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[thelaurenshippen]

April means April Fools! Tumblr has a long and storied tradition of built-in pranks and this month, we go through each one. Plus: big news in the 911 fandom, a new show to obsess over, and a total eclipse of the sun.

Credits and transcript in our reblog. You can find transcripts for this, and every other episode, here.

Find the posts discussed in this episode in this tag!

[thelaurenshippen]

cannot believe that I've written 200 episodes of this show! to mark the occasion, this episode is a transmission of a different kind (sort of) from someone that we've been waiting to hear from for a looong time

200 - TWO HUNDRED

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Transcript under the cut. For more episodes, click here.

[click, static]

Okay, I think I’m—I’m ready to read this note now. Beyond just the date and the first few lines.

“April 6th, 1975

Abigail—

I’m okay. If you do find this, I have a feeling you’re going to have questions about the blood. You always have questions about everything. It’s one of your best qualities and also one of your most infuriating. Though I suppose I should be grateful you’ve been dogged in your pursuit of the truth. Maybe this can be repaired.”

I don’t know if she means the jacket or…

“It’s chicken blood. I am not as capable as you when it comes to butchery.”

That’s…that’s as far as I got after finding the note. The relief hit me like a freight train but…

I don’t want to be capable of butchery. I know that’s not what you meant but I…

Anyway. Moving forward.

“I’m sorry I didn’t reach our meeting in time, but after that man came to the house, I went to ground. I heard a car in the distance a few times over the last few days, but I couldn’t be sure it was you.

I got the car you left me. And the radio. I’ve been transmitting out regularly but I’m going to guess that you haven’t heard me. That’s what I’m choosing to believe anyway, given I’ve sent you more than a few messages over the months, with no reply. And, yet, somehow, I’ve heard many of your transmissions—not all, and they are very often full of static and breaks in the signal, but you have reached our garage even from Los Angeles.”

She crossed out something here. I think it says…(crinkle of paper) "I thought about joining you” but I can’t read the rest. Goddammit, Harry…

“Do you remember that one diner that we went to every month for all of ’69? I know that you’ve been to a lot of roadside diners in the last ten months, so maybe they’ve run together in the way that they’re almost purpose built to do. The one down the street, the one we could walk to—we haven’t been back in ages, because I got spooked the one time the neon sign flickered back to life, but we’d carry thermoses of tea and pretend that we were going out for a morning cup, because the monotony of our existence was threatening to destroy us both.

Whether you remember it or not, that diner has a working radio. I believe it too spooked me when there was a power surge, even if it was just static. In any case, I’m no longer at that diner, but I was briefly and heard several of your transmissions. There was no way to speak back to you, as it wasn’t that kind of radio, but it was picking up your signal just the same.

I’m not in the state anymore. I threw the jacket from the car as I drove out of town, a final ditch attempt to contact you. I had a feeling you would take it with you if you found it, despite the state of it, and just had to hope that you would find these pages sewn inside the lining.

I’ll keep transmitting, so we can find a time and place to meet, but there are conversations I don’t want to have over the airwaves, or in a letter. So I’m going to give you instructions now, that I’ll keep repeating on the radio, in the hopes that you’ve found this even if you can’t hear me.

Do you remember the show I did up north at that gallery near the water? You’d been in Provincetown with Francis for a few days and he drove the both of you up for the opening. It wasn’t a particularly short journey, but manageable. You both stayed the weekend, at that little B&B that shares its name with one of the planets.

I don’t think you thought very much of my show. It was one of my more abstract periods. I know you never cared much for that style, but I do have to wonder if you’d have been more generous to it if you’d known what inspired it. Then again—”

And she crossed that out too…

“It was still nice having you and Francis there. I always wondered why you’d agreed to come. You seemed so unhappy to be there. It makes me wonder if my demeanor made you think that I was unhappy to have you there. That was never my intent.

I’m headed there now. I think you left me with enough fuel to make the journey, and I want to get somewhere familiar that isn’t terribly close to where we've been. Meet me there.

I don’t want to write the name down, for fear that someone else will find this jacket and this note, but I’m going to assume you remember.

I remembered. The place where we had the picnic. I remembered. And I always knew that you were winding me up about Rothko, but I liked arguing with you. It’s why I never told you that I like Hank Williams. At least, I learned to.

Harriet”.

[click, static]

#breaker whiskey #HSAR #whiskey/harry

[thelaurenshippen]

April means April Fools! Tumblr has a long and storied tradition of built-in pranks and this month, we go through each one. Plus: big news in the 911 fandom, a new show to obsess over, and a total eclipse of the sun.

Credits and transcript in our reblog. You can find transcripts for this, and every other episode, here.

Find the posts discussed in this episode in this tag!

#time for me to get emotional about 911 on a podcast! #dashboard diaries

[thelaurenshippen]

199 - ONE HUNDRED NINETY NINE

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Transcript under the cut. For more episodes, click here.

[click, static]

She’s alive. I can’t believe it but she—

In the Carhartt—I, I put it on after I couldn’t go back to sleep and I was pulling it tight around me when I heard this crinkle—it’s like she knew—

It’s fucking chicken blood—

I’m sorry, I just need—a need a second, I—

[click, static]

#didn't I promise things would get better? #see I didn't lie! #breaker whiskey

[thelaurenshippen]

spiderverse has been on my mind again, so i redesigned my spidersona (he/him) :]] had a lot of fun drawing the portrait too

#oh my god you're SO right!!! #obsessed with this art and this concept #mark bryant

[thelaurenshippen]

"Together we make green"💚

Bright sessions holds a super special place in my heart, and I can't believe it's been over two years since I first listened to it :(,,,, Additionally, Adam and Caleb changed my brain chemistry, I can't explain the feelings I felt when I finished the College Tapes😭I love all of them dearly <33(Even Damien...he makes me sad though) I want to put more bright sessions art after finals too agghhhh

#this is SO lovely!!! #the bright sessions #fanart #jazziethh

[thelaurenshippen]

#chimney #have been in my emotions regarding howard 'chimney' han lately #IF HE AND MADDIE DON'T GET DOWN THAT AISLE #kenneth choi the man that you are #really one of the characters of All Time #911

[thelaurenshippen]

“Try to escape… Jeremy Bradshaw…”

(I wanted something to sound low-key ominous jsjsjsjs) a close close friend gave me the prompt “try to escape now” (or something sounding like that) and then I thought about the hand drawing trend I saw and then my brain was like boom what if: Jeremy Bradshaw escaping his thoughts, the Bridgewater Triangle monsters and yada yada yada??? So here you are!!

It was a struggle to take pics of my hands in so many angles to make the composition look interesting and also this is my first time trying out acrylic paint markers (which are more like pen brushes and not Poscas!) I had a very limited palette without many dark colours so yeah! (And also funfact I own this brown zip jacket)

Once again! If you have any prompts about Bridgewater you wanna see drawn don’t hesitate to share them!!

#tHIS IS SO FREAKIN COOL #fanart #bridgewater #electromignion

[thelaurenshippen]

Bridgewater x Pokémon crossover with Jeremy Bradshaw 🫶💜

My roommate made me play Pokémon Go again so I’m back in my Pokémon spiral and I made PLENTY of headcanons with Bridgewater and Pokémon together (yes Pokémon has been my specific interest since perhaps I have been 5? And I’m 22 now so YEAH.)

So my main hc that started me spiralling is: Jeremy Bradshaw has had his Lillipup since he was a kid so they both grew old together, so here’s child!Jeremy Bradshaw with his Lillipup, young adult!Jeremy Bradshaw with his Herbier and his old current self with his Stoutland!! And to me his dog has been his bestie since Thomas had disappeared (I tried to express his different eras emotions jdjdjdkd hope I managed to it!!) if I feel like it I will try to go in depth into my crossover, I made our fave trio Pokémon teams!

I know this is very very niche but it makes me super happy <3 (like the My Little Pony x Bridgewater crossover!)

#omg LOVE #bridgewater #fanart #electromignion

[thelaurenshippen]

Hello! I absolutely love The Bright Sessions and The Infinite Noise, and I just have to ask you something(s) I've been wondering about regarding Caleb for a while. I don't know if you've already answered this question before, but would he ever get an emotional support animal, and if so, what kind of animal? What would he name it, and do you think it would help him with/manage his empathy or at least his own emotions? And what would Adam think about it? Thank you and I love your work! Have a lovely day/night!

I'm so glad you love TBS and TIN!!!!! this is a topic that has come up before, though I can't remember when or where (this is exactly the kind of stuff that we talk about on the atypipals discord on the reg) but Caleb loves animals, so I could totally see him having an emotional support animal! he is definitely a dog person but I could see him having all different kinds of support creatures :)

#answered #caleb michaels #the bright sessions #the details are up to you!!! #I try to not get too specific on questions like this on public forums #on the discord I get specific about a lot of stuff!! #mostly because everyone there knows not to take me seriously at all lol #love them so much

[thelaurenshippen]

I'll have you know I am soooooooo worried for tomorrows episode of Breaker Whiskey

soooooooo how are we feeling? I think today's wasn't too worrisome right? we're on an upswing, I'd say, and the 200th episode is on friday, and obviously I was going to mark that occasion somehow, and I totally promise that we'll stay on that upswing for the rest of the week, and I'm not lying

#answered #breaker whiskey #I know it sounds like I'm lying #but what if I'm not #it's possible things are going to be good #at least for a while #isn't it? #isn't it possible that I finally cut whiskey a break? #couldn't that happen?

[thelaurenshippen]

other people about the song "Cassandra" by Taylor Alison Swift: her use of greek myth and placing herself as cassandra is alluding to *taylor swift lore that I'm too out of touch to know*

me: this song is about fox mulder

#taylor swift #the tortured poets department #ttpd #you don't get to decide the little guys that pop into your head when listening to tswift songs

[thelaurenshippen]

I don't have a ton of strong opinions on taylor swift, but the starting line being referenced on her new album is like hearing the name of your best friend from high school being sung by the most famous person in the universe

#the starting line!?!?! in MY taylor swift!?! in 2024!!!?? #those are my guys!!!

[thelaurenshippen]

Ok weird question. Do you happen to know the total run time for all existing eps? Aka please don’t make me do math bc I want to re listen to the whole thing (to date) in one sitting. I’m guessing under 3 hours?

This is such an amazing story, Lauren. Thank you for it.

Oh gosh, I do NOT know! But that is probably something I should know--

Okay, I started to answer this but then realized that because patrons and pals get all the episodes in one week, I could just add those run times together (40 files versus 200 lol). This is an under-estimate, because I just added the minutes, not the seconds, but the first forty weeks (week 40 starts monday) add up to 597 minutes. Which is...bonkers to me. Because when you said under three hours I was like "yeah, that sounds right!" and it turns out it's closer to ten. Which is roughly the same length as the first two and a half seasons of The Bright Sessions.

So...one sitting might be unpleasant, unless you've got a loooong road trip planned!

#breaker whiskey #answered

[thelaurenshippen]

Hi Lauren, a late happy birthday to you! I don't know if this has been answered in the past, but I couldn't find anything for it. Will we ever get a continuation of The AM Archives, specifically following Jackson and Joan's flirtatious relationship? I love them, and I just finished the show last night, and I'd love to know what happens with them...

thank you so much!!

I don't know that I've answered this question specifically, but broadly speaking, The Bright Sessions and all its related stories are complete! I'll never say never to anything, life is long, there's always the possibility of a tv adaptation, but in general, the story is done.

in terms of what Jackson and Joan's future holds...that's up to you! I sometimes talk about my personal headcanons or possible outcomes for characters on our pals discord, but I otherwise try to keep my non-canon opinions on the show to myself to leave room for the listeners.

thank you for listening!!

#answered #the bright sessions #the am archives

[thelaurenshippen]

I love terrible women. women who aren't just 'strong female characters' but who are deeply, severely flawed and maybe, at their core, trying to do what they think is right but very possibly failing. I love women who are selfish and possessive and angry and feral and destructive. and if there can be two of them that are insane about each other? even better.

this month's mixtape is Joan/Wadsworth! sign up here if you want a playlist in your inbox every month

#the bright sessions #joan/wadsworth #joan bright #annabelle wadsworth #my playlists #playlist #music #monthly mixtape #Spotify

[thelaurenshippen]

sometimes you have to put on the speech from the great dictator set to hans zimmer's "time" and feel every human emotion

#it still goes hard #I haven't seen this movie in like 15 years #but this speech sure had an impact!!!! #and thank you to this random person on youtube who heard a hans zimmer score and was like 'oh yeah I know what to do with this' #anyway we're going through it writing-wise at the moment #cannot write a single good sentence so I'm just listening to good writing