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Novel Gaming! @novelgamingpod.bsky.social · 13h

Wait, but then how do you build up a massive backlog to tackle together on your podcast?

IGN @ign.com · 13h

According to Circana, over 60% of gamers in the United States now buy two or fewer games per year as more shift focus to free-to-play titles like Fortnite.

For more from the report: bit.ly/3WqJJXw

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Gimmicks Podcast @gimmickspod.bsky.social · 21h

Bad news?! @mattbr.bsky.social joins to discuss the reality TV spin of the vampire comedy WHAT WE DO IN THE SHADOWS, along with the history of home renovation programs, what they've become, and how watching them might be really bad for our brains.

Listen to the pod at gimmickspodcast.com

Gimmicks

What We Do In The Shadows
"Go Flip Yourself"

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✨ Hamish Steele ✨ Buy Go-Man! @hamishsteele.bsky.social · 1d

So happy to be at Glitterjaw. SMM returns this month!

Glitterjaw @glitterjaw.bsky.social · 2d

This month on our newsletter and monthly round-up, we spotlight Glitterjaw’s response to the erasure and censorship of queer voices in media.

Check out everything happening across our podcasts!
www.glitterjaw.com/news/sept-2025

A Glimmer Into Glitterjaw: Turning Audio Into Action Part II — Glitterjaw

A spotlight on Glitterjaw’s response to erasure and censorship of queer voices in media. Plus, our monthly podcast roundup!

www.glitterjaw.com

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The Mixed Reviews @themixedreviews.bsky.social · 1d

Look to the sky! It's a brand new Coming Soon marque from The Mixed Reviews!

THE MIXED REVIEWS
COMING SOON

OCTOBER
ALIENS ON FILM

NOVEMBER
JUDY GARLAND WITH TRANNA WINTOUR

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Walloping Websnappers! @wallopingwebpod.bsky.social · 1d

Things get hot n’ heavy thanks to the sexual tension of Silver Sable and Hammerhead! The criminology arc begins with the impending gang war as multiple criminal elements vie for plans to make a Rhino army.

We're talking Spectacular #SpiderMan! wallopingwebsnappers.wordpress.com/2025/10/07/2...

Walloping Websnappers #290
The Spectacular Spider-Man
Season 2, Episode 8
"Accomplices"

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Glitterjaw @glitterjaw.bsky.social · 2d

This month on our newsletter and monthly round-up, we spotlight Glitterjaw’s response to the erasure and censorship of queer voices in media.

Check out everything happening across our podcasts!
www.glitterjaw.com/news/sept-2025

A Glimmer Into Glitterjaw: Turning Audio Into Action Part II — Glitterjaw

A spotlight on Glitterjaw’s response to erasure and censorship of queer voices in media. Plus, our monthly podcast roundup!

www.glitterjaw.com

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Novel Gaming! @novelgamingpod.bsky.social · 2d

happy monday

Screenshot from Minami Lane: “I don’t want to climb the corporate ladder. I just want to chill.”

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Novel Gaming! @novelgamingpod.bsky.social · 4d

Donkey Kong and Pauline in DK Bananza looking scared.

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Glitterjaw @glitterjaw.bsky.social · 5d

✨️ Novel Gaming ✨️

Novel Gaming! @novelgamingpod.bsky.social · 6d

Are you afraid of the dark?? 😰

We know a video game couple who is! And one of them looooves writing about it! Join us as we wade through the shadows and talk about our experience with Alan Wake Remastered, a 2021 psychological action thriller.

Listen everywhere: glitterjaw.com/novel-gaming

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DareBear @derekbgayle.bsky.social · 6d

Desperately need @novelgamingpod.bsky.social's thoughts on this

Emily C. Hughes @emilyhughes.bsky.social · 6d

no no the publishing industry is doing fine, why do you ask

A screenshot from Publisher's Lunch:
Jennifer L. Armentrout and Hellmann's
In a promotion designed for BookTok enjoyment, Jennifer L. Armentrout’s just-published THE PRIMAL OF BLOOD AND BONE is available in a special, limited-edition "garlic-scented copy, infused with Hellmann’s Garlic Aioli to create a one-of-a-kind, Craven-proof book." They explain: "This exclusive edition is printed with garlic-infused ink, designed to ward off Armentrout’s bloodthirsty monsters, the Craven. While humans may dread garlic breath, Hellmann’s has cleverly transformed this social faux pas into an unexpected – and delicious – form of supernatural protection."

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Novel Gaming! @novelgamingpod.bsky.social · 6d

a man in a suit and bow tie is holding a red napkin that says " i love you "

Alt: The professor from Tolerian Community College doing the “I see you” hand motion.

media.tenor.com

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TomTom #FreePalestine 🇵🇸 @awkwardcomma.bsky.social · 6d

Ahhhhh I'm only a couple minutes in and am so excited to hear @ickybooley.bsky.social talk about the Spider-Man Magic cards and cracking packs! What a delightful surprise!

Novel Gaming! @novelgamingpod.bsky.social · 6d

Are you afraid of the dark?? 😰

We know a video game couple who is! And one of them looooves writing about it! Join us as we wade through the shadows and talk about our experience with Alan Wake Remastered, a 2021 psychological action thriller.

Listen everywhere: glitterjaw.com/novel-gaming

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Novel Gaming! @novelgamingpod.bsky.social · 6d

Are you afraid of the dark?? 😰

We know a video game couple who is! And one of them looooves writing about it! Join us as we wade through the shadows and talk about our experience with Alan Wake Remastered, a 2021 psychological action thriller.

Listen everywhere: glitterjaw.com/novel-gaming

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Distant Echoes: A Star Wars Podcast @distantechoespod.bsky.social · 6d

🤖🤖 "My name is Tobi, and I'm a Jedi!" 🤖🤖

We discuss this special and delightful episode from Science Saru while questioning why it's so hard for some fans to accept this sophisticated, yet unabashedly kid-friendly tale.

🟢: bit.ly/4mRlqNf
🍎: apple.co/46PE6H6
🏳️‍🌈: glitterjaw.com/distant-echoes

An image from Science Saru's "T0-B1" (Star Wars: Visions, Season 1), showing a dark and desolate cloudy sky with "T0B1" in the foreground, shining bright and cyan with his new lightsaber.

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Novel Gaming! @novelgamingpod.bsky.social · 7d

It's October 1

From Oxenfree: Formless but somewhat wolf-like figure with glowing eyes shown in a staticky screen.

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Fear Coded Podcast @fearcodedpod.bsky.social · 7d

Did we say something about bonus episodes?
We sure did!
On the first Friday of every month, expect a little extra content from your frightful friends at Fear Coded!
Only on Patreon! Join our bats now:
www.patreon.com/c/fearcodedp...

Fear Coded's patreon schedule
October 3rd - Campfire Creepypastas
November 7th - Balatro
December 5th - Elf

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Mychal Threets @mychal3ts.bsky.social · 9d

🎶 Take a look, it's in a book 🎶

🥹 After nearly 20 years... Reading Rainbow is returning to motivate, help, and encourage kids to become avid readers with new episodes, new friends, new projects, and of course... new books! Make sure to follow the rainbow 📚🌈

#FollowTheRainbow

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Fear Coded Podcast @fearcodedpod.bsky.social · 9d

At long last we take Lost at Sea-tember to the stars! And who better to be by our sides than the exceptional @gonkbinary.bsky.social
⁠from @distantechoespod.bsky.social as we discuss Event Horizon.
That's a lot of spikes, innit?

Listen wherever you podcast or: www.glitterjaw.com/fear-coded

Fear Coded podcast cover for an episode about Event Horizon featuring Cass Proffitt. In the frame is a still from the first frame of the movie featuring a floating WEIR framed by the window in the bridge with three intersex progress pride sparkle hearts

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Glitterjaw @glitterjaw.bsky.social · 12d

✨️Glitterjaw this week✨️
What do whales, disability representation, & Debra Winger all have in common?
They, & MANY other incredible topics were all discussed this week on different Glitterjaw podcasts!

You can listen/subscribe to all of these shows wherever you get your pods or: www.glitterjaw.com/

Glitterjaw this week
Monday
Fear Coded- Intestinal Hugs (Whalefall)
Tuesday
Walloping Websnappers- Identity Crisis
(Spectacular Spider-Man
Wednesday
Lee Carvallo's Podding Challenge- The Simpsons: Road Rage (with Chris Cummins!)

Glitterjaw this week
Wednesday
Gimmicks- ONLY MURDERS IN THE BUILDING goes silent
Thursday
Distant Echoes: a Star Wars Podcast- Star Wars: Visions - The Ninth Jedi
Friday
The Mixed Reviews - Debra Winger

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TomTom #FreePalestine 🇵🇸 @awkwardcomma.bsky.social · 13d

They should make books that are metroidvanias

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Glitterjaw @glitterjaw.bsky.social · 14d

Lee Carvallo's Podding Challenge takes on The Simpsons: Road Rage, a Crazy Taxi clone that's so close to the original...it results in a lawsuit!

@scifiexplosion.bsky.social splits the fare with us for a drive down memory lane about this entertaining game 🚕

Find the pod: glitterjaw.com/lee-carvallo

Lee Carvallo's Podding Challenge: A Simpsons Gaming Podcast
Episode #21

The Simpsons Road Rage

#TheSimpsons #CrazyTaxi

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Walloping Websnappers! @wallopingwebpod.bsky.social · 15d

Venom has outed Peter Parker as Spider-Man to the Daily Bugle, and we try to untangle this wildly ambitious episode that might just be TOO ambitious! We talk paparazzi, Flash Thompson in a Spider-Man costume, and much more.

On all podcast apps: wallopingwebsnappers.wordpress.com/2025/09/23/2...

Walloping Websnappers! A Spider-Man Podcast #288

Shot of Venom happily holding Spider-Man's mask

The Spectacular Spider-Man
Season 2, Episode 7
"Identity Crisis"

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✨ Hamish Steele ✨ Buy Go-Man! @hamishsteele.bsky.social · 16d

In case it needs restating, autism isn't caused by Tylenol, or vaccines, or woke parents or whatever. It's not a disease, and it doesn't need curing. Eugenicists and fascists love to think of ways to eradicate us because they are unwilling to understand us. But we will outlive them.

Edit of a meme which says I'M JOINING THE WAR ON AUTISM ON THE SIDE OF THE AUTISM and beside it is a picture of GO-MAN, a red, white and blue superhero character with a big scarf and mask.

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Fear Coded Podcast @fearcodedpod.bsky.social · 16d

Lost at Sea-tember sent us into a place visited before only by puppet-makers and biblical figures: inside a whale!
Join as we discuss the 2023 novel, Whalefall.

*slaps the old oxygen tank* This bad boy can fit in so many daddy issues!

Listen wherever you podcast or: www.glitterjaw.com/fear-coded

Fear Coded podcast cover for an episode about the book Whalefall. The cover image is of an illustration of a sperm whale fighting a giant squid. Next to them are three pride flag sparkle hearts; an intersex progress one, a trans one, and one for people questioning (5 stripes of color going from a dark purple, a lighter purple, pink, orange, and finally yellow with a giant white question mark on top)

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Glitterjaw @glitterjaw.bsky.social · 19d

✨️Novel Gaming✨️

Novel Gaming! @novelgamingpod.bsky.social · 20d

It's a sequel book club! Many years ago we read a book about a mermaid, a witch, and the sea. This month we read the follow up about colonial & resistance spies, warriors, undercover assassins, pirates, dragons, and whole lot of names (positive).

Check it out everywhere! glitterjaw.com/novel-gaming

Novel Gaming episode image featuring the cover of The Siren, the Song, and the Spy by Maggie Tokuda-Hall as well as the brothers from Listers, the Knight from Hollow Knight, Sweet Tooth from the Twisted Metal TV series, and Ned Sampson from The Paper.

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