This Comic Is Amazing. Add Jeremy Calling Sony For A Warranty Policy On The Harm And Its Full Trauma

Someone mixed the book I read for school and the musical I saw just before school started again! Yay!! Also @wonderfulworldofdarklords just liked it and they’re why I went to Hadestown in the first place.(A Charity for Autism Helped me go to a Performance with Dimmed Lights and Other things to help with Sensitivites of Neurodivergent People.)

It's an old tale from way back when/ And we're gonna sing it again and again...

I found their Tumblr!!

Introducing content warnings for D's Journal

Hello, dear listeners! Because our upcoming episode has significantly more intense content than usual in D’s Journal, we’re planning to include a content warning for it, and we’ve decided that it’s a good practice to include content warnings for D’s Journal in general. We want to establish a few general guidelines about how they'll look.

Content warnings will be listed under the timestamps. That way it’s easy to avoid them if you don’t want spoilers, but they’re available if you need them.

Please be aware that these content warnings are only for D’s Journal, not for the out-of-character discussion in the episode; we discuss body horror in the Princess Mononoke episode, but D never encounters any of the horrible wormy boar-demons, so that one wouldn’t have had a content warning for body horror. (If you feel like we need more content warnings for the episodes, please let us know because we want everyone to feel comfortable.) That’s because D’s Journal has the potential to get a lot more bracing than the episode proper, since there’s a big difference between Tom and Rachel sitting around chatting about WandaVision and D experiencing it firsthand.

HOW THEY’LL LOOK

Content warnings are going to be divided into three rankings, based on how prominent they are in the episode: major, moderate, and minor. Explanations for each one, with mind control/memory manipulation as the example:

Major: D experiences or witnesses this firsthand, and it’s played for horror. A lot of episodes won’t have major content warnings; plenty of awful things happen in Olympus and Crescent City, for instance, but D didn’t witness them. A good rule of thumb: if it unsettles D so much that she can’t be sarcastic about it, it’s probably major.

Examples of episodes that would get a major content warning for mind control or memory manipulation:

WandaVision, of course. D spends most of the episode as Wanda’s meat puppet. 

Encanto, because even though Abuela only whammies D for a minute, she sees all the NPCs who have been whammied and is disturbed.

Toy Story. D doesn’t spend much time believing she’s a toy, but it’s thoroughly milked for horror potential.

Moderate: D experiences or witnesses it firsthand but it isn’t played for horror, or she reports on something that she heard secondhand with a level of detail.

Examples of episodes that would get a moderate content warning for mind control or memory manipulation:

Spirited Away. D loses her name and her memories, but both she and the listener know from the beginning that there’s a plan in place for her to get them back, and she doesn’t dwell on the horror of the experience. 

Home Alone. D gets a brief dose of the McElminster House’s “silver tuna” power, but shakes it off almost immediately and treats it as an annoyance rather than a violation.

Tron: D never sees any programs being rectified and doesn’t know for sure whether that fate befell the program who helped her, but it comes up frequently and unsettles her.

Minor: D mentions it in passing but doesn’t dwell on it.

Examples of episodes that would get a minor content warning for mind control or memory manipulation:

The Jungle Book. D’s guide warns her about Kaa, but they never meet him or share detailed stories about his victims.

NOTES ON SPECIFIC TRIGGERS

A few specific notes on common triggers, so you have a sense of how far they’ll go and whether you need to check for them every episode. If there’s ever an exception to these boundaries, we’ll put an announcement at the beginning of the episode.

SEXUAL HARASSMENT AND ASSAULT

For sexual harassment and assault that doesn’t involve any charm spells or love potion nonsense, D has already experienced the absolute worst that this will ever get in Beauty and the Beast, which boiled down to “Gaston got fresh in an unspecified way and continued getting fresh after I told him to buzz off, so I eldritch blasted him in the cajones.” She will never experience anything worse than that. Full stop. 

Secondhand experience with sexual harassment and assault will only come up if it’s baked into the setting, like it was in Beauty and the Beast and Hunchback of Notre Dame, and D’s going to be euphemistic about it because she doesn’t want to talk about it any more than we do. (I honestly don’t know if this is ever going to come up again, because who would it come up for except Gaston and Frollo? But just in case we get an oddball Listener’s Choice or April episode or something, there it is.)

Writing out the extended Labyrinth journal made us realize that we need a special caveat for charm spells and love potion nonsense, since D got sucked into a World Falls Down bubble and kissed Jareth while she was in there. If there’s any kind of enchantment that leads to D being in a romantic situation that isn’t 100% consensual, we’ll put a warning at the beginning of the episode, the written content warning will detail exactly what happens, and it will never go any farther than the bounds of a PG-rated podcast.

RACISM, QUEERPHOBIA, ABLEISM, AND MISOGYNY

Any racism D encounters will be fantastical. That said, there may be strong parallels to real-world marginalized groups, especially if it's part of the source material (Roma for Vistani and Travelers, immigrants for Runes, etc). If that's the case, we’ll let you know in the content warning along with the general racism warning.

Unlike some other phobias and isms, there’s no Disney property where pushing back against queerphobia is an overt theme. That means we don’t have to engage with it, so we’re not planning to do so. If we can get through this entire podcast without D having the faintest idea that anyone would care what genders anyone else identifies with or is attracted to, we’ll call it a win.

Ableism may come up, and misogyny already has, so please do check the content warnings for details if you’re concerned about those. 

ANIMAL CRUELTY

If it isn’t intrinsic to the setting or character (looking at you, Cruella), it’s only going to come up in passing, like the mention that there are no pets or livestock in Arendelle.

The exception is animals with human levels of intelligence, since they’re basically NPCs. Sorry, Iago, you’re not safer than an aarakocra just because you’re pocket-sized.

CHILD ENDANGERMENT AND DEATH

We’re parents. We check “Does the Dog Die?” for this one every time we watch a horror movie with a kid in it. When Tom runs Curse of Strahd, there are no dead kids involved with Dream Pies. If we recommend horror novels or movies to each other and don't warn each other about any dead kids first, someone's sleeping on the couch. We freaking hate it when child characters die or suffer permanent harm.

That said, there are some settings where Very Bad Things happening to children are thoroughly baked in, so it has to come up sometimes. Part of the horror of Neverland is Pan’s disregard for the Lost Boys’ safety, and it’s going to be impossible to do a horror setting of Monsters Inc., Pleasure Island, or Hocus Pocus without traumatizing or killing some child NPCs. There will be content warnings when that happens, and our utter distaste for it is a good indicator that it won’t be graphic or gratuitous. If it isn’t baked into the setting, though, it’s a safe bet that any time a child is endangered, they’re going to be rescued and come out without a scratch (like Ratigan kidnapping the kids in Great Mouse Detective).

Why are there so many hearts. I didn’t read it and accidentally hearted it. I’m Gay and Ace so reversed it but still.1/9-1/8 of people who noted this hearted it.

I'M DOING AN EXPERIMENT

To prove something to a friend, please

REBLOG IF YOU THINK ASEXUALS BELONG IN LGBTQ+ SPACES

LIKE IF YOU THINK ASEXUALS DON’T BELONG IN LGBTQ+ SPACES

Uncle Wiley Sweep!

The Book Of Bill and Be More Chill

The book of bill uses Mountain Dew Code Red(What Kills Squips in the Book) as How to Stop Bill Cipher from Possesion. This is amazing! Squip and Bill Cipher Art should be made.

That’s hilarious.For watching Black Friday Again I’m going to use a Wiggly Doll.

I forced one of my friends to watch tgwdlm with me, and I made food for it. It was all blue. There was:

-Caramel frappe but instead of caramel it was blue raspberry syrup (surprisingly good)

-Blue popcorn

-Blue cupcakes

And it was hilarious that, as the show progressed forward, my friend realized what the food being blue meant and gradually stopped eating it.

Hail Cthulhu, Sorry I mean Wiggly.

“Well, he’s deep down in Drowsy Town, sleepin’ the dreamless sleep of the dead!”

New Jersey

For all of you being sad that The Be More chill 10 year concert is in New Jersey. I live in New Jersey and stop making fun of it. I’ll send All Pictures I’m able to take. Also Stop Because I need This so Badly with all the Shitty News about the Us and New Jersey having so many elections. So Here’s Some New Jersey and Be More Chill Facts.

.The Book When it can Uses Actual Locations In the Borough of Meutuchen in Middlesex County except for Middleborough, which is a Pun on Middlesex County and Meutuchen Borough.

.The Book City is Meutuchen Borough and Musical City Is Red Bank(Home Of the Two River Theatre so it’s very meta.)

.I have more but instead I’d like to say:If you Make Fun of New Jersey one more time I’m Making every recipe in the anarchists cookbook and using the results on you.

Plus New Jersey Has Better Healthcare and Human Rights than Most States in the Us.(Especially on the Healthcare Part). It’s fine I’m sorry if it sounded Rash I’m just very defensive of my home state.(I live in it because in 1971 My Abuela decided it is the place to go to when you leave Cuba.)

Omg Be More Chill having a 10 year reunion event at Two River Theater is so cool but god I wish it was not in NEW JERSEY because I want to go SO DAMN BAD

THEY’RE GONNA HAVE MOST OF THE ORIGINAL CAST TOO INCLUDING THE ORIGINAL JEREMY AHHH

I’ve never wished I lived in New Jersey but just this once I wish I did I love BMC so much it’s literally my 3rd favorite musical ever

AND I CANT GO BC ITS IN FUCKING NEW JERSEY WHAT IF I JUMP OFF A CLIFF

the Sacred Drink. It’s here!!! Kill the Grey Oblong Pills!

THERE’S CURRENTLY A BOTTLE OF MTN DEW RED BEING SOLD ON EBAY???