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drinking water is awesome i love #mywater

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going to meet mothman today, kinda nervous!

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Hello y'all! Delighted to announce that I'm now a Community Lead for the fabulous podcast 'Ain't Slayed Nobody'. 🐙

Check out the show if you haven't already - I've gone from gasping in horror to dying from laughter within the space of seconds. Greatly looking forward to many, many more shenanigans* ... 👀

*cannot promise I will not cause any.

BLUESKY:

INSTAGRAM:

https://www.instagram.com/aintslayed?igsh=bzRycndxeGVlbHV6

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you can be both employed & way too online. it’s called “posting on the clock,” and actually, it’s praxis.

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Podcast Jam Snippets

The countdown for the PodJam marathon is running! Until then... we present exclusive sneak peaks into the works of Jam Projects (script and audio snippets, soundtracks, bloopers, etc.)

Below, we have out of context scenes and bloopers.

Inn Between Worlds

Valdivian's [REDACTED]: Competitive Market

Left Alone Once More

A Merry Dance at Whistlestop Junction

Want to hear these wonderful shows and many more in complete? Check out this page for more info on the Podcast Jam, this post for more info on the jam marathons and check out our website or join the Discord for more info on the Podcast Book Club.

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2025 Closing Ceremony Stream

Happy belated Audio Drama Sunday to all who celebrate!

Join us on Saturday May 24th & Sunday the 25th at 8AM EST/1PM BST on @podcast-bookclub Twitch to check out all of the shows (22 new audio dramas!) created during this year's Jam event. We can't wait to listen with you 🎧

If you're unfamiliar with the Podcast Jam or Podcast Book Club - it's nice to meet you :) Podcast Book Club is an online community space for creators and enjoyers of audio fiction to share in podcasting together. Podcast Jam is an annual event we host, where participants collaboratively or solely create the pilot episode of a podcast from start to finish. To find out more, see our website or join the Discord.

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More inc coming your way tomorrow! Tune in to episode 2-8 and hear all the usual suspects plus Garret Micheal Weskamp and @calmodata. See you there!

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so cool when i say hi to a cat and they do a big stretch like i dont think that has anything to do with the words i just said to you i said but i think its awesome that you got long

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we should totally eat moss

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I still think it’s objectively fucked how the world is built for morning people and if you wake up later than everyone else you’re seen as a malicious aberration of some sort. I am that but it’s not because I wake up at 11 fuck yourself

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um why would i step out of comfort zone i literally just got so comfy

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Little guy from stream last night (or as Alex has put it “handsome devil with a loneliness behind their eyes only visible by friends.....”)

Accompanied by a clip of me crashing out/having a ted talk (it’s longer check the vod I’ll make a highlight) x

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2025 Podcast Jam

The Podcast Jam is BACK for 2025! If you're unfamiliar, the PodJam is an event running from February to May in which teams of editors, writors, and actors collaborate to create the pilot episode of a new audio drama.

A handful of things have been updated following last year's jam, particularly with the timeframe: the creation period has been extended to a "Jam Month", so teams will now spend roughly a week in each phase of production - writing, voice acting, & editing. Here's the schedule:

Sign-ups: January 31st - March 23rd

Team Submission Form Deadline: March 30th

Team Announcements: April 5th

Final Project Withdraw Date: April 20th

Jam Month: April 7th - May 4th

Episode Submission: May 5th

Public Episode Release: May 24th

Jam Closing Ceremony: May 31st

SIGN UP HERE

SUBMIT A TEAM HERE

We're really excited to bring this event back, it was incredibly fun last year & we can't wait to check out the shows y'all create for the jam ✨. Further event details and guidelines are available in the Discord and on the website. To access the Jam category in the server, please open a Jam Support ticket or ping a moderator to be given the participant role after signing up for the event.

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2025 Podcast Jam

The Podcast Jam is BACK for 2025! If you're unfamiliar, the PodJam is an event running from February to May in which teams of editors, writors, and actors collaborate to create the pilot episode of a new audio drama.

A handful of things have been updated following last year's jam, particularly with the timeframe: the creation period has been extended to a "Jam Month", so teams will now spend roughly a week in each phase of production - writing, voice acting, & editing. Here's the schedule:

Sign-ups: January 31st - March 23rd

Team Submission Form Deadline: March 30th

Team Announcements: April 5th

Final Project Withdraw Date: April 20th

Jam Month: April 7th - May 4th

Episode Submission: May 5th

Public Episode Release: May 24th

Jam Closing Ceremony: May 31st

SIGN UP HERE

SUBMIT A TEAM HERE

We're really excited to bring this event back, it was incredibly fun last year & we can't wait to check out the shows y'all create for the jam ✨. Further event details and guidelines are available in the Discord and on the website. To access the Jam category in the server, please open a Jam Support ticket or ping a moderator to be given the participant role after signing up for the event.

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AuFiCon Kicks Off Tomorrow!

Come join us for the Opening Ceremony at 9PM GMT / 4PM EST. It'll be hosted by some of the PBC mods - N1et, Cole, Quills, Moth, & Finch - and we promise it'll be a good time. We'll give you a rundown of what to expect over the weekend, as well as introducing the bookclub to those who may be unfamiliar, playing a few games & testing your audio drama knowledge.

Following this, the next event will be the Producing a Fiction Podcast panel, hosted by Dennis Ortman with Tatiana Gefter, Anna Stein, Hannah & Daisy McNamara speaking on the panel at midnight GMT / 7PM EST.

You can still grab tickets here, join the Discord here, & follow our Twitch here. Hope you can stop by this weekend, everyone has worked incredibly hard on this and it's shaping up to be a great time ✨

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YOU ARE SUPPOSED TO CARE!!!!!!!!! YOU ARE SUPPOSED TO FEEL!!!!!! FEEL FEEL FEEL!!!! FOR THE LOVE OF GOD AND ALL THINGS GOOD AND PURE FEEL SOMETHING!!!! OPEN YOUR HEART! BE VULNERABLE! BE SOFT! BE SO FULL OF LOVE AND MESSY AND CRY YOUR HEART OUT!!!!!!! LOVE AND FEEL!!! FEEL AND LOVE!!! YOU ARE SUPPOSED TO CARE! IT IS OKAY TO CARE!!! TO LOVE, TO HURT, AND CRY! PLEEEEEEASE FOR THE LOVE OF THE WORLD, CARE. FEEL. LOVE. BE A MESS OF LOVE AND FEELINGS!!! WE NEED OPEN HEARTS AND KIND EYES WITH BEAMING SOULS!!!! PLEASE!!!!!

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2025 Audio Fiction Convention

AuFiCon is almost upon us! For those that don't know, AuFiCon is a virtual community event hosted by the Podcast Book Club. Panels will be run over Twitch, with our Discord server hosting most everything else. The con is scheduled on a 24-hour basis to accommodate as many timezones as possible (with the schedule above listed in GMT), and events will be recorded for those that can't catch the live panels.

If you'd like to pick up a free ticket, you can do so on our EventBookings page, with the option to upgrade to a donation ticket if you'd like.

Additionally, we'd like to announce that we will be hosting an equipment giveaway during the convention! We here at the PBC are deeply appreciative of the opportunities we've been given through starting this community, and wish to give back to members who otherwise may not have access to podcasting equipment. One winner will receive a RODE NT-USB+ microphone and PSA 1+ studio boom arm. To enter:

Reblog this announcement post here on Tumblr

Complete the giveaway form here.

Finally, we are organizing a trailer event to showcase new, upcoming, and well-loved audio dramas during the convention. If you are involved in the creation of a podcast and would like your show's trailer to be played on the Podcast Trailer Event Twitch stream on the 1st of February at 4:00 PM GMT, please submit the trailer form here. (Submissions will be accepted until 26 January, 2025 at 11:59 PM EST.)