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2.6 - The Reckoning

Kai's and Adrien's search for answers leads them to someone who might have them, but as their grip on reality unravels, Kai begins to question their own past and connection to The Company.

The deeper they dig, the more the lines blur--what is real, and what has always been?

CW: unreality, memory loss, psychological distress, paranoia, body horror, brief mention of past medical trauma.

Listen Now | Transcript can be found here

Featuring:

Aspen Rayne as Kai - @rayneing-on-your-parade

Kori Davis as Adrien

Simon Brooks as Lyssa

Lumi Oakes as Jess - @lumoakes

Tal Minear as Ryan

Music by Aubrey Poppleton | Find more at soundcloud.com/poppletron

Follow us for updates at tumblr.com/slowly-unspooling and support the show at patreon.com/slowlyunspooling.

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Hey thanks for bearing with us during this unexpected hiatus!

We should be returning next week with episode 6, keep your eyes on here and wherever you listen to the show!

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Hey everyone!

Thanks so much for bearing with us while we take a short unexpected break.

Slowly Unspooling will be back soon!

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Inspired by @fyeahaudiodrama's do you love the color of the audio drama?, I have finally reorganised the contents of my podcatcher:

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Whenever I see someone (rightfully) complain about mainstream media I want alert them to fiction podcasts.

Want weekly/monthly episode releases to speculate about? Tired of feeling like you have to binge a whole season to tell the streaming service you want more? Over your lesbian rep being cancelled after one season, if it's even worth counting as rep to begin with? Want to know what original ideas could look like without corporate interference? Want original ideas? Where are all the stories with trans/nb characters that aren't about the woes of being trans/nb? Feel like there aren't enough passion projects being created? Where's all the aspec rep? Hate paying but feel lost trying to pirate media? How come disabled characters never feel like they've been written by someone who actually gets it? Like spooky stories but struggle with jumpscares or sexual horror? Miss shows that encourage theorising instead of just trying to surprise? Why can't any money you give support the creator directly and not the corporation?

Have you perhaps considered the noble/humble audio drama?

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2.5 - The Promotion

Kai’s world tilts further into chaos when another email arrives, revealing more of the company’s twisted hierarchy. Adrien’s warnings grow darker: Kai might not just be a victim but something far worse. As questions of trust fracture their fragile alliance, a revelation from Lyssa points them toward a chilling new lead. Are they unraveling the threads of a nightmare, or becoming part of it?

CW: Psychological horror, paranoia, existential dread, implied unreality, unsettling audio.

🎧 Listen now | Transcript can be found here

Featuring: 🎙 Aspen Rayne as Kai - @rayneing-on-your-parade 🎙 Haze Peers as The Supervisor -@panwithpots 🎙 Kori Davis as Adrien 🎙 Simon Brooks as Lyssa

🎶 Music by Aubrey Poppleton | Find more at soundcloud.com/poppletron

Follow us for updates at tumblr.com/slowly-unspooling and support the show at patreon.com/slowlyunspooling.

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2.4 - The Inquisition

Kai delves into Adrien’s USB, unraveling a haunting series of surveillance videos. With each clip, the shadows of the past grow darker, and cryptic warnings come into sharp focus. Can Kai face the unsettling truths, or will the weight of discovery prove too much?

Content Warnings: Mentions of emotional manipulation, workplace stress, implied self-doubt, and explicit language.

Featuring: Aspen Rayne as Kai Simon Brooks as Lyssa Lumi Oakes as Jess Kori Davis as Adrien

Music by Aubrey Poppleton — check out their work at soundcloud.com/poppletron.

🌟 Listen now: https://kite.link/slowly-unspooling 💖 Support us on Patreon: patreon.com/slowlyunspooling

What did you think of The Inquisition?

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Reblog and put in the tags if you can remember where you got the shirt you're currently wearing.

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Hey everyone, just a heads up there may not be an episode this week. I got home from work last night, pumped to finish editing today and turns out I have covid. Over night it got significantly worse and I am not sure I can even sit at my computer to work. I will try my hardest but last time I had Covid I slept for 24 hours straight so we’ll see.

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Okay, honestly I wrote this about my other show, but Kai is also ace, for the same reason.

So this is in case you didn't know, Kai is ace, its asexual week, and I'm having emotions instead of cleaning my apartment

-Aspen

Now, I'm not posting much about the show yet (come on, you don't want spoilers do you?) But I'm not going to pass up Asexuality Week.

This show is written by an ace person (hi, thats me, Aspen). A main character is aspec.

Having ace characters is actually so important to me? In ways I can't really put into words, but I know any other aces out there get it.

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The server listen through of Slowly Unspooling begins today, 22/10/24!

We also have a new mod to announce: @rayneing-on-your-parade is joining our team! A very warm welcome!

The Podcast Book Club is a community focused on sharing and exploring audio fiction. For more information, check out our website and join the Discord. We'd love to see you there!

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Season 2 Episode 2 out now

Kai thought they'd moved on. But when an USB drive is left behind—full of cryptic videos—it's clear the past isn’t finished with them yet. Adrien’s mysterious message pulls Kai back into a web of secrets, but they won’t be manipulated this time… will they?

Tune in as Kai takes control, but as the videos unravel, will they find answers—or more questions?

Listen now wherever you listen to your shows! (Here's a handy link with a bunch of them) Read the full transcript here!

🎙️ Aspen Rayne as Kai @rayneing-on-your-parade Haze Peers as The Supervisor @panwithpots Kori Davis as Adrien Leslie Gideon as The Automated Voice @/TheLeslieGideon on twitter and bluesky 🎶 Music by Aubrey Poppleton - https://soundcloud.com/poppletron

Share your thoughts, theories, and speculations! What do you think Adrien’s really hiding? Let us know!

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Dedicating a moment of appreciation to all the trans and nonbinary voices in fiction podcasts, and the talented people they belong to. It is incredibly cool to hear you.

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Ace Podcast Week 2024 (October 20th-26th)

The second-ever Ace Podcast Week 2024 (APW) launches tomorrow! This is a casual event to appreciate the acespec representation and community in the fiction podcast community.

By popular demand, we have a brand-new list of prompts to get you started:

Sunday, October 20th

Apprehension/Arrival

Monday, October 21st

Community/Close

Tuesday, October 22nd

Empty/Exile

Wednesday, October 23rd

Wonder/Waystation

Thursday, October 24th

Embark/Enchant

Friday, October 25th

Echo/Equilibrium

Saturday, October 26th

Knowledge/Kaleidoscope

If you'd prefer to do without prompts, go for it. You can also use any of last year's prompts, as listed here.

How Do I Join In?

Between one and seven days during APW, make something related to fiction podcasts and acespec identity. It's that easy. It doesn't need to be polished, just creating something is more than enough.

If you're comfortable sharing them, you can, and can tag them with #ace podcast week, or even @ me here at @acepodcastweek. I'll be checking tags daily up until November 1st.

Some things you might consider include:

Visual art

Baking

Zines

Cosplay

Music

Fanfic

Poetry

Media analysis

Recommendation lists

Polls

Highlighting creators

Sharing headcanons

And whatever else might strike your fancy.

You can also look through all the brilliant entries we had last year in the #ace podcast week tag, or on this blog.

Creator Featurettes

Podcast creators and contributors who are acespec or have acespec characters are very welcome to put together little features of their characters and/or projects, which I'll reblog here.

Resources

There are plenty of acespec characters in audio fiction, and I've attached two lists below to get you started:

Questions & Queries

If you have any questions, concerns, ideas, or anything else in that realm, get in touch with me here. You can drop them in the comments, my DMs, or send me an ask. Be aware that I don't always see comments in my notes (wizard curse) though, so the latter two options are probably more reliable. Is there something I could be doing better? Let me know.

A list of asked and anticipated questions from our first APW can be found here, and will be updated as additional questions are asked.

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Crossing the streams of Podcast Girls Week and BIPOCtober to shout out some female characters of color from BIPOC-led audio dramas who I particularly enjoy:

Evelyn Wai from Hi Nay: Livestreaming college student turned paranormal researcher. She's great and I wish her well in whatever her career trajectory ends up being. Plus she's canonically aspec which I found out after I already planned to claim her for my aspec quota, which goes to show that when I turn my aspec beam on characters I am never wrong. (Ignore all the times I have been textually wrong.)

Jane Gonzalez from The Pasithea Powder: Presumably Chicana like her VA and podcast co-creator; all the Cassandran and Medean characters seem to live in a heavily Hispanic-influenced culture. (Take that, generically white Western spacefutures.) Support #women of color in STEM committing malpractice. I love her so much.

Nova NoStar from InCo: A crotchety information seller who rescues a prince from a fairy tale planet and ends up overthrowing a kingdom while on leave for personal reasons. Having made extensive study of hygiene in spaceflight, I would like to give a special shoutout to the wash day minisode. She and Lovelace should swap spaceship natural hair care tips.

Marisol Montgomery from Small Victories. Marisol is an excellent chef fighting a back and forth battle with addiction after the loss of her beloved brother. She makes a lot of bad decisions, but the show's excellent writing puts you in her head so you understand why she does everything she does. I'm rooting for her!

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Before The Tone episode 12, "Half Mushroom Half Olive"

The penultimate episode of BTT season 1 is now out!

It's time for Mack and her stalker have a conversation.

Listen now on the website or your podcatcher of choice! And stay tuned in two weeks for the season finale.

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Season 2 Episode 1 out now

In this episode of Slowly Unspooling, Kai begins their new life with the hope that they've left the past behind. It’s the first day of a new semester, a fresh start in the wake of haunting memories. But the sense of unease builds as strange emails appear in their inbox, triggering old fears.

Cast & Crew: Written by: Aspen Rayne Featuring: Aspen Rayne as Kai, Simon Brooks as Lyssa, and Kori Davis as Adrien Intro music by Aubrey Poppleton

🎧 Listen now wherever you get your podcasts! Follow us here on Tumblr for updates, and support us on Patreon at patreon.com/slowlyunspooling to get shoutouts in upcoming episodes.