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Skyjacks: Episode 142 Apr 27, 2022

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Jonnit shows Teacher Wei his life in Akaron around the time his mother disappeared and the way his father handled the loss and a struggling farm. Travis, Gable, and Orimar encounter The Rusalka who offers them useful information in exchange for varying favors. They must decide if it is wise to take bargains from the luminary of temptation.

CONTENT NOTES

Loss of a parent, being a child watching a parent struggle through financial hardship, a person choosing death, implied deep and murderous frustration with patriarchal bullshit

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Skyjacks: Episode 141 Apr 20, 2022

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Travis catches up with his old friend who some might say he shares far too much in common with. Orimar tries to be patient through this reunion knowing that the cutting stone is at their backs. Gable arrives to confront Rusalka and discovers many familiar faces that they were not expecting to see.

CONTENT NOTE

Main Show: Body horror, cognitive degradation, the feeling of being hunted, loss of a loved one, longing for a missing lover, Jom Carmy

Dear Uhuru: An old friend whom many of us miss very much, a stinky bastard man

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Skyjacks: Episode 140 Apr 13, 2022

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Nodoze finally manages to say to Gable the things he has been allowing to sit silently for so very long. Gable revisits a pivotal memory that explains why they did the most significant thing they can't remember. Then Gable presses on to investigate the trap that has claimed so many victims. Jonnit and Teacher Wei look back at one of Wei's memories, one that explains the passion that lead them to the Liquid Swords.

CONTENT NOTE

Main Show: Serious feelings discussions, being unable to return feelings, self-doubt/judgment, death, drowning, fear of persecution, thinly veiled homophobia/transphobia metaphors, cruelty in design and values, violent impression of non-conformity, violent rebellion against oppression, thinly veiled sex metaphor, displacement, oppressive/repressive host culture, parental expectations.

Dear Uhuru: More singing, threatened violence against a child.

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Skyjacks: Episode 139 Apr 06, 2022

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Jonnit faces one of the most traumatic moments of his life, the first time he took a life. Teacher Wei takes a hard look at what violence has come to mean to this child, to judge both if he is worthy to receive the gifts of the temple and if he is strong enough to claim them. Meanwhile, Travis and Orimar continue their stakeout for the changing Travis has been compelled to kill. A poorly timed visit makes stealth difficult.

CONTENT NOTE

Main Show: Death, doing a murder, freaking out over doing a murder, facing a terrible trauma, gunshot sound effects, body horror, description of leech teeth, "DILF deer"

Dear Uhuru: Everyone's favorite terrible boss, an extremely particular kind of energy

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Skyjacks: Episode 138 Mar 30, 2022

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Gable, Wendell, and Nodoze try to investigate the cavern around Le Plume Creux for any information that might help them claim the treasure. Wendell discusses his uneasiness around strange and powerful magics then stresses over what his life might be like after marrying his second spouse. Gable repeatedly faces the memories they recovered from the feather they touched at the start of the arc.

CONTENT NOTE

A soupçon of body horror disability, trauma, feeling directionless in life, imposter syndrome, worrying about how your trauma might impact your loved ones, divine creatures being cruelly dispassionate over violence and tragedy, drowning, suicidal ideation

Seriously, Dear Uhuru returns next week. I will make it happen.

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Skyjacks: Episode 137 Mar 23, 2022

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Travis and Orimar are still hunting Travis' changeling friend. To pass the time, they decide to make a wager with very high stakes and undertones that will frankly drive shippers absolutely wild. Gable, Nodoze, and Wendell finally reach the small cavern that is home to Le Plume Creux. Wendel is enthusiastic to try and recover it, the others are skeptical.

CONTENT NOTE

Main Show: Gambling, struggling with painful lack of agency, death, drowning, friends not coming back from adventures, contemplating risking your life, "maybe the real treasure is life itself"

Dear Uhuru: Hopefully returns next week!

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Skyjacks: Episode 136 Mar 16, 2022

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Jonnit revisits a painful memory as a part of his trial. Through his journey, he has become powerful but he has also changed in other ways and that can be difficult to accept. After the midroll: Before the stars fell, in a village that would one day become Lastaloom a young woman dreamed of one-day finding love. She was not prepared for the full gaze of The Union.

MAIN SHOW

Revisiting trauma, mortal peril, death, impossible decisions.

THE SIREN OF BROKEN HEARTS

Unfulfilled desire, loneliness, jealousy, infidelity, temptation, sex, some pretty sexy situations if we're being honest, fates worse than death probably.

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Skyjacks: Episode 135 Mar 09, 2022

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Travis and Orimar take a ride on a boiler boat (a term that only exists in the summary for this episode) while heading to confront Travis' old friend. They run into a pair of hunters who warn them of the Chasseur Saumâtre- a beast that stalks the mangrineel groves. Jonnit enters Teacher Wei's pocket space, jonnit learns more about how he will be tested.

CONTENT NOTE

Main Show: James still cannot pronounce french words, he is terminally not French

Tales from Thornevale: I can't remember if we already featured this but it's an important story, family trauma,

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Skyjacks: Episode 134 Feb 23, 2022

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Gable, Wendell, and Nodoze arrive at the entrance to the cave rumored to contain a path to the mysterious and dangerous Plume Creux. They learn that the price to even begin this adventure is blood. They also learn some distressing things about the Deauxmignon economy. Before they descend, Gable is struck by another fragment of memory from the feather they absorbed. Even a powerful and destructive force like Gable needs to learn somewhere.

CONTENT NOTE

Main Show: Blood, chronic pain/disability feelings, feeling insecure within a group, religious trauma, high stakes job insecurity

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