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I want to preface this by saying sorry. I am SO sorry. For real. I'm really sorry. If bodies and the noises you can make with them gross you out, just don't read this next part.

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. Almost every gross gore sound I've made for every podcast I've produced has been a combination of squelching saliva between my teeth and cheeks, and snapping my fingernails against my teeth. I know. The thing it's depicting is somehow less gross than the actual thing being recorded.

Again. I'm sorry.

listening to audio dramas is so funny cuz like. someone is getting torn apart in my ears and I'm just wondering what the person doing foley was squishing and squelching to make those sounds

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This comparison makes me low-key giddy. Thank you.

I started Heartglass ⚡ and the vibes remind me of Unwell (in a good way)

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102 - Invisible Monsters

Almost completely forgot to post this today. Buuuut - here's the second episode of Heartglass. It's got invisible monsters (spooky) and discussions about why there aren't any takeaway shops in Hell. And a big worm that squeezes people and uh … it's weird. Y'know, as per usual. Check it out. CW: Restriction, loud binaural sounds, wet slurping/gore sounds, peril and implied death

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I started Heartglass ⚡ and the vibes remind me of Unwell (in a good way)

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does anyone have any audio drama recommendations that have prominent characters that are trans men/masc? (That aren’t Hello from the Hallowoods, The Silt Verses, or Camp Here and There)

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Happy audio drama Sunday, friends! This week brought us modern solutions to the vampiric problem in @theholmwoodfoundation, Brian lore in @iriscasefiles, and the launch of new weird fiction series @heartglasspod!

I'll now be taking a week's break from my usual Sunday posts, and I'll be back with a roundup of my listening in two weeks! Take care, y'all!

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Happy Audio Drama Sunday! It's been a long week and I'm exhausted, but art exists and stories are beautiful and I love getting to see people's work. Let's get into it.

⚡️ This week I listened to the first episode of @heartglasspod and was just blown away. Like not only are the writing stellar and the characters instantly fascinating, but this concept is so beautiful and weird that I am all in. There’s something very tempting about being able to talk to a loved one who’s passed, especially one whose death is suspicious, but the memory issue and the actual cosmological distance between our characters is bound to cause problems. I can’t wait to see where it goes.

🧛🏻‍♂️ The thing about @theholmwoodfoundation is: I love Tom. I love him. I can’t help but compare our characters to their predecessors, which I think Jeremy in particular would hate, but they all fill very different roles. That said, Tom is still decisive and funny and refuses to let Jeremy panic, which is very Van Helsing of him. The writing here is so nuanced, and the way these characters developed works so well. Can’t wait to figure out what the heck is up with Jeremy.

🪐 This episode of @iriscasefiles has it all. Gangsters. Linguistics. Violence in the face of unspeakable injustice. Soup. I am constantly impressed with Brian as a character—something about how “nice” doesn’t mean “helpless” is really delicious in the context of this particular anticapitalist setting. And it’s encouraging. You can always do something to fight injustice. Even if you’re just a waiter.

☀️ I don’t have much analysis about @thetowerarray’s finale of Calling All Adventurers, except to say I just love this show. The narrator’s first real adventure has come to an end and asked more questions than he started with. The slow burn mystery and eventual victory (but at a cost) was so skillfully crafted. I am very much looking forward to season two. And in the meantime, listen to the show! It’s wonderful.

🩸 There is a risk when crafting a dark fantasy like @last-dance-audio-drama to deal death willy-nilly. For shock value, for "realism," for the sake of keeping the tone. You all know the type of story. Last Dance isn't that type of dark fantasy. I'm caught up now, and 3+ devastating character deaths in and two episodes left to go, I feel like every single death has been earned. None is taken lightly or treated with scorn. Not a one has a background haze of a writer being like haha, gotcha! And each one hits like a truck. I am worried about what's about to happen to these characters, but I trust the story. Not for a happy ending--I think that's a little too optimistic--but for a good ending.

♾️ I'm like, years too late to The Big Loop, but I'm here now and WOW. The Big Loop started in 2017, a project of audio drama OG Paul Bae, and although it's an anthology, I would say all the stories fall into slipstream fiction. The setup is realistic, everything seems pretty normal, and then...things get weird. I'm only so far in, but every single episode has been a new and fantastic little gem. My favorite so far has been "All God's Children," which is very hard to explain without ruining the several twists. If you want to understand where audio drama as a medium came from and hear some absolutely killer writing and acting, please check it out.

That's it for me! I hope my fellow Americans have an Independence Day that is full of resistance and doing what you can, and I hope everyone else has a lovely week where you don't have to hear about what we're up to for once. See you next Sunday!

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Check out this pod! Sounds like it's gonna be fun. I'm honored I got to help create a very small part of it by contributing to the soundtrack.

Trailer Time!

The trailer for Crime Of the Week is out now!

Episode 1 releases July 4th!

Get the RSS feed here!

Thanks for listening!

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101 - Cockamamie Cartoon Bulls#!t

In case you haven't heard, this is a show now. You can listen to it with your very own ears.

Check it out here, or get it from wherever you get your favorite podcasts. Or, y'know, use this link right here to get the RSS directly.

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Heartglass and Fable & Folly Podcasts!

Extremely honored to announce that Heartglass will be distributed by Fable & Folly podcast network. Some of shows which inspired Heartglass are already on the network, as are its most flattering comparisons. Can't wait for June 23rd for Heartglass to start earning its place alongside such stellar company!

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Hey! We're only about six weeks away from the first episode of Heartglass. Here's the episode 1 show card and title.

It's available June 23rd, but only wherever you find podcasts, so keep an eye out!

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Neat. Can't be totally honest, it'd be a little too spoiler-y for a show already in production. Lemme clip something from the last couple pages: "No story goes on forever. That's the point! Stories may arise from ours, but our story has to end. If it doesn't, it doesn't mean anything." Psst - it's about death.

Okay, let's see: @patterspod @goodpointepodcasts @monstrousproductions @wirelandranch @observableradio

Last Line Tag Game

Rules: Share the last line you wrote, then tag as many ppl as there are words.

@the-written-wyrm thank you so much for tagging me! ♥️

The last line I wrote was:

"I've had some practice."

tagging: @shinyhappygoth @bookwormgal @jesmalestiel @enchantress-emily and everyone else who wants to join <3

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Reblog if your art project has not, does not, and never will make use of generative ai at any point in your creative process.

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What inspired Heartglass?

It’s Everything, Everywhere, All At Once meets The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly, meets The NeverEnding Story.

It’s a story that thrives on weird narratives in the vein of Twin Peaks. It's a serious story sometimes told unseriously. It's an immersive, fully cast audio fiction with some of the biggest names in the audio fiction space, as well as first time actors from film, television and video game VO backgrounds.

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Work on the New Thing has begun.

Alternating work on this and BNJHS2

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Introducing the main cast of Heartglass! We're honored to work with these incredible actors.

Listen to the trailer.

Explore the full cast.

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Meet the inhabitants of Hell.

Heartglass premieres June 23rd.