Carnagecast

[scarfman]

The other day I recorded a guest appearance at blinovitch's podcast Carnagecast at the blog for the tabletop RPG con Carnage Con, and it goes live 9/24. We talked, by my reckoning, a little over forty minutes for what he originally said would be a half hour episode; a quarter of it or less was discussion of my memories of playing Steve Jackson's The Fantasy Trip twenty five years ago (I believe TFT was a precursor to GURPS), and the rest was discussion of Arthur, King of Time and Space and the way the legend changes over time.

I promised in the podcast to provide a list of related links to the discussion topics, here at my LJ, figuring it has the most audio-friendly URL of my social network accounts. So, Carnagecast listeners, welcome, and here it is.

• An LJ entry with the Doctor Who cartoon I drew for FASA in the mid-80s
• The first Arthur, King of Time and Space cartoon (I don't remember for certain whether blinovitch was still recording when he asked me whether I know what Merlin was saying in caveman language in the last panel. I said, yes I know, but readers won't find out until the final space arc cartoon.)
• The fanfiction cartoons referred to as having their own directory on the AKOTAS site (link is specifically to the first cartoon of the new tv season)
• An index of the stories, under the umbrella title King Arthur in Time and Space, wherein I took my Star Trek/Doctor Who crossover fanfiction and globally replaced the franchises' proper nouns with proper nouns from the King Arthur legends. (This project eventually inspired AKOTAS.)
• a few AKOTAS cartoons depicting Lancelot as "manic depressive", what bipolar was called when I was growing up
  • diagnosis
  • treatment
  • effectiveness
• a couple of AKOTAS cartoons referenced from the conclusion of the False Guenevere storyline
  • Guenevere makes peace with Guenevere
  • Guenevere reverses herself
• a few examples of AKOTAS cartoons depicting Arthur's responses to real-life conservative party issue statements
  • Fox News vs the Muppets
  • contraception controversey
  • the "war on women"
• on education
• Rush Limbaugh vs Batman

One last thing I meant to say and didn't get out: I was the one to bring the word "scholar" into the discussion, but I am not an Arthurian scholar. There are people with degrees in this stuff and I'm not one of them. What I am is a student of Arthurian storytelling.