Through The Wind Door

Behind The Whitescarves: Stonespring Maidens - Part 3

We've heard from the veteran voices, now the newbies! Felix Quist, Orion Richardson, and Maya Souris, I choose you!

Join us, as we get to know them a little better:

• The background of Felix and Orion and their introduction to New Century
• How Alex handled the recording/directing process for these folks
• Performing without other people in the room
• Giving voices to new characters
• Being a black man in America and Autumn
• Being a trans man in America and Autumn
• Stonespring Outtakes!

 

The Questionable Content story mentioned: https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3606

 

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Intro is "The Future is Ours" by Scott Holmes of Free Music Archive

Behind The Whitescarves: Stonespring Maidens - Part 2

Part 2 of our conversations with Sharon Shaw, Theo Leigh, and Laureta Sela!

Today we talk about:

• Life experiences and media drawn on to bring characters to life
• The Importance of Physical Acting even when just recording audio
• The Future of both the characters in this story, and desires for our actors
• And a little fun analysis of how people feel about the world of Autumn.
• More Outtakes, but these from the recording of this interview!

Next week is round 2: Orion Richardson, Felix Quist, and Maya Souris.

 

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Intro is "The Future is Ours" by Scott Holmes of Free Music Archive

Outro is "Marlene on the Wall" with Suzanne Vega

Behind The Whitescarves: Stonespring Maidens - Part 1

And now all the voices you love, doing different voices and answering questions! But are they their real voices? And the answer is: sometimes!

Today is part 1 of our interview with Theo Leigh, Laureta Sela, and Sharon Shaw. Our topics today:

• The new shape of Behind the Whitescarves, TTWD style!
• Returning to familiar characters after a long break
• The dynamics of our romantic couple and their foil
• A deeper dive into the influences of Truth, Harry, Penny, and Calendula
• The distinguishing tendencies of voicing the Elain character
• Romance!
• Outtakes!

Be aware, this assumes you have finished reading or listening to Stonespring Maidens, so full spoilers. (Also, I apologize for some of the sound quality, as one of our guests was Skyping in from a phone, and I couldn't clean it up that much.)

 

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Intro is "The Future is Ours" by Scott Holmes of Free Music Archive

Century Tails #1, Part 2: Mythology

The second half of a conversation between Greg and Maureen on mythology, dovetailing off the gods of Rama. Today we talk about:

• More discussion on the duality of Dark Panther and the Tiger of Light
• Mystery gods, and the importance of Seven
• Trickster gods: love 'em or leave 'em?
• What gods are needed for a mythos?
• Discussion of a partially told Rama myth

Be aware that this episode does have some discussion of the plot of Tiger's Eye, so there could be some spoilers!

And finishing us off: the start of the Stonespring Maidens Blooper reel!

 

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Intro is "When I'm With You" by Scott Holmes of Free Music Archive

Century Tails #1, Part 1: Mythology

Welcome to the Wind Door less travelled.

Welcome to Century Tails.

A new show as a part of Through The Wind Door, we discuss the world of New Century with a wide angle lens. Running themes, components, and topics of various kinds that relate not only to the New Century Multiverse, but to storytelling as a whole. As a catchall for discussions beyond the regular retrospectives, there may be different guests on, but for the short term, my partner will be Maureen Foley, known best as the voice of Hrao.

With that in mind, we return to the world of Rama to discuss one of the storybuilding components of Tiger's Eye: the Gods of Durga Tribe. In this episode, we explore:

• The significance of elemental gods, and what various roles they encompass both in Rama and in other fiction
• Creation myths
• What determines who the head of a pantheon is
• Gods of war, death, light and darkness.

These and many other moments both fun and serious await. We hope you have as much fun as we did.

 

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Intro is "When I'm With You" by Scott Holmes of Free Music Archive

Outro is "Winter Song" by Sara Bareilles and Ingrid Michaelson

The Abyss Stares Back (Arlington)

The spoiler episode promised. Here's what you need to know:

• Part 1 is about Mr. Wight. Do not listen to this section unless you have finished listening to or reading Stonespring Maidens.
• Part 2 is about Seth, starting at the 33 minute mark, and requires you to have read through Nightfall of the Wendigo.

More I cannot say and still avoid spoilers. But those of you that can enjoy it, I hope you do. Next week: Century Tails.

 

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Intro is 'Bother' by Stone Sour

Midroll is 'Anthem of our Dying Day' by Story of the Year

Outro is 'Prayer for the Dying' by Seal

In A Mirror, Darkly (Arlington)

Our final ruminations on Seth. Toby and I reflect on what we know and what we guess, based alone on how he is depicted in this novel. Further discussion on how he might see Thomas and humanity itself, as well as discussion on narcissistic tendencies, potential past rejection, and similarities to another famous movie monster that has some connection to the world of New Century.

Many more discussions to come, obviously. The book is only closed for now, and we must wait till more is revealed (Though if you want some spoilery discussion, that is all coming next week!) Outtakes after the outro!

 

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Intro is "Fuck tha Police" by N.W.A.

Outro is "Prince of Darkness" by Indigo Girls

Crossroads (Arlington)

We've made it to the end of the 5th book. One more to go before we can look back on Phase 1 of New century as a whole, but coming to an end, always makes us reflect on what has been. What this ending means in context with the other endings. What new beginnings will spring from it.

We wanted to discuss this story from the perspective of classical tragedy, and so we do. But we also question if it really fits, given the greater context of what kind of tragedy this is. How in some ways it is too real, too raw, too modern for us to view at a remove, as purely fiction.

There is a certain poetic asynchronous feel to the fact that even though we've already covered so much New Century that this feels like a strange midpoint in the story. Steamheart, of course, will be huge and wide spanning. But it also makes sense if we put it in the right context. Secret Rooms was A New Hope , Arlington is The Empire Strikes Back, and Steamheart is the Return of the Jedi. Let Them Go - after all - is a separate prologue to the world, not this story. And Tiger's Eye, as wonderful as it is, is it's own self contained narrative that will just happen to be relevant to Steamheart.

All this and more we will discuss, in our last three shows on Arlington.

 

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Intro is 'This is America' by Childish Gambino.

Outro is 'Prelude in E Minor (Op. 28 No. 4)' by Chopin

Point of No Return - Part 7 (Arlington)

The speech, and the aftermath. The conclusion

• Tragedy and Hamartia
• The role of race relations in the final calculus.
• Wight - A New Player
• plus outtakes!

We've come to the end of our story. Next time... final thoughts, and some spoiler heavy concluding looks at two of our major players.

 

Linkara - Holy Terror:

Part 1: https://youtu.be/50mpARmMGSg

Part 2: https://youtu.be/iAty4uerJUI

Part 3: https://youtu.be/TrtR1u9v0T4

 

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Intro is "One Person, Listening Now" by Doctor Turtle of FMA

Outro is "All This Time" by Sting

Point of No Return - Part 6 (Arlington)

Shorter episodes, but hopefully just as engaging content. (Primary focus is Chapters 23 and 24)

• "You must be the best of men..."
• After Seth, Before the End
• The minds of Annie and Jeremy
• Let's Talk About Sex.

 

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Intro is "One Person, Listening Now" by Doctor Turtle of FMA

Outro is "It's Hard To Say Goodbye To Yesterday" by Boyz II Men