#audio type: sidequest

[starplanes]

Lol anyway listen to Sidequesting where we discuss inappropriate nonbinary topics like "nonbinary person existing" but at least the story is good 🤷‍♂️

[boombox-fuckboy]

Don't know anyone here? Pick one and go listen!

Am I missing your favourite? Are they from a fantasy? Let me know!

[bekaterrier]

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[acepodcastweek]

Did I miss your favourite? Let me know!

Don't know any of these? Pick a show and go listen!

Want to know more about Ace Week Fiction Podcast Festivities? Click here.

[child-of-the-sky-people]

hi Ali! im looking for a new narrative podcast to get into, what's your current rec list? :)

Oh god it’s so long 😂

Horror:

Human Error - this one is mine so of course I’m recommending it 😂 it’s about a found family of survivors going on a road trip during a zombie apocalypse 12 years after the world ended!

We’re Alive - also zombie horror and was the show that got me into audio dramas! It’s very long and looks overwhelming but I promise it’s good!

Darkest Night - anthology horror where you find out how people died but each case is actually related and there is a bigger mystery and this show lives in my head rent free lol

The Waystation - found footage style show about a group of people on a space station that all died (the story is trying to piece together what happened). It’s along the same lines as The White Vault

DERELICT - a research group are studying a door at the bottom of the ocean, and then shit goes sideways. I binged this series super fact and I need season 2 immediately lol

The Eleventh Hour episode called The City of Statues - I made this! It’s about a group of survivors trying to make it out of a city filled with statues trying to hunt them down 👀

Someone Dies in this Elevator - mix of horror and thriller I think. It’s an anthology series where every episode someone dies in an elevator 👀 I composed for a few episodes and it’s v fun 🤩

Thriller

The Liberty Podcast - made by the same folks behind The White Vault and VAST Horizon. It’s an anthology series of stories taking place within and surrounding a tower where a civilization lives. Some episodes might lean more towards horror but I personally consider it more thriller

The Walk - made by the same folks behind zombies run! In this show you the listener are the main character, an individual making their way across Scotland with a package they were mistakenly delivered. I love this show so much omg

Primordial Deep - scientists are finding extinct dinosaurs alive and well under the ocean and they’re trying to figure out what the fuck is going on. I fucking love this show omg

Spines - woman wakes up in the middle of a cult ritual with no memories and is trying to figure out who she is and where she came from. Also there are powers!

Mirrors - same person behind Spines! Three women from three different centuries (who are all related to each other) discover they can communicate with each other through ghost like figures. It has a bigger mystery and the ending made me cry it was so good

InCo - a woman finds a prince from a world that shouldn’t exist floating in space. This show is a delight and is a micro series and I love the humor within it so much omg

Where the Stars Fell - the Antichrist is roommates with their guardian angel and they’re trying to stop the rapture

DUST - anthology series about science fiction and technology! Season 3 is definitely my favorite as it is one story but the entire show as a whole is very good

Feel Good/Light Hearted Shows

Unseen - this show lives in my head rent free and I ache for it to be real. It’s about magic existing in the real world and is an anthology! It’s made by the same folks behind Wolf 359

Joy to the World - holiday series I helped produce! It’s about an astronaut named Joy talking with different people on Earth about the holidays! It’s an anthology and v warm and I highly recommend it as a holiday series

Sidequesting - a person who is totally not the hero is avoiding the main plot and going on a bunch of side quests! It’s charming and lovely and made by the wonderful Tal

Back Again, Back Again - a woman is retelling her stories of his magical world she was transported into and about the prophecy she became involved in

If none of these are your jam lmk and I can suggest some more! If you tell me what you like to listen to/what kinds of stories you enjoy I can make a more personalized list

[bekabloodhound]

My Audio Drama Sunday (evening) is being spent deciding where to stick all the stickers I received this week! I got my reward from @starfallpod's crowdfunding, and a bunch of other stickers I ordered showed up at the same time! Look at this haul!!

[monstrousproductions]

Introducing... Sidequesting!

@sidequestingpod is a fantasy podcast all about avoiding the main plot! ⚔️✨

You can listen in any order, so check out Episode 11 on the Travelling Light feed today, wherein budding adventurer Rion gets a crash course in heisting...

[re-dracula]

Happy Ace Week! I’m here to tell you about @sidequestingpod​, a fantasy podcast about avoiding the main plot! It’s lighthearted and low-stakes, and the main character is Ace!

[skyfullofpods]

S is for @sidequestingpod!

Light-hearted fantasy. Rion is a brand new adventurer, who has decided to leave the village they grew up in. The show plays on the concept of ‘sidequests’ from video games, as Rion travels around and goes on various quests to help the people they meet.

[danboman]

Audio Fiction 11

Let's do another grab bag! Also, I forgot to mention last time that I've given up on reviewing shows in the order I listened to them. The first few were easy enough, but at this point I'm basically lost on the sequence.

Uncanny County

This is another anthology show, not unlike Mayfair Watchers Society, with each episode being about a different weird event taking place in this rural county. Unlike Mayfair, in which the stories all take place in the same small town but are otherwise mostly unconnected, Uncanny County has recurring cast members and stories that connect to each other or reference back to previous episodes. It's absurdist comedy as much as horror, and I quite enjoy it. 4 out of 5, definitely recommend.

Newts!

I kind of feel like Newts! deserves its own post, but at the same time I don't know what to say about this weird little show. It's a quick 6 episodes, so not a big time investment. The creator took one of his favorite science fiction stories and created a strange musical dramedy. And yes, I said musical. The songs are kind of the best part? Like I said, this show is hard to describe, but it's definitely fun and the music is catchy. The performances are strong, and I don't regret listening to it one bit. Honestly, check it out. 5 out of 5.

Sidequesting

This is, to me at least, very much a comfort food show. There may or may not be a larger story slow-brewing, but basically it's a series of done in one episodes. The protagonist is an adventurer who does exactly what the show says on the label: sidequests. Occasionally there will be mentions of a Big Bad and a Prophesied Chosen One, but our hero would rather worry about the small stuff and let someone else take on that challenge. It's a charming, fun show. Tal Minear gets a lot of credit as producer, sound designer, and the voice of Rion (the protagonist). It's nice to dip my toes into this world and go on a nonadventure with Rion after a stressful day. 5 out of 5, add it to your list.

[cantarella-rose]

What I meant to do spring break: watch more Ryuki and Magiranger, maybe even finish one of them

What I actually did over spring break: put like 20+ hours into The Caligula Effect 2

[bekaterrier]

I'm not a writer so I can't contribute to Ace Podcast Week with a fanfic (though I've been loving all the ones I've read so far!) so I'll contribute in my own way - with a bracelet! In honour of all of the fantastic ace podcast characters:

[christinaisdrawing]

Sidequest Unlocked: Take Karlach to Build-A-Bear.

Original audio was from Karlach's VA, Samantha Beart, Tweeter video post last week.

[tropinano]

List of As Many Fiction Podcasts As I Could Think Of

NOT ORGANIZED! This is a big list of fiction podcasts with no descriptions, meant for the sole purpose of picking one based on the title and just trying it out. Just a big ol' list of titles. Kindof like a blind date! Explore a couple of the ones that intrigue you and come back later for more.

The Hotel

The Night Post

I am in Eskew

Whisperling

Residents of Proserpina Park

The Daedalus Compound

EOS10

The Magnus Archives

Francis Forever

SMILE GROVE

Janus Descending

The Godfrey Audio Guide

Old Gods of Appalachia

Camp Here & There

The Way We Haunt Now

Jack of All Trades

SUPERSUITS

Illuminati Interns

Death by Dying

Life with Leo(h)

Hello from the Hallowoods

Malevolent

The 12:37

Spirit Box Radio

Lost Terminal

Desperado

Neighbourly

The Switchboard

The Mistholme Museum of Mystery, Morbidity and Mortality

Aurora Everlasting

The Swashbuckling Ladies Debate Society

CARAVAN

The Amelia Project

Jar of Rebuke

Monstrous Agonies

Where the Stars Fell

Kisses In The Dark

The Town Whispers

Uncommon Commons

The Author's Anathema

Elevator Pitch

Brimstone Valley Mall

Kane & Feels

Middle:Below

The McIlwraith Statements

Caledonian Gothic

I have seen Niagara

Petrified

In Darkness Vast

The Outside Tapes

Seren

Gather the Suspects

This Foul Earth

John from Home

Glasgow Ghost Stories

The Tower

The Antique Shop

either

Tales from Aletheian Society

The Secret of St Kilda

The Green Horizon

Road X

THE NOWHERE MALL

Seven of Hearts

The Department of Variance of Somewhere, Ohio

SubverCity Transmit

The Nuclear Solution

Inkwyrm

Jim Robbie and the Wanderers

Burst

With Caulk and Candles

This Planet Needs a Name

The Glass Appeal

Mar's Best Brisket

Nym's Nebulous Notions

Midnight Radio

The Bright Sessions

When Angels Visit Armadillo

The Mysterious Secrets of Uncle Bertie's Botanarium

Nowhere, On Air

Dark Ages

Welcome to Night Vale

The Silt Verses

Care & Feeding of Werewolves

The Bridge

The Far Meridian

ars PARADOXICA

Among the Stars and Bones

Counterbalance

Primordial Deep

Hannahpocalypse

Someone dies in this Elevator

Mabel

Seen and Not Heard

Abyss FM

Bodies in Space

Among the Stacks

Station Arcadia

Station Blue

Mnemosyne

Wolf 359

Tranthologies

Mx Bad Luck

SAYER

Limetown

What will be here?

Wake of Corrosion

The Pasithea Powder

SINKHOLE

Tell No Tales

The Vesta Clinic

Dreamboy

Georgie Romero is Done For

The Domestic Life of Anthony Todd

Alice isn't Dead

Stellar Firma

Unwell

The Strange Case of Starship Iris

The Heart of Ether

The Orbiting Human Circus

Wooden Overcoats

Greater Boston

Valence

Moonbase Theta Out

The Penumbra Podcast

Desert Skies

Deviser

Leaving Corvat

Red Valley

Back Again Back Again

Sidequesting

[starplanes]

Here’s a bunch of free tools I’ve used in the making of @sidequestingpod and other audio dramas!