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In this episode, powered by Audacity 4, we continue our intervallo-esque lookback at everything we've missed in our mainline Limbus Company episodes (the woke previously known as season 2, woke 2) doing a 10 pull of recent art to look at gamer Ishmaels and wormlike Gregors, thinking about Clockwork-Time-Roly-Poly and a little bit too much about Headless Ichthys, prompting a sticky question: So how uh, how do we feel about a certain fish with a certain, ahem, inflated sack around visible around the chest area? Surely asking this will cause no problems, right? Follow along:  https://limbuscompany.wiki.gg/wiki/List_of_Identities,  https://limbuscompany.wiki.gg/wiki/List_of_E.G.O Support the show:  https://ko-fi.com/ivyfoxart Follow the show on Tumblr:  https://soul-mates-podcast.tumblr.com/ Follow the show on YouTube:  https://www.youtube.com/@Soul-Mates-Podcast Art by Ryegarden:  https://www.instagram.com/ryegarden Music by Sueños Electrónicos:  https://suenoselectronicos.bandcamp.com/ Follow and support ash:  https://ko-fi.com/asherlark Follow Ivy on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/ivy-fox-is-typing.bsky.social

In this episode, the new face of sexism, we zoom in the suave and sultry serpent-sheath shirtless scoundrel Saturne, who's proportions are simply a bit suspect, and ask a sickly question: Is there really a difference between being chronically ill and being a bottom? Because, okay, I know how it sounds, but hear me out -  To make sense of this episode you really should watch Demi Adejuyigbe explain Racism 2:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YFGJHSJ9ko Follow along:  https://d7.mjsdb.ovh/character/Saturne Support the show:  https://ko-fi.com/ivyfoxart Follow the show on Tumblr:  https://soul-mates-podcast.tumblr.com/ Follow the show on YouTube:  https://www.youtube.com/@Soul-Mates-Podcast Art by Ryegarden:  https://www.instagram.com/ryegarden Music by Sueños Electrónicos:  https://suenoselectronicos.bandcamp.com/ Follow and support ash:  https://ko-fi.com/asherlark Follow Ivy on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/ivy-fox-is-typing.bsky.social

In this episode, also known as "Oddly Enough,", we zoom in on our featured Operator and Food, the river-loving desert-roaming tomb-looting Philae, who is as gentle and kind as she is uhm I don't actually want a flyer, thanks, and the pollyp-producing prank playing pudgester Jellyfish Salad, who omg wow isn't she just so adowable I really just can't get over it, asking a game changing question: Chinese Egyptian Egyptian? Does anyone get this? Then, the worst 90s anime reboot ever with Swiss Roll, Courier, and Mullberry, asking: What if Cloud Strife was in Kingdom Hearts? Wouldn't that be crazy? Glassblower Makes Intricate Horse Effortlessly:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xf1Qwj7X_w And we are OUT of swiss rolls: https://youtu.be/VCc6OejUhkg Follow along:  https://arknights.wiki.gg/wiki/Philae,  https://food-fantasy.fandom.com/wiki/Jellyfish_Salad,  https://food-fantasy.fandom.com/wiki/Swiss_Roll_(Kero),  https://arknights.wiki.gg/wiki/Courier,  https://arknights.wiki.gg/wiki/Mulberry Support the show:  https://ko-fi.com/ivyfoxart Follow the show on Tumblr:  https://soul-mates-podcast.tumblr.com/ Follow the show on YouTube:  https://www.youtube.com/@Soul-Mates-Podcast Art by Ryegarden:  https://www.instagram.com/ryegarden Music by Sueños Electrónicos:  https://suenoselectronicos.bandcamp.com/ Follow and support ash:  https://ko-fi.com/asherlark Follow Ivy on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/ivy-fox-is-typing.bsky.social

In this episode, a locked OUT one, we continue our adventures with Saki, the premier (?) mahjong anime, with the pandering pudgy protrusion penguin pedestal porting Nodoka Haramura, who plays mahjong out of passion and NOT because she's gay, and ask a question of ash to just make sure they're okay: Are you sure you like this default art piece? Like, really sure? Everything going alright at home, buddy? If you need a loser girl then you should click! This! Link! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDW_hnyFxNM Follow along:  https://d7.mjsdb.ovh/character/Nodoka-Haramura Support the show:  https://ko-fi.com/ivyfoxart Follow the show on Tumblr:  https://soul-mates-podcast.tumblr.com/ Follow the show on YouTube:  https://www.youtube.com/@Soul-Mates-Podcast Art by Ryegarden:  https://www.instagram.com/ryegarden Music by Sueños Electrónicos:  https://suenoselectronicos.bandcamp.com/ Follow and support ash:  https://ko-fi.com/asherlark Follow Ivy on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/ivy-fox-is-typing.bsky.social

A piece in three movements: Movement One, the Prelude: Dinner...? Girl...? A sparse wasteland of decimation. Bellies are unfilled, mahjong unplayed. The seasons roll on with no regard for human suffering. Movement Two, the Bridge: What Kind of Dinner Hits that Girl? Over the horizon, a distant ray of hope, though quickly frozen over. Still we must persist, with gloves upon our palms and ties around our necks. Movement Three, the Finale: Let the Dinner Hit the Girl. As we reach the seaside, our wishes finally fulfilled with a feast fit for any girl; and a brush with death returns us to the apple-scented embrace of old friends. Follow along:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rP_Ht6LsQ8I Support the show:  https://ko-fi.com/ivyfoxart Follow the show on Tumblr:  https://soul-mates-podcast.tumblr.com/ Follow the show on YouTube:  https://www.youtube.com/@Soul-Mates-Podcast Art by Ryegarden:  https://www.instagram.com/ryegarden Music by Sueños Electrónicos:  https://suenoselectronicos.bandcamp.com/ Follow and support ash:  https://ko-fi.com/asherlark Follow Ivy on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/ivy-fox-is-typing.bsky.social

In this episode, an episode in which we say the words "gender politics" so many times it loses meaning, we zoom in on our first Gun Gale Onli - I mean, Sword Art Online colab character, the slithering stoic sure-shot sniper Sinon, who's been popping heads with style since she's been 5 years old, and ask a truly devistating question: Should you watch Sword Art Online? The answer will...surprise you? The episode description is my domain, and you are all but thralls to my grand design; you WILL click on this link to see what we were referencing at the beginning of the episode:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-n56s-UEnA Follow along:  https://d7.mjsdb.ovh/character/sinon Support the show:  https://ko-fi.com/ivyfoxart Follow the show on Tumblr:  https://soul-mates-podcast.tumblr.com/ Follow the show on YouTube:  https://www.youtube.com/@Soul-Mates-Podcast Art by Ryegarden:  https://www.instagram.com/ryegarden Music by Sueños Electrónicos:  https://suenoselectronicos.bandcamp.com/ Follow and support ash:  https://ko-fi.com/asherlark Follow Ivy on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/ivy-fox-is-typing.bsky.social

Fun fact: If you die while listening to Soul Mates!, you'll die in real life! Watch this GGO clip that I didn't realize was a star wars edit:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nVZrKms0Qk Support the show:  https://ko-fi.com/ivyfoxart Follow the show on Tumblr:  https://soul-mates-podcast.tumblr.com/ Follow the show on YouTube:  https://www.youtube.com/@Soul-Mates-Podcast Art by Ryegarden:  https://www.instagram.com/ryegarden Music by Sueños Electrónicos:  https://suenoselectronicos.bandcamp.com/ Follow and support ash:  https://ko-fi.com/asherlark Follow Ivy on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/ivy-fox-is-typing.bsky.social

In this episode, with a name that breaks all the rules, we zoom in on our featured Food and Operator, the distinctly disturbing dreamy duo Monkfish Liver, who are decidedly NOT here to look after you, good hunter, and the thunder-thighed thoroughly thought provoking Savage, here to whip you up a bowl of the good stuff (?) and ask a spooooky question: Is it possible for your sexy aunt to be scarier than a flesh eating mannequin? Because, here me out. Then, it's off to the community center with Burrito, Datemaki, and Figurino, asking: Now, we all know you can forcefemme a burrito (not mine please, I'm full) but CAN you forcefemme a taco...? Follow along:  https://food-fantasy.fandom.com/wiki/Monkfish_Liver,  https://arknights.wiki.gg/wiki/Savage,  https://food-fantasy.fandom.com/wiki/Burrito,  https://food-fantasy.fandom.com/wiki/Datemaki,  https://arknights.wiki.gg/wiki/Figurino Watch them say my name in the SGDQ 2026 SANABI run, and also whatever this is that we reference after the break:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5j7WM_9SJQw, https://www.tumblr.com/midnakoopa/705042572390825984/these-are-my-cats-i-dont-have-a-problem Support the show:  https://ko-fi.com/ivyfoxart Follow the show on Tumblr:  https://soul-mates-podcast.tumblr.com/ Follow the show on YouTube:  https://www.youtube.com/@Soul-Mates-Podcast Art by Ryegarden:  https://www.instagram.com/ryegarden Music by Sueños Electrónicos:  https://suenoselectronicos.bandcamp.com/ Follow and support ash:  https://ko-fi.com/asherlark Follow Ivy on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/ivy-fox-is-typing.bsky.social

In this episode, the finale of I.S.Y.S.W.A.S.F.H.S.S. (I scream, you scream, we all scream for Hell Screen summer) we zoom in on the second half of Ryoshu's art, allowing our concepts to be fully incinerated in an endless tragic dance of blur filters and blue and pink light (H.P.) by B.O.T.H.O.S.R. (Blade of the House of Spiders Ryoshu) and adopt the following question: Which Ryoshu, in the end, is the most mommy? Which one is the coveted T.F.M.? Follow along:  https://limbuscompany.wiki.gg/wiki/Ry%C5%8Dsh%C5%AB Watch "The Safe that Makes You Old" by Cheeky Chelldos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eO8sN3XIwRw Support the show:  https://ko-fi.com/ivyfoxart Follow the show on Tumblr:  https://soul-mates-podcast.tumblr.com/ Follow the show on YouTube:  https://www.youtube.com/@Soul-Mates-Podcast Art by Ryegarden:  https://www.instagram.com/ryegarden Music by Sueños Electrónicos:  https://suenoselectronicos.bandcamp.com/ Follow and support ash:  https://ko-fi.com/asherlark Follow Ivy on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/ivy-fox-is-typing.bsky.social

In this episode, the midpoint of our titular I.S.Y.S.W.A.S.F.H.S.S. (I scream, you scream, we all scream for Hell Screen summer) we zoom in on the expressionist of excrutiation, the modernist of mauling, the romantacist of reaping, the, uhm, art deco-ist of agony, so on and so forth, Ryoshu (or at least, look at the first half of her art, with the rest coming next episode) who, while she might not always look it, is truly a M.A.H. (mommy at heart) prompting us to ask a childish question: Take a 5 minute break? You mean the break that makes you old? Follow along:  https://limbuscompany.wiki.gg/wiki/Ry%C5%8Dsh%C5%AB Watch "The Safe that Makes You Old" by Cheeky Chelldos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eO8sN3XIwRw Support the show:  https://ko-fi.com/ivyfoxart Follow the show on Tumblr:  https://soul-mates-podcast.tumblr.com/ Follow the show on YouTube:  https://www.youtube.com/@Soul-Mates-Podcast Art by Ryegarden:  https://www.instagram.com/ryegarden Music by Sueños Electrónicos:  https://suenoselectronicos.bandcamp.com/ Follow and support ash:  https://ko-fi.com/asherlark Follow Ivy on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/ivy-fox-is-typing.bsky.social

Ryūnosuke Akutagawa (1892-1927), from the age of 22 to his death at 35, wrote over 150 short stories. He is today widely considered the "father of the Japanese short story," and many of his works focus on historical and mythological tales presented through a modern psychological lens. His stories enjoy popularity even now, over a century after they were written, as some of the greatest works of Japanese literature: stories like Rashōmon, The Spider's Thread, In A Bamboo Grove, and Hell Screen. Soul Mates! is proud to present a reading of Hell Screen, one of Akutagawa's early masterpieces. Based on a tale from the Uji Shūi Monogatari, Hell Screen follows a painter tasked to create a painting of the Buddhist hells, who finds himself unable to paint the perfect image until he sees the flames for himself. Please enjoy this new audiobook experience, with original backing music by Aster Gousie. Music this episode by Aster Gousie:  https://youtube.com/@astermaliceflowers8363 Support the show:  https://ko-fi.com/ivyfoxart Follow the show on Tumblr:  https://soul-mates-podcast.tumblr.com/ Follow the show on YouTube:  https://www.youtube.com/@Soul-Mates-Podcast Art by Ryegarden:  https://www.instagram.com/ryegarden Follow and support ash:  https://ko-fi.com/asherlark Follow Ivy on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/ivy-fox-is-typing.bsky.social

In this episode, featuring serious lesbian art analysis (and something else, too!) we zoom in on the slitheringly sensual short-sighted sapphic seductive serpent goddessss Li Yang, who really does need to zoom in because she really, really needs glasses, and ask a question of former United States of America president Barack Obama: Hello sir, could you help me figure out which parts of the woman we should talk about? Like, you know, the outfit, and the posing, and facial expression, and the snake, and...? Follow along:  https://mahjongsoul.club/character/li-yang Support the show:  https://ko-fi.com/ivyfoxart Follow the show on Tumblr:  https://soul-mates-podcast.tumblr.com/ Follow the show on YouTube:  https://www.youtube.com/@Soul-Mates-Podcast Art by Ryegarden:  https://www.instagram.com/ryegarden Music by Sueños Electrónicos:  https://suenoselectronicos.bandcamp.com/ Follow and support ash:  https://ko-fi.com/asherlark Follow Ivy on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/ivy-fox-is-typing.bsky.social

In this episode, with ash returning fresh out of hell, we zoom in on the blood-coughing bird-loving braniac Sora Ichinose (whose name I mispronounce every time because you live in my world) who keeps accquaintance with some of the best drippy ghosts you've ever met, and ask a gemoetric question: Wait, how do you solve this dang puzzle cube again? You make the white cross, then you pair the edges - no, then you do the first layer, then how do you... Follow along:  https://mahjongsoul.club/character/sora-ichinose Support the show:  https://ko-fi.com/ivyfoxart Follow the show on Tumblr:  https://soul-mates-podcast.tumblr.com/ Follow the show on YouTube:  https://www.youtube.com/@Soul-Mates-Podcast Art by Ryegarden:  https://www.instagram.com/ryegarden Music by Sueños Electrónicos:  https://suenoselectronicos.bandcamp.com/ Follow and support ash:  https://ko-fi.com/asherlark Follow Ivy on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/ivy-fox-is-typing.bsky.social

Bad news, folks: We found out that Ksitigarbha, the patron bodhisattva of Planned Parenthood, already cleared ash out of hell by... Well, you'll see. Along the way we made plenty of friends, though, starting with the bell-ringing bodice-bound bamboo beauty Temptress, who IS wearing a bisexual jacket, a real thing that I will defend to the death, and end by asking a truly enlightened question: If hardline hairline homophobia puts you in hell, what sexuality services your ascent to heaven? Meet me at the club, and let's find out? Follow along:  https://soul-mates-podcast.tumblr.com/post/815020286591303680/some-more-women-from-demonic-mahjong Follow May on Tumblr: https://geyfrog.tumblr.com/ Support the show:  https://ko-fi.com/ivyfoxart Follow the show on Tumblr:  https://soul-mates-podcast.tumblr.com/ Follow the show on YouTube:  https://www.youtube.com/@Soul-Mates-Podcast Art by Ryegarden:  https://www.instagram.com/ryegarden Music by Sueños Electrónicos:  https://suenoselectronicos.bandcamp.com/ Follow and support ash:  https://ko-fi.com/asherlark Follow Ivy on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/ivy-fox-is-typing.bsky.social

Content warning: Discussion of s▮ic▮de and s▮lf h▮rm after the break. Listener discretion is advised. Bad news, folks: ash has gone to Hell, and it's up to Ivy and May to save them. Guided by our chain-clad cheerless chinese-underworld champion Black Impermanence, we dive into the depth of this year's (the Horse's year) hottest mahjong roguelike, battling buxom babes in tile throwdowns all while asking: But what if your mom was doggy? Well, and tiger, and lion, and dragon, and qilin... Follow along:  https://www.tumblr.com/soul-mates-podcast/813746464806305792/some-women-from-demonic-mahjong Follow May on Tumblr: https://geyfrog.tumblr.com/ Support the show:  https://ko-fi.com/ivyfoxart Follow the show on Tumblr:  https://soul-mates-podcast.tumblr.com/ Follow the show on YouTube:  https://www.youtube.com/@Soul-Mates-Podcast Art by Ryegarden:  https://www.instagram.com/ryegarden Music by Sueños Electrónicos:  https://suenoselectronicos.bandcamp.com/ Follow and support ash:  https://ko-fi.com/asherlark Follow Ivy on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/ivy-fox-is-typing.bsky.social