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fuckyeahaudiodrama · 5 months ago

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🪸 JULY LISTENS 🪸

(ft. some lovely coral for those of us caught up on The Magnus Protocol😌)

this month, i’ve been working through some of the stuff that’s been languishing on my listen list for approximately a million years as well as revisiting some old favorites. here’s what i enjoyed most in my earholes:

G.O.B.L.I.N.S — (pilot, crowdfunding now!) for fans of Stellar Firma, the Meredith brothers have reunited with some other familiar voices to spin a story about an overly ambitious human office worker who gets dragged through the veil into the fae realm by a pair of chaotic goblins. the show is scripted but it’s marked by the same sense of humor that has characterized the Meredith’s other improvised works. 8 episodes projected if it funds.

Larkspur Underground — (11 eps, complete?) a fictional exposé about the sole survivor of a serial killer’s disturbing abduction and grooming. i was giddy to discover this one as an ardent fan of Showtime’s Dexter. it’s gory and glorious, and if you’re keen you might spot some clues; if not, the final episode is going to shock you. creator wants to make more, but it’s been a few years so who knows.

I Found A Wormhole — (5 eps, complete) a short yet existentially harrowing series. exactly what it says on the tin. mind the content warnings on the final episode but by the time you get there you’ll definitely know what’s coming tbh.

The Grotto — (10 eps, ongoing) a pull-no-punches exploration of messy grief with a supernatural twist. season two is here! this series has an absolutely killer soundtrack and immersive sound design. it has such a unique vibe. you’ll definitely like it if you like WOE.BEGONE.

Dear Bastard! — (16 eps, complete?) an epistolary comedy about a bunch of squabbling neighbors. i like to use this show as a palate cleanser when i’ve been listening to a lot of gruesome horror, because it’s just so light and fun.

Deviant — (10 eps, complete) a space pirate dramedy! i stumbled across this purely by accident and did a little binge. i love an absolute mess of a protagonist, so this was right up my alley. it’s a little abrasive at times but overall i enjoyed the narrative and it wrapped up nicely.

Murphy — (6 eps, s2 in production) a folkloric monster-of-the-week mystery with very charming characters. the first season is complete and although it is short, the episodes are long and make great use of their runtime. pleased to see their recent crowdfunder has been successful so there will be more!

Ghost Wax — (45+ eps, hiatus) a horror anthology facilitated by a “reclaimer” who can extract the final statements of the dead. this is similar to How i Died but the lore feels much more fantastically intricate. i don’t want to spoil too much of the meta plot but there’s a LOT going on, and i’m looking forward to s2.

Fulmar’s Folly — (12 eps, ongoing?) people on reddit love this series so i decided to give it a spin. fans of zombie survival like We’re Alive are most likely to eat this up. it can be a little overwrought at times, but the constant tension feels genuine in context. episodes are quite long but the length feels satisfying and necessary.

Nowhere, On Air — (46 eps, ongoing) another spooky small town radio show about a girl in a world she doesn’t belong to. this is one of my favorite genres of AD. fans of WTNV, King Falls AM, Tiny Terrors, and other shows of that ilk will probably enjoy this. it leans a little more surreal and introspective than comedic. IMHO, the host also just has a lovely voice. the meta plot is currently really hitting its stride.

All In My Head — (19 eps, ???) night terrors turn out to be something much more sinister. so intriguing, i was devastated to realize it may have been abandoned. i’m not going to completely give up hope for a final season though!

Zoinks! — (11 eps, complete?) a darkly comedic homage to scooby doo and other childrens detective fiction. i loved the way the narrative approached the subject of child neglect, while still maintaining a thread of silliness that saved it from complete bleakness. s2 has been mentioned but it’s projected release date has come and gone without a word, so it may or may not happen.

Trice Forgotten — (10 eps, ???) an aspiring cartographer gets accidentally mixed up with some pirates. i relistened to this series in honor of its anniversary and was just blown away by the sound design all over again. the setting is made so rich and alive by the effort put in by the production staff! and the character dynamics are so intricate and gorgeous. i am especially a fan of the tension between alestes and gammon. beautiful first season with SO much left to explore, i really hope to see this come back for a s2 someday.

#audio drama #podrecs #my description of trice is very lacking btw. there’s MUCH more going on in that show. too much to summarize #it’s really fun and i wish it had a bigger fanbase #LATE AGAIN IM SORRY

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scarletlight-has-issues · 4 days ago

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Welcome to Night Vale/The Magnus Archives au.

Hey! So @orca-in-disguise asked me to elaborate on the TMA/WTNV au my girlfriend @rainbowwscarab and I have been crafting that I mentioned in this post. I thought it was a bit too long to put in the replies, so I’m making an actual post for it! Fair warning, a good amount of it is just her and I fucking around and having fun so it’s not going to be 100% air-tight.

So this took me a few hours, a lot of procrastination, and waiting for a really bad migraine that meant I couldn’t look at screens at all to end to fully write out (I started an hour after orca made their comment) and ended up being very long. It’s your fault for giving me an excuse to talk about this lmao. I’m so sorry, it’s over 3000 words. Full rant that includes each fear and how they apply to Cecil and Kevin as well as the premise of the au itself below the cut!

The fears and how they apply to Kevin and Cecil

So in terms of justifications for Cecil and Kevin’s alignments, it mostly stemmed from the idea that Kevin fits as most of the more visceral, physical, and violent fears whereas Cecil fits in with the more cerebral, psychological ones. The main exception of this is the spiral. Honestly, I could see the spiral working for either one of them, and it could definitely be another area where they overlap, but in the end it just came down to vibes.

For the heck of it, and since I like talking my thoughts out, I think I’ll rundown each fear, how it applies here and why I assigned them to who. Forgive me for my long-winded infodumping.

First there’s Kevin. Slaughter is a bit of an obvious one. The senseless violence as well as the delight he takes in it is fair enough classification.

The hunt is similar due to the violence of it. Additionally, for the purposes of this au, Kevin also has a significantly more animalistic demeanor and instinct, given he was assigned the two main animal fears of the 15.

Speaking of animal fears, there’s the flesh. While also fitting for reasons discussed above, Kevin’s attitude towards the body, blood, viscera, and self-mutilation fits in very well here. Additionally, while Kevin is not canonically canibalistic, I really don’t think it’s much of a stretch.

Desolation’s a bit less obvious, but the attitude towards destruction as well as the general delighting in pain and suffering works well. Also, the unmoving sun and its heat that he reveres can easily be transferred to heat of fire.

Corruption is one that did not initially seem obvious, but when I began looking deeper I realized just how strong of a tie Kevin is for it. There’s the centipede tie in for insects, as well as the obsessive, cult-like mentality towards love and adoration in terms of being devoured that he talks about with the smiling god. I read a fantastic character study fic between him and Jane Prentis once (just shout if you want the link, it was great) that utterly sold me on the concept and opened my eyes to just how corruption-aligned Kevin is and how easily he’d fall to it. Also, less of an in depth character study answer, but the mental image of a centipede crawling out of Kevin’s eye sockets and in through one of the gaps in his carved smile is a fantastically horrific one that I love.

Stranger is a fun one, as Kevin upon introduction was very much portrayed as a bizarro, twisted, stranger-esc reflection of Cecil, just as Desert bluffs acts as one of Night Vale. Additionally, there’s the sense of “othering” yourself the entirety of strexcorp has, with Kevin’s own transformation, and their encouragement to make a better, happier, and more productive you. The lack of eyes, the carved smiles, and the masked happiness are also all very stranger.

Spiral, as mentioned above, is I think the most cerebral of the fears I assigned to Kevin (aside from the eye, though I don’t think I have to explain that one) and I could also see it going to Cecil, though the madness-inducing vibe Kevin and desert bluffs as a whole has works. Additionally, the way he twists his own perceptions and reality to align with how his own damaged mind processes things, and the way he distorts events when he presents them to others is all very spiral. I could perhaps see the spiral and the extinction swapping places or perhaps both residing on the line between the two of them, like the eye. Extinction also works for Kevin given the apocalypse-esc energy desert bluffs has and the similarities it bears to the famine world (in vibes not direct application) in one of Season 4’s extinction statements, as well as the links it could potentially have to the self-destructive nature of capitalism and how it dooms all who live under its oppression. But anyway, that’s enough of my rambling about Kevin, onto Cecil!

Cecil’s alignments, as @/orca-in-disguise pointed out, are significantly subtler and less obvious than Kevin’s, and I think this owes much to the subtler aspects of many of the fears he was assigned. While they are often very extreme and intense in manifestation, many of them at their core come from a much more subdued place. Of course, every fear can be drawn back to that kind of distinction, but just bear with me.

The dark is not very obvious, but the core of the fear of the dark is the fear of the unknown, of what might happen to you when you cannot perceive your surroundings. It’s a fear of absence of perception, and isn’t not knowing and not understanding a core theme of Night Vale as a whole?

The end is slightly more understandable. Death is a common theme that crops up in much of Cecil’s narration and in Night vale as a whole. Additionally, The End is also a fear of inevitability, of unavoidable consequence, and of the future, all prominent points in the comforting kind of existential dread Night Vale and Cecil himself employs.

The web is about control, manipulation, and unseen connections or plans. While Cecil isn’t quite a master puppeteer, there are definitely themes of control in his character, whether he be subject or object, and the theories/headcanons of him being able to influence the town and those who hear him with his Voice definitely fit in here.

The vast is one that ties in with a lot of the things Cecil talks about. There are countless times when Cecil talks about the endless and the insignificance of a single human life in the face of eternity. The repeating motif of the sky being “mostly void, partially stars” works extremely well here too. The themes of Night Vale as a whole align very well with the vast.

The lonely works for Cecil for similar reasons above, repeated statements of the insignificance of humanity as a whole and himself in the face of the universe. Additionally, while Cecil is often defined by his relationships, he’s also been shown to be very prone to loneliness, depression, and self-isolation as shown by season 3. There have also been several moments depicting Cecil’s role in his recording booth speaking out into the air as being a quite lonely and isolating thing, completely cut off from the rest of the town he speaks his words to.

The extinction is one that works through the themes of inevitability and consequence I discussed through the end, but also because Night Vale itself as it is now with all its strangeness was at least partially created by Huntokar through the result of a near extinction event, her attempting to save it from the nuclear missile that would have destroyed it. This theme of nuclear destruction is one that is strong with the extinction and is something that runs through a lot of Night Vale’s narrative.

The buried is an odd one, and is perhaps the one that is the least fitting, but I wouldn’t say that it is completely without base. In addition to claustrophobia and being buried alive, the buried is also representative of restraint, of being trapped (literally or metaphorically), and of crushing circumstances that you cannot escape. This ties into the same sense of inevitability that I talked about above. An argument could also be made that Cecil can be viewed as being stuck in place and unable to move on from different perceptions and his own role.

Lastly, there’s the eye. Thought id leave it for the end so I can discuss how it applies to both Cecil and Kevin. I don’t think I need to discuss too in-depth about it. After all, in almost all other aus I’ve seen of a similar nature, Cecil is almost always pegged as an eye avatar. Kevin falls into this for similar reasons. Both of them have shown abilities to see and know things about their town that they should have no possible way of knowing, describing events as they happen across town, and discuss things as if they are standing there in real time. This all-seeing theme is one that ties into heavily to the eye. Additionally, they are both radio hosts. They’re both the Voices of their towns. Whether this is simply a fun way to describe the role of radio hosts or a more metaphysical title and role as many fans have speculated/headcanoned, it’s worth taking into account. The role of Voice can easily be seen as a role similar to that of Archivist. Their role is to describe their town, to bring information and events into light and spread information to those that hear them. Often they describe awful things that have happened or will happen, and forbidden knowledge is a theme with both of them.

Now that that’s out if the way, (and anyone can also take that conceit and run with it should they so desire) onto the actual plot of the au.

The au premise

As I stated in the post I linked above, the initial conception of this classification turned into a full au that spiraled (no pun intended) into much more. The au’s premise is that back when the fears as TMA knows them were relatively young and humanity was new, two monsters, two beings were created, poured into the world before the classifications for the fear were distinct. They acted as two halves of the same whole, two sides of the same coin, two different sides to Fear and they were as intertwined as any person is with their own reflection. One of them represented the cerebral; the mind and soul, and the other the visceral; the body.

Of course, to a certain extent every fear can be interpreted as both visceral and cerebral. So as previously stated, they have significant overlap and their divide is indistinct, just as the entities themselves are.

Conflict is in these two beings’ very nature, but they were never truly separated from echother, for they relied on each other just as much as they clashed against echother. I’d compare their relationship to that of the shifting mound and the long quiet from Slay The Princess if anyone reading this is as into that game as I am. Kevin would be the former and Cecil would be the latter in that comparison.

After a while, as the minds that feared them evolved, these two beings grew to have minds beyond the entities that they stemmed from and wished to explore their distinct individuality as independent beings. Eventually, after extensively exploring the diverse array of fear each could evoke, they settled down in a small deserted area in the American Midwest, close together and yet separated by space. The land itself around where these two entities settled down gradually began to warp and distort from their influence, their essence seeping into the place that surrounded them and changing the area in which they settled, as well as the people who decided to populate it. Although at first unintentionally, this created the towns of Night Vale and Desert Bluffs.

The Night Vale entity had a longing to be human. It desired to join and understand the minds that formed it, to walk among them. It started attempting to do so with various puppets it either created or fashioned from humans. Almost all of these served is simply flesh puppets it used without fully joining with, and that is when Cecil came along. Cecil was an ordinary human being. He was perhaps unusual to humanity as a whole for where he was born and had grown up, but he was no stranger than most in Night vale. The being that affected the town lived in the radio station, and it was commonplace in town for those who chose (or were compelled) to work there to act as its puppets. Attitudes towards the being varied, but most lived in fear or it. Cecil became the first puppet it used to become a true vessel, joining with the being to become both the combined whole of two parts and something entirely new.

This transformation cut him off from most of the people he was close with in town, most notably his sister Abby. Abby was incredibly adverse to this decision from the beginning and now holds the belief that the entity in the radio station killed her brother and is using him like a puppet and lying to everyone about what it is. He lived a very odd existence, mostly alone and living above most, until a very handsome man working for a strange university with affiliations to the eye by the name of Carlos showed up to research his little town.

Moving back a bit in the timeline and shifting our attention a few miles away, the desert bluffs entity had no real desire to become human. It wanted independence, it wanted to explore its own abilities, and it wanted power, but it didn’t want to become human. The humans who settles around it, like those in night vale, had been warped and affected by proximity to it (thus creating the… eccentricities of desert bluffs) and had created a religion around its worship. They saw those as having been directly blessed by it (avatars, of which there are a large number in both Night vale and Desert Bluffs) as divine, and dying by the being’s hand was the most pure way to do so. Think of it like how in Viking culture, dying in battle was the most honorable way to go. They saw fear itself as holy and they offered up their terror of it as a means of worship. The being loved this attention and the existence it had built for itself, and it was quite happy until a corporation called Strexcorp Synergists inc. moved into its little town.

Strexcorp is much the same as it is in canon save for that in this au, they’re heavily tied to the web, though with definite Stranger, Spiral, and Slaughter influences as well. I have a couple OCs I fashioned to be Strexcorp’s upper management (if anyone wants to hear about them, just ask. As evident by this massive rant I love talking about things I’ve created) who all, at least in this application, act as ties to different entities Strex is influenced by, but it’s primarily web. Strex saw the potential of having something like the desert bluffs entity under their control, but knew that as it currently was, it was too powerful to fully contain and utilize for their purposes. They decided that it would be easier to exploit if it were bound to a vessel, and so they chose their pawn in Kevin.

Kevin, a pillar of the community, one of the most devout in his worship of the entity that made its home in his town, and one of the most outspoken against Strex and their goals. Using him to bind it took out two birds with one stone, getting rid of one of their significant obstacles in taking this town, and utilizing him the exploitation of what would become their most valuable resource. And so they used him, tricking and manipulating him as the web does and effectively forcing the two to join, for Kevin to become the thing’s vessel, and weakening it in that moment just enough for them to extert their control. They bound the newly formed being to/in the temple the residents of that town had erected for its worship, caging it in the very walls that had once been home to its reverence and worship and reducing it to a tool for their means.

Lauren, who in this is just a straight web avatar, is assigned to serve as what is effectively Kevin’s handler, keeping him under control. They use him as a symbol to control desert bluffs, utilize him in situations where his abilities are deemed useful, and offer sacrifices to him in the form of people they want to get rid of. The rest of the time, he’s kept bound and isolated, depriving him of fear so he’s kept weak enough to contain.

As a small clarification after lol that, post-joining, both Kevin and Cecil are two complete wholes. They don’t act as two separate entities in the same body fighting for control. Kevin is more unstable than Cecil for obvious reasons, both because of his nature, circumstances, and the fears he represents, but also because his joining was violent and unwilling for both parties. Think Michael as the distortion for how its nature works, though in this instance Kevin didn’t die. He’s still very much himself, just more.

As the au starts, the entities before Kevin and Cecil know and recognize each other as one would recognize themself, but Kevin and Cecil as people have never met. They both know each other more intimately than any one person can ever know anyone else and are complete strangers. It has been many years, perhaps centuries, since they have seem each other.

Additionally, the relationship between Kevin and Cecil in this is intended to be romantic because my girlfriend and I are both multishippers, Radioscientology (the ship name for Kevin, Cecil, Carlos, and Charles as a polycule) fans, and we think they should kiss, but it does not have to be interpreted that way if Kevin and Cecil isn’t a ship you’re into! If you want to see them as friends or family or queer-platonic partners or something weird and metaphysical, go right ahead!

And with that, we have the basic premise of the au! If anyone wants to hear more or wants me to elaborate on anything, please let me know, but I’m getting a bit self conscious over having written over 3000 words on this, so I think I’m going to end it here! Please give me any thoughts you might have, I’d love to hear what other people think about this stilly thing I made!

#scarlet speaks #scarlet rants #welcome to night vale #wtnv #kevin wtnv #wtnv x tma #wtnv/Tma au #cecil gershwin palmer #wtnv cecil #TMA #the Magnus archives #here you go!#let’s see if anyone reads this lol

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arthurtaylorlester · 1 year ago

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RETURN OF THE KING: MALEVOLENT LIVEBLOG EPISODE 37 THE FARM

spoilers (you already know)

back at it with some humming!

JOHN MY BELOVED !!!! youre so bitchy i love him

HES SO PETTY HELP

harpers hill mention omg (harpers hill hijinks coming soon)

“MY BOOK HMPH 😤” girl 😭😭

“i didnt realise” yes because you cant see and john is like really really dumb

it kills me that john is bitching about oscar not finding anything but like what information have you contributed in the last 3 episodes

ive missed bullying john

malevolent is a comedy and i will stand by that

mmm rain sounds

HYPNOS GREEK GOD MENTION ‼️

“can you imagine hahah” yes i can it was the best arc of the show send tweet

well you havent seen his face

whys john being so quiet all of a sudden?

OH WHAT THEFUCK I SAW RHIS COMING

“i suppose ill just watch again” SOMEONE IS A JEALOUS GIRL

arthur ignoring john….. the girls are going to DIVORCE

“not you sorry ^_^” and then he goes back to ignoring john?? girl

oh wait that was very sweet

WHAT THE FUCK I JUST TOOK ABDHDNFN

sorry arthur speaking to john like that just destroyed me

I TRUST YOU AND YOUR MY FRIEND??? IM NOT TRYING TO IGNORE YOU?? THEYRE COMMUNICATING A

“its not because i dont care 💛” “…yes?” oscar this isnt about you

poor guy though he must be so confused

arthurs tone changes so much when he speaks to john

someone get john a pair of glasses either that or he was too busy daydreaming to see the turnoff

oh of course john would want to split off because he hasnt ever seen a horror movie arthur if you die then it’s your fault for not showing him the movie 🙄

“we might have to sleep in the car” okayyyy

oh so now john wants to give him info because he deserves to know

aaaand now he doesnt want to tell him. we love a hypocritical king !!!

return of the canadian sourry

you dont need to sound so smug that he looks hurt john 😭😭

okay oscar love the existential crisis while reading very relatable

is he gonna say arthur is his purpose

oh for fucks sake

NOT THE SOFT “oscar”

ok oscar is def into arthur and arthur saying “i don’t believe in god” is like rejection. this is how unrequited blindfaith can still win.

also god believes in you? well john and kayne sure seem to believe in him for what its worth

oscar nooo dont devote yourself to arthur that never ends well

john i dont care about oscar either but you have got to stop laying it on so think jfc

john the undefeated more like john the opportunist

“woAH” same john same

oooh so john can see auras now basically?

what monster are we gonna find in the barn 👀

oh that sounds fun actually though /j

AWW I KNEW HE WAS GONNA ASK IF HE WAS OK

ok i love how prominent the dreamlands are this episode i was just thinking about how good it was

john just wants his alone time with arthur because he cant answer his questions

“i need another set of eyes” thats like the one thing john can do it must be kinda sad to like, not be able to fully do the one thing you used to be great at

“ *gasp* a forgotten one :0” john dont act like you know what that means

hey is john a forgotten one then. is he. is he though.

can everyone except arthur feel the weirdness of places

NOT THE MUSIC BOX MUSIC IN THE BACKGROUND HARLAN WHEN ARE YOU GIVING US AN OST PLEASE IM BEGGIN YOU

ITS MIDNIGHT DONT GO IN THE FUCKING BASEMENT ITS RAINING YOURE BEING CHASED BY AN EDLRITCH THING

john its ok if you didnt see it you dont need to justify yourself ❤️‍🩹

john sounds almost scared to go in the basement lol

the stairs are gonna give out at a later date im calling it

what could possibly happen in the last 15 minutes

a door ajar omg is that a wtnv reference

did arthur almost die by getting crushed by a bunch of furniture

oh a barricade i know what this is about

oh happy halloween btw guys

OSCAR JUMPSCARE

my honest reaction too john

what… what did you just sink into….

oh hole in roof, cool

arthur pay attention oscar hes gonna set hjmself on fire on accident

the jarthur was too busy analysing the painting to pay attention to oscar

OH GODDAMIT ARTHRJ WHAT THE FUCK JOHN WHAT THE DAGGER? THE ONE HE SLIT HIS THROAT WITH

oh he wants to cut it off ok

jfc 7 minutes oh no

I CALLED THE STAIRS CAVING IN

GUYS HE WAS READING THE BOOK OFC HE KNOWS

question: how strong is arthur physically

“A TOWEL!” “A TOWEL?” as i said a comedy

WE GOT A “WELL DONE ORTHUR” LETS GO

you know its weird that i can handle this fine but couldnt deal with the michael torture in the woe.begone finale

NO ARTHUR ITS NOT OK

HES ISNT GOING TO MAKE IT

oh ok hes fine sort of ok

the music goes so hard again

that arthur was so scared

ok the arms alive run

or get john to arm wrestle it idk

“what thE fUCK WHAT THE FUCK” my daily vocabulary

and oscar was right :)

RUN YOU IDIOTS

arthur you could at least carry him instead of dragging him that poor poor man

i find it amusing that this mostly happened because of jarthur studying a painting and ignoring the man currently in possession of their braincells

indeed what do we do now

and thats a wrap! oh boy what an episode i have THOUGTHTS (oscar is not surviving this)

i know like maybe 2 people read this type of posts but i enjoy making and reading them back. so if youd like me to keep going with these i will :)

#malevolent #malevolent podcast #unhinged aromantics #arthur lester #john doe #john malevolent #arthur malevolent #malevolent john #malevolent arthur #oscar malevolent #malevolent oscar #malevolent spoilers #mr scratch #malevolent part 37

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myebix · 9 months ago

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I cosplayed my personal hc for cecil's appearance to the wtnv live show tonight :]

it's not exactly what i imagine, but ngl i had a fun time dressed like this, and I enjoyed doing a silly little photoshoot when i got home (my makeup did get kinda messed up because i was laughing too much though rip)

+ my design for him

#i need everyone to know that wig was fully decked out in colorful clips and barrettes #also that i forced my friend to hunt down a cheap ring that could pass as a wedding band #cecil gershwin palmer #wtnv cecil #wtnv #welcome to night vale #wtnv cosplay #another side note #i had to paint the jacket and wig by hand someone help me #and i only had an hour to do all my makeup help #probably gonna regret posting my face lol

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soph-the-podcast-nerd · 19 days ago

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Okay, so the first two screenshots are my current top listens, and the third picture is "shows that I've finished/aren't doing new episodes" (The pictures seemed easier than typing everything out 😣)

Skyjacks was my #1 podcast this year, and Midst was my favorite new one I started this year!!!

Lmk if you want me to just pick a few, or explain any of them!

Oh man thanks for all the recommendations!!!

podcasts in the photos (names - creators):

Campaign: Skyjacks and Skyjoust!! - James D'Amato

The Pod Has Been Cast - The Pod Has Been Cast

Worlds Beyond Number - Fortunate Horse, Worlds Beyond Number

Welcome to Night Vale and Alice Isn’t Dead - Night Vale Presents ( i totally love wtnv! Haven’t listened to anything else by Night Vale Presents yet, tho)

Skyjacks: Courier's Call - Paulomi Pratap, Drew Mierzejewski, Aly Grauer + more

Not Another D&D Podcast and Rotating Heros - Headgum

Hello From The Magic Tavern - Arnie Niekamp (I actually did get a decent amount through this one, but it wasn’t quite my thing. Still recommend for people who like fantasy, comedy, and shows like mbmbam)

Transplanar RPG - Transplanar RPG

Midst - Critical Role

Lateral with Tom Scott - Tom Scott and David Bodycombe

Strangers on a Bench - Tom Rosenthal

Yes, Also - Yes, Also

Midnight Facts for Insomniacs - Shane Rogers

(and i think i see my brother, my brother, and me hidden under that last one although idk if that’s a recommendation… fun fact coincidentally my brother my brother and me + TAZ was the first podcast my brother shared with me hes a fan of the mcelroys)

ars PARADOXICA - ars PARADOXICA

The Bright Sessions - Atypical Artists

The Strange Case of Starship Iris - Jessica Best (Procyon Podcast Network) (also definitely definitely definitely recommend this one I love it!)

Wolf 359 - Kinda Evil Genius Productions, LLC (this one too, one of my favorites of all time)

Mission To Zyxx - Mission To Zyxx

The Blood Crow Stories - Ellie Collins and Scott Moore

Girl In Space - Sarah Rhea Werner

#fiction podcast #audio fiction #audio drama #fiction podcasts #podcast recs #podcast recommendation #podcasts to listen to

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pillowspace · 1 year ago

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Since you like The Magnus Archives did you ever listen to Welcome To Night Vale ? Because you would probably love it too.

@baaaa-king

I've only listened to about 21 or so episodes of WTNV I think? I did enjoy what I listened to though, it was fun!

#ask

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ceilingfan5 · 1 year ago

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20 Questions for fic writers

Tagged by @holdmecloser-gandydancer

tagging you, the person reading this and wishing someone tagged you, yes you, i mean it

1. How many works do you have on A03?

total? 73. TAZ? 37. oh man. palindrome

2. What's your total A03 word count? 703,033 baby ive been here for Ten Years

3. What fandoms do you write for?

recently taz. before that, aftg, haikyuu!! etc. but man it has been taz for a While

4. What are your top five fics by kudos?

OF TAZ WORKS (all my top 5 are old old) 1. Sticker Stars (of course) 2. Run Away With Me 3. Rub This On Your Body 4.Little Shop of Horny and 5. Apply Directly to the Forehead (one of my first taz fics!!) all of those make sense as contenders but i am surprised revenge plus one is #8

5. Do you respond to comments? Why or why not?

i................have to be honest..........................................i'm so...sorry............

[id: a screenshot of "Inbox (3402)" indicating no, no I do not]

(please understand this is from years and years and years and years)

i pretty much only reply if i am directly asked a question i have an answer to or it makes me cry in a good way....not because i'm an asshole or because i don't appreciate them!!!! comments mean truly so much to me!! i just don't know what to say besides thank you, so i usually write an emphatic thank you on each chapter and hope people know i mean it.... please don't think i don't care...please............. i care so much

6. What's the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending?

we don't do that here

7. What's the fic you wrote with the happiest ending?

“But like,” words fall out of Taako’s mouth before he can stop them. “Live your life, dude, go a little nuts, feel like a whole person, give me $200, participate in the universe, get your back blown out on demand, fucking-” he laughs. “Have a collection, experience joy, buy a cat, get diagnosed with autism, fall in love-”

“What was that last part??”

if that (from revenge plus one) isn't a happy ending what is (i'm hoping the people who care enough to read a post like this have either read it already or are going to go. oh my god i have to read revenge plus one tonight)

8. Do you get hate on fics?

no and if i did i would block and delete em, there's no time for that. fuck em. this is a joy pursuit (i would cry though. don't. what the hell. just close the tab like a normal person. someone MADE THAT.)

9. Do you write smut?

oh baby DO I

i do intend to write some more publishable stuff soon. most of my personal stuff has gotten Way Too Weird. but look out for some horny supervillain taakitz soon if thats your cup of hot chocolate with too many marshmallows in it 👀👀👀👀

10. Do you write crossovers?

sorry i am obsessed with one thing at a time.

11. Have you ever had a fic stolen?

hope not! if so i cast a billion death spiders on them. smooch. partake in the joyous act of baring your soul via dumbfucks yourself, coward

12. Have you ever had a fic translated?

once, i think? im not sure they finished

13. Have you ever co-written a fic before?

absolutely, some of my best stuff was originally rp!!! i am so sorry @holdmecloser-gandydancer @noodyl-blasstal for not continuing some super exciting projects, my brain is electric soup and my life is a circus. someday. someday we will play again. i must believe

14. What's your all-time favourite ship?

if you did not expect taakitz i have 29+ fics you should read

15. What's the WIP you want to finish but doubt you ever will?

everything is possible until you give up. so who knows!!!!!!!!!!! it sure does help to know there are people that will still read things if and when they are ever finished though

16. What are your writing strengths?

VOICE! dialogue. fun

17. What are your writing weaknesses?

planning fucking ahead

18. Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language for a fic?

caution necessary but i mean live your life, just be aware of the err of google translate

19. First fandom you wrote for?

on ao3? wtnv

before that? squints. maybe homestuck or............no it was shakespeare

man. fuck

20. Favourite fic you've ever written?

revenge plus one, probably, i miss living in it

nothing says passion like 90k and baby's first adhd medication!!!!!!!!!

really though please go read it. if you have 90k worth of attention and time and interest

also hey? in general? if you read this far? keep writing. and enjoy it. self indulgence isn't just nice, it's what makes life worth living. make for you, and then the comments and appreciation are bonus. snare a few friends in your web and you're living, baby

keep reaching for the stars

#ask game #hi guys it's been a bit my life has been insane and my brain has been pudding with chunks

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wgc-productions · 2 years ago

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The Magnus Archives 1 Angler Fish Liveblog

I have two deep confessions to lay bare here, on this public Tumblr.

1. I didn't like Waiting To Exhale and I think it is a bad movie.

2. I have never listened to The Magnus Archives which is a cardinal sin for me as a person who makes audio dramas. I plan to rectify this here and now! I want to listen to a lot more the seminal audiodramas so I can be a better student of my craft, and by blogging it I'm likely to get other people's input and thoughts which is also super helpful to me as an artist. So, see? Win win.

You can read my liveblogging thoughts below the cut.

00:00- I think the same thing when I listen to WTNV (which is like One Piece in my opinion) but it's also so, not necessarily strange, but particular when shows that you know didn't have ads initially have ads now. It's sort of like being a post-witness to growth. It'd be like finding Egyptian influence on Kush Artifacts. You just know that it looked different and that there had to be such a seismic shift to get to the change you know must have happened, because it doesn't make sense for it to have started in the state that you are currently experiencing.

04:10- Oh! It's one of the "we have a reason we're recording" shows! Those are fun.

04:39- It's nice to have a voice to go with all the Johnathan Sims fanart I've seen.

05:15- I will say when I was living out in LA for a couple of months in college, I did try listening to TMA but I didn't get into it. So, I do vaguely remember this 1st episode plot though that was about 5 years ago (which is crazy to think! Darn you COVID!)

06:40- Well God forbid Martin has some struggles. Please Johnathan where's your compassion?

09:16- I'm glad he knows I am but an American who knows nothing of Edinburgh.

12:18 Johnathan please. You can't just stare at people on the street. What happened to manners.

13:05- Give the man a bum, John. It's the sporting thing to do! Who cares if he's a little different. We all have our addictions.

14:59 Wait! John is reading a case this isn't his behavior. Oh, for shame. I have been slandering his good name. Sorry, Johnathan.

17:20- I'll be honest if I saw some truly bizarre phenomena that just screamed unexplained horror I would not investigate. There is already too much truly horrifying phenom that's hard to explain. I don't need to pursue the horrors. I'm a Black American, the horrors pursue me.

18:58 It's a shame audio dramas typically don't have characters with thick accented brogues. Could you imagine someone with a thick backwoods Irish or Scottish accent doing this. Think of the texture it would ad.

19:00- I know that all of these stories eventually connect so I'm excited to see how they all blend into a cohesive plot.

That's that on that. I'll keep doing these because I want to and I also think it'll be fun to, once I finish TMA, be able to go back and read through and relive the experience.

#tma #tma podcast #rusty quill #audio fiction #fiction podcast #wgc liveblog #Spotify

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kevin--of-desert-bluffs · 5 months ago

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WTNV quick rundown - 161 - The Space Race

Read the rest here!

Space, the final frontier. The womb, the first frontier. Somewhere between those two, the ocean. Welcome to Night Vale.

Cecil is devoting this entire episode ('as he always does on this day every year') to the Children's Fun Fact Science Presentation. This year it's about the Space Race.

The Space Race, Cecil begins, in 1782 at a garden party hosted by the first Duke of Luftnarp in July. All the nobles declare how much they hate the moon and the first Duke of Luftnarp and the Prince of York decide that the first person to find a way to get to the moon to hit it directly would show they hated the moon the most.

Sometime in the 18th or 19th centurary the Archduchess of the Motley Meadow learned to go into a meditative state where she could lucid dream about flying to the moon believing that when she reached it in her dreams so too would she in real life but apparently she was in such a meditative state she didn't notice she died.

In 1953 the North American Slap-the-Moon Agency and the Russians, descendents of those first nobles, are still fighting to be the first to get to the moon and hit it to prove their hatred of it. Neil Armstrong reportedly was a test pilot with the strongest hatred for the moon.

When they reach the moon they find a secret lost pet city hidden by a grey and black mesh from the Earth. A grey cat called Barb. E.Q. Sauce asks him to keep the secret of their city and he agrees, flying back to Earth. Cecil ends by saying that he never did tell anyone, so nobody has ever heard this story before.

Weather: “Have a Smoke” by Head Portals

NV is not unaware of the presidental debate and many spirited debates go on in the Compressed Spine Amateur Boxing Gym. Winner being by knockout or sometimes points. Candidates include; Old Towel Leonard (who everyone hates, according to Cecil), Heartbreak Maggie (she has the most number of arms, the most number of eyes, and her singing voice literally kills) and Cecil's fave Spotless Tony (whose positions include banning guns, legalizing writing utensils, and Medicare for Spotless Tony, a program that would provide comprehensive healthcare to himself).

The lawsuit against NV for the mishandling of Frank Chen's death is still ongoing, made difficult by the absence of Hiram McDaniel's and how difficult and deadly it is to access any NV records.

Cecil signs off quickly after the story this episode.

Proverb: Correct placement from right to left: salad fork, soup spoon, salad spoon, bread knife, bowie knife, meat thermometer, entree fork, and finally, the dessert claws.

#wtnv #welcome to night vale #wtnv quick rundown #wtnv ep 161

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foreststarflaime · 5 months ago

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Greetings I am Star o/ (or Forest, or Foreststar) I am just here to have fun and scream into the ether about the stuff I like. Sometimes I may go a bit without posting anything tho bc words do not always work for me

Also I like dragons, swords, stars, pretty much anything fantasy and nature, etc. I adore stories of any kind! I’m studying classics and linguistics so I talk a lot about that, and my favorite hobby is swinging swords at my friends (HEMA—historical european martial arts, I mainly do longsword)

Tags for my stuff for organization:

Star’s Dragon Sanctuary now open! Feel free to ask us about any of your dragon-related needs or curiosities!

Star rambles — my stuff, me yapping

Star essays — the long essay analysis posts I sometimes do — star gushes for the more poetic ones — star scenarios for au/shitpost type stuff

My writing — stuff I write, mostly fanfics but there’s some original stuff in there too — Ao3

My ocs — I don’t post about em much here but I have many! Feel free to ask about them. In particular there is Foreststar

I also have a ff7 dragons au now!

Ask game prompts — love doing these, as well as any other tag game stuff! Ask game for responses and asks for general asks in case I accidentally buried yours in reblogs

Other tag stuff under the cut

Middle earth — tolkien stuff, my first and eternal hyperfixation

Loki — any version of him really. But my fav is the Agent of Asgard version from marvel comics. I will never shut up about Loki I love him whenever he appears in anything

Ff7 — final fantasy 7

Armory — hehehe pictures of various weapons but mainly swords :) used to be just under swords so you can also look there

Dragons — I am and always have been obsessed

Stars — this and the two above it are my 3 favorite things ever

Classics — greek and roman stuff

Linguistics — cool language stuff

Random stuff — stuff I couldn’t otherwise categorize

Nature — cool pictures

Castles — I use this tag very loosely, should probably change it to architecture but eh

Dw — doctor who

Mi — mission impossible

Technoblade, philza minecraft

Pokemon

Gf — gravity falls

Stray gods

Hades — the game

Flight rising — dragons :) my favorite

Nimona — this movie healed my soul

Epic — the musical

Hlvrai — half life vr but the ai is self aware, by wayneradiotv

Bg3 — Baldur’s Gate 3

Genloss — generation loss (same stuff, changed the tag)

Tiny glade — my stuff under #my glades

Merlin — the bbc show

Fma — fullmetal alchemist (brotherhood ofc)

Pb — the princess bride

Rdr — red dead redemption

Uu — unstable universe/unstable smp

Lifesteal — lifesteal smp

Totg — twilight of the gods

Es — elder scrolls, mainly skyrim

Wtnv — welcome to night vale

Mp100 — mob psycho 100

Tdp — the dragon prince

Temeraire

Frozen, Tangled (esp the series), Mulan, etc

Pnf — phineas and ferb

Sky cotl — children of the light, gorgeous mobile game

Wtnv — welcome to night vale

Poto — phantom of the opera

Parkour civ (formerly tagged as Parkour civilization) — what the hell why am I here why is this stupid series so good wtf

Pvp civ — pvp civilization

Aaa — agatha all along

gomens — good omens (NOT neil gaiman)

Sanders sides

Gw — the gilded wolves (currently reading)

Mtp — moriarty the patriot (currently watching)

Genloss — Generation Loss

Jrwi — mainly riptide

Wicked

Gladiator

Trsmp — the realm smp

Kww — ken wato wifies collab and related stuff

I probably did not catch all of these. More will come as I think of them unless I get lazy

#intro #figured it was about time I made one of these #idk

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