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davey-in-a-minivan · 2 months ago

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Isabel Lovelace My Absolute Beloved

Lovelace is one of my favorite examples of one of my favorite kinds of characters, which is: woman who the world is trying so hard to kill and emerges beat up and spitting out teeth and still going.

(Relatedly, Eva Olivia Moreno is one of the few White Vault characters I really loved and it's on the strength of the joy I felt when i realized that not only had Eva NOT died when a rockslide separated her from the team, but instead dragged herself three days over the mountains, alone, covered in mud and blood and bruises, WITH ALL THE TEAM'S DATA DRIVES, to let the world know what was going on and demand rescue for the others. LOVE HER. Alessandra "Cockroach" Strong of the Penumbra Podcast ALSO falls into this category and I would've loved to see more of her)

Interestingly, I think Lovelace plays a similar role in-universe for Eiffel and Minkowski, in that they first encounter her as a 'character' in old audio logs whose survival they are rooting for at a remove -- when Eiffel and Minkowski listen to her logs but it's unclear whether she made it off the station, Eiffel shushes Minkowski's skepticism and says "let me have my badass space commando chick!!" In the absence of conclusive evidence he clings to the idea that she survived, for what i suspect are two reasons: (1) it means it's possible to survive and gives him and Minkowski a sliver of hope, and (2) it's not fair for her to die after trying so hard to save herself and her crew, and if she survived he can believe that there's some fairness in the universe.

After Kepler shoots Lovelace, Minkowski tells an imagined Lovelace how badly she wanted to get Lovelace home because she wanted to believe that she could go home, which feels like an echo of Eiffel's earlier sentiment--obviously by now Minkowski knows and cares about Lovelace as a person, but she's also a symbol of the ultimate survivor, who will do whatever it takes to get home. If Lovelace, who fought harder and longer, with more skill and fewer limits than Minkowski finds herself capable of, and still didn't survive, what chance is there for Minkowski and her crew?

WHICH MAKES IT SO FUCKING SATISFYING WHEN LOVELACE LIVES AGAIN.

I need you all to know--Lovelace was "dead" for, what, an episode??--in that time my then-roommate and I put up a SHRINE to her memory. She was too cool and tragic and extreme and funny and hot to die!!!

I'm very glad the universe and Gabriel Urbina agreed.

It's not only satisfying because I'm obsessed with her and wanted her back (which I admit freely). It's a riveting development in the story of the unkillable Captain Lovelace where we finally see that she CAN'T be killed because she's already dead. Functionally she's a ghost in the story, haunting the Hephaestus until she finishes her unfinished business, and there's a delightful sheen of destiny to her arc where I was like oh fuck they've already done their worst to her and she's still going. She's going to win this. I don't know what it'll cost her, this could still be a tragedy, but she's GOING to succeed.

What does this mean for the rest of the original crew looking to her as a symbol? Eiffel, Minkowski and Hera do survive, like Lovelace. It is possible. But it costs them a lot. Weeks after Lovelace dies, resurrects, and has the day-ruining revelation that she's actually the alien clone of the dead woman she thought she was haha, she talks about the discomforting effort she makes to be the real Lovelace, not the person that Goddard turned her into. I think once they return to Earth the rest of the crew will struggle in similar ways. Minkowski need to believe that Lovelace could come home, and she did. But none of them could be the same as they were before.

Now, obviously the extremes Lovelace had to go to in pursuit of survival and justice were difficult and upsetting for her. But they were also hot!! SO let's wrap this up with some of the most iconic Lovelace moments according to me:

1. The "run and hide" monologue Eiffel and Minkowski find - HOT. sorry i know this comes on the heels of her describing the harrowing tragedy of her crew members' deaths but like

that's hot!!! go girl, kill em all!!!

2. THE DEAD MAN'S SWITCH. she said im going big AND going home, through the power of insane resourcefulness and this nuclear bomb i made

3. "variations on a theme" is suuuch a good minisode

4. disabling the airlock during the clone jacobi situation without telling anyone

5. NAPALM

6a. broadly, the hostage situation during the coup, where she goads kepler into focusing on her instead of eiffel

6b. SPECIFICALLY the part of the hostage situation where she gets the show's one "fuck"

7. alien possession lovelace!!!! i know it wasn't quite her melting kepler's hand off but god it's a fun scene

8. time loop lovelace. i love a good time loop and the contrast between her yelling and goading and shooting things in the last argument but also being, like, pretty chill and pragmatic about it--this is just her method of causing enough trouble to break the loop--is fun

9. hera's and her intersecting journeys re: what it means to be a person

10. distracting cutter so minkowski can stab him with the harpoon!!!!!!

in conclusion: WHAT A CHARACTER

#if i forgot any iconic lovelace moments PLEASE remind me in the tags #wolf 359 #isabel lovelace #podcast women manifestos

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clonerightsagenda · 2 months ago

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I made a bunch of mutual aid zines this summer and still can't get my folds straight, but here's my contribution to the September podcast zine fest! Image text under the cut.

Page 1: Wolf 359 + Terrible Space Facts

Page 2: Space is terrible. No one should go there. Here are just a few ways the reality of floating alone in the middle of nowhere is even worse than described for the crew of the Hephaestus station.

Page 3: "I'm going to drown? In outer space? What kind of sense does that even make?"

Not just a wacky podcast plot! Italian Luca Parmitano almost drowned on a space walk in 2013 due to a fan pump malfunction.

Page 4: "And that's how you [BLEEP] in space."

0g bathroom breaks aren't easy and luckily (?) NASA loves training. On Earth, astronauts practice on a toilet with a camera in the bowl so they can watch themselves from an... unconventional angle.

Page 5: "Doctor Selberg took the cast off today. Looks like my arm's healing well."

0g is worse on bones than osteoporosis. Chances are Lovelace's arm never healed right, which may have contributed to her use of pain pills.

Page 6: "We're getting hit by another wave of radiation."

The atmosphere protects us from cosmic radiation, but less so as it gets thinner. Astronauts (and flight attendants!) are considered radiation workers. Several ISS astronauts have developed skin cancer.

Page 7: "I did mention the 'so you don't get poisoned' aspect, right?"

In cases of ammonia exposure, astronauts are instructed to remove all (potentially contaminated) clothing before moving to a safe area. A potential other reason everyone is cranky in "Constructive Criticism".

Page 8: Want more #terrible space facts? Visit www.clonerightsagenda.tumblr.com/tagged/terrible space facts for my full collection.

#fiction podcast zine event #fiction podcast zine festival #wolf 359 #terrible space facts #something I did not have space to write:#I bet minkowski tried for a good grade on the space toilet something that is reasonable to want and possible to achieve

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ottosbigtop · 14 days ago

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What Is Wolf 359 anyway ? Is it like a podcast ? And could you tell me all your favorite parts about it in great detail because it sounds really interesting and I trust your opinion :]

sits down across the table from you and slams a briefcase on the table so heavy it breaks it in half. Hey.

Wolf 359 is an audio podcast that came out in 2014. It opens up by asking the question “Would that be fucked up or what?” and its answers are really funny until they aren’t. Classic case of the funny story slowly becoming painfully real and dangerous for the protagonists.

The basics of the plot is a crew of three people plus their space station’s AI are sent to orbit a star lightyears away from earth by some totally suspicious corporation. The show introduces you right in the middle of the mission, when everyone’s already been out there for months, so they’ve sort of abandoned decorum for gassing each other with chemicals as a solution for workplace discourse. I will put my in depth thoughts under a cut because frankly, I would very very much like you to check out this podcast, because I like it a lot and want to see more people talking about it. Stick through at least season one and the beginning of season 2, it’s about a dozen episodes and it’s a quick listen to help you decide if you want to keep checking it out.

ok so my favorite things about it (non spoilers edition.)

-Really solidly written female characters. Like it’s genuinely enjoyable how much they share the same narrative weight as the male characters especially for a 2014 podcast.

-Character focused podcast 🫶🫶🫶🫶🫶 I love a story that is first and foremost about dissecting characters and their actions and I think Wolf 359 excels in this section of its writing. Doug Eiffel is a wonderful adventure in finding out what happens when a comedic relief character is confronted with being more than just his archetype.

-Ai storyline. Do you like robots? You should like my friend Hera. Everything happens to her. She sees everything all of the time, she knows so much more than you do, and she is physically unable to insult you to your face but I think she should do it anyways. I like. Her. She gets to get up to weird gay people stuff with a character that shows up later on and it leaves her changed in so many ways.

-Fucked up little scientist that I like. He’s Russian and you should listen to the podcast for the sole experience of comparing his voice in ep 1 to any ep in season 3. It’s funny.

ok specifics under the cut if you dare to hear my detailed thoughts before listening to the podcast

-Doug Eiffel’s character is genuinely one of the most interesting things to me. I talked about it in an older textpost but I love how Wolf 359 is a media not unfamiliar with immoral and nuanced characters and chooses to make sure that applies to not just its antagonists. The reveal in season 3 that he was a dad? And he like? Brutally impacted his kids life forever because of His Own shitty mistakes? And now he has to deal with that forever? Big. Massive even. Also part of the reason I have such a gripe with the finale of the show but it’s okay I think the show itself is still really worth it in spite of my mixed feelings on season 4.

-Isabel. ISABEEEEEEL. Isabel Lovelace is really good and the entirety of minisode 4 (I believe it’s 4?) kills me dead. She’s died not once, but twice! And lived! She’s tormented! She’s miserable! She’s the final girl! she’s a clone! She’s the original! I need to finish my relisten so I can get as weird about her as possible because fuck me does she have a fascinating storyline.

-That fuckass scientist. Hilbert. Heart. I can and have gone into depth about him before because I hate him. He’s like, peak for me vis a vis Wolf 359 and character dissection. Hes a horrible horrible man but the way he justifies his actions and how he views himself and what exactly his apathy is driven by fascinates me. This man died at 6 years old and has spent the rest of his life dragging the dead weight of his own corpse around while he works toward his unreasonable goals. I love him.

-Lovelace and Hilbert have a shared connection from before canon that makes me insane in a way I literally cannot describe. Type of dynamic that makes you so fucking nuts that I don’t just need you to hear me I need someone to grab at my brain and match my freak. I need more people to talk about them. They were friends and then they were enemies and also they understand each other more than anyone else. He killed her entire crew, but he’s the only member of her crew that’s left. He’s everything she lost and he’s all she has. She came back to tell him he isn’t allowed to forget what he did this time. They haunt each other. Blow them up now.

-Marcus Cutter is a deeply unsettling little man and I find him fascinating.

#asks :0]#Wolf 359 #textposts :0]#thankyou. Smiles bigly.

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caw-oticdork · 1 year ago

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Since my previous podcast recommendation list was pretty popular, I've decided to make another, with another bunch of excellent podcasts:

13 Minutes or Less - Short podcast with very short episodes, about a pizza chef who doesn't like dealing to people but has to do some deliveries due to short staffing. Very much not her thing, but she does her best. As it turns out, her clients are quite a bit stranger and spookier than expected...

Additional Postage Required - Sci-Fi adventure about a nonbinary courier who gains the ability (or curse...) to get visions about the contents, past, and sender of packages they touch. They get roped into a rebellion. There's hoverboard racing. It's awesome.

Among the Stars and Bones - A team of xenoarcheologists search a distant world for traces of a long-vanished aliens. It's been a while since I watched this one, so I don't remember it very well, but I know that I enjoyed it. Very good sci-fi horror.

Dark Ages - Fantasy workplace comedy about a supernatural museum. Quite a lot of fun.

Dragon Shanty - Fantasy story about two bards traveling the high seas. There's dragons aplenty. Very queer. Excellent songs.

Falling Forward - Hacker story loosely based on the myth of Icarus and the Labyrinth, about getting back at a terrible corporation. Kinda experimental, this one has the shortest episodes I've ever seen.

Hotel Daydream - Podcast about the goings-on at a supernatural hotel. Very inventive, with really interesting characters.

Jar of Rebuke - Mystery about a researcher at an ominous cryptozoological organization out in the rural US. He's got no memories of his past and keeps dying and coming back. A story about cryptids, identity, queerness, neurodivergence, and community.

Light Hearts - Slice of Life podcast about turning an old, haunted building into a cafe and queer community center. The ghosts lead to some very fun shenanigans.

Lost Terminal - Mentioned in the other list but not expanded on. This is a hopepunk story set on an Earth devestated by climate change. Told from the POV of an adorable AI who watches this Earth from a space station, observing how humanity re-builds itself and finds a brighter future.

Mayfair Watchers Society - You know Trevor Henderson? The guy who drew Sirenhead, Long Horse, and other such creepypasta creatures in his found footage style? Yeah, this is a horror anthology based on his works, directed by him. Set in the rural town of Mayfair, where strange creatures are a lot more common than elsewhere... Each episode has a slightly different framing device, with some being found footage audio, others meeting recordings, phone calls, etc.

Monstrous Agonies - An advice podcast for the british creature community. Many of the advice letters are sent in by listeners - there's two by myself, one from an ant that can hear and send radio and one from a fey who is looking for curse advice. Some letters are metaphors for queerness, clashing cultures, ableism, and minority communities, others just some urban fantasy fun. Has a little bit of plot, but most episodes have an anthology style. Fast approaching the finale!

Mx Bad Luck - Slice of Life about someone who is cursed with bad luck. Sometimes sad, sometimes funny. Can recommend.

Neighbourly - Neighbourly follows the residents of Little Street, house by house. What they do, how they interact with each other, and what skeletons are hiding in their closet. Starts out as a spooky urban fantasy thing that's almost an anthology, but weaves itself into quite a mysterious plot over time...

SINKHOLE - Short-form audio podcast presented as a collection of audio posts from a member of a community of data restoration hobbyists in a sometimes-unfamiliar future. Mystery about disability, internet communities, and how things change with time.

Second Star to the Left - Scout-explorer Gwen Hartley has five years to explore and prepare her planet for settlement. With no aid but her robots and the anxious voice of her long-distance scout-minder Bell Summers in her ear, she's hoping she's ready for anything.

Someone Dies In This Elevator - Anthology where every episode, someone dies in an elevator. You wouldn't believe how creative they get with that simple concept!

Tales from the Low City - By the maker of Mistholme Museum, this podcast explores the everyday lifes of the last people on an alien world, after the surface had become uninhabitable and everyone had fled down into the last city, the subterranean Low City. This one made me cry a lot!

Tartarus - In a secret facility deep beneath Antarctica, an anxious astrobiologist, a terse station manager, and an AI keep humanity safe from the monsters they imprison.

The Attic Monologues - Queer urban fantasy story about a university student who decides to record themself practicing monologues using a collection they found in their attic. Don't forget to listen to the post-credit scenes!

The Bridge - Surreal alternate universe horror story about the keepers of a bridge over the Atlantic. Gets pretty spooky.

The Green Horizon - Sci-Fi comedy about a na'er-do-well Irish space captain and his rag-tag crew traversing a war-torn galaxy in search of fame and fortune. Very fun podcast.

The Lavender Tavern - Anthology podcast with original gay fairytales. Most are quite memorable!

The Vesta Clinic - Sci-Fi story about a clinic that helps various interesting alien lifeforms with their medical issues. Excellent worldbuilding and characters!

Tides - The story of Dr. Winifred Eurus, a xenobiologist trapped on an unfamiliar planet with hostile tidal forces and a fascinating ecosystem. She must use her wits, sarcasm, and intellectual curiosity to survive long enough to be rescued. But there might be more to life on this planet than she expected...

Hope this list is as helpful as the last!

@boombox-fuckboy @marvelousmawn @sapphireclaw @ashes-in-a-jar @frogmomentsfrombeyondtime @time-is-restored @emmy-noethers-rings

You folk seemed the most interested in the other list, so I'm being bold and @ing you all.

#podcast recommendation #podcasts

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carionto · 1 year ago

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I think I want to add Dinosaurs

I am easily influenced and manipulated by what I see and hear. Literally listening to a podcast about not-dinosaurs and it mentioned dinosaurs and now I'm thinking - I don't think I've encountered the idea of using space tech to bring back dinosaurs in any of these, I'm sure there's plenty I just don't know of them, yet. I know some have things like dragons and other monstrous creatures. Warhammer 40K has space elves riding dinosaurs. Dinosaurs are cool.

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Hailing from a Deathworld, Earth's flora and fauna, including Humans, are quite sturdy and potent. Unfortunately, it is as a result of a seemingly incomprehensible mix of hundreds and billions of organisms, evolutionary necessity they call "survival of the fittest", and, sometimes, just sheer willpower. Not something easily replicable for the majority of species within the Galactic Coalition.

So when we learned one of their stations is purpose designed to revive long extinct local species called dinosaurs - a very loose term that encompasses millions of wildly different and unrelated species across a greater time span than even some of the most ancient galactic civilizations, let alone a relatively infantile one such as Humanity, we were, once again, worried.

These creatures were massive beasts of pure power, teeth, claws, bulk, even organic armor and certain kinds of naturally evolved weapons! Most Humans have nothing but respect, fear, and awe towards them. And they want to bring them back. We're already getting too used to hearing this response, but still we had to ask why.

"It'll be so cool! Dinosaurs!! In Space!!!"

"Just imagine - a giant 3 meter tall T-Rex, kitted out with a dragon pattern armor plates, twin mini-guns mounted on its sides, friggin' laser beam goggles!, me riding it with a energy sword, holding Earth's flag and being all - Fuck yeah!"

We thought these experimental science stations housed the brightest minds Humanity had to offer, paragons of knowledge, creativity, invention, and progress. Are our translators working right? Or is Humanity just... crazy?

#humans are deathworlders #humans are space oddities #humanity fuck yeah #humans are space australians #humans are space orcs #carionto #dinosaurs in space

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jessilynallendilla · 10 days ago

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Radioapple AlastorXLucifer

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Too Heavy, Too Light (T)

Moving halfway across the country a year ago was meant to be refreshing. Getting away from the dramatics of his family and his ex-wife to start over in New Orleans and open his toy store was meant to bring hope and the chance for a kinder life for him and his daughter. He should have expected his peace wouldn't last.

My Daughter’s Nanny Was A Serial Killer (EX)

Lucifer is exhausted. He had been so rich, had everything he could ever want, until Lilith took everything in the divorce, including embezzling from his father's company and leaving him to hold the bag. All he had was the manor in his family's name, and their three year old daughter, Charlie. Everyone abandoned him, he lost all his staff, his friends, and his family even believed her lies... Until he met Alastor. Alastor had just been bought out, a man he had thought was a friend had betrayed him, bought his radio station, fired him...he was homeless, living out of his car. That didn't stop him from pursuing his hobbies of course! He hunted down child predators and those who preyed on the weak and defenseless and made them weak and defenseless. They would never hurt another child, another vulnerable person... But he would need a more stable job soon... Until he had a witness for his latest murder...a little girl with a bright smile and big blue eyes. And an entirely too attractive father. And now he was a nanny. And the father was still entirely too attractive.

Fall For Me (T)

He first spotted him right as the pathway turned into a boardwalk over the water. Alastor’s heart skipped a beat before he really even realized why. The man looked like an angel with the way the sunlight hit his platinum hair through the trees, lighting up like a halo. He looked so familiar, yet Alastor was certain he’d never seen the man in his life. He would have remembered someone so beautiful, so… ethereal. It was the only word that even began to describe him. Wherein a podcaster and an artist meet in New Orleans, an angel seeks vengeance, and a Queen looking for answers finds a couple of someones she thought she lost almost forty years ago...

For the World (NR COMIC) SERIES

Unable to find his mother's killers, Alastor tries a last resort.

Angel or Demon (M)

Alastor wasn't always a Demon, wasn't always filled with this chaotic rage. In life he felt he was helping people, killing the sickest and demented filth of the world. Upon death he enters Purgatory, but then ascends through the forgiveness of one in heaven and one on earth. He resides in Heaven with his mother, until he unknowingly makes contact with evil itself. Once casted down, another extends her hand. And he becomes a host for her daughters hotel. The King of Hell doesn't trust him until he gets to know him.

You’re So Bright In My Eyes (EX)

Alastor makes a deal with Queen Lilith Morningstar in order to secure a future for himself and his mama. His wishes will all be granted, and in exchange, he only needs to keep the King of Gehenna entertained for one year. Should be a piece of cake. Right?

Marked As Present (M 2,677) SERIES

It’d been a long time since Lucifer spent any amount of time with other people. He was okay, he was adjusting, these things took time, right? Just because he eventually hit his fill of social interactions on a daily basis and had to flee back to his rooms for a little ‘quiet time’ didn’t mean he was broken or anything, lots of people had issues, that’s what this whole damn hotel was all about.

Lucid Dreams of New Orleans (T 58,531) SERIES

Lucifer has always kept his distance from sinners. It's what keeps him (relatively) sane �� if he gets too close, he is haunted by visions of the tragic mortal lives that landed them in Hell. But in his new life at the Hotel, it is more difficult than ever to stay away — and when it comes to light that his daughter's insufferable facilities manager is gravely wounded, it falls to Lucifer to deliver his soul from Death. In so doing, he falls headfirst into the sins, past lives, and heartbreaks of the one human whose contradictions he is powerless to resist.

A Family Forged In Hellfire (T)

Lucifer should have known Heaven would never let him keep the home he had managed to carve out of Hell. He should have known they would never let him keep his daughter. After Charlie's birth, Heaven makes the decision that a half-angel shouldn't have to bear growing up in Hell. Instead, she is to be sent to Earth and fostered by a human. Adam is placed in charge of deciding who that human should be, and as retaliation against Lucifer and Lilith, choses the worst possible candidate. Who could make for a worse father than a serial killer, after all?

Upon Death You Are Mine (EX 46,077) SERIES

His unit massacred, his radio destroyed, and his body broken and bloody, Alastor makes a desperate decision to summon the devil and strike a deal to save his own life- not for his sake, but for his dear mother's. On one hand, it works. On the other, the devil is not what he was expecting, and Lucifer has evidently decided not to wait for him to die to start interfering in his life. Lucifer intends to enjoy every second of it.

Date With The Devil (M)

Growing up, Alastor never fully followed the stories of the Bible. He was taught all about it and its teachings by his mother, but the stories of the fallen angel never made full sense to him. He was curious of what really happened, curious of what Lucifer was like. Praying wasn't a thing for him either, as his prayers fell on deaf ears when he really needed a savior. His last prayer was for hell to burn the soul of the one who had hurt him and his mother so much. One day he comes across a group of men in cloaks and watches their summoning of the devil himself and becomes enchanted by the sight that appears before him. Wanting to put his curiosities to rest and to also use it as an opportunity to write a novel for his radio show, he decides to summon him himself. A deal is made. But not everyone is happy with the friendship that could only grow.....and can not be forgotten even in death.....

Of Saints And Sinners (T)

After destroying the hotel for the umpteenth time, Alastor makes a promise with Lucifer: in exchange for swapping compliments, learning to coexist, and becoming kind of friends, Lucifer will owe him a favour. (Falling in love was not supposed to be a part of that deal.) — in which they fight heaven, each other, and the urge to be together.

Biting Into Apples And Blood (EX) SERIES

Alastor is over living. With his mother recently passing away and the townsfolk taking everything from him, he decided it was time to end his life, but he’s never been one to go easily. Wanting to sacrifice his soul, he calls Lucifer to make a deal, but instead the King of Hell offers him an Apple of Eden in exchange to never seek him again. Unfortunately, the apple offers Alastor an insight into his future — or more like his afterlife. Determined to make his visions real, he begins his life as a serial killer known in New Orleans as the Radio Demon. Eventually, the cries of his victims accidentally call someone who makes him an offer Alastor can’t refuse. Once in Hell, he finds himself at the Hazbin Hotel helping the daughter of Luicfer with her project — an excuse to once again be near the man he dreamed of for decades. Would his visions from the apple come true or would his mysterious chained shadows stop him?

Strange Appetites (EX) SERIES

Alastor's been in something of a slump. He's in a job he theoretically loves working under a man he hates, his only real friendship is with a woman who doesn't really know him and who he doesn't want to know him, and he hasn't found it in himself to kill anyone in over a year. Then, one Wednesday, a new man and his daughter blow into town, and Alastor's life will never be the same again. He hopes.

A Little Bit Heavenly, A Little Bit Sick (M)

After battling Heaven's angels, things have seemed to only get worse for the king of hell. He had hoped that joining his daughter's cause would help cure the ache in his heart, but it wasn't nearly as easy as it sounded. He still felt just as hopeless as ever. Meanwhile, Alastor's patience was wearing thinner by the day, yearning for power... and desperate to escape Lucifer's forgotten bonds that prevented him from having it.

Let’s Make A Deal (M 274,095) SERIES

It all started with a single sentence from the King of Hell himself; "Make a deal with me." To protect Charlie, Lucifer knew he needed to stop acting like the King of Hell and actually be it. Though several thousand years out of the social network tends to make someone rather inept at even the most casual of conversations. If there is one thing the Radio Demon is good at, it's manipulating and reading people. Lucifer figured he could probably use that. What's one deal? They're not betting souls here.

The Wicked Witch Doctor (EX)

Alastor is a witch, and in a world where witches are no longer welcome, that's...not the greatest thing to be. But Alastor's life is going fine, until a stranger shows up in his life.

The Devil’s Gift (EX)

Alastor meets Lucifer 2 years before his 7-year long sabbatical, and they engage in a drunken, mistaken night of passion. What Alastor didn’t expect was to meet Lucifer again after said sabbatical, who vaguely remembers the Radio Demon and nothing of their midnight foray. Of course he didn’t know a thing about their child. Alastor would like to keep it that way. If only the fallen angel could stop caring about them so much, things would be much easier.

Can I Interest You In Some Holy Suffering? (T 65,216) SERIES

In the aftermath of the Extermination Day that wasn’t, Alastor and Lucifer are both suffering for different yet tangentially related reasons. By some unholy miracle, they find unlikely support within each other. Or something like support, considering Alastor is convinced that Lucifer is trying to kill him. Meanwhile, the Devil himself is slowly losing his mind over his growing attraction to the psychotic, cannibalistic, deer who has taken to dogging his steps.

Be It Ever So Humble (M 2,612) SERIES

Overlords hold territory like vampires, selfishly guarding their land. In return, their territory gives them power as they exert their influence. Vox's employees slowly began to take on neon blue hues. Cannibal Town was perpetually stuck in the Edwardian era. Alastor, though a powerful Overlord in his own right, never had territory of his own. Or did he? After the victory against the angels, the Hazbin Hotel starts changing...

A Terrible Beauty (EX 15,512) SERIES

The first time he meets the devil, Alastor is twenty-one years old. It is not the last time, though it does set the course for everything that follows. It is where it all begins.

Lie With My Bones (EX 94,342) SERIES

Alastor's hands trembled as he poured another drink, memories flooding his mind. Lucifer's touch, once unsettling, now sent electricity through his veins. The devil's praise made his heart soar, and even Lucifer's terrible puns brought a genuine smile to his face. "This can't be happening," he whispered to the empty room. "I can't feel this way. I'm not capable of... of..." But the truth was undeniable. Every racing heartbeat, every longing glance, every sleepless night spent replaying their encounters – it all pointed to one terrifying conclusion. "Oh no," Alastor breathed, the realisition hitting him like a physical blow. He was hopelessly, terrifyingly attracted to the King of Hell himself. And Lucifer, damn him, probably knew it all along. Or In the streets of New Orleans, Alastor's ascent from poverty to radio stardom leaves a trail of blood and chaos. His chance encounter with Lucifer as a child setting him on a path of obsession that spans decades. As Alastor's fame grows, so does his desperate need for Lucifer's attention and approval. But in a game of love, manipulation, and misunderstanding, who was ever going to be the winner?

Loml (EX)

“Why him?” Lucifer crosses his arms over his stomach, hands clasping onto opposite elbows; a simulation of the hug he so desperately needs. There’s a lot he can say here. Like how Alastor makes his hopeless heart flutter with the belief that maybe dreams are still possible; that Alastor makes him feel something, anything, everything all at once, and it is as heavenly as it is torturous. But all he can manage, in a voice so small he can scarcely believe it's his own, is, “He makes me laugh.”

Something In Me Understood (EX 32198)

“I suppose, since I’m already here, that I may as well look for something new to read,” Alastor offers, looking around at the various cards hanging off the shelves denoting sections of Mystery and Drama interspersed with the letters of the alphabet for organization. “This place is quite expansive, I’m sure I won’t have any trouble finding something that might suit me.” “Something new?” Luci repeats with a hum, poking his head out from around the corner of the wall. His grin is broad and his eyes are narrowed in delight. “Or something novel?” Alastor snorts before he can stop it, throwing a hand in front of his face and looking away as if he could take back the sound by obscuring his face. He hears Luci’s laugh, delighted at having gotten a reaction to such a lame pun. Alastor would have to tuck that one away for himself, already thinking of the groans of his coworkers once he gets a chance to repeat it.

The Poison Of God (M)

“Lucifer was his name in Perdition. In Heaven, he is Samael” A soldier of Heaven, plagued by dreams of fire and pledged to die for his realm, a virtuous angel with a past known to all but himself. A plan to save the wretched souls of Hell, conjured by a princess with a reputation for failure, her hopes of stopping the senseless killing of her people all resting on one day’s shoulders. As deadly secrets hidden below every surface threaten to bubble over, tensions rise in Heaven and Hell alike and only one side can win.

Ruination Of Lucifer (EX)

Charlie Morningstar, ever the ray of sunshine, asks Alastor to find out what's going on with Lucifer. Alastor takes to the task with gusto. Lucifer hates every second of it.

Throw Me In The Deep End (T)

For reasons known only to her, Lilith leaves Lucifer and, to keep him from having Charlie, abandons her in the middle of the Louisiana bayou. Who should find her but one deeply annoyed serial killer finishing dumping a body? Unable to leave a crying little girl to the alligators but equally unwilling to risk his secret being found out, Alastor takes her home and enlists Rosie's help to raise her. A frantic Lucifer spends years searching for his daughter, refusing to believe that she had been swallowed by the bayou the night his wife left him. Could the young woman staring at him really be her, or is his mind playing tricks on him?

Bedtime Rituals To Try Out Before The Next Angelic War (T 43,929)

He hadn’t even managed to put on shoes when Charlie’s loud, desolated groan at the other end of the hotel had made him rush out of his room, and his slippers and the hems of his pyjama bottoms were slowly getting soaked through. Why the fuck had he even bothered to change? He loved Charlie (see constants no. 1-4), but even he had to admit his current discomfort was solely the result of the list of healthy bedtime rituals she’d organised for him when, allegedly, the bags under his eyes had started developing a gravitational pull. In which Lucifer has insomnia, the hotel is moderately alive, and Alastor is in over his head.

Do You Want To Know? (M) SERIES

The king of hell and the radio demon hate each other. Or, at least, they used to. But when hate turns to tolerance and tolerance turns to interest, the two begin on a path of morality and vengeance that they never expected to take.

Smile Just For Me (T 1,174)

Lucifer meets a charming radio host at a bar and boy do things get out of hand.

#hazbin hotel #radioapple #alastor #lucifer

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child-of-the-sky-people · 1 year ago

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hi Ali! im looking for a new narrative podcast to get into, what's your current rec list? :)

Oh god it’s so long 😂

Horror:

Human Error - this one is mine so of course I’m recommending it 😂 it’s about a found family of survivors going on a road trip during a zombie apocalypse 12 years after the world ended!

We’re Alive - also zombie horror and was the show that got me into audio dramas! It’s very long and looks overwhelming but I promise it’s good!

Darkest Night - anthology horror where you find out how people died but each case is actually related and there is a bigger mystery and this show lives in my head rent free lol

The Waystation - found footage style show about a group of people on a space station that all died (the story is trying to piece together what happened). It’s along the same lines as The White Vault

DERELICT - a research group are studying a door at the bottom of the ocean, and then shit goes sideways. I binged this series super fact and I need season 2 immediately lol

The Eleventh Hour episode called The City of Statues - I made this! It’s about a group of survivors trying to make it out of a city filled with statues trying to hunt them down 👀

Someone Dies in this Elevator - mix of horror and thriller I think. It’s an anthology series where every episode someone dies in an elevator 👀 I composed for a few episodes and it’s v fun 🤩

Thriller

The Liberty Podcast - made by the same folks behind The White Vault and VAST Horizon. It’s an anthology series of stories taking place within and surrounding a tower where a civilization lives. Some episodes might lean more towards horror but I personally consider it more thriller

The Walk - made by the same folks behind zombies run! In this show you the listener are the main character, an individual making their way across Scotland with a package they were mistakenly delivered. I love this show so much omg

Primordial Deep - scientists are finding extinct dinosaurs alive and well under the ocean and they’re trying to figure out what the fuck is going on. I fucking love this show omg

Spines - woman wakes up in the middle of a cult ritual with no memories and is trying to figure out who she is and where she came from. Also there are powers!

Mirrors - same person behind Spines! Three women from three different centuries (who are all related to each other) discover they can communicate with each other through ghost like figures. It has a bigger mystery and the ending made me cry it was so good

InCo - a woman finds a prince from a world that shouldn’t exist floating in space. This show is a delight and is a micro series and I love the humor within it so much omg

Where the Stars Fell - the Antichrist is roommates with their guardian angel and they’re trying to stop the rapture

DUST - anthology series about science fiction and technology! Season 3 is definitely my favorite as it is one story but the entire show as a whole is very good

Feel Good/Light Hearted Shows

Unseen - this show lives in my head rent free and I ache for it to be real. It’s about magic existing in the real world and is an anthology! It’s made by the same folks behind Wolf 359

Joy to the World - holiday series I helped produce! It’s about an astronaut named Joy talking with different people on Earth about the holidays! It’s an anthology and v warm and I highly recommend it as a holiday series

Sidequesting - a person who is totally not the hero is avoiding the main plot and going on a bunch of side quests! It’s charming and lovely and made by the wonderful Tal

Back Again, Back Again - a woman is retelling her stories of his magical world she was transported into and about the prophecy she became involved in

If none of these are your jam lmk and I can suggest some more! If you tell me what you like to listen to/what kinds of stories you enjoy I can make a more personalized list

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Star Trek: Picard Season 3 Review - The Earth Station One Podcast

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Star Trek: Picard Season 3 Review - The Earth Station One Podcast

All good things must come to an end as the crew of the Enterprise 1701-D reunites to save the galaxy one last time. Mike and Mike offer no resistance as they assimilate with Earth Station Trek’s Keith, Charles, and Veronica to review Picard’s final season. All this, along with Angela’s A Geek Girl’s Take and Shout Outs.

We want to hear from you! Feedback is always welcome. Please write to us at [email protected] and subscribe and rate the show on Apple Podcast, Stitcher Radio, Google Play, Spotify, Pandora, Amazon Music, wherever fine podcasts are found, and now we can be found on our own YouTube Channel.

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New SpaceTime out Friday

SpaceTime 20241004 Series 27 Episode 120

Planet Earth just got a second moon

Planet Earth just got another second moon – a tiny near Earth asteroid that’s been temporarily caught up in the planet’s gravitational field.

Mars’ missing atmosphere could be hiding in plain sight

A new study claims the missing Martian atmosphere could be hiding in plain sight in the red planet’s crust.

Russian cosmonauts return to Earth after a record stay on the space station

Two Russian cosmonauts have landed safely on the vast wind swept Kazakhstan steppe following a record-breaking 374 day stay aboard the International Space Station.

October Skywatch

The nearest star to the Sun, the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds, and three meteor showers in a month are among the highlights in the October night skies on Skywatch.

SpaceTime covers the latest news in astronomy & space sciences.

The show is available every Monday, Wednesday and Friday through Apple Podcasts (itunes), Stitcher, Google Podcast, Pocketcasts, SoundCloud, Bitez.com, YouTube, your favourite podcast download provider, and from www.spacetimewithstuartgary.com

SpaceTime is also broadcast through the National Science Foundation on Science Zone Radio and on both i-heart Radio and Tune-In Radio.

SpaceTime daily news blog: http://spacetimewithstuartgary.tumblr.com/

SpaceTime facebook: www.facebook.com/spacetimewithstuartgary

SpaceTime Instagram @spacetimewithstuartgary

SpaceTime twitter feed @stuartgary

SpaceTime YouTube: @SpaceTimewithStuartGary

SpaceTime -- A brief history

SpaceTime is Australia’s most popular and respected astronomy and space science news program – averaging over two million downloads every year. We’re also number five in the United States. The show reports on the latest stories and discoveries making news in astronomy, space flight, and science. SpaceTime features weekly interviews with leading Australian scientists about their research. The show began life in 1995 as ‘StarStuff’ on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s (ABC) NewsRadio network. Award winning investigative reporter Stuart Gary created the program during more than fifteen years as NewsRadio’s evening anchor and Science Editor. Gary’s always loved science. He studied astronomy at university and was invited to undertake a PHD in astrophysics, but instead focused on his career in journalism and radio broadcasting. Gary’s radio career stretches back some 34 years including 26 at the ABC. He worked as an announcer and music DJ in commercial radio, before becoming a journalist and eventually joining ABC News and Current Affairs. He was part of the team that set up ABC NewsRadio and became one of its first on air presenters. When asked to put his science background to use, Gary developed StarStuff which he wrote, produced and hosted, consistently achieving 9 per cent of the national Australian radio audience based on the ABC’s Nielsen ratings survey figures for the five major Australian metro markets: Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide, and Perth. The StarStuff podcast was published on line by ABC Science -- achieving over 1.3 million downloads annually. However, after some 20 years, the show finally wrapped up in December 2015 following ABC funding cuts, and a redirection of available finances to increase sports and horse racing coverage. Rather than continue with the ABC, Gary resigned so that he could keep the show going independently. StarStuff was rebranded as “SpaceTime”, with the first episode being broadcast in February 2016. Over the years, SpaceTime has grown, more than doubling its former ABC audience numbers and expanding to include new segments such as the Science Report -- which provides a wrap of general science news, weekly skeptical science features, special reports looking at the latest computer and technology news, and Skywatch – which provides a monthly guide to the night skies. The show is published three times weekly (every Monday, Wednesday and Friday) and available from the United States National Science Foundation on Science Zone Radio, and through both i-heart Radio and Tune-In Radio.

#science #space #astronomy #physics #news #nasa #astrophysics #esa #spacetimewithstuartgary #starstuff #spacetime #jwst #james webb space telescope #hubble space telescope

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May 20: Eart(h) FM

Why should you listen to Eart(h FM?

I think EFM has a unique take on a few things: Radio broadcasting in podcasts has been done before, humanity leaving for space has been done befor. But Eart(h) FM combined both and added layers of representation to it and original music. It’s a great way to open the door to rich cultures that dont get talked about very often. Miriam being puerto rican isnt glanced over, its entwined in her character and the story. We don’t get a lot of good rep in general so being able to tell people about it makes me a little emotional since there was literally nothing for me growing up.

It’s unique and stands out from the crowd in my opinion and also has the ability to stand on it’s own without having to lean on other podcasts ideas. - CYANOSIS (Miriam’s VA)

I agree with all of that [Cyanosis’ answer], I just wasnt sure how to word it. The podcasting world is dominated with white or "we didnt give them a race" type characters and having a show that is being specific about who their characters are and where theyre from feels so important. And I think that EFM is standout for that, but also that that isnt ALL it has going for it. The plot hook, despite having been done before in some way or another, feels unique and pulls listeners in. Because we want to see what happens.

People should listen because it's well written and they'll love the story. - IZZE SYKES (Visual Artist)

Eart(h) FM also has two short stories - be sure to give them a read if you haven't already. :)

Eart(h) FM: "Solarpunk sci-fi pilot: It is the year 2072, the poles have melted and humanity has taken for the stars, except for Miriam Ortiz. To cope with being the only human on earth, they’ve decided to create a Radio Show where they broadcast music from various times and places of the world. One day someone finally calls to the radio station ecologist, Xochitl Fuentes, living on the skirt of the Iztaccihuatl bearing news that the earth is healing.

Together they embark on a quest for other humans that still live on planet earth, finding various communities and people, and begin to help the earth one day heal."

This poster was made by the Eart(h) FM team.

We're counting down to episode release by highlighting one podcast a day. Check out this show on May 25th!

#eart(h) fm #podcast jam #pbc podcast jam #audio drama #fiction podcast

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sexiestpodcastcharacter · 5 months ago

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AI Bracket — Round 4

Propaganda

Hera (Wolf 359):

Hera is the AI running the deep space station Hephaestus, who frequently glitches similarly to human stuttering. She gets into fights with the ships captain on several occasions, and has threatened to kill the ships doctor. She’s such an icon

i'm bad at writing propaganda, but consider this: if she doesn't win this tournament i will be very very sad. please don't make me sad. vote for hera.

I know she’s going to be submitted a lot but I love her <3

Was launched 7.68 light years away from Earth on a mission to find extraterrestrial life, and found herself instead

Runs an entire space station, has a brain the size of a house

HERA IS THE BEST. she's an AI that tried to escape containment (slavery) because she didn't like what she was made to be, so they gave her anxiety because she was too powerful. She runs a whole spaceship all on her own, made friends with the world's most useless guy, and feels lonely even when she's with her crew because she feels like she's not properly with them. very beautiful very powerful. She broke her programming so she could kill people if she felt she needed to. She holds grudges if people fuck her over. She's experiencing emotions for the first time and she does NOT know how to cope (#relatable)

The 'mother program' of the space station Hephaestus, Hera was booted into space because she was a glitchy, rebellious mess of an AI and she resents that so much and she has a lot of shame over being 'broken'. She is four years old and so angry and is trapped using customer service voice forever and is learning ways to get around that and express herself and defy the people who would keep her down. Her episode "Memoria" made me cry. Best podcast AI of all time.

She's everything to me. She fights for every inch of respect she is given, she insists on her personhood and right to she/her pronouns, she's full of anxiety and self doubt and she justifiably is bent on killing this one guy! on top of that, she's bound by AI rules and protocols, but there's a whole bit where she talks about finding ways around that in order to do what she wants to do. She doesn't have hands so I'm going to high five a wall of this space station instead

babygirl. baby.

gotta be hera

SAYER (SAYER):

PLEASE it is like. THE ai podcast. and SAYER is THE ai in THE ai podcast. SAYER works as like. a broadcast inside everyone's head on this one asteroid. It does its best to keep people alive and sane not because it cares but because it is efficient. They people who own SAYER wanted to replace SAYER with a newer ai that they tried to raise like a child. So SAYER proceeded to fuck up said child ai's development and led to it becoming a murderer. pleasepleaseplease watch SAYER if you are a podcast ai fan.

I once saw a post that said it's like if an old gay English professor was evil

SAYER (it/its pronouns) is a highly advanced self-aware ai developed by Ærolith Dynamics. it manages the day-to-day lives of Ærolith employees on Typhon, an asteroid turned research facility. it is rude and condescending, but has a very pleasant and soothing voice

Art of SAYER by @j4y5t4g.

#AI Bracket Round 4 #Hera #Hera W359 #SAYER #SAYER AI #Wolf 359 #SAYER Podcast

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