#Woodbine

[toseeclearly]

Season one is complete, long live season one.

Parkdale Haunt was a learning experience. We made that show with only the vaguest idea of how creating an audiodrama worked. We just kind of did what we knew and hoped it would work out. And it did! We had such an amazing run. But that means you go into your next show with this quiet nervousness around it, will this be ok? Will people like it? Will they listen? You set a standard and then you have to live up to it again. I would be lying if I said that I never found that daunting as we ramped up into production.

But we're an independent show. We don't have to answer to anyone other than ourselves, so that means that we have to make the show that we want to make. In the end, every part of this is a labour of love, so we have to love what we're creating. And it's tiring, it is tiring during the depths of recording, it is tiring when the sound design is being put in and requiring Ian to spend hours upon hours carefully placing SFX, it is tiring when I'm sitting there, cutting hours and hours and hours of raw audio into something resembling proper dialogue. But it's so much fun. I am incredibly lucky to get to make another show with people I love and care so much about. What a joy! What a blessing. Creating art is terrifying but it's also wonderful. It's also terrible sometimes but it's mostly wonderful, and what luck to have found an audience for it. We can't make this stuff without our amazing cast, our phenomenal composer (hi Phil!), support from our friends and families, and the listeners who post and send us such wonderful comments and art and fan letters and everything else. I want to highlight the incredible and irreplaceable Andy Kelly's art one more time, he brought the show to life in a new way. And of course, to Emily and Ian, my creative partners but most of all my friends, none of this exists without the three of us. Forever thankful to be able to create and grow alongside you both. I know that I post about this stuff a lot, but I think it is important. Remember those who you create alongside. Speak their names. Thank them for their work. Everything we do is so short and fragile. Celebrate the good because someday you will only be able to look back. Create the things that you will later treasure. Hold close the relationships that make you better for having them. We are all but trees in fall, brilliant and delicate, colours that fade with the winter winds. Thank you for listening. We'll see you soon.

[arianwells]

Grace, Grace Hawthorne. Nice lady, bit of an old soul, but we get along.

[jillraggett]

Plant of the Day

Tuesday 16 July 2024

In this hedgerow Lonicera periclymenum (honeysuckle, woodbine) was providing nectar-rich flowers, especially for moths or long-tongued bees, with the flowers being highly scented at night. This deciduous woody climber develops bright red berries in autumn which are a great source of food for birds.

Jill Raggett

[field-cryptobotanist]

Everyone wants vampires to be real but nobody is prepared for the staggering amount of them that would be landlords

[rvensong]

“I’ve never know one to attack—“

“Women? Detectives?”

“People like us.”

“BISEXUALS!”

Rhys is so fucking precious i actually snorted so loud when he said that lmao

[kgcressie]

me listening to malevolent: didn’t realise harlan voiced every character until the end of season 4

me listening to poe and woodbine: *.2 seconds into his first line* THATS HIM THAT HARLAN WHOOO

[shotsyfeather]

Presenting you the color - WOODBINE 💚☘️

[doctorloup]

Audiodrama Sunday! The Days May be Dark but the horror is…IDK darker but in a gayer way?

What has Lou been listening to recently which might distract you from thinking about The Situation?

Book of Constellations (@bookofconstellations) - Beautiful series full of hope about an alien on a road trip through America. Keith's writing is always deep, mature and full of kindness.

Woodbine - Look, they had me at the lesbian vampire detectives. And it's the Parkdale Haunt team so you KNOW it's gonna be great.

Amelia Project (@ameliapodcast)- Amelia's special brand of poignant comedy should help cheer you up. Some delightfully funny episodes recently. Loved Maty's debut as a small child of Hamelin and best boy Rhys being Valleys As All Fuck.

Poe: Evermore - OK actually this one is very dark but there is truly some quality acting in this and the writing is rich and gorgeous. Retelling of classic Poe stories within the setting of his life. I thought Vic was very good in Chapter 4 and Tanja in everything she's in especially the very sad bit and don't ask me about Harlan's character but I am listening very respectfully to both him and Giancarlo Herrera anyway moving swiftly on to

Professor Chronomier - The newest and final season of my favourite time travelling Professor is out, I will be normal I promise (I will not be normal TIME VILLAIN TEAMUP TIME VILLAIN TEAMUP)

Otherwise I have also been filling in more of the recommended listening, and binged Archive 81, Limetown and the Black Tapes so I am no longer an ignoramus about those ones.

Happy listening, love you all, this too shall pass

[anskupics]

Parthenocissus inserta — thicket creeper a.k.a. woodbine

[splitting-infinities]

I’m obsessed with Woodbine omg. That ENDING HELLO!?????

If you’re not listening to this podcast yet, just know it’s phenomenal you are missing out so GET IN HERE and join the fun

[ashesoriley]

My dream woodbine episode is the gang accidentally getting in the middle of Simon the devious and Lazlos stupid beef

Side plot is Guillermo thinking Rhys is a familiar like him

[toseeclearly]

Oh hi! Thanks for subscribing. I should post here more.

If you're here because of the nazgUwU, stick around! I think I have an idea for this halloween and it's just as PINK. If you're here because of other things, then great, welcome to PODCAST CHAT where I just tell you about PODCASTS. Namely MY NEW PODCAST, Woodbine.

We took a little time off between Parkdale Haunt and starting the new show to rest (sort of, not really), recalibrate, and figure out where we wanted to go next. Parkdale was wonderful and I miss it, I miss the characters and the story we told, but I'm happy where where we ended it. Our sweet, spooky baby. But we wanted to do a new show, so after careful thought, we came to the conclusion that the next path should obviously be queer vampire detectives with noir influences and melodrama and spooky cryptids and also Mothman is there.

So yes, welcome to Woodbine.

The show just started airing (if you're reading this at the end of September 2024, if not then hello future person, please listen to the back catalogue). It's the same team from Parkdale (myself, Emily, and Ian) along with a lot of returning voice actors (including Taylor Davis, aka fan favourite Austin Bird. He's not back as Bird - although he does reprise the role in the trailer - but I feel like any fan of his dulcet tones will be into his new character). We've also got Harlan Guthrie from Malevolent and Dice Shame; Rob Deobald, Jo Guthrie, and Alex Guthrie from Dice Shame (and me from Dice Shame, surprise surprise); J Strautman from Planet Arcana; the fantastic writer and voice actor Anuja Varghese; and honestly just a massive, phenomenal cast across the board. Plus, if you liked Parkdale and missed me, Emily, and Ian yammering at each other, then good news! We're back and more yammering-y than ever.

You can find the show on Apple, Spotify, and any other podcast app that still exists.

If you have questions about the show (or Parkdale) please bug me, I swear I will remember that my inbox exists this time, hahaha.

[arianwells]

As for me, my name is Beatrice Ashe, but everyone who knows me well calls me Bea.

[yourheartinyourmouth]

is anyone else listening to Woodbine? i’m fucking obsessed, it’s gay as hell, we’re three episodes in and we’ve gotten at least two tumblr memes sprinkled in

COME ON

[field-cryptobotanist]

Did we just do Chekhov's diablerie?

Every episode i love this podcast more

I'm guessing someone's going to eat lennox and it's going to be terrible and awesome

[rvensong]

the season finale of woodbine has left me so stressed and scared but also so excited because holy shit this podcast is beyond brilliant