#Do you copy

[doyoucopypod]

Some amazing dyc fanart by the even more amazing @kit-n-kboodl !! Crazy to see how people visualized the creature! This is the coolest thing I have ever seen!

[vestaclinicpod]

Audio Drama Sunday - 30th July ✨

Another great week of audio drama has kept my brain busy while my data collection is less busy. Happy Audio Drama Sunday, please allow me to share my favourites!

SPOILERS!!

🌲 @hellofromthehallowoods (127) Oh NO Mrs Wicker get your children away from that Church!!!! I love to hear the J-sibs starting to push back against her, long may it continue! I'm also still obsessed with the Raven-Writing Desk dynamic and it's only going to get juicier when Mr Writing Desk actually wants to follow Penny’s demands… And Danielle!! I love that she still gets to be an active help in the mission to the North in a way that doesn’t feel like deus ex machina because it’s just her. 

🎞 Tiny Terrors (022) this episode had me yelling ‘what’s the catch?!?!?’ internally and I’ve just seen that the wait is over to listen to the other side of the tape!! Angela, what are you??

🌍 @lastechoespod (7) As some of you may know. . . I am a huge fan of Drs in Space. This episode had me gripped, those poor people 😭 What a cruel scare tactic from the Collected for that to be played to the people trying to decide whether to join. I’m so tense to hear what the final archival selection is going to be! 

🧛‍♂️ @re-dracula Things are TENSE aboard the Demeter. Even in <60s of audio, the creeping dread is so palpable. And Mina, sweet Mina! So thrilled to have her back! Listening rather than reading has makes it so much easier to parse the long, chunky sections describing Whitby!! I have high hopes that I'm going to stick with it to the very end this time.

 💫 Wolf 359 (24-32) Oh fuck. I am so glad I have all the episodes to listen to at once. I could NOT have dealt with the wait between seasons. Ep 30, Mayday, is possibly one of the coolest things I’ve ever heard. I love that feeling of rooting for a character so hard that you forget that they don’t really exist and that you know they make it because there are another 30 eps of the show left. And the new characters - Kepler, Jacobi, Maxwell - wow, I LOVE to hate them. They’re fantastic in the worst way. 

🎩 @ethicstownpod (5) Things got a little creepy on the emergency broadcast this week. Memory is created as it is recalled?? What?? My mind is boggled. I’m very excited to hear how this, and what seems to be a growing discomfort between January and Artemis, plays out in the next episodes! 

🥾@doyoucopypod (3) Now. Hear me out. I know that being stuck up in a radio tower all day has got to be boring but I do think there might be a better time to flirt with your colleague than when 3 people are missing in a place called the ‘Dead Zone’ where strange ecological events are occurring . . . Just me?? Have I got the braincell here??? I’m so excited for these shenanigans to get even spookier. 

🏴‍☠️ Yeah. I listened to @levianpod again. What are you going to do? Support their crowdfunder? Good. Do it.

🎧 Such an interesting episode of The First Episode Of with @wirelandranch! The wireland vibes have always been immaculate and it’s so interesting to learn about where it came from and why it’s an amalgamation rather than a straight-up audio drama. 

🐬 Described as a weird mystery, @patterspod is exactly that. It’s batshit in the best possible way. Perhaps I hang out with strange people, but the main character is so normal in his weirdness, I feel like most people know a guy like Ryan even though Ryan is a liar ghostwriter trying to hunt down his thieving EX-boss with ?paranormal connections. It’s great stuff. 

I hope everyone has a lovely weekend! My goal is to have season two of the show written by the start of August . . . So I should stop writing this and get to writing that . . . Right? Okay.

[field-cryptobotanist]

Starting listening to Do you copy? and it's such a good podcast!!! It's about as national park closing down for some mysterious reason and has testimonials from the visitors that didn't leave when they definitely should have and I believe rangers listening back to them. I'm obsessed with it! If you haven't listened to it I definitely recommend it!

[thefringespod]

Happy #AudioDramaSunday everyone! I've got a LOT to talk about this week so strap in!!

In terms of long-term listens, just finished my TMA season 1 relisten and am now focusing my main listen energy on Hello From the Hallowoods (I'll finish my TMA relisten later). Outside of that though there was SO MUCH good stuff this week:

@re-dracula has finally entered the logs for the Demeter and Alasdair Stuart is once again absolutely killing it as a captain of a spooky boat

This week we were also introduced to the magical world that is @levianpod which comes out of the gate swinging and has fully enraptured me with ep 1. I want to know EVERYTHING about this world! The folks behind Levian are crowdfunding, please help them out

Also this week for me were episodes 1 and 2 of @doyoucopypod which has joined the ranks of shows that have made me cry in the office (this is a compliment I swear). I'm loving the premise behind Do You Copy and each performance so far has made me a little feral. Go listen go go go!

@tellnotalespod has also taken over my life this week. I am still very early on in the show but my gods its beautiful and so so good. I love Leo with my whole heart and the premise is just so fascinating. Please help them make season 2 happen!

And of course we have to talk about @ethicstownpod. Episode 4 absolutely wrecked me (also at work I gotta stop listening at work [I will not stop]) Rhys Lawton and Liz Dokukina are absolute masters of punching me in the heart, their performances are INCREDIBLE

A friendly reminder that @ShelterwoodPod is still crowdfunding! They're in their last 10 days and can use any support yall can give

On the subject of crowdfunding, we here at the Fringes just finished! I've already been overly sappy (see thread below) but thank you thank you thank you again to everyone. Season 2 is going to be a LOT of fun and I can't wait to share it with yall

Week ahead is promising more Hallowoods and more Tell No Tales and probably more crying at my desk in office because if they want me to go in they need to deal with the fact that I will cry to audiodramas

[skyfullofpods]

It's audio fiction Sunday! This week we had the epic October 3rd episode of @re-dracula, the launch of intriguing new maritime horror @eelerschoice, and Moonbase Theta, Out's highly emotional series epilogue!

[bi-biscuit]

Uh. Hi? I made some art because I've been relistening to this podcast A LOT and at some point you just gotta get some appearance headcanons down on paper.

I wanna draw Liam and Addison next but I don't know when that will be cause I'm getting top surgery in less than two weeks and there was some other stuff I wanted to get done before that.

[trashburgersblair]

I love this podcast

[twigsandhearts]

Audio Drama Sunday

Subtitle: Cry goes slightly off-topic

For a while, I didn't get much of a chance to do anything but edit and write so listening to other shows was off the cards. Recently I've been trying to get back into it and it's given me the chance to get back in touch with some people and see what they've been up to creative-wise. So, here's my list of recent shows:

DO YOU COPY?

I haven't seen many people talk about this show outside of the creators but with season one out, it's an easy binge. It follows the audio logs of several different groups of people who stayed behind after a National Park's closure. The cast is small and easy to follow and the voices are distinguishable. It's set in a more supernatural America with a mystery void that seems to distort reality and contain cryptid-like creatures. Though some themes are familiar, the story feels original and I've enjoyed listening.

UNIVERSE 9/5

It's your alternate universe people switch out tropes, made queer sci-fi. The posting schedule feels a little random and the discord server seems to have already created its own community around art and animation but it's hard to tell where it's going quite yet with only 2 episodes out. It's a change of pace to all the horror shows I'm used to with being very much not horror and quite light hearted but I am enjoying it all the same.

YET ANOTHER DATING APP

It talks of a new dating app that more specific than ever before. It gives casual banter with a sci-fi twist in a similar vibe to LIFE WITH LEO(H) which I enjoyed. Yet again with only 2 episodes out it's hard to get the whole picture. It's a small cast with good chemistry and the sound design has been nice so far. I'm interested to see where it leads.

[thehenchmansjournalpod1]

Me listening to @doyoucopypod:

Damn I love these characters, actual blorbo material. I wonder what’s going to happen next, these characters are super cool.

[Episode 7: The River starts]

CONTENT WARNING: This episode contains death

Me:

[hageputte]

Listening to Do you copy? - 107 and like, what the fuck?

[galaxygirlsworld]

Ayyyy after a year I’m back at it! Here’s some Scoops Troop art for you hotties❤️

[doyoucopypod]

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[vestaclinicpod]

Audio Drama Sunday - 23rd July ✨

This week has been such an amazing week of listening! I’ve found three new shows that I absolutely adore and I can’t wait to tell you all about them ✨

Spoilers ahead!

🌲@hellofromthehallowoods (126) FIRST OF ALL 🚗🚗🚗 BEEP BEEP GET IN LOSER, WE’RE GOING TO GET MOTH 🚗🚗🚗 So glad to hear from you again, Ray!! This line: “the devil’s a better man than I am” had my eyebrows disappearing into my hairline and that’s all I’m going to say at this time. It’s always a risk listening in public, because the scene on the beach made me want to cry a little. I hope in my heart that they’re all going to make it out of there but I have no idea how right now! 

📻 @monstrousagonies (106) the first letter this week made me laugh so much! I was fully expecting the ‘moocher’ to be a brownie or someone like that, so it was a fun surprise to hear of a demonic midnight snacker! I may have to use that excuse when my baked goods don’t turn out so baked or good . . .  

🎞  Tiny Terrors (021) What a welcome VA jumpscare from Mx Wellman!! I loved the story (I, too, would feed the mega-toad to make it happy) but the surrounding footage was really creepy... I sure hope the gang goes to investigate the Riverside Institute. What’s the worst that could happen?? 👀

🌍 OOH the most recent episode of @lastechoespod was genuinely empowering! The political pressure the Archivist is under seems to have ramped up this ep, and reading @skyfullofpods’s thoughts on it last week makes me want to listen to it all again with fresh ears! 

🧛‍♂️ @re-dracula What a great week! Alasdair Stuart nails it as the Captain of the Demeter. His voice in the first ep is the calm surface of the sea, hiding the teeming mass of life and death below. The Renfield arc honestly unsettles me so much, but I, too, would love a kitten if there’s one going spare … 

🧬 Regina Prime (ep 4) The revelations!! I loved the sound design of the getting ready montage in this ep but I loved the lore drop even more! 300 clones?! And cloning is something that’s happening commercially? Damn. The last line actually made me grin, Epsilon is quick-witted and brave (or stupid!) and I like her a lot. Every episode I get more enthralled by this show and everyone needs to be listening! 

 💫 Wolf 359 (20-22) Hot damn. The tension aboard the Hephaestus is something else… the paranoia is written so well, you’re listening with your most suspicious face trying to unpick it and getting nowhere. I love how I have no idea where this is going but I know the ride is going to be BUMPY. 

🎩 I started @ethicstownpod this week and it deserves ALL the hype. The show uses a well-loved audio drama trope to bring us a very interesting new story. The writing and voice acting are spot on from the get-go, and the sound design choices feel fresh despite the radio format. Most podcasts make me feel, but this one makes me think as well! I really love it!! I’ve been following the development of the show on Tumblr for a while and I remember the creator being so excited about January’s VA and yeah, I totally get it. Amazing. Hard to believe the role wasn’t written for him. 

SPOILERS: I love how the main ethical issues are presented while January currently seems oblivious to the ethical quandary of keeping important information from someone and who has the right to make that decision . . . ALSO Artemis and Grace are very close in age . . . imagine if they became friends . . . and then Artemis found out . . . . HOO BOY. 

🥾@doyoucopypod The first two episodes are very promising! In the first ep, the pod-within-a-pod recording leads to some fun & cheesy dialogue which contrasts well with the jaded but wary interludes from [REDACTED]. I love a spooky woodland mystery and I’m really hoping for a Blair Witch style descent into terrifying found-footage chaos! The second episode really tugged on the old heart strings. I need a Does The Dog Die for this show bc I’ve had Wilson for 8 minutes but if anything happened to him I’d make that Dead Zone REALLY much more dead-er. 

🏴‍☠️ @levianpod This show has dropped its anchor right into my heart!!! DAMN. I’ve listened twice this week. I can’t recall the last time I was so immediately ALL-IN for an audio drama. I mean, firstly, that cover art is GORGEOUS. I genuinely think this show has it all, there’s LORE, there’s spiciness, there are sea captains who are also sea monsters (a GIFT for the wlw, thank you 🙏), there’s a teenage romance gone WRONG. Then there’s the voice acting!! Incredible performances right out of the gate. It’s safe to say that I am OBSESSED. Why are you still here? Go fucking listen to Levian. 

🎧 In the most recent ep of The First Episode Of, W Keith Tims talks to Packhowl - a creator I greatly admire. I love these interviews! It’s so fascinating to hear how other creators came to audio drama and it’s shed some of the brilliant The Madness of Chartrulean in new light for me. I miss grumpy space Jesus. 

That's it from me! PLEASE go listen to Ethics Town, Do You Copy and Levian!!

[randomperson-21]

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[skyfullofpods]

Happy audio fiction Sunday! Here are my thoughts about some of the podcasts I've been listening to this week, for my weekly Sunday blog post!

[bi-biscuit]

This drawing was the end of my dark grey marker. It will be missed. (Until I get a new one)

Fun fact: This was the first thing I wanted to draw as for DYC art but then idk, my love for Frederick just took a hold of me and I drew them and Wilson first.

I will (holding myself to that word choice.) draw Addison hopefully also this week because I wanna at least have drawn the campers before I maybe move on to Reese, Alex, ...Redacted & Blake (not me).