Podcasts about LiveJournal

This week on So Emo I Fell Apart, Chloe and Ria wish you all a Happy Pride by discussing Michael Clifford's homage to fanfiction in his solo debut and use it as a jumping off point to discuss stage gay....... again. Talk to us so we can talk to you!!!: ifellapartcast@gmail.com Please donate to aid communities in Palestine if you can: twitter.com/CareForGaza gazafunds.com gazaesims.com Find Us Online: Twitter: x.com/SoEmoPod Bluesky: bsky.app/profile/soemopod.bsky.social Instagram: instagram.com/SoEmoPod Ria: x.com/Ria_Tee and instagram.com/riaeliza Chloe: x.com/chlosephine_ and instagram.com/chlo5ephine   About Us: So Emo I Fell Apart is a podcast dedicated to everything emo and pop punk from the 00s to today. Every episode hosts Chloe and Ria choose a piece of emo history or culture to explore. Learn all about you new favorite band and revisit the good old LiveJournal days with us here at So Emo I Fell Apart. Cover art and logo design by Tiffany Larson (tiffanylarsondesign.com) Intro Music: Backyard Skatepark by Aether Audio Powered by Moonshot Pods (moonshotpods.com)

This week, Frank is joined by Nicole Vaunt and Mitch Lerner to discuss the history of the internet. Specifically, we talk about the way things were in our earliest days on the internet, our first memories of it, what it looked like, what it felt like, and the first places we created things online. We talk chat rooms, a/s/l, and oh so much more. Then Frank overcomes immense embarrassment and shares an actual LiveJournal post from his actual LiveJournal. Join for the laughs, stay for the cringe, and look out for more episodes in our look back on the way things were.Links:The Pew research on the usage of social mediaThe museum of web design from 2005The 60 Minutes feature on four young internet entrepreneurs The Smosh episode that Mitch appeared inThe Hollywood Fringe show that Mitch is appearing in this June!

Josh celebrates the 21st birthday of his LiveJournal. Gibson is trying to track down the guitar Marty played in Back To The Future. The greatest Power Ballads of all time. Visit Syracuse celebrates this city. Cody discovers an amazing chicken sandwich. Plus so much more on a Wednesdee!

This week on So Emo I Fell Apart, Chloe and Ria reflect on Fall Out Boy's sophomore album 'From Under The Cork Tree' for its 20th anniversary. Talk to us so we can talk to you!!!: ifellapartcast@gmail.com Please donate to aid communities in Palestine if you can: twitter.com/CareForGaza gazafunds.com gazaesims.com Find Us Online: Twitter: x.com/SoEmoPod Bluesky: bsky.app/profile/soemopod.bsky.social Instagram: instagram.com/SoEmoPod Ria: x.com/Ria_Tee and instagram.com/riaeliza Chloe: x.com/chlosephine_ and instagram.com/chlo5ephine   About Us: So Emo I Fell Apart is a podcast dedicated to everything emo and pop punk from the 00s to today. Every episode hosts Chloe and Ria choose a piece of emo history or culture to explore. Learn all about you new favorite band and revisit the good old LiveJournal days with us here at So Emo I Fell Apart. Cover art and logo design by Tiffany Larson (tiffanylarsondesign.com) Intro Music: Backyard Skatepark by Aether Audio Powered by Moonshot Pods (moonshotpods.com)

This week on So Emo I Fell Apart, Chloe and Ria hot another Pete Wentz Movie Night and this time we're watching Fight Club. We get up allllll into that good good about the social construction of masculinities, why Pete Wentz in particular really likes Fight Club, and the chokehold it had on the scene. Talk to us so we can talk to you!!!: ifellapartcast@gmail.com Please donate to aid communities in Palestine if you can: twitter.com/CareForGaza gazafunds.com gazaesims.com Find Us Online: Twitter: x.com/SoEmoPod Bluesky: bsky.app/profile/soemopod.bsky.social Instagram: instagram.com/SoEmoPod Ria: x.com/Ria_Tee and instagram.com/riaeliza Chloe: x.com/chlosephine_ and instagram.com/chlo5ephine   About Us: So Emo I Fell Apart is a podcast dedicated to everything emo and pop punk from the 00s to today. Every episode hosts Chloe and Ria choose a piece of emo history or culture to explore. Learn all about you new favorite band and revisit the good old LiveJournal days with us here at So Emo I Fell Apart. Cover art and logo design by Tiffany Larson (tiffanylarsondesign.com) Intro Music: Backyard Skatepark by Aether Audio Powered by Moonshot Pods (moonshotpods.com)

Turn on your dial-up modem & get ready to send this email to ten friends before a limewire virus crashes the family desktop- because today, we're getting a broader understanding of how the internet became an ad. In this episode we travel through the ghost town of the old internet — through chain emails, geocities fan sites, LiveJournal confessions, MySpace betrayals, before making are way to the Facebook takeover & the rise of tiktokshop — all while asking: When did our online diaries turn into shopping malls? 
When did our friendships turn into feed suggestions? 
And what do we do now, on an internet- and in a world- where everything feels more algorithm than human?Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/broads-next-door--5803223/support.

This week on So Emo I Fell Apart, Chloe and Ria are finally back from their annual winter hibernation and make their own Punk Goes Pop 2025 tracklists. Fearless Records needs to get their shit together and make them again because we miss these albums. Talk to us so we can talk to you!!!: ifellapartcast@gmail.com Find Us Online: Twitter: x.com/SoEmoPod Bluesky: bsky.app/profile/soemopod.bsky.social Instagram: instagram.com/SoEmoPod Ria: x.com/Ria_Tee + bsky.app/profile/riatee.social + instagram.com/riaeliza Chloe: x.com/chlosephine_ + instagram.com/chlo5ephine   Please donate to aid communities in Palestine if you can: twitter.com/CareForGaza gazafunds.com gazaesims.com About Us: So Emo I Fell Apart is a podcast dedicated to everything emo and pop punk from the 00s to today. Every episode hosts Chloe and Ria choose a piece of emo history or culture to explore. Learn all about you new favorite band and revisit the good old LiveJournal days with us here at So Emo I Fell Apart. Cover art and logo design by Tiffany Larson (tiffanylarsondesign.com) Intro Music: Backyard Skatepark by Aether Audio Powered by Moonshot Pods (moonshotpods.com)

Sandra and Kasey have had zero complaints about the homework assigned for this interview! If you've been a connoisseur of J2 and Wincest fanfic for more than a minute, the stories by the legendary writer on the podcast today have probably been recommended required reading. Nyxocity is a prolific creator who has been writing and posting since the heyday of LiveJournal. According to her tumblr profile, she's blessed fandoms with over five million words of fanfic!Get ready to be lectured about the evolution of the SPN fandom and learn about Nyx's writing process and inspiration.Where you can find Nyx and her work: tumblr, AO3, and LiveJournal~~~We're taking you for a spin in Baby's backseat.Dean's House Rules - Driver picks the music, shotgun shuts his cakehole, and the ones in the back enjoy the ride... idling in the Impala.~~~~~TL;DR - If you can't be bothered clicking on all the things in this description, just visit our website: idlingintheimpala.comWe'd love to hear your thoughts. Send us an email (idlingintheimpala@gmail.com)!All the Socials and AO3 and Fiction links: https://linktr.ee/idlingintheimpalapodcastOur Discord #backseat Channel.Interested in being a guest on the podcast? Give us some info about you here so we can connect.Feel inclined to leave us a tip for all this AWESOME content? Visit our Ko-fi page. Monthly supporters will get special behind the scenes perks!We've got podcast merch for our fellow idlers. Take a look!~~~~~Charities IITI Supports: Check out the Causes, ‘cause page on our website for the whys:World Central Kitchen and Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)~~~~~For Those in the US: Educate and Empower Yourself, Find Ways to Take ActionSupport Basic Human Rights - American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)Prioritize Your Mental Health - National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI)Thrive (Not Just Survive) After Abuse - Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network (RAINN)  ~~~~~LGBTQ+ CharitiesSwitchboard LGBT UKThe Trevor Project - USA and Global~~~~~Our podcast occasionally incorporates brief excerpts from the CW television show "Supernatural" for transformative commentary and analysis. This use falls under the Fair Use doctrine codified in Section 107 of the United States Copyright Act. The included clips are short, constituting only a minuscule portion of the original work, and illustrate specific points within our critical commentary. Our podcast does not compete with the show's market. This use promotes public discourse and understanding of the work, strengthening its cultural significance.

If ever you need to find bad poetry Ariel suggests long ago posts on the old social media sites. Even if you have deleted Live Journal and Myspace, don't worry you may have left something on the good old notes pages on Facebook. Dave and Aaron discuss with Ariel the deep lyricism of Dashboard Confessional and the cliches of chick flicks. My Bad Poetry Episode 7.11: "It's Surreal to be Hit Gently with a Rose (w/ Ariel Treece)Ariel Treece is an assistant librarian making her a true hero! Support your local libraries everyone.Podcast Email: mybadpoetry.thepodcast@gmail.com Bluesky: @mybadpoetrythepod.bsky.social Instagram & Threads: @MyBadPoetry_ThePod Website: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.mybadpoetry.com

Joy and Adam talk about eating disorders, mental health social media. What's changed since they were in treatment and how social media may be important for recovery and community - with caveats. Would the severity or understanding of my eating disorder have been different? Join us for a nuanced discussion.

This week Ken welcomes singer-songwriter behind the must buy brand new album "Erotica Veronica", Miya Folick.   Ken and Miya discuss the troubles of LA, the stress of 2025, trying to be creative and make a living as an artist in 2025, life without respite, no longer being the main character, the dark timeline, allowing yourself to work through your own experience, promoting your stuff, not having kids, growing up as a huge nerd, being social, not getting into music until you were in college, loving doing homework, not having the "cool older brother" effect growing up, college radio, mix tapes, KERTH 101, good peer pressure, Live Journal, being a musician without being able to make every specific tone reference possible, collaboration, songwriting, being an idea generator, planning to learn about music history upon retirement, wanting to shred, Tidal, trusting the algorithym, finding new music, going through music droughts, mood and music, auditory sensitivity tied to your menstral cycle, listening to podcasts, The Ezra Klein Show, The Daily, Democracy Now, Heavyweight, Jonathan Goldman, unresolved issues of the heart, developing parasocial relationships with podcast hosts you listen to, being into super dorky opera competitions, Downtown LA, growing up in Orange County, jumping on the turtleneck bandwagon, master classes at the classical music society, trying and hating acting, the audition process, thinking about a return to acting, Paris, Texas, being inspired by Cinema, Portishead, The Three Colors Trilogy, the magic of cinema, pop music, wanting producers across the country, Steve Albini, the belief that the only good album a band makes is their first album, thinking about going back to or even starting a day job, going to sleep with white noise, not watching TV at night, Marvel Comics in the 1970s, and the nature of storytelling. 

Here at Spooky Tuesday, we go through the highs and lows of horror — and when you fit the theme, you fit the theme, which is how Splice (2009) ended up on our schedule for Monster Fucker February. Whether you've never heard of it, were scandalized after watching it in theaters, or have been eagerly/nervously awaiting the opportunity to see it for yourself after reading a certain Internet famous LiveJournal review, this movie makes for quite the viewing experience. It's famously awful, but also features two Academy Awards winners and nominees, and isn't that exactly the sort of conflict that can make life so interesting? On our new episode, Monica takes us all down the rabbit (plus kangaroo plus bird plus fish plus human plus slug or whatever) hole as we dissect this abominable creation. References:https://makesomelove.livejournal.com/227249.htmlhttps://www.wired.com/2010/06/splice-mutant/https://www.ign.com/articles/2010/07/23/splice-the-evolution-of-drenhttps://screenrant.com/vincenzo-natali-splice-classic-monster-movie-frankenstein/https://screenrant.com/spice-movie-real-inspiration-explained/https://www.treehugger.com/animals-can-change-their-sex-4869361https://www.sarahaband.com/product-page/vacanti-mouse

While this poem was already shared with the world way back in 2004, now some 21 years later Amelia brings this wonderful LiveJournal entry to Aaron and Dave for our dear listeners to hear. An emo work that asks the deep questions.My Bad Poetry Episode 7.5: "What If? (w/ Amelia McCracken)Since Amelia McCracken has left her emo poetry writing days in the past, she has moved onto entrepreneur and mentor. You can follow her work onLinkedIn or learn more about her work atMent Services.End Poem from a Real Poet: "What If?" by Shel SilversteinPodcast Email: mybadpoetry.thepodcast@gmail.com Bluesky: @mybadpoetrythepod.bsky.social Instagram & Website: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.mybadpoetry.com

This week on So Emo I Fell Apart, Chloe and Ria get into the history of To Write Love On Her Arms: the infamous charity and t-shirt business that became ubiquitous with emo fashion at the height of emo mania. Talk to us so we can talk to you!!!: ifellapartcast@gmail.com Please donate to aid communities in Palestine if you can: twitter.com/CareForGaza gazafunds.com gazaesims.com Find Us Online: Twitter: x.com/SoEmoPod Bluesky: bsky.app/profile/soemopod.bsky.social Instagram: instagram.com/SoEmoPod Ria: x.com/Ria_Tee and instagram.com/riaeliza Chloe: x.com/chlosephine_ and instagram.com/chlo5ephine   About Us: So Emo I Fell Apart is a podcast dedicated to everything emo and pop punk from the 00s to today. Every episode hosts Chloe and Ria choose a piece of emo history or culture to explore. Learn all about you new favorite band and revisit the good old LiveJournal days with us here at So Emo I Fell Apart. Cover art and logo design by Tiffany Larson (tiffanylarsondesign.com) Intro Music: Backyard Skatepark by Aether Audio Powered by Moonshot Pods (moonshotpods.com)

This week on So Emo I Fell Apart, Chloe and Ria talk about scene queens. In this brief history we detail who they were, why they became popular, and the culture shift they ushed in. Talk to us so we can talk to you!!!: ifellapartcast@gmail.com Please donate to aid communities in Palestine if you can: twitter.com/CareForGaza gazafunds.com gazaesims.com Find Us Online: Twitter: x.com/SoEmoPod Bluesky: bsky.app/profile/soemopod.bsky.social Instagram: instagram.com/SoEmoPod Ria: x.com/Ria_Tee and instagram.com/riaeliza Chloe: x.com/chlosephine_ and instagram.com/chlo5ephine   About Us: So Emo I Fell Apart is a podcast dedicated to everything emo and pop punk from the 00s to today. Every episode hosts Chloe and Ria choose a piece of emo history or culture to explore. Learn all about you new favorite band and revisit the good old LiveJournal days with us here at So Emo I Fell Apart. Cover art and logo design by Tiffany Larson (tiffanylarsondesign.com) Intro Music: Backyard Skatepark by Aether Audio Powered by Moonshot Pods (moonshotpods.com)

This week on So Emo I Fell Apart, Chloe and Ria kick off 2025 with a new monthly series called Pete Wentz Movie Night! We'll watch a movie Pete Wentz has referenced in song lyrics, visuals, or any of his many projects and figure out why Pete decided to refence it. Talk to us so we can talk to you!!!: ifellapartcast@gmail.com Please donate to aid communities in Palestine if you can: twitter.com/CareForGaza gazafunds.com gazaesims.com Find Us Online: Twitter: x.com/SoEmoPod Bluesky: bsky.app/profile/soemopod.bsky.social Instagram: instagram.com/SoEmoPod Ria: x.com/Ria_Tee and instagram.com/riaeliza Chloe: x.com/chlosephine_ and instagram.com/chlo5ephine   About Us: So Emo I Fell Apart is a podcast dedicated to everything emo and pop punk from the 00s to today. Every episode hosts Chloe and Ria choose a piece of emo history or culture to explore. Learn all about you new favorite band and revisit the good old LiveJournal days with us here at So Emo I Fell Apart. Cover art and logo design by Tiffany Larson (tiffanylarsondesign.com) Intro Music: Backyard Skatepark by Aether Audio Powered by Moonshot Podcasts

This week on So Emo I Fell Apart, Chloe and Ria talk all things Q4 emo news! We start off somber with Bob Bryar's death and move onto lighter news like Pete Wentz's tennis club and Gabe Saporta's stupid skincare line. Talk to us so we can talk to you!!!: ifellapartcast@gmail.com Please donate to aid communities in Palestine if you can: twitter.com/CareForGaza gazafunds.com gazaesims.com Find Us Online: Twitter: x.com/SoEmoPod Bluesky: bsky.app/profile/soemopod.bsky.social Instagram: instagram.com/SoEmoPod Ria: x.com/Ria_Tee and instagram.com/riaeliza Chloe: x.com/chlosephine_ and instagram.com/chlo5ephine   About Us: So Emo I Fell Apart is a podcast dedicated to everything emo and pop punk from the 00s to today. Every episode hosts Chloe and Ria choose a piece of emo history or culture to explore. Learn all about you new favorite band and revisit the good old LiveJournal days with us here at So Emo I Fell Apart. Cover art and logo design by Tiffany Larson (tiffanylarsondesign.com) Powered by Moonshot Pods (moonshotpods.com)

If you never made your FB profile picture that “I made you a cookie, but I eated it :(“ meme in 2008, were you even living? In this episode, Hannah and Maia recall the long lost emo subculture - which took the world by storm in the mid aughts and fell quickly into obscurity thereafter. Emo emerged as a musical non-genre from the DIY hardcore punk scenes of San Fran and Detroit, and two decades later  it would transform into completely unrecognizable pop punk radio hits resounding in every mall you ever walked into. But thanks to the no-holds-barred, cost-effective utopias that were MySpace and LiveJournal, it seemed the emo subculture was stronger than ever - as socially-anxious teens bonded over their love for Pete Wentz and their own self-loathing. What could possibly go wrong? Are subcultures a form of teenage sovereignty? And do we have Twilight because of 9/11? Listen, for these pressing questions and more. Tangents include: Hannah's parents' perfect marriage, Orson Welles vs. Woody Allen beef, and Maia's online relationship with Gerard Way.  Get a whole month of great cinema FREE: mubi.com/rehash Support us on Patreon and get juicy bonus content: ⁠⁠https://www.patreon.com/rehashpodcast⁠⁠ Intro and outro song by our talented friend Ian Mills: ⁠⁠https://linktr.ee/ianmillsmusic SOURCES: Peter C. Baker, “When Emo Conquered the Mainstream” New Yorker (2023). Tom Connick, “The beginner's guide to the evolution of emo” NME (2018). M. Douglas Daschuk, “Messageboard Confessional: Online Discourse and the Production of the "Emo Kid"” Berkeley Journal of Sociology, Vol. 54, Knowledge Production and Expertise (2010). Judith May Fathallah, Emo: How Fans Defined a Subculture, University of Iowa Press (2020). Andy Greenwald, Nothing Feels Good: Punk Rock, Teenagers, and Emo, St. Martin's Publishing (2003). Rosemary Overell, “Emo online: networks of sociality/networks of exclusion,” Perfect Beat (2011). Dan Ozzi, Sellout: The Major Label Feeding Frenzy That Swept Punk, Emo, and Hardcore, Mariner (2021). Carla Zdanow and Bianca Wright, The Representation of Self Injury and S*icide on Emo Social Networking Groups” African Sociological Review, Vol. 16, No. 2 (2012).

This week on So Emo I Fell Apart, Chloe and Ria finally give their long awaited review of 2024's When We Were Young. Did we have a good time and would we go again? Talk to us so we can talk to you!!!: ifellapartcast@gmail.com Please donate to aid communities in Palestine if you can: twitter.com/CareForGaza gazafunds.com gazaesims.com Find Us Online: Twitter: x.com/SoEmoPod Instagram: instagram.com/SoEmoPod Ria: x.com/Ria_Tee and instagram.com/riaeliza Chloe: x.com/chlosephine_ and instagram.com/chlo5ephine   About Us: So Emo I Fell Apart is a podcast dedicated to everything emo and pop punk from the 00s to today. Every episode hosts Chloe and Ria choose a piece of emo history or culture to explore. Learn all about you new favorite band and revisit the good old LiveJournal days with us here at So Emo I Fell Apart. Cover art and logo design by Tiffany Larson (tiffanylarsondesign.com) Powered by Moonshot Pods (moonshotpods.com)

Bluesky is facing significant challenges in maintaining user interest and sustainability due to issues with toxicity, chaotic functionality, and competition from other social media platforms, raising concerns about its future. 00:00 Bluesky faces challenges in competing with X and may struggle to maintain user interest despite a shift towards a more positive, art-focused community. 03:55 Bluesky's rapid user growth is overshadowed by fears of it succumbing to toxicity like other social media platforms. 06:32 Bluesky struggles with chaotic functionality and sustainability amid shifting user attention and controversial leadership, echoing past social media challenges. 10:37 Bluesky's initial promise of connection is fading due to drama and negativity, mirroring the disillusionment seen in other platforms. 13:08 Bluesky faces challenges with far-left content and violence, raising concerns about its future amid a desire for open discourse. 15:54 Social media is temporary, with platforms like Bluesky facing inevitable decline amid the rise of better alternatives and the loss of meaningful online interactions. 19:28 Bluesky struggles to gain mainstream users amid corporate control of the internet and increasing content restrictions. 22:02 Bluesky is struggling with user backlash over harassment issues and moderation challenges, raising concerns about its future amid competition from recovering platforms like X. Blue Sky's moderation team is accused of censorship for attempting to ban writer Jesse Singal over alleged anti-trans views after just 12 days on the platform, mirroring Twitter's controversial practices. Twitter's user base allegedly plummeted from over 1 billion to 586 million after banning @realDonaldTrump, a sitting president, leading to a mass exodus to platforms like Blue Sky and Threads. The idea of a decentralized Internet is deemed nearly impossible due to Google's overwhelming control over search, email, and hosting services, effectively centralizing power in corporate hands. Twitter's decline is attributed to Elon Musk's ownership, which allegedly allowed far-left activists from Tumblr and LiveJournal to employ K-pop stan tactics like puppet accounts and trending manipulation. During the pandemic, Twitter's censorship reached extreme levels, with random accounts warning users not to question vaccine effectiveness, creating a dystopian environment of self-censorship.

Holy shit, two cakes! This week, V and Emily poke around over on Dreamwidth and its potentially coolest rec comm: Fancake. Its founder and former longtime mod (9 years of work!) @jerakeenc did a really thoughtful interview with V about the inspiration for the community, things they've learned over the long course of modding a panfandom comm, and tips for starting and maintaining a positive social space on the internet. Plus, Emily and V wrestle with hanahaki disease and swoon over a good tagging system. Sources Fancake Ad Swaps & Other Business Candy is Dandy Podcast This Week In Fandom History is a fandom-centric podcast that tells you… what happened this week in fandom history! Follow This Week in Fandom History on Tumblr at @thisweekinfandomhistory You can support the show via our Patreon at http://www.patreon.com/thisweekinfandomhistory.  If you have a fannish company, event, or service and would like to sponsor or partner with TWIFH, please contact us via our website. Please remember to rate the show 5 stars on your listening platform of choice!

The Blasters & Blades Podcast Timelines? Who needs timelines? We've got the ability to create alternatives to how history played out! That's right, we had on the awesome Dale Cozort to talk nerdy with us and then we talked about his own book, The Wokuo Incursion. This was a fun interview, so go check out this episode. Lend us your eyes and ears, you won't be sorry!! Join us for a fun show! We're just a couple of nerdy Army veterans geeking out on things that go "abracadabra," "pew," "zoom," "boop-beep" and rhyme with Science Fiction & Fantasy. Co-Hosts: JR Handley (Author) (Grunt) Nick Garber (Comic Book Artist) (Super Grunt) Madam Stabby Stab (Uber Fan) (Horror Nerd) We work for free, so if you wanna throw a few pennies our way there is a linked Buy Me A Coffee site where you can do so. Just mention the podcast in the comments when you donate, and I'll keep the sacred bean water boiling! Support the Show: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/AuthorJRHandley Our Website: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/blasters-and-blades Our LinkTree: https://linktr.ee/blastersandbladespodcast Today's Sponsor The Handler's Gambit by Ingrid Moon: https://www.amazon.com/Handlers-Gambit-Saxen-Saga-Book-ebook/dp/B0CLKNFKD1 Coffee Brand Coffee Affiliate Support the Show: https://coffeebrandcoffee.com/?ref=y4GWASiVorJZDb Discount Code: PodcastGrunts Coupon Code Gets you 10% off The Wokuo Incursion by Dale Cozort: https://www.amazon.com/Wokuo-Incursion-Dale-Cozort-ebook/dp/B0DJGJ12LV Follow Dale Cozort on social media Dale's Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/stores/Dale-R.-Cozort/author/B003ODYYNY Dale's Website: https://www.dalecozort.com/ Dale's Blog: https://dalecozort.wordpress.com/blog/ Dale's LiveJournal: https://dalecoz.livejournal.com/ Dale's Twitter: https://x.com/dalecoz Dale's Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/dalecozortauthor/ #scifishenanigans #scifishenaniganspodcast #bbp #blastersandblades #blastersandbladespodcast #podcast #scifipodcast #fantasypodcast #scifi #fantasy #books #rpg #comics #fandom #literature #comedy #veteran #army #armyranger #ranger #scififan #redshirts #scifiworld #sciencefiction #scifidaily #scificoncept #podcastersofinstagram #scificons #podcastlife #podcastsofinstagram #scifibooks #awardwinningscifi #newepisode #podcastersofinstagram #podcastaddict #podcast #scifigeek #scifibook #sfv #scifivisionaries #firesidechat #chat #panel #fireside #religionquestion #coffee #tea #coffeeortea #starwars #jedi #georgelucas #lucasfilms #startrek #trekkie #firefly #serenity #browncoat #wheeloftime #wot #robertjordan #brandonsanderson #gameofthrones #got #grrm #georgerrmartin #ChroniclesofNarnia #CSLewis #DaleCozort #WokuoIncursionByDaleCozort #AltHistory #History #AlternateHistory #AlternativeHistory #Homesteading #Spacesteading #SpaceHomesteading #Terraforming #Colonization #Tyrannosaurus #TRex #T-Rex #TyrannosaurusRex #EarlyMan #Neanderthal #CaveMan #Osteopathists #Dinosaurs #JavaMan #PekingMan #TientsinIncident #WWII #WorldWar2 #WW2 #CSSHunley --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/blasters-and-blades/support

If you've been listening to the podcast lately, you have heard snippets about Kasey, Dreamer, and Sandra's collective experience participating in this year's Wincest Big Bang. Now that the Bang is over, it's time to reflect on their experiences. So, Dreamer is along for the ride. Find Dreamer on tumblr, Discord (runawaydr3amerao3), and AO3 (runawaydr3amer). Second to be taken to task is Kasey, with their Sam/Dean story “Scents of Home.” You can read the fic on AO3 here. The glorious artwork by malefantasy has its own LiveJournal post here. ~~~ We're taking you for a spin in Baby's backseat. Dean's House Rules - Driver picks the music, shotgun shuts his cakehole, and the ones in the back enjoy the ride... idling in the Impala. ~~~~~ TL;DR - If you can't be bothered clicking on all the things in this description, just visit our website: idlingintheimpala.com We'd love to hear your thoughts. Send us an email (idlingintheimpala@gmail.com) or leave us a voicemail! All the Socials and AO3 and Fiction links: https://linktr.ee/idlingintheimpalapodcast Our Discord #backseat Channel. Interested in being a guest on the podcast? Give us some info about you here so we can connect. Feel inclined to leave us a tip for all this AWESOME content? Visit our Ko-fi page. Monthly supporters will get special behind the scenes perks! We've got podcast merch for our fellow idlers. Take a look! ~~~~~ Charities IITI Supports: Check out the Causes, ‘cause page on our website for the whys: World Central Kitchen and Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) ~~~~~ For Those in the US: Educate and Empower Yourself, Find Ways to Take Action Support Basic Human Rights - American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) Prioritize Your Mental Health - National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) Thrive (Not Just Survive) After Abuse - Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network (RAINN)   ~~~~~ LGBTQ+ Charities Switchboard LGBT UK The Trevor Project - USA and Global ~~~~~ Our podcast occasionally incorporates brief excerpts from the CW television show "Supernatural" for transformative commentary and analysis. This use falls under the Fair Use doctrine codified in Section 107 of the United States Copyright Act. The included clips are short, constituting only a minuscule portion of the original work, and illustrate specific points within our critical commentary. Our podcast does not compete with the show's market. This use promotes public discourse and understanding of the work, strengthening its cultural significance.

This week on So Emo I Fell Apart, Chloe and Ria go bonkers over the My Chemical Romance '"Long Live" The Black Parade" North America tour and if all the pomp and circumstance over the tour announcement means MCR5 is finally happening. Talk to us so we can talk to you!!!: ifellapartcast@gmail.com Please donate to aid communities in Palestine if you can: twitter.com/CareForGaza gazafunds.com gazaesims.com Find Us Online: Twitter: x.com/SoEmoPod Instagram: instagram.com/SoEmoPod Ria: x.com/Ria_Tee and instagram.com/riaeliza Chloe: x.com/chlosephine_ and instagram.com/chlo5ephine   About Us: So Emo I Fell Apart is a podcast dedicated to everything emo and pop punk from the 00s to today. Every episode hosts Chloe and Ria choose a piece of emo history or culture to explore. Learn all about you new favorite band and revisit the good old LiveJournal days with us here at So Emo I Fell Apart. Cover art and logo design by Tiffany Larson (tiffanylarsondesign.com) Powered by Moonshot Pods (moonshotpods.com) Notes go here

"A not-insignificant number of people discovered their trans identities through Harry Potter roleplay and Harry Potter cosplay, because Harry Potter was so big and such a big part of our lives. I was trying to make a list of the people I knew on LiveJournal who went through transition, and it was so long that I gave up. It's a demographic, not just a few people we knew." For full show notes, transcripts, ways to contact the hosts or support the show, and more, visit hpafter2020.com.

This week, the Pop Culture Historians wield great power responsibly once again by breaking down Sam Raimi's superhero follow-up, SPIDER-MAN 2! Topics include: whether this is the greatest superhero movie of all time, the near replacement of Tobey Maguire by Jake Gyllenhaal, and Ryan's review of the movie from his 2004 LiveJournal. Suit up and listen along with us!

This week on So Emo I Fell Apart, Chloe and Ria finally get around to uploading part two of our AMAs and straight up it's been a long few weeks and we don't even remember what we discussed in this one so it'll be a fun surprise for us just as much as it is for you. Talk to us so we can talk to you!!!: ifellapartcast@gmail.com Please donate to aid communities in Palestine if you can: twitter.com/CareForGaza gazafunds.com gazaesims.com Find Us Online: Twitter: x.com/SoEmoPod Instagram: instagram.com/SoEmoPod Ria: x.com/Ria_Tee and instagram.com/riaeliza Chloe: x.com/chlosephine_ and instagram.com/chlo5ephine   About Us: So Emo I Fell Apart is a podcast dedicated to everything emo and pop punk from the 00s to today. Every episode hosts Chloe and Ria choose a piece of emo history or culture to explore. Learn all about you new favorite band and revisit the good old LiveJournal days with us here at So Emo I Fell Apart. Cover art and logo design by Tiffany Larson (tiffanylarsondesign.com) Powered by Moonshot Pods (moonshotpods.com)

Kris and David are joined by Robert O'Connor (@ghostofquinones) to discuss the week that was October 30-November 5, 2003. Topics of discussion include:Teddy Hart going completely nuts at the 11/1 Ring of Honor show in Elizabeth, NJ and taking over the wrestling internet with his antics. We talk about the show itself — which gets forgotten because of Teddy and the aftermath, despite some great matches — plus all of the fallout, including Teddy's “open letter” apology and CM Punk burying Teddy on his LiveJournal blog.A wacky NWA-TNA PPV featuring the announcement of Lex Luger coming in, Raven getting some "revenge" on Jim Mitchell, and lots more TNA goodness.Hiroyoshi Tenzan finally winning the IWGP Heavyweight Title in New Japan on a weird show in Yokohama.NOAH's 11/1 Budokan show, featuring Shiro Koshinaka making his surprise debut and Kenta Kobashi defending the GHC World Heavyweight Title against Yoshinari Ogawa.Michinoku Pro's 10th anniversary show featuring Bob Sapp.Randy Savage's rap album flopping hard.Two completely insane segments featuring Vince McMahon and Paul Heyman on SmackDown.WWE calling Matt Morgan up from OVW at a time where way too many big guys were called up at once and devalued each other as a result.Raw is Degrassi, with the key Canadian talent showing off their ACTING~! skills.That's just a taste of the greatness on this show, and of course O'Connor delivers the content as always, so LISTEN NOW!!Timestamps:0:00:00 ROH1:21:47 NWA-TNA2:20:35 Int'l: NJPW, NOAH, World Japan, Zero-One, Michinoku Pro, Toryumon, NEO Ladies, AAA, CMLL, Monterrey, Tijuana, & IWAPR3:08:12 Classic Commercial Break3:12:20 Halftime4:07:01 Other USA: NWA Wildside, Hawk Memorial Show, PWG, Randy Savage, & John Todd Miller4:25:25 WWETo support the show and get access to exclusive rewards like special members-only monthly themed shows, go to our Patreon page at Patreon.com/BetweenTheSheets and become an ongoing Patron. Becoming a Between the Sheets Patron will also get you exclusive access to not only the monthly themed episode of Between the Sheets, but also access to our new mailbag segment, a Patron-only chat room on Slack, and anything else we do outside of the main shows!If you're looking for the best deal on a VPN service—short for Virtual Private Network, it helps you get around regional restrictions as well as browse the internet more securely—then Private Internet Access is what you've been looking for. Not only will using our link help support Between The Sheets, but you'll get a special discount, with prices as low as $1.98/month if you go with a 40 month subscription. With numerous great features and even a TV-specific Android app to make streaming easier, there is no better choice if you're looking to subscribe to WWE Network, AEW Plus, and other region-locked services.For the best in both current and classic indie wrestling streaming, make sure to check out IndependentWrestling.tv and use coupon code BTSPOD for a free 5 day trial! (You can also go directly to TinyURL.com/IWTVsheets to sign up that way.) If you convert to a paid subscriber, we get a kickback for referring you, allowing you to support both the show and the indie scene.To subscribe, you can find us on iTunes, Google Play, and just about every other podcast app's directory, or you can also paste Feeds.FeedBurner.com/BTSheets into your favorite podcast app using whatever “add feed manually” option it has.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/between-the-sheets/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

Kris and David are joined by Robert O'Connor (@ghostofquinones) to discuss the week that was October 30-November 5, 2003. Topics of discussion include:Teddy Hart going completely nuts at the 11/1 Ring of Honor show in Elizabeth, NJ and taking over the wrestling internet with his antics. We talk about the show itself — which gets forgotten because of Teddy and the aftermath, despite some great matches — plus all of the fallout, including Teddy's “open letter” apology and CM Punk burying Teddy on his LiveJournal blog.A wacky NWA-TNA PPV featuring the announcement of Lex Luger coming in, Raven getting some "revenge" on Jim Mitchell, and lots more TNA goodness.Hiroyoshi Tenzan finally winning the IWGP Heavyweight Title in New Japan on a weird show in Yokohama.NOAH's 11/1 Budokan show, featuring Shiro Koshinaka making his surprise debut and Kenta Kobashi defending the GHC World Heavyweight Title against Yoshinari Ogawa.Michinoku Pro's 10th anniversary show featuring Bob Sapp.Randy Savage's rap album flopping hard.Two completely insane segments featuring Vince McMahon and Paul Heyman on SmackDown.WWE calling Matt Morgan up from OVW at a time where way too many big guys were called up at once and devalued each other as a result.Raw is Degrassi, with the key Canadian talent showing off their ACTING~! skills.That's just a taste of the greatness on this show, and of course O'Connor delivers the content as always, so LISTEN NOW!!Timestamps:0:00:00 ROH1:21:47 NWA-TNA2:20:35 Int'l: NJPW, NOAH, World Japan, Zero-One, Michinoku Pro, Toryumon, NEO Ladies, AAA, CMLL, Monterrey, Tijuana, & IWAPR3:08:12 Classic Commercial Break3:12:20 Halftime4:07:01 Other USA: NWA Wildside, Hawk Memorial Show, PWG, Randy Savage, & John Todd Miller4:25:25 WWETo support the show and get access to exclusive rewards like special members-only monthly themed shows, go to our Patreon page at Patreon.com/BetweenTheSheets and become an ongoing Patron. Becoming a Between the Sheets Patron will also get you exclusive access to not only the monthly themed episode of Between the Sheets, but also access to our new mailbag segment, a Patron-only chat room on Slack, and anything else we do outside of the main shows!If you're looking for the best deal on a VPN service—short for Virtual Private Network, it helps you get around regional restrictions as well as browse the internet more securely—then Private Internet Access is what you've been looking for. Not only will using our link help support Between The Sheets, but you'll get a special discount, with prices as low as $1.98/month if you go with a 40 month subscription. With numerous great features and even a TV-specific Android app to make streaming easier, there is no better choice if you're looking to subscribe to WWE Network, AEW Plus, and other region-locked services.For the best in both current and classic indie wrestling streaming, make sure to check out IndependentWrestling.tv and use coupon code BTSPOD for a free 5 day trial! (You can also go directly to TinyURL.com/IWTVsheets to sign up that way.) If you convert to a paid subscriber, we get a kickback for referring you, allowing you to support both the show and the indie scene.To subscribe, you can find us on iTunes, Google Play, and just about every other podcast app's directory, or you can also paste Feeds.FeedBurner.com/BTSheets into your favorite podcast app using whatever “add feed manually” option it has.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/between-the-sheets/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

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Ronny Tibbs joins us to discuss the second Paul McCartney record (this one with wife Linda) - the underappreciated "Ram" from 1971. Plenty of other discussion including Myspace and Livejournal, tying audio and video into an EP, Steely Dan, George Martin's absence, McCartney solo records (I might have a hot take) and 70's solo Beatles records, "John Lennon can't be the only person Paul's mad at," fantasy milkshakes, ukulele, and Wayne says "Sublime has never done anything bad." Check out Ronny Tibbs at:  https://www.instagram.com/ronnytibbs/ Check out Sir Paul McCartney at: https://www.paulmccartney.com/ Check out other episodes at RecordsRevisitedPodcast.com or one all your favorite podcast providers like Apple Podcasts, Castbox, iHeartMedia, and Spotify. Additional content is found at: Facebook.com/recordsrevisitedpodcast or twitter @podcastrecords or IG at instagram.com/recordsrevisitedpodcast/ or join our Patreon at patreon.com/RecordsRevisitedPodcast

This week on So Emo I Fell Apart, Ria and Chloe asked for your questions, you gave them to us, and we have so many answers for you. We chat everything from the state of subcultures in our modern world to our friendship history to Wizards of the Coast's failings as a company. We had so many questions we're actually going to be doing a part two next week!!! So if you didn't get responded to in this episode, we will get to you in the next one. Talk to us so we can talk to you!!!!: ifellapartcast@gmail.com Please donate to aid communities in Palestine: twitter.com/CareForGaza gazafunds.com gazaesims.com Find Us Online: Twitter: x.com/SoEmoPod Instagram: instagram.com/SoEmoPod Ria: x.com/Ria_Tee Chloe: x.com/chlosephine_ About Us So Emo I Fell Apart is a podcast dedicated to all things emo and pop punk from the 00s to today. Every episode hosts Chloe and Ria choose a piece of emo history and culture to explore. Learn all about your new favorite band or revisit the good old Livejournal days with So Emo I Fell Apart. Cover Art and Logo Design by Tiffany Larson (tiffanylarsondesign.com) Powered by Moonshot Pods moonshotpods.com

This week on So Emo I Fell Apart, Ria and Chloe discuss Paramore's politics and why they in particular always face extreme backlash when they're upfront about their leftist leanings (hint it's misogyny). We also talk double standards within, the sanitization of emo, and give context to what it was like to live as a teenage girl in the early 2000s. Talk to us so we can talk to you!!!!: ifellapartcast@gmail.com Please donate to aid communities in Palestine: twitter.com/CareForGaza gazafunds.com gazaesims.com Find Us Online: Twitter: x.com/SoEmoPod Instagram: instagram.com/SoEmoPod Ria: x.com/Ria_Tee Chloe: x.com/chlosephine_ About Us So Emo I Fell Apart is a podcast dedicated to all things emo and pop punk from the 00s to today. Every episode hosts Chloe and Ria choose a piece of emo history and culture to explore. Learn all about your new favorite band or revisit the good old Livejournal days with So Emo I Fell Apart. Cover Art and Logo Design by Tiffany Larson (tiffanylarsondesign.com) Powered by Moonshot Pods moonshotpods.com

This week on So Emo I Fell Apart, Ria and Chloe get all up in 3OH!3's breakthrough 2008 album WANT and discuss the origins of crunkcore, the lost meaning of irony and satire, and if Boulder, Colorado really is the Vegas of the Mountain Standard Time zone. Talk to us so we can talk to you!!!!: ifellapartcast@gmail.com Please donate to aid communities in Palestine: twitter.com/CareForGaza gazafunds.com gazaesims.com Find Us Online: Twitter: x.com/SoEmoPod Instagram: instagram.com/SoEmoPod Ria: x.com/Ria_Tee Chloe: x.com/chlosephine_ About Us So Emo I Fell Apart is a podcast dedicated to all things emo and pop punk from the 00s to today. Every episode hosts Chloe and Ria choose a piece of emo history and culture to explore. Learn all about your new favorite band or revisit the good old Livejournal days with So Emo I Fell Apart. Cover Art and Logo Design by Tiffany Larson (tiffanylarsondesign.com) Powered by Moonshot Pods moonshotpods.com

CW: rape, sexual assault, cults, brainwashing This week on So Emo I Fell Apart, Ria and Chloe discuss the new Linkin Park lead singer controversy, Dave Grohl's weird wedlock baby instagram statement, and how much we really don't want Warped Tour to come back. Talk to us so we can talk to you!!!!: ifellapartcast@gmail.com Please donate to aid communities in Palestine: twitter.com/CareForGaza gazafunds.com gazaesims.com Find Us Online: Twitter: x.com/SoEmoPod Instagram: instagram.com/SoEmoPod Ria: x.com/Ria_Tee Chloe: x.com/chlosephine_ About Us So Emo I Fell Apart is a podcast dedicated to all things emo and pop punk from the 00s to today. Every episode hosts Chloe and Ria choose a piece of emo history and culture to explore. Learn all about your new favorite band or revisit the good old Livejournal days with So Emo I Fell Apart. Cover Art and Logo Design by Tiffany Larson (tiffanylarsondesign.com) Powered by Moonshot Pods moonshotpods.com

This week on So Emo I Fell Apart, Ria and Chloe get into all the things happening in the scene from August including celebrating Frank Iero's album Stomachaches 10th anniversary, Black Veil Brides defending Ronnie Radke, Waterparks cancelling their upcoming album, and Loveless getting dropped by their label. And in more lighthearted news, we talk about shows we've been to recently! Buy Marn's games: marns.itch.io Please donate to aid communities in Palestine: twitter.com/CareForGaza gazafunds.com gazaesims.com Find Us Online: Twitter: x.com/SoEmoPod Instagram: instagram.com/SoEmoPod Ria: x.com/Ria_Tee Chloe: x.com/chlosephine_ About Us So Emo I Fell Apart is a podcast dedicated to all things emo and pop punk from the 00s to today. Every episode hosts Chloe and Ria choose a piece of emo history and culture to explore. Learn all about your new favorite band or revisit the good old Livejournal days with So Emo I Fell Apart. Cover Art and Logo Design by Tiffany Larson (tiffanylarsondesign.com) Powered by Moonshot Pods moonshotpods.com

This week on So Emo I Fell Apart, Ria and Chloe talk all about the new Disney cover album "A Whole New Sound" featuring pop punk mainstays like Boys Like Girls and rookies in the scene Meet Me @ The Altar. But more importantly, we made our dream Punk Goes Disney cover albums and we have very good and very correct opinions. Please donate to aid communities in Palestine: twitter.com/CareForGaza gazafunds.com gazaesims.com Find Us Online: Twitter: x.com/SoEmoPod Instagram: instagram.com/SoEmoPod Ria: x.com/Ria_Tee Chloe: x.com/chlosephine_ About Us So Emo I Fell Apart is a podcast dedicated to all things emo and pop punk from the 00s to today. Every episode hosts Chloe and Ria choose a piece of emo history and culture to explore. Learn all about your new favorite band or revisit the good old Livejournal days with So Emo I Fell Apart. Powered by Moonshot Pods moonshotpods.com

Episode Notes CW: Discussions of suicide, suicidal ideation, and depression This week on So Emo I Fell Apart, Ria and Chloe are back with another In Review episode where we listen to Armor For Sleep's 2005 concept album "What To Do When You Are Dead" and talk so much about mental illness and grief. We also laugh a lot too and made some good goofs so it's not all incredibly depressing. Please donate to aid communities in Palestine: twitter.com/CareForGaza gazafunds.com gazaesims.com Find Us Online: Twitter: x.com/SoEmoPod Instagram: instagram.com/SoEmoPod Ria: x.com/Ria_Tee Chloe: x.com/chlosephine_ About Us So Emo I Fell Apart is a podcast dedicated to all things emo and pop punk from the 00s to today. Every episode hosts Chloe and Ria choose a piece of emo history and culture to explore. Learn all about your new favorite band or revisit the good old Livejournal days with So Emo I Fell Apart. Powered by Moonshot Pods moonshotpods.com

By Walt HickeyWelcome to the Numlock Sunday edition.This week, I spoke to Julia Alexander, digital strategy consultant and author of the new blog Posting Nexus.Julia's brilliant, she's been one of the most insightful and compelling minds on attention — where we allocate it, how we measure that, and what becomes of that — for several years now, and when I learned about this new project I was incredibly excited to get her on a Sunday edition to hear more about what's got her, well, attention. We spoke about the incentive structures of the internet, attention as digital currency, and how online trends redefine culture.Alexander can be found on X and Threads, and the project is Posting NexusThis interview has been condensed and edited. Julia Alexander, thank you so much for coming on.Thank you for having me. What an honor.It's always great to talk to you. I've been a fan of your work for a long time, and whether it was your independent newsletter or this new thing, it is always really, really fun to talk to you about what people are consuming and watching and reading and seeing.Thank you, I appreciate it.I wanted to talk about Posting Nexus. It's a new project that you are launching and it is a really fascinating dive into attention and essentially how it has become commoditized, how we use it on the internet, and where it goes. Just to back out a bit, can you tell me a little about why you wanted to go in this direction and start this thing up?Posting Nexus came out of this obsession I have with understanding why people do what they do on the internet and how that affects what they do or don't do off the internet. I now work at Disney, and we won't get into any of that, unfortunately, but a large part of my career was spent looking at the development of the streaming industry and the reality that people's attention was moving away from these closed-circuit traditional distributors to more open-circuit digital distributors who were operating at a pace that was almost relentless, and that was in large part because the attention we gave to digital services was relentless. When I moved into Disney, it didn't stop me thinking a lot about why people do things, where they give attention, and what they want out of attention.So, I decided to launch Posting Nexus, which is me and a few friends who are doing this, edited by the brilliant Allegra Frank until someone very smartly hires her full time. As I say in the intro, it's not a newsletter, it's not a blog, it's kind of just a harbor for thoughts about a lot of this stuff. It really came out of this idea that you can boil down a lot of what people want and where they decide to give their attention into a matrix that I call the IPA matrix, which has nothing to do with beer. It has everything to do with identity, platforms and attention, and when you take those three circles and you put them into a Venn diagram, you get incentive structures and quite often hidden incentive structures. These exist for both the bottom up, so that's us doing things on the internet, and the top down, which are these massive conglomerates who build things on the internet.A great example would be when we look at something like Barbenheimer, which was effectively just an offline manifestation of online attention. Part of the reason that movie did as well as it did is because it leaned into the idea that my identity, which is formed by my interests and the platforms where I socialize, where I'm getting my social capital, and the attention that I receive for participating in this culture then create an incentive structure for me to go out and participate in something in order to post.My general theory on a lot of the tension now is that you give attention in order to receive attention, and through the democratization of a lot of the stuff that we do, we've made it much easier to receive attention by giving attention. I think that constant focus on receiving attention by giving attention leads to this kind of posting nexus.I am very interested in this, just as you are, and our jobs touch on this a bit. You saw it with the technology of film. Charlie Chaplin used to be able to do three shows a night and hit three audiences, and the technology of film made it so that he could be in every cinema in North America, if not further. It seems like what we've had recently is the next advance of that, so now all those audiences within those audiences can entertain each other as well. It's fundamentally inverted a lot of where we gather our attention from and how we disperse it, to the extent that I think it does terrify some people. I would love your thoughts on how this very unique moment we find ourselves in makes this such a fun topic to go into.What's really fascinating is that what's underlying this entire structure is the idea that growth is the end state, that growth is the final destination, and if that is the final destination then there's no real final point. If we think about that in terms of your own life, if you're listening to this, maybe you're a writer and your end point is a book, or you want to write a novel. If you're working within a large company, maybe your end point is CEO or vice president. There actually is an end point.When we think about the way our lives are constructed, which are intrinsically more digital than they are physical at this point, there is no end point. The numbers on your follower count continue to go up and your value, you as a person, is intrinsically tied to making those numbers go up, which means you create labor for companies effectively for free, right? There's this idea that if you do it enough, some offline benefits will occur. If you're an influencer, maybe you'll get a free trip to Rome; if you're a poet, maybe you'll get a book deal out of it. There's this incentive to continue creating free labor for these conglomerates.But if you're the conglomerate — and this is what I like to spend a lot of time on in Posting Nexus. It's not just why we do what we do, it's how are we incentivized by companies that are then incentivized by their own ambitions. If you look at what they've started to realize, it's that they've run out of space to grow, and by space I mean they've literally run out of people. They cannot reach any more people than they're going to reach. If the planet is the best example of finiteness, that's where they are, but they're designed to incentivize growth, so what do they do?If you're on Instagram, all of a sudden you're posting photos, but have you thought about posting a video on this new form of entertainment called Reels? If you're on YouTube, it's Shorts, and if you are an Uber customer because you love taking cars somewhere, have you considered getting your food via Uber? It's finding different ways to capture more slices of pie within someone's attention based on the necessities of their life.Getting into the mixture of business strategy and cognitive behavioral reasoning really starts to help us illustrate why we do what we do on the internet. What I want to do with Posting Nexus quite a bit, and maybe this is going to sound a little naive or a little childish, but I want to figure out a way for us to build a better internet that we understand.If we know that we do this for Facebook, that might not stop us from posting because we like to connect with our friends. Or on Twitter, I like to post to get likes because I am also addicted to the dopamine rush from when we do those things. But if we intrinsically understand that what we're doing is operating within this growth state and we want to get to a steady state where actually just the right level of attention and just the right level of input is going to provide a much happier and a much more mentally healthy lifestyle, how do we get there by working on what we can do and what we can control versus what we can't do?I want to dive into so much from there, just because you hit on something really interesting that got me thinking. There are basically 330 million Americans and there are 24 hours in a day, so that's essentially 8 billion hours that you can have from America. That is the total addressable American time.I think what you're getting at is that we are brushing up on that; there's a point at which growth really can maximize. Let's say you've got 2 billion hours for sleep in the aggregate, and another 4 billion hours for work. We are getting to the total addressable market of American time if we really think that growth is the only way to go about it. I would love for you to speak more to that element of it, because that was really interesting.I think about this joke from a few years ago that you'll remember. The prompt for the joke is that at one point, Netflix's former CEO, Reed Hastings, said “Our only competition is sleep,” and then a few years later, the Pokémon company came out with Pokémon Sleep. All of a sudden it was like, well, Pokémon figured out how to beat sleep. The eight hours a day you actually don't have my attention, finally they figured out a way to get into it. It almost feels matrix-y, right? It feels very dystopian.The thing about growth is that we don't talk a lot about cost. A great example of this comes from this great economist, Herman Daly, who died in 2022. He pointed out that GDP is a really weird factor of just looking at the economic value of a country. It's the growth of product, and when we look at the growth of product, it's been 50 times what it was 50, 60 years ago — in large part because of private companies, because of Reagan economics, you can get into a whole economic debate about it. We don't talk about the cost, both of resources and of time and health that go into creating that product. And if we look at the cost, actually, is it a net benefit or is it a net consequence?Attention by nature plays on two core strings: It plays on how I view myself and my value, which is then the attention I want, and it plays into where I know I can get that attention, and right now that's platforms. It used to be that your growth was in a very limited base. Your growth was in a group of friends, at a company, maybe on your soccer team. There was a very limited group where you had tangible benefit or tangible consequence. Both are good, depending on the attention you sought out.When we add in platforms and the ability to go and seek that out, tie what you know works to your identity, and take in all of this dopamine as well as all of this increased anxiety, when we have that playing out the same time you see third-party spaces disappear so people are not spending as much time with each other in real life, what you get is this growth that's going to end in total, not just disruption, but total destruction for a lot of people. You cannot keep going this way. It used to be, to your point exactly, Walt, that you would stop for eight hours to sleep, and now you stop for six hours to sleep. Or you would go to bed with a book and now instead you go to bed with your Twitter feed.We haven't given ourselves a chance to recover from the trauma of the last decade, especially the last five years. We've been running nonstop ever since basically the invention of the internet, but really the launch of the app store. We've been in this moment for the last 15, 16 years, and at some point, the speed we're running at — the necessity for growth, which is just finding ways to take more of your attention, more of your free labor, and create something out of that and ask you to keep sticking with companies — is going to run out.What I really want to try and figure out with Posting Nexus is where is the health, the net benefit? The net benefit is socialization, it's communication, it's connectivity. That is a net benefit. It's entertainment — entertainment is a net connectivity. We have more democratization of creators, which means we have more voices, which means we have more points of view. That's a net positive.It was a net positive for publishing back in 2010. You were getting stories on maybe Gawker or HuffPost or BuzzFeed that you were not going to get in The New York Times. It didn't mean that one was less valuable; it just meant there was a different POV that the democratization of publishing allowed for. But at some point when everyone had an opinion, when everybody was publishing and Google didn't know how to rank it, you lost authority and you got more disinformation. That became a really bad thing.With Posting Nexus, the underlying point is that we have such finite attention to give, even though it's sold to us as an infinite level of attention. We have a finite level of attention we can receive, even though we're told it's an infinite level of attention, and if we keep striving for growth, growth, growth, eventually you create a world that is unsustainable. With Posting Nexus, it's effectively an equation: How much can you do for net positive before you do too much and tip over into net consequence?That's such a good point, that from the perspective of the companies, they're arguing that growth could continue indefinitely. We can always make more money, but time is definitionally the one thing that you can't make more of.That's the thing with Posting Nexus that's really fun. For people who might not know my background, I started as a blogger for Vox Media, Polygon, The Verge, and then I went into being a strategy consultant, which was great. Recently, I wrote for a publication called Puck and there was a column dedicated to streaming, what was happening with streaming, and trends that were happening with streaming, which was, to your point, effectively an attention story. It was “YouTube is taking attention away,” that kind of story.What I've missed is this idea of being able to have thoughts longer than a tweet and put them somewhere. For example, we've got a bunch of really interesting stories coming out with Posting Nexus. We're looking at the value of The New York Times in 2024, kind of tied around a lot of the Biden coverage before he stepped down. We've got things on decreases in posting and how social media platforms turn into entertainment platforms and what does that mean for how we approach them.We also have really funny things, like a piece on how J.D. Vance as the first main character candidate was always going to happen because he's the first VP candidate ever who has an online history, like in terms of actually posting when he was 20. That's something we've only really seen with influencers over the last decade, and seeing how they've gone through it gets us to this moment where we can inevitably see where Vance goes.So we've got a lot of really fun stuff, but it all plays into this idea that we give our attention to things and our attention rewards through monetary incentives. Both Walt and I have worked in digital media, and when you give the attention to people, it then gives them a monetization pathway, and that's the number one incentive structure. If we think about how we give attention, how we then better focus that attention on something where we know the end result actually is a fiscal reward for a lot of companies or creators, how does that change the way we operate on the internet? And how does it change the way we want to receive some of those benefits, if that's something we want to do?We're getting into a world where your level of posting is the only growth that people have left to chase. This is all these companies have: that you're spending your time consuming Instagram stories. We need you to post in DMs because we know that's where you're spending time because the future of the internet is much smaller. We need you to create a post in a DM that steals from a post that's in your feed in order for us to then serve your data. There's all of that. People intrinsically know this.The New York Times? Our mutual friend, Ryan Broderick. Casey Newton, who writes Platformer. They are very good at writing about this. What I want to get at is the underlying incentive structures that we don't always talk about that are inherently tied to everything you do. If we break that apart, both from a strategic standpoint and a psychological standpoint, how do we better understand the internet that we are helping to create?This has reminded me of genuinely one of the first conversations that we had, which was us talking about Wattpad. A few weeks ago they IPO'd, and I think they still remain an incredibly interesting company. It just grounds some of these headier ideas we're talking about. Wattpad is a good example of a company that became a very wealthy company and a very valuable company because of the broad, dispersed labor of a lot of other people.Wattpad is a great example. I will say in full transparency, I do own shares in Wattpad. I went in when they were public, and this is not financial advice. I think those are the two disclaimers I have to have.Wattpad's very interesting. Wattpad — which is now Webtoon. They merged with a South Korean online comic company a few years ago — existed as a place where people could go and upload their fiction, often a lot of fan fiction. You had 14-year-olds writing stories for other people on the internet. What was interesting about Wattpad was that when it started around 2010, it was one of the first mobile app success stories. It worked because of the iPhone and Androids.You had people who'd go on and they would read their little stories and they would follow creators, but there was no actual financial incentive because you weren't paying the creators. The incentive was building a follower base. You had a lot of people at 14 who tended to be the audience for Wattpad, especially 14-year-old girls who were dealing with a lot of self-negativity in their real life, because they're teenagers coming of age in the time of Tumblr and Instagram and there's a lot of self-negativity on those platforms for young teenage girls.This was an opportunity where they could share their very specific, niche interests. They could write fan fiction about One Direction, or they could write fan fiction about their favorite anime, and they can write their short stories and have a really solid community of people — like LiveJournal for us — come out and say, “This is really great. You're talented, we'd love to continue reading.” And you could see your success and that attention you're receiving grow literally in the number of followers you had. It became this wholesome space away from the internet in a different way.I can't remember exactly the year they did this, but then Wattpad starts introducing financial incentives. There's this idea that you can charge for chapters as you're releasing them and people can subscribe to you for early access. As Wattpad continues to develop and they realize there's this really strong audience of content creators who are creating pretty well-thought-out content that would make for really good movies and TV series, Wattpad then launches its film division and says, we want to work with creators on this platform and bring their work to Sony Pictures, to Netflix, to Disney. We want to get them books.So you have movies like To All the Boys I Loved Before and that genre, which did not start on Wattpad, or you had After, which did start on Wattpad, and you had all these movies coming out that were gaining a larger audience. These authors then create a cycle of further posting, right? Because now people are saying, I can do that. I have access to Wattpad. I think I'm a good writer. And you see, which we've seen over and over again, how it goes from 1,000 subscribers to 10,000 to 10 million to 100 million users who are all posting in an effort to get attention.What's really interesting is how we define the value of that attention, because it used to be that the value of attention on the platform when people first started was from other 14- or 15-year-olds. It was a very peer-to-peer situation. It was, you are writing for someone like me.Now that value is defined by a Netflix executive in their 50s who says, I really think there are 14-year-old girls who would like this type of movie. That's really popular on the site, so we're going to work with Wattpad. The value has now become entirely backed by a financial reward. And if it's not backed by a financial reward, it's still within the follower count. What you get now is this company who — again, I bought shares in it — I think has a really strong business operation, because you have an endless supply of content coming in. You only need to pick a handful of titles that you think will appeal to these larger companies, and then you work with the author on getting them into this three-picture deal with Netflix.All of a sudden you're in between a very traditional world of moviemaking and television series, and you have this constant supply of free ideas and free content coming in that you technically can own the rights to if you work with a creator. No 17-year-old writer at this point is going to say no to having a movie on Netflix. So you get into a really interesting constant flow of supply with very high levels of demand that you can then cherry-pick.The other version of this — which is another company I have shares in, and this is not financial advice, for transparency — is Reddit. Once Google aligned and said, hey, people want more familiar answers when they're searching for “do I have cancer,” Google said, we can just pull from Reddit. It's going to help us with our AI and we can just serve that instead of having to pay The New York Times to have this.All of a sudden you're in this world where Reddit becomes the future of the internet because Google is the still the main pathway to the internet. And if you're pulling from Reddit, what does that do to authority? What does that do to the incentive structure to be popular on Reddit? Which for a while was just, did you show authority and knowledge within your own subreddit community? Now it takes on a whole new world.The business applications of controlling the supply of attention, putting it through a very narrow passage by cherry-picking demand, and how you can sell that demand, is kind of where we're at right now with a lot of these user-generated-content platforms.I love that. They found a way to sell, or at least monetize, like in Reddit's case, respect and reputation in the form of karma. And with Webtoon, I was shocked to see that they're like a $2.8 billion company now. There have always been web comics on the internet, but they were the first to really roll them up into Webtoon. There has always been fan fiction on the internet, but they were among the first to roll them up into this package.AO3, Fanfiction.net, they're not trying to develop a flywheel to give you more attention. They're excellent communities and they retain a lot of that original character. But the thing that Webtoon was really interested in is that they realized the currency of their realm is attention and followers, and now they are a multibillion-dollar company.That, I think, was one of the more compelling stories from this summer. When I saw that you were coming out with Posting Nexus, I was like, oh man, there could not have been a better moment for this. There could not be a better moment to really think about how attention works online.Yeah. And I know you'll appreciate the underlying part of this, because I know you are, and I mean this with all the love, a giant nerd.Gigantic.But one of the best stories I wrote when I was at The Verge — not in terms of it being a good story, but in terms of me liking it — was when I talked to the Wattpad team, the Webtoon team, and said, how do you incorporate data? You have huge numbers of chapters being uploaded every single day from all these authors that come on.They developed a tool, which will sound very familiar to anyone who's ever worked in SEO, where they look at every single word and they look at very specific trend words and try to figure out if it's reaching an audience cluster or cohort that is in demand from other studios. For example: Latino werewolf. Is there an audience for Latino werewolf romances? They can track it, and they do track it. Then they play around with the recommendation algorithms and some of the product placement, and as that grows, they then say, okay, we want to hyperfocus on this in order to sell.That, to me, is the other underlying part of the attention story. There was a really great article by John Herrman, who works at New York Mag, and he talked about whether Twitter is back or not back. He ends his article by saying it doesn't really matter, because according to Twitter's CEO, it is back. According to Elon, it's thriving. It was this idea that Twitter inherently feels very small because communities have gotten smaller. What you think is important is what's appearing on your feed, right? This is how something could be super viral on TikTok for you and no one else has ever heard of it.That idea started with companies like Wattpad and Reddit. They started with this idea that has a really strong impact on this audience and the equation they do. And I worked with companies — not Wattpad, not Reddit — as a consultant on this exact equation, which was: How monetizable is this small audience compared to that small audience? If you're going to look at your cost, where are you going to get the strongest return on your investment?We do that now across a million different cohorts every single day. It's just, where do we think the attention that we're receiving, because they are getting attention from the small group, actually transfers into an action that we can better monetize versus what's the attention that we're seeing that is not going to transfer into a monetizable action. You do that equation, and what that ends up doing is restructuring culture.Imagine Twilight today. Someone would've been like, queer vampire? We think that audience translates into highly monetizable. Now you have Simon and Schuster, Netflix, YouTube — you have all these companies saying, okay, there's a trend here. So we're going to see a new volume of content support that trend. Then a year later, all of a sudden, The New York Times writes a story about how everyone's into queer vampires.It's like, well, that started because someone looked at a cohort of strong attention and said, that's monetizable. It just blew up into redefining what culture is. That's pure attention online that transfers offline.That idea of “this niche is monetizable; this one's not” feels like that's been every success story on the internet for the past decade.When you were describing that, I was reminded of my favorite genre collision, which created something that could not have existed before the internet: the success of D&D podcasts and D&D content, whether it's Critical Role, or you see all this stuff on Dropout doing phenomenally well right now. That only happened because there was a group of niche fans that really, really clicked with something. They realized that this stuff is easier to produce than scripted content sometimes, and you could just see the value proposition make sense to people in real time. Now they're selling out Madison Square Garden.Seeing this very market-based thing, as you were describing, was like, oh man. We've seen this happen. That's really cool.I'm so happy you said this, because it's kind of the end point of what Posting Nexus wants to get at. The fact that things happen in one area and then move somewhere else happens all the time. You watch your favorite football team and then you go watch them play at the stadium. You discover your favorite singer via an album and then you go watch them play a concert. That's super traditional.What we're seeing now is a continuation of that, but it's fascinating to me. I think about this with Critical Role; I think about this with the Pod Save America guys. Effectively what they're doing is taking this attention that you've given them and monetizing it in a new way that feels weird to us because it's different from a superstar musician or a team sport that has always existed in the offline. This is a group of talent, a group of people that we associate solely with being online. And we have that really strong parasocial relationship with creators, because we literally watch them in our bed, even more so than TV. They're in our bed and we listen to them on their podcasts, because they can't just have a YouTube, right? Now they're podcasting, and they're finding different ways to capture more attention.It says a lot about how much we cling to human connectivity. This is my general barbell thesis, is that the world going forward, online or offline, is implausibly big — implausibly big like Christianity, or Taylor Swift — and addressably small. Which is still good; it just means monetizable, like Pod Save America or Critical Role.The whole goal of the first one is that you don't actually have to do 90,000 different things. People will come to you because that's what they crave. They crave that connection. And the second one, the more opportunity you give people to come and see you physically and have that connectivity, have that connection, the more you're going to be able to split how you want your attention eight different ways. Now that they've seen you, maybe they'll buy the book you're selling as opposed to if you just had the podcast.When we give attention and when people demand our attention in different forums, how does that then create these trends within business, within culture, the way we look at religion, the way we look at physical spaces? How does that impact our life offline? So again, it's that general thesis of why people do anything they do online, and how does that translate to what happens offline? That's the obsessive point for me.You've been so generous with your time, I want to make sure we bring this one home. You and I have both worked for the biggest entertainment company on the planet, you and I have both had independent newsletters that were profitable, and it is comforting to realize that it's not simply everything gets eaten or nothing survives. There is a vibrant version of the internet that has all of this.My favorite topic, which I annoy everyone in my life with, is history. I realize that makes me the most boring person on the internet, or just the most average person on the internet, but the thing I really like about history — whether that's ancient, modern, whatever it is — is that nothing is new. Everything happens again and again, so the internet and the fight for attention is like forms of religion battling it out during the Crusades. I mean, it was far more violent, and I'm glad we're not in those times, but it's this idea of what you're choosing to give attention and therefore power to, how we then take that power and tie it to our identity, and our way of communicating and the incentive that we have at the basis of all this is the same.What the internet has done is create unprecedented scale and rapidity that we can't even comprehend. We don't even have time to sit and think, oh, that's crazy that that thing happened. The publishing industry was wiped out, but we don't even have to do that because there's this new thing that's happening and it's newsletters. Which by the way are just pamphlets, which by the way are what people used to print the 1600s, right?It's not new, and yet for us because of the abundance of information that we have coming in, the abundance of content, of entertainment, of distraction that is demanding our attention, we don't have time to sit back and think, what was then five minutes ago and what will be five minutes from now? As we look at some of the biggest power players that build out a lot of these demands — whether it's user-generated social media, whether it's entertainment, whatever it is — bring it back down and really sit and think: What have I given my attention to today and why did I do that? What did it bring to me? And actually, what if I didn't want to do this?You kind of see this with Gen Z, by the way, who are like, I want a phone that's not connected to the internet. Them realizing this is not actually good for me, but what do I need in order to stay connected and feel that really strong presence of humanity?Big question. To your point, it's a super heady topic. What I try to do with the blog is bring it down into a topic that makes sense, that we can actually, tangibly grasp, while asking that question, which is why do you do anything and how has it affected you offline today?In your intro post you had a line saying it's a humongous topic, and there are a million tendrils to pull on. I am very excited to read those million tendrils. It is called Posting Nexus. I'll be sure to link it out.Julia, where can folks find you? Where can they follow you? Where can they see what you're up to?Wow, this is the first time I'm not in a publication. This is crazy. I'm still on X and Threads at @loudmouthjulia, and Posting Nexus is being hosted on Ghost. I'm trying that one out.Hey, a million flowers blooming. It's a fun time.This sounds like such a fun project, and I'm very eager to keep following where you're going. Thank you for your time. I really appreciate it.Thank you for having me. It's always a pleasure talking to you.Edited by Susie Stark.If you have anything you'd like to see in this Sunday special, shoot me an email. Comment below! Thanks for reading, and thanks so much for supporting Numlock.Thank you so much for becoming a paid subscriber! Send links to me on Twitter at @WaltHickey or email me with numbers, tips or feedback at walt@numlock.news.  This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.numlock.com/subscribe

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Episode Notes This week on So Emo I Fell Apart, Ria and Chloe spend some time going over Fall Out Boy's The Youngblood Chronicles and analyzing heavy handed metaphors and symbolism (said with love of course). Also somehow talk way too much about Teen Wolf. Whoops! Please donate to aid communities in Palestine: twitter.com/CareForGaza gazafunds.com gazaesims.com Find Us Online: Twitter: x.com/SoEmoPod Instagram: instagram.com/SoEmoPod Ria: x.com/Ria_Tee Chloe: x.com/chlosephine_ About Us So Emo I Fell Apart is a podcast dedicated to all things emo and pop punk from the 00s to today. Every episode hosts Chloe and Ria choose a piece of emo history and culture to explore. Learn all about your new favorite band or revisit the good old Livejournal days with So Emo I Fell Apart. Powered by Moonshot Pods moonshotpods.com

Episode Notes This week on So Emo I Fell Apart, Ria and Chloe dive into the newest set of My Chemical Romance unreleased leaks. We also give you the history of The Paper Kingdom, detail a timeline, and get into why these leaks keep happening now. A majority of our cold hard facts can all be cited to twitter and instagram user @sammyliterally who put in the work on getting an accurate and sourced timeline and history of The Paper Kingdom. The full post we keep referring to can be found here: https://sammyliterally.com/blog/mcr-the-paper-kingdom-timeline-history-and-leaks/ Please donate to aid communities in Palestine: twitter.com/CareForGaza gazafunds.com gazaesims.com Find Us Online: Twitter: x.com/SoEmoPod Instagram: instagram.com/SoEmoPod Ria: x.com/Ria_Tee Chloe: x.com/chlosephine_ About Us So Emo I Fell Apart is a podcast dedicated to all things emo and pop punk from the 00s to today. Every episode hosts Chloe and Ria choose a piece of emo history and culture to explore. Learn all about your new favorite band or revisit the good old Livejournal days with So Emo I Fell Apart. Powered by Moonshot Pods moonshotpods.com

Episode Notes This week on So Emo I Fell Apart, Ria and Chloe FINALLY AFTER THREE WEEKS talk about Say Anything's debut album ...Is A Real Boy. It's a long one folks so strap itn. We had so much to discuss about the recording process for this album and every track needed their own 15 minutes in the spotlight. Please donate to aid communities in Palestine: twitter.com/CareForGaza gazafunds.com gazaesims.com Find Us Online: Twitter: x.com/SoEmoPod Instagram: instagram.com/SoEmoPod Ria: x.com/Ria_Tee Chloe: x.com/chlosephine_ About Us So Emo I Fell Apart is a podcast dedicated to all things emo and pop punk from the 00s to today. Every episode hosts Chloe and Ria choose a piece of emo history and culture to explore. Learn all about your new favorite band or revisit the good old Livejournal days with So Emo I Fell Apart. Powered by Moonshot Pods moonshotpods.com

Episode Notes CONTENT WARNING: Suicide, suicidal ideation, self harm, medical trauma, medical abuse, addiction, drug use, depersonalization This week on So Emo I Fell Apart, Ria and Chloe have a conversation about disability, how it intersects with My Chemical Romance, and the community found through those things. We use the zine "Unkillable: A Zine On Disability, Community, & My Chemical Romance" as our framework to guide our conversation and go through the zine piece by piece providing our commentary along the way. "Unkillable: A Zine On Disability, Community, & My Chemical Romance" is available for physical and digital purpose here: birdloaf.com All artist and writer social media info can be found in the about section for the zine: birdloaf.com/shop/digital-zine-unkillable-a-zine-on-disability-community-and-my-chemical-romance Please donate to aid communities in Palestine: + twitter.com/CareForGaza + gazafunds.com + gazaesims.com Find Us Online: Twitter: x.com/SoEmoPod Instagram: instagram.com/SoEmoPod Ria: x.com/Ria_Tee Chloe: x.com/chlosephine_ About Us So Emo I Fell Apart is a podcast dedicated to all things emo and pop punk from the 00s to today. Every episode hosts Chloe and Ria choose a piece of emo history and culture to explore. Learn all about your new favorite band or revisit the good old Livejournal days with So Emo I Fell Apart. Powered by Moonshot Pods moonshotpods.com

Episode Notes This week on So Emo I Fell Apart, Ria and Chloe talk all things May emo news. We got the new WATERPARKS album, how MCR5 can still happen, and Oli Sykes wearing a maid costume to discuss. Find Us Online: Twitter: x.com/SoEmoPod Instagram: instagram.com/SoEmoPod Ria: x.com/Ria_Tee Chloe: x.com/chlosephine_ About Us So Emo I Fell Apart is a podcast dedicated to all things emo and pop punk from the 00s to today. Every episode hosts Chloe and Ria choose a piece of emo history and culture to explore. Learn all about your new favorite band or revisit the good old Livejournal days with So Emo I Fell Apart. Powered by Moonshot Pods moonshotpods.com

With Rob out of the country, Becky Tyler joins Michael and Pax in the lounge to talk about LiveJournal, The Phantom Menace, Gold Diggers of 1933, Lisa Frankenstein, Abigail, The First Omen, Late Night with the Devil, Immaculate, old Nerd Lunch episodes, the Fast and Furious movies, Jed MacKay's Moon Knight, Remo Williams, God of Fire by Helen Steadman, The Princess Bride by William Goldman, PG Wodehouse's Jeeves stories, and more.

Sure—Fans have always driven popular music. That's what it means to be popular in the first place, you know? To have fans? But if you look around today's sonic landscape, it feels…different out there. Forget clubs and message boards. Fandoms now have entire worlds, complete with enemies, economic strategies, and complex referential mythologies—dense communities increasingly integrated into the major label money machine. To try to understand what has changed, Sam talks with Monia Ali, from the excellent Fandom Exile newsletter. They explore the cultural genealogy of contemporary fans, tracking how a set of practices built around conventions, Buffy, and shipping percolated into the musical universe, reshaping what it means to listen—or to love—your favorite artist. The difference between Revealed and Experienced Truth? The political economy of fan fiction? The centrality of LiveJournal? It's all there—from One Direction to the world or, at the very least, a Swiftie near you.    Subscribe to our Newsletter Subscribe to Fandom Exile Music: Jon McKiel - "Still Life" 

Steve is joined by Maddie Campbell to talk about the possibility of Matvei Michkov joining the Philadelphia Flyers in the next two seasons, the NHL Conference Championship matchups, the Lehigh Valley Phantoms' playoff performance, and more!

Photographer and writer Kyle Cassidy and actor and model Trillian Stars join us for a Bonus Episode to talk about their new Kickstarter, THIS IS ONLY EARTH, MY DEAR – POEMS & PHOTOS (closing May 4, 2024)! We get into their inspiration to make a book combining the poems of Pre-Raphaelite muse/model/artist Elizabeth Eleanor Siddal with photos of Trillian (in a Pre-Raphaelite mode), how the project changed once they began shooting in East London, how they found enough costumes for all the photos they wanted to take, why Lizzie Siddal was dismissed by the peers of her husband, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and how modeling and acting overlap and differ (and why Kyle prefers shooting with actors). We also get into what they've learned from nearly a dozen Kickstarters, what stretch goals they're hoping to reach for this one, and why they want to give Lizzie Siddal the book she never got when she was alive. GO PLEDGE, and follow Kyle on LiveJournal (!?) and Instagram, and follow Trillian on Instagram • More info at our site • Support The Virtual Memories Show via Patreon or Paypal and via our e-newsletter