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With my heavy involvement in long train trips, a desperate need to ignore my surroundings in the gym so I don't crumble into tears due to sheer social anxiety, and my fondness for games absolutely bereft of plot or any real need for brainpower, I've gotten real into podcasts.

So, I thought I'd drop a couple podcast recommendations in here, few of my top favourites, maybe see if anyone else here has a couple. I eat up these things fast, you know. Running out.

* What The Folklore
Three self-admittedly unqualified roommates 'continue the folkloric tradition' by reading bizarre and obscure folklore (specifically the ones that Disney would never lay their dirty hands on), ignoring cultural context or any form of research, and mocking them and running on unbelievably stupid tangents. It's sorta hard to describe, but it works.
I was kinda worried at first that it would be, you know, mean to bully these old stories, but they're all honestly not that disrespectful to them, and they're really bloody funny--though there's a lot of in-jokes, so it might be a bit hard to get into.
I recommend any of their episodes dedicated to the fairy tales of Madame d'Aulnoy, which are invariably the most utterly insane, most utterly soul crushing stories they end up reading. Like uh, I dunno, episode 53: Chance Alone: Green Serpent Part 1. Wait until they hit the pagodas.

* Astonishing Legends
The cream of the crop of cryptozoological and related podcasts. There's a lot of cryptid podcasts out there, but if you want the deep dive, some real nasty investigation, they are the absolute finest. They do upload a bit slowly, but it's always absolute gold when they do.
I recommend their three part series on the Yeti--it absolutely changed my entire perspective on the thing. It's way more than just white snowy Bigfoot.

* Jim's Campfire
Jim is a very kindly older man who runs an absolutely absurd amount of podcasts. The form of this podcast is simple--people call in, tell their personal encounters with the strange or paranormal, and Jim cleans up the audio a bit or whatever. It's fascinating and terrible to listen to in the dead of night in the darkness next to your staircase.

* Alba Salix, Royal Physician
Pratchett-esque fantasy comedy about under-funded once-witch Alba Salix and her overworked employees running the House of Healing, the sole medical establishment in their entire kingdom.
I don't know how to better describe it than Pratchett-esque--it's the closest I've ever felt to it. It's just as funny, the characters are just as well-written, and the satire is just as biting and relevant.
There are actually two other podcasts related to it--The Axe and Crown, about a bar in the same city facing gentrification, and a roleplaying game set in the same universe, The End of Time and Other Bothers. Alba Salix is of course the main attraction, and is far longer than either--but they are also absolutely worth listening to. Goddamn brilliant.
Listened to all of it in like two days and felt like an idiot. Drat.

Anyone else have anything of this sort? Any recs or so on?

It's all because I used to be a huge hipster who only ever liked jazz. You gotta like sap if you're going to listen to that stuff.

My favourite song of all time is still Chet Baker's Time After Time, and all his versions of it are good but this--this one incredibly specific one that I can't, for the life of me, find anywhere other than Youtube (I think it was live at Boston, 1954)--is my absolute favourite: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00eq3Uh1hPE.
Chet Baker's entire oeuvre is ridiculously romantic--the guy's got sap coming out his pores. His versions of My Funny Valentine, My Buddy, and While My Lady Sleeps (bit neckbeardy of a title there, innit? There's a set of words utterly ruined.) are all very bloody good and very bloody sappy.

Almost all of Gershwins songs fit this template, especially when they're sung by Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald. I'm pretty fond of Our Love is Here to Stay. It's kinda cheery sounding, actually, but there's such a strange... genuineness to it? Something about it got to me. Maybe I was just in a strange mood at the time.
Louis Armstrong's Give Me A Kiss To Build A Dream On is also fantastic--much slower and more, I guess, classically sappy. There's a weird... Pixar feel to it. It feels like a song Pixar would have used in their heyday. It's my go to 'oh that's a super romantic sappy song right there' that I jump to in my head.

Madeline Peyroux's version of La Javanaise has very much the same feel. It's just... it's so romantic, dude, you don't even know. I'm, personally, a very un-romantic person, but it's the sorta song that fills you with a longing for that whole fake romanticised version of Paris where it's all gentle lights and people dancing and there's no racism or anything of that kind.

I've also got Same Drugs by Chance the Rapper. It's not actually literally about drugs that's like a metaphor. It's got Peter Pan metaphors and stuff too, it's wild. And, uh, very tender.

It's kinda weird to say considering the bloke's reputation and the fact that he's completely nuts, but pretty much any of Kanye West's songs dedicated to his family are so utterly genuine and sappy (maybe love song is a bit of a stretch, here?) that it's almost easy to forget he's, uh, completely nuts.

Violent Crimes is him sort of, reflecting on his own misogyny, and the misogyny of men in the world in general in the face of his growing daughter admitting that--while it's irrational--he doesn't want her to grow up, become a woman, because he's terrified for her.

He's also got Family Business (about his family, obviously,), Only You (about both his mum and his daughter. He sung it with Paul McCartney, lucky guy, I'm sure he'll blow up after this) and, uh, probably a couple other ones. Guy likes his daughter I guess, what can I say.
Those songs probably have swears in them by the way, if you wanted to watch out for those.

Also, Love Shack!

*reeeealy deep breath*

If My Heart was a House - Owl City
Call it Love - Blackmore's Night
Village Lanterne - Blackmore's Night
Just Call My Name - Blackmore's Night
I Have Been Around the World - Dar Williams
Amarantine - Enya
Solace - Enya
Fallen Embers - Enya
If I Could Be Where You Are - Enya
Coin Laundry - Lisa Mitchell
Clean White Love - Lisa Mitchell
Where You Are - Lisa Mitchell
Spiritus - Lisa Mitchell
Better Left Unsaid - Lisa Mitchell
Walk With Me - Lisa Mitchell
Diamond in the Rough - Lisa Mitchell
Know You're Somewhere - Lisa Mitchell
Pirouette - Lisa Mitchell
Valium - Lisa Mitchell
Monsoon - Rachel Rose Mitchell
We Can Only Listen - Ruth Moody
Dancing in the Dark - Ruth Moody
Nest - Ruth Moody (this is about as adorable as it gets)
One and Only - Ruth Moody
Valentine - Ruth Moody
Closer Now - Ruth Moody
Mona Louise - Wailin' Jennys
Asleep at Last - Wailin' Jennys
Firecracker - Wailin' Jennys
Mornixuur - Bel Canto
Night Sky - CHVRCHES
New Way - Zoe Gray
Party of One - Brandi Carlile
Except You - Zoe Gray
Kissing on the Boardwalk - Zoe Gray
Monody - TheFatRat

I...think that's everything?

Just sort of trying to explain why I thought I had a chance, which was clearly just silly.
I ended up deleting my writing blog. I'll just, idk, play video games and stuff until I can finally convince someone to help me out.

I still have no say in whether or not you should be allowed back, and I'm not trying to change that. However, I don't think it's very classy to try to guilt the folks who said no into changing their minds with this post. Especially because, from what I've picked up from this thread, you seem to have done a bit more than say some "silly things".

* On A Sea Of Fleur-De-Lis (Richard Shindell)
* Forty-Five Years (Stan Rogers)
* Dimming Of The Day (Richard and Linda Thompson)
* River (Joni Mitchell)
* Eleanór na Rún (trad. Irish)
* The Water (Johnny Flynn and Laura Marling)

And now, my personal favourite love song:
* Northern Sky (Nick Drake)

I hope these help with whatever you're looking for these songs for.

Honestly I more or less missed what happened, but I am definitely willing to let bygones be bygones. Though I doubt I’m particularly qualified to say that about everyone.

*Thousand Years - Christina Perri
*Thinking Out Loud - Ed Sheeran
* Marry Me- Train
*Bubbly - Colbie Callait
*Falling For You - Colbie Callait
*The Rhythm of Love - The Plain White T’s
*1234 - Plain White T’s
*Marry Me - Train
* Rock Lobster- B-52s
* 500 Miles- The Proclaimers
* Never Gonna Give You Up - Rick Astley

...Okay, I might be exaggerating on the last three :P

I have a soft spot for sappy songs. Like, a really big one. So here are a very of my very absolute favorites:

-Walking After You, by the Foo Fighters. Also, the less gentle Up in Arms and Everlong, off the same album. Especially Everlong. Who doesn't like Everlong?

-Silly Love Songs, by Paul McCartney. Seriously, why isn't this song more popular? Always puts a smile on my face.

-Maybe I'm Amazed, also by Paul McCartney. Man, Paul is good at this.

-Tears, by Rush. Off 2112, which is an amazing album. Fun fact: this is one of the very few Rush songs with lyrics written by a member who isn't Neil Peart.

-Tender, by Blur. Also Ong Ong, sort of?

-Iris, by The Goo Goo Dolls. And I know that'd a clichéd pick but I don't care.

-Romeo and Juliet, by Dire Straits

-4th of July, Asbury Park (Sandy), by Bruce Springsteen. This song is romantic, but it also just... personally means a lot. Lot of memories.

-Just The Way You Are, by Billy Joel

-Fly Me To the Moon

-God Only Knows, by The Beach Boys

Bonus mention goes to Peter Gabriel's In Your Eyes, which can (and this is true) only be played from casette on a boombox.

Which has the bonus of being a metal ballad while still coming off as tender and caring.

I'm not airing my opinion on whether Palindrom should be here, since I haven't been around when the... past events unfolded. But I did raise my eyebrows a little at the tone of that message.
Palindrom, I deeply and sincerely wish for you to find the inspiration to write again.
But come on.

I know this is a weird question, but I'm honestly curious about what you guys listen to. I've been hearing Ed Sheeran's Perfect a lot on the radio, and while I love sweet songs, I'm kind of sick of that one by now. I'm sure there are more, shall we say, interesting love songs to listen to (not that there's anything wrong with liking that particular song, I'm just kind of over the "acoustic guitar love song" genre myself).
My choices are:
* Faith And The Muse - Fade and Remain
* Shura - Touch
* Röyksopp - Something In My Heart
These fall more on the bitter than the sweet side, but I love how ethereal they sound.
Oh, can't believe I almost forgot this one:
* Raveena - Honey

Just so we're clear, if Palin chooses to give up on writing, that is their choice. We're not making it for them, and we should absolutely not feel guilty about not wanting them around because of it. Working on their issues is up to them, and they are capable of doing it elsewhere.

~Neshomeh

Nice to find a fellow yo-kai watch fan!

So it'd be < i >/< /i >, without the extra spaces.

I kind of love it, in fact - it has a sort of Gothic charm to it. I love a lot of strange giallo titles, actually, like The Bird With the Crystal Plumage. They might not make a lot of sense on first glance, but they sound lovely to me.
Now a title like Weenie Roast Massacre, on the other hand...
:D
(Speaking of silly, here's a dumb question: how do you format italics here on the Board?

I definitely understand, it's a bit disappointing, but it was sort of expected.
I mainly wanted to come back because the PPC is basically the last place I was actually able to get some inspiration and manage to put in effort to write in, which I otherwise haven't been able to do in years. Mental health and trauma issues interact really badly with my attempts at writing or reading nowadays, so I guess I'll just give up on that. Oh well.

Sounds like good stuff, that.