#hearthbound

[anyaboz]

Ballpoint Pen vs Digital

Listen to Hearthbound!

[straylungs]

Poster by @anyaboz

Odessa's just trying to get home to her wife, but along the Loneliest Road in America, she'll encounter strange hosts, stray souls, and echoes of the past she’s running from... or running towards.

Hearthbound is a 10-episode folk musical audio drama, set across a post-apocalyptic Great Basin. It's a road trip, a queer love story, and a ballad for ecological restoration.

[Transcript] Content Warnings - mild swearing.

Come along with us: Spotify Apple Podcast Pocket Cast RSS Feed Website

[delaylays]

Guys I had a vision and here we are! These are all shows I’ve loved, friends shows, recs I’ve gotten, and also just shows that have been kind to me in the past! Go check them out! Tagging all the shows under the cut! (If they have a tumblr)

In order of appearance: @ethicstownprod @theredactedunit @doyoucopypod @straylungs (Hearthbound) @tlacuachetheater (The Devil’s Plaything) @woebegonepod @wanderersjournalpod @intransitpodcast @forgedbondspod @lawofnamesmedia (A Most Vital Art) @theholmwoodfoundation @rhapsodyexiledpod @tellnotalespod @lawofnamesmedia (Dakota Gold Mysteries) @divinerodentiastudios (Sixth Door To The Left) Nowhere On Air @englewoodafterdark @allatseapod @knaveofheartsad (Before The Tone) @freshmeatcast @audistorium @thefringespod @thenightpost @syntaxpod @hinaypod @shelterwoodpod @souloperatorpod @breakerwhiskey @vestaclinicpod

[fictionfrequency1]

Do you know what you’re listening to next month? Check out this article for a whole compilation of great fiction podcasts coming out in June. There are first episodes, second seasons, live shows, casting calls and more.

Got any cool podcast news I’ve missed? Tell me in the tags and I’ll add it in!

[chemicallywrit]

Hello everyone! How’s your summer going? Mine’s great because my summer job involves being outside and listening to audio drama all day! It’s Audio Drama Sunday!

🔧 I am a huge fan of podcast musicals in general, so a musical retelling (or untelling) of the Odyssey? Hearthbound had me from the jump. And the STYLE of musical it is hits so hard on this road trip story. It feels lonesome in a way I never got from the Odyssey, but really should have, because yeah, Odessa truly is just out there on her own. I can’t wait for more.

🧠 The phrase, “He beat you with his big wet brain!” is gonna stick with me for a while. Thank you @killjamxxx. As usual, I owe this show my life. This might be the most teacherly thing I’ve said in a hot minute, but I find a contract gotcha to be a wildly satisfying win. I hope things turn around for Faustina and I love that even “desperately shooting a commercial for much less than she’s worth” is a fun and violent episode.

🐜 I am very excited for the new series of The Adventure Zone, but can I just say—if you like this premise, you should check out Warlock! It has the added bonus of feeling almost exactly like watching an anime, plus the complicated magical worldbuilding and individual arcane gifts that Royale is promising us. Check it out!

🫁 As per usual, @thegospelofhaven hits right in the guts. This episode described itself as Isiah finding a problem and Rebecca finding a solution—but what’s excellent is that it’s also the opposite. Isiah finds the answer to what’s actually happening to Haven, and Rebecca creates an entirely new awful problem. It’s amazing how when you live in and worship the body of your god, you put so much emphasis on the god part that it’s easy to forget about the body. The viscerality of this show really comes through this episode.

🤖 Oh jeez. Oh heck. So I’m eight episodes in to @luxradium’s Metropolis, due to catch up at some point today, and Nan is on the run and too many people know her secret and Oliver has secrets of his own and the island is worse than anyone thought, and I have a theory, because no one ever dies in Metropolis…what a freakin great show.

That’s it for me! Join me this week in touching grass, it’s good for you, especially doing so while trying not to gasp at plot twists. See you next week!

[pod-bird]

Hello fellow Camlann enjoyers, may I humbly recommend the freshly-launched Hearthbound? It's a queer musical reimagining of the Odyssey in a post-apocalyptic world, following Odessa as she tries to get back to her wife, and the vibes are immaculate. There's also a dog!! The first two episodes came out today!

[arianwells]

"I'm nobody"

[skyfullofpods]

Happy audio drama Sunday, friends! This week brought the launch of @straylungs' queer Odyssey retelling Hearthbound, new seasons of both @lostterminalpod and @midstpodcast's UNEND, and @iriscasefiles' Arkady giving us a recap of the story so far ahead of the show's new season!

[transfemhyunckel]

Do you like epic the musical? Did you wish that Odysseus was a girl making Odypen WLW? Have I got a recommendation for you! Hearthbound is a modern, post apocalyptic "untelling" of the Odyssey. It even is a musical as well. The songs are a lot more laid back than epic, but just as good! There are two episodes right now and I just finished the first! It's on spotify, apple podcasts, and pocket casts, so if you have any of those, give it a listen!

[lapislantern]

after having listened to episodes 2 and 3 of hearthbound I can confirm that they are just as good as episode 1

[songoftrillium]

HEARTHBOUND IS NOW A BESTSELLER

HOLY SHIT! A friend pointed out to me that Hearthbound is now a bestseller on Storytellers Vault! I never expected it to do so well, and I'm honored it's had such a positive public response.

If you've ever wanted a turnkey solution for confronting the less savory aspects of the Garou Nation in Werewolf: the Apocalypse, look no further!

When you take away the safety, agency, and credibility of a people, abuse them, and push them to the edges of society, it's only natural that they'll turn to each other for support. Hearthbound is an exploration of subculture that I feel will resonate with many of you.

Long ago held beneath the heels of the Garou Nation, Kinfolk have begun helping Crinos-Born defectors seeking to escape their Septs. Raising them in loving homes, these Crinos-Born have grown into a new tribe. They reflect the values and people of the cultures that raised them, proudly bearing the names their families gave them.

Existing as the children of Shantar, the Hearthbound value inventiveness above all else, finding unconventional solutions to deeply complex issues, both in the literal and abstract. Adhering to the Codes and Creeds of renown, they judge those in the Garou Nation who would use their power to abuse those weaker than them.

This module is usable in any edition of Werewolf: the Apocalypse and provides all the patron, tribe, gift, spellwork mechanics, and story seeds needed to work this new tribe into your new or existing tables!

This is Pay What You Want! Any amount you think is fair (including nothing, if that's what you want think it's worth)

[wormtitty]

listening the the latest episode of hearthbound felt like doing 5 lines of cocaine

the references to long term nuclear waste storage warnings AND a visit to a hidden facility full of canned peaches and tapes…

[straylungs]

hearthbound | an untelling of the odyssey

Theme Song (written by Jo Chiang, performed by Keren Abreu)

If there’s a stranger at your door Ask her not about the war Give her bread and whisky pour Let her rest upon your floor You can see it in her eyes A beggar choosing a disguise Will you keep her by your side And listen to her humble lies With belly fed she may dare To speak a name into the air Lover faithful, Lover fair Lover restless, Lover rare If there’s a stranger all alone Set her back to walk the stone You may wonder (but never know) “Will she find her way back home?”

Odessa's just trying to get home to her wife, but along the Loneliest Road in America, she'll encounter strange hosts, stray souls, and echoes of the past she's running from… or running towards.

HEARTHBOUND is a folk musical audio drama podcast, set across a post-apocalyptic Great Basin. It's a road trip, a queer love story, and a ballad for ecological restoration.

🚌 You coming our way? Spotify Apple Podcast Youtube Pocket Casts RSS Feed

[chemicallywrit]

Hoboy. What a week. I appreciate audio drama for existing—for the real and weird and queer and interesting people making art that matters. Thanks for your art, folks—it’s Audio Drama Sunday!

🦵 This week’s episode of @sditepod was a play on Frankenstein, so you KNOW I had to bring it in for this post. You can’t help but sympathize with a financially struggling blue collar worker doing his best to care for the personhood of one of his charges, a veritable child of an elevator. And you can’t help but sympathize with El, who wonders if her purpose of Being An Elevator is even what she’s for if she isn’t good at it. I really liked the way this one ended.

🌊 OMG GUYS, @levianpodcast-desperado IS BACK. I am so glad Levian didn’t fade away, especially as we rejoin the story just in time to see how conniving Tanathea’s betrayal of Valentin really is. I love a sibling dynamic. I especially love a super messed up sibling dynamic. It’s hard not to be like “huh, maybe Tanathea has a point” even as she is destroying Valentin—and maybe that makes the twist at the end even more scathing. All those plans, Tanathea, and where does that leave you?

🔴 There’s something about a mundane medical event that turns horrifying that Someone Just Like You taps into in this week’s episode. Like, take it from someone who recently was coughing up blood (I’m fine! It’s cool!), when you do the smart thing and go to a doctor and the doctor diagnoses you with a Big Shrug, until suddenly things get way worse and then it’s too late? I have the same fear of those strains of meningitis that kill you in 24 hours. There is no small fear that Someone Just Like You cannot turn into a monster. It’s so good.

🎹 This episode of Hearthbound made me cryyyy, man! The way that this show uses those lo-fi sounds makes it feel so human. I’m fascinated by the way this show has chosen to portray Polyphemus—as we go on, I am interested to see how the other adaptations of characters are handled; maybe I can pick up on a theme.

🐎 Ohhhhh man, @worldgonewrongpod wins again. Especially after this week. How do you get out of survival mode indeed? You make new good memories. And how do you do that when there are banshees and work emergencies and fog that sends you to a swamp naked and racist homophobes? Well…you keep trying. You got to.

I hope you are all doing as well as can be expected. Please, for the love of God, keep living and keep making art and keep forming good memories. I love you.

[arianwells]

Hearthbound episode 4 was lovely as usual, but also all of these people need to take RadAway like now. NOW. Your dog is GLOWING girl

[lapislantern]

feeling so many things over episode 5. Charybdis sounds so good?!?! literally chill inducing. And I know I should have expected calypso to come along but I really didn't see it coming and it makes me so happy!!! Hell yeah!!