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Episode 166 [in English]: Angie Assal

This week we’re catching up with Angie Assal (who you might remember from previous episodes) Lebanese-American artist, dancer, aspiring musician, and creator of Sound of Mazzika, a line of jewelry and more inspired by Arabic music and culture. 

Angie explains why she got started studying Arabic percussion, and how it also led her to practice the martial art Bagua.  She also talks about recovering from injuries and COVID hospitalization, and dream collaborations for her jewelry business (Haifa Wehbe, please listen). We also discuss how hypermobility is confusing, why we like showing up to parties when no one is there, and the possibility of taking over the world with earrings.

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Episode 155 [in English]: Spirit Swapping with Alex of SoftNotWeak

Alex (Lebanese, pronouns they/them) co-founder  studio SoftNotWeak discusses with Ellie their new game currently in development called Spirit Swap: Lofi Beats to Match-3 To. It is an action-puzzle game set in a lush, narrative-driven world of witchy demons. Everyone is non-binary in this one.

Ellie and Alex discuss killing ourselves for a white audience, white education by minorities in corporate America, hating on trash representation, Call of Duty, QPOC joy, business structuring, the over representation of traumatized white lesbians as a genre, the failures of changing the system from within, the Gerudo apologists that are us, excellent head cannon, the most important question of our age: “why shouldn’t all characters be queer SWANA folk.”

This gets super nerdy! Come for the indie dev interview, stay for the Zelda fannon.

Episode Links!

Game demo here! https://softnotweak.itch.io/
Kicktstarter https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/softnotweak/spirit-swap – also has a demo link
SoftNotWeak  https://twitter.com/SoftNotWeak
Alex’s Twitter https://twitter.com/dirtbagboyfren
Game site https://www.spiritswapgame.com/
Steam Page https://store.steampowered.com/app/1592170/Spirit_Swap_Lofi_Beats_to_Match3_To/
Outro song was the Spirit Swap theme by melty canon ( https://soundcloud.com/MELTYCANON )  which you can listen to and follow here on sound cloud https://soundcloud.com/user-473041563/spirit-swap-theme-by-meltycanon

Promised Art!

Note: this episode was posted early to give their kickstarter more exposure and is our episode for the week!

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