S1E26 The Time Vampire Diaries
Soul Mates! - The Art and Design of Gacha Game Characters!
Release Date: 07/14/2025
Gone Fishin'! E6: Infinity Nikki: There Is Nothing More Inspiring Than An Electrician
Soul Mates! - The Art and Design of Gacha Game Characters!
In this, Ivy's first time Gone Fishin' and the finale of Unceasing Summer Fun, it's time to play fully thirty hours of Infinity Nikki! In everyone's favorite machine for teenage girls questioning their identity, we're sent back in time to prevent the end of the world by hanging out with the coolest girl you've ever met, holding hands with extradimentional versions of ourselves, uncovering forgotten histories about snake marriage, and asking a truly sovereign question: Is there anything cooler than an electrician? The answer is no! Wait, it's only a four star!? Gone Fishin'! cover art by ash!...
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The Great Gacha World Tour Ch 6: Infinity Nikki: Divinely Inspired Christian Punk
Soul Mates! - The Art and Design of Gacha Game Characters!
It's time for part 2 of Unceasing Summer Fun, getting acquainted with our new game through a Great Gacha World Tour! Local medium-level expert Kit is our fashion correspondent as we look around the streets of Florawish in Infinity Nikki. Keep an eye out for edgy ghost dresses, plastic bath cap fashion, river water boots, and the cutest overalls imaginable as we ponder a question that maybe only Kit can answer: Are all these dressup clothes... like... good? The Great Gacha World Tour cover art by ash! Follow along: Support the show: Follow the show on Tumblr: Follow...
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Gone Fishin! E5: Disney Twisted-Wonderland: Genderqueer Disney Lore Entrapment
Soul Mates! - The Art and Design of Gacha Game Characters!
On this, Gone Fishin'!'s return voyage, we obey Harry (from Soul Mates!)'s twisted whims and play Disney Twisted-Wonderland! In the officially licensed Disney twink game where they're not allowed to show nipple, I am saddled with the burden of Trey Clover, get sick of the movie Alice in Wonderland, play the same rhythm game chart three separate times, and ask an impossible question: Is it good to be evil? Gone Fishin'! cover art by ash! Follow along: Support the show: Follow the show: Listen to Together We'll Shine: An Utena Rewatch Podcast: Art by Ryegarden: Music by Sueños...
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The Great Gacha World Tour Ch 5: Disney's Twisted-Wonderland: Oh, I Just Can't Wait To Be Drag King
Soul Mates! - The Art and Design of Gacha Game Characters!
It's the start of Unceasing Summer Fun, and the circle of life has brought us back around to another trip on the Great Gacha World Tour! Be prepared for returning local expert Harry, as she takes us to the proud land of Disney's Twisted-Wonderland, and delivers a morning report on the luxuriously loafish lionboy Leona Kingscholar, and we ask a question about another word that starts with L: Hey, why does this guy look so much like a lesbian? Like, can you feel the love tonight or what, know what I'm saying? Not that I mind - Hakuna Matata, after all! The Great Gacha World Tour cover art by...
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S1E26 The Time Vampire Diaries
Soul Mates! - The Art and Design of Gacha Game Characters!
In this episode, a frustrating! episode, we zoom in on the mahjong maven of mechanical mastery Mirai, who's happy to help you out with her quirky inventions, or suck out all of your blood throughout all time, and I forgot to ask a question on the podcast so I'm putting it in the episode description: Hey, why did we decide that Yui Yagi is straight and then decide that the two other women in the National University of Fuuchi Mahjong Club are unrequitedly in love with her? That's not very based and feminist of us? Follow along: Follow Birb on Tumblr: Support the show: Follow...
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S1E25 Man! I Feel Like A Wolfman!
Soul Mates! - The Art and Design of Gacha Game Characters!
In this episode—let's go girls—we zoom in on old man (he's 33) Zan Tsukimi, the candy-wielding wandering warrior who just wants to be loved by all, not understanding that he mostly just sucks at everything, and ask the perfectly reasonable and normal question: If you had a wheel on your chin and could be wheeled around like a suitcase, wouldn't this be a convenient way to get around the airport? Editor's note: For some reason my noise suppession pass hated us being in the same room, so keep in mind that those bits of crackly quiet are mostly us laughing raucously. Follow along: ...
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S2E6B Cathy And The Gender Binary New World Order
Soul Mates! - The Art and Design of Gacha Game Characters!
In this episode, the thrilling end of Hot Heath Summer, we zoom in on the second half of Heathcliff's identities, including the nightmare-commanding, no-nonsense, no-expression, no-head-on-his-horse-dog leader of the Wild Hunt, with all his cool shadow guys and lots of cool objects, and ask a question of identity to you, dear listener: In the gender binary new world order we've created, are you a Cathy, or a Person Who Loves Cathy? Let us know! Content warning: This episode contains casual reference to self-harm throughout, and graphic discussion of cuts from 19:05 to 21:00. Read this...
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S2E6A He's Inherently Doggy-Woggy
Soul Mates! - The Art and Design of Gacha Game Characters!
In this episode, the midpoint of Hot Heath Summer, we zoom in on our favorite bat-wielding, head-bashing bullheaded bri'ish boy Heathcliff, (or at least, look at the first half of his art, with the rest coming next episode) and ask a question that is fairer and kinder to him than anyone has been to him in his life: Why they always gotta make him either sad or stupid? A lot of the time, he's both! Like I know he's Heathcliff from Wuthering Heights but why's he gotta be so bad and sad at nail sharpening? Read this episode's official companion fanfic, "Dog Days": Follow along: ...
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BONUS 8 Wuthering Heights (2003) Watchalong: The Picture Of Your Mom That Makes You Die
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Feeling co-o-old? Come on into our window! That's right, it's me, I'm Cathvy, along with my only master, ashcliff, here to welcome you to our Wuthering, Wuthering Wuthering Heights... MOVIE WATCHALONG! That's right baby, it's the start of HOT HEATH SUMMER, and what better way to begin than to watch perhaps the worst film adaptation of the book, Wuthering Heights (2003) produced my MTV. Join us, watch along with us, as this film raises many, many questions: Why does it take them so long to tell us anyone's name? Wait, is that the guy from Malcom in the Middle? Why is his beard always so...
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S3E4 Wind, Turn To Binding Chains!
Soul Mates! - The Art and Design of Gacha Game Characters!
In this episode, a Windy episode, we zoom in on our featured Food and Operator, the adorable chipper chef Claypot Rice, who doesn't need glaze to amaze, and the most aloof mechanist Passenger, who designs cool robots you're too distracted by his outfit to look at, and ask a question of depth: How do layers work? Clothing layers, art layers, physical layers of space... Then, crossover-heavy Sakura Tea (Sakura), Vina Victoria, and Doc, and twenty minutes after recording while in the shower I asked the question: Why didn't we realize that Doc is obviously CPR just because he's a doctor!? Follow...
info_outlineIn this episode, a frustrating! episode, we zoom in on the mahjong maven of mechanical mastery Mirai, who's happy to help you out with her quirky inventions, or suck out all of your blood throughout all time, and I forgot to ask a question on the podcast so I'm putting it in the episode description: Hey, why did we decide that Yui Yagi is straight and then decide that the two other women in the National University of Fuuchi Mahjong Club are unrequitedly in love with her? That's not very based and feminist of us?
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