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Inspired by @fyeahaudiodrama's do you love the color of the audio drama?, I have finally reorganised the contents of my podcatcher:

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i love how tmagp is rlly balancing the budget on the lack of female rep in audio drama. like it is now around 90% cool hot girls. all the other boys are dead, archivist creatures (who may not even be a boy) or pathetic whimperers. oh and heimlich unhenrich. like hell yeag

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OMG, I only found the Shelterwood podcast yesterday and I ended up so far down the rabbit hole that I binged the whole season one in 24 hours. Now I’m both a bit paranoid and hoping season two starts soon.

Honestly this is my preferred way of listening to shows myself, I love to devour a show and then wander about the apartment fists up and ready to fight whatever ghosties or ghouls might now be lurking about. So glad you enjoyed it! It's good fun to send along to a friend now that you know How Everything Ends ;)

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"all podcasts are about a pathetic man going through the horrors" factoid actually just statistical error. Listenership Georg, which is about a man and inspires over 10,000 posts per day, is a statistical outlier adn should not have been counted

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+ here is the same 50 (plus a couple extra) as a podchaser list if you would like to have a browse through the shows' blurbs etc and see what each one is about <3

i love how tmagp is rlly balancing the budget on the lack of female rep in audio drama. like it is now around 90% cool hot girls. all the other boys are dead, archivist creatures (who may not even be a boy) or pathetic whimperers. oh and heimlich unhenrich. like hell yeag

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i love how tmagp is rlly balancing the budget on the lack of female rep in audio drama. like it is now around 90% cool hot girls. all the other boys are dead, archivist creatures (who may not even be a boy) or pathetic whimperers. oh and heimlich unhenrich. like hell yeag

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In honour of @notquitedeadpod finishing this week, please enjoy this blooper I found from the upcoming ep 33!

Listen to Not Quite Dead!!

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I consider myself a microinfluencer in the way I can get ten to fifteen people to consume a piece of media if I’m annoying enough about it

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There's a guy in my local LARP scene who looks ASTONISHINGLY like you (it is genuinely uncanny), and his larp character dresses exactly like Jonny D'Ville right down to the eye makeup. I asked him once and he has never heard of the mechanisms.

Just thought you should know about your weird Australian larping doppelganger.

If you love me, you will kill this man.

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My latest bracelets were inspired by @goodmorningevildoers! Winifred's cheerful HR messages about the creepy goings on of her evil supercorp have me captivated (and I'm like 90% sure it's not because of any hypnotism or subliminal messaging).

I love playing around with different styles, so here I did one with blue wire and strong, bright colours for the beads. The second is a more playful, sparkly one, with silver wire and faceted beads in various shades.

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A friend needs to renew her restraining order against a person who's been harassing her for years. This person says they are waiting for the RO to expire so that they can resume the abuse, so it's really important for my friend's safety that it gets renewed. Can you help her afford it?

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”lack of female rep in audio drama” EVERYONE LISTEN TO ANY AUDIO DRAMA BY JULIAN SIMPSON RIGHT NOW

LOVECRAFT INVESTIGATIONS, WHO IS ALDRICH KEMP, BBC MYTHOS (PLEASE BBC MYTHOS PLEASE)

LITERALLY THE HOTTEST SMARTASS BADASS WOMEN IM IN LOVE ALL OF THEM!! ALSO THE SOUNDSCAPING IS INCREDIBKE AND THEYRE SET IN A COLLECTIVE UNIVERSE (“the pleasant green universe”)!!!!!!!!

some are being taken off podcast apps but I think you can find them on internet archive or SoundCloud PLEASE LISTEN TO THEM PLEASE

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aaah you are so welcome!!! enjoy :⟩

Taking up that little thing in your pinned ~

I've been getting into audio dramas and podcasts n general of lately, and I've been sort of deep in an on and off fixation with MyHouse.wad and House of Leaves, subtle mindfuckery to suddenly the mindfuckery hits like a truck. Weirdcore maybe?

Do you have any recommendations with any podcasts you've heard that could be labeled with "mindfuckery" or left you questioning life and the entire podcast? I'd love the recommendations if you got it, thank you millions <3

OOOOOHH this is an excellent question & i am so glad you asked !! i can def think of a few like this, hopefully at least some will take ur fancy :) (all titles are linked to the respective show's website on which you can see more detailed info & ways to listen)

for weird (meta)fiction that will gradually build & creep out towards you, Archive 81 is absolutely worth a listen. each of its 3 seasons takes it in a new direction, & tbh i don't think any further description from me would give you a better experience than going in blind, but i will say that i really love the world & atmospheres that it creates.

for horror with twisting, breathing architecture, i would direct you towards suburban gothic Shelterwood (fake-true-crime in an extradimensional suburb + one of my favs of all time), or the dreamy, eerie prose of Mabel (told through voicemails - i've previously described it as sort of like if the book This is How You Lose the Time War was about a haunted house)

for a glimpse of a world into which you were not invited and are maybe not supposed to fully understand, try The Goblet Wire. if you want to also dig around for extra secret codes and messages, head for the mysterious and poignant purgatory of Remnants, or the things that lie beneath the surface of At the Bottom of the Garden's fairy stories. (i especially recommend atbotg if you've a particular interest in metafiction mindfuckery. but perhaps i've already said too much..) [i personally have not listened to enough of I Am In Eskew to describe it well, but i feel like the style of it is in this zone + i have seen it recommended by people whose tastes i trust absolutely so it goes here too]

the absolute weirdest thing i can think of (that i've heard) would have to be The Great Chameleon War, which takes you on a journey through a psychedelic landscape that defies understanding. i listened to it twice in a row and LOVED it but i still could not tell you in any real words what the fuck is really going on there<3

finally a couple other pieces of weird fiction that may not fit this exact bill but i reckon are absolutely still worth mentioning here: The Tower & SINKHOLE. there are aspects of these i think it's very likely you'd enjoy, but i also just think they're excellent examples of the wide and wonderful potential of the audio medium if you're just getting into it. plus i just love them a lot. and i am incapable of being unbiased <3

okay i think that's all i've got for rn. go forth have fun get weird

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Taking up that little thing in your pinned ~

I've been getting into audio dramas and podcasts n general of lately, and I've been sort of deep in an on and off fixation with MyHouse.wad and House of Leaves, subtle mindfuckery to suddenly the mindfuckery hits like a truck. Weirdcore maybe?

Do you have any recommendations with any podcasts you've heard that could be labeled with "mindfuckery" or left you questioning life and the entire podcast? I'd love the recommendations if you got it, thank you millions <3

OOOOOHH this is an excellent question & i am so glad you asked !! i can def think of a few like this, hopefully at least some will take ur fancy :) (all titles are linked to the respective show's website on which you can see more detailed info & ways to listen)

for weird (meta)fiction that will gradually build & creep out towards you, Archive 81 is absolutely worth a listen. each of its 3 seasons takes it in a new direction, & tbh i don't think any further description from me would give you a better experience than going in blind, but i will say that i really love the world & atmospheres that it creates.

for horror with twisting, breathing architecture, i would direct you towards suburban gothic Shelterwood (fake-true-crime in an extradimensional suburb + one of my favs of all time), or the dreamy, eerie prose of Mabel (told through voicemails - i've previously described it as sort of like if the book This is How You Lose the Time War was about a haunted house)

for a glimpse of a world into which you were not invited and are maybe not supposed to fully understand, try The Goblet Wire. if you want to also dig around for extra secret codes and messages, head for the mysterious and poignant purgatory of Remnants, or the things that lie beneath the surface of At the Bottom of the Garden's fairy stories. (i especially recommend atbotg if you've a particular interest in metafiction mindfuckery. but perhaps i've already said too much..) [i personally have not listened to enough of I Am In Eskew to describe it well, but i feel like the style of it is in this zone + i have seen it recommended by people whose tastes i trust absolutely so it goes here too]

the absolute weirdest thing i can think of (that i've heard) would have to be The Great Chameleon War, which takes you on a journey through a psychedelic landscape that defies understanding. i listened to it twice in a row and LOVED it but i still could not tell you in any real words what the fuck is really going on there<3

finally a couple other pieces of weird fiction that may not fit this exact bill but i reckon are absolutely still worth mentioning here: The Tower & SINKHOLE. there are aspects of these i think it's very likely you'd enjoy, but i also just think they're excellent examples of the wide and wonderful potential of the audio medium if you're just getting into it. plus i just love them a lot. and i am incapable of being unbiased <3

okay i think that's all i've got for rn. go forth have fun get weird

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i should really relisten to redval but ive been watching people* post about their relistens and being remided how many thoughts i have about aubrey and bryony. i will say i personally enjoy readings of aubrey having unrequited feelings for bryony BUT i dont think that is a reading you have to enjoy to agree that like. whatever the magnetic attraction to bryony that aubrey has and describes in s2e2 (she couldnt hide the fact that she was excited about the work. it was magnetic. i wanted to be like her), it absolutely never leaves. it flips from admiration to hatred, as aubrey then describes in s4e5 (like really fall in love [...] i'd never truly hated someone [...] i knew, by god, i hated bryony halbech), but she is still so absolutely fixated on bryony halbech. she needs bryony for this surgery, even though its pretty abjectly clear that bryony is in such a poor state that she is not all that much help. it had to be bryony. and im not totally sure that aubrey has ever really unpacked whatever fixation she has on bryony specifically; we have seen aubrey purposefully ignore and deny her feelings about a range of things when she's listening to the audio logs (hester calls her out on this quite a bit!) and we know she is pretty reticent to admit there's anything up with her (the eterniteze secret.) so my instinct truly is just that she hasn't. frankly i dont know if aubrey has ever really unpacked how much she enjoyed working with bryony. she's had her change of heart and is actively working against cryotech but. well. to nick some works from warren himself. i dont think we can pretend aubrey doesnt lean in when bryony starts talking.

all this to say god i love aubrey wood what a compelling character and god i love my evil science wife bryony

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Taking up that little thing in your pinned ~

I've been getting into audio dramas and podcasts n general of lately, and I've been sort of deep in an on and off fixation with MyHouse.wad and House of Leaves, subtle mindfuckery to suddenly the mindfuckery hits like a truck. Weirdcore maybe?

Do you have any recommendations with any podcasts you've heard that could be labeled with "mindfuckery" or left you questioning life and the entire podcast? I'd love the recommendations if you got it, thank you millions <3

OOOOOHH this is an excellent question & i am so glad you asked !! i can def think of a few like this, hopefully at least some will take ur fancy :) (all titles are linked to the respective show's website on which you can see more detailed info & ways to listen)

for weird (meta)fiction that will gradually build & creep out towards you, Archive 81 is absolutely worth a listen. each of its 3 seasons takes it in a new direction, & tbh i don't think any further description from me would give you a better experience than going in blind, but i will say that i really love the world & atmospheres that it creates.

for horror with twisting, breathing architecture, i would direct you towards suburban gothic Shelterwood (fake-true-crime in an extradimensional suburb + one of my favs of all time), or the dreamy, eerie prose of Mabel (told through voicemails - i've previously described it as sort of like if the book This is How You Lose the Time War was about a haunted house)

for a glimpse of a world into which you were not invited and are maybe not supposed to fully understand, try The Goblet Wire. if you want to also dig around for extra secret codes and messages, head for the mysterious and poignant purgatory of Remnants, or the things that lie beneath the surface of At the Bottom of the Garden's fairy stories. (i especially recommend atbotg if you've a particular interest in metafiction mindfuckery. but perhaps i've already said too much..) [i personally have not listened to enough of I Am In Eskew to describe it well, but i feel like the style of it is in this zone + i have seen it recommended by people whose tastes i trust absolutely so it goes here too]

the absolute weirdest thing i can think of (that i've heard) would have to be The Great Chameleon War, which takes you on a journey through a psychedelic landscape that defies understanding. i listened to it twice in a row and LOVED it but i still could not tell you in any real words what the fuck is really going on there<3

finally a couple other pieces of weird fiction that may not fit this exact bill but i reckon are absolutely still worth mentioning here: The Tower & SINKHOLE. there are aspects of these i think it's very likely you'd enjoy, but i also just think they're excellent examples of the wide and wonderful potential of the audio medium if you're just getting into it. plus i just love them a lot. and i am incapable of being unbiased <3

okay i think that's all i've got for rn. go forth have fun get weird

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their relationship is actually the most fascinating thing ever to me