Podcasts about nemeses

Greetings friend. Jared had a fight with his two greatest Nemeses at the same time: His ISP and his dishwasher. Service outages and FTD errors prevented him from being able to record this week. So we've gone back into the archives, and pulled out another old Franken Episode. Hope you all have a lovely week!

Yes, nemeses, meaning two different figures spoke out about this new religion Francis is the pope of, one of whom is taking a great risk to speak out, even anonymously. Sources: https://www.returntotradition.org Contact Me: Email: return2catholictradition@gmail.com Support My Work: Patreon https://www.patreon.com/AnthonyStine SubscribeStar https://www.subscribestar.net/return-to-tradition Buy Me A Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/AnthonyStine Physical Mail: Anthony Stine PO Box 3048 Shawnee, OK 74802 Follow me on the following social media: https://www.facebook.com/ReturnToCatholicTradition/ https://twitter.com/pontificatormax +JMJ+ --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/anthony-stine/support

Yes, nemeses, meaning two different figures spoke out about this new religion Francis is the pope of, one of whom is taking a great risk to speak out, even anonymously. Sources: https://www.returntotradition.org Contact Me: Email: return2catholictradition@gmail.com Support My Work: Patreon https://www.patreon.com/AnthonyStine SubscribeStar https://www.subscribestar.net/return-to-tradition Buy Me A Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/AnthonyStine Physical Mail: Anthony Stine PO Box 3048 Shawnee, OK 74802 Follow me on the following social media: https://www.facebook.com/ReturnToCatholicTradition/ https://twitter.com/pontificatormax +JMJ+ --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/anthony-stine/support

Something truly terrifying happened at the Gateway Arch in St. Louis yesterday. Producer Hannah is stoked that pumpkin spice season is nearly upon us and some developments at Columbia Regional Airport are starting.

(Rec: 14/11/18) Windsniffers, Roy's run-in with Pablo Counago and the creation of Puppet Jim Magilton. Nemeses everywhere you look… Join the Iron Filings Society: https://www.patreon.com/topflighttimemachine Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Wherein they learn more about their pursuers. Dark Nexus is a creation of Plug & Hum Productions. Visit us at darknexuspodcast.com. This is a horror story and may not be appropriate for anyone under 18 years of age. Visit our Content page (darknexuspodcast.com/content) for more information.Dark Nexus uses trademarks and/or copyrights owned by Paizo Inc., used under Paizo's Community Use Policy (paizo.com/communityuse). We are expressly prohibited from charging you to use or access this content. Dark Nexus is not published, endorsed, or specifically approved by Paizo. For more information about Paizo Inc. and Paizo products, visit paizo.com.Music and sound by Syrinscape (syrinscape.com/?att_dark_nexus). “Because Epic Games Need Epic Sound.” Complete list of credits at https://tinyurl.com/ebtwrp6a.Opening and closing themes, along with additional music, composed by Rob Kauzlaric.All artwork for Dark Nexus is by Matt Wahlquist (tartarsaucecomics.com).

Waterfalls, old Nemeses, and radios! -- FN Episode 203

This Week's Panel - Big Ell, KooshMoose, Matrarch Show Discussion - Koosh played the 2024 Game of the Year(?), Little Kitty, Big City! wildwest was on assignment and didn't get to hear Ell talk about Farm Together and MLB: The Show, 2024! Matrarch got to put some time into a big Game Pass RPG that she Kickstarted! We have news about Xbox 360 games going on a deep discount before the store closes in July! Enjoy Achievement Hunting 101! Games Mentioned: KooshMoose - Little Kitty, Big City Matrarch - Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes Ell - Farm Together Ell - MLB The Show 2K24 NeverEnding Stories - Hurricane Dale is back with a NeverEnding Story to tell Chewie from deep within Middle-Earth as he builds armies, takes back Mordor and wages war on his nemesises. Nemesi? Nemeses? (1:37:07) ----- AH101 Podcast Show Links - https://tinyurl.com/AH101Links Year of the Veiner spreadsheet - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1VkAvMjmVmXLjRWS61eoMimaoovUz7fr7uPsD6DQPIz4/edit?usp=sharing Intro music provided by Exe the Hero. Check out his band Window of Opportunity on Facebook and YouTube

When we adopt or purchase a second dog, we always hope that they'll be best friends with our resident dog from day 1, but sadly that doesn't alway work out. Jess Lara of J9K9 Training is joining Jesse and Verena for this episode to talk about her thoughtful approach to integrating her and her husband's young and excitable herding dogs. Stay tuned for a slew of helpful tips and recommendations for keeping the peace in a multi dog household. Our shoutout goes to the Shelter Playgroup Alliance and their awesome YouTube channel. You can find Reward Your Dog Training here: Website / Instagram / TikTok / Facebook YouTubeClick here to apply for the Urban Dog Reactivity Online Program. You can find J9K9 training here: Website / InstagramPlease enter any questions or comment HERE or send them to verena@rewardyourdogtraining.com.

Portrait of the Artist. Courtesy of Uprise Art. Devon Reina (b. 1996) is a Brooklyn, New York-based artist and designer. Devon's cross-disciplinary background inspires his curiosity for materiality and process. His paintings celebrate a range of versatile media, from thick paint impastos, to expressive ink washes and delicate wax pastel line-work. Across his various bodies of work, Devon is interested in how marks of color can interact with each other to suggest the illusion of depth, movement, or direction.   Nemeses Year of Work: 2023 Dimensions: 40 in x 40 in x 1.25 in / 101.6 cm x 101.6 cm x 3.18 cm Materials: Pencil and wax pastel on canvas In "Nemeses", I wanted to experiment with placing two parts of the canvas in dialogue with one another, allowing them to agree and disagree in terms of color, surface area, and directionality. Courtesy of Uprise Art. Snowflake Year of Work: 2023 Dimensions: 48 in x 48 in x 1.5 in / 121.92 cm x 121.92 cm x 3.81 cm Materials: Wax pastel on canvas My work is a product of my curiosity in the development and design of art-making systems carried out by the body. I'm fascinated by the potential of parameters, seeing them as fertile grounds for discovery, creation, and exploration of the unknown. Courtesy of Uprise Art. Train Leaves the Station Year of Work: 2023 Dimensions: 24 in x 24 in x 1.25 in / 60.96 cm x 60.96 cm x 3.18 cm Materials: Wax pastel on canvas In applying such a procedural approach to the canvas, "Train Leaves the Station" is an attempt at creating a visual language that suggests the passage of time. I like to look at each of the nine interior boxes as little memories, like looking out a train window throughout the journey to capture nine separate views of the horizon. Courtesy of Uprise Art.

On this confrontational episode of the Shut Up & Sit Down Podcast, Tom and “NEW POD PERSONALITY PIP” chat about a whole cluster of games! First, the pair divine the precise co-ordinates of a sweet potato in Tiwanaku, before bearing witness to the unholy power of fire in Iki. To close out the pod, Tom recommends Pip try out Block Party, a game of making a detailed carrot from cubes. Have a great weekend, everybody! Timestamps: 01:57 - Tiwanaku 22:40 - Iki 38:25 - Block Party

We chat Camilla and the coronation pies, 'striker' Mihocek, the Collingwood Benjamin Button, sinister swans and the return of the boo debate, Jeff Browne's dicky groin, plus our guide to tailgate parties and surviving the fixture solstice

FIX IT RADIO: Winter Kill & Tree Trimming, Rabbits Eating Car Wiring & Good-Bye To Nemeses 3-18-23 by John Rush

Sidney Nemes hasn't been able to take more than a long weekend off work in decades of running his family's kosher meat business in Montreal. But this week, the owner of J&R Kosher Meat and Deli in Cavendish Mall, is relaxing in Florida for at least a month with his wife Susie, who worked alongside him. The Nemeses are recovering from their decision to close the meat factory and retail store, which his late father Robert—a Holocaust survivor—founded in 1952. The news was a shock to the community. But after a goodbye Hanukkah party for customers, the premises in the heavily Jewish area of Cote Saint-Luc had to be vacated three days later, on Dec. 23. Nemes, 67, says he couldn't keep the business afloat any longer for three reasons: unfavourable terms to renew his lease, a drop in business after the COVID lockdown, and a lack of support on pricing from Montreal's rabbinical kosher agency. J&R may be gone, but Nemes isn't going to abandon his customers. He joins The CJN Daily to discuss his plans for a comeback in the spring. What we talked about: Follow J&R Kosher to find out when and where Sidney will reopen Hear why Montreal's kosher meat is so expensive on Avi Finegold's heated interview with the head of MK: Montreal Kosher Credits The CJN Daily is written and hosted by Ellin Bessner (@ebessner on Twitter). Zachary Kauffman is the producer. Michael Fraiman is the executive producer. Our theme music is by Dov Beck-Levine. Our title sponsor is Metropia. We're a member of The CJN Podcast Network. To learn how to subscribe to this podcast, please watch this video. Donate to The CJN and receive a charitable tax receipt by clicking here.

Well, Mark got married. And despite claims of getting sleep, not much that he says for the first twenty minutes indicates as much.Mark brings The Adventures of Business Cat. Nemeses? Rivals? Grant doesn't seem to gather them too much. Mark may have had one on a technicality, but in a good way.Grant brings Luann. Pants? Pants.Send feedback to comicalstart@gmail.com.

 Season 26 brings us back to one of our favorite topics to cover. Welcome to the Nemesis Season! In this four episode arch, Tim and Marcus look at what makes a good nemesis and a bad nemesis for some of the most prolific wrestlers in history and who they are!After a tragic incident in our first recording of the episode, Tim and Marcus' thoughts on Terry Funk has fallen on deaf ears. However, we are not without content as we turn to DJ from We Need Wrestling as a ringer to discuss the Dirty Funker! Listen to DJ just chip away at the iceberg at his love of Terry Funk! A great special edition of FWP!Final Wrestling Place is a proud member of the Soon To Be Named Network! Follow along on Twitter!If you want to help the show, be sure to subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Stitcher, Spotify, Player FM, TuneIn, Castbox, Amazon Music or Podchaser and leave a comment.Get your Soon To Be Named Network merch thanks to TeePublic! Check out our designs at here!Check out all the podcasts featuring Tim and/or Marcus here!Want to know where you can follow the show? We've got you! This was episode #172 of Final Wrestling Place  

 Season 26 brings us back to one of our favorite topics to cover. Welcome to the Nemesis Season! In this four episode arch, Tim and Marcus look at what makes a good nemesis and a bad nemesis for some of the most prolific wrestlers in history and who they are!Coming back from a wonderful trip to Orlando, Tim has come back to saddle up with Marcus to talk more nemeses and this episode we get a little Stratusfaction in the way of Trish Stratus! Trish has a murderer's row of opponents but only one can be the Good Place and Bad Place nemesis of Toronto's favorite daughter! Also, Tim breaks down his trip and actually has some weekly purchases! Final Wrestling Place is a proud member of the Soon To Be Named Network! Follow along on Twitter!If you want to help the show, be sure to subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Stitcher, Spotify, Player FM, TuneIn, Castbox, Amazon Music or Podchaser and leave a comment.Get your Soon To Be Named Network merch thanks to TeePublic! Check out our designs at here!Check out all the podcasts featuring Tim and/or Marcus here!Want to know where you can follow the show? We've got you! This was episode #171 of Final Wrestling Place 

Season 26 brings us back to one of our favorite topics to cover. Welcome to the Nemesis Season! In this four episode arch, Tim and Marcus look at what makes a good nemesis and a bad nemesis for some of the most prolific wrestlers in history and who they are!Episode 2 brings us to The Animal, Batista! Batista's career is littered with some high profile feuds: some for titles, some for honor, some for respect. In this episode, we exorcise some of the demons that haunt Batista. From Triple H to Great Khali to Edge, no stone is left unturned!Final Wrestling Place is a proud member of the Soon To Be Named Network! Follow along on Twitter!If you want to help the show, be sure to subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Stitcher, Spotify, Player FM, TuneIn, Castbox, Amazon Music or Podchaser and leave a comment.Get your Soon To Be Named Network merch thanks to TeePublic! Check out our designs at here!Check out all the podcasts featuring Tim and/or Marcus here!Want to know where you can follow the show? We've got you! This was episode #170 of Final Wrestling Place

The gang were back at full force this episode in time for some seasonal predictions, as well as Ed's new barn-house, Bills @ Rams previews, and some light news sprinkled throughout   Scorm.

Season 26 brings us back to one of our favorite topics to cover. Welcome to the Nemesis Season! In this four episode arch, Tim and Marcus look at what makes a good nemesis and a bad nemesis for some of the most prolific wrestlers in history and who they are!We start the season off the best way we know how. We put a call into the Good Place and see if the proprietor of Jackknife Sativa himself could get into the action. Who do Tim and Marcus think is Big Kev's Good Place nemesis? Who gets the distinction of being Big Daddy Cool's Bad Place nemesis? Only one way to find out!Final Wrestling Place is a proud member of the Soon To Be Named Network! Follow along on Twitter!If you want to help the show, be sure to subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Stitcher, Spotify, Player FM, TuneIn, Castbox, Amazon Music or Podchaser and leave a comment.Get your Soon To Be Named Network merch thanks to TeePublic! Check out our designs at here!Check out all the podcasts featuring Tim and/or Marcus here!Want to know where you can follow the show? We've got you! This was episode #169 of Final Wrestling Place

Next up on our Hathaway journey is the much anticipated duo (well M's much anticipated duo, anyway) Leo and Miss Marks! Leo is in need of a wife and heir lest the Hathaways lose their family home! Who does he have in mind? It surely couldn't be the bespectacled bane of his existence, Catherine Marks, who's only prospective lover is a ferret? Yes, yes, it is! Do Cat and Leo actually hate each other as much as they claim or are they more similar than they first thought? Join us to find out! Triggers: mentions of death, rape, child molestation, grooming, forced prostitution, drug use (and addiction), non-consensual drug use, sexual assault, estranged family, kidnapping, attempted suicide, and pregnancy. Book of the week: Married by Morning (Hathaways, #4) by Lisa Kleypas Find us: E-mail—romancingthemonsterspodcast@gmail.com Twitter—@theRTMpod Instagram—@romancingthemonsterspodcast TikTok—@Romancingthemonsterspod Find M: Instagram & Twitter—@foesandlovers Find S: Instagram & Twitter—@butthisbook Find Seff: Instagram & Twitter—@prosewithwoes Romancing the Monsters is a podcast that looks at the monster within: the shadow keeping the characters away from true and absolute happiness. This monster can be a prejudice, fear, insecurity, trauma and so on. We believe that romance novels are as much about one's personal journey as they are about finding love. After all, love makes us vulnerable and forces us to bare our monsters to another.

Whether you're more acquainted with the pesty plant or Batman's wiley nemesis, you probably know to stay away from anything by the name of Poison Ivy. In today's Skincast episode, hosts Luke Johnson, MD and Michelle Tarbox, MD explain why our skin reacts to poison ivy and poison oak, how to treat the rashes they cause, and what other types of plants you'll want to steer clear of (*cough* Giant Hogweed *cough*).

Bernie follows up his chat with Mike McKenna by taking a trip down memory lane and looking back at some of the all-time Blues nemeses. Bernie compares Nazem Kadri to the likes of Duncan Keith, Brent Seabrook, Nick Kypreos, Mike Ricci, and even Bill Laurie.

In this episode of the Brawn Body Health and Fitness Podcast, Dan is joined by Riley Decker - Powerlifter, College Student, and Sorority Member, to discuss the gym nemesis / gym bae connections at the gym, what defines a "spicy" workout, and so much more! Riley is a current student at Colgate University. She has been passionate about lifting for over two years, enjoys volunteering at her local Wellness Center, and plans to compete in her second powerlifting competition this summer. She has found recent success on TikTok as she builds her online fitness presence. Riley has also started the preliminary stages of a fitness apparel startup. You can follow her on Instagram and twitter @recker.fit To keep up to date with everything we are currently doing on the podcast, be sure to subscribe and follow @brawnbody on social media! This episode is brought to you by CTM band recovery products - the EXACT soft tissue recovery technology used by Dan. CTM Band was founded by Dr. Kyle Bowling, a sports medicine practitioner who treats professional athletes (and was a guest on the Brawn Body Podcast!). You can check out their website here: https://ctm.band/collections/ctm-band ... while you're there, be sure to use the coupon code "BRAWN10" for 10% off! This episode is also brought to you by Ice shaker! Use our affiliate link to help support future podcast episodes and development by clicking here: https://www.iceshaker.com?sca_ref=1520881.zOJLysQzKe Make sure you SHARE this episode with a friend who could benefit from the information we shared! Check out everything we do, including blog posts, fitness programs, and more by clicking here: https://linktr.ee/brawnbodytraining Liked this episode? Leave a 5-star review on your favorite podcast platform! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/daniel-braun/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/daniel-braun/support

The Wright Lane went live from MMA promotion NFA NEMESIS X here is a couple of interviews from the LIVE show

Presenters Vanessa Toholka, Jo Eaton and Lily Ryan discuss the leaked internal report from Facebook engineers admitting their lack of control over how user-generated data is used; and Vidya Rajan, one half of the comedy duo Nemeses, chats about moderating the crypto-ethics roundtable happening as part of Melbourne Knowledge Week. Plus, tech news here and around the globe.Website: https://www.rrr.org.au/explore/programs/byte-into-itFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/3RRRFMByteIntoIT/Twitter: https://twitter.com/byteintoit

Aughie thwarts Nia's plan to use the Space Force to take over all the other agencies by explaining the Congressional Review Act. The act requires that agencies submit regulatory changes to Congress for review. Also, the plural of nemesis is nemeses.

Will baseball ever be back? Texas teams tend to have a purple problem in the Big 12... Lawdogsports.com

Alistair briefly dates a man who tries multiple times to convert him to his cult.Alistair Baldwin is a writer, comedian, thought leader and sometimes blonde. He has written for The Weekly, Hard Quiz, Get Krack!n and At Home Alone Together. He is a member of experimental comedy duo Nemeses with Vidya Rajan. He has been published in Metro, Archer, The Guardian and ACMI Ideas – and is a contributor to Growing Up Disabled In Australia.Queerstories an award-winning LGBTQI+ storytelling project directed by Maeve Marsden, with regular events around Australia. For more information, visit www.queerstories.com.au and follow Queerstories on Facebook.The Queerstories book is published by Hachette Australia, and can be purchased from your favourite independent bookseller or on Booktopia.To support Queerstories, become a patron at www.patreon.com/ladysingsitbetter See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

It's been 33 episodes of the Bourbon and Brothers Podcast and the guys are no better (or maybe the best  they've ever been). It's a two segment special this week as Hovekamp sits out the first ever edition of Re-Booty Booty Booty Booty Rocking Everywhere. But he is not the only late entrance into this episode as the Medical Terms game welcomes a very special guest host, much to Kevin's chagrin. Go Tigers.    Find us on electronic mail on Twitter and Instagram @AiredBnB and check out our Patreon page.   patreon.com/airedbnb   Original Artwork by: Sam “Slam” Kremer   Original Music by: @the_real_priddy   Voiceover work by: @thekatmoser

Seth comes on the pod to share his thoughts on the league's first auction draft and talk about pulling off a blockbuster trade with his nemesis to jettison his beloved Saquon. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/dad-bod-pod/support

We Make Books is a podcast for writers and publishers, by writers and publishers and we want to hear from our listeners! Hit us up on our social media, linked below, and send us your questions, comments, and concerns for us to address in future episodes. We hope you enjoy We Make Books! Twitter: @WMBCast  |  @KindofKaelyn  |  @BittyBittyZap Instagram: @WMBCast  Patreon.com/WMBCast   Episode Transcript (by TK @_torkz) [Upbeat Ukulele Intro Music] This is We Make Books, a podcast about writing publishing and everything in between. Rekka is a published Science Fiction and Fantasy author, and Kaelyn is a professional genre fiction editor. Together, they'll tackle the things you never knew you never knew about getting a book from concept to finished product, with explanations, examples, and a lot of laughter. Get your moleskin notebook ready. It's time for We Make Books. Kaelyn: So it’s funny you picked this when I was still studying history, that was something we always had to consider. Is this group, is this person part of determining where they fit into historical context as determining do they have agency? Can they act on their own behalf? Structure is what keeps someone in place; agency is what allows them to act freely. Rekka: Where would you put Odysseus, in this context? K: I would make Odysseus a failed attempt at agency. R: [laughing] K: Well, maybe failed agency isn’t the right--because he is displaying agency. He’s trying to do something, and he’s having to frequently overcome obstacles. That said, those obstacles are things that keep happening to him, rather than him directly engaging. R: Right. K: So it’s a little bit of a, uh. R: Weird example. K: No it was a good one, I liked it. R: No it’s a good example but it’s not a good role model for agency in your novels. K: Odysseus isn’t a good role model for a lot of reasons. R [laughing]: That’s just one of them. K: [laughing] R: Be the person who ties yourself to the mast, rather than give in to the sirens. Actually fuck it, give in to the sirens. It’s 2021, let’s just go for it. K [laughing]: That’s a very bad--I feel like 2020 was the year to give into the sirens. [laughing] R: Yeah, but what is 2021 but 2020 persevering? K: No, we’re slowly defeating it. We’re claiming some agency for ourselves. R: I am still in this room. K: [laughing] R: I have always been in this room. How are we defeating anything? K: I think I was born in this room. R: Kaelyn, have you and I met for smoked meats in a restaurant? K: We haven’t. R: Right. So, nothing has changed. K: Yeah. R: Have we hung out in a library with random strangers at the same table? K: No. Some of whom are handwriting books. R: Yeah, no. This is not happening. So today I called you here to talk about agency. K: So in that scenario do I have agency? Because I made the decision to join you. But-- R: But--are you allowing this topic to happen? Or are you actively engaging in the expression of our ideas? K: Oh both. R: [laughing] K: Definitely. R: Once you get past some of the other, like, identify your theme, and helpful advice for writing like that-- K: Strengthen this character arc, you know, the really nice vague feedback. R: The really helpful, helpful specific feedback. You might also end up hearing that your character needs more agency in a scene, or in the story overall. And as with the others, this can be really helpful advice. If you know what it means. K: Yeah um, it I think falls into the category of frustratingly vague advice that is absolutely rooted in important context. R: But it’s also really true. K: Yes, yeah. R: Which is just the worst part. There’s nothing worse than vague advice that is also correct. K: It is vague advice, but I think when you’re dealing with things like ‘work on your character’s agency,’ ‘strengthen this arc,’ ‘identify the themes in your story,’ those are big picture things. So. Definition—as always love to start off with that—uh, agency in general, the definition is “an action or intervention, especially as to produce a particular event.” Acting, essentially. Taking action. Doing something. Trying to influence the outcome. R: Not just action but pro-action. K: Yes. For characters in books, agency is basically when a character can make choices and act on their own behalf. R: What is it about agency that gets turned into a secret agency that acts against aliens, or whatever--I’m just playing around with etymology here-- K: [laughing] R: But how’s that word get turned into that meaning? K: The way I always took that was that an agency is meant to act on behalf of a group of people or towards a certain end. So, if we wanna take S.H.I.E.L.D. - R: Okay. K: So agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Their job, their directive, is to protect Earth from large-scale global threats. Everything they do, every action they take, is to further that outcome. Real world example: the CIA, Counter-Intelligence Agency. They have a very specific job. It’s to try and out-maneuver, out-intelligence if you will, foreign and domestic hostile powers. R: Okay so the word is not trans-mutated in any way, in the way that it’s applied to an organization. It still means taking proactive action toward a goal. K: Yeah, so I did look up the definition of agency in that regard: “a business or organization established to provide a particular service, typically one that involves organizing transactions between two other parties.” R: So like, a literary agent. K: There you go. Here’s a good example, the Environmental Protection Agency. R: Mhm. K: Their directive, their job is to protect the environment. What do they do? They organize, they create scenarios, be they either laws or policies or transactions even, that further their goal of protecting the environment. R: This is a group of people that are acting for one goal. In our writing, when we talk about agency, we’re generally referring to character agency. As in we have a main character, they are serving as our POV - point of view - and think of that term as the window through which you experience the story. Your viewpoint into this story and this world. So, everything that this character chooses to do is how you experience the story. So by acting on a desire, they create tension as to whether there will be an obstacle that they can overcome, whether they make a decision to do something that frightens them a lot, or whatever - you get to experience that tension. So if this character goes with the flow - K: [laughing] R: - how much tension do you get to experience? K: Yeah so what this means when you get this feedback, ‘I need you to work on your character’s agency here,’ is that it means the character is being very passive. They’re being more reactive than proactive. Oh I’ve got a good example: Twilight. R: Bella is a classic example and often referenced example of a character who doesn’t actually do much. And this is part of that Mary Sue criticism that gets used in the wrong places a lot, but in this case what we’re talking about is Bella is a bodysuit for you to crawl into, and see this world. K: Well Bella is almost worse than that. In some cases Bella is an object. She is sort of a MacGuffin that furthers this story. Something I always like to trot out is, if this character weren’t here, would things go that differently? R: [laughing] K: Now, in Twilight yes they would. Because a lot of conflict, a lot of the story, whatever, does center around Bella, but it is more just the fact that she exists than anything else. If she were a particularly tasty cow that all of the vampires also wanted to eat, well - that’d be a different story too. [laughing] R: Yeah, that’s a weird one. K: No, but if she were something like a magic ring that lets the vampires turn back into humans or something, you could possibly just sub her in with a magic ring. And a lot of those story elements could still happen. R: So is your character interchangeable with an inanimate object? K [laughing]: My favorite one, ever, that I promise I’ll stop on this side note - Indiana Jones. R: Mhm. K: - is completely irrelevant to the first movie. If he weren’t there, everything would go exactly the same way. That said, Indiana Jones has agency. R: He is trying. K: He’s trying. He’s not doing the best job, but he’s trying. Um so, you can have a character that maybe if they weren’t there things would progress as normal. My whole point is Indiana Jones, regardless of whether or not he not only shows up, exists, the storyline with Marion and getting the Ark of the Covenant, we still end up with the Nazis opening the Ark of the Covenant on a remote island. R: Just turns out it was a bad idea. [chuckles] K [laughing]: Just turns out you shouldn’t go poking around in these things. R: Yes. And that had more to do with Belloq being his agency to, as he put it, take whatever Indiana Jones had, and possess it himself. K [overlapping]: Yes. R: And then him not being able to resist looking in the Arc. Now, had the Arc made it to Hitler, would Hitler have known how to use it? I mean, he studied all this stuff. It’s very possible that he might’ve put it to more diabolical use, rather than just frying himself as Belloq did. K [overlapping]: Yeah. Yes. Um, you know, in Twilight, the character that has agency there is not Bella, it’s Edward. R [overlapping]: Mhm. K: He’s the one who’s making all the decisions, he’s the one who’s making the choices. He chose to stay and pursue Bella. He chose to let her know that he was a vampire. He chose to eventually make her a vampire. R: Mhm. K: Bella is a thing that all of this is happening to. R: The prize to be won. K: Yeah. Bella’s a very passive character, and there’s points in the story where she does make decisions, but the choices then are even things that are forced upon her. R: Here’s an example of not, apparently, including much agency in your character, and still having an incredibly successful book series. K: And movies. R: So as with all advice- K [overlapping]: [laughing] R: - feel free to break the rules and have a smashing success and good on you. K: There is an exception to every rule to be sure. But, as you kinda said right at the get-go, one of the biggest criticisms of Bella is that she is an empty skin suit for the reader to crawl into and make themselves feel as though they are the star of the story. People who have agency don’t feel like that. It’s part of character development. If Bella were making a lot of choices and decisions and stuff, you’d have readers going “Well that’s not what I’d do, why would she do that, that’s so ridiculous.” And then you distance yourself from that character because you’re establishing them as a fully realized person. R: Right. K: Rather than the empty skin suit slash object. R: Right. Now, Big Lebowski. K [laughing]: Oh God, that’s a good one, okay! Um, God I haven’t watched that movie in forever, I love that movie. R: So he starts out, he gets up, he goes to the grocery store, he gets the ingredients for his White Russian, he drinks half of it there, he goes home. K: “Where is the money Lebowski?” [laughing] R: This has happened to him so far. Somebody mistakes him because he shares a surname with a very rich person, and they walk into this very shabby home and somehow think that they’ve found the right place. Now he isn’t gonna do anything about it. K: Yeah. R: He goes on with his life. He just is kind of sad about it, but his friends convince him - K [overlapping]: Yeah. R: - that he needs to do something about it. K: Except the guy pees on the carpet. And that carpet really tied the room together. R: It really tied the room together! But he is not going to act until he’s convinced by his friends to act. K: This is another thing with agency. It’s okay for characters to be sort of passive and have things happen to them. That’s what starts the story- R [overlapping]: Mhm. K: - going. You don’t, don’t get me wrong. There’s plenty of stories out there with someone going “I woke up this morning and decided to do this thing.” R: Mhm. K: Or they start out with a quest, or they come up with something on their own. [overlapping] R [overlapping]: You’re in media res, so you’ve already gotten to the point where they want something. K: Yeah. But typically even if we pick up within that point something had to happen to them a lot of times beforehand, for them to want to go get the magic ring that lets you turn back into a human. R: Yeah and often you find that the character starts off trying to do a thing that isn’t the thing they decide they need to do in the end. I mean that’s kind of part of the whole character arc, is deciding what it is they really want. The Dude really wants a nice comfy life with his White Russians - K: And his bathrobe. [laughing] R: And the rug that ties the room together. K: Yeah. R: So it bothers him enough to complain about it, but not enough to act on it. Then he is cajoled into acting upon it. And he goes and finds himself embroiled in a large plot, where things kind of continue to happen to him. K: With movies you can watch a series of strange events unfold, because there’s the visual component that - often these are comedies. It’s almost slapstick. We’re just watching this person who all he wants is to go bowling with his buddies, sit in his bathrobe, and drink White Russians. And he ends up getting pulled into this bizarre situation. R: Being sent to have a physical ‘cause turns out he’s gonna father a child, and also toes get cut off - K: You want a toe? I’ll get you a toe next week. [laughing] Lebowski is a rather passive character. He doesn’t have a ton of agency. That said, once he gets involved in this he does make decisions even if they’re just ‘I want to get out of this alive.’ R: Yes. And he observes clues and he starts to put things together that probably they expected him not to do. They really thought that he would just kinda take the fall for things, or just go along, get paid, go home, and return to his life. K: Yeah. By the time he gets to the end of the story, his motivation is something between ‘I need to figure this out’ and ‘I’m not letting this random guy who got me tied into all of this get away with it.’ Does the Dude have agency? Sometimes, a little bit, if he can get the energy and motivation together to feel like it, which is by the way very in line with his character. R: Yeah. K: It is very typical with books to start out with characters just living their life. People by nature are passive. But you ever notice that when someone says “I’ve decided to do this thing,” it’s usually an announcement. It’s usually like “I’ve decided to change jobs.” “I’ve decided to buy a house.” “I’ve decided to ask this person to marry me.” It’s a decision you make to take action. Whereas most of our lives are just kind of us living our life, yeah after I’m done here I’m gonna have some soup I made, I’m very excited about that. I’m deciding to have soup. Is that agency? I don’t think so. You know in your day-to-day lives, agency are things that you’re trying to act for your benefit. I’ve decided to buy this house, because I worked very hard and I think this is a good investment and I think I’ll be happy and comfortable here, and this will improve my life a measurable amount that I want it to. R: Mhm. K: When characters act with agency, you know a lot of times they’re in situations that are not normal day-to-day things. There aren’t a lot of books out there about someone’s decision to work really hard, save money, and buy a house. R: Well that’s the first 25% of a book, that 25%, that storyline is gonna go away, or be severely altered. K: That house is haunted as hell. [laughing] R [overlapping]: Mhm. K: For a character to have agency, they have to do three things. They have to be able to act in their environment, which means that if you said a character, let’s say a human being, and you put them on an alien planet where literally everything is made of gas, that character’s not gonna have any agency because they can’t do anything. R: Right. K: But not only is everything made of gas, but the lifeforms that live there physically cannot communicate with the human, or have no interest in doing so. R: Right. K: So that person can’t interact with their environment; they’re not gonna have any agency, they have to just sit there and wait for something to happen. R: Unless the plot of that story is ‘how do I get to the point where I can talk to these aliens?’ There have been many Star Trek episodes like this, where you can’t communicate with the other aliens and the plot is ‘how do we find common ground?’ So, the decision to do so is agency, but the human who says “Well, all these molecules are just too far apart, I guess I’ll just sit here.” K: [laughing] R: That character has no agency. K: So the second thing is a character has to be able to make meaningful decisions. So, in the case of our character sitting on the gas planet, they’ve gotta make the decision of ‘I’m gonna find a way to gather all of this gas and condense it into something solid that I can use to my benefit.’ R: Right. K: They have to have a way to work towards their own benefit. Even if it’s not working towards their own benefit they have to be presented with situations in which they can make a decision. Even if it’s ‘the army’s invading, there’s two sides of this city, we’re only gonna be able to fend them off from one, we have to evacuate the other.’ The character making the decision of ‘okay, we’re gonna evacuate the east end, move everybody into the west end, and here are the reasons that we’re doing this and that’s why it’ll give us a better advantage.’ That’s displaying agency. The third thing is the character’s ability to affect the story. And this is different from making decisions. This is where Indiana Jones fails. R: Right, right. K: Because he doesn’t actually affect the story really. Sure, he’s got some wacky hijinks, he shoots a guy who just wanted to have a nice sword fight - R: Cracks a whip. K: Cracks a whip, somehow hitches a ride on a submarine, you know, things happen. R: If it wasn’t for Sallah he wouldn’t have even made it halfway through the movie. K: Exactly. Is he entertaining? Absolutely. It’s a delight. But he doesn’t do anything that changes the outcome of what’s happening. So, this is different than making a decision. Because a character needs to have an impact on the story. If you erase them from the story and nothing changes, that’s not a good character. R: You have some characters who maybe aren’t the decision makers, but if they’re the person with the special skill, or you know they’re the person with the strength or the fortitude to go ahead with the story that the other character doesn’t have, and you end up with a nice balanced team-up of brains and brawn. Obviously if you take the brawn out of that story, it is going to affect the story. Now, take Indiana Jones out, and you definitely have a very different movie. K: Absolutely, yes. R: Sometimes the character is required for the tone. K: Like a swashbuckling adventurer. R: Think of Jack Burton in Big Trouble in Little China. K: Okay. R: He’s not actually the hero of the movie. At one point a big fight scene starts, and he shoots his gun in the air and ends up knocking himself out when the ceiling falls on him. And for the greater portion of this fight scene he is prone on the ground. He’s almost like the story’s style, but he’s not the story’s main active character. K: Yeah. R: You know there’s parts where yes, they need him because he’s tough and he can fight, but so can the other characters. There’s a lot of characters doing a lot of stuff in that movie, and Jack Burton - you would notice, if you saw it and they removed him and then you watched it again, you would definitely notice his absence. But does his absence change the story? Would his friend have not gone to rescue his girlfriend? He definitely would have. And he definitely would’ve done it without Jack, but he talked Jack into helping. It’s interesting how many stories we enjoy end up with characters who draw a lot of attention to themselves, like Indiana Jones, like Jack Burton, without actually making a huge difference in the plot of the film. Or, I’m saying film ‘cause we like to use movies as shortcuts. But um - K: [laughing] R: How does this work in a book? Let’s go back to our favorite, Gideon the Ninth. Gideon kinda doesn’t have a clue what’s going on! K: Gideon is a little bit of a passive character. R: Yeah! But it’s delightful [laughing], just like Indiana Jones and Jack Burton. K: She gets dragged along on this adventure, which we find out is basically one giant series of death traps. She doesn’t know why she’s there. She’s there to serve as a lens of the story for the reader, because the other main character that we’re introduced to here is of course Harrowhark. R: Harrowhark has a lot of agency, and it’s all off the page. K: Because Harrowhark can’t be bothered to tell anybody about it. And, if she did, if she was the point-of-view character in that first book, we would have no idea what was happening. We need all of this to be told to us through the lens of Gideon, who is more like us than, like, Harrowhark. R: Yeah. Right. K: Of course by the end of the book you know this changes; we’ve learned some things, we’ve solved some mysteries. But Gideon is sort of a passive observer. Yes, she’s poking around, she’s talking to people, she’s gathering information, but really she can’t do anything with it until Harrow tells her what’s going on. R: And she’s only there because Harrow has made her promise to go along on this venture and then she’ll get the thing she wanted in the beginning, which she was pretty close to succeeding except Harrow was the obstacle. So Harrow said, “Do this thing with me, and then I’ll give you what you want.” And so Gideon goes along specifically for that purpose, and how much more passive can you be than just being like ‘if I just tap my foot throughout this book, I’ll get to the thing I want.’ K: Yeah. She literally just wants me to sit in a room and do nothing. R: Harrowhark has even said “do not speak to anyone.” K: Yeah. Don’t talk to anyone, don’t do anything, stay in this room, be here when I get back. R: So of course, the plot happens because Gideon’s like uhh you don’t tell me what to do. K [laughing]: Yeah it’s not agency so much as annoyance. R: Two people who can’t stand each other so why would one do what the other one wants. K: Yeah. Exactly. R: That is kind of the plot of Gideon the Ninth, but in the most delightful way that I just made sound as flat as possible. K: You’re right, because Gideon serves the purpose of one: as I said providing the reader with context and perspective, but two: also, she’s awesome! R: Yeah. K: And we like watching her swing this giant sword around, and be muscle-y - R [overlapping]: Yeah, flex for the other people in the book. K [overlapping]: Yeah. R: And also like look at people and go “There’s something wrong with you” [laughing], you know? K: Yes. Yes. Um, be the perspective of ‘This is all really weird, how am I the only person who sees that this is all really weird?’ R: Mhm. K: So. Um, yeah, so that’s a good example of characters who are passive but are compelling. So if you’re thinking to yourself ‘well, if that’s a thing that’s allowed, why do I need to strengthen my character’s agency?’ Because it depends on the story you’re telling. And it depends on what you’re trying to do here. If you have a character who is supposed to be your main character, your protagonist, they’re supposed to be leading the charge, and what they’re doing is they’re tripping from event to happening back to other event, just sort of letting stuff happen to them rather than doing things themselves, that can get really boring to read.  K: The second and third book in the Ember in the Ashes series, there’s a character in there named Helene. And - I won’t ruin too much for anybody who hasn’t read these, and full disclosure I’m still finishing the fourth one - in the second and third books especially, Helene is running around putting out fires. She is desperately trying to manage an unmanageable situation. At the same time though, she’s trying to figure out ‘how do I solve this bigger problem that I’m trying to face? How do I mitigate these circumstances?’ I was so excited whenever it was one of her chapters, because that was the thing that I thought was most interesting, was watching her just get things heaped on her. Every time she turns around something else bad is happening, that is just one more thing she’s gotta deal with. So was she displaying agency? In the second book I would say not as much, by the third book we’re certainly getting there. But, it’s still compelling because the way she is acting on her own behalf is not necessarily for herself maybe, but for other people. R: Okay. K: Watching someone deal with and try to mitigate overwhelming circumstances, I would say, is a form of agency. Even if they are just running around putting out fires. R: Trying to survive - K [overlapping]: Yes. R: - this moment, as opposed to having a plan for the next two weeks to six months - K [overlapping]: Yeah. R: - toppling the empire, etc. It’s okay if they’re just trying to get back to normal. K: Yes. Or, just trying in the case of Helene, just trying to make sure her family’s safe. Let’s start there. That’s small step number one, I’ve gotta work on that. Okay small step number two, now I’ve got a deal with the residents of this city. Now I’ve gotta figure out how I’m gonna deal with this other maniac, and there’s all of these forces and factors that she can’t really do much about. But she can make decisions. R: Right, so in an earthquake, a character obviously isn’t going to defeat the earthquake. K: I defeated an earthquake last week, Rekka, I don’t know what you’re talking about. [laughing] R: Okay. In a typhoon, Kaelyn’s not gonna go punch a typhoon. K: No no, earthquakes are far more punchable than typhoons. R: Right. So you can trust that Kaelyn’s gonna go check on friends and family, uh, Kaelyn’s going to act in ways that clearly are important and have great meaning to her personally, even if they’re not going to fix the fact that there’s a typhoon, or the fact that you know FEMA’s gonna have to come in and that sort of thing. So what about characters with examples of great agency? Like the Quest plot. Is that agency or is that ‘this wizard told me I need to go do this thing’? K: Well okay so I will, we can talk about the Quest plot and then I’ll give you what I think is a good example of someone who has agency and, I’m going to put them into the same story, which I know we’ve been talking about this series a lot, Shadow and Bone and the Six of Crows. For those who haven’t read or watched it, hopefully you know that one is a trilogy, the other is a duology, they’re separate storylines but the Netflix series collapsed them both into one. R: So go read the books anyway, because Netflix made some choices. K: So the first trilogy Shadow and Bone, Alina Starkov is a very, a little bit of, especially for the first book, a passive character. You know she discovers she has this power, and she is tasked with solving this big problem because she has this power. She does start to display agency in the story but if things had just progressed along that sort of Quest storyline - you could argue that it even does a little bit because ultimately there is a problem that she is the only one that can solve. R: Mhm. K: So, is that agency? Well, the way she goes about handling it in the story, breaking away from the wizard character and trying to decide to do this her own way is certainly displaying agency. R: Right. K: Conversely, in the Six of Crows, we have the character Kaz, who is sort of your underworld rogue-type but not in a charming way. I would actually say he’s quite the opposite of charming. He’s very stoic, very serious, very no-nonsense. But Kaz makes a lot of decisions to try to accomplish goals and to better the lives of him and his friends. There’s some revenge scenarios here, but in the revenge scenarios it’s reclaiming things that were taken from him. R: Right. K: There’s friends to liberate, there’s people to try to help and better their lives, there’s people they encounter along the way that get into bad situations. He is a character with a lot of strong agency. Even before we meet him, we can see everything he’s done, everything he’s worked towards to build himself up to a point where one day he can maybe do this one thing he’s trying to get to. I would say he’s a great example of somebody with a lot of agency. R: Right from the start. K: Yeah. R: So he’s got a plan, and this plan is the focus of the story. K: Yes. Of course, wrenches get thrown into it, because - R: Just in terms of Luke Skywalker just wants to escape the farm life, that’s his desire at the start. But what he ends -- I mean he does get that, but it turns into a much bigger story. K: Katniss Everdeen from Hunger Games. Does she have agency? She is mostly reactive. She only volunteers because her sister got picked as tribute. R: But she’s volunteering to protect her family, which you might say is proactive decision. K: At the same time though, if Katniss had not volunteered, would any of the subsequent events in the story have happened? No. Her decisions are impacting the story. That said, she is very manipulated a lot through this entire story. R [overlapping]: Oh yeah. And I think that’s just the way that as a character, we express that just ‘cause you’re a hero doesn’t mean you can’t be fooled, you can’t be misguided, you can’t be manipulated as you said. I thought that was incredibly different from anything I’d read of an adventurer-hero story, because you realize a hero doesn’t always make the right decisions. K: Yeah. I have a lot of mixed feelings about that book series as we’ve discussed in this - R: I’m not saying I’m happy with the way it ended, but that definitely opened my eyes, and I think influenced me. As a result, my characters definitely made decisions that they thought were sound, or they thought were motivated correctly, or were the right thing to do or whatever, that end up making more of a mess. K: Yeah. Now that said, with Katniss one of the things I will say bothered me a lot in this, and this is I think a product of trying to shoehorn motivations into areas where it doesn’t already exist, Katniss is -- there’s a scene, it’s much more pronounced in the movie but it is in the book -- where they’re at District 13. And they’re all sitting in this bunker and it’s ‘let’s talk about a time Katniss has inspired you, she’s this symbol. She is the Mockingjay.’ I don’t know if this was on purpose, I don’t know if this was the intent, but I couldn’t come up with a better way to just be like this character is almost inconsequential to what they’re doing. They just need her to stand heroically in front of people. I really think that a 16-17 year old girl was probably not the sole motivation for overthrowing an entire super-oppressive government, but. [laughing] R: Again, I am not going to jump in front of a train for this book series - K [overlapping]: [laughing] R: But I could see the development of a character who stands up to the government on TV that the government requires everybody to watch. K: Yes. R: Like this is a program that the government is putting in front of people’s faces because they want people to know that people will pay for their past transgressions, until they deem that they’re done. And Katniss says, “No. It’s not gonna be one survivor, I’m not going to kill the person that I grew up with because I need to survive; we’re both going to survive” and that turns into a big moment- K [overlapping]: Yes, it did. R: Also she honors the person from the other district with whom she’s supposed to be competing, but they all see her treat Rue like a human being, which is not something that you get from this government. K: There’s these tiny acts of rebellion. But I would say that it’s all undone by the fact that she doesn’t actually want any part of this. She wants to go back to her life and be done. Now that’s, I would argue, not agency, because what she’s having to deal with is the fallout of decisions that she made for survival, rather than because she wanted to make a statement. R: No I understand that, but I’m saying again with the hero doesn’t always make the right decisions, also, person who makes a couple decisions where other people can see them suddenly find themself turned into this bigger than life character - K [overlapping]: Yup. R: I felt like that was part of the character arc, coming to terms with being this person everybody now expected her to be, and sometimes needed her to be, in order for them to go on. K: I found book Katniss a very grating character, I didn’t - R: You are not the only one, I have heard this plenty of times. K: I didn’t like her much but one thing I appreciated about her was how much she just wanted to be left alone. [laughing] R: Yeah! I mean, we can all relate to that. K [laughing]: We can all relate to that. It’s just like, I get it. I don’t really like you that much but I totally get it. She’s capable, as you said, she’s a fast thinker, but she’s not a leader. In fact in the second book they have a whole plot going on behind the scenes that she doesn’t know about until the very end, because everybody looked at her and went ‘I don’t think she’s gonna be helpful here.’ [laughing] R: Yeah. K: We would be better off just doing this on our own. R: Yeah. K: And I really appreciate the writer’s acknowledgment of that. [laughing] But again, in the second book she is reverted back to a very passive role, this stuff is just happening to her. Even more so than in the first one. R: And then it continues in the third book, where they take her on this SWAT team adventure, and she’s just like ‘what the fuck’s going on?’ K: Yeah ‘cause they’re gonna go shoot all of this war footage of her. But then, she does make the decision ‘I’m going with this because I wanna get us into the Capitol, so that I can go kill the president.’ R: Right, right. K: So there we do have Katniss with agency, with a plan. R: Mhm. K: How important do you think plans are to characters having agency? R: This is a really good question. We’ve just described a lot of main characters who don’t really have a plan. K: No, no. R: And who are all highly successful IPs. Sometimes I think figuring out the plan can be the character’s arc. They know they want something. They try and fail and try and fail, and it’s because they don’t know how to go about it, or there’s something that they need to let go of or gain in order to figure out the best way. You know like a heist movie. K: I swear I was just thinking of a heist movie. [laughing] R: The plan is happening all along. K: Yeah. R: And it’s the reader watching it, and being misled about things going wrong that it turns out were part of the plan anyway because there’s always that aspect of the heist that you don’t hear about ‘til the end, and you get to watch it again and go ‘Oh now I see!’ K: ‘Yeah that guy was in the background the whole time.’ R: Yeah so obviously in that case the plan is not the plot. The reveal is the plot. The red herrings are the adventure, I don’t know. Sometimes a character figuring out what they want is the plot. K: Mhm. R: The idea I think is that the character starts with a sense of the way things are right now are not good. K: I think there’s a lot of this in anime. I’m thinking of Inuyasha right now, did you watch that? R: No. You’re gonna have to talk Sailor Moon if you’re gonna keep me on your level. K: Okay, let’s talk Sailor Moon. Let’s talk the original anime run, where they really fleshed out a lot of the episodes, and remember at one point they’re trying to track down the seven rainbow crystals. You know Sailor Moon becomes Sailor Moon not by choice, she just is. R [overlapping]: Yup. K: And she’s got a talking cat that tells her to fight demons. R: And yells at her for not doing her homework. K: And at the same time, she’s not only gotta find these other sailor scouts, and identify them and get them to accept their fates and roles but because this is anime everyone’s like ‘Ah yes! This is what I was meant for the whole time!’ In the first season of the anime they’re tracking down these seven rainbow crystals. So they don’t necessarily know why they’re tracking them, and at one point Tuxedo Mask has one and they’re like that’s fine, he can just hang on to it. R: [laughing] K: They’re just like well we don’t want the bad guys to get these. We don’t know why. But then we find out, oh no wait, it turns out we actually need all of them. R [overlapping]: Yeah. K: Why? Well we’re not sure yet. Okay now we know why we need all of them. And, oh crap, there’s the princess! And why do we need the princess? Because the princess can wield this power that’s going to defeat Queen Beryl. The agency there I think is - well first of all accepting and embracing ‘hey this is something I have to do.’ But also then incremental goals. And sometimes your plan changes. Sometimes it turns out that Sailor Venus is not the princess. R [overlapping]: [laughing] Yeah. Yeah. K: It’s actually Sailor Moon. [laughing] R: Yeah, well, certainly couldn’t be her. Look at her. K: No, no, I mean she looks nothing like that other princess that she looked exactly like. [laughing] R: With the same hairstyle and everything. K [laughing]: Yes. R: The importance of grace in a person’s identity is apparently paramount. But yeah, the idea of a plan changing with new information I think is overlooked, because we like our stories in small parcels. K: Yes. R: But something like, for example a manga that’s gonna go on in theory indefinitely - K: [coughing]Naruto.[/coughing] Sorry. R: You’re going to have to introduce new information that’s going to change the course of the plot, and make the characters do something that maybe they wouldn’t have done before, or something they hadn’t considered, or just go off in a different direction because they need a new costume. K: And by the way this is why a lot of not just manga, but comic book series and even ongoing long-running television shows, have story arcs. R: Yeah. K: Manga especially you will see broken out into the such-and-such arc. R: Mhm. K: The this arc, they actually title them and they’re considered collections. R: Yeah. The introduction of new information can help pivot the story in a way that, like the characters might not have made that decision based on the way that they were starting out or proceeding at any given point in it. Having a plan is good, but maybe it doesn’t matter what it is. [laughing] K: But I think having a plan is a baseline that gives characters agency because they can make decisions to try to achieve the end results of that plan. R: Trying to stay on the track. K: Yeah. Again I’ll refer to the character of Kaz in Six of Crows. What’s so compelling about his character is he is a planner. He’s one of those guys who’s thinking of every possible contingency. He’s trying to stay two steps ahead of rivals and archnemesises - nemesii - R: Nemeses. K [overlapping]: Nemeses. I like nemesii. And that’s why we see him act so clearly with so much agency because then on top of that, we also learn that he is a person who’s very knowledgeable and very in control of things. You need a guy who can do this? He knows the guy who can do that who owes him a favor. He runs a casino, so all he’s doing is collecting information and favors and stuff to be traded in later. R: Okay. What about competence porn? K: Competency porn in general - if you’re not getting it from just saying, this is: somebody who’s always on top of things and always two steps ahead, and then it’s like all is lost, haha, no it’s not! See, I took the magic human ring from their pocket a long time ago, and now we can all - R [overlapping]: Going back to the heist kind of plot we described, like Danny Ocean - K: Yeah. R: - was an extremely competent person who was never out of control at any point. K: And even when we were left to think that he was out of control, that he was gonna derail this whole thing because of Tess, it turns out no, she was part of the plan the whole time. R: Yeah. K: So how do you have a character that has a lot of agency, can show forward thinking, without making them insufferable? R: We’ll start with casting George Clooney. K: Yes, yeah. All things are forgiven if it’s George Clooney. R: [laughing] K: Once you realize you can’t get George Clooney, what do you do? You have to make the character a person. Everyone works with somebody who, a situation will pop up and you know that no matter what you do, they are going to act irrationally because of something that happened prior. Everyone has a family member that won’t eat a certain thing, no matter how you prepare it, and the reasons that they won’t eat it are completely irrational. Everyone has the friend that just is constantly late, or changing plans last minute. These are X factors, these are things that make us human. And building a well-developed character who’s, even if they are hyper competent and they have planned everything out, still has to deal with base urges and moments of irrationality that are going to make them act in a way that maybe isn’t furthering the plan. But, they’re still showing agency when they do it. So for instance, you know the character standing at the thing and it’s like ‘okay I’m supposed to be following this guy who’s got the thing, but holy crap, there’s the guy who killed my brother! He’s walking that way, but I need to follow the guy who has the MacGuffin, because we need the MacGuffin, but this might be my only chance. He’s getting on a plane, I might never find this guy again.’ And decides to leave and go - it’s still agency, he’s still making a decision to his benefit, but at the cost of something else. R: Unless he figures out how to do both. So, as an editor, obviously you can’t name names - K: [laughing] R: - but what has been your experience with writers being told that they need to add agency to a story? K: Frequently confusion. R: Confusion because they don’t know what the heck that advice means, so they needed this episode. K: The thing is that if you have a completed book, a lot of times I think that you think your character is doing the best that your character can. I haven’t had to have that conversation a lot, but the times that I have weren’t the story as a whole, it was isolated to individual areas of the story. And a lot of times I framed it as ‘character So-and-so needs to make a decision. They need to do something. They need to stand up for themself. Or they have this thing that they know, they need to act on that, or they need to tell someone about it so that person can act on it. When I find areas where I’m like, I need this character to display a little more agency, is typically when - I’ll be honest with you, a lot of times it’s when the story stalled out a little bit. R: But is that a result of the character not behaving with agency? K: Well frequently when we get the character to act a little bit more on their behalf or make some decisions, it takes the storyline back up. R: Yeah. K: Weird, huh? [laughing] R: Funny how that happens. K: This all goes back to what we’re talking about here of going ‘why is it a big deal if my character’s passive?’ Because that can get boring. R: Yeah. And part of this is that we need the energy as a reader from that character’s desire to get from point A to point B, whether that’s an action or a target or an emotional state or whatever. That carries us along through the book and that makes the pages turn, versus the character just milling about with their hands in their pockets. K: I’ll leave us with this thought. I find a lot of times that characters who lack agency are typically not well-developed characters. And I’m not talking about in a certain scene, I’m not talking about the weird spot where the story’s stalling out a little bit, I’m talking about pervasive through the entirety of the story. A lack of agency is frequently coupled with a character that maybe isn’t that well-developed and whose arc, yes I’m tying in other vague advice to this, but whose character arc maybe isn’t that well fleshed out. Because if you have a well-developed character, you should know in your head what they would do in certain situations. You should know how they would act. If the character’s personality or development is ‘I will sit in this place, watch everything happen, and wait for it to be over,’ well, maybe that’s not a character you should be writing an entire book about. [laughing] All of this ties to everything else. All of this has to do with the other major things about books: themes, character arcs, plot, and place. Because characters who are well-developed shouldn’t need a lot of nudging to help themselves. R: Right, so if you have a character that knows what they want, sometimes this meandering comes out of the writer not quite sure how to get to the next thing, and might I suggest you just cut the scene and go to the next thing that is actually sometimes exactly what it needs. K: You brought up a very good point. I think a lot of times when, especially if it’s not pervasive if we’re dealing with an individual scene, it’s more a product of the writer struggling in that area. Either not knowing how to get us to the next place we need to be, be it physical or otherwise, or not having a good understanding of what’s gonna continue to happen in the story and either not wanting to write themselves into a corner, or not having a good way to continue. R: Yeah. And so then they get stuck in that character-introspective moment where they’re staring out the kitchen window, thinking about lots of stuff without acting in any way. K: It’s okay to have quote-unquote “downtime” for characters. It’s okay to give them some time where they need to think and regroup. I would say that is even displaying agency, that’s a planning portion. I’m not saying that every character at all times in your book must be active and must be doing things to further themselves to a goal. What I am saying, however, is that if they’re not doing anything through the course of the book, or if there are big chunks of it where we’re kinda going ‘whaaat’s going on here?’, that’s a larger problem. And one is easier to fix than the other. [laughing] Anyway, so, that’s agency, and that’s kinda what I have to say about it. That’s all I have to say about that. R: I doubt that very much. K: Well, that’s all I’ll say for now then. R: Yes, ‘cause we are over time. For me, if I get the feedback that my character’s lacking agency, I take a good look at what’s happening. And as Kaelyn said, if my character’s not a force that is causing things to happen in this story, or if there’s unnecessary downtime, or if there just isn’t a character arc, ‘cause sometimes I get this feedback for short stories. K: Mhm. R: And so that’s a good easy way to figure out like ‘oh, right, I don’t have a character arc. This character goes and observes a thing, and I’m trying to make commentary on the thing but I’m not actually having the character affect any change on the thing.’ Then it’s not really agency, it is the character observing the world around them and having an opinion about it, which isn’t the same as having a character arc. K: Yeah. R: If that happens in a novel, it’s more excruciating because it’s a lot more words that you’ve put time into. I rewrote SALVAGE, the first 60% that I rewrote, the first time I rewrote the first 60%, was because of an agency issue. K: Mhm. R: My characters start out the book; they’re stuck on the island, and all I did to change it was change the way they were planning their stuck-ness. K: [laughing] R: They’d been there the same amount of time, they were the same amount of frustrated, they were in the same amount of danger and having to make sure that nobody noticed them that shouldn’t notice them. But, in the second version, there’s a heist. Versus the first version where there’s a lot of watching the clock. And which one would you rather read? K: Exactly, yeah. There’s certainly an argument to make -- I think, a strong argument that I would say is borderline law -- that watching characters act with agency is far more engaging than watching them as passive observers. R: Yep. K: Unless it’s Twilight, and then you’re just gonna sell a billion copies of basically a weird choose-your-own-adventure, but not really. R: Yes. Well, not all our characters are as beautiful and attractive and wonderful and captivating as Bella, so we’re just gonna have to give them agency. K: She doesn’t know how beautiful - R [overlapping]: Right no of course not - K [overlapping]: No of course not, no - R: The plot is her finding out that people find her attractive. K: And she smells really good. [Both laughing] R: A fine vintage. Okay. K: Twilight is one of those things that like, I wonder if 150 years from now when we’re all dead, and they look back at this and go like ‘God, people in the earlier 2000s were weird.’ R: I mean, you could say that about most ages I think. K: That’s true. Yeah. R: There’s plenty of evidence throughout history of humans being just freakin’ weird. K: Context is everything, but. R: Yep. K: Yeah, so anyway, that’s agency. R: It is. Go get some, and give it to your characters. K: And always agency on your own behalf, you as a real life person always get to have. R: Yeah! I mean, especially when you’ve been locked inside for a year and a half. It’s about time to get some agency. K: Yup. R: So if you have questions or comments, or you still don’t know what agency is or what to do with it when someone tells you you need more, then you can @ us on Twitter and Instagram @wmbcast, or you can go back to some of the other episodes we talked about; they are all at wmbcast.com. We would love if you would leave a rating and review and subscribe on Apple Podcasts. And also we are super grateful to all our patrons at Patreon.com/wmbcast who support the costs involved in making these episodes for you. So if they are helpful, and you have the cash and the agency - K: [laughing] R: Please head on over there. K: I see what you did there. R: Oh yeah, you like that? Thanks. K: I did, I did. So thanks everyone, we’ll see you in two weeks!

Corrective Consciousness Podcast 252 w/ LotusPrince and Vysethebold! This week the guys opine about nemeses in gaming with nods to Resident Evil, Clock Tower, & Knuckles!

This week Mitch talks about Babe Ruth being black, Rudy Giuliani's house getting raided like he's black, Not getting too happy for small victories, Floyd Mayweather turning sport to spectacle, Why the casual NBA doesn't care that the best player is a white guy, Why Bubbles from The Wire should have his own show. And much much more. Contact me IG @Thehoodlovesmepodcast Twitter @mitchelbrown_ Music Selection By https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuF8VNZFim0 --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/mitch-brown/support

On this week's episode, we discuss miniature painting nemeses. Support the Show on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/trappedunderplasticSupport the Show with Merch: https://teespring.com/stores/trapped-under-plasticFollow Jon: https://www.youtube.com/ninjonFollow Scott: https://www.youtube.com/miniacJoin the FB group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/395664561386239/Listen to the audio versons: http://www.trappedunderplastic.com/On patreon, we offer our patron's the ability to submit topics for us to discuss during a podcast, you get an extended version of the podcast, and you can submit miniatures for us to critique during an episode!Relevant LinksSam Lenz's Twitch Stream: https://www.twitch.tv/samsonartsMidwinter Minis' video on the history of GW's prices: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nuMyKSP13PgJon's Newest Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ozJlqMd5L8&ab_channel=NinjonTwo Brush Blending Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7J9uHvdBXY&ab_channel=PrivateerPressPrimeAndy Wardle NMM: https://www.instagram.com/p/BrvC6S8AmCYWarhammer Quest: https://www.warhammer-community.com/2021/02/04/your-first-look-at-warhammer-quest-cursed-citys-skeletal-ulfenwatch/Banshee Website: https://www.miniatureartacademy.com/Sculptor: https://www.instagram.com/barone_artwork/ OR https://www.patreon.com/BaroneArtworkExtended Portion LinksJon's Favorite Mini: https://www.puttyandpaint.com/projects/29960Scott's Favorite Mini: https://scontent.ffcm1-2.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/143653930_775440556386523_799867491525568748_o.jpg?_nc_cat=108&ccb=2&_nc_sid=8bfeb9&_nc_ohc=2peKlkRQwagAX-ya3XE&_nc_ht=scontent.ffcm1-2.fna&oh=13825e8df7bab98cb73fb6aabcc9d012&oe=603A321C00:00 Start00:42 Preamble Ramble18:51 What We Painted33:15 Topic Discussion1:12:16 News1:26:03 After PartySupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/trappedunderplastic)

Thanks For Watching Episode 129, Horses, My Nemeses. DJ and Joe take over the show while Beth takes care of DJ’s archnemeses. That would be why the show is a third shorter than normal. Alphabet Movie Soup was brought to you by Joe this week. The film was Let the Right One In (2008) on Hulu. We also talk about films with Jennifer Lopez. Next week we will talk about an M film on Alphabet Movie Soup and Bradley Cooper films. What are your favorites? Let us know with a call or text. Check us out over there at Patreon. Our website is https://www.tfwmovies.com and feel free to call or text us at 512-PODCAST. Stuff We’re Putting In Our Eyes starts at 24:05 Just hashtags you might like from our show and a way to boost our ratings somehow. #tfwmovies #thanksforwatching #apostle_ofc @apostle_ofc #Lists #JenniferLopez #AKnightsTale #BradleyCooper #SocialDistancing #disneyplus #netflix #primevideo #anchorpodcast #podcast #podcasting #podcasts #NERDA #AlphabetMovieSoup

Friends! Lovers! Nemeses! Hope you're washing your hands! This episode is our first recording entirely remotely—including our interview with special guest Aria Aber, who was gracious enough to deal with a combination of technical difficulties and our muddled quarantine brains. No amount of ambient noise could get in the way of her sheer brilliance though.  ARIA ABER was raised in Germany. Her debut book Hard Damage won the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry and was published in September 2019. Her poems are forthcoming or have appeared in The New Yorker, New Republic, Kenyon Review, The Yale Review, Poem-A-Day, Narrative, Muzzle Magazine, Wasafiri and elsewhere. A graduate from the NYU MFA in Creative Writing, where she was the Writers in Public Schools Fellow, she holds awards and fellowships from Kundiman, Dickinson House, and the Wisconsin Institute of Creative Writing. For Spring 2020, Aber will be the Li Shen Visiting Writer at Mills College. She is at work on a second book of poems and a novel. DUINO MOJITO: muddled mint and a scoop of limone sorbet in a coup glass, topped with rum, fresh lime, and a splash of soda    

The hosts chat about how life is starting to change under Coronavirus and what we can do about (which is not a lot).   Then Katherine speaks with Australian writer, Robert Lukins about their shared love of Adrian Mole, libraries and literary nemeses.  Check out show notes for this episode on our website www.thefirsttimepodcast.com or get in touch via Twitter or Instagram @thefirsttimepod. Don't forget you can support us and the making of Season Three via our Patreon page https://www.patreon.com/user/overview?u=14470635! Thanks for joining us!

It's the Season 7 Finale and we are closing it out the only way we know! It's a Lightning Round! 10 wrestlers drawn at random and we pick their best and worst rivals in 5 minutes or less! No room to think, just gotta reign judgement! Also, a Precap for NXT Takeover Portland and a very baseball closing remarks! Professional wrestling is all about rivalry. This season we look at the best and worst rivals of a given wrestler and give them their Final Wrestling Place! Be sure to vote on all the polls we post on the show's Twitter so you can cast your vote on the topic or slid into our DMs for any show topics you'd like for us to cover! www.twitter.com/FinalPlacePod Final Wrestling Place is a proud member of the Soon To Be Named Network! Listen to all the entertainment we provide by going to soontobenamednetwork.com/ or follow the network on Twitter at twitter.com/STBNNetwork! Want to know where you can follow the show? We've got you here! @finalwrestlingplace tinyurl.com/FWPTuneIn tinyurl.com/FWPApple tinyurl.com/FWPGoogle tinyurl.com/FWPStitcher tinyurl.com/FWPSpotify

Two episodes remain and while we just did two of Marcus' favorites back to back, the lovely audience picked into Tim's favorite! It's time to talk about 3 decades of destruction with the nemeses of The Undertaker Professional wrestling is all about rivalry. This season we look at the best and worst rivals of a given wrestler and give them their Final Wrestling Place! Be sure to vote on all the polls we post on the show's Twitter so you can cast your vote on the topic or slid into our DMs for any show topics you'd like for us to cover! www.twitter.com/FinalPlacePod Final Wrestling Place is a proud member of the Soon To Be Named Network! Listen to all the entertainment we provide by going to soontobenamednetwork.com/ or follow the network on Twitter at twitter.com/STBNNetwork! Want to know where you can follow the show? We've got you here! @finalwrestlingplace tinyurl.com/FWPTuneIn tinyurl.com/FWPApple tinyurl.com/FWPGoogle tinyurl.com/FWPStitcher tinyurl.com/FWPSpotify

One week removed from his return to the WWE and we aren't going to miss a beat! It's time for us to place the Rated R Superstar's greatest and worst rivals in their Final Wrestling Place! It's time to talk Edge! Professional wrestling is all about rivalry. This season we look at the best and worst rivals of a given wrestler and give them their Final Wrestling Place! Be sure to vote on all the polls we post on the show's Twitter so you can cast your vote on the topic or slid into our DMs for any show topics you'd like for us to cover! www.twitter.com/FinalPlacePod Final Wrestling Place is a proud member of the Soon To Be Named Network! Listen to all the entertainment we provide by going to soontobenamednetwork.com/ or follow the network on Twitter at twitter.com/STBNNetwork! Want to know where you can follow the show? We've got you here! @finalwrestlingplace tinyurl.com/FWPTuneIn tinyurl.com/FWPApple tinyurl.com/FWPGoogle tinyurl.com/FWPStitcher tinyurl.com/FWPSpotify

Season 7 carries on with the pink and black attack as we debate the best and worst nemesis of Bret "Hitman" Hart! Professional wrestling is all about rivalry. This season we look at the best and worst rivals of a given wrestler and give them their Final Wrestling Place! Be sure to vote on all the polls we post on the show's Twitter so you can cast your vote on the topic or slid into our DMs for any show topics you'd like for us to cover! www.twitter.com/FinalPlacePod Final Wrestling Place is a proud member of the Soon To Be Named Network! Listen to all the entertainment we provide by going to soontobenamednetwork.com/ or follow the network on Twitter at twitter.com/STBNNetwork! Want to know where you can follow the show? We've got you here! @finalwrestlingplace tinyurl.com/FWPTuneIn tinyurl.com/FWPApple tinyurl.com/FWPGoogle tinyurl.com/FWPStitcher tinyurl.com/FWPSpotify

We are halfway through our nemeses and Season 7 rolls on with "The Main Event," "The Total Package" Lex Luger. Professional wrestling is all about rivalry. This season we look at the best and worst rivals of a given wrestler and give them their Final Wrestling Place! Be sure to vote on all the polls we post on the show's Twitter so you can cast your vote on the topic or slid into our DMs for any show topics you'd like for us to cover! www.twitter.com/FinalPlacePod Final Wrestling Place is a proud member of the Soon To Be Named Network! Listen to all the entertainment we provide by going to soontobenamednetwork.com/ or follow the network on Twitter at twitter.com/STBNNetwork! Want to know where you can follow the show? We've got you here! @finalwrestlingplace tinyurl.com/FWPTuneIn tinyurl.com/FWPApple tinyurl.com/FWPGoogle tinyurl.com/FWPStitcher tinyurl.com/FWPSpotify

The Season of the Nemesis hits episode three and we tackle the cream of the crop, the master of madness, "Macho Man" Randy Savage Professional wrestling is all about rivalry. This season we look at the best and worst rivals of a given wrestler and give them their Final Wrestling Place! Be sure to vote on all the polls we post on the show's Twitter so you can cast your vote on the topic or slid into our DMs for any show topics you'd like for us to cover! www.twitter.com/FinalPlacePod Final Wrestling Place is a proud member of the Soon To Be Named Network! Listen to all the entertainment we provide by going to soontobenamednetwork.com/ or follow the network on Twitter at twitter.com/STBNNetwork! Want to know where you can follow the show? We've got you here! @finalwrestlingplace tinyurl.com/FWPTuneIn tinyurl.com/FWPApple tinyurl.com/FWPGoogle tinyurl.com/FWPStitcher tinyurl.com/FWPSpotify

The Season of the Nemesis hits episode two as we look to close out 2019! Before we put the nemeses of "The Icon" in their Final Wrestling Place, we've got some housekeeping to take care of in regards to Triple H! Professional wrestling is all about rivalry. This season we look at the best and worst rivals of a given wrestler and give them their Final Wrestling Place! Be sure to vote on all the polls we post on the show's Twitter so you can cast your vote on the topic or slid into our DMs for any show topics you'd like for us to cover! www.twitter.com/FinalPlacePod Final Wrestling Place is a proud member of the Soon To Be Named Network! Listen to all the entertainment we provide by going to soontobenamednetwork.com/ or follow the network on Twitter at twitter.com/STBNNetwork! Want to know where you can follow the show? We've got you here! @finalwrestlingplace tinyurl.com/FWPTuneIn tinyurl.com/FWPApple tinyurl.com/FWPGoogle tinyurl.com/FWPStitcher tinyurl.com/FWPSpotify

It's the last podcast before Christmas and the start of Season 7! After throwing a few ideas into the wind, the boys have stumbled upon the exact topic to take us into the year 2020. Professional wrestling is all about rivalry. This season we look at the best and worst rivals of a given wrestler and give them their Final Wrestling Place! Be sure to vote on all the polls we post on the show's Twitter so you can cast your vote on the topic or slid into our DMs for any show topics you'd like for us to cover! www.twitter.com/FinalPlacePod Final Wrestling Place is a proud member of the Soon To Be Named Network! Listen to all the entertainment we provide by going to soontobenamednetwork.com/ or follow the network on Twitter at twitter.com/STBNNetwork! Want to know where you can follow the show? We've got you here! @finalwrestlingplace tinyurl.com/FWPTuneIn tinyurl.com/FWPApple tinyurl.com/FWPGoogle tinyurl.com/FWPStitcher tinyurl.com/FWPSpotify

Today In Room Aidan Meets Bella,A women who is Belives she has taken her own life to be reunited with her Farther. this episodes contains graphic content that could is not sutable for listners under the age of 16 years suicide, adult content sexual abuseRoom is written and created and owned by Aidan Rosewell All characters are fictional Please concider supporting the show https://www.buymeacoffee.com/RoPyqCDlXBella Is play by Erika Sanserson ( check out her other work at the no sleep podcast)Aidan is played by me Aidan Rosewellart and thyme music by Rust vision sound track " Nemeses" by Walt Thisney"Thanks for lsitening see you aroundSupport the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/RoPyqCDlX)

PSA: The Petties introduce a new segment called (surprise) PSA of the week! They both give their announcement. One revolves around beauty and the other is about a great way to meet people in Kansas City by joining the Stonewall Kansas City kickball league! Weston & Bitsy waste no time jumping into a fun activity where they build their “Mean Girls Celebrity Squad.” It is pure gold. Then they dig up some of the biggest celebrity feuds in history! Your co-hosts psycho-analyze, take sides, and make it relatable to everyday Millennials. You’ll find that you likely have your own arch nemesis and a few side villains in your life. The Petties finish off the episode with a new game (taken straight from Andy Cohen’s Watch What Happens Live) to their show and somehow the episode derails once again to talking about anal.

The Gang gets a very special message from Hangman Page, Burger King’s got a dang taco, Orin and Tom argue over the state of her car, The Crew admires some Main Event Musclemen, deciphering what the name "Fight For The Fallen" means, a look at some of our favorite Joker’s Tricks, a full list of all of our podcast Nemeses, Chopstick Chat, Stone Cold’s designated ISIS hunters, taking a dip in some delicious Wrestler Bathwater, and some examples the noises Otis would make if he fucked.

Griffin Rowell, Michael's oldest pal, joins him in the Pit to trace the shape of a friendship and hold fast to the weapons that help us ward off the darkness. Art by Seth Laster. Music by Abe Epperson. Support Small Beans and access Additional Content: https://www.patreon.com/SmallBeans SB Merch: https://smallbeans.bigcartel.com

Falconer proposes a visit to another research base purely to help Burney meet an associate - and certainly not to settle a score with her old rival. About us If you like what we do, please submit a quick rating and review! Oblivity is a comedy science fiction audiodrama podcast. Find transcripts, media kit and more at www.oblivitypodcast.com  Say hello on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook @oblivitypodcast 104: A Cyborg Meets His Maker Cast Commander Falconer - Cate Nunn First Officer Christy - Hannah Wilmshurst Officer Burney - Max Windich Officer Lowell - Ashley Hunt Orpheus - Guy Grimsley The sinister voice - Phil Cotterill Commander Mink - Clare Denton First Lieutenant Adams - Ashley Harvey Officer Banks - Rachel Wilmshurst Phoebe - Helen Stringer Creative Created by Rob Stringer Sound by Joe Carr Music by Tom Ashton  

Today is the ultimate episode in the Adversaries series in which Scott "DrainSmith" and I build one nemesis each. We also get to talking about what makes for a good nemesis, rival or minion. It's a great episode and a wonderful conclusion! In this episode, Scott shamelessly mentions his Dispensary of Genesys which is a one-stop shop for all amazing things Genesys! Also, you might have noticed the new artwork I have for the podcast! Thanks to Scott for that! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/excess-advantage/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/excess-advantage/support

Ethan Chiel, Catherine Cusick and Dana Snitzky share what they've been reading and nominate stories for the Top 5 Longreads of the week.

Welcome to the penultimate episode in the Adversaries series! Today I am joined by none other than Scott "DrainSmith" himself as we build a few adversaries! During the build process, we not only tell you what the numbers are but why we choose what we do and workshop things a bit. Do note, though, that the adversaries Scott gives us are straight from his Something Strange setting while my adversaries are off the cuff. Since it takes longer than just half an hour to design two minions, two rivals and two nemesii, it's been broken up into two episodes. So keep a look out for the exciting conclusion next time! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/excess-advantage/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/excess-advantage/support

In this episode, join Katie and Olyvia as they discuss their relationships with food, snooty family members, and their Gynecologists.

Tyler, Tim, and Vince discuss Randy Gregory, Jason Witten, and Bridge. They are also joined by Indie Game Developer Matt Reeves via skype, where he shares his history in game creation and his newest game, NEMESES. He talks about his inspirations in the horror genre and his creative process.

Tyler, Tim, and Vince discuss Randy Gregory, Jason Witten, and Bridge. They are also joined by Indie Game Developer Matt Reeves via skype, where he shares his history in game creation and his newest game, NEMESES. He talks about his inspirations in the horror genre and his creative process.

2018 ends with a lot of grim dystopia type stuff involving social media services and the synergy power of media companies and internet providers. Meanwhile, Apple takes the unlikely step of lowering its ecosystem walls and adding Apple Music to Amazon Echo devices. We're going to need a lot of fuzzy puppies for this one.

Windsniffers, Roy’s run-in with Pablo Counago and the creation of Puppet Jim Magilton. Nemeses everywhere you look… See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Part II of my delve into making adversaries. Today is all about how to create them. I go step-by-step, following the book, talking about how each step works, with examples along the way. Just remember two very important points: • Step 1: Develop a Concept is the most important step. It informs all the decisions you make • Your PC sheets are the best guidelines you have. What works for one group might not work for another --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/excess-advantage/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/excess-advantage/support

Today's episode is the first in a series of 3 as we delve deep into adversaries and how they work. Part 1 is all about the mechanics of adversaries: how minions, rivals and nemeses work mechanically, as well as what they can bring to your encounters. Also in this episode, I talk about joining us on various platforms. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/excess-advantage/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/excess-advantage/support

As the Teen Titans movie (2018) taught us, every superhero needs an arch-nemesis. But what if that superhero is God? Or you? Tune in for our discussion of comics, heroes, and the shadow side of being a person. Music Credits "Love Is Like" Words & music by Benton Stokes and Dennis Dearing. Available on Turn Off The Moon. (CD on BentonStokes.com; digitally on Amazon and iTunes) Our theme music: “Moving On (Feels Pretty Good)”. Words & music by Benton Stokes. Available on Grace & Gravity  (CD on BentonStokes.com; digitally on Amazon and iTunes) Copyright 2018 Songs From the Basement (BMI).  All Rights Reserved. Used by Permission. What's your experience of your shadow side? Do you believe God and Satan are locked in an eternal battle? Tell us what you have experienced or believe, especially if it's different than what we say. Or, if there's an arch-nemesis/hero pairing that you love or that you relate to, tell us about it!   Comment at www.cocktailtheology.com, or email us, or stalk us on all the public media. If you like what we do: Please share us with your friends; review us on iTunes and Stitcher. Give to the continuation of our work on Patreon (http://www.patreon.com/cocktailtheology) And, especially, let us know what you think! We want to learn from you: info@schoolforseekers.com

The gang talk about their worst nemeses from gaming. Dota 2 magicians, evil JRPG electricity corporations, and giant '@' symbols all deserve our animosity. But there's also the orcs of Middle-earth: Shadow of War, the ghosts of The Evil Within 2, and brutal robots of Tekken 7. We have enemies everywhere. Links: EA closing down Visceral Games: https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2017/10/17/ea-to-close-dead-space-studio-visceral-in-development-star-wars-game-moving-to-vancouver/ ADOM is available on steam: https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2015/11/18/adom-steam/ Middle-earth: Shadow of War review: https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2017/10/05/middle-earth-shadow-of-war-review/ In Shadow of War, revenge is sweet: https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2017/10/12/middle-earth-shadow-of-war-revenge/ UK govt respond to loot crate questions: https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2017/10/17/uk-government-responds-to-loot-box-questions-vaguely/ The Evil Within 2 review: https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2017/10/16/the-evil-within-2-review/ The weird Evil Within snail is creepy: https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2017/10/17/the-evil-within-2-snail-logo/ Tekken 7's character customiser is cool: https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2017/06/19/tekken-7-outfits/

The longest interlude we've ever recorded, by far! So many questions answered! The name of this episode is most certainly not "Lightning Round". Show Notes: Run Time: 83:50 We cover tons of characters in this episode. A ridiculous amount of them. And almost as many different stories. Ready for hopping all over the place? Strap in - it's going to be a bumpy ride! Just after the 50 minute mark, Adam and Christopher have a debate about who would win in a fight between two villains, and Adam actually convinces Christopher! It's a surprising outcome for everyone. Rather than listing all the characters we talked about, here's a list of the things we didn't talk about, even though we did get questions about them! Galactra Quetzalcoatl Major Flay Seer Idolator Revenant Green Grosser Blood Countess Zhu Long All Slaughterhouse Six members Those characters all do count as Nemeses, but their stories have to wait for the episodes they are important in, so feel free to ask more questions about them. Here's the next month's schedule! August 1st: Argent Adept August 8th: Akash'Bhuta, Akash'Thriya, and more! August 15th: Visionary/Dreamer August 22nd: RevoCorp/Benchmark August 29th: Gen Con Live! August 31st: Post Gen Con Retrospective Interlude If you're at Gen Con, come to the Gen Con live recording on Saturday at 3:00! Get your Argent Adept questions in now! See you next week!

Is Ra the true Egyptian God of the Sun, or just a madman with the power of fire? Or, is he something else entirely? Show Notes: Run Time: 106:57 We start with a quick overview of who Ra is, and then start breaking down his long and somewhat convoluted story. Let's dig right in. In the first ten minutes of the show, we reveal Ra as a villain (of sorts) and then kill him off (sort of), and not at all as a joke! And it's not even the most exciting ten minutes of the show! Starting just before the seventeen minute mark, Adam attempts to name all nine of The Ennead. He does... OK. More on those folks next week! Around 28 minute in, we start getting into just HOW all of this Egyptian mythology stuff has been translated into modern Sentinel Comics. Lots of great questions in today's episode, with a ton of story stuff covered entirely in the Q&A segment. At 55 minutes, we get a question that sparks a REALLY long answer with a ton of story. Enjoy! Wow, this is a long episode. Whew! Lots of big reveals in the future section. We talk about the future of a minor side character from the card game timeline and what happens to them in the Tactics timeline. And then! In the RPG timeline section, we go into SPOILERS! Skip from 96:55 to 103:55 if you want to avoid major story spoilers for the RPG. In a couple days, we're recording the episode about The Ennead AND the interlude about Nemeses! Get your questions in now!

First, we talk about how you want your cadaver to be treated. Then, Quinn wants to know how Jim would vanquish his nemesis. You can get all sorts of sick merch at our Redbubble store here: https://www.thejupiterboys/shop  Special thanks to Christo Graham for the use of our theme music: http://christograham.bandcamp.com Don't forget to get in touch with us using the hashtag #cherrytimbit Email us at thejupiterboys@gmail.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/thejupiterboys Please consider giving us a rating and/or review wherever you listen to podcasts. That'd be rad as fuck.

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Happy Superhero Friday! In this installment of Anything-Goes, I, your fearless blog post-writer, come out from behind the curtain and join in the discussion. I join Brian and Sarah in this episode and we cover a lot of material. Since I'm part of the discussion this week, what you'll find in the blog post is information you never really cared about in regard to manatees. And why they are our nemeses. In This Episode MADNESS! March Madness & the like... Of The Week: TV Shows, music, movies, lifehacks Presidential Debate: Gender Swapping Manatees Manatees, aka Sea Cows, are our nemeses. Why, you ask? We hate to totally blame it on rhyming, but that's largely why this phrase began to get tossed around. Interestingly, though they are often colloquially referred to as sea cows, they are more closely related to elephants. Their slow nature and tendency to be eaten by other animals is slightly contradictory to their ability to swim swiftly. I might label elephants as majestic, but certainly not graceful... And that might be owed to the animated Disney film Jungle Book which portrayed elephants trampling down through the forest. Poor manatees. It's not their fault they look so goofy. Evolution has been incredibly kind to some creatures, and incredibly cruel to others. Isn't it funny how we can look at an elephant and think, 'How majestic!' or watch a panda in captivity for extended hours at a time via live stream... then there are also animals like the blobfish (named one of the top 20 ugliest animals on Earth). Animals have such a different purpose than humans do on Earth. Their only fault is our perception of their appearance. Manatees spend 8 hours a day gathering food for their young and because of their slow-paced lifestyles, they only reproduce every 2-5 years. Their entire workday is spent ensuring their kiddos have enough to eat. And not just making money in order to buy the food to bring home the bacon, but literally bringing home bacon. Except... not literally bacon because manatees are herbivores. Imagine if we spent 8 hours a day gathering food for the people we were responsible for. Imagine acknowledging what we were capable of and living within our means. Links Star Wars Minus Williams (Auralnauts) Trump Clinton Debates: Gender Reversal The Real Brian Show Facebook Group!

Physician zap thyself by Ian Woolf, Paddy Neumann talks about testing his electric rockets on the International Space Station. Nemeses by Jonathan Coulton, Production checked by Charles Willock, Produced and presented by Ian Woolf Support Diffusion by making a contribution

Today, we discuss some of our favorite ways to include enemies in RPGs. This week is all about the big dogs of the antagonist set: the archenemies. Enjoy!

Asthma drug rejuvenates brains by Ian Woolf, Yeshe Fenner talks about Virtual Observatories, Natalie Lister talks about eating potassium to defeat harmful effects of salt in your diet. Nemeses by Jonathan Coulton. Production checked by Charles Willock, Produced and hosted by Ian Woolf Support Diffusion by making a contribution

Fasten your tin-foil hats securely, as Andy and Will delve into the murky world of conspiracy theories. Assassination plots, Martian civilizations, mysterious ionosphere research—and how The Establishment will wipe your memory when you've finished listening. PROOF THAT THE CYDONIA FACE ON MARS IS ARTIFICIAL vs. NASA's takedown; HAARP; Starfish Prime; Strange Sounds in the Sky; Flight of the Navigator; The Forgetting Pill Erases Painful Memories Forever; Obama's birth video; Reptilian Kitten Eaters; A Study in Emerald (pdf); This American Life 453: Nemeses. Tracklist 65daysofstatic – The Conspiracy of Seeds Muse - Knights of Cydonia Frou Frou - Shh The Lion King – The Circle of Life Led Zeppelin – Stairway to Heaven (backwards) Jonathan Coulton – Nemeses (feat. John Roderick) paranoid sadie by Regan St Barth iguane "Iguana delicatissima" by muscapix Send feedback and comments to show@scienceoffiction.co.uk.

Northwest Theological Seminary presents a study of the Life of David, taught by Academic Dean James T. Dennison during the Fall 2009 and Spring 2010 semesters.

This week's superhero's phone booth is filled with a sultry girl gorilla. Would it even get to the point where she gets shit thrown at her? Turns out she's got large breasts. Does that change anything? A swollen ass? A G-string? No? Well, then you and Warren don't share tastes in sultry gorillas. Next, Warren insists we all know the song by ZZ Top, She's Got Legs. What is the feminine version of the line, "She's got legs, she knows how to use them"? I'm sure you have better ideas than we do. Let us know via email (maskedman@limitedappeal.net). Theme music courtesy of General Patton vs. The X-Ecutioners and Ipecac Recordings.

This week's superhero's phone booth is filled with a sultry girl gorilla. Would it even get to the point where she gets shit thrown at her? Turns out she's got large breasts. Does that change anything? A swollen ass? A G-string? No? Well, then you and Warren don't share tastes in sultry gorillas. Next, Warren insists we all know the song by ZZ Top, She's Got Legs. What is the feminine version of the line, "She's got legs, she knows how to use them"? I'm sure you have better ideas than we do. Let us know via email (maskedman@limitedappeal.net). Theme music courtesy of General Patton vs. The X-Ecutioners and Ipecac Recordings.