Mabel

I haven't been able to stop thinking about this podcast since I started it. It's just? so good? Everything about its pacing is incredible. The way the plot is revealed doesn’t feel like you’re suffering through five minutes of stilted exposition, but more like you’re being slowly pulled into this world. The steady build up of the atmosphere is the best part of it. The descriptions are so precise that you can set the entire story in your mind - but not physically. More like, the way the writing pulls at your emotions, tries to involve you through metaphors of feelings applied in context. I think it reaches in and tries to make you feel it too - whatever feeling is needed to really understand the story. At a basic level, it appeals to your own sense of fear, of longing and curiosity. It scares me when I don’t want to be scared, when I just want to enjoy the specificity of the story, when I revel at the image I’ve created of it in my mind. It makes the fear more real, more tangible. I don’t /want/ things to go wrong, because I’m attached. But it also soothes that fear away just as well as it made it appear. I wish I could just. Wrap the story up in my hands and look at all the intricate parts of it, like little gears that make my mind run. I love it a lot, and I’m jealous of it, a little. Some lines make me stop and pause, running them over and over in my head, like I’m trying to understand as much of it as I can, absorb it and make it mine. I wish I’d thought of that story, but at the end I’m just really glad it exists, and that I get to enjoy it.