Little Oracles

allison arth
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An oracle for the everyday creative | Whether it's through reading and writing, watching and listening, making, playing, or practicing, we’re digging into what inspires us to aspire, make a mess, and find joy as career and casual creatives.

  1. MAR 18

    S04:E09 | Remix: On Rap as Disco Renaissance, Poetic Resonance, and Ripping Ourselves Off

    What do Biggie Smalls, the Queens of Disco, and the poetry community have in common? Find out in this episode, wherein we talk about remixing ourselves as a way to recontextualize, reimagine, and regenerate our creative work. Resources Lovelorn, my line-lifting solo poetry RPG (Part IV of the Western Cantos)The poetry of Deadliest Catch: S04:E07 | Refract: On Mirror Rot, Idiosyncratic Inspo, and Hailing the New YearIG: @littleoracles

    10 min

  2. JAN 13

    S04:E08 | Review: 2024’s Most Meaningful Reads & What I’m Digging in 2025

    It's a booktastic megasode! Nearly 20 minutes of big book energy, opening with books that made me go "mmm" in 2024, and closing with what I'm excited to read in 2025. (Could this be the soft relaunch of the Asynchronous Book Club? Yeah, why not!) As ever, check content warnings before you pick up anything we discuss here on the podcast; reading should be a refuge, not a trigger. And remember: reading is reading is reading, whether you're reading books with your eyes or your hands or your ears.✌️ Until next time, as always: take care, keep creating, and stay divine! Resources S04:E01 | Retread: On Coming Back to Creativity + Five Fave Creepy ReadsS04:E05 | Regift: On Booksgiving + Five Books for Your Fab Fam (and Favorite Freaks)S01:E02 | My Top Books of 2022 & Relational ReadingS01:E16 | Little Reviews: Victoria Chang, Maggie Nelson, Heather Christle + May Book Club PicksIG: @littleoracles

    20 min

  3. 12/28/2024

    S04:E07 | Refract: On Mirror Rot, Idiosyncratic Inspo, and Hailing the New Year

    Let's talk about mirror rot! And also how it inspired me to write this episode all about the agnosticism of inspiration, and how your idiosyncratic log of the year (whether it's in your phone's notes app, your watch history, your box of ticket stubs) can not only help you reflect on the year that's gone, but also take you into the new one with a cache of cool curios to fuel your creative practice. Wishing you a wonderful New Year! Until next time, as always: take care, keep creating, and stay divine. 3 Resources Talkin' about burnout and the pressure of the vision board: S04:E06 | Rekindle: On Burning Out, Learning Grace, and Making Art for YourselfIG: @littleoracles

    7 min

  4. 12/05/2024

    S04:E06 | Rekindle: On Burning Out, Learning Grace, and Making Art for Yourself

    Let's burn your vision board! Not really! (But kind of?) In this episode, we're talking about taking space, practicing grace, and reminding ourselves of why we make what we make ... and for whom, and why it's not the best move to let your calendar control your creative work. Heavily inspired by a great Bluesky thread about making art for yourself by game designers Sean and Navi Drake of A Couple of Drakes. Resources The season-opening three-parter about coming back to creativity: S04:E01 | Retread: On Coming Back to Creativity + Five Fave Creepy Reads, S04:E02 | Reconnect: On Prompts, Cross-Pollination, and Creative Elasticity, S04:E04 | Reframe: On Commitment as Self-Care and How to Kick Inertia's AssGet good at being lazy with me (and learn about the weird Christian history of Sloth!) | S01:E03 | Getting Good at Being Lazy: Creative Pressure, the Seven Deadly Sins, and an ABC Plot Twist Find every episode of the pod in the Little Oracles ArchiveIG: @littleoracles

    8 min

  5. 11/26/2024

    S04:E05 | Regift: On Booksgiving + Five Books for Your Fab Fam (and Favorite Freaks)

    Happy Booksgiving! We're inaugurating a new Jolabokaflod-inspired holiday, Little Oracles style ... because gifting a book is cool as hell. Featuring five books I won't flinch about giving to fabulous friends (and fellow weird-fiction freaks). If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English by Noor NagaGrief Is the Thing with Feathers by Max PorterHera Lindsay Bird by Hera Lindsay BirdThe Friend by Sigrid NunezCursed Bread by Sophie MackintoshThanks so much for being here, and, as always, take care, keep creating, and stay divine. 3 Resources Find every episode of the pod in the Little Oracles ArchiveBooks and media referenced | If An Egyptian Cannot Speak English: Pure Colour by Sheila Heti and Weather by Jenny Offill; Hera Lindsay Bird: Fleabag (TV show, created by Phoebe Waller-Bridge), Dolly Alderton (author), The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess (album by Chappell Roan); The Friend: Splinters by Leslie Jamison, Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner; Cursed Bread: Diabolique (film, 1955), I'm Thinking of Ending Things by Iain Reid, Mona by Pola OloixaracIG: @littleoracles

    12 min

  6. 11/12/2024

    S04:E04 | Reframe: On Commitment as Self-Care and How to Kick Inertia's Ass

    In this final installment of the season-opening three-parter, we look at personal obligation (in a good way) and how to say goodbye to creative stasis with a handful of stagnancy-busting strategies (and even some creative prompts!). Until next time, as always: take care, keep creating, and stay divine! 3 Resources Episodes one and two of this three-parter: S04:E01 | Retread: On Coming Back to Creativity + Five Fave Creepy Reads and S04:E02 | Reconnect: On Prompts, Cross-Pollination, and Creative ElasticityFollow the luminous Lindsay Stewart on Instagram and listen to our Creative Chat, S01:E10 | Creative Chat with Lindsay Stewart: Making Home, Building Brands, and Finding Your HappyCreative Mornings | Breakfast lecture series for the creative communityGet some oomph from these eps about starting your next creative project | S02:E15 | The Hot Takes Episode: The Inspiration Fallacy & I'm Your Bucklebury and S02:E18 | Hauntings I: A Micro-Series Debut, My Golden Ghouls, & October ABC PicksFind every episode of the pod in the Little Oracles Archive IG: @littleoracles

    9 min

  7. 11/07/2024

    S04:E03 | Refuge: On Mourning, Mending, and Making in Troubling Times

    In this spontaneous emergency episode in response to the 2024 U.S. election, I'm calling out your creative spirit: in times like these, we need mourners, we need menders, we need makers. We need your creative revolution. We'll resume our three-part series about coming back to creativity next week, but until then, as always: take care, keep creating, and stay divine. 3 Resources Episodes one and two of this three-parter: S04:E01 | Retread: On Coming Back to Creativity + Five Fave Creepy Reads and S04:E02 | Reconnect: On Prompts, Cross-Pollination, and Creative ElasticityFollow the luminous Lindsay Stewart on Instagram and listen to our Creative Chat, S01:E10 | Creative Chat with Lindsay Stewart: Making Home, Building Brands, and Finding Your HappyCreative Mornings | Breakfast lecture series for the creative communityGet some oomph from these eps about starting your next creative project | S02:E15 | The Hot Takes Episode: The Inspiration Fallacy & I'm Your Bucklebury and S02:E18 | Hauntings I: A Micro-Series Debut, My Golden Ghouls, & October ABC PicksFind every episode of the pod in the Little Oracles Archive IG: @littleoracles

    4 min

  8. 11/03/2024

    S04:E02 | Reconnect: On Prompts, Cross-Pollination, and Creative Elasticity

    In part two of the season-opening three-parter, we're talking about the power of prompts, ways to cross-pollinate your creativity, and how creative elasticity makes you an even mightier maker. Until next time, take care, keep creating, and stay divine. 3 Resources Episode one of this three-parter: S01:E01 | Retread: On Coming Back to Creativity + Five Fave Creepy ReadsVide-Poche: Pockets and Their Contents show catalogHighlighted episodes! S01:E01 | Hey, Hi, Howdy! Welcome to Little Oracles and Creative Chat with Peter Gaucys: On Conversations, Conductors, and Contextual GhostsFind every episode of the pod in the Little Oracles ArchiveIG: @littleoracles

    9 min
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An oracle for the everyday creative | Whether it's through reading and writing, watching and listening, making, playing, or practicing, we’re digging into what inspires us to aspire, make a mess, and find joy as career and casual creatives.

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  • Creator
    allison arth
  • Years Active
    2023 - 2025
  • Episodes
    64
  • Rating
    Explicit
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    © 2025 Little Oracles
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