#asmoraius

[bi-biscuit]

Sometimes a podcast changes your brain chemistry so much that now you're working on a cosplay of a demon from that silly podcast about demons that you like so much.

[misnis]

happy pride everyone

[shmiki]

[jupiterslifelessmoons]

@brimstonevalleymall incorrect quote:

Trent: I need to get something off my chest…

Asmoraius: is it your polos?

Asmoraius: please tell me it’s your many polos

[asmoshoebox]

it's 2004. gay marriage has just been legalized in one (1) u.s. state: massachusetts. misroch, increasingly at odds with the law due to being a terrible liar, an even worse driver, and an inveterate "we could just kill him like we did that other guy!" murder enthusiast, is coming perilously close to an arrest warrant, and they know this.......which is why it's time to apply for a marriage license with the biggest risk to misroch's infosec since sliced bread.

[brimstonevalleymall]

We’re SO CLOSE! Let the demons in your life know that the queer indie fiction podcast filled with 90s nostalgia and demons from Hell needs THEM to help make it happen. Spread the word, let’s do this! And hey, when we get to 80% we’ll release our final script sneak peek. 👀

[hawkfurze]

Earlier this month I listened to @brimstonevalleymall and kept meaning to make some fanart for it

[delaneytalks-tostatues]

Carousels are, in fact, goth as fuck.

[leoxer]

i listened to brimstone valley mall in one sitting and now i can’t stop saying “knock knock!” whenever i enter a room and i have named myself after one of the characters please help (also listen to the podcast is the best thing ever)

[polarskates]

like queer father like weird daughter

[t4t-stolitz]

It is my solemn duty to plug brimstone valley mall to any and all enjoyers of heaven/hell/angel/demon settings

It’s a podcast about demons in the human world working at a mall in 1999. They have a band. One of them owns a restaurant at the food court where they serve humans.

[bi-biscuit]

I am so normal about Asmoraius and Trent Brimstone Valley Mall

[misnis]

WE BACK

[captainjimothy]

fine. I LIKE IT WHEN MEN ARE PASSED OUT AND BLEEDING. UNDER MY TENDER MERCIES.

[squivulous]

My Podcast Masterlist

I have a long commute, giving me two hours a day to listen to podcasts. Here is my documentation of all the audio dramas I’ve consumed plus a little blurb. I just wanted to organize them in a list and also (selfishly) get recommendations if anyone would be so kind. Or maybe you’ll see something that’ll interest you. Enjoy!

Podcasts I’m Caught Up With

The Penumbra Podcast: I’ve made an animatic for this one. I’m down bad. This is the one that sucked me into this podcast world.

Malevolent: Arthur dating sim when??? Everyone wants him. Also it took me way too long to find out it was an actual play podcast.

Red Valley: Gordon fan all the way. Normally I do like the Sad Boy but Gordon is that type of dorky that makes me want to protect him.

Caravan: Interesting world and love a main character that makes questionable decisions. Everything is going to be fine :)

WOE.BEGONE: I’m obsessed. It happened slowly but now I think about it every day… And the music is so good! Mike Walters is cringefail, bbygurl, easy to manipulate, and saws his left arm off at the shoulder.

The Cellar Letters: Legit gets me spooked at times. Steve and Nate are good vibes. I’m sure glad nothing ever happens to them.

Harbor: Love that Sam being a malewife ruined his life.

Rifted: Aurora, another Sad Boy to add to my collection. Daniel should give him a kiss to make him feel better.

Heroics: Pls come back some day… I need more Josh. He’s in his slay era.

Second Fiddles: Max is owning being a bbygurl. Also there are a lot of poop jokes which is weird but I’ll look past it.

Hand in Glove: idk anything about baseball but these baseball players are smoochinggg.

Find Us Alive: Lancaster in booty jorts. It's canon. Don't look it up. I'm right. ALSO HE NEEDS TO TALK ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED TO HIM PLS. C

The Kingmaker Histories: The kiss is still the subject of much historical debate. Eisen <3

The Viridian Wild: It hasn’t been updated since 2021 but I still have hope.

Dos: After You: Ghosting GONE WRONG

Brimstone Valley Mall: SEASON TWO IS COMING. 90’s mall setting is really fun and I’m here for the thing Asmoraius and Trent have going on.

Levian: It starts off with a bang! Well not quite since his sister walks in oops. Excited to see where this pirate tale takes us.

Midnight Burger: Each episode is a delight and as someone who is bad at science, I appreciate Gloria and Caspar. Caspar pls stay forever and also Brodie <3

Return Home: I’m really listening to it for Buddy and DW.

Raythe Reign: Sometimes you need a yaoi.

The White Vault: At this point, I know what I’m getting into and yet still decide to get attached to these characters

The Amelia Project: Please don’t hurt the Interviewer! He’s too goofy for all this drama. I’m scared!

Fawx & Stallion: James Stallion being canonically hot in any situation is such a win

Victoriocity: Inspector Fleet has had a long week and needs some days off

Yokai Detective Agency: I’m always a sucker for detective stories and I’m looking forward to where this one is going

Desert Skies: SEASON TWO STARTED LET’S GOOOOO

The Grotto: the music is so good but also please help. The emotional turmoil is torrential.

Camlann: Yo…. Dai, for real???

The Strange Case of Starship Iris: Idk how they’re still alive

Podcasts I’ve Completed

Dash: This might not be completed? This is actually the first audio drama I finished. Classic noir but supernatural and boys are smooching!

The Two Princes: This was wholesome and had good vibes. I prefer the first season but it was still a fun time.

The Magnus Archives: Arrived late to the party on this one, but I love all the fanart. Awakened my interest in pathetic men.

EOS 10: I also am not 100% sure this is done but I enjoyed the shenanigans!

Wolf 359: Eiffel, my beloved. I liked the silly and dramatic parts of this story. It hurt my soul but it was worth it :)

Time:Bombs: noahdeaart's fanart made me think this was going in a different direction... Still a fun one!

Valence: Love this one WAAAAHHH! Pls listen. I love Nico. Sad Boy but hides it under their chaos energy.

The Bright Sessions: I would 1005% listen to a spin-off just about Mark. This Sad Boy keeps collecting trauma and I need to see him and Oliver maybe go on adventures or something. ANYTHING.

Roommates: I, too, had a pandemic college experience. It's kinda bizarre that there's already a story about that and I love it!

Look Up: Wholesome. Briggon Snow kept me fed.

Moonface: Appreciate having an audio drama from an Asian American perspective. Didn’t realize how much I needed that.

Murray Mysteries: Must protect Jonathan.

Kaleidotrope: More wholesome content. I got more into it by the second half. The hosts have a fun dynamic!

Re: Dracula: Still thinking about Inside You.

Wooden Overcoats: Rudyard is my fav. Chapman deserves the hate.

The Vanishing Act: this Rudyard wasn’t my fav. I was happy to listen to him suffer but also happy when he fell in love. A win for Griffson!

Greater Boston: Michael Tate <3

Ars Paradoxica: Nikhil Sharma <3

Podcasts I’m Catching Up On

Life with Althaar: I knew that plant lady was sus

Love and Luck: I’m on ep 87 now some magical things are going down

Going Lowbrow: I wasn’t expecting a musical but I’m not complaining.

SAYER: There are no bees on Typhon :)

WTNV: I got behind during high school and now I’m too scared to get caught up… one day. It's been so long at this point I think I'd need to start over.

BRASS: I fell behind on episodes :(

Not Quite Dead: If there are vampires, I'm automatically interested. Only a few eps in.

Hi Nay: I’m listening to Murphy respectfully.

Unwell: I just listened to the Christmas episode and cried

Podcasts I’ve Dropped

Moonbase Theta Out

Dreamboy

Archive 81

The Sheridan Tapes

Jar of Rebuke

I’ll keep this updated every so often. Most of these I’ve found either from scouring rec lists or seeing nice fanart.

Please let me know of any recommendations you may have! Thanks for reading if you got this far. Mad respect.

Last updated: 06/08/24

[asmoshoebox]

asmoraius and hornblas have such a funny friend dynamic to me because they're both the kind of people who will stop at nothing in service of The Bit, but their Bits are wildly different

like i think asmoraius's Bits are simply stuff he enjoys doing and he thinks it's funny to take something overly seriously/literally and then wink at the audience. for him it's all sex stuff, which he genuinely enjoys, but he also plays it up because it's funny as hell and gets a reaction. and that's it, that's his whole deal, he knows who he is and he likes getting attention for it.

but hornblas's Bits are much more interesting in terms of Why he does them, and i think it comes down to him being fundamentally Emo (whereas asmoraius is much more of a romantic and glam type goth), by which i mean, he doesn't know who he is. on some level. and he's full of existential Angst about it.

now, i dont know that it's ever stated outright, but it's heavily implied that he never had a particular Station within hell, he simply had a Job, which was to summon demons to and fro, and he himself was free to fuck around the rest of the time. he seems to have spent most of his time pulling elaborate pranks and schemes, and the only connection i can draw between them is that they tend to be collaborative. he's also said to be "constantly leading demons astray" and good at "getting people to follow him wherever he goes"

combine this with his other consistent descriptions--that he is moody, prone to isolation, sensitive to negative feedback, and the de facto leader of any group he's in--and it's pretty obvious that leading people into funny situations, specifically, is the only way he knows how to bond with others.

and i think this is directly due to the fact that he doesn't have a Station, which is shown to be a super important part of how demons identify themselves and form communities. he has a Job that ranks him above everyone else and prevents him from forming genuine peer-to-peer relationships.

what happens to your sense of identity when you can't form lateral relationships? it fucking withers away into dust is what it does

we don't get to see him define himself (before the ending), but we do get to see how misroch thinks he defines himself (i.e. entirely around his One Special Ability), and i think the pushback misroch gets from belzagor about this, combined with the many other interests that hornblas is said to have, would indicate that hornblas has spent a lot of time trying to distance himself from that role, or at least to find out who he is outside of it. and i think we can also see that he hasn't been successful, because he's still super sensitive to rejection and misroch still thinks his whole identity is based in his Job.

and that leads directly to his final decision to leave. someone desperate for connection, with no tools to create it, and too much rejection sensitivity to handle relatively normal relationships, who feels isolated by their one assigned identity and trapped within it--- is going to be super receptive to someone offering them the ultimate get out of jail hell free card.

.....and if i could add one final observation: narratively, he's placed directly opposite misroch, and so we might expect to see some of misroch's issues mirrored in him. and i think we do:

misroch knows who they are, but struggles to value themselves. hornblas values himself very highly, but doesn't know who he is.