#leeman kessler

[monkeymanproductions]

We’re more than 30% into our goal so let’s do another cast announcement! We’re very excited to share with you that we’ve got Leeman Kessler (He/Him) on board as Raven (He/Him). He brings something that is *so fun* to this role, we know you’ll love it. And if you’ve listened to our trailer, you’ll recognize his voice!

https://crowdfundr.com/waitingforoctober

[genericswordsmaiden]

Just remembered that episode of Ask Lovecraft where he gets a letter asking for relationship advice and he quotes an "old adage", that "the owner of a lonely heart is much better than the owner of a broken heart" and I was like "He has come back to life and his music taste has finally become better."

[anistarrose]

Chapters: 5/8 Relationships: Barry Bluejeans & Johann the Bard (The Adventure Zone), The Director | Lucretia & Johann the Bard, Johann the Bard & Everyone (The Adventure Zone) Summary: Barry needs to possess a body for an infiltration mission on the Bureau. Johann doesn’t black out when he’s supposed to. For both of them, this has ramifications.

After sundown on Candlenights Eve, Johann’s friends lay claim to a corner of the cafeteria, and bust out the tankards of some potent fucking eggnog — in Pringles’ memory, obviously. Johann’s first choice for how to spend this evening, frankly, would be to stay at his desk, quietly fine-tuning custom music boxes to hand out tomorrow instead of burning himself out on partying the night before — but, admittedly, playing tunes for Killian, Avi, and Boyland to drunkenly carol to is probably the runner-up option. He’s lived enough breakneck whirls around the sun to know there are more worse fates than better ones.

He half-wonders if Lucretia will swing by, but she doesn’t. There’s also no sign of Tres Horny Boys, despite the whole ostensible “Pringles Memorial” thing — but there is a curious little boy detective up past his bedtime, who sticks his head in and forces Killian to knock a cup of adult eggnog out of his hand. Johann manages not to drop a beat of Fantasy Winter Wonderland despite it all, and when a totally sloshed Brad explains that this is a big kid party for grown-ups, Angus takes it well outside of wrinkling his nose at the wording, and politely tosses both some chocolate gelt and real-ass gold pieces into Johann’s open violin case. Johann might never get used to having a child on the moonbase, but at least the little guy’s shaping up to be quite a patron of the arts some day, if he’s already doing this with his salary at ten years old or whatever.

It’s only once Angus leaves, with a promise of yes I’ll go straight to bed, Killian sir, don’t worry, that Johann realizes the cafeteria’s looking empty without him. Not because Angus was expected — but because others have been excusing themselves, too. Some of Leeman Kessler’s old teammates who weren’t too into spiked eggnog have long since gone on their way, and on the total flip side, Carey hasn’t shown her face since she announced a bathroom trip ten minutes ago.

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[hplovecraftmuseum]

Actor Leeman Kessler performs an entertaining series of videos called: "Ask Lovecraft." Mr Kessler does a very good reading as Lovecraft with a skillfull and authentic refined New England accent. Though he resembles Lovecraft a little and certainly projects an interesting impersonation, we only have still photos and the stories of those who actually knew Lovecraft in life to judge the overall performance by. There are no moving pictures or actual recordings of Lovecraft's voice in existance. At this point it is almost certain that no one who ever met HPL is still alive. Watching Keenan Kessler's videos is worth the effort for Lovecraft fans. He reads from quite a few of Lovecraft's works and related subjects. @LeemanKessler is his contact address. (Exhibit 325)

[boydykedevo]

How did Leeman Kessler ever collect a relic anyway, isn't the whole thing that the seven birds are the only ones who can do it cuz they made them? Leeman Kessler secret 8th bird? 🤔🤔🤔

[danboman]

Podcasts 4

By the time I caught up on StarTripper!!, I had a queue of podcasts ready to go.  The audio fiction community  are pretty great about promoting each other’s work, either via crossovers or ads or just plugs before or after an episode.  Then there are the voice actors, writers, and others whose name I’ll hear attached to a project and decide to check it out just on that basis.  Which is all a long way of saying that from this point on, I’ll be reviewing podcasts in a rough order, because I’ve forgotten the exact order in which I listened.

Definitely one of my early podcasts, though, was Moonbase Theta Out.  MTO is a fascinating show, partially because it’s just so fun to watch it evolve.  It’s another one that’s still ongoing, although I’m pretty sure we’re in the final season.  But what a ride!

Moonbase Theta Out started as a single voice drama, with the conceit that we were listening to the audio reports of one Roger Bragado-Fisher, communications, Moonbase Theta.  Played to perfection by Leeman Kessler, Roger intersperses his commentary on what’s happening on the base with brief personal messages to his husband (and their two dogs) back home on Earth.  It’s a low key kind of show, anchored by Kessler’s performance as a man desperately missing the love of his life.

As the show goes on, they start adding to the cast, filling out the universe, and a story of survival and rebellion emerges.  Every member of the cast is amazing (my personal favorite is Tau Zaman as Dr. Ashwini Ray, fanfic writing vaguely evil supergenius), and the unfolding story is full of tension and excitement.

Give it a listen; you won’t be disapointed.

[telepathicapathy]

It is so fucking weird running into people whose names were used in taz online. I just found leeman kessler's youtube channel

[institute-of-planar-shitposts]

ALRIGHT STORY TIME!! (Under a readmore cause. It's a lot lol Also for those who are here from my initial ask, feel free to ask questions about anything you don't know, whether it's about the adventure zone or Sunshine!)

So! Like mentioned in the ask, I've got most of the story mapped out and have up to Crystal Kingdom written, and I just got through the Cosmoscope scene in that, so I'm really close to finishing it and starting the Eleventh Hour. I have an arc dedicated to the relic she made, which I've titled "twists and turns," and I have various other scenes written. Eleventh Hour is probably the arc that will either take me ages or will be among the shortest because I genuinely have no idea what I'm gonna do for it. I'm sort of relistening to Balance as I go, so I'll probably get some ideas from that.

All that aside, let's start off with the first in what I'm planning to post once I'm closer to finishing: here there be gerblins! Or rather, what takes place instead of that. See, like I mentioned before, the life Sunshine ends up living is a traveling performer, so she doesn't adventure for a living pre-Bureau. Lucretia finds her after a performance and manages to persuade her to join, mostly with the promise of having somewhere she can go back to, which is something Sunshine misses.

Her job details at the start are mostly just to help Johann take care of the Voidfish and perform at events when they happen. She and Johann become friends with how much time they tend to spend together, and she also becomes friends with various other people in the Bureau. This is how she initially meets Taako, Merle, and Magnus. Having to do the Rite of Remembrance is probably her least favorite thing about her job, since it means everyone has to work that much harder and also just for the loss of life.

She eventually becomes a Seeker after talking to a few about the relic they were trying to find, and helping them connect clues they hadn't previously thought were connected. After Leeman Kessler is murdered trying to get the Oculus back to the Bureau, the Director decides to send her with the boys so they have someone to act as a diplomat. Not much else changes for Murder on the Rockport Limited.

For Petals to the Metal, she is again absent, but also not totally. The Director this time has a different mission for her: to find whoever is trying to link the missing, forgotten persons back to the Bureau. This ends up with Sunshine going to Goldcliff with Carey, and they find the culprit pretty much by accident, who is of course Angus. They help him look into a different disappearance while they're there, which also uncovers a little bit of what happened to Sunshine during the long decade everyone was apart. After that's all said and done, Sunshine manages to convince the Director to hire Angus, though mostly because she offered to be more or less his mentor in the process.

In Crystal Kingdom, she's invited to the Reclaimer's Candlenights party, and after a comment that was meant to be a joke, she ends up getting sent to the lab with them, though this time less as a diplomat and more to be the brains, since the Director says she's not sure what exactly is in the lab. Things are mostly the same, though she does actually manage to find a non-Bureau related question to stump Hodge-Podge. Taako still asks the Bureau one. She's also pretty fucking pissed about the bugbears' situation and literally punches Lucas over it (sort of; that was the breaking point more than anything.) They also find out pretty quickly that there's something weird up with her and the music that echoes through the crystals, because every time it starts, she ends up singing. I have yet to fully finish writing this arc as mentioned, but she and magic Brian have a bit of a conversation before the fight, and neither he nor Jenkins intentionally aim at her. Maarvy though gives no shits, since they never met.

As far as the Eleventh Hour goes, I don't have much planned. I know exactly what the Chalice shows her and even have that scene written out, as well as some of the scene with Istus and a little bit with Barry at the end. Like I said, I'll probably figure things out better when I get here in my relisten.

Finally we get to her own relic with the arc I'm dubbing Twists and Turns! It actually starts off with Sunshine going to talk to the Director about officially becoming a Reclaimer for several different reasons, to which Lucretia says they'll talk about it after the next mission, which all but confirms that Sunshine is going to become one. Because I'm a sucker for a good ball arc, they have to crash a ball in secret, which is definitely going to have mixed degrees of success. To actually retrieve the relic, though, they're challenged by the wielder to try and get through their garden's maze. Since Sunshine's relic is mostly focused on Enchantment magic, the four get hit with quite a few different spells, and in the end, I've planned that they'll have to fight each other and the wielder as well. They do succeed, but there's some decent damage done - Sunshine especially is gonna take a pretty big chunk of psychic damage. The interlude between this arc and the Suffering Game is gonna focus on that, and it might actually be longer than just the one chapter or so I've had written for the ones up to CK.

Which leads us perfectly into the aforementioned Suffering Game! I haven't plotted it out beat for beat, but I do know that Arms Outstretched is changed just a bit with her being there. Magnus still gets into the mannequin body and Edward still gets the shit beaten out of him by Lup, and Barry still helps out and works with them on getting back into the Bureau.

Reunion Tour is again something I haven't super considered. I've started the beginning for it a bit, mostly because Barry is there and they're traveling and talking to him a bit, but I haven't gotten everything written. I do know that this is the point where we learn the most about Sunshine, aside from Stolen Century.

And speaking of which, I've barely scratched the surface for SC. I've got the beginning written with the whole introduction interview and I'm planning on getting to the bar scene soon, since sometimes I want to try and get the century mapped out to help inform the rest of it. I have a general plan for the played-through cycles, including that Lucretia and Sunshine learn ballet and do a sort of duet version of the Dying Swan (which. Honestly any variation of is gorgeous and I highly recommend seeing literally Anyone perform that solo) and end up being the only two left for the judge world, mostly because I really want to explore how two pretty similar people can go through the same experiences and how it can change them in entirely different ways, as well as a little thing for the year before that. I haven't given the beach world much thought, but that will probably also be something I write as a sort of change of pace moment.

And finally I honestly have got jack shit for Story and Song other than just like. She helps out with the fight, cause that's about 2/3rds of the arc. I've also been entertaining different ideas for what she does after everything is said and done, but I haven't settled on one specific thing yet.

If you have any questions about anything or everything, my inbox is always always open! I love her and talking about her and I want Everyone to know about her :)

HELL YEAH SOMEWHERE ELSE I CAN INFODUMP ABOUT SUNSHINE!!!

OK so hi hello, I'll tag my related blog at the bottom since that's where I talk about her and what franchise she's in so anyone who's interested can check out the things I've got for her there

Starting off! Her full name is Sunshine Fairfield and she's a half-elf sorcerer-bard in the world of DnD podcast The Adventure Zone. She's an eighth bird, which for those who haven't listened to the podcast means that she's a part of a group of people who ended up in a sort of universe-hopping time loop for 100 years. They ended up separated in the last universe and year... 101 I think? Due to a choice one of them made that resulted in almost all of them losing memory of the century and each other. A few of them ended up leading normal lives, but some of them had complications with that. I could go super super in depth with this just because of how much I love the Adventure Zone, but for the sake of the character limit, that's essentially the long story short for how it all starts out.

I'm in the process of writing a whole story for her and I've almost finished the Crystal Kingdom arc, for those who know. What I haven't written, I've at least mapped out, though the Eleventh Hour arc is kind of an exception and so are some parts of Stolen Century.

As some basic information on Sunshine herself, like I mentioned she's a half-elf sorcerer-bard with emphasis on the bard part. At the time of the story starting, she's in about her thirties, and the life she ends up leading in their last universe is one of a traveling performer, using her magic to help with special effects.

If or when this gets posted, I'll reblog from @institute-of-planar-shitposts to kinda lay out what parts of the story I have written and talk about what I haven't yet. I'm always happy to answer questions about her, and my pinned has some links to things related to her that I have here on tumblr. It should include her tag - I'm actually going to check that and make sure. Thanks for reading!

thank you for sharing!!

[hellofromthehallowoods]

One of the nice things about living in Ohio is... getting to showcase modern horror icons like Leeman Kessler. His @mayorlovecraft series on Tiktok explores a surreal and ominous alternate Ohio. He is also the real-life mayor of Gambier, Ohio. 

‘The Writer Out Of Time’ is an homage to the time-honored trope of horror writers writing about horror writers, to Leeman’s brand of surrealism, and to lovecraftian tropes (minus the cat names). The first half premieres tomorrow! 

[imgonnagetkilledbynutstink]

Rereading the Rockport Limited book is so weird now that i know "Leeman Kessler" is a real mayor in ohio who i follow on tiktok whos name got picked off twitter or something to be used

[unwellpodcast]

Fun fact- today's episode of Unwell welcomes Leeman Kessler to the cast of Unwell- who along with being the star of Moonbase Theta, Out and a fantastic TikTok creator- is the actual Mayor of the town Mt Absalom is partially based on~

[monkeymanproductions]

TOMORROW! We continue with S1E1 of Waiting For October, "Pumpkin Patch" - where you'll meet Charlene, the Lake Champlain monster; Grey, werewolf pack leader; and the Raven ... who really doesn't need an introduction (especially since he's played by Leeman Kessler)! Cross over and join our story!

[sarahmouse]

Being a writer means you can sneak in Adventure Zone characters into your Marvel fanfiction.

[kalitera-stin-erimia]

Impersonators usually make me cringe, but Kessler's show is different. His interpretation of Lovecraft is thoughtful and benevolent, and his voice acting is indeed particularly superb.

(And how many other writers even have their own impersonators? Lovecraft truly is a superstar at this point :))

Listened to some episodes of Ask Lovecraft and all I can say is that Leeman Kessler might have become one of my favourite voice actors in record time. He's just that good. Also I watched this particular video from six years ago and even though the mic quality wasn't the best, the feels were top tier. I'm still teary-eyed.

[taz-quotes]

Angus: What are your guys’ names?

Merle: I’m Leeman.

Magnus: Still Diddly.

Angus: No, I’m sorry. What are your guys’ real names?

Taako: What do you mean, pumpkin?

Angus: What are the names that aren’t fake that you guys actually have?

Magnus: (leans over to Taako) Should I kill him?

[ohyikesadyke]

Yknow what’s weird? My mom is friends with actual real-life Leeman Kessler. So like I know that he calls his son a Gelfling and that when his son was born he filled out a character sheet for him.

He’s just like this dude my mom talks about sometimes, not a magical half-elf man who got murdered.