All in Kate Mitchell
Kate and Xtine discuss the issue currently causing the most discourse amongst Homestuck fans: The Federal Reserve’s unprecedented open market operations in the context of the ongoing 2020 recession, what their expansionary monetary policy means and what its implications are for working people and the economy as a whole.
Kate and Goomy catch up on the year that was. Topics: Gordon, I'm normal! The recent increase in hate. Discourse flattening. Deltastuck. Make your own website. June and transfemme narratives. Homestuck as furry-positive media. Dismantling "marketability." Email me birds.
Kate and Sarah catch up. Frozen meat, Peak Posting, cool petitions, pandemic stasis, Waste of Time, model train display shed, Young Pope fever, Dr. Coomer, Counter-Strike, uchi crow, reading theory, how to get through this. Support your local Goomy.
Special [I]ntermission, free for everyone. Topics: Bernie, Black Mesa, Pope Belden, Oklahoma semantics, the end of electoralism, Maslow's heirarchy of revolution, the Fed, the contradictions, our obligations, Debs.
Intro: “Kill the Poor” by Dead Kennedys
Outro: “35,000 Feet” by Kate Mitchell
Kate, Aysha and Sarah record a whispery episode while Andrew’s asleep. Topics: Don’t Wake Daddy. Parasite. Eridan & Feferi. Davekat. Kojima’s influence on Homestuck. Platforms ruin media.
Pgenpod gets personal. Dani invites Kate for a wide-ranging interview on work, life, community and mental health. Topics: CAW! Pictures for Sad Children. What white people should say about race (nothing, duh). The year that was. The humans behind the discourse. CAW! Vulfpeck.
Beneath a crucifix and a portrait of the Pope, Goomy hosts an unlikely live show in Staten Island, New York. Pip Dilistone, Aysha U. Farah and Kate Mitchell join to discuss Pesterquest, Homestuck^2, Undertale and more. All proceeds go to the Planned Parenthood Action Fund.
The writers of the Vriska and Terezi Pesterquest routes discuss the game and the two characters. Topics: Bong Joon-ho. Cops. The controversy surrounding Vriska doing nothing wrong. Autism. Anti-fishist action. Garish fashion.
Cro, Kate Mitchell and Aysha U. Farah talk Homestuck^2, Pesterquest, radical canon anarchy, and a cloaked child prophet in front of a great crowd at The Pit in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
Kate’s last regular episode of 2019 is a crossover with Jax Does Homestuck. Topics: Thanos (again). Jade Pesterquest. Rose and Jade’s relationship. Con Air and repression. Doomed timelines. Wish fulfillment. Smash Bros. Perfectly generic objects.
Mkla and Kate chat about Homestuck’s cosplay community. Topics: Meta-cosplay. Costumes in story. Tips for graying up. Con planning. Creative motivation. A clown motel. #Secily2020.
IMAC, author of the award-winning fanfiction "House of Dirk," discusses the new Pesterquest and their sitcom-style world of Dirkuu. Topics: Where PQ is going. RPing Andrew Hussie. Planning long stories. Liking villains. Toblerone.
Jennifer Giesbrecht, the primary author of The Homestuck Epilogues, joins the show to talk both HS and her new novel, the Monster of Elendhaven. Topics: Gamzee. Faust. Dandies and D&D. Concussions. Controversy and comfort zones. Candy revisions. The Zich Corollary.
Aysha U. Farah talks directing Pesterquest and writing Rose Lalonde. Topics: Sans. ICP. Fight club. Guns and stumps. John's mail man problems. Roxy at her worst. MSPA Reader's gender.
A discussion on the meaning of canon and the future of both Homestuck and Pgenpod on its one-year anniversary. Topics: Dolmen Walk’s eboy flower. Toblerone. June Egbert. Fans’ input in Homestuck. Creation and clout. Hopes and excitement for Pesterquest. Horuss. New directions.
Kate and Sam discuss the semiotics of Homestuck before being interrupted by a message from an eboy. Topics: Pesterquest. Gamzee. Semiotics. Sideshow Bob. Homestuck's messiness. Andrew Hussie writes into the show about the epilogues?!
Artemis Rubey joins Kate to talk her takes on the Ultimate Self. Topics: Eboys. Dirk's ascension. Anime as antagonism. How I Met Your Mother. Rose's play. Vriska is Vriska. Roxy's regular-ass self. What the epilogues leave to you.
Aysha and Kate join a lively crowd in Renton to talk about the villainous women of Homestuck. Subjects include Crockertier, Homestuck’s history of gendered subversion, yelling at Dirk, ominous teasing about future events, and…the Condesce did nothing wrong?
optimisticDuelist joins Kate to talk about Dirk and Jake’s relationship. Topics: Sigma’s feet. Dirkjake as a core romantic arc. Love without understanding. Christianity and the alphas. Suffering through the epilogues. Your impact on canon. The persistence of ideology and how we replicate power structures. Faith.
![[I]ntermission 26/Bonus 4: What Is to Be Done?](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b807a5bc258b41bd831d637/1586379841670-Q505WAMEA4R1XYYMQSLL/ke17ZwdGBToddI8pDm48kPJXHKy2-mnvrsdpGQjlhod7gQa3H78H3Y0txjaiv_0fDoOvxcdMmMKkDsyUqMSsMWxHk725yiiHCCLfrh8O1z5QHyNOqBUUEtDDsRWrJLTmrMDYraMJMCQwFxTSOIP7LpSBEQpA-g5k6VTjWbSuadHJq0dp98hg5AZvIaPb3DoM/intermission26.png)
