Teeth and fish and princes

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Last weekend I had a very annoying but not extremely painful toothache and made a dentist appointment for today, and in the following few days it got a lot better so I was hopeful she'd tell me it was just a temporary infection, especially since I'd just had a regular check-up a month before. Well it was that but I also needed root canal treatment and a filling, now a temporary one but I have to come back in January, etc. etc. Boo. And on top of that it hurt much worse today than it did yesterday - hopefully that'll pass quickly. In the meantime I still need to make myself eat and drink enough. Ahem.

Unsurprisingly I have done very little today after that, mostly reading and fishing on MCCI. I got another screenshot with Etho today, that was pretty cool, after the first one two days ago (I was so surprised that time I completely forgot how to go into screenshot mode and remove the hotbar etc.) And I saw Scar yesterday, that was also cool. I've now made it to level 33 and the first tropical island, and I finally had some better luck with cosmetics today though I still don't have the ones I want most (the forest witch hat, or any of the rods or wings.) Currently I'm wearing a normal witch hat and carrying a beach bucket, with the new eyeblossom cape, and I think it looks cute.


About a month ago I was asking for podcast recs and scintilla10 recommended The Two Princes. I enjoyed it a lot! I really enjoyed the romance between the titular two princes, they are very sweet. I also enjoyed most of the supporting cast, like Joan and Cecily and the Chamberlain etc. Seasons one and two have big adventures with just the right amount of humor to keep it (mostly) light-hearted; season three had a bigger villain (and tbh a bit of a predictable deus-ex-machina ending, though I didn't really mind), but more importantly it's also a musical with some very fun songs.

Season one has the least songs and is occasionally a bit heavy-handed in its messaging, but my biggest pet peeve was queen Lavinia. She's a terrible queen. Usually monarchies are just something I accept in fantasy stories, but what I can't stand even in fictional monarchs is a lack of care about the responsibility as a monarch, and Lavinia is full-on committed to protecting her son at the price of his own agency and more importantly in all likelihood the fate of her country. Yes they gave her a partial "what have I done" realization but that wasn't enough for me. I wish I could have enjoyed her working together with queen Atossa more. I was relieved that she didn't appear again directly in the next seasons.

Comments

[conuly]

Do you want more audiodrama recs?

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I would love some! Not horror or mystery, I want something more relaxed I can listen to without full brainpower, and I'm picky when it comes to actual play. Come to think of it I should maybe look for more comedy podcasts, I really enjoyed Cabin Pressure too.

[conuly]

Well, first things first, if you want more audiodrama in your life you can do worse than to pop by /r/audiodrama now and again or to subscribe to theend_newsletter_feed either here or in your email.

But let's see, suggestions, suggestions, no horror or mystery....

Sidequesting and Absolutely No Adventures are both fantasy podcasts that do exactly what you'd expect from the titles. Sidequesting is a little narrator-y.

The Adventures of the Rockabilly Space Force is... well, also pretty much what you'd expect from the title, except for the space force part. They're kinda more space losers.

Camlann has beautiful music, but I would've definitely gotten more out of it if I understood more about Arthuriana going in. So I don't know if you'd at all consider it apropos for "relaxed" or "listening to without full brainpower". Depends on how well you understand the mythos?

Connie Cosmos is appropriately zeerusty, cheesy in the best way, and I don't just like it because my name is also Connie. No second season, though I still hold out hope.

Both Dragon's Rest and Inn Between take place at inns. The first is more straightforward fantasy, the second features an adventuring group (probably not supposed to be a D&D group though this is a D&D-esque setting) "in between" their quests. The inn follows them around. The second is also pretty socially conscious, and at one point gave us an apology for featuring a story arc around a cop, so I can definitely say I recommend their politics. And also their stories, but.

Electromancy may or may not be what you're looking for right now. I can sum it up with the phrase "magical boarding school, child soldiers", and lemme tell you, the fight against colonialism is real. I'm not certain they quite hit the right balance between prophecies and teen dances and also the horrors of the imperial government, but they try.

Falling Star Radio has the weirdest dystopia I've ever heard of, and I think the lemons may be aliens? This may be an acquired taste?

Have Monster, Will Travel involves the search for a cryptid's family, and also lots of other random cryptids. Very light and fluffy, and their nemesis is practically part of the family by now.

His Royal Fakin' Highness is Hamlet as a modern day romantic comedy, and it works surprisingly well.

Hit the Bricks is an Oz-story, but I hesitate to recommend it because there's no second season and no news of one either. The songs are pretty catchy, though.

King of the Egg Cream may be a bit too noir-ish for you. Also, I thought it was historical fiction with Jews and it turned out to be Jewish historical fiction and I think I may have understood it all better if I were Jewish. Pretty funny, though.

Both The Storm Chasers and Warlock have been described by their respective creators as being inspired by anime + a really wild D&D game they played once, and boy do I believe it. I like Storm Chasers a lot, though it's another one on this list that urgently needs a second season. You may have trouble with The Storm Chasers if you cannot put up with flashbacks of emotionally abusive parents. Other than that backstory, though, the series is pretty light-hearted.

The Strange Case of the Starship Iris: everybody is gay while fighting fascism in space. Fascism turns out, btw, to be both inefficient and racist. Shocking, right? This may be a bit more serious than what you want.

I tried to stick only to the more light and relaxed options. You'll definitely want to consider the first two on this list, they're absolutely the lightest of the bunch.

[conuly]

BTW, I linked to Storm Chasers and Warlock because they are hell to look up. I assume you can find the rest of them by yourself. It's not a special endorsement.

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Thank you very much! I look forward to checking out many of these :D

The only one I know is Starship Iris, which is indeed a bit more serious than I currently want but maybe I will get back to it one day.

[conuly]

I feel, upon reviewing the list, that I should also warn that Camlann is recently post-apocalyptic with mythology. I let my love for the music catch me up and forgot that little detail.

[yhlee]

:support support: sympathies on tooth stuff

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Thank you :)

[scintilla10]

Commiserations on your tooth! Hopefully the treatment will resolve the pain. <3

Yay, glad to hear you enjoyed the podcast! Clearly I should listen to the later seasons, too. :D

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Thank you! My teeth are currently pain-free which is great.

Thanks again for the rec! I really enjoyed the later seasons too :)

[rainsometimes]

Merry Christmas!

I hope your teeth will feel better soon. Good on you for getting it checked out before it turned worse!!

Sadly I'm only into nonfiction pods, of which I am listening to many, mainly historical ones.

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Belated Merry Christmas, and Happy New Year!

What are your favorite nonfiction podcasts? In case I'm in the mood for something different :)

[rainsometimes]

I have a huge history interest so it's mostly that! I'm especially fond of chronologically progressing deep-dives, though not all of these are like that.

The British History podcast (https://www.thebritishhistorypodcast.com)
History of the English Language
History of Byzantium
Our Fake History (on historical myths and what the truth is)
BBC History Extra Magazine podcast (although their main site has gone subscription-only, you can still find the podcast for free on other sites)
The Siecle (French history 1815-1914)
History of India podcast (seems to be retired now but had many good episodes)
Pontifacts (papal history with rating of popes)
Battle Royale (French history with rating of monarchs)
History of Rome by Mike Duncan(the mother of so many history podcasts; finished years ago)
Revolutions history podcast by Mike Duncan (has also finished)
You're Dead To Me! (BBC lighthearted history)

But also:
History of Philosophy (Peter Adamson)
Screentest of Time (movie history, now coming out extremely slowly, but with a lot of episodes done to date)
The Infinite Monkey Cage (BBC lighthearted science)
Cutious Cases (also BBC lighthearted science, though i like the older seasons the best, when it was Curious Cases of Rutherford and Fry)
The Prancing Pony podcast (all about Tolkien's works)

Manga-oriented (though these are all kinda chatty; I like it when they have timestamps so you can skip directly to what you're most interested in)
The Gintama podcast
Read Right To Left
Manga Mavericks
Mangasplaining
Manga Machinations

[rainsometimes]

Also In Our Time, excellent long-running BBC radio program about all kinds of different stuff. The podcast version features a bonus discussion at the end.

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Thank you very much! Several of these sound very interesting :)

[rainsometimes]

Happy New Year!!

[nonesensed]

Teeth are a mysterious body part that seem to get sick and well according to the movements of the planets or something 😑 I hope your tooth issue gets fixed swiftly and expertly!

I'm curious about "The Two Princes" but my podcatcher doesn't seem to have it. Is "The Two Princes" the podcast's full title?

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Yep...
As a fun additional complication the ~national health insurance and the dentists' association are currently fighting over the cost of fillings, and if they haven't come to an agreement I might have to pay it out of pocket, so fingers crossed.

It's the full title as far as I know. I know next to nothing about how podcast availability works, unfortunately, but I hope you can find it :)

[nonesensed]

Argh, that's so frustrating! I hope it worked out as best as possible for you.

My quest for "The Two Princes" shall have to continue 😊