#i love wooden overcoats

[not-equippedforthis]

thinking about rudyard funn's true interests slowly becoming more apparent, mostly without his distinct realisation: the family business is his torch to carry, and even if it isn't a passion it's a duty, it's his life; it's not supposed to be fun. antigone has always been a dark, burning flame for biology and embalming and the science of it all: to her, it's an art as gorgeous as the 4 hour silent french films she watches. her true yet restrained passions for literature and theatre run and flourish throughout the podcast alongside it.

but rudyard? it's an order: he gets the body in the coffin in the ground on time. the part he likes about funeral directing is the directing. giving everyone a clean, timed, proper service. episode 4, when organising the fete, he says, i, i do like spreadsheets. its the one thing he's good at. except he likes building mouse furniture. for mice. he enjoys organising and scheduling --- nothing more to it, really, but then he becomes the town's archivist and promptly engulfs 300 years of town history in what's probably the span of a few days. he can't help but bring up town history. it's his job, what do you mean? he likes spreadsheets. he cares infinitely about upkeeping the burial grounds. touching corpses freaks him out. he's an agent of looney-tunes style mayhem and a symbol of death who also adores order and planning and by god he'll pose in a naked calendar if it saves his fucking schedule. they will get the body in the coffin in the ground on time. day one, it's all about time. if one historical detail is off he'll implode. he knows seemingly everything about history, now. he'd go crazy for wikipedia. someone should get him to watch cunk on earth. update: finally got myself to finish the finale. i'm so happy for them i could and did cry. 'i like researching history' and 'i like writing porn' siblings i love you so.

[average-acorn]

Georgie being great at doing things is a wonderful running gag but I feel like we don't appreciate enough that the first two things she says she's great at are mechanics and arson

[angryducktimemachine]

I think what I personally really enjoy about AroAce Rudyard is that I know, in my heart, that he would not ONCE spend a single thought thinking he was broken. This man is fully convinced everyone else is just being unnecessarily weird, which really resonates with me, who also spend like 22 years of his life not even considering the possibility that there's something "wrong" with me and that everyone else is simply a little overdramatic over love and sex.

[dog-botherer]

So I’ve been listening to wooden overcoats and a particular phrase has now entered my vocabulary. You can imagine my flatmates surprise when I was walking around saying “get the body in the coffin in the ground on time” as I cooked dinner.

[dragonologist-phd]

Honestly though I can’t recommend Wooden Overcoats enough. If you like podcasts and rivaling funeral homes and weird women and pathetic men and mice who write best selling memoirs you should give it a listen

[yamikakyuu]

Being ace, I'm used to not seeing myself represented in media with the wonderful exception of audio dramas/podcasts as it seems to be the one media ace characters thrive. Not only do I finally see myself but seeing different aspects of being ace covered under shows still amazes me

Seeing Jonathan Sims being in a loving relationship with another man (and also had a gf preshow) in The Magnus Archives

Listening to Prof Troughton talk about not feeling pride not having been with anyone so he dove into his career in Shadows At The Door

For Walter Pensive to not fully understand what being asexual means but figures that's what he is after Riot tells him the term in Hello From The Hallowoods

Rudyard Funn just being like of course isn't everyone because to him it makes perfect sense in Wooden Overcoats (even if he doesn't know the term asexual as confirmed by DKB)

For Red, who even fathered a child, to always be like, hey that's awesome you like stuff like that, just not for me in Dice Shame

Zolf TELLING Wilde he is his reason and Ben and Alex stating Z/W are queer platonic partners in a relationship and that though it's never said by the characters in the campaign, they love each other.

I know this isn't all ace characters in podcasts but these are the ones that radiate with me. Ace-spec is an umbrella and it's wonderful to see many different versions

[starlightartemis]

I love how Eric is just 100% down with helping Antigone hide a body after she accidentally kills a man. my girl’s just freaking the fuck out and he’s just “it’s okay, I’ve got this, help me put it out the window while we lie to the cop outside the door”, absolutely iconic

[littleacebee]

I love that when I say “I love the song from hit fiction podcast sang by Felix Trench” no one knows if I mean To Be An Undertaker from Wooden Overcoats or Judas (Child Ballad 23) Excerpt from Re: Dracula

(Both. It’s both)

[colonelmajorkepler]

OHHH MY GOSH IVE BEEN WONDERING FOR FOREVER WHY RUDYARD AND ERIC SOUNDED SO FAMILIAR AND I JUST REALISED. THEY WERE BUCKLAND AND SHAW FROM ZERO HOURS😭😭😭

[loverboybrightsideghost]

sometimes a family is just a pretentious archivist/funeral director, a horny mortician, someone who's great at almost everything, an extremely popular ex-spy, and an accomplished author

[adaftanddewyeyedmizz]

I love when Rudyard’s voice gets quiet. It’s often very vulnerable and endearing and it’s done so well that my heart aches.

[not-equippedforthis]

1 episode into the amelia project and i already love the voice acting, humour, and pace. im so excited

[average-acorn]

I love you antigone you're life and I'm leaving you. I love you antigone you're life and I'm leaving you. Hey guys did you know that I love you antigone you're life and I'm leaving you? Guys I think that I love you antigone you're life and I'm leaving you

[vonlipvig]

a little gift for my friend eleanor @bagadew who wanted to see thee girlboss of the skies herself, carolyn knapp-shappey from cabin pressure! i had a lot of fun drawing her and reminiscing about this great radio show (man, i should really relisten to it!), i really hope you like it!

[dog-botherer]

I just discovered the music for the first two seasons of wooden overcoats was recorded in my university’s concert hall. I may have been a bit excited at this fact. Maybe I sent a few enthusiastic voice notes to friends.

But to justify my behaviour - I have performed in the same concert hall to be an undertaker and ode to noggins was recorded in.

[imgonnagetkilledbynutstink]

I remember one time I was listening to Wooden Overcoats and Rudyard mentioned he likes cinnamon in his coffee and I was like "fuck queer rep I need cinnamon in coffee rep"