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🎉HI NAY LIVE READING AT THE SALAYSAY FILIPINO/A/X LITERARY ARTS FESTIVAL🎉

Come listen to a Live Reading of a never before heard Hi Nay special episode :)

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Save the date for Toronto's first literary festival made for and by our community! 🇵🇭🇨🇦

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SALAYSAY: A FILIPINO/A/X LITERARY ARTS FESTIVAL Saturday May 25, 2024 11 am to 3 pm Barbara Frum Branch @torontolibrary 20 Covington Rd, Toronto (Bathurst & Lawrence)

FREE ADMISSION!

Over the next couple weeks we'll feature speakers and events lined up for the day. We've got lots of exciting things planned, from author readings, a publishing panel, youth showcase, writing workshop, and hands-on cultural and children’s activities.

Look forward to seeing you there! 🎉 “Salaysay: A Filipino/a/x Literary Arts Festival” is supported by the Toronto Arts Council with funding from the City of Toronto, and is not a TPL event.

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A major Hi Nay villain calling one of the protagonists "My Dear" while touching their face is I think the best possible introduction I could have given them

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Hooray! We hope you enjoy the story as it goes along, thank you so much for giving us a try! And so happy to see all these other wonderful titles getting discussed as well.

Audio Drama Sunday - 28th April ✨

Happy Audio Drama Sunday! I started two new shows this week and fell in love with both of them!! 

👻 @tellnotalespod (S2E8.5) ohhhhhh I’m so emotional. The end of this series is going to make me cry so many happy tears, I can just feel it. 

🌲 @hellofromthehallowoods (149) With the description this week, I think I truly realised just how scary-looking the pig man is 😰 Things are looking decidedly down for Shelby and Clem. Eek. God, Valerie!!! She’s such an interesting character because you can literally connect the dots of her trauma but still be slightly disappointed by the consequences on her behaviour! And the poor Mr Greenstreets ☹️ Raj is very Syrensyr coded?? Vincent as a grief counsellor makes me wonder… about who or what Voltaire is…. 

Also, I want the Auditor to be Polly so bad and I want Nikignik to get out of the interrogation by bargaining to reunite him with Yaretzi and Mort - PLEASE. 

🧳 Travelling Light by @monstrousproductions (19) I loved seeing our Traveller stand up for themself!! It’s always so fun to see characters who are usually soft gain a backbone of steel because their core values are tested. And the discussion of the nanobots was so interesting!! The laws on nanobots elsewhere when they are literally required for survival makes the entire person illegal. And we all know that’s not right!!! 

👁️ @malevolentcast (41) I’m thinking that maybe Rafters was an exception that proves the rule… Alexander the owl was creepy as anything and I hated the way he seemed to be guiding them towards the crack in the wall. Now we’re in a possible parallel universe, it feels like all bets are off and I’m scared to even consider what might happen to John and Arthur now! 

⚔️ @camlannpod (8) OUGH. Oh my god. Can’t they just have FIVE MINUTES to RELAX?? I actually snorted out loud at: ‘you’re good with an axe, right’. Pere is a little shit and I love that for them. Morgan!!! 🫨 And Dai!!! I’m so hopeful that starting down this path will lead to good (or, at least, a whole load of shenanigans for S2!) 

🖥️ The Magnus Protocol (13) It’s very interesting to me that we were able to listen in on Sam and Cecilia’s date… how did that work? There’s something here about gambling and chance with this story and the previous one about the dice rolling?? I’m connecting the dots (I’m not connecting shit). 

🌞 Small Victories by @wgc-productions is so good, I wish I’d started listening years ago. I love the 90s sitcom vibe and the intro/outro are so unique. I absolutely love shows that centre around character studies. Marisol’s story is so gripping and I love how the writing takes us right inside her brain as she justifies every decision (good or bad). It’s so clear how loveable she is and how much people around her want her to be okay (mostly), but don’t know *how* to get her to that place given the shit they’re dealing with themselves! I got up to 1.09 so . . . bit of a cliffhanger there!! I’m very excited to see how the story progresses. I’m rooting for you, Tiny!! 

🧋 I started @hinaypod and it’s safe to say that I’m in love already! Listening has given me the same amazing feeling of listening to Desperado - the sensation that the creators have opened up a door to a brand new world and I’m so happy to be in it! I adore Mari. Even from episode one, she has this quiet self-confidence in herself and her skills which is so refreshing. I also really like the horror writing here and I’m really looking forward to delving deeper into this story! 

Hope everyone has a good week! 💙

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Bailey pushing through the horror for the sweetness and relationships is so fitting for Hi Nay <3 Glad to have a fan in him!

SHOWS OUR CHARACTERS WOULD LISTEN TO 5. BAILEY KING

@unwellpodcast bailey loves all things found family and the found family in unwell is made to hurt your soul @iriscasefiles found family and space is even more of a bonus @hinaypod though bailey's not into horror, supernatural or anything that could feed too much into his daydreams , he pushes through for hi nay and tries to focus on the sweetness of the characters and their relationships and it only freaks him out

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Inspired by conversations in the hi nay discord

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An article from FreebieMNL about Hi Nay! Thanks so much <3

From the seamless way Filipino culture and folklore is woven into the modern setting and the compelling story it results in to the production that amplifies the listening experience with eerie scoring and sound effects that further immerse you into the world, Hi Nay is definitely a podcast worth checking out. 

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Subtext is fun and funny to do and also a great way for me to communicate things that are very obvious to me but may not be for others; for example-

1) In Hi Nay episode 2, the cold ghost calls Mari a "foreign chit". This is in order to communicate to the audience that this creepy ghost man would absolutely have said a racial slur (without having to write one into the script)

2) In Hi Nay episode 21, I mentioned that a priest "no longer leered [...] at Sunday mass". This is to indicate that he was a creep who was eyeing up tween girls (which also contextualizes the particular brutality of his fate later in the story 🔪🦵🏻)

3) In Hi Nay episode 3, both Mari and Laura mention that they are into older women (and in Mari's case, older anyone). This was foreshadowing for their later romantic interests (with age differences between 11 years and 120+ years)

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I want to mention a bunch of things that are in Hi Nay to see if people would be interested in listening to it

Creepy priest gets turned into a human puppet by a non-binary magic user surgeon in the 1940s

Romantic full body surgery

Queer detective duos where one is an effervescent smartass and the other is Very Repressed (1980s and 2020s edition) and one is hopelessly in love with the other one

5 foot tall fat pansexual WOC protagonist (cute, terrifying) who canonically left the Philippines during the Duterte presidency

Drippy Bloody Monster Husband Crawling On The Walls (his wife is an Instagram influencer)

1920s interracial lesbian couple

Villain literally named Mr. Realman

Fake conman guru offended to find out his magic is real actually

6 foot 2 strong armed lesbian protagonist who sometimes wields an axe

Wandering magical hobo who saves people from The Horrors (what is his secret)

Elephant sized wolves living in the mountains of Canada who will sometimes bite the heads of human predators

A musical episode

"I assume this character is queer because this is Hi Nay" - one of our listeners

Alasdair Stuart (Peter Lukas from the Magnus Archives) voices a sad pining gay old man in one of the episodes

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How scary is the show? As a fellow Canadian and lover of ADs, Hi Nay has been on my radar for a while, but I've hesitated because I'm not generally a big fan of horror. I can handle some, but don't like being terrified. What level would you say the show is at, from "cosy listening" to "will give you nightmares"? Thanks! :)

I like to compare the scary levels of Hi Nay to that of the series Supernatural - the first three seasons are properly spooky, but then as it becomes more plot driven it's less straightforwardly scary and more horror fantasy.

In Hi Nay, we do some spooky sound effects here and there, but I don't think we'll give anyone nightmares~ I'd say, if you've listened to the Magnus Archives, that we're just a bit scarier than that SFX wise, but only for a couple of episodes. The scariest we get are Episode 1: Bulok (Rot), Episode 12: Pagbigti (Hanging), and Episode 25: Talikuran (Turn Your Back).

Each episode has extensive trigger warnings to help people decide what they can handle content-wise.

Most of the rest of the series isn't too spooky, though some may be conceptually scary. But I'd love to hear other listeners chime in as well about how spooky you all think Hi Nay is!

People call us cozy listening regardless of all this, but I think that's because of our characters 😊 They have a fantastic and compelling relationship, and they add a level of comedy and warmth that helps combat the scares.

Tl;dr It might help to listen to us in the daytime for some of our episodes, but the overall experience isn't just all scares, and I hope you get to listen and enjoy anyway!

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✨NEW HI NAY (Horror Audio Drama) EPISODE - TANDA (ELDER/RECORD) NOW ON ACAST!✨

In which we read entries from the Book of Elders; Richard Henry, The Benefactor, William Sauvard, and… The Vagabond.

Listen to the hefty 50+ min episode on Acast, Spotify, or wherever you listen to podcasts! 👇🏾

Listening on Acast, Spotify etc supports us with ad revenue! So feel free to listen to it more than once ;)

Or support us on Patreon or Ko-Fi @ hinaypod! We're a tiny (unemployed) indie podcast and the support would be MASSIVE!

(art by rusticfurnace, godsrot and azreto on Twitter!)

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just finished ep 83 😐

Mx. Wellman you are an incredible writer but OUCH

Oh you’re in the bad place

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Murphy, what are you doing?

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🎁HAPPY BIRTHDAY (Fanart)🎁

I received the loveliest birthday gift, and my friend gave me permission to share it on the socials!

Mari doesn't have an official birthday (but I'm personally convinced she's a Taurus). Look at how happy everyone looks! 😊

(Art by shmoki!)

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✨NEW HI NAY (Horror Audio Drama) EPISODE - TANDA (ELDER/RECORD) NOW ON ACAST!✨

In which we read entries from the Book of Elders; Richard Henry, The Benefactor, William Sauvard, and… The Vagabond.

Listen to the hefty 50+ min episode on Acast, Spotify, or wherever you listen to podcasts! 👇🏾

Listening on Acast, Spotify etc supports us with ad revenue! So feel free to listen to it more than once ;)

Or support us on Patreon or Ko-Fi @ hinaypod! We're a tiny (unemployed) indie podcast and the support would be MASSIVE!

(art by rusticfurnace, godsrot and azreto on Twitter!)

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Oil pastel doodle on 11”x14” wood panel.

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The Benefactor...

leitmotifs never get old to me like holy shit dude there’s this melody that corresponds to this one guy and if you hear the melody it means the guy is there. holy shit. and sometimes it refers to ideas too not just guys. has anyone heard about this

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Very important question for all the Eye themed horror (?) audio dramas

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Eye Bad? Eye Good? Eye Unknowable And Dangerous But Not Falling Under A Moral Binary?

Please fill in the survey ✅

(Surprise! Hi Nay Eye Good and Unknowable/Dangerous, as per pre-Catholic Tagalog anito [gods])