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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.

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Thanks for listening! Yeah, 109 is a real cliffhanger and season 2 has more than a few of it's own.

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! 💙

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It's a comedy I say to myself as I write another scene where an emotionally troubled women struggles to connect with others.

People will laugh I say as the woman and her father have the kind of argument that breaks up families.

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Can you believe it's been a year? Neither can we! Come celebrate with us via the well-loved tradition of checking out some new member-suggested podcasts 🎉

Send us your show recommendations here & be sure to mark your calendars to come hang this upcoming Saturday in the Discord!

Happy listening, hope to see y'all there 🍰

& thanks for sharing this community for the last year; it's been wonderful :)

- Finch

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I have once again written a dinner scene where Marisol absolutely nukes her interpersonal relationships. I think we need to make sure she just eats alone from now on.

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Happy Audio Drama Sunday! ✨

I've never done one of these before, but there's no time like the present, right?

This week, I've been caught between relistening to The Silt Verses and also trying to catch up to the latest episodes of WOE.BEGONE at the same time, so those shows have been on rotation & keeping me company while I'm in the midst of packing to move again soon and/or chipping away at the seemingly endless slew of projects! For the coming week, I've already heard Episode 1 of Wanderer's Journal, but I'm definitely looking forward to a relisten after the show's public release in a couple of days.

In SPACE SPECKS @spacespeckspod news this week, we're finalizing the script for our pilot episode, editing a new show teaser, keeping up with our crew call, and our lovely artist is finishing up some character art for our casting announcements soon!

And in the Podcast Book Club @podcast-bookclub realm, we're celebrating our 1 year anniversary this upcoming weekend with a Marathon event. Alongside this, we've got a trio of new shows about to start in the server, so this is a great time to join in with us.

Tangentially, the end of Podcast Jam @podcastjam is finally on the horizon! We've just passed the halfway point of scriptwriting et al, with the weekend after next being Jam Weekend, where everyone might begin to regret the "edit and record everything within a few days" part of the event. Then it'll be a little over a month from now (May 25!) until those pilots will be publicly available for everyone's ears :)

Have a great week, friends!

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*banging desperately on your front door* HI NAY IS SO GOOD! LOOK, IT'S SO GOOD JUST LISTEN TO IT! JUST- *coughs up blood and collapses*

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Okay, so my writing for Season 3 has taken a mighty unexpected twist (I'm focusing more on plot! Plot! Me? Who could have seen it coming) and to make sure I'm actually able to make something that ties up all the threads introduced in the previous seasons I am gonna have to spend today listening to the whole show and taking notes on what I do or don't what or what I forgot. I'm also hoping it will trigger some ideas.

I haven't listened the to the show all together (in fact I think the last time I even heard an episode was sometime last year and the only time I regularly listen to the show is when we are finalizing the episodes in post) so I'm quite excited.

We have made a fantastic project, but because I know it so well and I am, more or less, always working on the next part, I rarely actually go and just reflect on it.

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Hey!

Hey, you with the face. You can now read the script for Small Victories Season 3 Episode 1 on the WGC Patreon and because we have a pay what you can system (access to art should be open to everyone regardless of wealth) you can join the Patreon for as low as 1 dollar.

And to sweeten the pot here are a couple of excerpts from the episode!

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Last Song: Rachmaninov Piano Concerto #2 in C Minor OP #18 (I'm writing and this a song I like to pretty much put on loop when I write cause the second movement is just so pretty and it doesn't have any words which can be distracting)

Favorite Color: Green, that's why the logo looks the way it does.

Currently Watching: Benson. The Mary Tyler Moore Show. Abbott Elementary.

Sweet/Savory/Spicy: I have currently been eating enough sugar to make the residents of Candy Land very nervous I honestly need to pull back.

Relationship Status: This is a place of business, Sir! Not the local gossip hole!

Current Obsession: I recently had a succession of sleep-addled thoughts about the Indus River Valley so that and other Bronze age Civilizations are where my interests lie. Also, I'm learning Spanish so the Spanish language is also what's going on for me.

Last Thing I Googled: Books my library carries about the Indus River Valley Civilization, how Grapefruit deals with bipolar medications, and some very compelling stuff on cow manure and tomatoes.

Tag: @starsfellradio @camlannpod and @starshipqstar

Tag game! nine people you’d like to get to know better

Thanks for the tag @laurenshippen I haven't done a tag game in FOREVER!

last song: "Hold Me Tight Or Don't" by Fall Out Boy

favorite color: shifts between shades of blue/green but rn I am digging Forest Green or Teal!

currently watching: nothinggggg D: I usually follow one tv series at a time and I am in between shows! WWDITS when will you return from the war

sweet/savory/spicy: I have such a sweet tooth

relationship status: :)

current obsession: still in my Baldur's Gate 3 hyperfixation

last thing you googled: how to get a specific achievement in BG3 LOOK I can stop any time!!!

tagging (only if ya want to!): @chemicallywrit, @lookingstunning, @fyeahaudiodrama, @itmeblog, @thefearandnow @the-sassy-composer, @saucymincks, @boombox-fuckboy, @see-arcane

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The worst kind of flirting. (On the bright side it's integral to your character progression.)

i want you carnally *shoves a knife into your abdomen*

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Fun fact: Small Victories was originally supposed to be a choose-your-own-adventure where the audience picked what Marisol did next.

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today i finished scripting a first draft of the final episode of starship iris. this means i now have a rough draft of the whole final season.

...i was gonna say something about needing to process my emotions by lying down on my floor for a while but it's night now and probably what i should do is process my emotions by sleeping.

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Yeah, I think we’re in the right place.

please do not ask me to explain anything.

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please do not ask me to explain anything.

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InCo is so engaging and refreshing as a podcast because it takes place in a cold, lonely, unfair, suspicious universe, and the characters act like it. They’re cold. They’re lonely. They’re unfair and suspicious. They aren’t particularly kind and they’re rarely nice. And you can see the way the world has shaped them, the cold suspicious lonely unfairness of this big selfish universe has reached them. This is not a “the world is cold and dark and unfriendly, but I maintain my hope and kindness and friendliness anyway by the sheer goodness in my heart” story. This is a story where the darkness of the world has gotten to the characters and worn them down. Nova is snappish and rude and untrusting. Jean is harsh and brusque and mean. Hatov is bewildered but also selfish and kind of haughty—he’s above this all! Or he’s supposed to be. No one trusts each other. No one goes out of their way to be nice.

And Nova is inspired by Hatov to try to be better anyway. Having responsibility to someone other than herself again, having someone (like Alula) who does believe in being nice and trusting people again (even if he does it in a rather more naïve and self-centered way than Alula did), does inspire her to try to be something more again. Be more than the lonely closed-off grieving person who keeps her eyes ahead of her and her only goal is the crisp performance of her unappreciated job. She saves Hatov because it’s the right thing to do and then is stuck with him and it drags them both (slowly, kicking and screaming the whole way) into becoming better adjusted people.

So many “hopeful” sff works have people like Nova as a failure state, the sort of people who are either villains or just don’t exist, for letting the bleakness and difficulty of the world get to them. You’re supposed to maintain your hope and kindness and gentleness through it all! Not let it wear you down and make you prickly and snappish and impatient and cold. Nova is interesting and I like her because she lives in a world that’s just tiring and has never been pleasant to her, and the narrative lets her become a less than pleasant person in response. And it doesn’t make her a Bad Person. There’s part of her that wants to be more than this, part of her that made the decision to look out for a stranger and take him under her wing because he’ll die if she doesn’t, but also still part of her that wants to keep her head down and maintain the status quo and the emotional walls she’s built up around herself to avoid anything worse. It feels like she’s going, yeah. Being an adult in a hostile and unfair world is hard and it does make sense to become hostile and unfair in response. And that doesn’t mean that’s all she is.

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Beware the ides of March, babe.