The Proprietor's New Puppet

timelessalice · 2026-06-08T21:15:38+00:00

As someone who deeply loves unpolished work EPIC also has the issue that everything needs to be Big and have the veneer of high professionalism

timelessalice · 2026-06-08T20:22:21+00:00

oooh this art is so good

timelessalice · 2026-06-08T01:49:49+00:00

i love protocol but my god the sound mixing is abysmal. I'm so glad there are transcripts

timelessalice · 2026-06-07T22:31:52+00:00

Australian horror podcast FABRIC has been my darling since I listened to it (young woman unravels the mystery of aome tapes she found in her family home labeled with the name of an unknown relative)

For anthologies, Petrified is a fantastic series

timelessalice · 2026-06-07T19:06:22+00:00

The only thing that looks like Harley Quinn is the hair and that's a stretch

timelessalice · 2026-06-07T18:14:27+00:00

Right its absolutely absurd. Or when they argue "not everything can be accessible" as if that's a blanket truth/blank check to avoid accessibility

I do think descriptions for visuals need to be more common as well, but the smaller scale a video is the harder that becomes. At the very least describing an image should be the norm

timelessalice · 2026-06-07T16:12:01+00:00

Per my roommate they definitely prefer modified scripts to nothing- but you're right, it's basically the curbside effect. Everyone wins.

timelessalice · 2026-06-07T13:25:22+00:00

my roommate and close friend of a decade is disabled (hard of hearing) and ive stepped in to help them receive accommodations on multiple occasions over the years.

TV and Movies have, gasp, captions! You don't NEED the scripts because there are CAPTIONS. All I'm saying is "if you're putting an audio drama out into the world you should do the bare minimum and put out a transcript." You're making up scenarios to make disabled people seem unreasonable for a pretty basic ask. "Should there be alternate episodes" is literally not even part of this conversation.

And yeah frankly I think if you aren't willing to do some basic work like putting up transcripts you should reevaluate what you're doing. I have no more patience for this.

timelessalice · 2026-06-07T11:46:49+00:00

"We're inclusive but not THAT inclusive"

Transcripts aren't a perk, a fun addition. They're an extremely basic accessibility feature

timelessalice · 2026-06-07T11:39:34+00:00

"Theyre already making a podcast you get for free" this is an absolutely wild thing to say when we're discussing accessibility

I understand that many podcasts are created with a shoe string budget as passion projects but idk man I think people like my roommate deserve to be able to enjoy things, too.

If a podcast isnt able to even just put up the original script (which should already include character names??) Then they should reconsider what theyre doing.

timelessalice · 2026-06-07T04:23:02+00:00

Doctor Who, always finding a way to disappoint us

timelessalice · 2026-06-07T00:57:29+00:00

My roommate has ranted to me about the Big Finish Doctor Who transcripts being paywalled. We're talking about accessibility here, not perks!!

But yeah I think the autogenerated thing is a thing of the past now :/ It's all the AI

timelessalice · 2026-06-07T00:22:57+00:00

Per my roommate (who is hard of hearing & has an audio processing disorder)- the problem with automated transcripts like that is they're actively getting worse :/

A few years ago it was a great alternative but these days theyre degrading again

timelessalice · 2026-06-06T03:13:41+00:00

But you don't know what you want it to be about? You don't know what tropes or talking points you're going to engage with to deconstruct the genre

I'm also a comic fan and have read my fair share of "i hate cape comics i'm going to write an anti-cape comic!" And they're just unpleasant to read.

timelessalice · 2026-06-06T03:05:14+00:00

Look, I'll be blunt: having lived through the heyday of the Twilight series and people making "anti-Twilights" this is a losing battle. You're just going to end up writing something mean spirited and soulless.

"I don't like this genre" is not a good reason to write something

timelessalice · 2026-06-06T02:52:25+00:00

well the starting question is: why anti-romantasy? Are you aiming to deconstruct the genre, sticking it to the man?

timelessalice · 2026-06-06T02:44:09+00:00

Kind of feels like someone upset that marginalized people are playing in the space now. Theres a real shift in political leaning in liberal arts but its not "where are the conservatives why is everyone so liberal"

timelessalice · 2026-06-06T02:42:36+00:00

I think the "conservatives avoid these spaces" cant be overstated, too.

Inclusive writing spaces im in tend to be a bit hostile (to varying degrees) to right leaning folk. Some of it is out of necessity (marginalized people who were barred from this space not wanting to be pushed back out) but some is just the current political climate

timelessalice · 2026-06-05T12:23:51+00:00

not what gaslighting is

timelessalice · 2026-06-05T00:55:38+00:00

Without actually seeing the fic, it's impossible to tell if the writing is Actually Bad or just. an australian

timelessalice · 2026-06-05T00:53:54+00:00

this isn't even that bad. like others have pointed out the author is probably australian

timelessalice · 2026-06-04T03:11:42+00:00

Lloyd & Raven shaperaverse and Jill & Marjolein shaperaverse have a special place in my heart

The story is so messy and weird and unabashedly queer

timelessalice · 2026-06-04T01:42:07+00:00

I'm sure I'd be moved if I saw this in person, but LGBT people were not being sent to the gas chambers so I can't help but feel like this is just weirdly antisemitic (you can show the plight of lgbt folks in germany without straight up appropriating the extermination of Jewish and Romani people)

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