Aishi Online

Here comes the end of a story. For all that it is and is not.Now with merch!!!! - www.teespring.com/stores/miscellany-media-studios ----Music for this Episode by Sounds Like an EarfulSoundslikeanearful.com----www.miscellanymedia.onlineTwitter: @aishionlinepodTumblr: AishiOnlinePodTranscript: miscellanymedia.online/transcriptsSupport the Story: www.ko-fi.com/aishionline

I haven't forgotten about you. Or myself. But I'm sure it must feel like it.Now with merch!!!! - www.teespring.com/stores/miscellany-media-studios ----Music for this Episode by Sounds Like an EarfulSoundslikeanearful.com----www.miscellanymedia.onlineTwitter: @aishionlinepodTumblr: AishiOnlinePodTranscript: miscellanymedia.online/transcriptsSupport the Story: www.ko-fi.com/aishionline

[Editor's note: Apologies for the upload schedule being off. I'm still trying to recover from all the chaos of my day job..]Learning things is hard, isn't it?Now with merch!!!! - www.teespring.com/stores/miscellany-media-studios ----Music for this Episode by Sounds Like an EarfulSoundslikeanearful.com----www.miscellanymedia.onlineTwitter: @aishionlinepodTumblr: AishiOnlinePodTranscript: miscellanymedia.online/transcriptsSupport the Story: www.ko-fi.com/aishionline

[Editor's note: So sorry this episode is so much later than usual. My day job just took over my life for most of January.]What are expectations but disappointmentsNow with merch!!!! - www.teespring.com/stores/miscellany-media-studios ----Music for this Episode by Sounds Like an EarfulSoundslikeanearful.com----www.miscellanymedia.onlineTwitter: @aishionlinepodTumblr: AishiOnlinePodTranscript: miscellanymedia.online/transcriptsSupport the Story: www.ko-fi.com/aishionline

The details matter. Even the small ones. Take notice.Now with merch!!!! - www.teespring.com/stores/miscellany-media-studios ----Music for this Episode by Sounds Like an EarfulSoundslikeanearful.com----www.miscellanymedia.onlineTwitter: @aishionlinepodTumblr: AishiOnlinePodTranscript: miscellanymedia.online/transcriptsSupport the Story: www.ko-fi.com/aishionline

This episode was always going to happen. Or that is what I tell myself. Now with merch!!!! - www.teespring.com/stores/miscellany-media-studios ----Music for this Episode by Sounds Like an EarfulSoundslikeanearful.com----www.miscellanymedia.onlineTwitter: @aishionlinepodTumblr: AishiOnlinePodTranscript: miscellanymedia.online/transcriptsSupport the Story: www.ko-fi.com/aishionline

Don't forget, he would say. Don't forget.Now with merch!!!! - www.teespring.com/stores/miscellany-media-studios ----Music for this Episode by Sounds Like an EarfulSoundslikeanearful.com----www.miscellanymedia.onlineTwitter: @aishionlinepodTumblr: AishiOnlinePodTranscript: miscellanymedia.online/transcriptsSupport the Story: www.ko-fi.com/aishionline

What comes next is both predictable and not. There are always things that could set the plan awry. It just takes a moment.Now with merch!!!! - www.teespring.com/stores/miscellany-media-studios ----Music for this Episode by Sounds Like an EarfulSoundslikeanearful.com----www.miscellanymedia.onlineTwitter: @aishionlinepodTumblr: AishiOnlinePodTranscript: miscellanymedia.online/transcriptsSupport the Story: www.ko-fi.com/aishionline

Were you expecting this? The king was not.Now with merch!!!! - www.teespring.com/stores/miscellany-media-studios ----Music for this Episode by Sounds Like an EarfulSoundslikeanearful.com----www.miscellanymedia.onlineTwitter: @aishionlinepodTumblr: AishiOnlinePodTranscript: miscellanymedia.online/transcriptsSupport the Story: www.ko-fi.com/aishionline

[CW/TW: Parental abuse/assault in the story section from 8:43 to 11:15. The actual incident is at 11:00 to 11:15]Choices and consequences. Now with merch!!!! - www.teespring.com/stores/miscellany-media-studios ----Music for this Episode by Sounds Like an EarfulSoundslikeanearful.com----www.miscellanymedia.onlineTwitter: @aishionlinepodTumblr: AishiOnlinePodTranscript: miscellanymedia.online/transcriptsSupport the Story: www.ko-fi.com/aishionline

Things come together. Things break. Sometimes it is the same thing.Now with merch!!!! - www.teespring.com/stores/miscellany-media-studios ----Music for this Episode by Sounds Like an EarfulSoundslikeanearful.com----www.miscellanymedia.onlineTwitter: @aishionlinepodTumblr: AishiOnlinePodTranscript: miscellanymedia.online/transcriptsSupport the Story: www.ko-fi.com/aishionline

These stories aren't as cut and dry as you let yourself think. Now with merch!!!! - www.teespring.com/stores/miscellany-media-studios ----Music for this Episode by Sounds Like an EarfulSoundslikeanearful.com----www.miscellanymedia.onlineTwitter: @aishionlinepodTumblr: AishiOnlinePodTranscript: miscellanymedia.online/transcriptsSupport the Story: www.ko-fi.com/aishionline

Sometimes, the only way out is through, but that does not mean we can take it.Now with merch!!!! - www.teespring.com/stores/miscellany-media-studios ----Music for this Episode by Sounds Like an EarfulSoundslikeanearful.com----www.miscellanymedia.onlineTwitter: @aishionlinepodTumblr: AishiOnlinePodTranscript: miscellanymedia.online/transcriptsSupport the Story: www.ko-fi.com/aishionline

[I'm so sorry this has been such a disaster of an upload schedule. I think it would be best if I stop trying to play catch up and just let the schedule shift. Next episode will be out on September 11]There are lines we cannot come back from. Unfortunately they are hard to see.Now with merch!!!! - www.teespring.com/stores/miscellany-media-studios ----Music for this Episode by Sounds Like an EarfulSoundslikeanearful.com----www.miscellanymedia.onlineTwitter: @aishionlinepodTumblr: AishiOnlinePodTranscript: miscellanymedia.online/transcriptsSupport the Story: www.ko-fi.com/aishionline

[Apologies for the inconsistent upload schedule. Work has been hard and when it let up, my laptop died. The next episode should be up next week as intended.]Something is about to happen. The warnings may be clear as day, but that does not mean everyone can see them.Now with merch!!!! - www.teespring.com/stores/miscellany-media-studios ----Music for this Episode by Sounds Like an EarfulSoundslikeanearful.com----www.miscellanymedia.onlineTwitter: @aishionlinepodTumblr: AishiOnlinePodTranscript: miscellanymedia.online/transcriptsSupport the Story: www.ko-fi.com/aishionline

The question about why lingers. In so many ways.Meanwhile, much the same.Now with merch!!!! - www.teespring.com/stores/miscellany-media-studios ----Music for this Episode by Sounds Like an EarfulSoundslikeanearful.com----www.miscellanymedia.onlineTwitter: @aishionlinepodTumblr: AishiOnlinePodTranscript: miscellanymedia.online/transcriptsSupport the Story: www.ko-fi.com/aishionline

I finally gave up Tiktok, but maybe the scars remain?Meanwhile, consequences abound not just irl but in the palace as well.Now with merch!!!! - www.teespring.com/stores/miscellany-media-studios ----Music for this Episode by Sounds Like an EarfulSoundslikeanearful.com----www.miscellanymedia.onlineTwitter: @aishionlinepodTumblr: AishiOnlinePodTranscript: miscellanymedia.online/transcriptsSupport the Story: www.ko-fi.com/aishionline

[Apologies that this episode is a week late. Life kept happening, but next week's episode should be good to go on time.]Maybe I should try to be better.Meanwhile, breaks continue. Someone falls through. Now with merch!!!! - www.teespring.com/stores/miscellany-media-studios ----Music for this Episode by Sounds Like an EarfulSoundslikeanearful.com----www.miscellanymedia.onlineTwitter: @aishionlinepodTumblr: AishiOnlinePodTranscript: miscellanymedia.online/transcriptsSupport the Story: www.ko-fi.com/aishionline

Maybe I am broken. It might depend what your definition is. Fractured? Yes. Chipped? Definitely. There are things to fix, however.Meanwhile, change may not mean what one thinks. There are things that cannot be fixed. Now with merch!!!! - www.teespring.com/stores/miscellany-media-studios ----Music for this Episode by Sounds Like an EarfulSoundslikeanearful.com----www.miscellanymedia.onlineTwitter: @aishionlinepodTumblr: AishiOnlinePodTranscript: miscellanymedia.online/transcriptsSupport the Story: www.ko-fi.com/aishionline

[Editor's Note - CW for Dissociation and death.Apologies that this episode is late. I had to spend the weekend trying to fight with a courier service for my cats' prescription food. The kitties are doing good... Of course when I buy a safety bag that's when the initial one gets delivered. Why didn't I try that sooner?]I never pretended I wasn't broken, but should I have clarified what I meant? Meanwhile, a bridge is crossed, as the expression goes. How else can you politely speak of death. Now with merch!!!! - www.teespring.com/stores/miscellany-media-studios ----Music for this Episode by Sounds Like an EarfulSoundslikeanearful.com----www.miscellanymedia.onlineTwitter: @aishionlinepodTumblr: AishiOnlinePodTranscript: miscellanymedia.online/transcriptsSupport the Story: www.ko-fi.com/aishionline

I know this podcast isn't going well... Or that's what I suspect.Meanwhile, there's the prince to think about. And other men. Now with merch!!!! - www.teespring.com/stores/miscellany-media-studios ----Music for this Episode by Sounds Like an EarfulSoundslikeanearful.com----www.miscellanymedia.onlineTwitter: @aishionlinepodTumblr: AishiOnlinePodTranscript: miscellanymedia.online/transcriptsSupport the Story: www.ko-fi.com/aishionline

[Cw: for child death]It's been a while. Hopefully it's good to be back, but there's only so much I can say about myself.Meanwhile, there's a reckoning to be had in the palace. And a few others postponed. Now with merch!!!! - www.teespring.com/stores/miscellany-media-studios ----Music for this Episode by Sounds Like an EarfulSoundslikeanearful.com----www.miscellanymedia.onlineTwitter: @aishionlinepodTumblr: AishiOnlinePodTranscript: miscellanymedia.online/transcriptsSupport the Story: www.ko-fi.com/aishionline

Season 3 is, in fact, coming. Even if it isn't what you would expect.Now with merch!!!! - www.teespring.com/stores/miscellany-media-studios ----Music for this Episode by Sounds Like an EarfulSoundslikeanearful.com----www.miscellanymedia.onlineTwitter: @aishionlinepodTumblr: AishiOnlinePodTranscript: miscellanymedia.online/transcriptsSupport the Story: www.ko-fi.com/aishionline

[Cw: for child death, the entire episode but particularly 13:15 - 15:15] The season 2 finale that could have come out a while ago. But this is a difficult story to tell.   The Gifted Duckling is abandoned. And a child with royal blood dies.   Now with merch!!!! - www.teespring.com/stores/miscellany-media-studios   ---- Music for this Episode by Sounds Like an Earful Soundslikeanearful.com ---- www.miscellanymedia.online Twitter: @aishionlinepod Tumblr: AishiOnlinePod Transcript: miscellanymedia.online/transcripts Support the Story: www.ko-fi.com/aishionline

Everyone has desires, motivations for what they want. But compatibility is always the issue.   Bracing for impact. I don't understand. I just know things didn't go as they should have.   Now with merch!!!! - www.teespring.com/stores/miscellany-media-studios   ---- Music for this Episode by Sounds Like an Earful Soundslikeanearful.com ---- www.miscellanymedia.online Twitter: @aishionlinepod Tumblr: AishiOnlinePod Transcript: miscellanymedia.online/transcripts Support the Story: www.ko-fi.com/aishionline

Frameworks are set. The pieces just need to fall into place.   Reflections on the past. After the GiftedDuckling, but events she would have wanted to know about. The princess looks forward or in the direction she assumes is forward.   Now with merch!!!! - www.teespring.com/stores/miscellany-media-studios   ---- Music for this Episode by Sounds Like an Earful Soundslikeanearful.com ---- www.miscellanymedia.online Twitter: @aishionlinepod Tumblr: AishiOnlinePod Transcript: miscellanymedia.online/transcripts Support the Story: www.ko-fi.com/aishionline

[CW: Implied sexual assault - 6:45 - 6:55] New beginnings too often looked like the same old thing. So what was I to do?   My aunt had one of her many weddings on New Year's Eve. Royalty leans into the familiar.   Now with merch!!!! - www.teespring.com/stores/miscellany-media-studios   ---- Music for this Episode by Sounds Like an Earful Soundslikeanearful.com ---- www.miscellanymedia.online Twitter: @aishionlinepod Tumblr: AishiOnlinePod Transcript: miscellanymedia.online/transcripts Support the Story: www.ko-fi.com/aishionline  

[CW: Dysfunctional, borderline-abusive mother/daughter relationships] Family is something I don't think I fully understand. I just never knew it. But loyalty, as a concept, can be unwound if you think too hard about it.   My mother makes a bad discovery. The princess finds an unexpected rescue.   Now with merch!!!! - www.teespring.com/stores/miscellany-media-studios   ---- Music for this Episode by Sounds Like an Earful Soundslikeanearful.com ---- www.miscellanymedia.online Twitter: @aishionlinepod Tumblr: AishiOnlinePod Transcript: miscellanymedia.online/transcripts Support the Story: www.ko-fi.com/aishionline

A detour... Necessitated by the season. Of Mothers. And the way they have failed.   Now with merch!!!! - www.teespring.com/stores/miscellany-media-studios   ---- Music for this Episode by Sounds Like an Earful Soundslikeanearful.com ---- www.miscellanymedia.online Twitter: @aishionlinepod Tumblr: AishiOnlinePod Transcript: miscellanymedia.online/transcripts Support the Story: www.ko-fi.com/aishionline

I keep reminding you the details matter. Perhaps this is especially true when things don't line up.   The GiftedDuckling receives a visit, several from what I heard. The princess begins to see with her own eyes.   Now with merch!!!! - www.teespring.com/stores/miscellany-media-studios   ---- Music for this Episode by Sounds Like an Earful Soundslikeanearful.com ---- www.miscellanymedia.online Twitter: @aishionlinepod Tumblr: AishiOnlinePod Transcript: miscellanymedia.online/transcripts Support the Story: www.ko-fi.com/aishionline

I always struggled with characters in a story. There's a lot too them. Like making sure you know where they all are.   The GiftedDuckling knows she does not know. Confidence sends royalty awry.   Now with a merch!!!! - www.teespring.com/stores/miscellany-media-studios   ---- Music for this Episode by Sounds Like an Earful Soundslikeanearful.com ---- www.miscellanymedia.online Twitter: @aishionlinepod Tumblr: AishiOnlinePod Transcript: miscellanymedia.online/transcripts Support the Story: www.ko-fi.com/aishionline

New Eras. Old Problems   The GiftedDuckling finds the secret The Queen of the Forum already knew. The Queen of the small kingdom must arrange another marriage.     Now with a merch!!!! - www.teespring.com/stores/miscellany-media-studios   ---- Music for this Episode by Sounds Like an Earful Soundslikeanearful.com ---- www.miscellanymedia.online Twitter: @aishionlinepod Tumblr: AishiOnlinePod Transcript: miscellanymedia.online/transcripts Support the Story: www.ko-fi.com/aishionline

People stray. Choices are made.   Symbolic Myst wasn't forever. The queen, the princess, and the mirror: a breaking point bound to happen.     Now with a merch!!!! - www.teespring.com/stores/miscellany-media-studios   ---- Music for this Episode by Sounds Like an Earful Soundslikeanearful.com ---- www.miscellanymedia.online Twitter: @aishionlinepod Tumblr: AishiOnlinePod Transcript: miscellanymedia.online/transcripts Support the Story: www.ko-fi.com/aishionline

Silence is what you make of it...   The GiftedDuckling wanted my voice. The princess wanted everything.     Now with a merch!!!! - www.teespring.com/stores/miscellany-media-studios   ---- Music for this Episode by Sounds Like an Earful Soundslikeanearful.com ---- www.miscellanymedia.online Twitter: @aishionlinepod Tumblr: AishiOnlinePod Transcript: miscellanymedia.online/transcripts Support the Story: www.ko-fi.com/aishionline

Sometimes we can't say the most relevant thing.   The GiftedDuckling and I got along better than expected considering... Things. All under Aishi's eyes. The prince knows why his bride is gone. Everyone knows. And yet, nothing happened.     Now with a merch!!!! - www.teespring.com/stores/miscellany-media-studios   ---- Music for this Episode by Sounds Like an Earful Soundslikeanearful.com ---- www.miscellanymedia.online Twitter: @aishionlinepod Tumblr: AishiOnlinePod Transcript: miscellanymedia.online/transcripts Support the Story: www.ko-fi.com/aishionline

Sometimes how we say what we can say is the most important part.   I introduce you to one of the moderators of Symbolic Myst that I grew quite close to. And joy disappears in the small kingdom, leaving everyone to ask--though they knew--what was left in its place.     Now with a merch!!!! - www.teespring.com/stores/miscellany-media-studios   ---- Music for this Episode by Sounds Like an Earful Soundslikeanearful.com ---- www.miscellanymedia.online Twitter: @aishionlinepod Tumblr: AishiOnlinePod Transcript: miscellanymedia.online/transcripts Support the Story: www.ko-fi.com/aishionline

No matter how many times you tell a story. The details are never quite right. I try to fill in some of the details around the Symbolic Myst writing site. And a potential princess makes a sudden appearance in the small kingdom.     Now with a merch!!!! - www.teespring.com/stores/miscellany-media-studios   ---- Music for this Episode by Sounds Like an Earful Soundslikeanearful.com ---- www.miscellanymedia.online Twitter: @aishionlinepod Tumblr: AishiOnlinePod Transcript: miscellanymedia.online/transcripts Support the Story: www.ko-fi.com/aishionline

I'm back now. Whether or not I should be is a different question. But the talk about the Funhouse Hallway is over. There's nothing more I can say about that. However, I'm now in a new place with old pieces of myself found. Those are the stories I can tell you now. If you are interested.   Now with a merch!!!! - www.teespring.com/stores/miscellany-media-studios   ---- Music for this Episode by Sounds Like an Earful Soundslikeanearful.com ---- www.miscellanymedia.online Twitter: @aishionlinepod Tumblr: AishiOnlinePod Transcript: miscellanymedia.online/transcripts Support the Story: www.ko-fi.com/aishionline

Not ready to be direct yet, season 2 might look a little different. I was always a writer at heart after all.   Follow @AishiOnlinePod and retweet the pinned link to get a sticker mailed to you! (Also be patient... Especially everyone not in the US.)   Now with a merch!!!! - www.teespring.com/stores/miscellany-media-studios   ---- Music for this Episode by Sounds Like an Earful Soundslikeanearful.com ---- www.miscellanymedia.online Twitter: @aishionlinepod Tumblr: AishiOnlinePod Transcript: miscellanymedia.online/transcripts Support the Story: www.ko-fi.com/aishionline

I went back and forth on how to do this. But there's no ending I can offer that will truly satisfy. I'm not ready to say what needs to be said. Still. After all these years.   I'm sorry, Your Majesty.   Now with a merch store!!!! - www.teespring.com/stores/miscellany-media-studios  - code SEASON3YAY for $4 off your order (minimum $20 order and valid until April 7th)   ---- Music for this Episode by Sounds Like an Earful Soundslikeanearful.com ---- www.miscellanymedia.online Twitter: @aishionlinepod Tumblr: AishiOnlinePod Transcript: miscellanymedia.online/transcripts Support the Story: www.ko-fi.com/aishionline  

Paths diverge. Variables prove to be unpredictable. And that can make storytelling difficult.   But it may ave saved the Watchman   Now with a merch store!!!! - www.teespring.com/stores/miscellany-media-studios  - code SEASON3YAY for $4 off your order (minimum $20 order and valid until April 7th)   ---- Music for this Episode by Sounds Like an Earful Soundslikeanearful.com ---- www.miscellanymedia.online Twitter: @aishionlinepod Tumblr: AishiOnlinePod Transcript: miscellanymedia.online/transcripts Support the Story: www.ko-fi.com/aishionline  

You think you know what to expect. You think you know how the story goes and what it has always been. But simplicity doesn't offer the promises you might be expecting.   There are things I can't confess, that I probably should.   Now with a merch store!!!! - www.teespring.com/stores/miscellany-media-studios  - code SEASON3YAY for $4 off your order (minimum $20 order and valid until April 7th)   ---- Music for this Episode by Sounds Like an Earful Soundslikeanearful.com ---- www.miscellanymedia.online Twitter: @aishionlinepod Tumblr: AishiOnlinePod Transcript: miscellanymedia.online/transcripts Support the Story: www.ko-fi.com/aishionline

Back to the game, because what else could I do? What else could protect the Watchmaker?   Now with a merch store!!!! - www.teespring.com/stores/miscellany-media-studios   ---- Music for this Episode by Sounds Like an Earful Soundslikeanearful.com ---- www.miscellanymedia.online Twitter: @aishionlinepod Tumblr: AishiOnlinePod Transcript: miscellanymedia.online/transcripts Support the Story: www.ko-fi.com/aishionline

An absence and a gift. Break-throughs take a lot of forms, do they not?   ---- Music for this Episode by Sounds Like an Earful Soundslikeanearful.com ---- www.miscellanymedia.online Twitter: @aishionlinepod Tumblr: AishiOnlinePod Transcript: miscellanymedia.online/transcripts Support the Story: www.ko-fi.com/aishionline

It wasn't all bad.   ---- Music for this Episode by Sounds Like an Earful Soundslikeanearful.com ---- www.miscellanymedia.online Twitter: @aishionlinepod Tumblr: AishiOnlinePod Transcript: miscellanymedia.online/transcripts Support the Story: www.ko-fi.com/aishionline

We all have our limitations, do we not?   ---- Music for this Episode by Sounds Like an Earful Soundslikeanearful.com ---- www.miscellanymedia.online Twitter: @aishionlinepod Tumblr: AishiOnlinePod Transcript: miscellanymedia.online/transcripts Support the Story: www.ko-fi.com/aishionline

People came and went on the Forum, even Aishi, but I think I pushed them away. When royalty came.   ---- Music for this Episode by Sounds Like an Earful Soundslikeanearful.com ---- www.miscellanymedia.online Twitter: @aishionlinepod Tumblr: AishiOnlinePod Transcript: miscellanymedia.online/transcripts Support the Story: www.ko-fi.com/aishionline