BONUS 9 Don Quixote's Many Countenances: The Lady May Play Her Guitar By The Close Of The Fifth Act
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Release Date: 09/15/2025
S▮E2 Homophobic Hairmogging Begets Bisexual Enlightenment
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Bad news, folks: We found out that Ksitigarbha, the patron bodhisattva of Planned Parenthood, already cleared ash out of hell by... Well, you'll see. Along the way we made plenty of friends, though, starting with the bell-ringing bodice-bound bamboo beauty Temptress, who IS wearing a bisexual jacket, a real thing that I will defend to the death, and end by asking a truly enlightened question: If hardline hairline homophobia puts you in hell, what sexuality services your ascent to heaven? Meet me at the club, and let's find out? Follow along: Follow May on Tumblr: Support the...
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S▮E1 We're Going To Hell For This One
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Content warning: Discussion of s▮ic▮de and s▮lf h▮rm after the break. Listener discretion is advised. Bad news, folks: ash has gone to Hell, and it's up to Ivy and May to save them. Guided by our chain-clad cheerless chinese-underworld champion Black Impermanence, we dive into the depth of this year's (the Horse's year) hottest mahjong roguelike, battling buxom babes in tile throwdowns all while asking: But what if your mom was doggy? Well, and tiger, and lion, and dragon, and qilin... Follow along: Follow May on Tumblr: Support the show: Follow the show on...
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S3E9 Ivy is tired.
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In this episode, in which Ivy is tired, we zoom in on our featured Operator and Food, the gloriously garish green and outrageously orange Bryophyta, who you can tell is AMERICAN from his AMERICAN pockets and his AMERICAN, uhm, banh mi, and the checks notes white, black, cream, yellow, purple, green, red, and black Laba Congee, who's as delicious in the winter as she is underdressed for it, and ask a quality question: Why is it that sometimes the image that's the worst, is actually the best? Then, two guys with three cats with Mingsixi, Rotini, and the Terra Research Commission, asking:...
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S2E8.5 LCB Catch Up #1: The Heishou Haters Club
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In this episode, our de-facto intervallo if you will, we look back on all the Limbus Company we've missed in our two years of covering the game, doing a 10 pull of recent art to look at [beep]sucking Heathcliffs and bag toting Rodions, thinking about Pink Shoes and Basilisoup (two things you would hope to find at the function) ultimately asking a question of palette swaps: Is it really a proper mirror identity if they barely look like the sinner at all? Are you sure that's Gregor, and not just white Hoenheim? Follow along: , Support the show: Follow the show on...
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S?E1 Umamusume: Beginning of a New Era Spotlight - Flapping In The Wind
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In this episode, featuring multiple members of the LGTPH community, we zoom in on...is that a horse? Is that girl? Both! It's finally time for us to do an Umamusume episode, spurred on by Ivy going to see a movie and the technical issues of an unrelated wiki, we take a look at the characters featured in the film Umamusume: Beginning of a New Era, pondering things like who is Jungle Pocket doing yuri with (Agnes Tachyon? Dantsu Flame? Fuji Kiseki? All three?!) can your mom be your girlfriend be your lighting ghost, and why does TM Opera O look so much more regal in concept art, ultimately...
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S1E33 Tangled Up In The Michaelphone
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In this episode, a drift compatible one, we zoom in on our second Saki colab character, the one eye closed two girlfriend on lock Mihoko Fukuji, who you need to really, REALLY be careful with if you bring her to cosplay kareoke, and ash challenges Ivy with a bold question: Will you not admit that this is the best image, possibly in the entire world? Follow along: Support the show: Follow the show on Tumblr: Follow the show on YouTube: Listen to Together We'll Shine: An Utena Rewatch Podcast: Art by Ryegarden: Music by Sueños Electrónicos: ...
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BONUS 11 Saki Live Action: The Movie Watchalong: It's Time For Me To Yuri Dap You Up
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In a world where yuri nap rooms are too bright, where your ghost girlfriend might push you down the stairs at any moment, where your parents dying turns you into a scary doll with too many particle effects, and even catgirls can find redemption... Two podcasters embark on a frantic paced journey to uncover a terrifying secret: Saki in real life. Will they get their Yakuman, or will it all go bust? Watch along with us: I believe in you dawg you can find it if you look Support the show: Follow the show on Tumblr: Follow the show on YouTube: Listen to Together We'll...
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S3E8 Participating In Certain Subcultures
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In this episode, a markedly dissociative one, we zoom in on our featured Food and Operator, the red hooded white robed yellow...leafed Sekihan, who will soon not be with us as she ascends to the heavens, and the fantastically flowery fuscia floutist Hibiscus the Purifyer, a normal girl with a very abnormal instrument, and we sing a lyrical question: If you've travelled down the road and back again, can I thank you for being a bean? Then, one right makes two wrongs with Carnelian, Tomahawk Steak, and Dusk, asking: If you're part of a certain subculture, how rude can you be to your fellow, erm,...
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S1E32 Woke Luigi's Mansion
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In this episode, and don't ask me why it's named that, we zoom in on the maidenly maid who might maintain martial arts mastery Riu Kujou, who's chest is definitely one solid piece that isn't clipped together like a doll, and ask a playful question: Can YOU spot the maid? Can you reach the Maid Unlocked State? Follow along: Support the show: Follow the show on Tumblr: Follow the show on YouTube: Listen to Together We'll Shine: An Utena Rewatch Podcast: Art by Ryegarden: Music by Sueños Electrónicos: Follow and support ash:
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S1E31 Steppin' On Santa Claus
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In this episode, carrying on our tradition of our Christmas episode being delayed a week, we zoom in on the beautiful, bountiful, bootlickable boss of Bamboo Cloud Fuuka Minami, famously fair with her rewards (stepping on you) and her punishments (stepping on you) and ask a spring-heeled question: Can exposure to Louboutins at a young age turn you gay? Or does it just make you inclined to secretarial work? Follow along: , , Support the show: Follow the show on Tumblr: Follow the show on YouTube: Listen to Together We'll Shine: An Utena Rewatch...
info_outlineIdle listener: thou mayest believe me without any oath that I would this podcast, as it is the child of our brain, were the fairest, gayest, and cleverest that could be imagined. But I could not counteract Nature's law that everything shall beget its like; and what, then, could this sterile, illtilled wit of ours beget but the study of a dry, shrivelled, whimsical man, in arts beset by drunken dads and sickly pale horses, by guitar playing ladies and miniature squires, by star wars heads and amalgamate uma musume. My wish would be simply to present it to thee plain and unadorned, without any embellishment of preface or uncountable muster of customary sonnets, epigrams, and questions, such as are commonly put in the episode description; I have given thee condensed all the squirely drolleries that are scattered through the swarm of these vain images of Don Quixote. And so—may God give thee health, and not forget us. Vale.
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