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If you aren't listening to World Gone Wrong yet, I'd like to float it as your next podcast. Two (yes, queer) roommates dealing with a world gone bizzarely wrong start a talk podcast to keep in touch while one is staying with her dad on the other side of the country.

It's one of those non-fiction formats but in a fictional setting that really makes it work well, and the hosts are dynamic and play off eachother exceptionally well. The sound design is simple but effective, and the recording quality is crisp.

Topics so far include:

What to do if your pekingese contracts lycanthropy

How to deal with that whole extra hour every day

How (not) to spot when someone you know has been replaced with an alien doppelganger

Taking a roadtrip in literal acid rain

Highly recommend.

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Audiodrama Sunday 04/28/24

So much stuff this week! I think this is going to be my longest writeup yet!

@camlannpod what the fuck? Trying to avoid spoilers, but the ending of that episode was wild. The sound design for the last scene was so good. Also “You're good with an axe, right?” was brutal, I audibly said "oof". Only 1 more episode in the season, hopefully they get funding for a second one.

The first episode of @wanderersjournalpod came out this week. This was a promising start to a new show, I'm excited to see where it goes from here. The setting feels very mystical, I can't wait to learn more about the world.

@worldsbeyondpod was so tense. Suvi and Ame had the most awkward conversation in existence. This story has so much nuance, neither of them are clearly in the right, though I feel inclined to take Ame's side due to the "Geas + Alter Memory" double espionage scheme. Meanwhile Ursulon discovers that Orima of the Reaching Green is a short queen and gets a cool horse.

I'm now up to date with @lostterminal. Season 15 was great. I love Nia, and Daphne and Raffi were really interesting new characters. Also, the dragon was terrifying. This show doesn't usually have very much action, so the confrontation with it really stood out. The description of the automatic turret going "click, click" as it locked on to Maddie was so intimidating.

@worldgonewrongpod I loved this episode. The storytelling felt so natural and real, like someone telling me a story about a weird road trip they went on. I think I said this about the last episode too, but this was my favorite episode yet. It also sets up the backstory which was never really explained as to why Jamie and Malik are separated at all.

In @midstpodcast we finally had a nicer episode. No horrible fucked up Weep/Trust stuff happening, just Lark reunited with Zeila and Sherman. However, there's so much tension between these characters. I was surprised that Lark forgave Sherman for selling her out. Something to remember is that Lark and Sherman had been hooking up before everything went to shit, which was mentioned once and I think really changes their relationship.

New @keepitsteadypod! This is the first new episode of this show since I started doing these. This was a really cute episode. For how popular fake dating is as a trope in fandom spaces, you don't see a lot of it in audiodramas.

Fun episode of Mission Rejected this week. It was cool to see Bowden go from "vain actor" to "badass spy" when the stakes ramped up. We don't get to see him take charge very often, it was neat for him to be a competent leader. I wonder if the gang lying to Zelda(who definitely saw through it) and Chet(who probably didn't) is foreshadowing for more of a conflict with the new Secretary of Defense later in the season. Also I loved the squabbling gay couple running an illegal mining operation as the villains of the week.

@breakerwhiskey episode 200 wow. A letter from Harry! We learned that Harry has been listening to most of Whiskey's broadcasts, which recontextualizes a lot of the previous episodes. Also, the end was heartbreaking.

I started season 2 of @longcatmedia's Mockery Manor! I'm 2 episodes in and really like it so far. JJ and Bettie are employed in different parks, JJ is on the run from an organized crime ring, and Bettie became a monk? Also, it's clear that neither Hilda nor Jenkins stole the shipment, neither of them have motive. But I don't know who else would have motive either. Lots of mysteries this season.

Spout Lore had a great planning episode. I'm excited for the "saving Highspear" arc, the Highspear is so cool as a concept. A reverse Tower of Babel, that lets the whole world talk with each other. A literal monument to wizard hubris, which feels destined to fall. However I doubt it will, because, as the players mentioned, it would be really annoying from a storytelling perspective if everyone suddenly spoke different languages. This has actually made me realize I really want a story set shortly after some sort of "fall of the Tower of Babel", where communication is a struggle, but that's just because I think linguistics is cool. Anyways, the buffet talk had me rolling.

What a great week! However, it did not help my queue, which continues to grow instead of get smaller. I'll reach the end of it one day.

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World Gone Wrong made the most terrifying part of their mega-apocalypse the single moment they said "the FIRST covid outbreak"

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There's a non-zero amount of ✨denial✨in response to certain podcast-based events this week, as I bring you my thoughts about the fiction podcasts I've been listening to in this week's audio fiction Sunday blog post!

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The moment of stomach dropping TERROR I had this week listening to @worldgonewrongpod in my car as it began to rain...

I have so many thoughts on this show that I badly need to untangle and share

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other people about the song "Cassandra" by Taylor Alison Swift: her use of greek myth and placing herself as cassandra is alluding to *taylor swift lore that I'm too out of touch to know*

me: this song is about fox mulder

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love the pod. has your theme song been published anywhere? i found the band's website but i didn't find the song

Hey @scienceandstarlight, thank you so much for your kind words on the show!

@oliviaandthelovers hasn't released the recording of "Falling in love at the end of the world" yet- but I hear you should mark your calendars for May 10~

Olivia and the Lovers is mostly active on Instagram at www.instagram.com/oliviaandthelovers

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Some of the folks behind my favorite horror podcast just recently started a new podcast called World Gone Wrong and if you like podcasts at all I cannot recommend it enough

It's a fictional chat show about the end of the world between two roommates currently living half the country apart and they're talking about things like how to werewolf-proof your home against your lycanthropy-infected purse dog and it's so funny but there's something so gentle and empathetic about it that feels so relevant to the way everything actually is. Even though they're talking about pod people.

There's only 4 episodes so far so it's a really quick listen, please listen to World Gone Wrong

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DUN....dun dun dun dun dun.....DUN DUN

(tomorrow!)

Listen to World Gone Wrong on Spotify or wherever you listen to podcasts~

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The Witches and the Singing Mice' by Jenny Nimmo, illustrated by Angela Barrett

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the sirens wouldnt even have to sing beautiful or anything. id still come over to the shallows and rocks to see whats up see whats happening. whats all going on

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Our Fair City was the first show the World Gone Wrong team made- it's such a joy to see how the world of audio fiction has grown since then.

Back then (circa 2009?!) I could name just about everyone making audio fiction in the US, and had met or corresponded with a good chunk of them. These days, I feel like I'm tripping over a show that I've never heard of but has been running for 6 seasons every day. It's such a wonderful explosion~

So hey- keep making your weird shows, keep pushing this medium forward- it's such a delight to hear!

187?

You lucky duck, you have Our Fair City!

I feel like Our Fair City gets overlooked as an establisher of a bunch of audio drama tropes. It ran concurrent with early Night Vale and includes like, deranged evil scientists and mole men and the cheerful post-apocalypse that a lot of shows play with later. It's sprawling and funny and fantastic. Go listen!

Send me a number between 1-273 and I'll recommend an audio drama!

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I feel confident enough to post these now. A collection of all the existing posters after some edits from the other post that got 13k notes! These are full size/quality. Go nuts.

You may use them for wallpapers, tabletop campaigns, whatever. Consider tipping me or buying a print or sticker on ko-fi here! If you do use them, let me know what for, or send pictures!