The Boney Island Whitefish in: Being Joel David Moore

I know this is an older episode, and perhaps some of it is clumsy phrasing, but this last bit at the end where you try to differentiate between legitimate things and then ‘tumblr’ identities, and how struggle is interesting. I came out as trans in 2010, when one couldn’t push the idea of nonbinary into someone else’s head as a possibility— we were not at denial yet. I’d’ve come out sooner, but I was told that my experience of a different dysphoria, that being a nonbinary trans man, was ‘appropriating the trans experience.’ We were dismissed as silly internet/tumblr bullshit, in these terms. That discourse never entirely died; right now, ‘theyfab’ is making the rounds to describe that specific thing. The things that are said about neopronouns now are what was said about the possibility of being publicly trans and surviving; of being seen as nonbinary at all. Further, re: the sentiment that mental illness is a way to be authentic— I agree with that in regards to how it is expressed in the writing of this kind of show, and it this exacerbates the thing I’m about to describe, but I’m finding very little space for me socially as someone who *does* struggle authentically with these things and would like the space to express that in my work. It has helped me to see this in the work of my friends (not this mega platform stuff like Bones, mind); I don’t necessarily think you were trying to strafe that population, but the literal statements and the effects of those statements *do* strafe people like me. Which, like, please don’t? If you want to critique tumblr culture, there is plenty to do that with— the current fondness for moral panics and fascistic tactics being adopted by queer youth on tumblr, for example, or the unquestioning reception of the logic of shows like bones, or even the fealty they show towards ip as expressed by mega corporations. There’s lots there. Why hit low to the people who are trying out new language for their self-conceptions and experiences?

Nobody's going to read this absolute graveposting but I have lived my entire life in this country and never seen bagel spelled weird. I recently had a pack of bagels and they were spelled the normal way. Is this something they do in the south?

This is the only episode recapped so far that I recall watching in the period where my parents and I were watching Bones for whatever reason. I know we watched all of season 5, I’ve simply blocked it out of my mind

When Bones said the murder was patterned after the violence in Punky Kong I absolutely thought the twist was going to be that the autistic child did it. It would have been deeply offensive, but far more interesting than the conclusion we did get.

Okay I got very sidetracked and ended up making a copy which works. Bad news: it’s not very good. You’re welcome??? https://ticky.github.io/bones-punky/

Sad to say that while the Wayback Machine does have the Flash file for Punky Pong, it doesn’t currently work due to a missing resource: https://web.archive.org/web/20100113173616/http://www.fox.com/bones/features/game/

This is the comfiest collaborative premium podcast sub-show ever

Balancing out my hatred for the Caroline ep with my love for this one