Keep Singing: a Bethyl Walking Dead Podcast
by Hot Rockpile
A (ideally) bi-monthly Walking Dead podcast for all things Bethyl/Beth Greene, with a sizable side helping of beautiful cinnamon roll Daryl Dixon, and whatever else I feel like rambling about for roughly an hour and a half. Occasionally also readings of individual fanfics when the mood strikes. Apple Podcasts listeners should check the Podbean site for full list of back episodes.
Episodes
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The Rambling Dead: 2×01 “What Lies Ahead″
The Rambling Dead shockingly returns for the Plague Times, and your intrepid host is drinking tea in their closet. In the dark. Because this is how we live now. Talking points include: TWD used to be genuinely horror, the gender politics of this show are such garbage, Lori and Andrea and Carol…
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Episode 32: Here's Why I'm Mad
It should come as no surprise to anyone who knows your intrepid host that they're... basically not watching the show anymore. Here, all in one place and in an hour and a half, is why. Talking points include: TIME JUMPS, narrative messiness, what happens when the center does not hold, this should...
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The Rambling Dead: 1x06 "TS-19"
In which we finally complete season the first. Talking points include: The ethically difficult case of Shane Walsh, why the show should have been all about Jenner, how come we can't ever actually stay anywhere, is science good or not, "it does matter", whether the air literally being on fire...
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Episode 31: Keep Singing Reading Series - a triumphant fic smorgasbord
In which Keep Singing reveals itself as at least a little bit alive, with five fics: "Peaches" by wallflow3r, "maybe everything that dies someday comes back" by leftmywingshome, "Leaving" by ivyandocean, "The ocean in your head is so deep and dark" by cc5, and "Make of Yourself a Light" by your...
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9x06 "Who Are You Now" - Postmortem
God, where do we even start. In which there is basically a gigantic rant about time jumps. There's a lot of other stuff about a lot of other stuff, but primarily this is ranting about time jumps. You've been warned. Or maybe you're into that, in which case welcome. Also there's a brief midterms…
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9x05 "What Comes After" - Postmortem
In which Rick's story comes to an end - or DOES IT? No, it doesn't. We'll get into it. Other talking points include: cliche fake "deaths", evaluating Maggie's decision-making process, the return of Shane the Scumlord, callbacks and choppers, DON'T DEAD OPEN OUTSIDE, Daryl fucking off to Mordor,...
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9x04 "The Obliged" - Postmortem
Long story short: Best episode this season. Talking points include: the unsolvable problem of Rick's arc, the joys and sorrows of a rad bromance, Daryl finally talking about his own damn feelings, callbacks and what the hell they're actually about, and a scene with Negan that's legitimately...
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9x03 "Warning Signs" - Postmortem
In which matters continue to improve, ratings not withstanding (yikes). Talking points include: STILL PROBLEMATIC TIME JUMPS, oh god NOT MORE PROBLEMATIC TIME JUMPS, Rick being bad at everything, RICHONNE BABY, Meaningful Literature, A's and B's, the deal with the choppah, whose fault is all of...
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9x02 "The Bridge" - Postmortem
In which things improve slightly. There are still problems but it's better. Talking points include: Daryl's crappy life, Rick the bad friend, Aaron the perfect angel, watch out for the Foreshadowing Hammer, ship status roundups, oh wow Maggie did have a sister, why isn't everyone talking about…
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9x01 "A New Beginning" - Postmortem
In which we launch into season 9. And... It's good. It's okay. There are some problems. The problems are in fact pretty significant. We'll talk about them. Music featured in this episode is by dustmotes and Ketsa - http://freemusicarchive.org/music/dustmotes/...
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Episode 30: Keep Singing Reading Series - Safe Up Here With You ch. 10-11
In which the Keep Singing reading series gets a bit of a makeover. This episode is devoted to two chapters of your host's fic Safe Up Here With You, with another episode devoted entirely to The Vampire Cat's Burn to follow. Content warning: episode features disturbing imagery, gore, sexual...
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The Rambling Dead: 1x05 "Wildfire"
In which we attack the penultimate episode of season 1. Talking points include: funerals are so important, Jim's death is totally dope, hooray for Jenner, these writers still can't do anyone consistently, turns out this is probably the weakest season, and why walkers are not apex predators or...
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The Rambling Dead: 1x04 "Vatos"
In which there's a fair bit of yelling about Robert Kirkman. Talking points include: screw Robert Kirkman; why you need to respect your dang audience; more about Daryl's mental state; Dixon-esque racism, and why Team Family is the real villains in all of this when you really look at it. Music...
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The Rambling Dead: 1x03 "Tell It To The Frogs"
Your host sits amidst nature in all its birdy glory and opines on episode 3. Talking points include: lay off Glenn; oh boy MORE gender problems, no seriously why can't these writers do women at all; T-Dog the Cinnamon Roll; HEY IT'S EVERYONE'S FAVORITE REDNECK ASSHOLE; really though let's get…
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The Rambling Dead: 1x02 "Guts"
The rewatch continues and we get deeper into it. Talking points include: oh my GOD Shane is skeevy as hell; Andrea is emotional and incompetent because she's a lady; the perfect living sunbeam that is Glenn Rhee; Merle Dixon as (super) problematic fave; there are still worldbuilding problems…
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The Rambling Dead: 1x01 "Days Gone Bye"
The rewatch kicks off. Talking points include: oh wow this show used to actually be horror; boy oh boy there are some gender problems; Shane is not likeable; Rick really shouldn't be alive. Music featured is by Nicky Apple - http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Nicky_Apple/ Enjoying yourself? Buy…
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Episode 8x16 "Wrath" - Postmortem
In which we sort through the wreckage of the season finale, which... Let's just say your intrepid host is displeased. Details of why are gone into, including how we ended up here in the first place, why endings matter so much, what it looks like when these writers fall down on the job, what might...
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8x14 "Still Gotta Mean Something" - Postmortem
In which there is much nerdy yelling about the next-to-next-to-last episode of the season. Talking points include: Rick's hotness/moral bankruptcy correlation, whether or not a Negan redemption arc is working or can work, why Carol is so inexpressibly great, Morgan as a Biblical prophet, Carl as…
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8x13 "Do Not Send Us Astray" - Postmortem
In which we review the events of the most recent episode, with talking points including: How I'm annoyed with the show for making me take Negan seriously, why you don't want to be a doctor or near a child in the zombie apocalypse, the glory that is Maggie Greene, Daryl and all his queer friends,...
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8x11 "Dead Or Alive Or" - Postmortem
In which we take this past Sunday's episode point-by-point, from Daryl's moment of breakage to Maggie's general amazingness to Tara's somewhat problematic character arc to how Gabriel is good now to why I think Carson miiiight not be quite so very dead as the show would have us believe. Also...
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8x10 "The Lost and the Plunderers" - Postmortem
In which we work through the whole thing segment by segment, topics including Rick's grieving process, (not) dealing with trauma as a running theme in the entire show, a few things that I don't entirely dislike about Negan, the question of whether or not Negan actually has any real human emotions...
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8x09 "Honor" - Postmortem
In which your intrepid host launches their series of audio episode recaps. I've been doing these in writing on my Tumblr blog for a while, and I felt like trying a new format. So herein I go on at some length about last night's mid-season premiere "Honor", including the rightness and wrongness of...
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Episode 29: Keep Singing reading series pt. 9
In which we forge ahead with part 1 of chapter 8 of Burn by TheVampireCat (MEL DO YOUR CHAPTERS HAVE TO BE SO LONG), chapter 9 of Safe Up Here With You by yours truly, and seraphcelene's kiss me, and you will see how important I am. Links in show notes below. Be advised that there's some adult...
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Episode 28: ultimate chatting with UltimateBethylFicList
In which Keep Singing makes a triumphant return from the dead with a fabulous conversation with UltimateBethylFicList (Stacey). Discussed: What it's like to attempt to catalog all the fanfiction for an entire fandom, the joy of making authors feel special, maintaining enthusiastic commitment to a...
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Episode 27: Keep Singing reading series pt. 8
In which we FINALLY continue with TheVampireCat's Burn, your host's Safe Up Here With You, and Ambrosia29 (tumblr: writerloverpsycho_pomp)'s sweet sad near-death experience tale The Moments Between (find them all on AO3). Please note: Thanks to Burn, this episode is so so so so so nsfw. So...
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Episode 26: Team Defiance with Mollie in meatspace
In which Mollie (sail-not-drift) and I finally hang out in our fleshy forms and discuss a number of different things, in particular Team Defiance and why we can't let go, and wine is drunk and we both do manage to remain pretty lucid. Guest appearance by dudes outside on obnoxiously loud...
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Episode 25: Keep Singing reading series pt. 8
In which there is important logistical news and then we continue with the reading series, consisting - as always - of chapter 6 (part 2) of TheVampireCat's Burn, chapter 7 (part 2) of your host's Safe Up Here With You, and Schwoozie's one-shot Hope is the Thing (all can be found on AO3). Warning:...
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Episode 24: Wisconstravaganza - 'hanging out in hotel rooms' vol. 2
In which the Wisconstravaganza is completed, and we sit in on the second of two lengthy hotel room conversations featuring Amber (writerloverpsycho_pomp), Airey (breathoffreshair, who fell asleep almost immediately) and Jason the Best Roommate Ever. This one takes place in the wee hours, and…
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Episode 23: Wisconstravaganza - 'hanging out in hotel rooms' vol. 1
In which we eavesdrop on exactly what it says on the tin: a (lengthy and very rambly) conversation in a hotel room from this past Wiscon 41, featuring Amber (writerloverpsycho-pomp), Airey (breathoffreshaire), your host, and your host's roommate Jason. It's a bit chaotic and at one point happy…
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Episode 22: Wisconstravaganza - How to Ship Without Being a Jerk
In which we sit in on a panel from this last weekend's WisCon: How to Ship Without Being a Jerk, and Other Guidelines for Being Good Citizens of Fandom "Everybody hates shipper wars, but nobody trusts the cult of nice, and at some point many of us have been tempted to send a snarky...
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Episode 21: Nikita and I talk art and life (Beth's)
In which Nikita (nikitajobson on Tumblr) and I discuss all the reasons why Beth's death makes absolutely no sense to us and therefore we don't buy it, what about the show we're loving right now and what drives us up a wall, and making art/the creative process. It's pretty fantabulous. Music...
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Episode 20: Keep Singing reading series pt. 7
In which our reading series continues with not terribly angsty (part 1 of) chapter 6 of TheVampireCat's Burn, extremely angsty (part 1 of) chapter 7 of your host's Safe Up Here With You, and a sweet little ASZ reunion scenario called Conflagration by headtripparadde. Slightly short episode…
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Episode 19: Mollie and I sorta kinda talk multishipping
In which Mollie (sail_not_drift) and I attempt to discuss multishipping and... Well, we do, we just also end up going pretty much everywhere else. Multishipping, the problematic particularities of Rick Grimes' psyche, and why people are such jerks about this in general, with a slice of broad…
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Episode 18: Keep Singing reading series pt. 6
In which our reading series keeps on a-rollin' along. Chapter 5 (second half, your host had to split it up) of TheVampireCat's Burn, chapter 6 of your host's Safe Up Here With You, and a lovely little one-shot by the name of And All Your Roads Lead To This, by moonwalkingdead (here at Keep…
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Episode 17: shoe-stealing foxes and muses in Hawaii
In which we settle in for a conversation with Susan/inkinmytea that covers everything from Coda feelings and multishipping to... Well, what it says on the tin. Shoe-stealing foxes and muses in Hawaii. Yeah, you kind of just need to listen. Music courtesy of Ketsa
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Episode 16: Keep Singing reading series pt. 5
In which we continue two journeys into hearts of darkness - and pop back out on the other side with flower crowns and fluff. Chapters 5 of my Safe Up Here With You and thevampirecat's Burn, along with What You Think by Vlora. Because angst is nothing without daisies. Music courtesy of Ketsa, Kai...
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Episode 15: Abelina and I talk about everything
What it says on the tin. I figuratively sit down with fic author and general fabulous person Abelina (abelinajt) to talk about her fic, her history with the fandom, all about how we both feel and think about these characters and this ship, and... yeah, really pretty much anything and everything....
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Episode 14: Keep Singing reading series pt. 4
Last episode in the Reading Series was after the election. This one is after the inauguration. Are you sensing a trend? Regardless, in an upsetting time, here are two reasonably upsetting pieces of fanfic: chapters 4 of TheVampireCat's Burn and your intrepid host's Safe Up Here With You. I'm...
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Lift Up Your Voice, Children, Rejoice
Lift Up Your Voice, Children, Rejoice - Abelina There’s no dog. No cars. No one returned to lay claim to the place. Nothing to keep them from stickin’ around, so they do. And it’s hard, sometimes, to look around this new home without thinking about the past. Link (AO3):...
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Episode 13: holiday ramble
In which we're joined by Mollie (sail_not_drift/Schwoozie) for a lengthy discussion of... Well, a lot of things. You really have to just listen. Also included: a reading of "Tune My Heart to Sing Thy Grace" (by your intrepid host), which is Christmasy in nature. Note: The music referred to in the...
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Episode 12: Keep Singing reading series pt. 3
(recorded on November 9th) In which we drag ourselves out of the pit of electoral despair and attempt to salve our wounds with chapters 3 of Burn (by TheVampireCat) and Safe Up Here With You (by yours truly). Maybe it'll work. Maybe. Worth a shot. Music courtesy of PlusPlus, PCIII, Kai Engel,...
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Episode 11: RARGH
In which there's just an awful lot of yelling. About the season premiere, about the fandom, about a lot of things. There is also, somewhat ironically, a reading of a lovely little fic called "Hope" by ivyandocean (on AO3). Music courtesy of Ketsa and Jahzzar
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Episode 10: Keep Singing reading series pt. 2
In which we (finally) continue with chapters 2 of both TheVampireCat's Burn and your intrepid host's Safe Up Here With You, concluding with Fragmented Anamnesis by cc5. I said last time that there would be a little less angst. My pants are aflame. Music courtesy of Ketsa, Rec008, Kai Engel,...
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Episode 9: whooo's the best fandom? IT'S YOU (pt 2)
In which all the stuff about how we're the best that couldn't fit into part one shows up in part two. So really it's more of the same, except thanks to the SDCC season 7 trailer there's a little bit of new stuff to talk about. There's also a reading of "quoth the raven, nevermore" by…
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Episode 8: Keep Singing reading series pt. 1
In which Keep Singing's new (semi-alternating) format is launched: Serial chapter fic rather than only one-shots. We have for your listening pleasure chapter one of Burn by thevampirecat and Safe Up Here With You by dynamicsymmetry, with This is Where it Starts by rednecksaints to cap things off...
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Episode 7: whooo's the best fandom? IT'S YOU (pt 1)
In which we're the best. Seriously. We're the absolute best. Here's a lengthy discussion of how best we are, and in what ways we are the best. We're so the best, I had to make two episodes to fit all the best into. There's also the usual fresh crop of fic recs delivered straight to your door, and…
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Episode 6: the strange case of Daryl Dixon
In which Keep Singing makes a triumphant return, and we - I and special guest Mollie (bethgreenesgirlgang) - plunge into the depths of Daryl's sexual psyche. Talking points: Asexuality and why we see him on that spectrum, what that implies regarding Beth, healthy relationships and the lack…
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Life is Sweet chapters 4-6
Life is Sweet (chapters 4-6) - Schwoozie Summary: Beth came back wrong and she knows it. She doesn't need to be reminded by everyone else. Audio of this: archiveofourown.org/works/4865255/c…apters/11151095 Music courtesy of Kai Engel, Lee Rosevere, Scott Holmes, and Blear Moon
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Episode 5: meet me in the darkness
In which the dark is pierced: violence, horror, angst, disturbing themes, catharsis, and what it all means in the context of this pairing. Also addressed: is this a sexist pairing? It's not, but why not, given culture and all? Plus a very sad reading of "Scar Tissue" by PunkyNemo (TheVampireCat),...
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Episode 4: the agony and the ecstasy of fanfiction
In which writing in general is discussed, and fanfiction in particular. Topics include where the hell to begin, how the hell to handle multiple projects at once, what the hell is the deal with plagiarism, and why the hell this whole thing is so stigmatized. Also included: recs, what might have…
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About this show
A (ideally) bi-monthly Walking Dead podcast for all things Bethyl/Beth Greene, with a sizable side helping of beautiful cinnamon roll Daryl Dixon, and whatever else I feel like rambling about for roughly an hour and a half. Occasionally also readings of individual fanfics when the mood strikes. Apple Podcasts listeners should check the Podbean site for full list of back episodes.
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