You might also like Auditory Anthology then. Their original stories are sometimes a little hit or miss for me, but one neat thing they do is they rebroadcast old episodes of a 50s radio show called X Minus One between their own stories. Often ones that they used as inspiration for a modern rewrite in an earlier episode.

I tend to go for story-telling podcasts, and within those I gravitate towards Twilight Zone/Outer Limits/Black Mirror style weird anthologies.

Right now I’m finding a lot of great stuff in:

• The Other Stories (all kinds of stuff, they have a different theme every month or so)
• The Wrong Station (similar, but less likely to stick to a theme for a while)
• Gray Matter (lots of modern adaptations of older horror/sci-fi, like Lovecraft)
• The Antiquarium of Sinister Happenings (higher ratio of dumb stuff, but still some gems)
• The Program (Black Mirror-esque)
• The Truth (various radio plays. Many aren’t sci-fi, but still weird in some way. Kind of reminds me of the bits of Inside No. 9 I’ve seen.)

Children’s Horror

I’m not sure this is a question I’ve ever really considered, but the names that immediately spring to mind are ABBA, Enya, and Mama Cass. They’re certainly music I’ve listened to as a buoy in the dark sometimes.

We give gifts to both sets of parents as a couple, but we’re both involved in picking them out.

Actually what usually happens is my wife sets me loose to wander in a store and follows me like a dowsing rod or a truffling pig, and then I stop in front of a shelf and go “I dunno, this?” and 8/10 times she goes “holy shit, yeah”.

I think a lot of amateur writers feel more comfortable with a prompt or an established theme for the community to get started with. It’s part of why WritingPrompts, HFY, and HumansAreSpaceOrcs were pretty popular on reddit. After that, I imagine it’s just like any online community, a matter of promoting it to people and getting splintered tiny communities to band together in one place.

It looks like your community is pretty general theme-wise, have you considered maybe a “theme of the week” post, or a sticky where people can dump prompts for someone to pick up and run with?

Maximo

Fuuuuck, I haven’t thought about Maximo in years. That, Dark Cloud, and MediEvil are probably highest on my “It’s been 20 years, where the hell is my third game?” list.

Nethack maybe? It’s been updated over the years, but it’s still largely the game that released in '87.

I’m also playing Might and Magic 6 [98] right now, and remembering why I liked 7 so much more. Planning a playthrough of World of Xeen [93/94] soon too.

Romantically? I don’t suppose that there’s much choice to falling in love. But continuing to love someone once the honeymoon glow wears off, and it’s not always as happy and easy? I think that is, to some degree, a choice you make.

I think I see a young Kitty Foreman in the back.

You can use a chair as a table, but can’t comfortably sit on most tables. QED, fuck off tables.

Also we get Will Sasso to come back as hotelier Gomez Calhoun at least once a season.

We’re bringing back Sliders without a reboot.

It was the real Arturo that got left behind in “Post Traumatic Slide Syndrome”, and Remy ends up finding him again after his cliffhanger solo slide.

Working with Arturo, they manage to get a slidegate up and running to go back for the others. They also find a dying copy of Quinn along the way who has some valuable Kromagg info and end up merging him into Mallory like the accident that melded our Quinn into him, in a last-ditch effort to save him. The presence of this third Quinn, who is almost like the original, outweighs Mallory so we have Jerry O’Connell back in the cast.

The gang all back together, they go to deliver the Kromagg bio-weapon in Remy’s blood and succeed. It’s now slowly spreading across all worlds. But the Kromagg big bad they’re fighting during this process sets off some kind of nuke inside a slide-tunnel, destabilizing the entire thing and basically scrambling sliding across all worlds. Even if you knew how to precisely connect to a world before, it goes somewhere else now.

And now we’re back to the classic formula, we can do whatever we want from here.

I steam it, then puree and mix into the sauce for mac and cheese, to trick myself into eating vegetables.

I haven’t been able to find a full version of the cover of “I Have a Dream” that Black Mirror used in Fifteen Million Merits. Better than ABBA’s version IMO.

Cubed pork, daikon radish, shaved carrot, and napa cabbage in a miso-based broth. Oh, and as much ginger in there as you like.

Nice for when I feel like a soup with no starches. My other soups usually have rice, beans, noodles, or potato.

I love tomato myself, but if I couldn’t have it for some reason or my tongue betrayed me one day, I’m thinking lightly pickled eggplant might get close to the same niche.

All I know is “petaQ” and “Heghlu’meH QaQ jajvam”, but I suppose that should be enough to get by.

In concept, they’re the kind of sci-fi shit I dreamed of as a kid. The reality is that they’ll be locked-down useless trash that you pay out the ass to spy on you.