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Found: A cat. If this is your cat, are you still alive? It seems dangerous. What kind of cat is this

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Happy Monday! S2 E9, Second Chance, is now out! You can find it haunting your local podcatcher, or you can take a peaceful sunset walk down Regent’s canal for a chat with this week’s ghost, played by the downright loveable Georgia McCall

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103 is @starshipqstar!

Sci-fi comedy. A misogynistic space agency has the idea of sending the first all-non men crew on a mission to Mars, in a bright pink spaceship. The mission is co-captained by ex-girlfriends Aurelia and Sim, and things quickly go catastrophically wrong.

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by nasa

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some of my favorite replies to this tweet. happy lesbian visibility week!

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pro-tip: you can eat a podcast

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Why Small Victories is your new favorite slice of life podcast (or at the very least something new you'll enjoy on your daily walk).

Inspired by the PowerPoint done by @starsfellradio, here is our presentation/pitch on why you should listen to our fiction podcast, Small Victories.

Spotify

Apple Podcast

Youtube

Website

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I thought I had finished recording all my season two lines today and was so excited! Then realised I had one more!!

BUT Ruby did such a good job with her lines that I can't even be mad. I'm so excited to hear them again!!

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I think Vesta's like mashed potatoes when you're really in the mood for mashed potatoes.

pro-tip: you can eat a podcast

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We’ve talked about it a little, but now we’re officially announcing that we’ve entered production for our newest show, Waiting for October! Our crowdfunding campaign kicks off one week from today, May 5th! We’ve been working on things for a while - Deej has been hard at work at writing (some of their best work in our opinion!), Tina and @muppet4muppet have been working on pre-production and getting our funding campaign set up, and we’ve been having some very fun conversations with our cast (exciting announcements coming soon on that front!) Watch this space for more announcements! And our Instagram, Facebook, Tumblr, wherever you're not seeing this announcement - or you can always find the info on our website, https://monkeymanproductions.com/ You can also get notified of our crowdfunding campaign launch at https://crowdfundr.com/waitingforoctober

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Tax season is almost over for me, and I have so many new shows that have helped me through the last couple of months that I'll be making bracelets for. But in the meantime, a couple bracelets for Lesbian visibility week! I can think of so many lesbians in so many audio dramas, all of whom I love so much!

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Hoag’s Object, a nearly perfect “ring galaxy” captured by the Hubble Space Telescope (Credit: NASA)

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Underated Audio-Dramas

Asking for it

A queer contemporary take of the Goldilocks tale: about love, music and breaking the cycle of abuse. Goldie escapes a chaotic childhood only to go from a partner who starves her of love to a partner who nearly drowns her in it, before learning to be just right on her own.

My two-cents: This audio-drama I believe is a most listen for any queer person, but especially for us sapphics that want and/or have been in a relationship. I think not much is said about how women are able to harm you, I remember that AN in "Nothing Burns as Bright as You" as how as a bisexual woman the author was taught to be wary of men, but never of woman and in her experience woman often hurt her the most. I remember being in a school conference talking about domestic abuse but never did it once touch on same-gender couples.

All of this is to say that as a society we often neglect to take a real look at how abuse in queer relationships look like, how they look especially in sapphic and lesbian relationships. So I am entirely greatfull "Asking For It Does".

I am lucky enough to have never been in any situation that Goldie finds herself in and still I feel that I know her story not in short thanks to the amazing writer.

Also the MUSIC, the music in this podcast is amazing, and it is from a real band, that also exists within the podcast. How awesome is that!

Fanwars: The Empire Claps Back

Two passionate Star Wars fans on opposite sides of the Last Jedi debate argue via Skype after their favorite forum closes down. If you love Star Wars (or call yourself a proud member of any fandom), you’ll love this romantic comedy told via conversations.

My two cents: The trials and tribulations of being a POC in fandom, more importantly in starwars fandom and realizing that, "oh damm right, poc can spill the same dung as yt fans". And amazing if straight rom-com. I'll recommend it to anyone who wants to spend an afternoon laughing. It also futures the ever growing in popularity pair of a black woman with an asian man, whom is just slightly of an asshole.

Average Folks

Join your friendly neighborhood Prophetess Terra, and the dysfunctional Chieftain's family as they navigate life, love and creatures of an unusual sort.

My two-cents: I've binge-listened to the 1st season of this podcast. It has surprisingly great worldbuilding even though the story develops in a relatively small town. Terra is a great protagonist to follow around bu the characters that really stand out for me are the kids of the Chief and their own aspirations/conflicts about the place their family has on society. It is a bit politician/rich/monarch apologist though.

Deep Blue Stars

Dr. Indigo Hale treads upon a mysterious island, inhabited by nothing more than crabs and cranes, where they must find a way to make it past impostor syndrome, the strange and wonderful loneliness, and the secret nature of their life's work: the Star Shell.

My two-cents: This podcast came at the precise moment of my life so I always hold it dear to my heart. I was discovering my gender in my own terms, and as always struggling with my never ending loneliness, so Dr. Indigo Hale's rambles were a soothing salve. I'll never forget that excerpt about how they felt no-human growing up, 'cause yeah, maybe is the queernes, or the neuro-divergency but it hit spot on. If you like stories of people getting stranded on a desert-island and then creating a relationship with a non-human thing/animal to survive, you'll really love this.

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my utopia has disability in it. my utopia includes free healthcare and no-questions welfare and state-funded carers. my utopia includes building requirements that centre disabled bodies — ramps and lifts and dimmer switches and braille signs. my utopia has disability in it. because without disability, it’s not much of a utopia at all

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✨Travelling Light - Episode 19!✨

The Traveller and Duytren clear the air; and how technology can be both a boon and a burden…

Subscribe now Spotify, Apple Podcasts or your podcatcher of choice 🚀✨ Full transcript available here.

Travelling Light is a science fantasy podcast that follows the Traveller as they explore their galaxy, collecting stories from the people they meet and adding them to their community archives.

Every week our artist Matt McDyre (@diabeticspoon92) creates a unique illustration for the episode's archive entry. This week’s entry was based on an idea from The Menagerie! Send in your suggestions, prompts and entries via social media, by email, or through monstrousproductions.org 📨

If you're enjoying the show, please consider signing up for our Ko-Fi. For £1 a month, you'll get access to bonus art, blogs, annotated scripts and more, as well as being able to vote in audience decisions! Head over to ko-fi.com/monstrousproductions to learn more 🤩

Finally, remember - the best way you can support us is to tell others we exist! Review the show wherever you listen, and share the love wherever (and whenever!) you can. Every little helps! 💖

🚀✨ See you next Friday! ✨🚀

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Audio Drama Sunday - 28th April ✨

Happy Audio Drama Sunday! I started two new shows this week and fell in love with both of them!! 

👻 @tellnotalespod (S2E8.5) ohhhhhh I’m so emotional. The end of this series is going to make me cry so many happy tears, I can just feel it. 

🌲 @hellofromthehallowoods (149) With the description this week, I think I truly realised just how scary-looking the pig man is 😰 Things are looking decidedly down for Shelby and Clem. Eek. God, Valerie!!! She’s such an interesting character because you can literally connect the dots of her trauma but still be slightly disappointed by the consequences on her behaviour! And the poor Mr Greenstreets ☹️ Raj is very Syrensyr coded?? Vincent as a grief counsellor makes me wonder… about who or what Voltaire is…. 

Also, I want the Auditor to be Polly so bad and I want Nikignik to get out of the interrogation by bargaining to reunite him with Yaretzi and Mort - PLEASE. 

🧳 Travelling Light by @monstrousproductions (19) I loved seeing our Traveller stand up for themself!! It’s always so fun to see characters who are usually soft gain a backbone of steel because their core values are tested. And the discussion of the nanobots was so interesting!! The laws on nanobots elsewhere when they are literally required for survival makes the entire person illegal. And we all know that’s not right!!! 

👁️ @malevolentcast (41) I’m thinking that maybe Rafters was an exception that proves the rule… Alexander the owl was creepy as anything and I hated the way he seemed to be guiding them towards the crack in the wall. Now we’re in a possible parallel universe, it feels like all bets are off and I’m scared to even consider what might happen to John and Arthur now! 

⚔️ @camlannpod (8) OUGH. Oh my god. Can’t they just have FIVE MINUTES to RELAX?? I actually snorted out loud at: ‘you’re good with an axe, right’. Pere is a little shit and I love that for them. Morgan!!! 🫨 And Dai!!! I’m so hopeful that starting down this path will lead to good (or, at least, a whole load of shenanigans for S2!) 

🖥️ The Magnus Protocol (13) It’s very interesting to me that we were able to listen in on Sam and Cecilia’s date… how did that work? There’s something here about gambling and chance with this story and the previous one about the dice rolling?? I’m connecting the dots (I’m not connecting shit). 

🌞 Small Victories by @wgc-productions is so good, I wish I’d started listening years ago. I love the 90s sitcom vibe and the intro/outro are so unique. I absolutely love shows that centre around character studies. Marisol’s story is so gripping and I love how the writing takes us right inside her brain as she justifies every decision (good or bad). It’s so clear how loveable she is and how much people around her want her to be okay (mostly), but don’t know *how* to get her to that place given the shit they’re dealing with themselves! I got up to 1.09 so . . . bit of a cliffhanger there!! I’m very excited to see how the story progresses. I’m rooting for you, Tiny!! 

🧋 I started @hinaypod and it’s safe to say that I’m in love already! Listening has given me the same amazing feeling of listening to Desperado - the sensation that the creators have opened up a door to a brand new world and I’m so happy to be in it! I adore Mari. Even from episode one, she has this quiet self-confidence in herself and her skills which is so refreshing. I also really like the horror writing here and I’m really looking forward to delving deeper into this story! 

Hope everyone has a good week! 💙