#this time it's an audio drama thing

[a-mint-bear]

that weird sense of mourning you feel when a thing you like disappears from the internet and it's not that big of a deal but you can't help but feel sad that you'll never experience it ever again

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

I'm a doctor, not a miracle worker.

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[lotuslate]

is this yours?

[lucifer-kane]

Seeing audio drama creators be very on board with people making original characters for their thing is so very good and it makes me, a chronic oc maker, so very happy.

[boombox-fuckboy]

Has anyone tried an audio drama "book club" (pod-club? [better name]?) yet?

I know some people are hesitant to try a new show if they won't have someone to talk to about it, so it seems like the obvious way to solve that, plus help people find new shows and vice versa? I don't actually know how book clubs work.

[triple1st]

forever thinking about how this is romana's last conversation with the doctor

[hephaestuscrew]

A book asks the reader to imagine any sensory input of the story, whereas a film or TV show provides both sound and visuals. Audio fiction lives in the space between these two approaches. I think there's a unique power to that middle ground. I love how audio drama asks the listener to co-construct their sensory experience of the story.

Audio drama allows me to simultaneously experience 'This character feels real to me because I've heard their voice' and 'This character feels real to me because I've pictured them myself'.

What the characters are experiencing is both directly presented to me and left to my imagination. There's no page or screen between me and the story. It's there in my ears. It's there in my mind's eye.

There's a strange sense of intimacy to that, the intimacy of feeling like a fly on the wall during a conversation or of hearing a character speaking as if directly to me. Perhaps it sounds contradictory to say that experiencing a story only through sound allows me to feel uniquely connected to that story, but that's one of the reasons why I love audio fiction so much.

[fourteenfifteen]

when i see people going around complaining about the media they consume 9 times out of 10 i’m thinking “please please get into more independently produced work” esp when it’s things like mass media trends or corporate interests or things that seem like they’re made for sanitized mainstream interests like yes those are all annoying but yk what has less of those… yk what has the marginalized focus and the earnestness and the experimentation that you say you want… that’s right. it’s art made by random nobodies

[cauterizedpod]

Do you have an old ipod? An old MP3 player? Music from your childhood? Times gone by?

Well, here's your chance at immortality

Cauterized is a podcast about the things we leave behind and how someone can live on in the scattered pieces of things that touched them.

We're looking for submissions of time capsules, pieces of beloved individuals, and music that built them. It can be a Playlist, a small image gallery, or anything else that defines a person. These will be discussed as if they were uncovered artifacts by a pair of lesbian zenoarcheologists with unbridled love for each other the past. They'll attempt to reconstruct the person behind the relic and talk about how things have changed.

You can submit them here on tumblr though our askbox or through Cauterizedpod@gmail.com

Feel free to also ask any questions you may have about the submission process there if you have any. They'll be answered swiftly.

We can't wait to see what built you, built us. You, too, can live on in the year 3000.

[thelaurenshippen]

is this just an incredibly niche podcaster thing? any time you comment on an Atypical podcast, I see it! and I love you!! and I want to reply!

[ID: the "let me in!!!" meme with Eric Andre except instead it says "let me reply!!" and the fence is several Spotify comments on Atypical shows. the comments are: "Can I have permission to make animated videos of this series because if not I WILL", "Everyone is really good singers!!! I loved this EP, and itd be so cool if you released the songs individually?", and "love it just wish there were captions" End ID]

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Gaslighter? I hardly know her!

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[maxgicalgirl]

Archive 81 tv show made Melody Pendras straight we cannot trust podcasts in the hands of mainstream media !!!!!!!

[variousqueerthings]

finished reading "tell me I'm worthless," which was an interesting experience. I think there's something really good for you in your soul to be able to understand the genre conventions you're in and the kinds of structures and language and character that can be explored in these genres. I think about how people tend to -- with fiction about marginalisation and/or about people who are marginalised as a blanket whole, regardless of the story -- operate on a checklist of dos and donts, but mainly donts: don't ever tell us a deadname, don't ever use these "problematic" words to describe them/or have them describe themselves in this way, don't ever describe negative emotions or "problematic" emotions, don't let the characters have harmful traits (either towards themselves or others), don't hurt your characters at all actually, don't make your characters politically uncomfortable or "problematically" complicated in their political outlook and/or journey, don't make your characters be assholes ever, certainly don't traumatise your characters, and under no circumstance do you kill your characters!

which of course, this book does praaaactically every one of these things, thank goodness

[labyrynth]

i know this sounds crazy but. get this.

sometimes…with visual media…you do have to actually LOOK at it. sometimes…they put Important things in the visuals (because it is visual media) that you will Miss if you’re only glancing up once a minute.

sometimes you just have to suck it up and actually WATCH the thing instead of listening to a visual medium.

[mmmthornton]

She was so real for this

[hangingslothcentral]

how did this happen almost a year ago i swear it was just a couple of weeks ago??

also somehow it's been SO MUCH longer than that????

whaaaat?????!?!?!?!

SBR is now sitting pretty on 502k, CB on 110k, and darling baby of the bunch NQD is not looking so baby anymore at 82k!!!

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--- Eira xxx