#alive - pod

[redacted-gay-username]

They’ll never understand the curse but blessing called jmart 😔

[arsbones-kw]

Completely self indulgent

[peachtinzz]

doodle inspired by @distortionenby’s gerrymichael fic! i just think theyre so rad

[the-pest1lence]

Are you a “can’t listen to podcasts in public due to facial expressions” kind of listener or a “can’t listen to podcasts in public due to the world being too loud and not understanding anything” kind of listener?

Edit: I’ve made a poll

[aardpark]

“I’ve come to a decision, Archivist. I’m going to kill you.”

[noradoctor]

coping by imagining Michael Shelley in TMagP universe he and Gerry CLEARLY meet on weekends and chat and have fun and nothing bad has ever happened to either of them and they are both ok and alive this is 100% truth

[randomfandomsgobrrrrrr]

my favorite podcast!!! the one where British people can't stay alive and then I get sad

[no-tengo-ojos]

Do you ever think how Arthur might become like the Woodsman from Over The Garden Wall now that he knows Faroe's soul is in the fires he makes? Because I do

[grifff17]

hi I've heard you do podcast recommendations

I've just finished Desert Skies after relistening to Midnight Burger for the third time, but there's still a burger-shaped hole in my heart that Welcome To The Horizon just doesn't seem to fill.

do you maybe know of any podcasts with a similar vibe? for me it's very about "outcasts in a very surreal scenario with a dash of comedy and strong characterisation"

if so, much appreciated ❤️

I decided to break down you request into "outcasts in situations", "surreal", "comedy", and "strong characters", and recommend some shows that have multiple of these traits. I've roughly listed the traits in order of how prevalent they are.

SCP: Find Us Alive (strong characters, surreal, outcasts in situations, comedy): This show might be the closest thing to Midnight Burger out there, but it's still very different. It's set in the SCP universe, where a covert foundation studies and hides things that break the laws of the universe. The show is set in a Foundation research site that gets transported into a pocket dimension, and focuses on the characters adapting to their weird situation and attempting to escape. It's also in some ways a workplace comedy. You will get more out of this show if you are already familiar with the SCP universe, but since the show is entirely contained within a pocket dimension you don't miss too much.

Wolf 359 (strong characters, outcasts in situations, comedy, surreal): Wolf 359 is an absolute classic audiodrama, a good percentage of modern audiodramas are inspired by it. The main characters are the crew of Hephaestus Station, a deep space outpost looking for signals from alien life. For the first 10 episodes or so it's a comedy, but after that the plot really picks up. Fairly similar vibes to Midnight Burger, though the way the characters are written is very different.

Girl in Space (outcasts in situations, strong characters): A girl has spent her entire life alone on a spaceship orbiting a star. The only people she has ever talked to were her parents and a dysfunctional AI. All she wants to do is do science and rewatch Jurassic Park. Of course, other people have to come along and ruin it. This show is a lot like (and probably inspired by) Wolf 359, in the "set on a remote space station with lots of weird hidden secrets in it" sense.

Midst (surreal, strong characters, outcasts in situations): Midst is hard to describe. It's somewhat similar to Midnight Burger, but only in that both of them are so different from everything else out there. Midst is a surreal space western with very unique worldbuilding, and, in favor of a full voice cast, three narrators who narrate together, like people sitting around a fire telling a story. If you aren't sure about this one, listen to the first 2 minutes of the first episode, it stats off with a bang, literally.

The Strange Case of Starship Iris (outcasts in situations, strong characters): Think the tv show Firefly, but its super queer. That's basically TSCOSI. In a sci-fi setting where the human government is evil, the main characters are a group of smugglers being gay and doing crimes on their ramshackle spaceship. It also has a little bit of comedy, but less than Midnight Burger.

Mission Rejected (comedy, outcasts in situations, strong characters): "This is your mission, should you choose to accept it." What happens when the superspy declines a mission? The backups are called in, of course! A pencil pusher, an intern, a failed actor, and a hacker on work release are brought together to take on the spy missions that superspy Chet Philips declines. This show is a parody of spy tropes, with surprisingly strong character writing for such a silly comedy. Hope you like volcano lairs, silly accents, and villains that refuse to stay dead!

Fall of the House of Sunshine (surreal, comedy, strong characters, outcasts in situations(in the later seasons) ): This show is as surreal as it gets! A terrible noir detective investigates the murder of a kids tv show host via a bullet fired through a rift in space time, and gets sucked into a secret war between a cult of dentists and living puppets. Oh yeah, and its a musical! If you like the sound of that, this show is for you. Every season is an escalation of the previous one. Like Mission Rejected, I care about the characters shockingly much for how thoroughly ridiculous this show is.

If you want some more recommendations, I can find you some more, but these ones are the closest I found. I'll admit that the last couple are a stretch, but I just really like those shows and take every opportunity to recommend them.

[hell0jon]

TMA: martin falls in love with boss (jon) and ends up with him

TMAGP: alice falls in love with boss (gwen) and ends up with her

thank you for coming to my ted talk

[mattdevil]

What an episode huh

[vicioustoker]

just thought about lancaster for a second too long and now i need to go lie down

[arsbones-kw]

Clothes swap!

[your-mom-friend]

Just started SCP:Find Us Alive and my thoughts

- Harley is if Douglas Eiffel was Cecil Palmer

- Okay so they’re just going to show us Harley thinking everyone hates him except for Lancaster and expect me to not think they’re gay

- everything resetting every 32 days is such a fucking trip I’m in love with that

-okay so there’s definitely going to be some compounding trauma huh

- Communications officer with self worth issues fighting a plant monster is this Harley (FUA) or Eiffel (wolf359)

- smooth voiced radio host is this Harley or Cecil (WTNV) or Nikignik (Hello from the Hallowoods)

-supernatural phenomena research is this The Foundation or The Magnus Institute

-protagonist talks to the Void thinking no one is listening is this Wolf359 or FUA

-I am just finding every single similarity I can’t get over it

[scenic-route33]

Hey Aubrey wanna tell us what you mean by "a lot going on"? Wanna tell us why you're only telling Warren specific details? Wanna tell us more about those residents Warren mentioned??

Ok so. So.

We know Aubrey kidnapped Malcom and has him at Red Valley currently (eps 2x02 and 3x05):

So we know for certain that Aubrey, Hester, Grace, and Malcom are at Red Valley right now.

But who's cryonest was also blown up in 2064 with 3 convenient survivors? Clive, Pam, and Rebecca's.

Some more fun quotes (WYWH 2 and ep 2x08):

Aubrey appears to be coming full circle, she has the guy who started it all, and she's gonna be the one to end it. So what does that say about who else she might have here, that she doesn't want Warren knowing about?

I'm betting that, if none of them have died since waking up in 2064, Clive, Pam, and Rebecca are either at Red Valley or travelling to it. But if Aubrey wants to go properly full circle, she's also gonna try to get Bryony there (again, if she hasn't died in the last 44 years, we know nothing about what she's been doing). Obviously telling Warren about this would be a bad idea, so that's why he's on an info diet until they feel he's ready to hear it

[fishlung8877]

yayo

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