I've Been Reading A Lot Of Books About Urban Naturalism Recently, And The One Big Thing They All Talk

you've got no reason to be afraid.

Y'all ever open a book on a new subject, read a little bit, and have to put it back so you can process the way in which your mind was just expanded?

Not to go "if you have ADHD just go for a run" or anything, but I am so serious if you have ADHD you should regularly go outside, no headphones no phone no nothing and just stand and observe for a while until you've had enough. Not until you get bored, until you've had enough. Drink your coffee without watching tiktok. Have a bath without music. Turn down the volume in your headphones. I cannot overstate how much learning to be bored is cruicial with ADHD. Life is not just about pleasure, no matter what your dysregulated dopamine system thinks, and when you teach your brain to be okay with being bored, then boring tasks stop feeling like torture. By letting yourself be bored you are yoinking your system out of the high/low binary and allow for the highs to feel like actual highs and not just anything that isn't low. I am so serious go literally touch grass. Listen to the sounds in your flat. Stimulate your body the way it was designed. It lowers anxiety and makes you feel like you're real and best of all it's completely free

why is religious Christmas imagery all so joyful and pleasant? where is the inherent horror of the birth of Christ? A mother is handed her newborn child, wailing and innocent. Her hands come away sticky. Red. Simply by giving her son life she has already killed him. He is doomed from the beginning. Her love will not save him from suffering. Because the thing cradled in her arms is not a baby, it is a sacrifice: born amongst the other bleating animals whose blood will one day be spilled in the name of what demands it. the night is silent with anticipation. Mary, did you know? That your womb was also a grave?

A Post-Season 3 Recommendation List

So you're all caught up with Where the Stars Fell, and somehow, by some miracle, your to-listen list is not a mile long. Be not afraid! While you wait for news of season 4, here's a curated list of other incredible fiction podcasts to give a try (and don't forget some of the amazing shows we've crossed over with like @ameliapodcast, Forgive Me!, and more):

For... - bisexual disasters - sharp, snarky dialogue - personal growth whether you want to or not, buddy

Small Victories @wgc-productions

A recently recovered drug addict tries to start her new lease on life; too bad life has it out for her. This dramatic comedy follows Marisol through the ups and downs of a week in her life.

For... - deeply damaged women falling in love - enemies to... well, you'll see - You Can Never Go Back To Who You Once Where And Thank God For That

The Pasithea Powder @pasitheapowder

On a faraway world, Captain Sophie Green is recovering from a war that ripped her planet apart and left her personal relationships for dead. Among the many atrocities committed on both sides was the invention of Pasithea Powder, a drug with memory altering properties. Thankfully, the drug has been eradicated and only a handful of scientists—now political prisoners—know how to recreate it. When Sophie sees one of those scientists walking free, she has no choice but to turn to an estranged friend for help.

For... - a Filipina lead (you can never have too many) - nontraditional supernatural fantasy - a quirky and well-developed supporting ensemble

Hi Nay @hinaypod

Hi Nay, literally translated to “Hi Mom”, is a supernatural horror fictional podcast about Filipina immigrant Mari Datuin, whose babaylan (shaman) family background accidentally gets her involved in stopping dangerous supernatural events in Toronto.

For... - intricate, naturalistic world-building - guy who wants to clock out so fucking badly but can't because Plot - slow-burn mystery with a crazy twist

The Night Post @thenightpost

In Gilt City, conscripted couriers are both respected and shunned. They inhabit the borderlands between a growing industrial society and the untamed, arcane frontier that surrounds it. The Night Post is a weekly supernatural audio drama about survival, tradition, and the vast unknown.

For... - one country girl making do who loves her truck and brain dumping into an analogue audio device - ambiguous situationships - american gothic and the apocalypse

Breaker Whiskey @breakerwhiskey

In 1968, two women find themselves in rural Pennsylvania during what turns out to be some kind of apocalyptic event. By the time they discover that everyone else is gone, it’s too late to figure out what happened. Despite not liking each other at all, the women work together to survive, until six years later one of them sets out on her own, driving around the country to find other survivors. This is her, calling out to anyone who might listen.

“when ur a mother” I am basically still a child hello????

Ace culture is feeling triggered when your parents or younger siblings say when you'll be a mother you'll...

Like I don't plant to unless adoption, but I'm like, 15 so wtf r u talking about??

Certain words can change your brain forever and ever so you do have to be very careful about it.

Wheat fields are more mystical than fields of other crops. You are 7,000 times more likely to meet an old god or see a portent of doom in a wheat field than in a field of like… soybeans.