#I'm tired and in pain 😔✌🏻 and stu🅱id

[reinemichele]

A lot of the torchwood characters may be [redacted] but big finish has a huge range of audio stories with the Torchwood cast, some stories that continue from after the show ended, and some one-shots with individual characters that serve as character studies that flesh out the world and characterization more than they could do in the show, in short bites (like 40 minute), but sometimes there's 2 or 3 characters together, like there's one where Rhys and Ianto have a barbecue together (I haven't listened to it yet but from the description they have a No Good Very Bad Terrible Barbecue)

Here's the download links to the post-canon series, Torchwood specials (includes a series with John Hart, if you like him <3), and the one-shots ✨

And I haven't listened to all of them, but some I recommend:

Zone 10 - Tosh - Tosh decodes a message hidden in a radio signal and travels to Russia to investigate. Really fun and also sad. I love Tosh send post

Moving Target - Suzie - Aliens hunt Suzie and another woman, the last 2 humans alive. Listening to this ruined my life, slash positive. I super recommend it, especially if you find Suzie to be a compelling little meow meow.

The Office of Never Was - Ianto - An empty building is haunted and freaking out the locals, who request Torchwood to look into it. This one really fucked me up (slash positive), as soon as I finished it I wanted to listen to it again from the beginning.

Deadbeat Escape - Bilis Manger - I don't even know how to describe this one. Uh, haunted Hotel California that absorbs life energy? It's really emotionally charged. If you like Bilis or existential horror I recommend it.

Sync - Suzie - Suzie is stuck, bound by an alien tracking bracelet, working together with a slitheen. There's an awkward hitch-hiking truck ride!

The Hope - Owen - I haven't listened to this one yet, but it's about a woman who ran a home for "troubled children", where the children wound up missing. She kept her silence on the issue for years, but now that she's dying, she agreed to go back and reveal the horrible secrets. Again, haven't listened, but it sounds really dark, and in the cover Owen is being buried alive, which is nice.

Dissected - Gwen & Martha - Another one I haven't listened to, but it's Gwen and Martha together! Gwen shows up on Martha's doorstep with a dead body, and questions about why their friendship ended.

Tropical Beach Sounds and Other Relaxing Seascapes #4 - The Narrator - Another one I haven't listened to, but it's described as a self-help tape about Torchwood. What a hilarious combination of words.

Rhys and Ianto's Excellent Barbecue - Rhys & Ianto - Still haven't listened. Rhys plans a barbecue but the only one who shows up is Ianto, and "something goes wrong. The two of them could be trapped together for eternity at a barbecue where the sausages never cook, and worse, the brewskis remain forever out of reach." (Per the official description)

The Crown - Queen Victoria (?) - I haven't listened to this yet but it seems spooky. It's Christmas eve, and Dr. Gideon Parr is summoned to an asylum to check on a patient. This patient claims to haunted by a terrible curse of The Ferryman, and also claims to be Queen Victoria.

Ex-Machina - Ianto - I haven't listened to this yet, so here's the official description: "Ianto Jones is Torchwood. Ianto Jones is the defender of a deserted city, a lone crusader who keeps the empty streets safe. One day he meets one of the few survivors. She needs his help – because she's being chased by a darkness. A darkness which says it loves her." Yayyyy dark eldritch entities saying they love you <333

Drive - Tosh - Tosh wakes up, wounded and desperate, in the back of a cab. She and this taxi driver have just one night to save the city of Cardiff. Honestly very heart-warming, I Loved the taxi driver.

Lease of Life - Owen - Haven't listened to yet, but from the description it seems like Owen is called in to investigate an apartment with a spreading mould issue. Tfw you can't die so they expose you to mould 😭

Curios - Bilis Manger - Bilis Manger is trapped in a Welsh coal mine during WWII, and Jill has been sent down to catalogue what's down there. There's something hunting them in the dark. 10/10, really fun and honestly sweet at parts despite the horror. Be warned there's an attempted rape scene, but it isn't explicit and doesn't go anywhere.

The Great Sontaran War - Ianto - I haven't listened to this yet, but it's Ianto with a Sontaran and a cat.

The Grey Mare - Ianto - Haven't listened yet but you had me at ghost horse. I'd never heard of the tradition of Mari Wyld before (as I am a nasty american) but the folklore itself sounds really sweet and communal, but in this story Ianto is visited by Mari Wyld, and she's real. I hope this one is spooky!

Dead Plates - Bilis Manger - I don't know how to describe this one either. Murder mystery whodunit hosted by Bilis Manger, who has been murdered. Very trippy and fun.

Torchwood: SUV - Ianto & Tosh - Haven't listened to this, but it's Tosh and Ianto trapped in the Torchwood SUV with a monster trying to get in.

The Last Love Song of Suzie Costello - Suzie - Still haven't listened to this one. An island appears in the North Atlantic Ocean, and while Suzie comes to investigate, she finds a crashed spaceship on the seabed. In it is a mystery, and "also something Suzie has never dreamed of..."

There's a trio of ood-themed stories that just came out, but they're so recent that I haven't found DL links to them. I do plan on buying them though so I can provide those eventually!

While I'm at it, the main folder of this google drive folder is this Gigantic compilation of every DW media in existence. Classic Who, magazines, comics, novels, spinoffs like Torchwood & SJA, audiobooks, big finish audios, promotional clips, ads, a role-playing game; literally everything. It's a lot so you should probably set aside a few days to look through everything, that's what I did because it's so overwhelming. But I wanted the resource available to anyone who wants it!

I wanted to share that these exist and that the Torchwood actors reprised their roles for audio stories with Will and Lee, but I didn't want to post this in the tag and get yelled at / lectured for 🏴‍☠️.

I just think it'd be unrealistic, not to mention kinda mean to point people in the direction of the audios, and then be like "Okay! Now go spend $75 on 3 stories!" I buy a lot of big finish releases but I know not a lot of people have the money to spare for silly scifi, especially with the economy being so fucked. So I want to help make these more accessible, plus people can always listen to one of these and decide to buy it if they like it enough.

Okay I want to make a torched wood post but I don't want it to show up in the search results so I'm going to reblog and add it to this