#Audio Drama

[seeminglydark]

A good time to catch up, cuz I'm busy busy getting the winter episode ready!

Also thank you for almost 600 followers on Spotify!! It's still insane to me how many of you actually want to listen to this thing <3

👻 IT'S HERE! PRESENTING CARO GREENE'S MIL-LIMINAL-THE PODCAST! 👻

Consider this a soft launch cuz i know it's not live on ALL services yet, but you can now listen to the introduction episode of Caro's podcast, Mil-Liminal on Youtube, Podcast Addict, Podbean, and Spotify, and probably more cuz idk how distribution works.

There will be a full length episode soon, but for now, take a listen to the intro, and if you like it, share it to your friends to help people find it! Its written in a way anyone can jump in, even if they aren't familiar with the comics or characters. Thank you SO MUCH for all the support getting here, I'm so happy to finally be able to do this!

Mil-Liminal is a cozy horror podcast featuring the charming and slightly unhinged Caro Greene, an employee working the counter during the night shift at a tiny gas station in the middle of the woods. Join their journey of witnessing the unexplainable! Liminal spaces, ghosts and ghouls galore, there won't be any jump-scares or hopelessness, just unsettling vibes with moments of comedy to lighten the mood. The podcast is in canonical order, meaning the first episode is Caro's first 'episode' as well, learning as they go to create their podcast. 

[ryanthedoctor11]

He genuinely spent more than half of his book range not remembering anything that happened before it, the first half of the novel series and every single adventure he had ever partaken in beforehand was completely forgotten until the final book. At least, that's me trusting the TARDIS wiki because I haven't read many of the EDA's, they're a bit hard to track down, because they stopped being printed before I was born and there are 73 of then

Eight lost his memory for like two hours in the tv movie and it set a precedent

[room56pod]

WE'RE CASTING!!!

We're casting!

We've had multiple of our voice actors become unable to commit to the podcast due to scheduling/personal reasons, so we are looking to recast some of our characters before we can begin working on the rest of Season 1.

Find all the information HERE!!!

[ninetypercentspoon]

Trying out the animation app ToonSquid to animate this clip from the horror podcast Witherburn After School News. It’s an amazing show that I highly recommend. ^^

[224bbaker]

RIP James Stallion you would have loved to tweet “diva down” about Sherlock Holmes’s supposed death at the Reichenbach Falls

[des2dream]

This is something I've seen plenty of reactors do when they react to this type of content and it's honestly not fair. There are some genuinely good storytellers who put so much hard work and effort into their projects all for it to be seen like THIS?! Sure, it's fun to make playful jokes every once in a while, but to disregard the story and/or miss the point of the audio entirely because it's not good enough for viewership so it's best to make fun of it for it's romantic qualities only can be really exhausting! People don't have to like this type of content, but they don't have to bring the whole community down by constantly posting media degrading their work! I'm very sorry to those who have been hurt regarding this type of behavior. It's never a good time when someone misunderstands your work and stoops to that level of trying to shame you in front of tons of people.

Popular YouTubers "reacting" to audio roleplay by trying to exaggerate how cringe they think it is fucking exhausts me man. Half the time they do Cinema Sins-style commentary but from this "what if I don't like beans" point of view of just refusing to suspend disbelief and roleplay as the listener character. The commentary is always them talking back at the audio like "uh, you're not my boyfriend, actually my boyfriend's name is Steven and he's in the living room right now" or just failing to accept the premise of the video they clicked on. Acting shocked when a character kisses them and going "UHHH WHY IS HE KISSING ME". It's because you clicked on a boyfriend ASMR video tagged [kissing], that's why. Don't be dense.

It feels like they want for it to be way more cringe than it actually is, so they put on this exaggerated display, or act shocked that an audio matches its premise. This shit would be like making a video called "Reacting to Horror Movies (try not to cringe)" and being like "UHHH WHY IS THE KNIFE GUY STABBING PEOPLE???? I'M SO UNCOMFORTABLE". Man shut up. Then there's YouTubers reacting to videos that are very obviously ironic, absurdist humor and refusing to get that it's a joke. No, "Boyfriend Gets Hit By a Car [Spicy]" isn't actually supposed to be spicy, it's a joke.

These reaction videos are, for many outside of the niche, their only window into audio roleplays. Anything that has a plot that takes more than two minutes to understand is left out because they don't have the patience to watch the whole thing and only want to "react" to thirty-second clips. Anything that doesn't look like it'll make for good cringe bait is left out because they decided ahead of time that they want to cringe to it.

The whole medium is already so unfairly stigmatized and poorly understood by most people. It's so agonizing seeing this be our community's main source of free publicity. I know I've taken a few shots at cheap fluff boyfriend/girlfriend ASMR before but like, it's friendly jabbing from someone very much adjacent to them. I still understand the value that comfort roleplays have to their audiences, even if their plots aren't as deep. The whole medium-wide dismissal that these YouTubers give for some cheap reaction content on a newer medium they don't understand is actually the worst.

I need to make a video essay or something to act as propaganda for audio roleplays because the publicity we get passively could not be worse I swear to God.

[skyfullofpods]

Happy Saturday, friends!

Every week on Tumblr I create a space for fiction podcasters to shout out their work! It's time for

✨Fiction Podcast Self Promo Saturday!✨

If you have anything audio fiction related that you'd like to promote - a podcast, a new episode, an upcoming show you're working on, a crowdfunding campaign or casting call for your podcast - reblog this post with your self-promo! I'll reblog every one I see throughout the day!

If you've already made a self promo post on a previous week and think I'll find it spammy/repetitive/annoying if you post another one - please post it! These self promo posts haven't been getting as much traction in the last few weeks as I hoped, and my intention is always to get more ears and eyes on fiction podcasts!

[arenacovepod]

🐟🎣🦦 Welcome!!

Do you like podcasts? Do you have a certain affinity for foggy seaside's and tall mountains? Do you just so happen to be gay? You might find yourself enjoying our podcast 'Arena Cove'!

🕯️🌊🌊

Follow Corrine as they document the strange goings on of Unity, OR, via the towns lone radio show. What is really going on in this island town? And what is with the people in the fish masks?? Stay tuned in to find out! ;-)

Episode schedule coming soon!

[kingmakerpod]

Transcript Link

Maxim Moretz sends some of his new friends to get in touch.

Content Warnings: gunshots (3:11-3:12) (9:24-9:26) (14:20-14:21) (26:51-26:52), gore (2:15-2:19) (27:05-27:06) (31:44-31:50), car accident (22:16-22:21)

This episode was guest written by Antonia Le of @sequesteredad

[dom-guilfoyle]

Still working on my next project but it's slow going due to Day Job and also Life. Hoped to have a season written by the upcoming summer break (I work with kids so school holidays matter to me now, weird) so I could get into recording and production over December and January, but it's been a heck of a year and I've written less than I'd hoped, and also I'll be moving again at some point in December or January. So we'll see. I'll keep on working.

Still on track to keep Tales From The Low City going, hope people are enjoying it! If you are, or you just wanna support me, why not join the patreon? All past episodes of Mistholme and Tales From The Low City without ads, some bonus content such as a Mistholme mini-story, and more. I genuinely appreciate every bit of support i get, financial and moral, it means a lot and frankly I'm still baffled that anyone's listened to any of my stuff in the first place.

Anyway, that's just a little update/patreon plug. How are you?

[remnantspod]

Went on that headcanon generator and

[collgeruledzebra]

the thing about trying to recommend fiction podcasts to someone who isn't familiar with them is that not only are so so many genres represented but also the level of production can fall anywhere from "basically an audiobook" to "major motion picture minus the pictures"

[ambivertedbabe]

Arthur Lester vs Jigsaw

clips from the most recent Spooky Stream

[the-sassy-composer]

Good job audio drama creators let's keep it up 👏

[desertskiespodcast]

I tried to write a novel. Not once. Not twice. But about 12 times. Here's how that would play out: 1. I sit down and knock out 10 pages 2. I share it with someone 3. They say "It's goooood" like it's not good 4. I ask for critical feedback 5. They say, "Well....the plot just moves so quickly. So much happens in the first few pages it doesn't feel natural." So I'd write more drafts. I'd try to stretch out the story. I would add dialogue that I tried to make interesting but thought was boring. I would try including environment and character descriptions that felt unnecessary, (why not just let people imagine what they want?) Anyways, I gave up trying to write because in my mind, I wasn't a fiction writer. Maybe I could write a phonebook or something. But then I made a fiction podcast, and I waited for the same feedback about the fast moving plot, but guess what??? Podcasts aren't novels. The thing that made my novels suck became one of the things that made Desert Skies work. I've received some criticism since the show started, but one thing I don't receive regular complaints about is being overly-descriptive or longwinded. In fact, the opposite. It moves fast enough that it keeps peoples attention. I always felt I had a knack for telling stories but spent years beating myself up because I couldn't put those stories into novel form. The problem wasn't me. The problem was the tool I was trying to use. All that to say: If, in your innermost parts you may know that you're a storyteller but you just can't write a book, don't give up right away. You can always do things to get better and there's a lot of good resources. But if you do that for a while and novel writing just isn't your thing, try making a podcast, or creating a comic, or a poem, or a play, or a tv script. You might know you're an artist but suck at painting. Try making a glass mosaic, or miniatures, or try charcoal portraits, or embroider or collage. You might know you're a singer, but opera just isn't working out. Why not yodel? I could keep listing out examples, but the point is this. Trust your intuitions when it comes to your creative abilities, but don't inhibit yourself by becoming dogmatic about which medium you can use to express that creativity. Don't be afraid to try something new. Don't be afraid to make something new. You might just find the art form that fits the gift you knew you always had, and what it is might surprise you