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*Relistening to the Hi Nay Pride Episode where an old gay man recounts his missed opportunity for a relationship with his handsome journalist partner who was waiting for him to make the first move but he was too afraid because it was the 1970s-1980s and he feared homophobia, so now all he can do is reminisce about his lost love who disappeared in the 1980s - voiced by Alasdair Stuart [Peter Lukas of The Magnus Archives fame]*

Me, The Writer, crying over my dinner: God this is so tragic who would write this

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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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🎉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!

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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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Oh my gosh this showed up in my notifications again. What a trip down memory lane.

I haven't spoken to Alex since the interview, but I've been great buds with Helen and we touch base every now and again when I'm in London. We got Alasdair to voice one of my favorite characters in Hi Nay. Couldn't quite get Jonny in to voice a character because he was so busy, but he told me he would have absolutely loved to play a serial killer. And of course, we're part of the RQ Network now! Not bad for a Magnuspod fangirl's pipe dream.

Just a lot of cool stuff all around. Hi Nay has been around since late 2020 but it does feel like we're finding our feet best this year, and heading into the most exciting part of the story that we've been leading up to since the beginning.

If you're interested in our show, give us a listen on Acast, Spotify, etc! If you'd like to support us, we've got a Ko-Fi and Patreon. And if you like us, tell your friends and spread the word 🙌🏾

(and as always, thank you. Salamat)

I'm working on a Magnus Archives inspired scripted fiction horror podcast that runs with the idea that the "mystical POC" often relegated to side characters or exposition tools in horror media are the protagonists.

The main character is a Filipina who recently moved to Toronto and accidentally gets involved with helping two detectives solve supernatural cases because she stops a woman in her apartment building from getting killed by a supernatural entity

And her whole thing is that she was basically raised in a babaylan or shaman family in the Philippines and just kinda knows how to deal with this shit

And the conceit of the podcast is that everything you hear is recorded audio or phone calls, mainly that of her calling her Nanay or mother about her experiences saving people from the supernatural.

It's called Hi Nay and I'm aiming for a Halloween release for the first few episodes 😊 I'm pretty excited! I wonder if people over here might be interested in it when it comes. A POC led horror podcast title with LGBTQ+ characters, which is par for the course for me, hehe.

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The way I screamed 😭

I love this, fantastic, thank you

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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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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Since @starfallpod made a similar post and it would be a fun trend for AD creators - What music makes you think of the Kingmaker Histories?

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Iirc there was a line in one of the Hi Nay episodes saying one Elder is pretty sure The Benefactor is Sauvard, and it's also heavily implied that the unhoused guy who wanders around and helps people out might be Sauvard, so my almost certainly incorrect guess is that he did some variant of the focus-creating process and split himself into two different facets of himself. I do not remember enough details to disabuse myself of this notion but I think it would be fun.

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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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When I made this post just ten days ago, it was about mass graves discovered at Al Shifa hospital and now we have learned that the same had happened at Nasser hospital in Gaza. The same genocidal pattern: a hospital is put under siege, patients and medical staff are abducted, tortured and buried in mass graves.

But to build on the last point I wanted to bring attention to in the previous post, it is very crucial to also keep in mind is that the Palestinian Civil Defence have reported that Israel had deliberately concealed the identities of those it killed and buried in these mass graves. Close to 400 bodies have been buried in these mass graves, 58% of the recovered bodies have not been identified.

In a press conference, a spokesperson of the civil defence in Gaza said that Israel had intentionally disfigured the bodies postmortem in order to remove any identifying markers such as birthmarks. He also mentioned that they suspect that the bodies have been placed in body bags that expedited the decomposition process, destroying any possibility of them being identified.

One of the main and only ways families have been able to identify the bodies of their loved ones is through the clothes they remember them wearing the last time they saw them. I saw a video of a mother identifying her son by his striped jacket. You can see the grief mixed with relief that she will be able to give her son proper burial.

Remember when months ago I said that to be identified and buried in Gaza has become a luxury? This is very much still the case.

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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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Listening to the latest Hi Nay while lovingly gluing printed out tumblr posts into my Dracula Daily book, and while I imagine the line about Evelyn making a good archivist is a TMA reference given the horror podcast-o-sphere, I claim her for the LIS profession anyway. Information retrieval is only part of the battle, though, Evelyn. I guess promising to turn your soul into a focus if you gotta counts as preservation so next let's tackle finding aids.

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Designed an upcoming Hi Nay character on Picrew... I reveal nothing about him except that he's looking up at his future boyfriend

His name is Danny :)

(His boyfriend has already been introduced)

-Motzie

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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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I hate making posts like this, but we need help.

Hi. Lemon, creator of the audio drama Audistorium here. I hate posting this. I already posted it on Twitter, and I've been afraid to post it here. I am always genuinely fearful of asking for help. I've been self sufficient my entire life. But. I'm genuinely struggling. After layoffs, struggling to find work, melanoma scares & medical costs, I'm at the end of my financial rope. I'm trying hard to figure out bills. The show will go on indefinitely. But.. Anything helps if you can. Our Kofi is at: https://ko-fi.com/audistorium I start my new job on the 30th, but unfortunately that first paycheck will be a bit late on helping take care of things. Again, if anyone throws in anything, I super appreciate it. As I said, the show will always go on no matter what. Thank you to anyone that listens. You all mean the world to me. I'm going to try my best to completely make it through this.