I already know that I will not be able to listen tot he acne episode, goodbye.
I've been listening to the F Plus for Too Long now. The reason I even found it... the story is long, but I'll summarize it by saying that since age Ridiculous I have been a fan of literally everything Zarla Sheenaza can possibly output. I enjoy her existence and what comes out of it. But I never listened to and still usually don't listen to podcasts, because listening to one only takes up half my brainspace and I get twitchy and have to do something with my hands and trainwreck. So when Zarla would occasionally mention a podcast in her journal, something about readings from the internet? Whatever? I didn't pay attention. Not my thing. Draw something gay again.
But then there was this weird thing she made. Like, ten seconds of animation. It's so many years back that I'll never find it to link it. There's a guy getting his haircut, a few seconds of that, and then the sound of running footsteps and stick figure man who is fucking bugging out runs screaming into the room and bellows IWASWONDERINGIFTHEREWASAFANFIUCTIONWHEREJAREDWASADOGPERSONANDJENSENWASACATPERSONANDSOMEHOWTHISISACOMPLICATIONINTHEIRRELATIONSHIP???? And everyone looks at each other for a second and then the guy slams the door and continues running. End scene.
I tried to not know, honestly. I tried to stay away. Maybe, deep inside, I knew what would happen. I knew this could have only come form something fucking stupid. But I had to fucking know. I had to fucking know. What the hell even inspired this thing? What is he yelling? Whose relationship? Wait... let me listen again... fanfiction... dog... relationship... what is happening here?
Long story short, I now know what was happening there.
((ETA It occured to me after the fact that I was looking for that animation clip from the wrong angle. Sure, it's probably in the depths of the ongoing pile of silly art Zarla puts on the internet but it's also easy to find on the fplus's very website, because why wouldn't it be?
http://thefpl.us/episode/45Also, episode fourty fucking five? yikes.))
Anyway. Jesus, I had no idea how much I missed "penises want to bleed. it is their natural state" until I heard that quote again. Precious. Classic. I like how there was a "wow, Bunnybread" section to that retrospective that was about 10 minutes long, and he wasn't even there.
When I introduce people to the f plus, and yes, that has happened several times, depending on whether the could be said to spend a lot of time 'shipping' or not, I start them with the Supernatural ep, just like how I started, or start them with the Clingfilm episode if they don't spend enough time on archive of our own to just say 'oh ha ha ha some omegaverse ha ha ha right' when it comes up.