Hi everyone, Em writing today. I've been kicking around some thoughts about My Hero Academia lately, and decided here was a perfectly good place to put them. Please enjoy. There will be some thematic spoilers up through season 2, but nothing plot-specific if you're particularly sensitive. So, let's begin.
In the tides and tumult of humanity both terrestrial and astronomical, it is considered a long standing axiom that when it rains, it does indeed pour. It doesn't matter if one lives where water can fall or not, the sentiment remains true and alive. Which means, in not so many words, we watched a ton of anime and had big episodes this week. Enjoy an hour of the tears of time.
Yuri Kama Ashi OP: <...
2018-05-30 21:48:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi everyone,
Jackson here! It has been an extremely busy week, I'm in the final stretches of moving house preparations, I've edited four podcasts, I've barely slept, I've recorded another podcast today, and still I am here to bring you the regular patreon letter. Such is the commitment I have. I am so very tired, but press on we must.
Football is arguably the greatest competitive ...
2018-05-26 19:58:33 +0000 UTC View Post
Voip Life is Abnormal Mapping's new behind the scenes hangout show for $10/month patrons! Unlike our regular shows with things like topics and structure, this is just going to be Em and Jackson having a chat about something that is on their mind, every two weeks. Sometimes it'll be funny, sometimes it might be insight to the network, but it will be a much looser and chill show than we tend to offe...
2018-05-24 04:35:07 +0000 UTC View Post
After weeks of feeling like Kamille is fine, actually we discover that the kids are not all right as our favorite anger boy throws hands and words without reason this week. Someone needs to parent this child and Bright's too deep into burgers to be the one. Will anyone step up? The only question more worrying than Axis!
Episode 37: Sarah's Day Out
2018-05-23 00:45:15 +0000 UTC View PostHi everyone, Em here. Before we get into it, I wanted to mention that if you haven't yet please check out the pieces me and Jackson did for the relaunching Deorbital. You can find my piece here and Jackson's piece 2018-05-19 14:24:38 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi everyone, Jackson here!
You have probably heard by now that we have recently restructured the patreon, because recent changes in living circumstances have left both Em and I in more financially precarious and generally stressful positions. We love doing the network, and we want to be able to keep doing it for as long as we can without collapsing and burning out!
The reason we're sending...
2018-05-16 22:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostHey everyone, Em here with a really quick update. We revamped our Patreon home page to reflect where we are a year into this adventure, and along with that came some changes to our tier structure. Most people will be unaffected, but please take a look at what tier you're pledged at and make sure your rewards are set appropriately!
If you're on our $10 tier, the one that's changing the most...
2018-05-16 22:00:51 +0000 UTC View Post
Episode 36: Jerid's New Empire
2018-05-15 22:03:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey, everyone!
It's Jackson here with another Patreon Letter! I've spent the bulk of my week doing two things. One, working on my God of War piece for deorbital that is going to drop some point next week. I am told by people much smarter than me that it is "very good," so please look forward to that! But I've had time for video games as well. My friends, I have been playing Nioh.
I have pl...
2018-05-12 19:04:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Please contemplate the poetry of Captain Bright Noa eating a vending machine burger on the bridge of the AEUG flagship, currently in active conflict with the Titans, now in control of the Earth Federation forces. Reflect on its purity and beauty. Whatever the tears of time are, this is the opposite of that.
Episode 35: Picking Up Char And Sneaking Into Jupitris
2018-05-09 03:14:27 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi everyone! I'm so glad to be back to a biweekly schedule with these, I can't begin to tell you. I still feel not particularly recovered from the past month or so of running things mostly solo, but this is at least a bit of a load off. Let's get right to it.
I have finished building the entire Va...
2018-05-05 15:41:28 +0000 UTC View Post
o7 o7 o7 RIP o7 o7 o7
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o7 o7 foreheads o7 o7
o7 o7 are not o7 o7
o7 o7 forbearance o7 o7
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Epis...
2018-05-01 21:57:23 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi there!
It's Jackson, I am back, I have returned from underneath the pile of school work under which I was trapped for the last month or year depending on your interpretation of trapped. I'm not completely done, I moved across the country this month (not my choice, don't ask) so I've got an extension to finish up the final bits, but it's not that much. I'm back. Which means Amor...
2018-04-28 16:18:32 +0000 UTC View Post
The cosmic comedy continues. The Argama. The hotel of Dakar. The shopping centers of Von Braun City. Each of these places lives with the noise and energy of dozens of people. Each of them thrives with untold stories and infinite moments of people coming together and breaking apart. Everything is connected tenuously, be it the boys who would be soldiers, the timing of a walk outside your hotel, or ...
2018-04-24 15:10:54 +0000 UTC View Post
I'm playing God of War. I didn't intend to play God of War as a thing, but then friend of the show Amr Al-Aaser asked me and several others to play the game to write takes from people who aren't the blandest dads on earth to counter the ...
2018-04-21 14:23:37 +0000 UTC View Post
The earth turns and space expands and lives are lived. A girl left alone gets in a robot. A captain pining for love wraps a box. A cafeteria in need of food installs a burger dispenser. And somewhere, in a small section of space, an anime gets its namesake. All this and more as we see the tears of time
Episode 32: A New(type) Family Portrait
2018-04-17 23:11:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Recently on the Giant Beastcast, there was something of a fight about the merits of Sonic All-Stars Racing Transformed, a 2012 mascot kart racer released for the 360/PS3/Wii U/PC and developed by Sumo Digital. The game is from back to front a Sega-branded arcade racing game, a genre defined almost entirely by...
2018-04-14 15:45:33 +0000 UTC View Post
As the world is divided into spacenoid and earthling, newtype and oldtype, and AEUG and fascist dickbag, so too are your hosts divided this week into haters and enjoyers. Yet the terms of the argument are not in dispute, and we are left only to hold the ineffable realities of taste as the arbitrary line of this battleground. We are podcasting the tears of time.
Episode 31: The Ol' Rev...
2018-04-11 00:07:46 +0000 UTC View Post
This past week I found myself with a bit of extra time on my hands, and I decided it was time to actually watch some anime. Anyone who listens to The Great Gundam Project knows that we always open with an anime segment that started as a joke because neither me or Jackson watch anime regularly enough to have s...
2018-04-07 16:08:38 +0000 UTC View Post
How can we decide what to joke about when Zeta offers so many riches this week? The incredible battle of the Psyco Gundam, Kamille's inability to be covert about anything, Amuro not knowing how handshakes workâall of these and more rise up to dominate the imagination. And what about that mysterious Four? When Gundam is good, it sure is good, so let's just celebrate how good the show is as we tal...
2018-04-04 03:02:41 +0000 UTC View Post
note: this is not at all my setup
Good morning, everyone! Jackson is in the final march of their school work, finish or bust, and thus for the next few weeks I'll be taking over most of the day to day work on the network while they crunch. Which means I'll be doing letters until probably the first weeke...
2018-03-31 15:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Once upon a time, a man named Quattro Bajeena said if one were to get trapped in Earth's gravity, it would be difficult to escape. Four special boys, separated by generation and disposition, all struggle to escape this inexorable pull. Two of them will succeed, dooming two of them to struggle on the land still while in space the events of humanity unfold as they must. May all spacenoids return to ...
2018-03-27 21:59:28 +0000 UTC View Postrainy brunches
each morning warming slowly
hot new releases
Hello and welcome to Far Cry 5 week here on Abnormal Mapping. We will provide you absolutely no coverage of the new open world shooter from publisher Ubisoft, and you can tune in every day this week for the deafening silence of our apathy as the takes roll in from around the internet. This promises to be a...
2018-03-25 16:19:21 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey everyone,
It's Jackson here with this week's Patreon Letter! I have spent the last couple weeks either working on school work, having anxiety attacks, or preparing for podcasts, so I basically have nothing. That's why it's taken so long. I've been sitting here for about four hours, I've written one paragraph. Folks, welcome to the dark night of the soul.
One of the reasons I'm struggli...
2018-03-24 22:14:17 +0000 UTC View Post
This week, we remember what it feels like to be young. To correct your elders. To challenge the man. To play grab ass with the hero of the one year war in order to ditch the cops. Truly it is the children who will save us, for the oldtypes are caught forever in the gravity of Earth. These are the tears of time.
A big thank you to Andrew Lee Swan (@swandre3000) for supporting us and guesting on t...
2018-03-20 23:52:38 +0000 UTC View PostHello! Jackson here with this week's weekly patreon weekly update for the week. What have we done this week, I hear you ask? Well, podcasts, mostly. It's what we do usually. We saw no need to change.
Good morning, friends. Lately me and Jackson have been joking about a time in which we don't play games anymore. Right now, they're just jokes, responses to the stress in our lives and the easiest target for frustration in a world where we both have many many other problems to tackle. But today I'd like to th...
2018-03-17 14:49:43 +0000 UTC View Post
We've been watching Gundam for over six months now, so it's probably about time we have a stinker. This episode? A hell of a stinker. We get caught in the gravity well of ponderous battle and Kamille's self-justification and our enthusiasm grinds briefly to a halt with explosive results.
Episode 27: Kacricon But Not Forgotten
2018-03-13 22:06:10 +0000 UTC View PostHi everyone, Em here. Tired times at Abnormal Mapping HQ as we struggle with technical problems and scheduling. Which is why I'm a day late with this, sorry.
It was a light week this week but we're looking at a stacked slate coming up so please look forward to it!