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Independent audio. Podcasts, essays, and fiction by Neil Chapman. Home of The Rules, Rainbow, and more.
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Hollywood didn't make older women invisible. It did something more calculated than that: it built a system of permits. You can be the detective. You can transgress amusingly. You can decay on screen as long as the decay is your fault. You can share a film with four other women the industry won't back individually. What you cannot do is simply exist, unremarkable, on your own terms, without justification.
This episode names the rule...
THE RULES: CHILD STARS
Child stars have a story. Discovery, difficult phase, drugs, breakdown, comeback. We've been eating that story for decades and it tastes great. This episode is about what that story was designed to obscure: a system that isolates children, sidelines the people protecting them, and turns their pain into someone else's revenue.
Technology: Never Trust a Femmebot
A hundred years ago, Fritz Lang built a robot. She was beautiful, she was dangerous, and she wore a real woman's face. We have been building her ever since.
This episode, Neil traces a single question through a century of science fiction: not can a machine be conscious, but who gets to have a self? From Maria...
Magic: The Management Would Like To See You
Magic is everywhere in fiction. But it's never free, never equal, and never as simple as waving a wand. In this episode, Neil breaks down the unspoken rules that govern every magical world you've ever visited. From Hogwarts to the crossroads at midnight to a coven in a California shopping mall.
Because the magic system isn't a fantasy. It's just the class system in a cloak.
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Ghosts: Home Is Where the Horror Is
Ghost stories are everywhere. But why do they all look the same? In this episode, Neil breaks down the unspoken rules that govern every haunted house story you've ever encountered — from Shirley Jackson to Poltergeist to your mate's cousin's thing that happened that one time.
Because the ghost is rarely the most frightening thing in the building.
REFERENCES AND FURTHER READING
Shirley Jack...
The genre that made every outsider feel seen, and left the system completely intact.
High school movies are a pressure valve. They make you feel understood just enough that nobody asks why the hierarchy is still standing. In this episode we look at the unwritten rules of the genre the cliques that never go away, the parties where the hunting ground has a John Hughes soundtrack, the adults who fail you, the one who doesn't, the less...
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Merry Christmas! We made it. It's the night before Christmas and we managed to get the final episode out! Find out why that is a Christmas miracle when you listen to the show. In this episode, you can marvel at my ability to get drunk on three sips of espresso martini while I present you with a little Christmas Eve buffet of Christmas facts to small for an episode fo...
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In this episode we get a little spooky and a lot heart warmy, as Neil tells the tale of Captain Santa and the Ghostly Christmas Tree Ship.
Content warning: I’d say this one is PG. We talk about a shipwreck so there’s some death by drowning but no details and there is the ghost element but honestly, I’ve watched scarier Scooby Doo’s.
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In this episode we talk about Christmas Blunderlands, that annual tradition of press stories about crappy Christmas attractions. Disgruntled parents, crying kids, smoking elves and swearing Santas, we’ve got the lot.
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In this episode, we talk about Perchta. An ancient goddess that was the subject of a smear campaign. How did a protector of forests, women and children, end up being an enforcer of social norms? Have you finished your spinning? Is your house tidy? If not hurry up if you value your intestines!
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