Episode 50: Brandon O’Brien – ”Content is Cuisine”

This episode’s reading carries a content warning for discussion of online harassment. If you would like to skip the reading, fast forward to timestamp 0:17:25 from the start of the reading.   This time around, it’s my absolute delight to welcome to the show Brandon O’Briend (@therisingtithes)! Brandon reads from their story, “Content is Cuisine,” before we launch into a wonderful conversation about the intersection of poetry and game design, how recipes and poems are alike, and how H. P. Lovecraft was accidentally kinda hip-hop.   Things we mention in this episode:   Suzan’s episode Mike’s episode Speculate! Valerie Valdes Girl By Moonlight Iori Kusano Jeoi Gawain Lin FB moderation expose Sin-eater All Our Yesterdays The Moon Wants Me To Leave You Anteater tumblr post Can You Sign My Tentacle?, by Brandon O’Brien Interstellar Flight Press Uncanny Magazine Lovecraft’s cat (CW: racial slurs) Sarah Gailey’s Personal Canons Cookbook Shing Yin Khor “Trust the Process,” by Hilary B. Bisenieks Elgin Award Amelia Atwater-Rhodes Gregory A. Wilson Blades in the Dark Slugblaster Lasers & Feelings Evil Hat Productions Friends at the Table (of course) The Rookie “Call ACab,” by Sam Stone Sam Waterston Aaron Sorkin The Newsroom Nickel Creek Pavement “Spit on a Stranger,” by Nickel Creek Brandon’s insta and newsletter and website Fiyah