Abnormal Mapping

Welcome to the Abnormal Mapping podcast network Patreon! We're a network focused on media criticism and good shows from marginal creators. We've been putting out podcasts since 2013, and in 2017 decided that to expand our efforts we would launch the Patreon you see before you today. We exist entirely off of the support of our audience, and most of our shows wouldn't even exist without the efforts people have already made in supporting our network. Not only are we a podcast network, but we've also attempted to make Abnormal Mapping into a community, be that through our&nbsp;<a href="https://discord.gg/UpmzgvSwGH" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">network discord </a>or our goal to provide no-cost hosting to other like-minded people who would desire to make a podcast of their very own (more on that later). We want to create the podcast network we want to see in the world, something curious and invested in queer and progressive criticism and bringing together others who want the same. Who Are We, and Why Are We Here: Abnormal Mapping was founded and is run by&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/em_being" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Em Marko</a> and&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/headfallsoff" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Jackson Tyler</a>. We host and produce most of our shows, run the Patreon, write articles, and generally try to pretend like we're more than just the two of us. This is basically the equivalent of both of us having a part time job! We'd suggest not making your hobbies your work, but it's doing okay for us so far. We're also joined by an array of other hosts and co-hosts that give their time and energy to casts hosted on the network. It's hard to schedule shows, and we're thankful to the efforts of everyone who helps us make the shows we have, have had, and will potentially have in the future. The Shows But what are the shows? Here are our extant shows! Abnormal Mapping - Our flagship show! A game club podcast we specifically designed to be accessible to people who haven't been drowning in games culture for their entire lives. Every month, we play a game and do a close read on our experiences, it's context, and how it fits into games now looking back. All of our episodes are evergreen and disconnected from the hype cycle, so any episode can be your first episode! You can find Abnormal Mapping at&nbsp;<a href="http://thebestgame.club" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">thebestgame.club</a> and a list of all the games we've covered can be found&nbsp;<a href="https://www.abnormalmapping.com/games" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">here</a>. Repertory Screenings - We love movies, even if going to the cinema to see the latest releases is often too expensive and too frustrating to do on the regular. So join Em, Jackson, and longtime third chair Destiny Sturdivant as we show up every two weeks to watch an old movie and learn a little more about this medium we call film. It's like an education, but way more friendly, because we also are new to this! Check it out at <a href="http://repertoryscreenings.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">repertoryscreenings.com </a>Your Uncle's Beach House - When the Gundam podcast can't contain all the anime, sometimes we find ourselves talking about other shows that don't fit the mecha milieu of GGP, or we have a patreon-requested thing to cover. All of these find themselves in the Your Uncle's Beach House feed, which is free for everyone <a href="https://www.abnormalmapping.com/beachhouse/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">here</a>, but also will just fold into the GGP feed if you listen to that! Around the Long Fire - Most Thursdays join Em and Ornate Stairwells' Niamh Schönherr as they read through the Icelandic sagas and also talk about movies and anime and life at large. A very chill book club where you don't have to read along to have a good time, this is our newest podcast! Find it&nbsp;<a href="https://www.abnormalmapping.com/longfire" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">here</a>. Second Officer Slog - On Hiatus, out about twice a year. We used to have a monthly podcast about reading Star Trek books but then Star Trek came back from the space war and we found it so exhausting to keep up with we burned out. So now we only read one every few months, and it's a pretty good time, but I'd call this an erstwhile podcast. Check it out&nbsp;<a href="https://www.abnormalmapping.com/second-officers-slog-podcast" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">here</a>! The Amory Score - The band Coheed and Cambria is known for two things: one, having a singer with a really high voice, and two, someone saying “do you know all their songs have a story?” every time someone mentions them. Have you ever wanted to learn what that story is? Never fear, Jackson and&nbsp;<a href="http://twitter.com/yerfriendmolly" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Molly</a> break down the lore track by track, and it is as hilarious and terrible as you would think. Spoilers: two children are dead by the end of the first song. It only kicks off more from there. To embark upon the journey, and see select panels of the tie-in comic, then head to:&nbsp;<a href="http://ineedmayo.com" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">ineedmayo.com </a>The Great Gundam Project - According to our calculations, there are 945 episodes of the long running anime franchise Mobile Suit Gundam. And guess what: Em and Jackson are going to watch every single one. Hitting every wednesday for any and all patreon subscribers, we watch two episodes of anime every week and break down our feelings on them for you all. Newcomers are taking the ride with us, and fans of Gundam are enjoying our hilariously incorrect theories in the face of not knowing forty years of lore. If you’re a Gundam fan, come on down to our <a href="https://discord.gg/pTuQAZsnq7" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">discord and hang out in Gundam Spoilers</a>, and join in on the dramatic irony. Anything Else? Absolutely! Your money not only helps support the site and keep Em and Jackson housed and fed, it also gets you an array of great rewards. You can see the rewards in the side bar, but I'm happy to spell them out for you here too! $1 (one dollar) - this gets you The Great Gundam Project, a weekly podcast where Jackson and Em watch all of Mobile Suit Gundam two episodes at a time and report back on how we feel about Spacenoid liberation and whether or not Gelgoogs are cool. We are already scheduled to be doing this podcast until 2026, when we'll undoubtedly begin a classic Dr Who show or something equally ludicrous (don't hold us to this). If you want a sample of The Great Gundam Project we have free episodes for every season at&nbsp;<a href="http://timetogoax.is" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">timetogoax.is</a>! $5 (five dollars) -&nbsp;Every month we put out a podcast about Hollywood cinema and the ideologies that form big movies in Block Busters! Somehow we end up talking about Tom Cruise literally every month, so I think he might be the nexus of Hollywood, but we have episodes about movies from The Ten Commandments to Knives Out, from all the decades in between! $10 (ten dollars) - People always say they enjoy our rapport as hosts and wish we'd just goof around and so we're bringing you VoIP Life! Once every two weeks we'll offer you things that hit the cutting room floor, good times goofing around on Skype, and other weird things that would never make our more formal shows. We've literally never interacted in person and thus our entire friendship has been over Skype and Slack and Discord, so we'll keep the microphones on a little longer and offer you the best dumb time we can muster. Sometimes we even have a guest (or 10). And that's everything! Thank you so much for your consideration and your support, and we hope you get as much from our many shows as we get from producing them for you!&nbsp;

Free

Thank you so much for helping us! We run as lean as we can so even a single dollar can impact our budget. At this tier you gain access to the Great Gundam Project, our weekly watch through of all the Gundam we can get our hands on from now until the end of time.

I wanna help, and gimme that Gundam!

Access to Block Busters, our podcast about the ideology of hollywood movies!

I love your work, gimme more!

At this tier you get access to Voip Life, Abnormal Mapping's secret hangout show for those of you who want as much content as you can get. It's fun, it's chill, and it releases every two weeks.

There just aren't enough podcasts!

If you want to guest on the show, or just make us watch/play something that you'd love us to cover, then this is the tier for you. 
 
Here's how it works:
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<li>After six months, you get a slot to appear on a show of your choosing! If you have a particular special request we will work with you to accomodate</li>
<li>Video Games are worth two slots! This is because they can get long and it didn't make sense to treat them the same as an anime movie.</li>
<li>Everything else is worth one slot! You can make us watch 13 episodes of Anime, or a movie, or you could be the first brave person to talk about Star Trek with us, every six months.</li>
<li>If you don't want to be on the show but you do want to make us cover something then that is also fine, we'll still record a podcast on the topic of your choice!</li>
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