2024

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welcome to my 2024 media log!

this is where i'll be tracking everything i read, watch, play, and etc this year. use the links to the left to navigate through the various months, or to filter the entries by media type or star rating!

i'm trying out a new method of tracking ongoing media like tv shows & podcasts for this year's log — last year, i ran into the issue of not wanting to log every single episode but not quite finishing a series, so my list didn't really reflect how many of those i'd been enjoying. this year, i've added a sidebar to track ongoing media, and i'll be adding a list of episodes to those entries as the year goes on!

some entries will have reviews or notes attached — click the + button next to the star rating when you see it if you'd like to read what i thought of it!

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by type:

total:

podcasts: books: films: tv shows: live performances: games: interactive fiction: short stories: articles: comics:

by genre:

horror: comedy: nonfiction: sci-fi: musical: literary: fantasy: romance: drama: action: memoir: thriller: mystery:

total goal:

/ 100 *

reading goal:

/ 30

beat the backlist reading challenge:

    / challenge source
  • fae or aliens - house of hollow
  • title contains a body of water - the deepwater bride & other stories (counting 'deepwater' as body of water, which might be a stretch lmao)
  • 4-word title — in the dream house
  • travel by ship
  • prominently features a desert
  • retelling of a classic - princess floralinda
  • small town vs. big city
  • queer AF
  • good vibes only
  • these woods hold secrets - small game
  • anything but a monarchy
  • published 100+ years ago
  • walk through history
  • door on the cover
  • 2023 debut novel
  • bird is the word
  • writing about writing
  • live in infamy
  • blurbed by a fave author
  • recommended via a newsletter or podcast - the left hand of darkness (via shelved by genre podcast)
  • tickles your funny bone
  • first in an unfinished series
  • on your TBR 5+ years
  • coauthored or illustrated
  • share the love
  • author last name starts with v - siren queen
  • it’s the end of the world as we know it
  • STEM stan
  • we have so much in common
  • between 300 and 400 pages
  • an unexpected inheritance - woodworm
  • neon colored cover
  • hotel, mansion, or castle - eat the rich
  • author and character share an initial - escape from incel island
  • character name is a color
  • let’s circle back to this
  • name that tune
  • popular throwback
  • sweet or spicy
  • 3+ points of view
  • coffeehouse reads
  • we all scream (for ice cream?)
  • that’s not my name
  • dance the night away
  • second chances
  • sibling showdown
  • I was framed!
  • anthology or omnibus edition — taaqtumi
  • released the 13th of any month
  • written by or about a (fictional) celebrity
  • creature feature - brainwyrms
  • space – the final frontier

monthly favorites:

january


in the dream house
carmen maria machado

february


ghost church
jamie loftus

march


balatro
localthunk

april


the left hand of darkness
ursula k. le guin

may


siren queen
nghi vo

june


something rotten
jacob geller & blake hester

july


the dead take the a train
cassandra khaw & richard kadrey

aug


you are good
sarah marshall & alex steed

sep


cuckoo
gretchen felker-martin

    january

  • 04-05 taaqtumi:  an anthology of arctic horror stories anthology horror
    + favorite stories:
    lounge - sean & rachel qitsualik-tinsley
    strays - repo kempt

    the arctic is one of the scariest places in the world, imo. i've never been all that far north — but i visited alaska for the first time last may, and even in a city there, the isolation of being surrounded by mountains in a place only accessible by boat or plane got to me, a bit. (i'm also not a fan of the cold, so make any horror story a little snowy and it immediately gets 10x scarier — there's a reason the thing is one of my favorite horror movies.) this book tackled arctic horror from a ton of different angles — sci-fi futures, zombie apocalypses, giant polar bears — and i think all of them did it really well! it was also really cool to see so many indigenous authors & see all the different interpretations of horror from an indigenous perspective. i definitely want to read more from a lot of the authors in this book.

  • 08 in the dream house - carmen maria machado book memoir, lgbt
  • 08 girltrash: all night long - dir. alexandra kondracke film musical, comedy, lgbt
    + watched with s. i asked a discord server i'm in for recs of their favorite bad-fun movies & got this in response, and 'campy musical lesbian battle of the bands' seemed incredibly up my & s's alleys, but my god this was not a good movie. i guess i did specifically ask for bad movies so i can't complain! it feels impossible that this is a movie from 2014 — the writer, angela robinson, also wrote one of my favorite movies of all time, d.e.b.s., in 2004, and this movie feels like it should've come a decade before that, not a decade after. still: a good movie to watch while drinking wine and eating latkes with my best friend, and not the worst movie we've watched together by far!
  • 09 swept away - dir. michael mayer theatre musical, drama
    + @ arena stage in dc; seen with e. & m. absolutely bonkers set design — the stage was set up to look like a ship, and the choreography made it really convincingly seem to sway with the waves despite it not actually moving — and then the ship lifts up to reveal the little lifeboat underneath that the 4 main cast members spend the latter half of the show on, and i fully lost my mind about how cool that was. (and the lifeboat spun, too!! love a lil turntable moment!!!) the music was all avett brothers songs, which isn't generally my taste, but i do think "1880s whaling ship" is the setting those songs were meant to be sung in. (and the singing was, of course, gorgeous — stark sands as big brother & john gallagher jr as mate absolutely killed it, and adrian blake enscoe as little brother was heartbreakingly endearing. just a little guy!!)

    also, at one point me and m. leaned over to e. at exactly the same moment and whispered, respectively, "FELLAS???" and "oh this show is GAY huh". as all good boat media should be.

  • 13 the wicker man (1973) - dir. robin hardy film horror
    + a friend of mine looooves the wicker man so i've been meaning to watch it for ages, and it did not disappoint! i wasn't expecting the amount of music involved (is this technically a musical??) but i loved it. if i were visiting an island i would simply be respectful and not yell about jesus to everyone rip to sergeant howie but i'm different
  • 13-20 house of hollow - krystal sutherland book fantasy, horror
    + i adore a good changeling story, and this one was really fun. i liked all the weird floral body horror & i think the reveal of what actually happened to the hollows was really well done. i wasn't as big a fan of the ending — evil women who care way too much about their siblings are one of my favorite character archetypes, so i was a bit disappointed that iris and vivi just left grey and agreed to go back to being helicopter-parented by cate. (like, sure, grey's actions weren't exactly good, but after everything the sisters had been through together, it felt sort of wild for them to just... separate like that.) i thought grey was way more interesting than iris in general; i don't know that the story would've worked as well with grey as a pov character, given that she knows all the secrets already, but i still wished for more insight into what she was thinking. still, i don't know if that's really a mark against the book as much as my own personal tastes in characters.
  • 21 psycho killer - escape tabletop games card game strategy, thriller
    + @ horror club board game night. played the base game + the drinking game variant.
  • 21 werewords - bezier games party game hidden role, deduction
    + @ horror club board game night. i joined the game late & didn't have a super good grasp on the rules, so i might've had more fun if i'd been there from the start? i love guessing things, but in a group of a dozen people i ended up feeling like i was hogging the guesses. would've been fun to have been the werewolf at some point!
  • 23 eurydice exhumed - sweetfish interactive fiction folklore, horror
  • 23 GONCHAROV 2074 - sweetfish interactive fiction sci-fi, heist
    + WHEN PHOTOGRAPHERS SUPPLANTED ILLUSTRATORS IN THE LAST CENTURY IT WAS NOT THE FAULT OF THE CAMERA NOR THE FAILING OF THE PENCIL; THE FAULT IS AND HAS ALWAYS BEEN IN THE BLOODIED HANDS OF CAPITAL

    • february

  • 01 my year in mensa - jamie loftus podcast nonfiction
  • 02 why don't we just kill the kid in the omelas hole - isabel j kim short story speculative fiction
    + The kid was the drop of blood in the bowl of milk whose slight bitterness would make the sweetness of the rest of Omelas richer. Without the kid in the hole, Omelas was just paradise. With the load-bearing, suffering child, Omelas meant something.

    And of course, it was true that the whole city literally ran on the load-bearing suffering child in a very real physical way that was not a metaphor. And everyone really liked having running power and no blackouts and good schools and low crime and community-oriented government and safe sidewalks and public transit that worked.

    Things got really toxic online. Then the third kid was killed.

    [...]

    The day after the lethal injection, the fifth kid was killed in the hole. And then the executioner walked out of Omelas, but no one paid attention to her leaving.

  • 01-03 ghost church - jamie loftus podcast nonfiction
    + fascinating podcast!! i love the genuinely kind attitude jamie loftus brings to the subject, and how she examines it through the lens of not judging what people believe and just reporting the history and the beliefs and the culture — i don't think i believe in psychics or seances or any of that, but i'm always far more interested in what stories people tell than i am in saying something is real or fake, and i appreciated that loftus seemed to come to this from a similar angle.

    also, all the history stuff was incredible — i've always really liked the story of the fox sisters, and now i want to read everything about them.

  • 10 jennifer's body - dir. karyn kusama film horror, comedy, lgbt
    + watched w the local horror club.

    truly one of the movies of all time. the guy behind me was judging all of the dudes who follow jennifer to their deaths for not noticing all the glaring red flags, but lets be real, if jennifer check asked me to come over to her house and it was spooky and abandoned and there were creepy candles everywhere and rats running around i would simply be too focused on how beautiful she is to care that i was about to die. rip to them but i'm different.

    but also jokes aside: this movie is so much about the inherent terror of being a teenage girl, and it feels so real in a way that i think is easy to overlook amidst the horror-comedy of it all. i mean, the inciting incident is jennifer being assaulted (slash demon-sacrificed, but like, the core of it is assault, right? she even asks the men if they're rapists while she's in their van, and they don't answer) and then not being able to explain what happened until weeks later, even to her best friend. and the whole town is too wrapped up in their own tragedy to notice. like, yeah, i'd start eating random dudes too in her situation! it all felt very true to life, while also being so incredibly over-the-top and campy in so many other ways.

  • 13-14 small game - blair braverman book literary, thriller, lgbt
  • 15 the thing - dir. john carpenter film horror
    + remains one of the movies of all time. a theater near me showed it as part of their revival series and so i got to see it on the big screen with a crowd, which was really fun — my first time watching it was winter 2022 while stuck in my apartment during a terrible cold snap and that was, i think, the ideal first viewing, but seeing it with a ton of other people was great in a totally different way. do you ever think about that little computer game blair somehow finds the time to program to tell him how long it'll take for the whole planet to become thinged. like surely it would have been quicker to calculate that by hand, but dude went the extra mile and gave it some flavor and i appreciate that.
  • 01/24-02/21 brainwyrms - alison rumfitt book horror
    + alison rumfitt is amazing at writing books that are exceptionally horrifying and dismal. tell me i'm worthless was one of my favorite books i read last year and was equally grim, but this one added a layer of grossness to it that was viscerally icky. one of those things where like, i can't decide what star rating i want to give this book, because it's horror so it definitely worked as intended by making me so bone-deep uncomfortable, but is 'worked as intended' more important in a rating than 'enjoyed the experience of reading', because i'm not entirely sure the latter is true? it was a very good book, but not, i think, the kind of book that was enjoyable to read, for the most part.

    i don't know — it's almost midnight, so probably too late for me to have just finished a parasite-horror book as someone who's scared to death of bugs (fingers crossed for no nightmares tonight), and probably too late to be questioning what the point of star ratings to review media is in the first place.

    the writing was fantastic, and the way all the narrative threads wove together was incredible to process as i read — even when i thought the book had run out of things to shock me with, the last page surprised me again. rumfitt uses unconventional writing choices (shifting from third to second person between chapters, social media interludes, a section written in script format, addressing the reader directly) really well. this book & tell me i'm worthless have both taken such huge swings at writing horror stories that aren't commonly told and playing with the narrative formats to really hammer those stories home, and i'm excited to see what rumfitt does going forward. it feels wild that this is only her second book.

    in summary: a really well-written & horrifying book that i probably won't ever reread, and wouldn't really recommend to anybody, because this (like tell me i'm worthless) doesn't feel like the sort of book you can recommend someone read without giving them a list of warnings that's about as long as the book itself.

  • 24 the 25th annual putnam county spelling bee (local theater) play comedy
    + my mom was in this at a local theater. fun show, i'd heard a few songs but never the whole thing. wish i had been warned the extent of the audience participation before i volunteered to spell a word in the first act but that's not the show's fault lmao.

    • march

  • 01 laughing stock (local theater) play comedy
    + a friend was in this at a nearby community theater! really fun show. extremely meta in a way that made me glad i grew up so surrounded by community theater so i felt deeply seen by all the in-jokes lmao.
  • 03 leprechaun - dir. mark jones film horror comedy
    + watched w the local horror club.

    fuck you lucky charms!!!

  • 02/26-03/04 the deepwater bride & other stories - tamsyn muir short story collection horror, fantasy
    + really cool to see how the ideas that would eventually become the locked tomb were ironed out through a lot of these stories. favorites: the house that made the sixteen loops of time; the deepwater bride.
  • 05 balatro - localthunk / playstack video game roguelike deckbuilder
  • 04-07 princess floralinda & the forty-flight tower - tamsyn muir novella fantasy
  • 10 holly star - dir. michael a nickles film romance / comedy
    + watched with s. & g.

    i truly have no idea how i even found this movie — it was on my letterboxd list of bad movies to watch with my best friend, but i have no clue when or why i added it. this movie wanted to be about 5 different movies at once, and then the last 10 minutes didn't match up with any of those previously established movies. there were enough moments where me & s. were both like "is this a horror movie??? is this going to become a horror movie????" that we had to pause and double check the genre on letterboxd. super creepy puppets (which i say not as a general puppet hater, i think puppets are neat in general, but these particular puppets are my enemies). a subplot involving a buried bag of cash, the mob, and a LOBSTER WAR??? which NEVER gets resolved because the real treasure is the christmas tree salesman she kissed along the way, or something. everyone in this movie is awful to each other constantly. the protagonist's best friend (who was, coincidentally, the best character in the whole thing) literally tries to kill her SEVERAL TIMES, including STAGING A MUGGING AND SHOOTING HER WITH A PAINTBALL GUN SO THE LOVE INTEREST THINKS SHE'S BEEN ACTUALLY SHOT???

    fucking bonkers, but in a confusing way rather than in a fun campy way.

    • april

  • 19 mamma mia! (25th anniversary tour) musical comedy / romance
    + incredible!!!! i've seen the movie but never seen the live show, and god, they absolutely killed it — the choreography was fantastic all the way through, and alisa malandez as sophie was to die for. any performance that can make me think a scene between a man and a woman is properly sexy deserves an award and jesus christ, lay all your love on me (pre-scuba divers coming out to cockblock) earned that award.

    (it did take me until after intermission to stop immediately thinking of brian david gilbert's vampire versions of songs, which is silly because, like, i know abba. i've liked abba music since way before that album came out. but i've been listening to my halloween playlist lately, which has all of those songs on it, so. took me a moment to remember that mamma mia is not about draculas. can you fucking imagine if it was though?)

  • 21 abigail (dir. matt bettinelli-olpin, tyler gillett) film horror
    + watched w horror club! ballerina covered in blood is always a good aesthetic & i would die for every monstrous little girl in media so i was sold the moment abigail started doing her thing. my wonderful daughter who's never done anything wrong ever.
  • 23 i'm not haunted you're haunted - lost-signals interactive fiction horror
  • 03/09 - 04/28 the left hand of darkness - ursula k le guin book sci-fi
    + god damn that last third of this book was fucking incredible. fellas is it gay to spend a months long journey trecking across an icy wasteland with your bro and then cradling him in your arms as he dies. (i really was not expecting him to die & was heartbreakingly blindsided by that. like, it worked, narratively, but man.)
  • 28 - 29 escape from incel island - margaret killjoy novella action, comedy
    + a fun quick read, though it didn't really pull me in as much as the other works of killjoy's that i've read.

    • may

  • 04 eat the rich - sarah gailey & pius bak comic horror
  • 04 - 18 siren queen - nghi vo book fantasy, magical realism
    + absolutely gorgeous book. fantasty isn't usually my genre of choice, but the way the mythology of the world was so woven into the way everything in the world functioned was so cool. a stunningly well-constructed world & the intimacy of every relationship felt heartbreakingly tangible.
  • 20 i saw the tv glow - dir. jane schoenbrun film horror / drama
    + (saw with e.)

    was this a good movie? deeply unsure about that question but i think probably not. did it have a lot of interesting gay & trans subtext? yes! did i leave it going "i feel like i saw 85% of this in tumblr kin drama callout posts in 2015"? yeah but that might be a me problem more than a the movie problem. or maybe not. who knows!

    a24 is really good at making movies that leave me going "huh. i don't know if that was good but it sure was a movie", and this is another of those. at points it felt like it was trying way too hard to be An A Twenty Four Movie (capitalization and all) in an uncomfortably self-referential way that made the whole thing feel flat. like, what are we even doing here? the actor for maddy was... not very good, and felt the whole time like they were trying to play Weird Autistic Dyke Character and not hitting the mark even a little bit.  *  justice smith, on the other hand, was fantastic as owen & played a lot of the same traits in a way that felt way more natural and less cartoonish.

    also, i think a huge problem with Media About (Fictional) Other Media is that 90% of the time the fictional secondary media property looks way more interesting than the thing i'm actually watching? what i'm saying is that i'd much rather watch 5 seasons of Homoerotic Teen Girl Psychic Horror Drama the pink opaque than watch this movie again.

    great fucking soundtrack though!!!! a frances quinlan/hop along song being the credits song fully jumpscared me. i was like HANG ON I KNOW THAT VOICE. i'll absolutely be listening to the soundtrack again even if i was pretty unimpressed overall with the movie itself.

  • 08 - 24 woodworm - layla martínez
    (trans. sophie hughes & annie mcdermott)     book horror
    +i absolutely adored this book. gorgeous writing combined with skincrawling details about evil toothaches and bricking up your husband in the walls and generational trauma and revenge. also, the cover (a hardcover without the plasticky jacket that most hardcovers these days come with, with a screenprinted (or at least screenprint-looking) design on it) is so beautiful!!

    • june

  • 12 the blair witch project - dir. daniel myrick, eduardo sánchez film horror
    + grew up hearing about this movie since i'm from maryland & a theater near me was showing it so i finally went to see it. it was really fun!

    • july

  • 06/20 - 07/09 the dead take the a train - cassandra khaw & richard kadrey book horror
    +so fucking good!!! note 2 self write a proper review later lmao
  • 24 lisa frankenstein - dir. zelda williams film horror, comedy
    + watched w the local horror club.
    extremely campy and fun. i want all of lisa's outfits in pink.
  • 28 lolita podcast - jamie loftus podcast nonfiction, media analysis

    • august

  • 16 suffs - shaina taub theatre musical, nonfiction (ish)
    + (cast note: chessa metz filling in as lucy burns.)
    saw this off-bway at the public a few years ago and it was super fun, and i really enjoyed it this time too! both in the off-bway and in the bway version the first few songs had me like "oh is this just gonna be Hamilton: This Time It's About Feminism" (aka: historical musical that overlooks all actual historical complexities and doesn't have anything to really say about politics in favor of fun songs), and i remember leaving the off-bway version a little unsatisfied but still having had fun, but this version feels a lot tighter & like it knows what it wants to say politically a lot more, though i couldn't quite place what changed about it to make it feel that way.

    also i love a piece of media that not only has main characters who are socialists/anarchists but ALSO has old lesbians giving EXTREMELY divorced energy. grace mclean as woodrow wilson was also hilarious.

    • september

  • 02 dungeons & dragons: twenty-sided tavern - dir. michael fell theatre comedy
    + (cast note: will champion's debut.)
    this was a fun show but i'd had a sort of horrible day & couldn't get the interactive portion of it (which is done jackbox-style through a webpage on your phone, where you vote or input answers when prompted by the actors) to work which made it way less enjoyable because i spent half the time trying to troubleshoot and getting frustrated. also, i ordered a drink at the theater bar before the show & got charged THIRTY THREE AMERICAN DOLLARS for a double whiskey ginger ale which should be ILLEGAL. this is not really the fault of the show but it did have me feeling absolutely insane.
  • 09/27 - 10/11 the sapling cage - margaret killjoy book fantasy, young adult
    + lorel i would die for u. literally cannot wait for the rest of this series to come out.
  • 20 dread - epidiah ravachol & nathaniel barmore ttrpg horror
    + just copy-pasting my reflections from texts with some friends:

    just played dread for the first time and everyone whos always talking abt how fun it is is so right that was such a blast

    i wasnt even expecting to game today (went to the game store for a figure drawing event, turned out theyd switched up the times on their website and the drawing event was earlier but they had a dread game for the time i got there, and since they know me there they let me join in for free) but ive always wanted to play dread bc im REALLY good at jenga and i got to put those skills to the fuckin test

    we did the 'high schoolers in a lakeside cabin' slasher story + i was a rich girl named noelle brighton who had frankly rancid rich girl vibes (things i wrote down in the character creation questionnaire included: she stole her twin brother's girlfriend in sophomore year and then pushed her brother into the pool when he found out and he just barely didn't drown, she once passed out during a cheerleading tryout which led to another girl's arm getting broken and she was so mad at that girl for ruining her chances of being on the cheer squad)

    after the first death we took a break and got out innocent/killer assignment cards handed out and noelle was the killer. i got into TWO jenga duels over trying to get a gun (both of which went on for so long that the other ppl gave up - one just decided to let me get it, before it seemed like i was the killer, and the other sacrificed themselves to end the duel and get the gun away from me. i didnt even end up ever shooting anyone with it ever) + ended up using a croquet mallet that i'd gotten out of my car in act 1 to throw at the last person standing and knock them off the roof before they could shoot me

    (a classic chekov's croquet mallet situation)

    and the croquet mallet throw was a 3 block jenga pull + i only had a minute on the clock to do it + placed the last block with literally 1 second to go. literally THE most tense i've ever been its been an hour and im still feeling the adrenaline lmao

    also they had us playing with a fucked up evil jenga tower where all the pieces were slightly uneven

    the croquet mallet throw was also the only kill i had to do directly (the others were someone fell (/was pushed by another character question mark?) into a lake, someone was electrocuted, accidentally shot themselves, etc) so it took SOOO LONG until that final confrontation for anyone to be sure i was the killer. and then i got away with it bc the character that probably pushed the football player into the lake was the only other survivor + she got put in jail for it instead of me lmao

    (noelle + that character also canonically hooked up shortly before this which we decided meanas they absolutely have some toxic yuri killing eve vibes going on in the imagined sequel)

    also scene 1 was literally noelle waking up covered in blood next to a dead body. which made it so much funnier that she'd convinced everyone she somehow wasn't the killer for so long. like i didnt know she was the killer at that point either but jesus christ girl

  • 21 the writing retreat - julia bartz book thriller, mystery
  • 27 calico - flatout games board game puzzle
    + played with liz. a delightful little game, i'd love to play more of it!
  • 27 pacific rim - dir. guillermo del toro film sci-fi
    + watched with liz & dom. continues to be the best movie ever made. see my pacrim shrine.
  • 05 the lair of the white worm - dir. ken russell film horror / comedy ??
    + watched with s. & g. incredible film. i am not immune to hot snake lady. i am only slightly more immune to peter capaldi playing bagpipes but he is giving extreme hot butch energy.
  • 05 the thing - dir. john carpenter film horror
    + watched with s. & g. do u think macready and childs kissed in the snow before they died bc i do.

    ongoing ↝

  • ➜ bluff city
    friends at the table     podcast sci-fi, ttrpg
    february

    to be young near the shore 0 1 2 3 4

    america's playground 0 1 2

    march

    america's playground 3 4 5

    engines on the track 1 2 3
    (was bored by the game mechanics in this one so i skipped it)

    bluff city zoo two 1 2

    give way to open sky 1 2 3 4

  • ➜ you're wrong about
    sarah marshall     podcast nonfiction
    january

    01/01 winter book club: amityville horror pt. 3 with jamie loftus

    series: the o.j. simpson trial 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16

    01/09 the battle of the sexes

    01/20 trafficking

    nancy grace 1 2 3 4

    01/25 the godfather

    february

    (* = patreon-exclusive episodes!)

    * 02/03 urban legends & "urban legend" (1998)

    * 02/03 how to become a police psychic

    * 02/03 dragging sia's "music"

    * 02/05 internet famous

    * 02/06 twitch drama, jk rowling, & the democratization of fame

    * 02/06 satanic-ass panic

    * 02/06 princess diana, the crown, & responsible storytelling

    * vicki morgan 1 2

    02/07 tiny tim

    * 02/10 book club: baby island

    * 02/13 the gay agenda

    * 02/14 anne hatha-hate

    * 02/15 spiritualism

    * 02/17 may december

    * 02/18 shakespeare in love

    * 02/21 book club: flowers in the attic

    march

    * book club: britney 1 2

    03/05 balto

    03/19 the oscars streaker

    april

    * book club: britney 3 4

    04/01 hoax spectacular

    may

    05/15 rosa parks

    july

    07/11 balloonfest '86

    07/23 has the supreme court always been...

    august

    08/05 rosie ruiz

    08/20 d&d and the satanic panic

    september

    09/05 the jane collective

    09/06 anita hill & matthew shepard & the wardrobe malfunction

    lawrence v texas 1 2

    09/19 y2k bug & michelle remembers 1 2 3 4

    09/20 the challenger disaster & the 2000 election & multiple personality disorder & obesity & columbine & 10th episode spectacular & snuff

    09/21 the newsboys' strike pt. 1 & pt. 2 & creepy encounters & the stepford wives & wayfair & murder & stonewall

    09/23 exorcism

    october

    10/04 koko the gorilla & killer clowns & mcdonald's hot coffee case & bonnie & clyde & gangs & the american taliban

    10/05 marie antoinette & tipper gore pt. 1 & pt. 2 & cancel culture

    10/06 anastasia & catherine the great & the welfare queen

  • ➜ behind the bastards
    robert evans     podcast nonfiction
    january

    01/04 the company that poisoned 300k babies

    nesara 1 2

    helena blavatsky 1 2 3 4

    orange county 1 2

    roger stone 1 2

    duggar 1 2

    the finders 1 2 3 4

    last days of l ron hubbard 1 2

    reality tv 1 2

    mosley 1 2

    ai cults 1

    february

    ai cults 2

    we can't put this guy's name in the title 1 2

    robert e lee 1 2 3 4

    tb joshua 1 2

    march

    steve jobs 1 2 3 4

    focus on the family 1 2

    dennis the menace 1 2

    fake doctors 1 2

    april

    how conservatism won 1 2

    beria 1 2 3 4

    forensic science 1 2 3 4

    may

    german parenting / darkest episode 1 2 3 4

    july

    dr laura 1 2

    christmas non-bastard: the tupamaros of uruguay 1 2

    paul schafer 1 2

    ichh: the time the cia dosed a french town 1

    RAM 1 2

    worst birth control 1 2

    class that made 200 child n*zis 1

    beau brummell 1 2

    the man who invented the military-industrial complex 1 2

    the family that stole malaysia 1 2

    how l ron hubbard lied his way to godhood 1 2 3 4

    paul manafort 1

    qaddafi 1 2

    paul manafort update 1

    soldier of fortune 1

    the bastard who executed the top n*zis 1

    phyllis schlafly 1 2

    rfk 1 2 3 4

    john ronald brown 1 2

    dave rubin 1

    pappa doc & baby doc 1 2

    king of con artists & india's most famous con-man 1 2

    renee bach 1

    residential schools 1

    nice, normal people 1 2

    bill gates 1 2

    august

    non-bastard: raoul wallenberg 1

    qassem soleimani 1

    basil zaharoff 1 2

    blue dawn 1 2

    reagans 1 2

    fritz haber 1

    most evil company 1 2

    louis van schoor 1 2

    bastards that kill diabetics 1

    excited delirium 1 2

    liberal media1 2

    thomas kinkade1 2

    september

    nobusuke kishi 1 2 3 4

    ebay 1 2

    worst police union 1 2

    saddam hussein: erotic novelist 1

    bin laden's hard drive 1

    curtis yarvin 1 2

    'troubled teen' camps 1 2

    october

    apollo quiboloy 1 2

  • ➜ live like the world is dying
    margaret killjoy     podcast nonfiction
    january

    01/01 s1e54: shane burley on conspiracy theories

    01/01 s1e71: emil on arctic hiking

    01/01 s1e66: eric on talking trash on traditional prepping

    may

    05/17 s1e117: inmn and margaret on "civil war"

  • ➜ my brother, my brother, and me
    mcelroys     podcast comedy
    january

    01/02 e692: the naming of 2024

    01/10 e693: run, don't wonk

    01/29 e696: robo wants an oreo

    march

    03/13 e702: accountability for crazy puffs

    03/25 e703: good darn podcasts & e704: cheques mix

    april

    04/01 e705: crispy cuppy puppies

    may

    05/17 e711: notice me, jerry senpai

    july

    07/07 e719: neon grimacis evangelion

    07/14 e714: snoopy's boy chuck

    07/14 e720: mariana trench warfare

    07/29 e722: are you public speaking?

    august

    08/13 e724: this mouth sound is gonna change your life

    08/17 e723: face 2 face

    08/21 e725: fevers named after colors

    september

    09/01 e726: hot dog think appointment

    09/24 e730: reverse liar liar

  • ➜ big game hunger
    jenna stoeber     podcast comedy
    january

    01/01 chansey boofy tangrowth

    01/10 plenty of fish

    01/31 level up to christmas romance, holly!

    march

    03/13 drowningman

    03/25 grapple apple pie
    03/25 dark soups

    april

    04/01 the musical: opening night rat heist

    04/16 birthday waifu surprise

    04/24 so you think you can family? prove it

  • ➜ cool people who did cool stuff
    margaret killjoy     podcast nonfiction
    january

    01/03 2024 q&a

    01/03 the diggers, the levelers, the ranters

    01/04 the vampires are on our side: antifascism in film

    february

    02/26 the earth liberation front pt 1

    march

    03/04 the earth liberation front pt 2

    03/11 & 03/13 oscar wilde

    03/18 & 03/20 the luddites

    april

    04/01 & 04/03 ada lovelace & lord byron

    may

    maria nikiforova & the anarchist battalions of civil war ukraine 1 2

    august

    joan of arc 1 2

    ben fletcher/local 8 1 2

    maria nikiforova & the anarchist battalions of civil war ukraine 3 4

    sex work in the american west 1 2

    orange alternative 1 2

    reichstag fire 1 2

    kronstadt 1 2 3 4 5 6

    frances perkins 1 2

    september

    tramp printers 1 2

    iww 1 2

    up against the wall 1 2

    german abolitionists 1 2

    the molly maguires 1 2

    the battle of cable street 1 2

    francisco sabaté 1 2

    josephine baker 1 2

    the korean people's association of manchuria 1 2 3 4 5 6

    catastrophe compassion 1 2

  • ➜ taskmaster tv show comedy
    january

    01/02 new year's treat 2023

    01/04 new year's treat 2024

    new zealand, s2 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    01/16 champion of champions 3

    february

    s9 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    april

    s17 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    sep

    new zealand s5 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

  • ➜ guy montgomery's guy mont spelling bee tv show comedy
    january

    s1 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

    october

    s2 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

  • ➜ wow if true
    isabel j kim & amanda silberling     podcast nonfiction
    february

    02/08 communism or incompetence & craving hole & everybody is using panels & free floss & crab rave for kissinger

    02/09 rip omegle
    the horrors

    02/10 locked in a grocery store

    02/14 wow if two

    july

    07/18 anonymity

  • ➜ shelved by genre
    ranged touch     podcast nonfiction / media analysis
    march

    series: le guin
    03/06 earthsea pt. 1 & pt. 2

    03/07 the tombs of atuan

    03/08 the farthest shore

    03/15 tehanu

    03/29 tales from earthsea pt. 1

    03/15 next stop christmas

    april

    series: le guin
    04/15 tales from earthsea pt. 2
    04/27 the other wind

    may

    series: le guin
    05/11 finishing the earthsea omnibus

    july

    series: junji ito

    ? tomie pt. 1 & 2
    07/19 uzumaki pt. 1 & 2

    august

    series: junji ito
    08/02 gyo
    08/21 remina

    08/31 sensor

    september

    09/15 final days of planet earth

    series: last herald-mage

    magic's pawn 1

  • ➜ game studies study buddies
    ranged touch     podcast nonfiction / media analysis
    march

    03/08 well met

    + i heard them mention this episode on a shelved by genre ep and got super curious, as someone who grew up super involved in ren fairs, so i listened to it on the train to visit friends. it was really weird, honestly? i'm definitely very interested in the subject (and should probably just read well met myself) but it's super jarring to hear people so outside of the ren fair culture talk about it like it's some alien planet, when, like. my family has been dressing up to go to our area's fair every year since before i was born, my aunt and uncle met both working at the fair, one of my oldest friends works with a traveling jousting troupe at various fairs, etc. even the interview at the end with someone who did work at a fair (and at the fair i've gone to my whole life, at that) was weird, since that person was still coming at it from mostly outside of fair culture. again, should probably just read the book myself! but what a bizarre listening experience????
  • ➜ a more civilized age: a star wars podcast *
    podcast sci-fi / media analysis
    april

    04/03 e01: episode 1

    04/04 e02: episode 2 & e03: the clone wars (2008)

    04/05 e04: ambush and the malevolence arc

    listened to too many without tracking dates so:

    05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34

    may

    05/01 35 & 36

    05/04 37

    05/05 38 & bonus: the kaiburr conspiracy

    05/08 39 & 40

    05/13 41 & 42

  • ➜ normal gossip
    podcast comedy
    april

    04/18 blood celebrity

    april

    05/15 sexy mushrooms

    05/21 minder, finder, & the grinder

  • ➜ sixteenth minute (of fame)
    jamie loftus     podcast nonfiction
    may

    hide your kids, hide your wife 1 2

    05/21 the dress

    july

    07/12 minisode: ai art & why we are not robots

    07/16 hq trivia

    07/23 suck my dick and balls i work for nasa

    august

    08/13 a fish fell from the sky

    curvy wife guy 1 2

    september

    09/03 left shark

    mormon influencers 1 2

    overly attached girlfriend1 2

    october

    ken bone 1

  • ➜ something rotten
    blake hester & jacob geller     podcast nonfiction / media analysis
    may

    disco elysium 1 2 3 4

    05/23 iron lung

    call of duty 4 1 2

    july

    07/12 senua's saga: hellblade ii

    07/17 exit 8/platform 8

    august

    08/03 indika/hellblade

    september

    call of duty: black ops 1 2

    spec ops: the line 1 2

  • ➜ you are good
    sarah marshall & alex steed     podcast nonfiction / media analysis
    july

    07/08 rosemary's baby & the changeling

    07/09 little shop of horrors & arrival & heathers

    07/10 saw

    07/11 terminator 2

    07/12 poltergeist & clerks & raw

    august

    08/07 die hard

    08/08 anastasia

    08/09 groundhog day

    08/10 jesus christ superstar & imagine me & you & bones and all

    08/13 but i'm a cheerleader

    08/19 don't tell mom the babysitter's dead & do the right thing

    september

    09/18 the hand that rocks the cradle

    october

    10/02 children of the corn & in bruges & maximum overdrive & the money pit & duel

  • ➜ american hysteria
    chelsea weber-smith     podcast nonfiction
    july

    07/14 all the other snuff

  • ➜ weird little guys
    molly conger     podcast nonfiction
    august

    08/10 do we really need to talk about...

    08/19 charlottesville

    08/22 lights out

    08/23 civil war false flag

    08/31 soldier of misfortune

    september

    09/19 white terror

    09/30 an officer & a skinhead

    october

    10/03 the fire will not consume us

  • ➜ the legend of swordquest
    jamie loftus     podcast nonfiction, history
    september

    09/19 the sword and the stoned & gentlemen, start your joysticks

    october

    10/01 the chalice

    10/03 descent into darkness

  • ➜ scam goddess
    laci mosely     podcast nonfiction
    october

    10/06 the culty con of teal swan