Ed’s Tummy Reblog If You Agree

Okay, hold on, I was thinking about The Amelia Project and The Interviewer and Kozlowski. You know how The Interviewer says “There’s always time for a story” and how he loves listening to stories and how he wanted to collect them all. And how Kozlowski has multiple stories with phoenix he tells people and how he creates different stories about his past and how he clearly loves telling people all his stories. So now I can only think that Kozlowski would create new story so The Interviewer could listen to it on quiet evening. Or during days and weeks without new clients Kozlowski would spent whole days in The Interviewer office telling him long and detailed stories so The Interviewer wouldn’t be bored. Or The Interviewer would go to Kozlowski’s basement when feeling sad or bored and Kozlowski would create stories about project he was working on at the moment. Or when Kozlowski would be frustrated with his work or tired The Interviewer would make cocoa and ask him to tell him a story so he wouldn’t think about his work. Or when they were away from each other Kozlowski would write his stories in letters and send them to The Interviewer. (And now I really hard try not to think how now The Interviewer misses Kozlowski and his stories and waits for some letter or even this stupid email or sms from him with his new story) The Interviewer listened to and knows thousands if not million stories and such big part of them were told by Kozlowski.

So from what I can tell, the big conflict of season 4 of the Amelia Project is that the Interviewer’s cocoa keeps getting ruined (clearly this is quite the escalation, you can’t take away a man’s cocoa!)

Cocoa Collabs 2022 announcement tomorrow!

Keep your eyes peeled...

Kozlowski could have been two dozen really smart chinchillas in a trench coat but we’re not ready to talk about that.

Season 4 of The Amelia Project ... coming October 15th 2021 to your podcast feeds.

I thought I could just shut up about the new episode but I can not get over how incredibly gentle the Interviewer handled Raven.

TW for mentions/descriptions of mental illness.

First, he tries humor - the whole 'Anyone who's tried to make a chalk and tomato sandwich can tell you that.' Thing. But it doesn't work. Then he tries to change her mind about it and we get that beautiful and wonderful paintbrush-scene - but that can't last for long because this is not how mental illness works. This is not how trauma and fear works. You can not rationalize it away - you can't say 'it's wrong' and your brain just accepts that. So of course it only lasts so long, and after Alvina comes in (who has no clue about it, and I am kind of glad she came in and therefore accidentally showed that it's not that easy) we see that the Interviewer gets it too. Yes he is annoyed with Alvina but I can't shake the feeling he is annoyed with himself too. So he changes strategy *without* going the way he could have gone - the way Amelia talked about, saying she would have told Raven to hold it together. And he goes on and says the most important thing ever - 'Now I won't try to tell you that you're not responsible (...) Not because I believe you are, but because I know you believe you are, and I respect your beliefs. Even if I think they're hurting you.' - and this was the moment that absolutely and utterly broke me. You can't rationalize it away. You can't prove it's wrong and that fixes it all. The only thing you can do is say 'I respect that, I hear you, I take you serious' without going the 'you are therefore right' way. She is wrong, he knows it, but humor won't fix this, facts won't fix this. She has to see it herself. She has to *understand* it herself. This is a process not made in an office. It's one that can take days and years. And one that nobody can do for you, you can only do it yourself - with help. And he takes that step, he nudges her in the direction. Doesn't pity her, doesn’t ridicule her. He leaves everything out - family, revenge, all the ways he could have gone. And he chose to be gentle instead.

I know we joke about him being somewhat of an entity fed up with humans and immortal and maybe not human. But this was the most incredible human moment. It shows the Interviewer knows not only his work - he has empathy & sympathy. So no matter what the onionitis turns out to be, no matter what is actually wrong with him - he is so, so human and I find that beautiful.

Day 5 - no prompt Is it an alternative universe? Is it a different planet? Perhaps a dream sequence? We'll never know.

"Alvina, I'm sooo bored!!"

probably my only contribution this year:(