Necessary Tangents
By Arp1033
Kingdom Hearts playlist: open.spotify.com/playlist/2uSrrCIPI1l9NOeOTBFGht?si=13dcc90840b64342
Metal Gear playlist: open.spotify.com/playlist/12cHYPAm3hJCQmTn9uTmh6
Necessary TangentsMay 06, 2024
Episode 200: Berserk featuring Autumn
CW for sexual assault, death, murder, gaslighting, brainwashing, betrayal, violence towards children, child death.
Alis and Autumn talk about how much Berserk means to them. Go read Berserk.
Episode 195: How Are There Still 4 More Episodes?! Featuring Autumn
CW: Gundam Wing CWs
Autumn and Alis talk about episodes 44 and 45 of Gundam Wing, they are so close to finishing they can taste it!
Music and art by https://ashenthorns.art/
Episode 194: Return of ASM-YARRRR featuring Autumn
CW: Standard Gundam Wing stuff
Autumn and Alis be pirates on the high seas who also watched Garr-dum Wing episodes 41 and 42 farr some reason. Arr.
Music and art by https://ashenthorns.art/
PODCAST SCHEDULE UPDATE
No CWs, just listen to it!
Episode 193: No Really, Go Play Lies Of P featuring Rhea
CW: Discussions of death, murder, body horror, what it means to be human, familicide, gaslighting, betrayal
Rhea and Alis talk about Lies of P, a very good game everyone should give a shot.
Music and art by https://ashenthorns.art/
Episode 192: QUIZ TIME featuring Autumn
cw; no major CWs
Autumn does a little Gundam Wing quiz to see how much attention she has been paying. Can you guess how Autumn does?
Music and art by https://ashenthorns.art/
Episode 191: Oh Right, The Plot! featuring Autumn
CW: Child soldiers, death, war, PTSD, trauma.
Autumn and Alis watch more Gundam Wing (episodes 38-41) and the plot has decided to actually happen but also just all at once there is so much going on.
Art and music by https://ashenthorns.art/
Episode 190: Everything Is Small, Especially Space featuring Autumn
CW: Child soldiers, death, murder
Alis and Autumn watch Gundam Wing episodes 35-37 and stupid human brains cannot comprehend how big space is.
Episode 189: Chumped by Chumps featuring Autumn
CW: Gundam Wing
Alis and Autumn talk about episodes 33 and 34 of Gundam Wing where to killer death robot cockpit AIs are introduced in quick succession. I am sure it will be fine...
Art and music by https://ashenthorns.art/
Episode 188: Duo/Dorothy OTP featuring Autumn
CW: Standard Gundam Wing affair, Alis finds some gross fanfic (nothing is read from it)
Autumn and Alis talk about episodes 29-32 of Gundam Wing and they are bad.
Episode 187: Quatre Has A Normal One featuring Autumn
CW: Gundam Wing Standards
Alis and Autumn discuss Gundam Wing episodes 23-26 in which everyone has a normal day and no one pilots a super death berserk machine, no sirree.
Music and art by https://ashenthorns.art/
Episode 186: Deck-top-lits featuring Autumn
CW: Death, violence, child soldiers
Autumn and Alis watched episode 19-22 of Gundam Wing and WOW even one more episode than normal is brutal!
Music and art by https://ashenthorns.art/
Episode 185: Serious Sonic featuring Ashe and Autumn
CW: Violence, Sonic Shinanigans
Ashe and Autumn talk about Sonic but not in a mocking way, for once!
Art and music by https://ashenthorns.art/
Episode 185: And Then You Record The Rest Of The Bleach
CW: Death, weird sex stuff
Alis finishes out what happened in Bleach because even though there was almost half the manga to still get through, no really, there actually isnt too much left to talk about!
Art and music by https://ashenthorns.art/
Episode 184: Wait, This Isn't SheRa! (Featuring Autumn)
CW: death, murder, child soldiers
Autumn and Alis watch episode 16-18 of Gundam Wing and find out they have been mispronouncing Quatre's name this whole time, whoops!
Episode 183: A Ki(ki)cophony! Featuring Kiki Rose and Kiki
No major CWs.
Alis, Kiki and... Kiki talk about Kiki's Delivery Service! It is a cute movie talked about by a couple cuties!
Art and music by https://ashenthorns.art/
Kiki's plug: https://www.crunchyroll.com/series/G69P2WZDY/shiki
Kiki's plug: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5537002/
Alis' plug: https://wohgame.com
Episode 182: This Was Supposed To Be About Creepy Pasta featuring SymphonicPink
CW: Death, murder, morbid humor.
Alis and Pink start to talk about CreepyPasta from the old internet but then get distracted and talk about weird Pokemon fan games instead.
Art and music by https://ashenthorns.art/
Pink's stream: https://www.twitch.tv/symphonicpink/
Episode 181: Techincally We Played 2.5 Truths And .5 Lies feautruing Kiki and Kay
CW: Sexual assault, injuries, Tsukihime
Alis, Kiki (no a different one) and Kay play Two Truths And A Lie which was super fun and we totally didn't get off topic at all, nope totally.
Art and music by https://ashenthorns.art/
Kiki's stream: https://www.twitch.tv/gogglesgirl
Kay's stream: https://twitch.tv/aurorazeros
Episode 180: Heavily Accented Physics featuring Robert Denby
CW: Animal death, weird religious prejudice, internalized homophobia
Rob and Alis talk about weird college classes they took and I cannot stress this enough, Buddhism does not work like that.
Art and music by https://ashenthorns.art/
SoC's socials (no really check them out: https://bsky.app/profile/streamofconch.bsky.social
Episode 179: Homestuck Updated... featuring Ashe
CW: Standard Homestuck CWs, transphobia
Ashe and Alis talk about the new Homestuck update and a bit about how Homestuck continues on. I also need to reiterate, the update dropped 30 mins before recording started and completly derailed our original plans for the recording.
Music and art by https://ashenthorns.art/
Homestuck made This World: https://rangedtouch.com/category/homestuck/
Unofficial Homestuck Collection: https://bambosh.dev/unofficial-homestuck-collection/
Slur Replacement Patch: https://hssrp.carrd.co/
Episode 178: Kender Penders Is An Odd Dude featuring SymphonicPink and Ashe
CW: Genocide mention, child endangerment, gaslighting.
Alis, Ashe and SymphonicPink talk about Ken Penders and the baffling choices he made in his comics.
Art and music by https://twitter.com/Ashen_Thorns
Episode 177: I Miss Being This Resilient featuring Syrene
CW: child injury and in dangerous situations, blood.
Alis and Syrene talk about funny/silly/weird injuries they and siblings have experienced in the past! Surprise: Alis has had multiple head wounds which likely explains many things!
Music and art by https://twitter.com/Ashen_Thorns
Syrene's plug (she forgot to mention it during the podcast): https://youtu.be/i-7jSlNII4o?si=47WoFrkD8Tk_qaLp
Episode 176: Unnecesary Gymnastics? Featuring Rhea and Autumn
CW: Eye trauma, death, brainwashing, torture, minor attraction kinda? Listen to the intro I explain it there.
Alis, Autumn and Rhea talk about Bleach, and totally not Boruto (it is mainly just Alis talking about Boruto, shhhhh)
Music and art by https://twitter.com/Ashen_Thorns
Episode 175: MMO Talk, I Guess? Featuring Autumn
No major CWs.
Alis and Autumn just kinda ramble about whatever and kinda settle on MMOs by the end.
Art and music by: https://twitter.com/Ashen_Thorns
Episode 174: Good Kitties featuring RobertDenby
CW: Pet injury and death (brief mentions).
Alis and RobertDenby swap cute pet stories for like a half hour!
Art and music by https://twitter.com/Ashen_Thorns
SoC's stuff: https://twitter.com/StreamofConcsh
Episode 173: Chill Sunny Vibes featuring Rhea
CW: Death, Nazi Science mention.
Rhea and Alis talk more about Bleach but don't worry! We are almost done with this arc, just two more to go! Ignore that the final arc is almost 30% of the entire manga.
Music and art by https://twitter.com/Ashen_Thorns
Rhea's KoFi: https://ko-fi.com/shirayurinorhea
Alis' stream: https://www.twitch.tv/arp1033
Episode 172: Technically 200!
No major CWs.
Alis talks about the future very briefly.
Music and art by https://twitter.com/Ashen_Thorns
Link to Alis' discord: https://discord.gg/QYDqF9Ja
Episode 171: Go Watch A Better Movie featuring Hannah
CW: Death, shark violence, drug use
Alis and Hannah watched Mako and talk about it. TL;DL its bad and you should not watch it!
Episode 170: Bad Jokes featuring Autumn
Autumn and Alis just tell bad jokes for like 20 mins because they are silly.
Music and art by twitter.com/Ashen_Thorns
Episode 169: Crystals and Puppets featuring Minfilia
CW: Bleach spoilers, Nazi Science comparisons, death, torture, human experimentation, kidnapping and wrongful arrest.
Alis and Minfilia talk about Turn Back The Pendulum arc in Bleach. It isn't as good as Alis remembered but hey, it's all downhill form here :V
Music and art by https://twitter.com/Ashen_Thorns
Episode 168: Horror Games, Not Horrible! Featuring Ashe
CW: minor Oxenfree and Signalis spoilers.
Ashe and Alis talk about horror games they like! There are a lot of good ones!
Music and art by https://twitter.com/Ashen_Thorns
Episode 167: Maybe The Real Bleach Was The Friends We Made On The Way featuring Minfilia
CW: Racism, Nazi Science
Minfilia and Alis continue to talk about Bleach. It continues to be dire. (And yes this still matches the naming convention for the episodes)
Music and art by https://twitter.com/Ashen_Thorns
Episode 166: Word Games Are Tough! featuring Autumn
No major CWs.
Alis is sick so they and Autumn just ramble on for a while.
Music and art by https://twitter.com/Ashen_Thorns
Autumn's band: https://izthmiseattle.bandcamp.com/
Episode 165: Chaos Gremlin: My Favorite Gender featuring Robert Denby
CW: Nimona spoilers, discussion of transphobia, racism, dismemberment, homophobia.
Alis and Robert Denby talk about Nimona! It's pretty good!!
Intro, outro and art by https://twitter.com/Ashen_Thorns
Episode 164: Story Time featuring Minfilia
CW: Slavery, FFXIV Spoilers, mention of blood and body mutilation.
Alis and Minfilia talk about Alis' story idea. I personally think it is a good one, but I am also biased.
Art and music by https://twitter.com/Ashen_Thorns
Link to Alis' stream on July 1st: twitch.tv/arp1033
Episode 163: COMMENCING RADICALIZATION featuring Kiki Rose
Art and music done by twitter.com/Ashen_Thorns
Tekken 8 beat thingy: beta.bandainamcoent.eu/en/cb/tekken-8-closed-network-test
Episode 162: I Am Not Terry Pratchett... featuring Kiki Rose
...But that is ok, no one is.
CW: Slavery, racism, genocide, human experimentation, murder, war
Kiki and Alis talk about a setting for some sort of fiction that has been rattling in Alis' mostly-empty noggin for years!
Intro, outro and art by https://twitter.com/Ashen_Thorns
Tekken 8 signups: https://tekken.com/closed-network-test
Episode 161: Sin Is Perfect In Every Way featuring Ashe
CW: Child endangerment, child death, violence, discussion of childbirth.
Alis and Ashe talk about the (mercifully shorter) GG: Strive story movie Another Story! It is very good.
Intro, outro and art done by https://twitter.com/Ashen_Thorns
Ashe's Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/ashenthorns
Episode 160: Hat Man, Now Without Niquil! Featuring Ashe and Autumn
Episode 159: Friday the 26th featuring Minfilia
Alis and Minfilia talk about the Firday the 13th movies which are great fun! Though sadly only like, 3 are actually great movies...
Art, intro and outro by twitter.com/Ashen_Thorns
Alis' Twitch stream: www.twitch.tv/arp1033
Episode 158: Faces and Flowers featuring Minfilia
Minfilia and Alis talk about more Bleach and Alis' memory proves to be worse than they thought!
Episode 157: It's a Gundam~ Featuring Autumn
CW: Gundam Wing spoilers, standard Gundam warnings.
Alis and Autumn talk about episodes 10-13 of Gundam Wing, in which Hiro is an idiot, someone gets real excited at a party and Wufai continues to hate women.
Music and art by https://twitter.com/Ashen_Thorns
Ashe's KoFi: https://ko-fi.com/ashenthorns
Episode 156: Sonic Ramblings featuring Alis
CW: Sonic Frontiers spoilers, Discussion of sexuality.
Autumn talks to Alis about their recent stream and... wait, that can't be right......
Episode 155: A Pretty Orange Sky featuring Minfilia and Kiki
CW: alcohol mention, nazi mention, racism, sexuality, a voice actor's extra marital affair with an underage girl is mentioned.
Kiki, Minfilia and Alis talk more about Bleach and finally get through the Soul Society arc! It is all downhill from here...
Intro, outro and art by https://twitter.com/Ashen_Thorns
Link to Ashe's KoFi: https://ko-fi.com/ashenthorns
Episode 154: Fanfic Again Apparently! Featuring Ashe
CW: Hitler mention, sexual assault, mention of heavy violence, Berserk spoilers
Alis and Ashe just kinda hang out for a bit and then start talking about Fanfic a lot.
Art and music by https://twitter.com/Ashen_Thorns
Episode 153: Aimless Running featuring Minfilia
CW: Genocide, racism, abuse, gaslighting, Bleach spoilers
Minfilia and Alis talk about most of the Soul Society arc in Bleach, in a rambling disorderly manner, but that is ok because most of the arc is told that way too :V
Intro, outro and art by https://twitter.com/Ashen_Thorns
Episode 152: Red Scarf of Fate featuring Minfilia
CWs: Sexual harassment, DID mention, Bleach spoilers.
Minfilia and Alis talk about Bleach some more. It is still in the good parts but the cracks are showing...
Intro, outro and art by https://twitter.com/Ashen_Thorns
Link to Alis' streams: https://www.twitch.tv/arp1033
Episode 151: I Ended Up Not Getting Any Pho featuring Minfilia
No major CWs.
Alis and Minfilia talk about the charity stream that had just happened, but mainly Alis just looks at a restaurant's menu because they are hungry.
Intor, outro and art by https://twitter.com/Ashen_Thorns
Link to the GoFundMe: https://www.gofundme.com/f/chatty-chai
Episode 150: Yup, Sonic Comics Are Still Wierd featuring Ashe
CW: Body horror, death, drug mention
Alis and Ashe talk about the OTHER Sonic Comic continuity and don't worry! It is just as bizarre as the old one.
Intro, outro and art by https://twitter.com/Ashen_Thorns
Link to CHatty Chai's GoFundMe: https://www.gofundme.com/f/chatty-chai
Link to Alis' stream: https://www.twitch.tv/arp1033
Episode 149: 생선 Is Korean For Fish! Featuring Remi and Autumn
CW: fish death, Alis death, depression, drug mentions
Remi teaches Alis and Autumn about how cool fish are, and Alis almost pronounces a Korean word correctly!
Intro, outro and art by https://twitter.com/Ashen_Thorns
Link to Chatty Chai's GoFundMe: https://www.gofundme.com/f/chatty-chai