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HAPPY LABOR DAY if you're an audio drama writer (whether established or aspiring) you should join the wga audio alliance discord - you don't have to be in the union to join, just come hang out and stay up to date on the organizing we're doing in the space!

and remember: it's illegal for anyone hiring you to tell you you can't discuss wages, so always share whatever information you want with your peers

[cairnsteward]

Looking for your next horror audio drama?

Welcome to "Liars & Leeches," an immersive, full cast, supernatural horror audio drama. The first original audio drama from Hemlock Creek Productions (@hemcreekprod), “Liars & Leeches” delves deep into the complicated horrors of grief, trauma, resilience, and steadfast human determination to uncover the truth.

Grief. Anxiety. Terror. Tonya Wright felt it all after the tragic murders of her sister and brother-in-law in a random act of gun violence. Struggling to travel outside of her home, she now lives constantly on edge about perceived threats that seem to surround her. Retreating to the house her sister and brother-in-law once shared to process her grief, Tonya soon discovers that someone — or something — has followed her there. With the help of her best friend Natalie, and others she meets along the way, can Tonya overcome her fears before they completely consume her?

You might enjoy "Liars & Leeches" if you like:

Psychological and supernatural horror like Stephen King's "The Outsider"

A creeping sense of dread or a feeling of something being "off" like "Get Out."

Tension building through sound design, especially in quiet moments like "A Quiet Place" (which was a massive source of sonic inspiration for the show)

Audio dramas such as "Dark Dice," "Dark Sanctum," "Maxine Miles," "Aftershock," "Transplanar RPG," and "Connections," as Hemlock Creek Productions assisted with audio editing for all of them.

Soundtracks like those from "Yellowjackets," "Smile," "Chernobyl," "Broadchurch," and "The Rising," all of which were used as inspirations for the music in "Liars & Leeches."

Some other facts about the show:

Season 1 is complete with a run time a little over four hours. Season 2 is currently in pre-production.

We have transcripts available for every episode of the show, as well as video versions of each episode on YouTube that are fully subtitled.

We have won awards for best horror/thriller podcast, best podcast, and best leading performance in an audio drama. We have also been nominated for additional awards including best director, best sound design (action), best supporting performance in an audio drama, and best music/score (podcast).

We have "Liars & Leeches" merch available on Streamlabs, as well as the soundtrack from season 1 available on Bandcamp.

If you're interested in listening to "Liars & Leeches," you can find us wherever you listen to podcasts. If you do listen, feel free to toss us a review there, or on Podchaser, and let us know what you think!

Don't be afraid, just have a taste.

[cairnsteward]

recently i got some blood test results that said i was iron deficient. i have been staying strong by reminding myself that david ward would also most likely be iron deficient. he simply has that unmistakable aura of iron deficiency and most likely a lack of vitamin d as well. maybe if that man had some more spinach in his diet he would be having a marginally better time? please consider a sequel to i am in eskew where david ward eats a vegetable and feels slightly (but not entirely) better. i think this would be a revolutionary and important piece of media.

ps. my friends say this is the least of his problems. my friends also say this is the least of my problems. oh dear.

I'm sorry to hear about the iron deficiency but hope the diagnosis helps you!

Please enjoy this revolutionary and important piece of media, the official sequel to I Am In Eskew.

[cairnsteward]

okay I've been seeing these around and I wanted to do one for the TMA cast. here's a random wheel (link) featuring every character I can remember with a speaking role + a couple extras who don't speak but are still important to the plot or that I thought would be funny

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Silt verses pride, I love this show and I love how many casual queer characters there are<3

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some more silt verses scribbles

[ID: Art of a small row boat floating on a dark river at night. Two figures in the boat are looking to the shoreline, shining a light at a huge black figure in the reeds. Dark trees line the banks and there is a crescent moon in the sky.]

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Light of my life

[Image ID: Three images of Cel from Rusty Quill Gaming share a canvas. The canvas is bordered by a brown frame meant to resemble the wood of an apothecary cabinet and the background is light green at the top, fading to light green at the bottom, with intermittent bubbles throughout. Cel is a half-Lenape half-English half-elf with warm skin, fluffy blonde hair that stands up on their head, and tufts of body hair on their chest, the end of their skinny tail, and the backs of their arms and legs. In the upper right corner, Cel is jumping away from the viewer, looking at their left arm with a shocked look on their face as they experience beast morph for the first time, dark grey fur crawling across their arm and face. On the left hand side, Cel is depicted more as they could be during the campaign, wearing a beaten leather coat and covered in several belts of tools and potions over a pair of overalls and knee-high boots. Their goggles are pushed up on their forehead and they hold a heavy crossbow of oxidized metal over their shoulder. Below, Cel is drawn sitting on a shelf of the apothecary cabinet entirely nude, reclining back on their hands with a peaceful smile on their face. Their legs are folded to protect their modesty but they proudly bare their body and their tail drips off the shelf to their left. In the bottom right corner, their full name is written in pale green Old Perry font. End ID]

[cairnsteward]

i’ve been existing in a state of overwhelming anxiety recently and needed to return to my roots. have a sunbathing dwarf.

ID: a fully coloured digital drawing of zolf smith from rusty quill gaming lying on a towel on a beach. he is viewed from above, lying on his back with his right arm by his side and his left is resting on his stomach holding a harrison campbell book. he is a fat white dwarf with two amputated legs, his right is amputated beneath the knee and the left is above the knee. he has a white beard and hair, and is wearing only a white pair of boxers with red hearts on them. he is relaxing with a neutral expression, his eyes closed. he is covered in freckles and white body hair, he has a star tattoo on his sternum and has large rings in his nipples. he also has piercings in his ears. he is holding a blue book titled ‘the power of the son’, and has a pair of red sunglasses lying next to him on his blue towel. end ID.

[cairnsteward]

in love with alice dyer. let her have her office comedy please

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podcast character body pillow

[cairnsteward]

i started listening to stellar firma, and I couldn't not draw them

[cairnsteward]

the government and corporate executives in the silt verses trying to "solve" the issue of sociopolitical unrest by creating Literal State-Sponsored Corporate Product That Induces Apathy... i need to propose marriage to this podcast i need to give it head

[cairnsteward]

when i picture carpenter silt verses i am picturing a woman in her late 40s with the same physique as jason voorhees and hair that she's been washing with motel bar soap since she was 18 btw. this woman looks like if a long haul trucker occasionally had to perform ritual self-flagellation. like if a man with a single bottle of dawn dishsoap in his shower was a middle-aged woman who feared neither pain nor death. we're talking dry skin, resting bitch face, and something of the classic slasher villain in her sheer size and resilience. someone who could break an ankle and still not stop trying to kill you with an ax, genuinely frightening.

i believe in scary, gruff, aging women's rights.

[cairnsteward]

It would be very funny if Jurgen Leitner got his hands on the Death Note.

He'd stick his vanity bookplate on the inside cover and die immediately.

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How are we feeling chat

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Might I just say that Gwen reminds me so much of Jon in this episode

Jon (when meeting a talking plastic mannequin): you don't sound Russian ...

Gwen (when presented with a horrifying murderous children's clown): Can he read?!

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