the holidays.
Audio Download
If you like the header image, and would like a larger version, here it is.
Game Pile: Dark Souls 2 Diary
Thanksgiving Day, 2016
Game Pile: Dark Souls Diary
Blogcast – Delve And Storm
THE BOTCH – DevBlogCast 3 with @CERequine
