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It's somehow been a year since Mistholme ended, which feels impossible but who am i to argue. It warms my heart to see people still mention the show every now and again: people relistening, people finding the show for the first time, and people still putting off finishing the show because they don't it to end.

But everything has to end, so new things can begin.

In addition to Tales From The Low City (and my day job which doesn't count) I've also spent a good bit of this last year working on a new show, and as I've finally begun recording dialogue it feels like the anniversary of my first show ending feels like a good time to finally talk about my next one!

The Night Road is a full cast audio drama about a group of people who travel the Night Road: a place of endless night between the perpetual daylight of towns and cities. Traders, labourers, entertainers and simple travellers, the Caravans and the Road they follow are the lifeblood of the world, bridging the gaps between civilisation... and what lies beyond. They travel so that others don't have to, so the many can live lives of comfort in unending light and never have to brave the darkness beyond the walls. Never have to find out if the bedtime stories of Darklings and other things that go bump in the Night really are just stories.

Of course they are.

The truth is, as ever, much stranger.

Scripts for the first eight episodes are up on my Patreon, where you will able to listen early and ad-free.

Hope you're all excited!

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it’s the “date of birth: 1303 BC” for me...

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am taking perverse pleasure in reminding people it's 2025. that's a star trek year. silly little science fiction number. except it's happening, and DANG ain't it underwhelming!

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it’s the “date of birth: 1303 BC” for me...

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what's that one thing where they asked how ripely from alien was so realistic and believable as a female character in scifi for once and they were like "well we just took the dude from the original script and made him a girl and changed nothing else. it works bc men and women are the same?" and people were like "woah no way" and then didn't learn anything from that for 20 years

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Lots of realy cute cats. Last one is one funky cool cat

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guys what's your methods? personally i think about doctors examining me, works like a charm

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So today I watched this interview with the Star Trek: The Next Generation cast and they demonstrate the phenomenon "space ship acting"

and they all go

and it just cracks me up, ESPECIALLY Sir Patrick Stewart

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This isn’t what I usually write about, but I think it’s important.

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You've gotta love Jews more than you hate Nazis.

You've gotta love trans folks more than you hate TERFs.

You've gotta love your unhoused neighbors more than you hate the billionaires.

You've gotta love immigrants more than you hate ICE.

You've gotta love queer kids more than you hate christian fundamentalists.

You've gotta love fat people more than you hate the diet industry.

You've gotta love disabled people more than you hate the insurance companies.

You've gotta love your fellow humans more than you hate the worst that humanity has to offer. You don't have to like every person you're fighting for, and you sure as hell don't have to give up your righteous anger, but hate is ultimately corrosive.

You've gotta love.

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Listen if the study of ancient humans doesn’t make you at least a little bit emotional idk what to say.

I started crying today at the museum because they had reconstructed the shoes of Otzi the iceman.

Either he or someone he knew who cared about him made these shoes out of grass and bear skin and twine and he was wearing them when he died over five thousand years ago.

And a Czech researcher and his students did reconstructions of these shoes and wore them to the same place where he died to test them out and they were like yep! These shoes are really cozy and comfy and didn’t give us blisters while hiking!

Is that not just the coolest shit ever????

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I love the idea of a roomba topography map being the jumping on point for a liminal horror story. House of Leaves II: Roomba.

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my circus, my clowns, my tent. my acrobats, my lion tamers. BUT. listen. those monkeys were contract workers