Demon Copperhead

Demon copperhead

This is one of my favorite books as the audio book is read in a country accent. I love to hear a country accent in anything as long as they dont make them a joke, they go into that in the book a bit and I like that response to it. Demon, magot, and Angus are the best characters I have seen in a long time. I thought that magot was going to have an anti-gay plot line but i am happy i am happy that did not happen. Love that demon and angus had a fairly good relationship. I still hate that lady that got him hooked on drugs, i do not like the girl that gets him hooked on drugs and has him living in a falling apart house. Both of them are hurt people and do not deserve it but I do not like her. The book left me wanting more but i understand why they would want to end it thare, most if not all of my needs are met with this book.

The competition

Each season covers an obscure, real-life competition and follows the contestants until there is only one left standing.

I only listened to the 2ed season as I am not that interested in the piano competition, but I am interested in the la mister leather. All the guys in this are super interesting. The audio design is really good. Folks should take notes on this podcast if they are waiting to make a podcast. Some of the interviews are a bit quiet when compared to others. 

Hand in glove

Jake Corliss is a 26-year-old "quadruple-A" pitcher trying to get one last shot in the majors. Javy Correa is a 22-year-old catching phenom ready to take baseball by storm. They're both about to meet in the minors for the first time, though, and when they do, they'll find something neither of them ever expected.

Never going to shut up about gay romance, they do a lot of things well. There are some parts that I think could have been done better but other than that I have no real issues with it. When Javy Correa starts to speak Spanish it never does not make sense. I think there's a lot thay choud do if they wanted to so many good hooks very well baited. 

Drive by Yamada Hamachi - manga

Nagisa Yamagami is a high school girl in her rebellious phase. Constantly in trouble at school, she has even abandoned her one redeeming quality - ballet - in opposition to her mother’s wishes. However, on the way home one day, a chance encounter with a blind teenage boy in the middle of town changes her fate drastically.

i am a huge fan of this art styel, it  felt as if i had read something they had had a hand in art whys. its a real short read as it is a oneshot, whoud not be mad if it got a lot more chapters going a bit more around the other folks in the bar. thare is a real cute part in witch the mc is cared doun stairs in to a underground bar, the folks helping her are some stareyo tactical punks. when i first saw the drag qween i did not realise that we were to know who that is but you most likely will get it by the next page.

autocorrect and the record

I read “Autocorrect” by Ellen Xu and listened to “The Record” by Boygenius, and I think that doing this it has uplifted both autocorrect and the record and made them better in my eyes. Both are about connections with others and wanting to be with them. 

In Autocorrect, Ellen speaks about her relationship with her father. Their relationships began to strain from the stress of her father living in another country to work, all the way in China. She talks about how sad and angry she is from her father's choice, and how all the promises he made are now null and void. She says 

“I just had my first driving lesson today and don’t you remember promising me years ago that you would be the one to teach me to drive” 

This line hit me like a hurricane hits a straw house. 

The first song on The Record “Without You Without Them” is about how the singer would not be the same person without their partner's parents but their grandparents. 

“Thank your father before you

His mother before him

Who would I be without you, without them?”

This shows what to know about another person to not only know them but their history, they thank their partner's ancestors, saying they would not be the same person without them. Later in the song they speak about the want to be known and to know someone else 

“Speak to me, speak to me, speak to me

Until your history's no mystery to me”

“I want you to hear my story and be a part of it”

Both speak of a want to understand the other to be close to them, the want to know them. With the record, it’s the want to be known and know, with Autocorrect it is the want to be with someone and share a history. Both of these texts have similar themes and that is why i think they bring out the best in each other, like players in a game of basketball when alone they can work but when together they will win.

Badlands cola

Badlands Cola is a cinematic mystery/horror audio drama about eldritch fossils, hate-flirting, and liminal nightmares that yawn wide in the night. In a desert town full of strange fossils and even stranger people, a hard-hearted PI and a broken-down radio DJ attempt to dig up the skeletal past of a cult before it can reform. I don't think this podcast is that good. It has some interesting things that they could have gone further into like the house or the repeating town. I feel like the podcast goes too much on the “hate-flirting” and not on the horror of bone gods and house of leaves style homes. There are a lot of hooks none of them are baited correctly so i just don't what to bite