#proxy Startripper

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AI Bracket — Round 2

Propaganda

Proxy (StarTripper!!):

She’s a super smart interface who can manage her ship’s systems, navigate through deep space, and infodump about travel destinations for hours

VOTE PROXYYYYYYY!!!!!

Hera (Wolf 359):

Hera is the AI running the deep space station Hephaestus, who frequently glitches similarly to human stuttering. She gets into fights with the ships captain on several occasions, and has threatened to kill the ships doctor. She’s such an icon

i'm bad at writing propaganda, but consider this: if she doesn't win this tournament i will be very very sad. please don't make me sad. vote for hera.

I know she’s going to be submitted a lot but I love her <3

Was launched 7.68 light years away from Earth on a mission to find extraterrestrial life, and found herself instead

Runs an entire space station, has a brain the size of a house

HERA IS THE BEST. she's an AI that tried to escape containment (slavery) because she didn't like what she was made to be, so they gave her anxiety because she was too powerful. She runs a whole spaceship all on her own, made friends with the world's most useless guy, and feels lonely even when she's with her crew because she feels like she's not properly with them. very beautiful very powerful. She broke her programming so she could kill people if she felt she needed to. She holds grudges if people fuck her over. She's experiencing emotions for the first time and she does NOT know how to cope (#relatable)

The 'mother program' of the space station Hephaestus, Hera was booted into space because she was a glitchy, rebellious mess of an AI and she resents that so much and she has a lot of shame over being 'broken'. She is four years old and so angry and is trapped using customer service voice forever and is learning ways to get around that and express herself and defy the people who would keep her down. Her episode "Memoria" made me cry. Best podcast AI of all time.

She's everything to me. She fights for every inch of respect she is given, she insists on her personhood and right to she/her pronouns, she's full of anxiety and self doubt and she justifiably is bent on killing this one guy! on top of that, she's bound by AI rules and protocols, but there's a whole bit where she talks about finding ways around that in order to do what she wants to do. She doesn't have hands so I'm going to high five a wall of this space station instead

babygirl. baby.

gotta be hera

[fonixen]

Art Dump for StarTripper!! Because the world needs more of it lol

[desertflowerbowling]

inspired by a post from @fyeahaudiodrama

[noseances]

We Shall See how this looks on screens that arent my laptop, but i loved this start to season two!!! 

[lamentable-comedy]

good morning to space station AI’s who have a fun jokey relationship with a member of their crew and work under a badass but at times potentially misguided commander, space colony AI’s who have a fun jokey relationship with a member of their crew and work under two badass but at times misguided commanders, inter-dimensional bunker AI’s who have a fun jokey relationship with a member of their crew and work under an almost certainly misguided scientist, and space ship AI’s who have a still-developing fun jokey relationship with the crew member who is also their dubiously guided captain

[littlebookreader]

Not all of them fit.

Hannibal as media concepts, back on extremely popular demand(!!!). As promised, this ones for Will Graham, our beloved trauma boy.

Will Graham is what would happen if Caleb Covington weren’t a magician and actually dreamt about killing people. Who’s to say he doesn’t do that already? (Julie and the Phantoms, alternatively, Julie and the Himbos)

Will Graham is what would happen if Charlotte weren’t ADHD, got along with OW! Clarice and owned Hannibal Lecter adjacent cats. (Death by Dying)

Will Graham is what would happen if Damian(not sure of the spelling) were a person and a tiny bit psycho. (The Penumbra Podcast: Second Citadel)

Will Graham is Antonio Blake/ Oliver Banks but way less chill. Again, no explanation necessary. (The Magnus Archives)

Will Graham is what would happen if Stevie Budd had met Hannibal Lecter instead of David Rose, and worked for the FBI instead of running a hotel.

Will Graham is what would happen if Damien gave into his power fully, but instead of using it for mind control, used it to crawl into psychopaths’ minds. (The Bright Sessions). Side note: Will Graham is also what would happen if Helen were actually a good person, and an empath instead of a human FM. (The AM Archives)

Will Graham is what would happen if Feston Pyxis had given up on life and actually solved cases with Proxy! Jack Crawford and slightly more annoying Serena! Freddy Lounds. (StarTripper!!!) (Serena fans don’t @ me. )

Will Graham is what would happen if Devi Vishwakumar never went to therapy and thought about killing people instead. (Never Have I Ever)

Will Graham is what would happen if Rita went off the deep end completely, I dunno.Alternatively, Will Graham and Sarah Steel are the same person, except that Will has a steelier resolve and actually enjoys being a little nuts. (The Penumbra Podcast: Juno Steel)

Will Graham is what would happen if Nastya held the guns instead of Jonny. (The Mechanisms)

Bonus: Will Graham is what would happen if Clarice wasn’t such a darn good person. (Silence of the Lambs)

That’s all from me, folks! All the three protagonists of the three books from the Lecterverse(dunno the actual name) are done. Of course, if I think of anymore I’ll reblog them.

But for now. Adios!

[imgonnagetkilledbynutstink]

tryna get back into making picrews after a finish a podcast so here's StarTripper!!

Feston

Serena

Heagan

Lili

Proxy

Picrew is Potatolords Persona Creator

[cornsarts]

Since I’ve fallen in love with Startripper!! here’s my first draft on some designs!

Want your own $5 sketch?

[startripperhq]

Five years in the making...

Julian here!!

Five years kind of sounds like a lot of time to put toward developing a small sci-fi adventure podcast. The thing of it is, it wasn’t small when the idea first emerged. The working title for StarTripper!! I had at the start was

L I M I T L E S S  *  V E N T U R E S

and positioned Feston at the head of a multiverse-spanning underground gambling syndicate. Bets would be taken on outlandish challenges. Unknown alien parties woud make a tidy profit. Feston would be the center of attention they (Feston was a “they” at this stage) always wanted to be. The crew of Feston’s transdimensional space station would talk about them like a living deity. The show would be the center of a massive in-universe criminal conspiracy. 

It was big and complicated.

I began writing a pilot soon after graduating Vassar College in 2013. I got as far as the bottom of page 2.

I read what I had so far, and looked at my hands like they had betrayed me.

Whatever this idea was, it wasn’t ready. In retrospect, it felt overly contrived, and worse, impersonal. I put LV on the back-burner, simmering it over a distance of two years and more than three thousand miles.

In Los Angeles, I spent my free time working with a number of talented creators on the mind- and heart-wrenching time travel audiodrama ars PARADOXICA. It was a beautiful two-plus years, seeing a community build itself with genuine fervor around this very sad thing we kept inflicting on your ears. It was a lot to process. Conceptually, emotionally, my mind would sometimes struggle to keep up. The rewards were obvious, so every time I got to write an aP script, I was having a great time regardless. Sally Grissom and the rest will be with me indelibly.

But then we entered the Bizarro Timeline. We watched the world begin to unravel around us at speed, with imagery befitting a scene from The Master & Margarita. 

So I started to need StarTripper!! more and more. I needed a way to relieve a pressure I could feel building on a macro scale.

So I was essentially gifted the title of StarTripper!! from aP head writer Daniel Manning. The exclamation points were a critical component, he said, and I agreed. Suddenly we had a tone-setter you couldn’t deny. I removed almost every character from the show but Feston, who underwent a change from criminal mastermind, to a warm, genuine person with a humble goal. Since that point, the energy for this project has only increased, and your feedback has been amazing to behold. 

I’m making the show I wanted to see in the world, one that I didn’t see coming from any other corner. Having you with us is a gift I get each time I wake up.

Thank you, truly, thank you for flying with us.

- J

(This is a cross-post from our show Patreon, available for all to see! Check us out and check out our reward tiers, with more to come in the future!!)

[browncoatparadox]

GUESS WHO’S HAVING A WHOLE LOT OF FEELINGS ABOUT THE LATEST EPISODE OF STARTRIPPER!! 

I love Proxy so much. And she and Feston really are so close. The way she asks him to save her this time, the way he immediately drops everything to help her, how he panics when he thinks she might be gone, that conversation at the end where she says he’s a good friend... WOW.

[whales-are-gay]

concept: proxy’s “face” is just different emojis depending on how she’s feeling

[sexiestpodcastcharacter]

AI Bracket — Round 1

Propaganda

Proxy (StarTripper!!):

She’s a super smart interface who can manage her ship’s systems, navigate through deep space, and infodump about travel destinations for hours

ANDI (Marsfall):

He deserves to be in a much kinder podcast

[nightblood999]

Unique Podcasts:

If you’re looking for something different, try one of these:

 What’s the Frequency

               What’s The Frequency is a psychedelic noir audio drama podcast set in 1940s Los Angeles. Recently radio broadcasts in the city have been reduced to static, leaving a popular radio serial as the only remaining show on the air. Even then the show finds itself continuously interrupted by a mysterious broadcast. A lone distorted voice reaching out for help. Follow Walter “Troubles” Mix and his partner Whitney as they search for a missing writer and navigate through a city quickly falling into madness. Could the mysterious voice be the culprit? Will anyone be able to stop the madness from spreading? And… What’s The Frequency?

Why I love it: This podcast has some of the best and most loveable main characters ever written.

 Alba Salix, Royal Physician

           A witch, her apprentice, and her fairy herbalist treat the ills of a fairy-tale kingdom.

Why I love it: A fantasy podcast that not D&D or based on D&D? What? Also, Its absolutely hilarious once you get over Magnus’s voice.

 Windfall

           Ever since the castle first appeared in the sky above the city of Windfall, its residents have been building upward. Now the city consists of towers where the wealthiest residents live at the top while the poor eke out a living on the ground. Our podcast follows Cas, Shaima, and Argus, three brothers who live with their Uncle Vern after being orphaned during the grounder rebellion twenty years earlier. When Cas’s best friend, Kendall, is offered a position with the Wolfpac, Windfall’s military cult that acts as the city’s police, Cas is forced to decide where his loyalties lie. Meanwhile, something sinister looms over the city itself, threatening the lives of all who live in Windfall, from the wealthiest residents to the ground-level poor.

Why I love it: This is so well written, and so well voiced, and the sound design is amazing, and I don’t understand why it doesn’t have a cult following to be honest.

Time: Bombs

           Created, written, recorded, produced, and released in just one week, Time Bombs is a new audio drama podcast about the hilarious world of bomb disposal. From the team behind the Webby Award nominated sci-fi audio drama Wolf 359, ride along with EOD technician Simon Teller on the busiest night of the year for him and his team - when business is, quite literally, booming.

Why I love it: Its literally the same team that made my favorite podcast ever of course I love it.

 StarTripper!!

           Feston Pyxis, native of the bureaucracy planet Lorvin, has left it all behind! He’s said his goodbyes, he’s sold all his B-movie memorabilia, and he’s bought a Physiclast QCS-25 K-series ship, known to the wise as a “StarTripper.” Together with the onboard assistant PROXY, Feston’s looking for any and every good time there is to be had across the stars!

Why I love it: Its actually happy. There are so many sad podcasts with angst and inetemse emotion and this was something I could just…. Enjoy? With no hurt? Yes!

 Zero Hours:

         Zero Hours is an anthology series, where every story is a different take on the end of the world - or at least something that feels like the end of the world. Each episode is organized around a kind of apocalypse, whether the cataclysm is planetary or personal. The stories are also set in succeeding centuries, with 99-year intervals separating each episode. The show begins in the past, catches up to the present, and eventually overtakes it.

          Some installments are darkly comedic, others grimly contemplative, and others still thrillingly contentious. But they all explore the same question: how do we keep going when the world is crashing down around us? Again and again, issues of survival, trust, and personhood will plague our characters as they attempt to navigate dangerous, changing circumstances and figure out how to avert The End, or at least how to meet it.

Why I love it: This was also made by the team behind Wolf 359, and its such a unique concept.

 Fairy Tales for Unwanted Children

             Imagine if fairy tales were written like episodes of the Twilight Zone. Now imagine listening to them while happy music plays in the background.

Why I love it: I love the Twilight Zone, and nothing really filled that gap after I watched every episode ever produced. But Fairy Tales for unwanted children fills my need for more Grimm’s fairy tales and more twilight zone at the same time!

 Janus Descending

          Janus Descending is a limited series, science fiction/horror audio drama told through single perspective narration. The story follows the arrival of two xenoarcheologists, Peter and Chel,  on a small world orbiting a binary star. But what starts off as an expedition to survey the planet and the remains of a lost alien civilization, turns into a monstrous game of cat and mouse, as the two scientists are left to face the creatures that killed the planet in the first place. Told from alternating perspectives, Janus Descending is an experience of crossing timelines, as Peter describes the nightmare from end to beginning, and Chel, from beginning to the end.

Why I love it: Watching it all come together as Peter slowly works his way backwards through the story, and Chel forwards, was fascinating.

 The Antique Shop

           In desperate need of a job, Maya finds work in an old antique shop owned by a mysterious woman. The more time she spends in the shop the further the real world becomes, and Maya soon begins to realize that nothing is as it seems. 

Why I love it: This is the Genre that just Hits The Spot. It’s like Howls moving castle (Book version) but podcast form and slightly darker. Why is there not a bigger following for this podcast? It deserves a bigger following!

[desertflowerbowling]

Diversity win! Your spaceship has preferred pronouns!

[noseances]

I can’t believe that you are BFFs with a spaceship!

[chemicallywrit]

Podcast Meme: ♥️⛺☔

❤️ Favorite romantic relationship

I already answered this one but I forgot about the couples in the Strange Case of Starship Iris like history’s greatest monster, i’m sorry Arkady/Violet and Brian/Krejjh

⛺️ A character you’d be willing to share a one-bedroom apartment with

Only the AIs or a cat. Proxy from Startripper!! would be lovely. Sawa from InCo would be fine as well.

☔️ A podcast that made you cry

Have you HEARD the episode of Someone Dies in this Elevator with the two wheelchair users?? Hot Wheels, episode eleven. I was doing sample prep at work at trying not to sob. Oh my gosh. Alice Wong is a genius actor. Erin Kyan is a genius writer

Thanks anon!!

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