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erisiansaint) wrote2023-02-18 08:06 am
erisiansaint) wrote2023-02-18 08:06 am
TICKETS.
Ok, so five years ago yesterday, I bought two Jason Mraz tickets. I went with my sister. It was a HELL of a good concert, the musicianship was freaking fantastic.
Yesterday, the anniversary of the day I got those tickets, I bought a completely different set of tickets. (Much cheaper, too.)
I got front row tickets to go see the Old Gods of Appalachia tour! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA.
For those of you who don't know, Old Gods of Appalachia is a podcast of an alternate universe Appalachia, one where there were things so evil that the other gods imprisoned them in this little backwater planet in the middle of nowhere and raised mountains over them to keep them in. The natives to the place learned which areas to avoid, but much, much later, white men came and started digging in those hills. And they dug too deep. It's a horror anthology podcast, and while I generally truly dislike horror, I am absolutely obsessed with this podcast.
I learned about it because I get emails from Kickstarter and one for an OGoA RPG book came through. And I thought, "Huh, this looks like some real Manly Wade Wellman stuff," and I have been reading the Silver John stories since I was 13. So I backed it, and then mentioned it to a friend, saying, "X, let Y know about this!" (Y is the only other person I know who likes Manly Wade Wellman.) And X said, "Oh! He's all caught up on the podcast, he probably knows already, but I'll tell him," and I said, "There's a PODCAST?" (And if you've ever seen an anime where someone goes all heart-eyes over something, that was me at that moment.)
I started listening to the podcast and friends, I have to tell you, this podcast has grabbed me by the kishkes and will not let go. It skips around with time and place and characters during the different story arcs (anthology!) and the opening story, they give you one episode about the Witch Queen, then launch into a story arc of a completely different time, then give you another episode about the Witch Queen, then a story arc of some of the other chars from the first story arc, then finish off about the Witch Queen (for now) and then go somewhere else entirely and...happy sigh.
I listen on Spotify but the website has transcripts and some of them are so suspenseful that I had to read ahead on the transcript in order to finish the episode. The narrator is also one of the writers, and he's got this gorgeous voice: smooth in some places, just gravelly enough in others. It's LGBTQ+ friendly, it's diverse, but it doesn't shy away from some of the atrocities people have done to each other. (The nicest thing these people have to call the KKK are "fools".) If you check the website, they have employed diverse people to both be part of the voice cast and to check them on how they're speaking about what could be more sensitive issues.
I got so damned excited after listening to the first season of the podcast that I had to go back to the Kickstarter and up my pledge from the lowest (.pdfs only) to the level that gives the .pdfs, the music, the hardback book, the dice, the tin, and a number of other goodies. And then I found I could email the company doing it and rather than getting a refund for the original level, I put it towards the other extra that I'd wanted most: a plushie of Sam, who's a Good Boy. (He's a character in one of the much later story arcs, an old, blind beagle, who's fearless and good.) And they still refunded me the extra five bucks. I almost said "Use it to buy someone a cup of coffee," but it was too late. It's supposed to come out in March.
Ok, I'd been going to tell about the project I started, (I found a dresser for 20 bucks, I'm going to refinish it and use it in my room as a shelf for my game books and a dresser for craft stuff...and underwear.) BUT. I got myself started on OGoA and...well, you see the results.
Yesterday, the anniversary of the day I got those tickets, I bought a completely different set of tickets. (Much cheaper, too.)
I got front row tickets to go see the Old Gods of Appalachia tour! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA.
For those of you who don't know, Old Gods of Appalachia is a podcast of an alternate universe Appalachia, one where there were things so evil that the other gods imprisoned them in this little backwater planet in the middle of nowhere and raised mountains over them to keep them in. The natives to the place learned which areas to avoid, but much, much later, white men came and started digging in those hills. And they dug too deep. It's a horror anthology podcast, and while I generally truly dislike horror, I am absolutely obsessed with this podcast.
I learned about it because I get emails from Kickstarter and one for an OGoA RPG book came through. And I thought, "Huh, this looks like some real Manly Wade Wellman stuff," and I have been reading the Silver John stories since I was 13. So I backed it, and then mentioned it to a friend, saying, "X, let Y know about this!" (Y is the only other person I know who likes Manly Wade Wellman.) And X said, "Oh! He's all caught up on the podcast, he probably knows already, but I'll tell him," and I said, "There's a PODCAST?" (And if you've ever seen an anime where someone goes all heart-eyes over something, that was me at that moment.)
I started listening to the podcast and friends, I have to tell you, this podcast has grabbed me by the kishkes and will not let go. It skips around with time and place and characters during the different story arcs (anthology!) and the opening story, they give you one episode about the Witch Queen, then launch into a story arc of a completely different time, then give you another episode about the Witch Queen, then a story arc of some of the other chars from the first story arc, then finish off about the Witch Queen (for now) and then go somewhere else entirely and...happy sigh.
I listen on Spotify but the website has transcripts and some of them are so suspenseful that I had to read ahead on the transcript in order to finish the episode. The narrator is also one of the writers, and he's got this gorgeous voice: smooth in some places, just gravelly enough in others. It's LGBTQ+ friendly, it's diverse, but it doesn't shy away from some of the atrocities people have done to each other. (The nicest thing these people have to call the KKK are "fools".) If you check the website, they have employed diverse people to both be part of the voice cast and to check them on how they're speaking about what could be more sensitive issues.
I got so damned excited after listening to the first season of the podcast that I had to go back to the Kickstarter and up my pledge from the lowest (.pdfs only) to the level that gives the .pdfs, the music, the hardback book, the dice, the tin, and a number of other goodies. And then I found I could email the company doing it and rather than getting a refund for the original level, I put it towards the other extra that I'd wanted most: a plushie of Sam, who's a Good Boy. (He's a character in one of the much later story arcs, an old, blind beagle, who's fearless and good.) And they still refunded me the extra five bucks. I almost said "Use it to buy someone a cup of coffee," but it was too late. It's supposed to come out in March.
Ok, I'd been going to tell about the project I started, (I found a dresser for 20 bucks, I'm going to refinish it and use it in my room as a shelf for my game books and a dresser for craft stuff...and underwear.) BUT. I got myself started on OGoA and...well, you see the results.