News (Overview)

• AP: Tuesday’s primaries include presidential races and the prosecutor in Trump’s Georgia election case
  
• 538 via ABC: 6 elections to watch in Georgia, Oregon and Idaho
  

California

Today some Californians will complete their voting in the special general election for CA's US House District 20. Per the New York Times: "Nine candidates are vying to fill the seat left vacant by former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy for the duration of his term, which ends in early 2025. Two weeks ago, a primary election was held to fill the seat for a full two-year term starting next year. In that race, two Republicans who are running again today, Vince Fong, a state Assemblyman, and Mike Boudreaux, the Tulare County sheriff, advanced to the November general election."
News and Analysis

• AP: AP Decision Notes: What to expect in the California 20th District special election

Results and Resources

• California Secretary of State: Special General Election, May 21, 2024
  
• The New York Times (soft paywall): California 20th Congressional District Special Election Results
  

Florida

Per Ballotpedia, Florida's sole election today is the "Special general election for Orlando City Council Commissioner District 5"
Resources

• ClickOrlando: Special election underway for Orlando City Council District 5. What you need to know

News and Analysis

• Florida Politics: Seven face off in Special Election for Orlando City Council

Results

• Orange County, Florida Supervisor of Elections: Election Results and Turnout

Georgia

Per the Georgia Recorder: "Georgians will have one last opportunity Tuesday to head to the polls to vote in state and congressional primaries and a host of nonpartisan races on ballots all across the state."
Resources

• Atlanta News First: Answers to every question you have about voting in Georgia

News and Analysis

• Georgia Recorder: Georgia polls open Tuesday with key state, local and federal races on the ballot
  
• Georgia Recorder: Georgians go to the polls to pick legislative nominees but few competitive races await in the fall
  
• WABE: Guns, gambling, abortion and more: Here are the ballot questions for the 2024 primary elections in metro Atlanta
  
• US News: State Supreme Court and Republican Congressional Primary Elections Top Georgia Ballots
  

Live Updates

• Georgia Public Broadcasting: Georgia's 2024 Primary Election: live results and updates from GPB News
  
• 11Alive: 2024 Georgia primary election Live updates
  

Results

• Georgia Secretary of State: Georgia Election Results

Idaho

Idahoans finish voting today in statewide primaries as well as a local recall election in Kamiah
Resources

• Idaho Capital Sun: Today is Idaho’s 2024 primary election. Here’s what you need to know to vote.
  
• Idaho Statesman: 2024 Idaho Voter Guide
  

News and Analysis

• KTVB: Extreme hate in Idaho: Part I of III
  
• Idaho Statesman: ‘What’s in it for them?’ This outside lobbying group is top spender in Idaho GOP primary
  
• The Washington Post (soft paywall): In a place with a history of hate, an unlikely fight against GOP extremism North Idaho has beaten the far right before. Now renegade Republicans are seeking to root it out of their own party, with a crucial test in Tuesday’s primary.
  

Results

• Idaho Secretary of State: Idaho Election Results

Kentucky

Resources

• USA Today: Here's what to know about Kentucky's primary election on Tuesday

News and Analysis

• AP: AP Decision Notes: What to expect in Kentucky’s primaries
  
• AP: Kentucky congressman expects no voter fallout for his role in attempt to oust House speaker
  

Live Updates

• Lexington Herald Leader: Live election updates
  
• WVXU: Live results from Kentucky's 2024 primaries
  

Results

• ABC: Kentucky 2024 primary results
  
• Kentucky State Board of Elections: Kentucky Election Results
  

New York

Resources

• Ballotpedia: Lackawanna City School District, New York, elections (2024))

Results

• Lackawanna City School District: 2024-2025 Budget and Election Information

Oregon

Resources

• Oregon Capital Chronicle: Oregon’s 2024 primary election: Where to vote, find results and more

News and Analysis

• Oregon Capital Chronicle: U.S. Supreme Court won’t hear Oregon lawsuit that sought to end mail voting
  
• Oregon Public Broadcasting: Turnout for Oregon’s primary election still lags behind historic levels
  
• USA Today: Tired of your state politics? These residents are looking to secession as the solution. An Oregon ballot initiative is the latest in a long line of secession efforts that speak to the nation's sharp divide.
  

Live Updates

• Oregon Live: Oregon primary election 2024 live results

Results

• ABC: Oregon 2024 primary results
  
• KGOU: Here are Oregon's 2024 primary election results
  

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I woke up on night and my tv was on USA and the show was on. First I'd ever heard of it. I remember thinking 'wow finally a reality show that isnt full if trash pandas, like mama june, or love after lockup.' So I set my dvr, and turned off the tv.
Im on episode 4, and I cannot believe these people!! Steve Sr, wow keep it in ur pants dude! And Brooke, wake tf up lady, does he ever have u at his house? Or does he just meet you out?
I get hes divorced after almost 30 yrs of marriage, but calm down sir. I feel like he likes banging Galyna, but obviously doesn't want a commitment, so basically he's using her for sex and help w his business.
I mean I'm gonna keep watching, but these guys are nothing like I thought they were gonna be 🤣

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Does anyone have recommendations in this vein? I love historical fiction centred on women, but I have PTSD and don't want to read anything with sexual violence or any sort of sexual abuse. I know it's part of history (I study women's history) but I don't want to read about it in my free time. I use StoryGraph but when I try to filter for this it usually just shows me books that haven't had content warnings added for them yet.
Some books I have read that I think fit this:

• The Woman Who Breathed Two Worlds by Selina Siak Chin Yoke
• Thank You, Mr. Nixon by Gish Jen
• Little Gods by Meng Jin
• Mem by Bethany C. Morrow
• The Laws of Evening by Mary Yukari Waters

Some books that were OK for me (had brief references but didn't trigger full PTSD episodes)

• The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden
• When Two Feathers Fell From the Sky by Margaret Verble
• Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo
• The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi by Shannon Chakraborty
• A Master of Djinn by P. Djèlí Clark
• A Sweet Sting of Salt by Rose Sutherland

Thank you!

I'm very picky with podcasts and for that reason I find it very hard to find some that i actually like, so here are some of the best (in my opinion) horror podcast that i've listened to so far:

• The Ghost on This Road - Linda Wojtowick : Using her own horror prose as an eerie foundation, writer Linda Wojtowick collaborated with fellow author Soren Narnia on this lo-fi blend of conversation and fiction. In the first volume of 25 episodes (2020-2022), they play anonymous paranormal researchers calling back and forth from the road to report on mysterious phenomena. In the second volume of 15 episodes (2023), they play very different unnamed characters: strangers attempting to piece together hazy shared memories of a faraway used bookstore that may never have existed. In both volumes, short and subtle tales of terror link hours of observations on fear, memory, obsession, and the wonder of things that cannot be explained.
• The Pale - Aeaea : Strange things are happening aboard a cruise ship in Antarctica. One reporter interviews passengers to learn the truth about these bizarre phenomena.
• In Another Room - Violet Hour Media : An amateur paranormal investigator gets trapped inside a notoriously haunted house, where every room she enters transports her to the last inhabitant’s grisly murder.
• The Storage Papers - Jeremy Enfinger : In July of 2019, Jeremy made the fortuitous decision to make the only bid on an abandoned storage unit. At first disappointed by no apparent treasure, what he discovered instead is a trove of the most extensive documentation of seemingly unexplainable events he’s ever seen. Join him on his journey of discovery through the horrific, paranormal, and downright unusual events of each podcast episode and sink into the frightening reality that lurks just beneath the skin of our everyday lives.
• Mabel - Becca De La Rose and Mabel Martin : Mabel is a podcast about ghosts, family secrets, strange houses, and missed connections.
• The Dead Letters Office of Somewhere, Ohio - Rat Grimes : A series of weird horror podcasts set in the midwest. The Dead Letter Office of Somewhere, Ohio is a horror-comedy fiction podcast set within one of the last remaining Dead Letter Offices in the country. Join Conway, Wren, and the rest as they archive strange, spooky, surreal pieces of lost mail. A solo project by a nonbinary creator inspired by Kentucky Route Zero, Twin Peaks, Edgar Allen Poe, and more. Each episode features 2 short stories connected in some way, either narratively or thematically. What begins as an anthology evolves into...something else.
• Gray Matter: an Acid Horror Anthology Podcast - Wyrdsyrch Media, Jonathan Inbody : Welcome to Gray Matter Video, the only video rental store where you can find tapes telling 'true' tales of horrific transformation, bodily destruction, and death from all across the dimensional spectrum. With a blend of original stories from author Jonathan Inbody in the proud tradition of Carpenter and Cronenberg, and modern adaptations of classic Weird Fiction tales from authors like H.P. Lovecraft and Edgar Allan Poe, this full-cast scifi-horror anthology explores the blurred line between psychology and biology alongside the flawed and fragile depths of human nature when faced with the hideous unknown. At Gray Matter, everything is horribly, brutally possible. Will you let it get under your skin?
• The Outside Tapes - Liam Brett and Evan Daly : An independent Irish horror audio drama following the investigations of journalist Alfie Greaves into a series of unusual events.
• The Magnus Archives - Rusty Quill : “Make your statement, face your fear.” A weekly horror fiction podcast examining what lurks in the archives of the Magnus Institute, an organisation dedicated to researching the esoteric and the weird. Join Jonathan Sims as he explores the archive, but be warned, as he looks into its depths something starts to look back…

Hope you enjoy them as much as I did :) and if you have any recommendations please let me know 'cause I'm in a desperate search for a new podcast to listen to…
( All of the podcast mentioned are available on spotify)

For some reason whenever I search and find a torrent, I can only download one file at a time. I want to be able to download a full season of Buffy the vampire Slayer but it's making me select one episode at a time and Chrome only lets me download six at a time

My body is full of fat from my binge eating episodes and also full of cellulites , stretch marks, etc. i don't feel comfortable in my skin anymore

I’m on episode 10 and trying to imagine the orientations of the Werehouse nightclub. Do you guys figure these are entirely straight animals in this club? Like full on Travises dancing on all fours? Or are they bisexual hybrids? Do they give finger guns while holding their drinks? Do the horse bodyguards have hands that could forcibly roll their pant cuffs, or do they need to like push up the sleeves of their denim jacket with hooves? Griffin made it sound like Fishstick is sitting in a VIP booth, but if he is a full bisexual, he would technically not be able to sit properly. I really have never thought about anything.

We did a podcast this week discussing Mussolini's 'Doctrine of Fascism' and the conversation regarding the connection between American Progressivism and European Fascism came up. I contend that these are essentially sister ideologies - both collectivist and authoritarian in similar ways:
Love of war Nationalization of industry High taxation Use of the corporate world to be productive for the state Use of media as propaganda wing of the state And love of Ancient Rome
What do you think?
Links to the full episode (in case you're interested) Apple - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/pdamx-20-1-fascists-also-love-their-neighboid1691736489?i=1000655746676
Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/episode/3MzIXSyktzWhIEIRX8ObuL?si=bcbc4739308249d2
Youtube - https://youtu.be/AT6xix1IZAQ
*Also, we are very open to discussing these ideas on the podcast if anyone is interested in coming on

We did a podcast this week discussing Mussolini's 'Doctrine of Fascism' and the conversation regarding the connection between American Progressivism and European Fascism came up. I contend that these are essentially sister ideologies - both collectivist and authoritarian in similar ways:
Love of war Nationalization of industry High taxation Use of the corporate world to be productive for the state Use of media as propaganda wing of the state And love of Ancient Rome
What do you think?
Links to the full episode (in case you're interested) Apple - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/pdamx-20-1-fascists-also-love-their-neighboid1691736489?i=1000655746676
Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/episode/3MzIXSyktzWhIEIRX8ObuL?si=bcbc4739308249d2
Youtube - https://youtu.be/AT6xix1IZAQ
*Also, we are very open to discussing these ideas on the podcast if anyone is interested in coming on

We did a podcast this week discussing Mussolini's 'Doctrine of Fascism' and the conversation regarding the connection between American Progressivism and European Fascism came up. I contend that these are essentially sister ideologies - both collectivist and authoritarian in similar ways:
Love of war Nationalization of industry High taxation Use of the corporate world to be productive for the state Use of media as propaganda wing of the state And love of Ancient Rome
What do you think?
Links to the full episode (in case you're interested) Apple - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/pdamx-20-1-fascists-also-love-their-neighboid1691736489?i=1000655746676
Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/episode/3MzIXSyktzWhIEIRX8ObuL?si=bcbc4739308249d2
Youtube - https://youtu.be/AT6xix1IZAQ
*Also, we are very open to discussing these ideas on the podcast if anyone is interested in coming on

We did a podcast this week discussing Mussolini's 'Doctrine of Fascism' and the conversation regarding the connection between American Progressivism and European Fascism came up. I contend that these are essentially sister ideologies - both collectivist and authoritarian in similar ways:
Love of war Nationalization of industry High taxation Use of the corporate world to be productive for the state Use of media as propaganda wing of the state And love of Ancient Rome
What do you think?
Links to the full episode (in case you're interested) Apple - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/pdamx-20-1-fascists-also-love-their-neighboid1691736489?i=1000655746676
Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/episode/3MzIXSyktzWhIEIRX8ObuL?si=bcbc4739308249d2
Youtube - https://youtu.be/AT6xix1IZAQ
*Also, we are very open to discussing these ideas on the podcast if anyone is interested in coming on

I ask because it’s seems like people are making it seem like he really got himself together towards the end and I’m just confused. The main thing I got from this show was selfishness is fulled by allowance. I just didn’t understand why everyone around him just allowed him to treat them any way. From the friend thing to his parents nobody sat there and was like you need to stop cause you’re doing too much. I also wanted to point out that his goal was to not only show his vulnerability but also the other around him and he wasn’t mindful to that at all. This was 8 episodes of him antagonizing the people he “cares” about and trying to project a perception of himself that he thinks he is.

We did a podcast this week discussing Mussolini's 'Doctrine of Fascism' and the conversation regarding the connection between American Progressivism and European Fascism came up. I contend that these are essentially sister ideologies - both collectivist and authoritarian in similar ways:
Love of war Nationalization of industry High taxation Use of the corporate world to be productive for the state Use of media as propaganda wing of the state And love of Ancient Rome
What do you think?
Links to the full episode (in case you're interested) Apple - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/pdamx-20-1-fascists-also-love-their-neighboid1691736489?i=1000655746676
Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/episode/3MzIXSyktzWhIEIRX8ObuL?si=bcbc4739308249d2
Youtube - https://youtu.be/AT6xix1IZAQ
*Also, we are very open to discussing these ideas on the podcast if anyone is interested in coming on

So I was listening to a podcast by comedian Andrew Heaton (X), and he had a very interesting episode examining people's nostalgia for the American 1950's complete with humorous skits. For illustration's sake he assumed 50's America was another country called "Fiftiesland" and compared it's stats like GDP or live expectancy to Modern America. He conclude that a lot of the nostalgia came from how many astonishing improvements happened between 1900-1950 vs 1950-2024, even though Modern America is superior in almost every metric.
At the end he had a long monologue where he was trying to explain to his fictional Grandma Edna Bickle, born in 1889 and elderly by the 50's, what it'd be like in the future compared to how she grew up. Imagine trying to explain Netflix to someone who grew up with a radio.
It really demonstrates, in a lighthearted way, just how far we've come in ~125 years.
So imagine how astonishing the world will be in another 100, 300, or 500 years...
Anyway, it's a bit of a read, but I thought some of you all might enjoy it and Mr Heaten was nice enough to send me the transcript. Enjoy!

My great grandmother, Edna, was born in 1889. My Dad and I were recently reminiscing about her, and he said, “Gramma Bickle, tough old bird, tough old bird. Went blind at ninety-two, quit driving at ninety-four, died at ninety-six. Almost lived in three different centuries.” I have some immediate questions about that chronology, and the realization that Gramma Bickle apparently drove her car blind for two full years before handing her keys in, but I digress.
In 1954 my great gramma Bickle was sixty-five years old. Think about how the country changed from her childhood to her golden years. From when she was born, to a little younger than my parents are today, she saw an entire country go from horse and buggies and pretty much nobody owning a car, to almost everybody has a car. Only six percent of the homes in America had electricity when she was a teenager. By the mid nineteen fifties, the whole country is throbbing with electricity.
In her lifetime, the country went from basically no light bulbs, radios, telephones, refrigerators, or washing machines, to a country where all of that stuff is ubiquitous.
In the year 1900, only ten percent of American households had a stove in them. By 1960,--when my great grandmother is the same age as my parents are now—95% of households do. When she was born, anti-biotics didn’t exist, and polio could cripple your baby. By the time she’s my age, penicillen—a miracle drug!—has been invented. By the time she’s my parents’ age, penicillen is widely available and some genius has recently invented a polio vaccine.
So, if we’re looking at Fiftiesland as a country around today, here’s what’s going on. All of the old people in this country, in their lifetime, went from a horse-and-buggy 19th century third world economy with polio and no electricity—something that, if it existed today, we would be sending anthropoligsts to—to a more modern second world economy perhaps akin to contemporary Guatemala. Which is no small jump.
And the people my age who live in Fiftiesland are still celebrating kicking the crap out of the Nazis, inventing the atom bomb, and enjoying an economy which is comparatively booming—because all of the neighboring economies are rubble.
If Gramma Bickle, at forty years old, my age now, could somehow visit me in contemporary America—she would think I made a pact with Lucifer, the Prince of Darkness. Or maybe, maybe her progeny somehow goes on to conquer Oklahoma as warlords, and all her great grandchildren become opulant Oriental sultans.
I have an icebox in my kitchen that’s powered by lightning that lives in my wall. I have another smaller box that makes my food hot by shooting it with invisible particles like the ray gun from War of the Worlds.
Not only do I let my dog sleep in a tiny bed inside my house, like a toddler, we just finished up a round of antiobitics from when he cut his foot. My great-grandfather—this is true—lived with tuburculosis for years before it finally killed him. Anyway, see that dog I make wear a necktie for my amuesment? Yeah, my dog takes miracle drugs unavailable to John D. Rockefeller. Last year Wallace got elbow cancer but the doctor fixed that, no problem, took a couple of months. Wallace literally has better medical treatment available to him a mile from my house than any human being alive in 1950.
Gramma, you wanna watch Netflix, Paramount Plus, HBO, Peacock, or Amazon Prime? It’s television. Well, television is sort of like radio, only much better, and with images, and I can watch it whenever I want, and there are thousands of options. Like, imagine Broadway, only, like, a few thousand of them, and they’re all inside of that rectangle.
Huh, yeah, I’m not explaining that very well. Right. Okay, so you know how in your time you know multiple people who were literally slaves at some point in their life? Like, you personally know some older people who were, at one point, legally a form of property?
So basically, I have this glass rectangle on my wall that a million of the world’s greatest comedians and dramatists live inside of as my slaves, and they put on plays for me when I’m tired after work. Except I don’t have to feed them or pay them because I use my friend Nick’s HBO account. They just eat the lightning that lives in my wall.
What? Oh yes, I get very tired from work, Gramma. Really get [sigh] worn out, you know? Well, you know how your dad was a wheatfarmer, who spent hours and hours plowing through dust and boneshards in Indian Territory, where he might literally be shot by a Commanche, and the threat of looming starvation for the entire family was never more than one drout away?
Right, so I… I talk for a living. Yeah, that’s right. No, a bunch of strangers just sort of send me money every month cause they enjoy hearing me talk. It’s actually very challenging. Because! Gramma, I do a lot research, you see. Like for this episode, I had to read a lot, and I had to do a lot of math. No, I did not personally do the math.
I have another magical rectangle that has several thosuand math slaves trapped inside that do the actual math for me. When I was a kid I had to perssonally punch the equations in myself, and the rectantle would crunch the numbers. Those were hard times. Now I have a smarter glass rectangle that I can just talk to. I just type in, “Hey, average these ten numbers, okay” and there’s, I dunno, like translater slaves that talk to the math slaves, and they all figure out whatever I’m trying to say, increasingly in lower case and with minimal punctuation, and then give me the answer.
But I have to do the research. Like, I have to read a lot. No, I don’t go to a library. I have another rectangle that has all of the world’s libraries inside of it, and also a lot of pornography, so I just stay at home and look at that particular rectangle, alteranting between research and pornography depending on my mood.
It sure is tough, Gramma. I don’t have any coworkers to keep me company. I’m all by myself here in my well-lit, smokeless, air conditionined home. That’s right, air conditioning! Not just in my house, either—in my camper—which is a tiny extra house I tow behind my armored, self-propelling buggy, which I feed fermented dinosaur juice they pump out of the ground. Oh yeah. It has a rectangle in it that plays music. I’d say I have roughly… three to eight million musician slaves who live in the rectangle in my car, so I don’t get bored when driving to the movies, which is a very large rectangle I go to when I’m tired of watching rectangles on my couch.
What? Good question. It’s called a “camper” because I go camping in it. It’s sort of my hobby. You see, Gramma, my life is so stupidly cushy and comfortable that I amuse myself by going out into the woods to forego wall lightning, air conditioning, and even pornography sometimes, when I can’t get a signal, and instead I sit in a hammock and shit in holes I dig for fun. We call that “roughing it.” For sport, I spend hundreds if not thousands of dollars doing what your entire family did their entire lives until they finally got indoor plumbing, except of course my camper has a propane stove built in, whereas your pioneer family had to dig a hole in the side of a hill and cower in it from the weather like cavemen while burning cow dung for warmth. I dunno where propane comes from. Probably dinosaur farts or something.
Anyway, I prefer to travel around in my camper rather than fly—that’s right, fly—yeah, like a spitfire pilot—which I do multiple times a year using frequent flier points. Which are sort of free, imaginary coupons that banks give me to thank me for using their credit cards, which are also rectangles, but these particular rectangles are small and flat and full of slave bankers that live in my pocket, next to my nine-billion dollar super computer I mostly use as a map, so I don’t have to go through the hassle of folding and unfolding maps, and also to send funny pictures to people in Scotland, in between watching porn in the woods.
I digress. Let’s all take a deep breath. Somebody from my great grandmother’s generation, who lived long enough to be an adult in Fiftiesland, would rightly think: We live in a golden age! We live in the future!
Back in contemporary America, my parents are in their early seventies. My parents today are about how old Gramma Bickle was at the end of the 1950s. And the jump isn’t bad, but it’s not nearly as mind-blowing. The developments they’ve seen since childhood are very impressive in terms of computers and telecommunications and medicine, but otherwise, the world they live in is a more efficient, clever version of the world they grew up in. Cars are safer and more comfortable and fuel efficient, but they’re still basically cars. LED lights are cheaper than incandescent bulbs, but they’re still essentially electric lights. Penicillan is better, but it’s still just clinical mold that strategically murders errant bacteria.
If Fiftiesland were a country, rather than our own history, we would pretty much look at it sort of how we see the poorer parts of Latin America or Eastern Europe: a very nice place with lovely people, wonderful to visit, try the food. Get some funky vintage clothes while you’re there.
But a comparatively poor economy to America or Western Europe. You wouldn’t want to immigrate there for the money. And also, not surprisingly, some views about gender, sex before marriage, having kids really young, having lots of kids, and skepticism about homosexuality that a globetrotter and even quite a few conservatives today might be tempted to call “quaint” or “traditional.”
Basically, if Fiftiesland were a country today, we would view it like Honduras or Moldova, or maybe Czechoslavkia after the wall came down.

So I am going to be honest. My cousin used to watch this when I visited him in mumbai at the age of 16. I thought this was some idiotic stuff.
Fast forward last year at the age of 22 I saw a clip of Ashwini abusing a girl and I couldn’t laugh more. Call it the stress of adulthood or escape from my mediocre life. Him abusing the girl, was the funniest thing I watched. Reminded me of my life and innocence back in the days where everything was not held up to such an insanely tight standard by society and not everything would blow out of proportion on the internet. I tracked the clip down and watched half the season up until the moment ashwini and the next episode his friend abused participants.
That’s what got me attracted to the show. I would keep seeing reels of X3 participants especially palak and Nikhil from time to time, and decided to watch it and loved that season. This got me hooked to splittsvilla and now I am following the current season. For roadies and splittsvilla both.
In brief, ashwini kaul was how I found out splittsvilla existed and boom bam gang I why I will be watching this show till its grave or mine.
I only watched half of ashwini season, and full of X3 and hopefully full of this one.

Welcome to the Tuesday content creator roundup on a Wednesday!
This thread will feature some noteworthy contributions from Flesh & Blood content creators. Lots of gameplay, box openings, discussions etc. Catch up on content by reviewing the links below!
Videos

• SNEEP brings us a Wayyy To Early Nats Tier List with Charles Dunn !!! Flesh and Blood...
• Flesh and Blood TCG streamed Flesh and Blood TCG Calling: Tokyo - Part the Mistveil Draft & Top 8
• DMArmada discusses the MASSIVE LIVING LEGEND POINT CHANGE Flesh and Blood TCG
• AggroBlaze96 streamed Updated Enigma! Flesh and Blood TCG !discord !deck
• Flesh and Blood TCG gives us a Part the Mistveil Sealed Tutorial
• OK&Y Podcast shows the Enigma vs Kayo Flesh and Blood Classic Constructed 340
• Dice Commando investigates an AMAZING Adjustment to Living Legend Points! Flesh and Blood TCG
• FaBled Hunters bring us Flesh and Blood Judge of Judges In Witness Protection
• Cardboard Swords showcases DASH I/O Vs KASSAI - Classic Constructed Armory Gameplay
• AlanLube has a Part the Mistveil Ninja Set Review feat Nghia Tran
• We Make Best streamed Nuu Gameplay Part the Mistveil CC
• Table Games TCG shares My thoughts on the FULL Part the Mistveil Set Flesh and Blood
• Klloo ooyy explains a 693 DMG Turn 1 Max Damage Zen Combo Flesh and Blood TCG
• Kugane shows their 296 Damage > Zen Combo > Zen should stop breeding more tigers
• Infinite Gaming Respawn has a Flesh and Blood Bright Lights Booster Box Rip!
• DcGero shared some Flesh and Blood - CC Practice (Prism vs Azalea)
• CupofTCG shared the Victor vs Viserai - Pro Quest S5 FINALS [Commentary]
• Legacy Tournament Series streamed Kayo CC Armory vs 2x Blitz decks! Flesh and Blood - Zero to Hero
• Game Nerdz TCG bring us a Flesh and Blood: Dusk till Dawn Booster Box Opening
• Lupinefiasco continues Daily FaB #187 Kayo vs. Olympia Flesh and Blood Heavy Hitters
• Samuel Graham Does TCGs says Flesh and Blood: Uprising Is Still One Of My Favorite Sets To Open
• MrE of Rathe shares the Dash I/O Hero Story - Flesh and Blood Lore
• Stefan's Basement asks Can the luck continue??? - Welcome to Rathe Booster box

Blogposts & Other Resource

• Legend Story Studios announced a Living Legend Adjustment
• Legend Story Studios showcased the Summer Convention Exclusive Promo
• Joshua Scott brings us Rules Reprise #19: Part the Mistveil Limited
• Alex Kivitz has a Calling: Tokyo Live Blog
• Organized Play Team announced the June 2024 Armory Kit
• Kasharn Rao gives us a Recap: Calling: Warsaw and a Recap: Battle Hardened: Taichung
• Joshua Scott updates us with Back Alley Oracle #14: Forked Lightning, Concessions, and more
• Kasharn Rao have moved Into the Mist...
• Ethan Van Sant wrote about the Part the Mistveil Set Review - Expansion Slots
• Donnie K discusses An Epic Comeback at Calling: Warsaw
• Jose Lau has their Part the Mistveil Set Review - Assassin
• Jonah Lara does the Part the Mistveil Set Review - Ninja and Generic

Podcasts

• Red Zone Rogue brings us Flesh and Blood Heroes Ranking! (super serious) > Living Legends Podcast Ep 100
• AdventureCo. Gaming posted MST Cards Are Insane! BattleWorn 09 - A Flesh and Blood Podcast
• Runaways Podcast ponders Runaways Podcast Episode 24: How Good is MST?
• Arsenal Pass has Arsenal Pass Ep162 - Part the Mistveil Limited Review
• Fresh and Buds posted 144. Part The Mistveil First Impressions w/ DMArmada
• M-n-R Cast brings us The M-n-R Cast: Nuu Hero, Who Diss?
• Instant Speed: A Flesh and Blood Podcast has a blast from the past in REWIND: A Chat with Bryan Gottlieb of LSS, March 23, 2023 Instant Speed
• Fluke And Box brings us James White - Mistveil Edition #fabtcg
• FaBcast der Flesh and Blood Podcast uploaded Ruckblick Calling Warschau - FaBcast - def Flesh and Blood
• Siblings in Cardboard - A Flesh and Blood Podcast brings us The Veil Has Been Lifted Siblings in Cardboard Podcast Episode 37
• Pitch It To Me Podcast shared Ep. 40 -- Hidden Information

This was another long one! We know this can never be an exhaustive list and many of the creators listed above put out more than one video just this week so feel free to peruse and view past content as well.
Did I miss some great FaB content from last week? Share links and details in the comments below!