My Immortal - Ep 2: Conor Unveils His Superpower
Added 2020-07-07 17:42:37 +0000 UTCConor is able to somehow follow the plot of My Immortal! A power that comes in handy when having to explain it to Mike who views it as somewhat more abstruse than the Voynich manuscript.
A packed if mercifully briefer episode than last time we steal mail (including some amazing mash-ups by our listeners), Mike fails spectacularly at Real Fanfic or Fake Fanfic, Conor dives to the dark web once again.
Oh, and the Sonic Challenges are among the best.
READING ASSIGNMENT FOR NEXT TIME: Finish this collection of typed symbols.
Comments
I think Tara might have used a thesaurus for that one, though so I'm willing to give her points for that.
Emily M
2020-07-19 16:53:10 +0000 UTCHot Topic was never called "Hot Issue"-- I believe our author just Dan Brown'd us.
Mark Burger
2020-07-17 16:51:56 +0000 UTCI believe you were going to post the complete Bertie Wooster fanfic, sirs? Please?
Bryan Olive
2020-07-16 23:50:53 +0000 UTCThis book is so terrible. I don't know why I hate this book more than Gritty Reboot Willow or Sean Penn Has Anger Management Problems but I do. I guess because the narrator is so damned BORING. I mean, yeah, the White Worm people were stuck in a lack luster slow motion horror where the events seems to just happen, and the Mister is a series of vignettes based around two idiots longing to bone each other and get even more boring when they do. But this is actively irritating.
Daniel Laird
2020-07-11 02:00:49 +0000 UTCI've listened to the 2006 Dark Web Tom Bombadil recordings three times, and as someone who has read LOTR 6 or 7 times, and the Silmarillion 1/256 of a time, I think Tolkien, the Oxford scholar who spend his life studying linguistics and etymology would approve of flammin tht betch 4 been a toadl posr an prolly a kloset prep and stuff.
Kerry S.
2020-07-10 02:06:42 +0000 UTCI truly love this. The adverbs, especially, are tops. (I must find a way to work "eyebrowingly" into conversation) Thanks, David; great job!
Amanda Martyn
2020-07-09 03:54:57 +0000 UTCI'm on Team It's All a Giant Troll. We've had some really rotten books on the podcast, but it's just not humanly possible to write this rottenly. (I hope.) Oh, and Mike, that name you were looking for, F. Scott Fitzgerald's editor, is Max Perkins. He's sort of an editorial hero of mine (no, I am NOT a gigantic nerd, why do you ask?), and I read his biography a few years ago.
Gina Dalfonzo
2020-07-09 00:41:18 +0000 UTCUgh. The Raven saga is so much more interesting that the framing story of House of Leaves.
Emily M
2020-07-08 18:05:29 +0000 UTCWe should suggest that as a cut-line on the print version: "I've thrown it across the room less often than Shadow Moon!"
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2020-07-08 15:17:25 +0000 UTCI felt the first episode featured a sincere, if deeply flawed writer, whereas this episode was all troll. If there's a theory that suggests the original writer stormed off and quit and then was replaced by someone parodying her style for maximum humor, I'd be in support of it.
Mike Truman
2020-07-08 14:43:15 +0000 UTCThis book is unequivocally wretched, but I’ve still thrown it across the room less often than Shadow Moon. Of course, it is also a lot shorter than Shadow Moon.
Justin Cicconi
2020-07-08 14:00:54 +0000 UTCNeed Dumbledore to recreate Merlin's "ta da ta da, ta da ta da, ta da ta da,ta da ta da"
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2020-07-08 13:41:03 +0000 UTCWow, kudos to Tara for the Deep CUT (get it cuz she's, etc)
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2020-07-08 13:40:19 +0000 UTCThis book reminds me of House of Leaves. Primarily because of the equally weird second narrative in the footnotes.
Rick Drake
2020-07-08 09:22:29 +0000 UTCThat Tom Bombadil voice actor sounds an awful lot like the Mexican Santa Claus
Thomas Shaw
2020-07-08 05:50:10 +0000 UTCThe despondency and sad tears in poor Mike’s voice...................................................It was Conor with a manuscript of “My Immortal!”
Eric Andrews
2020-07-08 03:46:48 +0000 UTCAfter hearing you guys try and plow through some of these sentences out loud, the two of you doing a reading of even just a few chapters would be amazing.
Christopher Dazey
2020-07-08 03:12:47 +0000 UTCYou mean of course the dark web recreaters from 2006 or so...?
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2020-07-08 02:40:48 +0000 UTCI thoroughly enjoyed Mike’s Tom Bombadil
Tyler Nagel
2020-07-08 02:24:37 +0000 UTCalso, I just realized that the main character's last name is Way because of Gerard Way, so maybe I'm kinda dumb
Urstoff
2020-07-08 01:28:40 +0000 UTCcrying n bustin in2 tearz all cool and slitting my rists outside of da school wen a cupel of guyz who wur up 2know good strted making trubl in my neighborhood
Urstoff
2020-07-08 01:24:21 +0000 UTCSt. Mungo’s is the Wizard Hospital.
Chariti Messer
2020-07-08 00:56:27 +0000 UTCSorry to be that lady, but Professor Sinistra is in the HARRY POTTER books - she’s the Astronomy teacher. She has one line and barely exists.
Chariti Messer
2020-07-08 00:21:10 +0000 UTCSo, here is a bit of fandom lore for you guys. In the mid aughts, "sporking" a fanfic was synonymous to "MSTing" it. My best friend and I used to do this on Livejournal back in our salad days, to some acclaim. We would find the worst, most egregious Mary Sue fics in the Harry Potter fandom, and we would tear them apart, quite in the same mean comedic spirit as you guys. Those were the days...
Anna Zaigraeva
2020-07-08 00:02:28 +0000 UTCA superpower requires an origin story and I really want to hear this one.
Bryan Olive
2020-07-07 23:27:59 +0000 UTCAll I have to say about this episode is RING-A-DING-DILLO you posr prepz!
Moviegique
2020-07-07 20:19:30 +0000 UTCHere's what that Boulevard of Broken Dreams cover probably sounded like: https://fontonascreen.tumblr.com/post/156380437757/discosbackfrogbait-astoundingbeyondbelief#notes Also, the reason Green Day gets thrown into the emo/goth pile is 100% Billie Joe's eyeliner and the fact that Boulevard and Wake Me Up When September Ends are sort of sad.
Emma Schroeder
2020-07-07 19:55:11 +0000 UTCYep, a quick peek of the bra strap, a few minutes of forgetting where or who she is, then................................................... solved!
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2020-07-07 18:46:29 +0000 UTCCalling My Immortal's story a plot is a bit of a stretch. It seems more like a bunch of random events happening one after the other to me.
Nathan Filizzi
2020-07-07 18:42:34 +0000 UTCI'm sure Susan Fletcher is hot enough--I mean smart enough to decipher the Voynich manuscript.
Augusta Vae
2020-07-07 18:42:17 +0000 UTCCould we do the Voynich manuscript next?
Moviegique
2020-07-07 18:33:24 +0000 UTCHere's the full text of David's wodehouse/gillesbie mashup: https://pastebin.com/fc6e9LRA
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