#have also heard great things about the silt verses if you want a horror podcast that isnt tma

[sheriffofmagic]

is it worth it to read/listen to magnus archives after all this time? pls advise

i havent relistened to any of it since the finale but yes. i still think tma is a really interesting podcast with a lot of standout moments and characters. i still think about the characters and the world a lot i really liked what jonny was cooking with. while i wasnt as in love with the final season as the rest of its run i definitely think its still worth your time!! if you do end up listening please let me know what you think!!!

havent listened to the follow-up podcast (magnus protocol i think?) though so i cant speak to that one

[ashes-in-a-jar]

In my head, you’re a Magnus Archives blog. I mean, I know you obviously listen to other things, but In my mind it’s things like Welcome to Nightvale, Malevolent, Hello from the Hallowoods, The Sheridan Tapes, things like that, horror and supernatural.

So I had to do a double-take when I saw a Dungeons and Daddies post from you, I really didn’t know you listened to it. Then I see you reblog a Fawx and Stallion post, and now I’m just wondering how many podcasts you’ve listened to that I’ve also listened to.

Hahaha yes this blog has been mainly for tma stuff for years now, I still feel like I'm new to the fandom but honestly I've been here through a lot of it since the beginning of season 5

Buuuuut in the past few months I've stopped going into the tma tag regularly and been feeling a little detached from it, at least as opposed to before. My listen to tmagp has been way less interactive and I hardly reblog content anymore (which is something I like doing but because of various bad experiences on the internet recently I have yet to recover from I feel safer posting my own original posts rather than reblogging)

And that freed up a space in my mind to realize I've actually been listening to a lot of podcasts besides tma and it's honestly a shame not to talk about them more with others

I do listen to a lot of horror fantasy supernatural and science fiction podcasts! I also love a lot of dnd and ttrpg podcasts, I also love everything dropout and wish I could get into critical role but it's so big I don't think I'll manage it

I put under the cut a (quite long) list of the podcasts I have listened to and/or have notifications turned on

Anyone following me, you're welcome to send me an ask about one of them if you like them as well or want to hear about them!

I also put a list of podcasts on my to listen to list. Feel free to drop a recommendation for which them to listen to first!

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Podcasts I'm caught up on (the lists are long so it's alphabetical without "the")

Ongoing podcasts

The Amelia project

Ask your father

A voice from darkness

Black box

Brimstone valley mall

Camlann

The cellar letters

Death by dying

Derelict

Eeler's choice

Ethics town

Fawx and stallion

Hello from the Hallowoods

The hundred handed

Levian

Lost terminal

The Magnus protocol

Malevolent

Midnight burger

The mistholme museum of mystery morbidity and mortality

Neon inkwell

New years day

Not quite dead

Old gods of Appalachia

The penumbra podcast

The program

Red valley

The Sheridan Tapes

The silt verses

The sound museum

Super suits

Tell no tales

Tiny terrors

Traveling light

Unseen

The vesta clinic

Victoriocity

The white vault

Completed podcasts

Absolutely no adventures

Archive 81

Borrasca

The bright sessions

Camp here and there

Descendants

Give me away

I am in eskew

Monstrous agonies

Parkdale haunt

The Magnus archives

Re: dracula

The secret of st kilda

Spirit box radio

Steal the stars

Time:bombs

We know none

Wolf 359

Wooden overcoats

Ttrpgs

The adventure zone

Campaign skyjacks

Chapter and multiverse

Dark dice

Dice shame

Dimension 20 (not a podcast but I listen to it like one)

Dungeons and daddies

Not another d&d podcast

Rusty Quill gaming

Worlds beyond number

Podcast on my listen next list:

The Alexandria archives

Alice isn't dead

Ars paradoxica

Believer

The Black tapes

Blackwood

The box

The bridge

Carrier

Counterbalance

The cryptid keeper

Darkest night

The darkroom

The dark tome

The deca tapes

The deep vault

Dreamboy (this one is nsfw so it makes me nervous lol)

Duggan Hill

The earth collective

Either

The far meridian

The fountain road files

The glass canon

Jar of rebuke

Kings fall am (I started but heard not great things about it)

Knifepoint horror

Kollok 1991

Less is morgue

The leviathan chronicles

Liberty

Limetown

The lost cat

Mabel

Maeltopia

Marscorp

Mirrors

Mockery manor

Next stop

The no sleep podcast

The orphans

The Orpheus protocol

Out of place

Paired

Palimpsest

The phone booth

Point mystic

Pseudopod

Rabbits

The right left game

Shadows at the door

Spines

Stellar firma

The storage papers

Stories from among the stars

Super ordinary

Superstition

Tanis

Tides

Unwell

Vast horizon

Victoria's lift

Video palace

Welcome to night Vale (I listen to this one very sporadically lol)

We're alive

Within the wires

Woe begone (I started but got stuck on episode 20ish but want to continue)

Wrong station

Ttrpgs

BomBARDded

Critical role (it's sooo long tho)

Dames and dragons

Dragon friends

Join the party

The lucky die

Queens of adventure

Realms of pearl and glory

Rude tales of magic

Skyjacks courier call

Three black halflings

[misstrashchan]

Hi!

I have seen you are into podcasts? I wanted to try consuming some stories in this media format because I am curious... however, I do not know much.

Do you have any suggestions?

Thank you!

Okay, so I don't know what kind of genres or stories you might like or be looking for, but the majority of podcasts I'm familiar with and can recommend are mainly horror, or have horror elements. So, fair warning there. (Most podcasts on this list include trigger warnings in the episode descriptions too)

The Penumbra Podcast- I'd say this is a good, safe starting point to see if you like consuming stories in podcasts. The first season started out as an anthology series for a variety of stories, ranging from sci-fi noir detective mysteries, swashbuckling westerns, haunted houses, knights slaying monsters, etc. The main premise of the podcast is "stories you've heard before told in ways you'd never expect".

There are two reoccurring storylines, Juno Steel (sci-fi/noir) and the Second Citadel (fantasy/adventure) that the show focuses on more so as it goes on and drifts away from the anthology format, but you can choose to just focus on one and come back to the other later, as the two stories are completely seperate from each other and don't need to be listened to understand the other. Same if you don't want to listen to the horror anthology episodes like Shaken and Home and would rather skip them over (though they are fantastic if you do like horror). It's very engaging, fun, diverse and energetic, and excellent voice acting and sound design. Just a good time all round.

Currently there's three complete seasons out, episode runtime ranging 30-45 minutes and a currently ongoing series. Here's the teaser:

Alice Isn't Dead- So this is just a firm favorite of mine in podcasts, hell, it's one of my favorite stories in general.  Keisha, the narrator – a truck driver who is driving across America, delivery to delivery, is looking for her missing wife, Alice. We listen to her speak into the truck radio, partially musing to herself, partially addressing Alice as though she is leaving her a voicemail describing her travels and the bleakness of the road ahead – and worse, the potential of what follows her. It's a horror, a psychological thriller and a mystery, told in short, sharp chapters. The way in which the story is told makes excellent use of the audio medium and actively incorporates it into how the story at hand is being told, which I just adore when podcasts do. (There's a book version out and it just doesn't quite hit the same mark as it does in podcast format). In general it makes for a very intense and intimate experience that just keeps you hooked all the way through.

The story is complete at three seasons with 30 episodes each with a 20 minute runtime.

The Magnus Archives- If you follow me, or if you've been on Tumblr in general, you might already have a vague awareness of this series because of how popular it is, and for good reason too. It's a completed slowburn 200 episode cosmic horror/tragedy/drama that at it's core is an anthology series, every episode being a seemingly self contained short horror story.

Given as "statements" by people who have had paranormal or esoteric encounters to the Magnus Institute based in London, which is dedicated to researching such things, is then recorded onto tapes by the narrator and protagonist Jonathan Sims, (one of my favourite tragic heroes) the newly appointed Head Archivist after his predecessors mysterious death, who appears to have purposefully disorganized the Archives, much to his annoyance. But then patterns begin to occur within the statements, characters and previous statement givers appear in other's stories as they intersect like a huge web, and it's clear that there's something much larger and sinister at play as an overarching narrative comes into view that then draws the Archivist in.

Similar to Alice Isn't Dead, the Magnus Archives makes use of the audio medium and actively incorporates it into how it tells the story with how every statement is recorded onto tapes, as well as the events of the strange happenings in the Archives that the main characters (the Archivist, his research team, and the head of the Magnus Institute) experience themselves. Though without spoiling anything, the tapes themselves have a far more relevant and a active role in not just telling the story, but as the story and world itself.

This was a passion project for the writer, Jonathan Sims, (yes that is the name of the main character which he also voices, yes it is confusing) for a long time, and you can absolutely tell with how planned out the meta plot and intricate lore is, as well as just the quality of the writing in general. It covers all kinds of horrors and explores the concept of human fear itself, our personal relationship to it, which ties into the themes of agency and humanity the series also explores.

(trailer starts at 1:00)

The Silt Verses-

Let Me Speak First of Revelations

And Next of Dark Deceit

Then I'll Speak of Champions

Of Lovers, Gods and Beasts

My Song is Long and Twisted

It Winds, it Worms, It Rends

It Carries Few, It Drowns Many

And Those I Love, It Rends

This podcast is a fairly recent newcomer compared to the rest on the list, the first season is still ongoing, with only nine episodes out so far out of its fourteen with a season two planned ahead as well (with a roughly 40 minute episode runtime) but is absolutely divine. I'm genuinely frustrated that I'm not articulate enough to properly describe just how clever this series is, and can't recommend it enough.

A folk horror/religious fantasy serial drama that follows Carpenter and Faulkner, two river worshippers of an outlawed god, travelling up the length of their deities great black river, in search of revelations. As their pilgrimage lengthens and the river’s mysteries deepen, the two acolytes find themselves under threat from a police manhunt, but also come into conflict with the weirder gods that have flourished in these forgotten rural territories.

If you like themes of religious existentialism, how capitalism will commodify everything once deemed sacred, the indescribable horrors that arise from religious fanaticism/cults, rich lore and world building and complex morally grey protagonists who act as fascinating character foils to one another, lyrical and poetic narration, an eerie atmosphere, and don't mind the occasional intense scenes of body horror, you will love this podcast.

Oh, and crabs.

(I would also highly recommend I Am in Eskew by the same writer, his previous and completed podcast at 30 episodes, about a man living day to day within the monstrous city Eskew, but as an overall story and characters the Silt Verses is the much stronger of the two.)

[emberdune]

Can you recommend us some podcasts :) ?

hoo boy have i got the goods for you

in no particular order :

Life with LEO(h) - probably the only podcast on this list that's not slightly horror-y. very charming and funny. it's fairly recent and its first season ended a while ago, so if you want a short and heartwarming experience, this is it. the plot is basically: a lawyer specialized in robot law gets gifted an android boyfriend (which is illegal by the way, robots are not allowed to have a conscience in the story's universe) designed to love her and has to figure out what to do with him

Dreamboy - very funny and endearing but also uhhh kind of surreal and surprisingly moving at times. a zoo worker gets tangled up in a conspiracy to save a murderous zebra that's about the executed. also an ample amount of gay sex present. oh and it's a musical at times? musicals are NOT my thing but this one was reaaally good. the soundscape is just amazing. (here's an excerpt) if you saw under the silver lake, this has a lot of the same vibes.

The Silt Verses - okay so there's these two birdwatchers travelling along a river, right? only, they're not actually birdwatchers, they're acolytes of an illegal religion that worships a mud god, a river god, a god that drowns people and towns and turns whatever it touches into crabs and whatnot. so these two are on a "holy pilgrimage" to find signs of other followers, or at least a way turn the battle against the government around, because of course they're on the run from the government. (some excerpts) the voice acting is spectacular.

Mabel - this podcast invented love. okay, dramatics aside, it's got surreal horror, the fae court, a sentient(?) haunted house, doppelgangers, love letters, you name it. the first season is a wholly different experience from the later parts because it's more contemplative and lonely, whereas the later on it gets more charged and dynamic. i heard there was an entire season that was only briefly online and i'll never stop regretting not having heard it 😔

Within the Wires - this one's got five seasons and each of them can be considered a self-contained story but also a part of the wider universe it's set in. which is to say you can literally just listen to any season without having to listen to the other ones. i really love the second and fifth seasons. i really love their way of telling a story using the specificities of the audio medium with each season: you got relaxation tapes, museum audioguides, notes to your secretary, pre-recorded sermons and voicemail.

The Strange Case of Starship Iris - this is the one i'm listening to right now and it's really good. the pilot episode could be a standalone short story and it would still be just as good. honestly, it's everything you could ask of a solid sci-fi story: space adventures, be gay do crime, found family, linguistics, a scathing critique of the current state of the world etc etc.

i think this is gonna be too long if i wrote about all of them but here are some others that are also very good:

I Am In Eskew (in case you want to get to know me personally, you can just listen to this because the protagonist is basically me)

Alice isn't Dead (also invented love, + same remark as Eskew)

Archive 81 (it's about a uhhh hmmm the third season is great)

The Bright Sessions (free therapy (at first))

Unwell (honestly i just listen to this for Nora, the long-dead astronomer haunting the abandoned observatory, that said, it's a really fun story)

[equalseleventhirds]

(i learned my lesson last time i asked for recs, so i am putting what i get under a read more and adding more as i get more!! recs are for @maypersonne, who was asking, and anyone else who's interested ofc)

@ante--meridiem said: I recommend the Silt Verses! Same creators as I am in Eskew (which I haven't listened to), very much about the intimate relationship of the characters with the horror/supernatural elements

and @space-city-traffic said: im really into the silt verses right now, which is about horror-as-worship-as-horror! the creators have said it’s fundamentally an examination of our relationships and fucked up devotion, both to our gods and to other people, and even to places and the land. so im not sure it’s 100% what you’re looking for, but it’s at least on the same table.

oh hell yeah, i have noticed that around and about on my dash, good to know it is Potentially My Sort Of Thing. also rly funny that u both recced this at like the same time lmao

and from @maypersonne on the other post actually: I just finished the season one of the lost cat and maybe it also fit a bit?

oh hm! i've heard a little bit about it, i'll look into it sometime!

@iguanastevens said: Unwell (this place loves you) seems to fit this category!

ooh yes i've had like, a bunch of ppl tell me to listen, i guess i rly should huh

@lady-with-a-deathwish said: You GOT to listen to The Silt Verses! The writing is beautiful and poetic and the characters are very complex, and the the way it interwines capitalism , religion and love is great! Just an amazing podcast in general.

@pocketsizedquasar said: I will second the rec for the silt verses; PEAK loving your god / fearing your god / fearing the thing you love and loving the thing you fear I don’t know if you want non podcast recs but I think the TV show the terror fits somewhat into this category? It’s Nautical horror and idk if it’s quite “loving the things we fear” but there is definitely elements of love and fear playing off of each other

fjsdklfj okay EVERYBODY is into tsv huh. so like, really definitely this kind of thing.

and tv show recs are welcome at least for me!! books also perfectly admissible!! i can't guarantee i will get around to everything but i like having like, a list of media on hand, u kno? and the terror certainly sounds interesting.

someone was asking and i am rly not big into horror, so has anybody got any love-in-horror-in-love media? i've got mabelpod and the bridge podcast, and i've heard about i am in eskew doing 'the city loves you the city will eat you alive' sort of thing, but? does anyone have more?