Sunday, March 25, 2018

Weekly Shenanigans

Monday
5 AM* - Mark Reads Games Wizards Play - Chapter 16.1
1 PM - Mark Watches Alias - 3x10 Remnants

Tuesday
5 AM - Mark Reads Night Watch
 - Part 19
1 PM - Mark Watches Alias - 3x11 Full Disclosure

Wednesday
5 AM - Mark Reads Games Wizards Play - Chapter 16.2
1 PM - Mark Watches Alias - 3x12 Crossings

Thursday
5 AM - Mark Reads Night Watch
 - Part 20
1 PM - Mark Watches Alias - 3x13 After Six

Friday
5 AM - Mark Reads On Ordeal: Roshaun - Prologue
1 PM - Mark Watches Alias- 3x14 Blowback

As always, please remember that all video exchanges are to be done in the Black Market, which you'll find linked in the sidebar.

*All times listed are in the US Pacific timezone.

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14 replies · active 376 weeks ago
OcamposMoon Plays Secret of Mana/Tales of Berseria

salamando salamander
Current playing progress: Svavfurq Vzcrevny Ehvaf

Current writing progress: Ice Country

Posts will be released anytime up until Friday this week.

Links below go to previous posts for:
Secret of Mana
Tales of Berseria

Previous posts for both games can also be found on my website, quswan.net.

TWs will be marked by part.
44 replies · active 376 weeks ago
Coldrun Plays the Final Fantasy Series


"My trading cards change the law."

Ezel Berbier art by herzspalter, posted by djinn87.

All prior posts available at http://coldrungaming.blogspot.com.

Current progress: FF Tactics Advance and FFXIV (Heavensward).
37 replies · active 375 weeks ago
Alerting/Waiting/Flailing Post for Mark Watches Videos (for April 2 - 6 episodes)



This is where Mark lets us know when the new videos are up (they're usually uploaded all at once). Please do not try to buy a new episode until he posts here (or on Twitter) to say there's something new ready to download. SERIOUSLY.

Link exchanges and donations take place on the Black Market post. Below are links to the store page for the show (just click on the show title), plus a list of the episodes that we expect to be uploaded for the week.

ALIAS
3.15
3.16
3.17
3.18
3.19
1 reply · active 376 weeks ago
djinn Plays Hipster Games



This week: Backlog shenanigans and probably starting Beyond Good and Evil
6 replies · active 376 weeks ago
Plactus Is Now Caught Up With Game of Thrones

Last week I covered through 7.05 "Rnfgjngpu." Yesterday I watched 7.06 "Beyond the Wall," and today I finished season seven with "Gur Qentba naq gur Jbys."

I'm not quite done with Westeros yet; I have A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms and will get to that someday soonish, plus I have thoughts on what I've read of The World of Ice and Fire that I'll probably type up and post eventually. (And of course there's another season of the show, and maybe eventually more books.)

Unmarked spoilers through what I've seen and for all the books.

General Game of Thrones TW: Any related to blood/gore/injuries, war/violence/torture/death, slavery, misogyny, and sex (in particular, incest and rape/consent issues).
Specific to the last two episodes: Haqrnq/qrpnlvat obqvrf, onggyr ivbyrapr, sver/oheavat, qrngu (vapyhqvat navznyf), pbyyncfvat ohvyqvatf, vaprfg.
7 replies · active 376 weeks ago
djinn Watches Anime

Currently watching: Jojo's Bizzare Adventure - Battle Tendency and RWBY s2
2 replies · active 375 weeks ago
FYI four new Steven Universe episodes are available on the Cartoon network site (possibly only if you have a cable provider) and on iTunes (if you have a season pass). So spoilers will be out there soon, if they're not already.
The Road to Infinity War



aka: "let's rewatch the MCU up to this point to get HYPE"

Week 1: Iron Man
Week 2: Iron Man 2
Week 3: The Incredible Hulk
Week 4: Thor
Week 5: Captain America: The First Avenger
Week 6: Marvel's The Avengers
Week 7: Iron Man 3
Week 8: Thor: The Dark World
Week 9: Guardians of the Galaxy
Week 10: Guardians of the Galaxy 2
Week 11: Captain American: Winter Soldier
Week 12: Avengers: Age of Ultron
Week 13: Ant-man
Week 14: Tune in Next Week!

For this thread, I'll be using THIS ORDER for the MCU rewatch.

There will be plain text spoilers for the movies listed above. If you want to talk about a movie further down the line, please use rot13, just in-case there are folks who haven't watched them yet.
2 replies · active 376 weeks ago
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ink_gleams · 376 weeks ago

First time poster, hoping it's alright to appear with a question

Warning: I don't think what I'm saying here hits any of the listed triggers, but my question relates to sexuality, gender, and negative cultural stuff around both, so any resulting thread is likely to get more into that.

Hello everyone, I've been hanging around Mark Reads for a while after discovering he'd done all of Tamora Pierce, but haven't commented over there, not being up to date with any of the projects going on just now and holding out hope I will get to read them unspoiled in future. I feel like I've learnt a lot as a reader and as a person from the thoughtfulness and willingness to share personal experiences and connections to the text in Mark's reads of stories I loved and the comments of this community, even just reading through old posts.

So, having realised I could really do with some recommendations of books (or other media, though reading is a first love for me) addressing challenges I wasn't fully conscious of until recently, this community came to mind as place to start. I don't think it's on topic for anywhere over on Mark Reads, so I hope this thread is an appropriate place to ask, and that it's not too forthright to just pop up with this as my first post without having been in conversations before?

Assuming that's all OK, the question I have is: are there books/stories more broadly/other media things anyone can point me towards that (in general, or in your particular experience) have something good to offer around trying to untangle or counter (a) internalised sex-negative/repressive beliefs, even or especially where they don't have a very obvious source, and/or (b) negative associations with femininity, particularly as that impacts on being comfortable in one's own body. I'm coming into this from a straight and pretty much cis-female experience, but by no means looking only for mirrors of that in any recommendations people might have.

I realise that could be a rather heavy ask, so any and all suggestions appreciated, and if I've misstepped in putting this here or the phrasing used I apologise and am willing to be set right.
6 replies · active 376 weeks ago
The new STEVEN UNIVERSE episodes are up
4 replies · active 376 weeks ago
Pythos's Nostalgia Movie Re-Watch of Great Nostalgia!

This week: Krull [tw: spiders (including picture), child death]
Next week: Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
3 replies · active 376 weeks ago
Support/Action/Resistance Thread (73/208)

I was so happy to see the massive numbers of people marching this weekend!

And this does feel different somehow. I remember attending the March for Women's Lives back in 2004, and it was huge, but it was just in Washington. The 2017 Women's March, the 2018 Women's March, and now the March For Our Lives have all been national and even global. People aren't just marching in Washington. They're marching in Boston and Chicago and Boise and Omaha.

This is huge, and the Republicans are in for a huge surprise in November, because they are vastly underestimating the impact of this movement.
2 replies · active 376 weeks ago
URGENT Need to Save Dogs Before 2018 World Cup: https://theanimalrescuesite.greatergood.com/store...
An author I really like, Tansy Rayner Roberts, has created a kickstarter to republish an older trilogy of hers and add a new novella prequel to the series. Haven't read the original trilogy, but the world sounds interesting and I've enjoyed everything I've read by Tansy.

If you wanted to check out her work and see if you like it, she has a podcast that serializes some of her short fiction called Sheep Might Fly

Mark also read one of her stories as a patreon commission:
Part 1
Part 2


Actual train of thought:

"Aww man, I LOVED that book as a kid! And they don't really make light horror/mystery kids movies anymore, this could be gr- da fuq do you mean it was directed by Eli Roth"
3 replies · active 376 weeks ago
Here is my Journey stream from last week



Portal video coming soon, just had to edit it a little bit. Now it's rendering and after that I will upload it not sure how long it will take though
2 replies · active 376 weeks ago
UNEXPECTED FLCL

I love April Fools Day
1 reply · active 375 weeks ago
new post is up

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