#it was straight up like a podcast

[humming-fly]

It's dark Arthur, pull out your lighter.

(practically I know john is most easily portrayed as a normal hooded guy with a mask but deep down my heart of hearts still belongs to mergo's wet nurse)

#can you tell i think mergo's wet nurse had the coolest design in bloodborne? #descriptions and author's notes in the image captions #i feel like that's the funniest way to stick those in there tbh lol #flashing image #hopefully not too flashing but idk how gifs get crunched on tumblr #malevolent #malevolent podcast #arthur lester #john doe #mp #my art #doodles #animation #kinda #lots of opacity filters that are suuuper disorganized lol #at some point i'm just gonna do a character sheet for john/KiY but it will actually just be a dozen designs i think are cool #but then will not draw in a practical setting because they're too wonky #i do think the masked guy design is quite charming and is objectively the right way to draw him interacting with anything #i just think fucked up creatures are cool #man i still love drawing profiles #idk why but they're soo much easier than drawing faces straight on #they're just Nice

[cridhe]

i had a dream in the style of a true crime podcast but it was about checo perez murdering some woman and getting away w it. my brain has convinced myself that he actually did do that. someone was talking about him today and for a full second i forgot that he didnt actually kill someone thats not a thing that is known about checo

#he was chasing this woman trying to kill her and she tried to climb onto a bus but couldnt get on so then checo pushed her into traffic #like he grabbed her off the bus and flung her into traffic. idk who this woman was but he knew her. like a gf or smth #there was something about a recording of a scream in court that checo claimed was not the ladys scream but someone elses #he said the scream was from the woman driving the car cos if it was the victims scream it wouldve been cut off abrubtly as she was hit #i think checo was trying to claim the victim commited suicide and thus didnt scream #but the then woman driving the car took the stand and said... it was not her scream! #it was so dramatic in the dream #then the dream was like. but have u forgotten something mentioned earlier? what about the BUS? full of witnesses!! they all saw it #and they say he pushed her #and that the scream came from the victim #but the judge ignored that cos he was sexist and ruled it an accident even tho everyone knows it wasnt #it was straight up like a podcast #anyway checo killed someone

[eyes-of-nine]

truly what a guy

#malevolent #malevolent podcast #arthur lester #arthur malevolent #john doe #john malevolent #my art #ahfdgfghsdd i have so many important things to do but these two have overtaken all of my waking thoughts so i'm fucked to say the least #adgfd i just wanna talk about them with someone but no one i know has the energy for that 12h long infodump #straight up today was my first truly no work day in a few weeks and what did i do? spent half the day figuring out how i want to draw arthur #still not sure if this the direction i wanna take his design in but somehow along the process he ended up as like my ideal look on masc days #tbh i don't have the time to unpack whatever that says about me ywy #john's design is very much still a first draft but i can't think about it too much or i might just actually go insane #this podcast makes me unwell(affectionate) #the universe is so evil for not letting me just draw them all day long ywy #in an ideal world it would be no diploma no uni applications only malevolent #.....i'm gonna stop with the rambling now #so yeah go listen to malevolent

[gobstoppr]

Tetris Fanart.

I've been playing tetris while listening to horror podcasts. and yeah

#text #art #eyestrain #cw eystrain #bright colors #cw bright colors #tetris #nintendo #god i dont know what to tag this with. i dont wanna tag it with the podcasts themselves cuz that feels disingenuous. swagever #i actually started this piece a while ago. ok yeah looking at the date that was almost 3 weeks ago wow #but i finally decided to bring it back and finish it #ive been getting back into digital art and its been really nice. its nice having finished pieces. #ive been trying to get weirder with my art. like this piece was weirdly 'personal' in a sense #its been my unique experience listening to these pieces of media. the game in the bg is jsut as important to my experience as the art itsel #the looming sense of dread these podcasts give fit weirdly well with the high tension of some of these games of tetris #i wanted to have that sorta weird ominous vibe to it. have even the pieces feel loud and threatening. #and the gameplay being Past the ds itself is something i thought could be neat #ykno the tetris effect? where you play a bunch and then after you see the shapes everywhere;you play it in your mind? #that was part of what i wanted to channel there. but also like; how your attention works with this stuff #i might be looking straight at the ds but my attention is elsewhere; my brain is in another world #the game is still inescapable tho. tetris effect whatever. these stories stick in my brain just as much. #its all given me some. very very annoyingn anxiety. but i have to go back to them. like a moth to a flame etc. hince the moth climbing out #but uh yeah. that set up was my life for a few weeks whenever i had free time. #the main podcast this is about was magnus btw <- not typing full name so im not on the tag #and uh. #objectum #yeah i think. i think yeah.

[hellishfig]

just finished www #23: on your way, and i have many thoughts. all of them make me want to cry.

ame knowing as soon as she got back to the cottage that her actions had burned a bridge, not just with the citadel but with one of her best friends, and yet still needing to complete her tasks as the witch of the world's heart. the spirits she awakens so as not to leave the cottage untended or unprotected, and the way she asks and does not take. the note she leaves, should her friends make it there.

eursulon in the fire, followed by the man in black, who is a brother in the way all spirits are brethren, but not the sibling eursulon seeks. leaving through the burrow, fighting monstrosities, and seeing the citadel raze cities to ruin beside a jungle of rot. finding the tree. his tree. the tree that is emblazoned on his shield, his coat of arms, what he fights to protect. and inside... his sister. a family she made for herself.

and suvi. hurt but still afraid that ame will die if she stays. determined to not let that happen. conversations with steel where she says that another wizard said that the wizard sly lied, or did not tell the full truth. commiseration, but suvi holds back the full truth, and suspects steel of doing the same. an airship to fly north. to protect ame, yes. but the mage armor mean that no creature or spirit or witch will ever be able to touch her again. broken trust, if not broken love.

and through it all, the thread that the citadel represents a threat to the world's heart itself, and to all spirits beyond. the council of elders wishes to neutralize that threat. grandmother wren did not.

questions moving forward: what is the true purpose of the war on gaothmai being waged by the empire? why does kalaya's family look like suvi? is suvi going to have a villain arc? i have my theories, but i'll get into those in other posts.

thank you to the worlds beyond number cast and crew for giving us this incredible story. i'm so excited to see where you take us next.

#i was surprised but glad that suvi was upset with ame but still wanted to protect her #i was glad that ame knew she had done something hurtful to her friend #i'm SO fucking glad that eursulon found his sister! #i was sobbing throughout that whole scene with kalaya #also AME LEVELED UP! LEVEL THREE WITCH BABY! #and suvi had the fun empire music behind her... god i hope aabria gets to play villain arc suvi. that would be so hot #but also i want them to be ok and happy. conflicting interests #it's wild to listen to a dnd podcast that is straight up a drama #like it's funny in moments when they have a chance to be together and not stressed #but overall it is an epic where every player is taking the story seriously in every moment #that's the craziest part. there are so few bits #but it's amazing #worlds beyond number #wbn pod #wbn spoilers #the wizard the witch and the wild one #wbn: www #wwwo #wwwo spoilers #ame wbn #ame the witch #eursulon toma #eursulon the wild one #suvirin kedberiket #suvi the wizard #the wizard sky #erika ishii #lou wilson #aabria iyengar #brennan lee mulligan

[chuthulhu-reads]

[ID: Two panels from Dungeon Meshi. The first scows Senshi clutching his face as tears start to spill out of his eyes, saying, "I've always... always wanted to have this soup one more time." He's not wearing his helmet in this panel, so his face is unusually visible, detailed and vulnerable. The second panel shows himself as a youngster, surrounded by his old mining team, all smiling at each other, one of them rubbing Senshi's head. Modern-day Senshi continues, "Thank you. All of you. Thank you." End ID.]

Holy shit. I anticipated some tragic backstory from the "I must feed the young ones" panels, but what I'd guessed was that Senshi might have become so devoted to cooking and eating literally whatever because he'd previously survived a famine and had seen children starve to death. I did not expect him to have been the child who was the sole survivor of a doomed travel party, one of whom was determined to feed Senshi first because he was the youngest, and that Senshi has lived with the fear of having inadvertently committed cannibalism by eating stew that he'd never quite known the contents of. I'm happy for him that Laios deduced and confirmed for him that it was griffin meat, that he was able to taste the meal that saved his life once more and remember the friends he lost. Seriously, I'm crying, and also earnestly relieved that while his backstory is pretty dark, it's not the type of fucked up I'd been preparing myself mentally for.

#Dungeon Meshi #Delicious in Dungeon #Dunmeshi #though it IS really worth exploring the ethics of cannibalism in survival situations #The podcast You're Wrong About has a really interesting pairing of episodes #in the Donner Party and Flight 571 Crash episodes #Both about disasters in which people wound up eating their dead to survive #and an interesting connection they drew was that it wasn't the cannibalism itself #that destroyed the lives of the Donner survivors #it was the horror and disgust and societal rejection they got for having eaten human flesh #even the children who had no idea what they were eating were treated with revulsion #and this is clearly the response Senshi feared facing if anybody knew what he'd eaten #But Flight 571 like a century later #the survivors were faced with a lot of understanding when rescued #relatively little condemnation and revulsion #by and large commentators acknowledged that they did what they had to do #and sympathized with how difficult and painful it must have been #which is what Senshi gets from his party #Laios wants to figure out the truth because he knows it's hurting Senshi not to know #But at one point Marcille straight up says that none of them would think less of Senshi if he did eat dwarf stew #Okay so this is Marcille 'ardent student of blood magic' Donato #but Chilchuck agrees #anyway I think that would be a particularly interesting conversation to have in a cooking manga #how do you safely eat a dead friend when that's all you have to survive on? #what are the nutritional benefits other than 'better than starving'? #what are the risks? There's prion diseases and all sorts you can get #they write it off as eating the dragon part but they DO spend seven days eating Falin at the end #ARE there any in/famous cannibalism cases in this world? #Do peopel argue about whether or not it's cannibalism if a dwarf eats a tallman? #enquiring minds (mine) want to know

[cosmicrhetoric]

episode 24 go crazy go stupid interrogate the fairytale framing device

#if i remembered what episode anna like straight up SAYS 'im the ball of twine' it would be so over #mabel podcast #also the 'going off script' was just them flirting and this is the first time you see them have a conversation and I hope the fucking ce #the CIELING FAN FALLS ON THEM

[why-the-heck-not]

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#uhh idk reminders to self that one (1) cup of coffee straight after waking up is enough #u don’t need 2 cups in the first like half an hour #also yes i think im funny and my brain read this in that Welcome to Nightvale voice for some reason #i’ll go listen to a podcast and do dishes like that’s the calmest thing to do when u have bunch of nervous energy #also just had a zoom call that was like 10mins but did I manage to say even one thing? nope i did not and now i started my day very poorly #with feeling like I already failed a task (no but like rly had nothing to add to things and im bad at just talking if it’s not necessary) #september 2023 #2023

[hyenasatanist]

Human!John brainworms...

#i'll reblog this again tomorrow bc it's almost midnight here LMAO #i didn't think id actually get to do art today i took a nap after work instead of going straight into art #malevolent #malevolent fanart #malevolent podcast #arthur lester #malevolent art #john doe malevolent #john malevolent #jon malevolent #human!john au #or like #John gets a body AU #let them rest PLEASE #human john is running my life rn #IGNORE THE SHIT LINEWORK PLEASE #IDK WHAT WAS WRONG WITH MY TABLET PEN BUT I GAVE UP FIXING IT LIKE HALF WAY THROUGH SDOUFHF #hyenadraws

[navree]

choosing to ignore the last couple minutes of the episode and focus only on the fact that bella and arthur were both deciding to go into a lavender marriage and yet neither of them knew that because it's very funny

#personal #malevolent #malevolent podcast #malevolent spoilers #mlm/wlw solidarity but if they were both stupid #yes i'm immediately choosing to believe that bella was sapphic i've decided that #problems with religious dad? married a loser even tho she knew he was a loser and yet still went with him? hmmmmmmm #but man that episode went from 'hiding the fact that you're dating again to your ex's family' straight to Horror Show #i'm curious about what oscar found out but also like.....ugh that lead up the second the knock sounded i KNEW smth went wrong #at least the transcripts have returned from war

[cxffncase]

I wish people checked my post for the original tags bc sometimes I get people reblogging my art and tagging my ocs as other characters…. I don’t wanna message other people about it but man 😭

#sometimes it’s like. my oc doesn’t even look like the character in question it just makes me go. hm #like I remember one time someone tagged my Mel art as someone from the magnus archives w the same name #ik it’s a podcast but the character in question didn’t even look like my character. dude lmao #or someone just straight up saying ‘im gonna pretend this oc is actually this canon character’ ive gotten that too. disrespectful imo #like ik not everything is 100pc original but character comparisons annoy the hell out of me. personally #rambling

[imma-dragon53]

Me: *listening to magnus archives*

The First Hunt: I heard some one whistling and was about to call out

Me: No. absolutely not. If you hear whistling in the woods. NO THE FUCK YOU DIDNT. and now something in the EXACT OPPOSITE DIRECTION looks very interesting.

#the magnus archives #tma podcast #like no #whistling in the forest is a straight up NOPE #especially in Appalachia #which of theyre in Pennsylvania that’s where they are #never respond to the whistle either #or women screaming #though that’s a mountain lion warning

[cavsthighs]

Still like. thinking about luke being surprised voice oh you ARE superstitious .........

#i. does he not ever mention any of this to you???????? #its either. he does talk about it but luke just assumed he was being dramatic/making into more of a thing than it is. #or. he straight up just never mentioned it to him until that pod. #the latter is harder to believe bc of the. wishbone in the road will decide and the seasonal lucky hair cuts lol #the other possibility is that luke was just doing podcaster voice and knew perfectly well but thats BOOORING #but people say dont tempt fate a lot even if theyll forget about it a second later. so maybe luke just thought it was that kinda thing #then gs like yeah no it upsets me when teams get prize kits in advance and lukes like haha. What

[valeovalairs]

I’m in my room, in the dark, listening to TMA. I went from 61 to currently 78 today. I just finished 78. What the fuck.

#Everything is connected oh my god #Statements are starting to link together even the earliest ones #That fucking table #As soon as Jon realized Sasha was replaced I started crying I liked her and he sounds so upset #The axe bit was mildly terrifying and then Michael was just straight up a jumpscare #I love this podcast I got so invested so quickly #tma podcast #tma #tma spoilers

[beano-no-know69]

also speaking of audio dramas with disappointing ends, can we talk about how the box podcast dropped off the face of the planet

#I loved that podcast so much and it’s straight up gone now #the last like 4 or 5 episodes are there but the first 39 aren’t anymore??? #and as far as I know there’s been 0 update on whether it’s ever coming back #and the last few episodes were spaced out by months and months #😩😩😩 #this podcast was the perfect level of spookiness for when your walking to the 24 hour grocery store at midnight #the box podcast #the box #audio drama #podcast #podcasts #horror #horror podcast #audio dramas #king falls am #the Magnus archives #old gods of appalachia #the black tapes #the bright sessions #archive 81 #Alice isn’t dead

[not-poignant]

Hi there! I absolutely love your works and, having followed you for a while now, I also really admire you as a person and an author in general. Every update on AO3 and Tumblr is always such a delight. I'm sorry if this ask is coming out of the blue or if it's something you've been asked before, but how did you take the plunge from writing predominantly fanfic to posting original fiction in serial form and also self-publishing novels? I'm currently in the process of drafting two original works after writing/posting fanfic regularly for years, and I'm just lost as to how to set everything up. I have a general idea (post chapter-by-chapter on AO3 and offer early access and some exclusive content on patreon or some other subscription service), but it all feels so daunting right now. Any bit of info or advice on how you got started would be immensely appreciated <3

Hi anon,

Tbh, I went from writing fanfic to original fiction because I had original characters in my fanfiction and readers asked me about them.

I had no kind of...dreams of being an original author in this way, I was published via other pathways already, and fanfiction was really an escape for me, a chance to break with all the conventions of standard writing and just do what I wanted.

But I needed a broader cast than what the movie gave me re: my first fanfics, and I added my own OCs, and left them in the background as much as possible, but even back while writing that fanfic, even the OCs were getting fanart. Sometimes readers would send me anons about them, or ask me more details about them.

Finally, I decided to write some hatesex between them, just something to kind of...idk get it out of my system? Answer what the readers were looking for?

The flow through therefore felt natural. Game Theory flows very naturally on from From the Darkness We Rise & Into Shadows We Fall. And from there, moving into other original works has been easy, in part, because I've often being doing alternate universes from a core of original characters.

If I want to introduce new original characters, I introduce them in stories where pre-existing original characters have already been established.

I didn't even start writing original works with a view to making money off that. In fact I thought it was a very foolish thing to do. A lot of people on AO3 don't want to read original works on AO3 and refuse to do it or only do it if it's PWP / pornography.

I started my Patreon account because readers asked me to. I got asks from very very generous people who wanted to know my Paypal, or asked if I'd start a Ko-Fi, and finally a few people just asked if I'd start a Patreon. I said I didn't think it was a good idea, and they said it was up to them if they wanted to pay me or not, but I should at least consider giving them the choice.

From there, I found it all very overwhelming. I made lots of mistakes. I had to go on hiatus for a year because I promised too much and couldn't deliver on many of those rewards. And for many years I only offered one early access chapter per week for one story, and my main stories were never early access (and still aren't, Underline the Black goes up for everyone at the same time - and while that may change in the future, it's definitely unconventional).

I've always been transparent with my readers that with very few exceptions, if they just wait, they eventually get everything for free. But if they want to support this kind of writing and/or enjoy it, and can comfortably afford to send some dollars my way, they can ensure that I can keep writing this way.

I have for a long time offered no exclusive content at all, I believe that can do well, but it's not my preferred way of doing things.

This career has been incredibly reader driven, anon. I would not personally attempt it cold, without a really fantastic readerbase who encouraged me every step of the way in the first place, because I am a cautious, insecure writer who doesn't like to take risks. So I can't give you advice on how to build this career without the support of the readers there in the first place, and I believe the only reason why I had their support was, in part, because of the actual strength of the writing itself. Which isn't to say it's the best, it's not, it's what I needed at the time and it's what a few other people needed, and that's basically how this works.

If you turn up with the writing, and the audience comes, and they want the story, you have the career.

In terms of practical advice - you can introduce original characters in fanfiction, just be aware that readers tend to be hostile by default if they pull any significant 'screen time' away from the fandom characters (and readers are extremely savvy to authors trying to build a financial business through AO3)

It IS daunting, but the good news is you can do a soft launch. You can open a Patreon or Ream account tomorrow and tell no one. You can mess with your graphics and your tier rewards to your heart's content when you don't have any subscribers. Build a buffer of early access/chapters, and make sure you don't overpromise on anything. Whatever you think you can realistically deliver to readers, cut it in half, because the stress of chapter update deadlines every month can really add up and it's a very different landscape to novel releases.

You can take your time, you can build interest slowly.

Remember you can never ever mention any kind of site where you're getting paid inadvertently, sneakily, or directly on AO3. You can't mention Ream, you can't mention Patreon, you can't mention Ko-Fi, you can't go 'learn more about my writing here' and link to those places. You can't mention buy links. You can only mention sites like Tumblr, Linktree, Twitter etc. Places where the point of sale isn't happening. Not doing so risks AO3's Not For Profit status and risks your entire account, and it's not worth it.

I did an interview with Subscriptions for Authors where I actually talk about many of these things so you can watch (or listen to) the podcast here if you're inclined! It also talks about the importance of community-building, gratitude to the readers, and generosity.

I am here because my readers wanted me to be. So I'm very concerned with making sure I can give them the best writing possible within my abilities. This makes me not very suited to offering 'how to start in this career' advice because it was a happy accident. It's hard to teach something I have never done your way myself, anon, because I worry I'd give bad advice. My writing had people turning up, but I'm not sure anything else I did, added much! I think responding to Tumblr asks and replying to every comment helped too! But...I don't know for sure.

But this career path does make me pretty well suited to offering 'how to keep this going' advice, because I've been doing this for ten years. <3333

#asks and answers #pia on writing #pia on subscription #pia on fandom #i don't know how i got this lucky #but i do know that i stay lucky because i work hard on the writing #so the writing is where it's at #i've been thinking a lot lately on drafting some kind of course on #how to write hooky serials #but if you're writing novels/books that won't be very suitable to you! #i'm not writing serials to turn them into novels #i'm just writing straight up serials that are very messy and difficult to turn into novels lol #idk i do all of this ass backwards #and recently just pulled out of giving a speech on my success as a disabled author #because i actually feel like i'm not good at what i'm doing in a way that is tangibly useful to others #if nothing else anon #make sure you join the Subscription for Authors Facebook #and watch some of the podcasts on YouTube #Christopher Hopper's keynote speech is particularly good