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[ghostsandmermaids]

Podcasts To Listen To If You Like OFMD

Today is the anniversary of the finale of Our Flag Means Death season 2. One whole year without our favorite pirates :( But if you miss OFMD as much as I do, I have some podcast recommendations I think you'd enjoy!

If you want more queer pirates:

Trice Forgotten

Trice Forgotten is a found-family, pirating adventure. Alestes puts her head down working as a merchant, couriering deliveries and carrying travelers to destinations across the seas. Only, her travelers gradually become permanent crewmates, until she realises her ship has become a floating museum, laboratory, vault of repatriated ‘treasures’ and chef’s kitchen. After spending most of her life with the understanding that nothing changes, no matter how hard you fight, Alestes is faced with a choice: Will she use her new network of allies to build safe harbour and potentially a future for her new community, or will she once again put her head down and drown in her sea of excuses…

Queer neurodivergent pirates of color! Found family! Homoerotic sword fights! What else do you want? (And they even talk about OFMD in one of the Below Decks episodes!)

The Ballad of Anne & Mary

It's 1721, and London is abuzz with news of notorious pirates Anne Bonny and Mary Read, currently languishing in Newgate Prison. It’s the perfect time for debt-ridden journalist Nathaniel Mist to exploit the public appetite and ghost-write a sensational (and hopefully best-selling) history of pirates. But as the balladeers and gossips on the streets of London build myths around the blood-thirsty, perverse lady pirates, Mist is forced to reckon with the real Bonny & Read… Featuring musical sensation Christina Bianco, actress and comedian Sooz Kempner, Hamilton star Karl Queensborough, drag legend Le Gateau Chocolat, and more.

If you can't get enough of Anne Bonny and Mary Read, listen to this podcast musical about them!

If you want more queer comedies:

Welcome To Night Vale

Welcome To Night Vale is a twice-monthly podcast in the style of community updates for the small desert town of Night Vale, featuring local weather, news, announcements from the Sheriff's Secret Police, mysterious lights in the night sky, dark hooded figures with unknowable powers, and cultural events. Turn on your radio and hide.

Okay, it's a horror comedy and can be creepy at times, but it's also one of the few shows that have made me laugh as much as OFMD.

Starship Q Star

When a space agency sends the “first all woman and non-binary crew” on a blatant PR mission to Mars, they inadvertently end up the last six humans in the universe. Lead by Co-Captains (and exes) Aurelia and Sim, Starship Q Star follows this madcap crew on their quest across the galaxy in search of a new home… which is basically one hilarious mishap after the other.

I suppose if you found the absolutely two perfect ex-girlfriends and sent them to Mars, then they could potentially… co-captain?

If you want more queer historical comedies:

Fawx & Stallion

London, 1889. When the residents of 221B Baker Street leave town for the weekend to solve one of their most famous cases, no one is left to clear a poor housekeeper’s name of a crime she didn’t commit. Well, no one except for their neighbors at 224B…

Tonally, this is probably the closest to OFMD. I started this podcast yesterday and fell in love with it immediately. If you like OFMD and Sherlock Holmes, please check out Fawx & Stallion!

The Kingmaker Histories

On the 19th of February, 1911, in the Valorian Socialist Republic, an assistant tailor named Colette Geise experienced a migraine that ruined her life. This is a historical account of what happened next. THE KINGMAKER HISTORIES is a steampunk weird fiction podcast about being gay and doing crime, brought to you by the freaks who brought you Less Is Morgue.

Alternate history + magic + comedy + queerness. Do I need to say more?

If you want more (queer) rom-coms:

Me and AU

When Kate “ACunningPlan” Cunningham sparks up an online friendship with a fellow fanfiction writer it seems like the perfect distraction from a summer stuck in her hometown of Kamloops, B.C., not to mention the coming terrors of her final year of university and the Real Adult Future beyond. (Seriously, please don’t mention them.) After all, Hella--Enchanted is funny, smart and writes canon-divergent werewolf fic like no one else. She’s everything a fandom could ask for. But… what if she’s everything Kate could ask for, too?

Me and AU is not only an adorable sapphic rom-com, but also a love letter to fandom! Go listen to this, it's so cute!

Life With LEO(h)

A sci-fi(ish) romantic comedy podcast starring a repressed lawyer, a criminal client, a pesky sister and her fiance, an infuriatingly sexy coworker, and an android in the mood for love. Jeanine Bell�� is a robotics intelligence lawyer whose laser focus on her career has come at the expense of her romantic and social lives. After successfully keeping AI genius Penelope Lane out of prison, Jeanine receives the gift of LEO(h),​ an android with Synthetic Sentience. LEO(h) is Loving, Empathetic, Optimistic, and (only sorta) helpful. He's programmed to love Jeanine. He’s also very, very illegal.

I'm only two episodes in and already so invested in this story! Jeanine and LEO(h) are absolutely adorable.

(Note: as far as I know, the main romance isn't queer, but there are other queer characters in the show.)

If you want more queer found families:

Hello From The Hallowoods

Darker than your dreams, and farther North than you remember, there is a forest where life and death meet… Come walk between the black pines! In this award-winning queer fiction podcast, a cosmic narrator follows the increasingly connected residents of the forest at the end of the world. It's a bittersweet story that explores queer identity, horror genre tropes, and finding hope in humanity's last moments.

Did I only add HFTH to the list because it's my all-time favorite podcast and I want more people to listen to it? Maybe. But I also genuinely think that if you like OFMD, you are going to love some of these characters. Check out my fandom manifesto if you want to learn more!

Starfall

Starfall is a fantasy audio drama about the adventures of the Carouvel Traveling Acting Troupe - a theatre troupe that uses magical items to create illusions for their shows as they move around the Falstenian Empire. The story begins as the troupe is joined by Leona, a young warrior with a mysterious past and even more mysterious powers. With their new guardian in tow, the troupe traverses the continent, encountering the dangers of humans, fae, and greater forces alike, all while still trying to put on a good show.

Remember Stede's fuckery play in S1E6? Now you can listen to a fantasy theatre troupe put on magical plays! How cool is that?

If you want more of the cast:

Kisses in the Dark

Against the bright lights of Blackpool, a supernatural killer is at work and a dark and dangerous love affair begins… A sinister, disturbingly romantic seven part podcast drama written by Marty Ross (BBC’s Catch My Breath & Ghost Zone and Audible’s The Darkwater Bride) and starring Con O’Neill (Chernobyl, The Batman) and Rhiannon Clements. A contemporary Gothic horror tale set against a background of life on the narrow edge between Pleasure Beach and wild cold sea, between secret desire and a deadly evil. Also starring, Kyle Rowe, Pamela Mayoss, Steven Gidwaney, Patrick Price & Ryan Clayton.

Con O'Neill plays one of the main characters!

What Will Be Here?

In What Will Be Here?, five friends send a rocket to space with a collection of recordings on it that document the world’s decline, the stories they want to tell, and their efforts in building this rocket to get their message to the stars. They wonder what their world will have become by the time their message is listened to. At its core, this show is about living and creating when things feel pointless. It's a story that came out of the pandemic, and the landscape in which this story was written and produced greatly influenced how it turned out. What Will Be Here? is set on earth 200 years in the future, where large-scale crises are fully normalized. But despite the bleak backdrop, this story is one of hope - of overcoming challenges, of making things that might be temporary, but also things that might be launched into space and continue on forever.

Vico Ortiz plays one of the main characters!

Dungeon Masters

Dungeon Masters takes a behind-the-curtain look into the world of Dungeons & Dragons, told through the lenses of the creator of the game, Gary Gygax, played by Wil Wheaton and of private investigator, William Dear, played by Jon Hamm, a swashbuckling tough guy in 1979. Gygax guides the audience through this incredible true story as our Dungeon Master, as we follow Dear on his quest to find Dallas Egbert, a Michigan State student, who supposedly disappeared in the steam tunnels under his university while enacting a real-life version of D&D. What Dear encounters on this journey and ultimately discovers, defies all expectations, and changes the culture as we know it.

Kristian Nairn plays one of the main characters!

The Diaries of Netovicius the Vampire

Neto is an artist first, an immortal vampire second, but for now he's being kicked out of his Beacon Hill apartment in Boston Mass. That's where we begin, but more than a year into this audio-series I can't believe the journey Neto, and me, the creator have been on. But that's a longer story than I can get into here. For now, I hope there is something in this audio-series for you. It's about vampires, but ultimately it's about recovery, from trauma, from alcoholism, even from cults. It asks: Does time really heal all wounds? Featuring VAs known for Valorant, Diablo IV & Overwatch

Written and performed by Hugo Pierre Martin!

The Cryptid Factor

Three best buddies - Rhys Darby, Dan Schreiber, and Leon 'Buttons' Kirkbeck bring you The Cryptid Factor - a podcast dedicated to all things weird that are yet to be defined by science. Since 2008 they have passionately (and often awkwardly) been discussing 'cryptids' and monsters like Yeti, Chupacabra, Bigfoot and Nessie - as well as weird news of the world, UFO's, Time travellers, robots and space stuff. Though they take these pseudosciences as seriously as they can, they struggle to take themselves seriously at all. Hosted by comedian and actor Rhys Darby, star of top rating podcast 'No Such Thing as a Fish' Dan Schreiber - and Pulling it all together is their best friend, 'Buttons'. If anything goes wrong, it is probably his fault.

Rhys Darby is one of the hosts!

Date My Abuelita, First!

From Executive Producer Wilmer Valderrama comes a dating show that proves abuelita knows best! Host Vico Ortiz alongside our resident abuelita, Liliana are ready to meet their match! Three single contestants will compete for a date with one lucky guest. Through speed-dating rounds, hilarious games, wildly silly and genuinely heartfelt introspections, and grandmotherly love, one contestant will either be a step closer to love or be sent back to the apps. Abuelita holds all the cupid power, so let the chispas fly!

Vico Ortiz is one of the hosts!

[skyfullofpods]

Happy Pride Month! This year, I wanted to take some time to celebrate the queer representation found in fiction podcasts, with a selection of ten shows I've enjoyed over the last few years and months.

[fandomscraziness22]

PODCAST MANIA!!!

if you like fictional podcasts, you should check out my new ornament!! i've been having so much fun on my etsy store making all these mini book/cover ornaments

[meandaupod]

CASTING CALL: Selkirk Additional Roles

When Tony Vinchetti is attacked by a mysterious creature, he discovers the sleepy Canadian town he grew up in is actually a haven for monsters and other supernatural beings hiding in plain sight. As the only survivor of the creature’s murderous rampage, Tony must join forces with paranormal park rangers Jodi Whaled and Garrett Tran to stop the killings and pull the town back from the brink of magical war...

Audition deadline: Midnight Pacific Time, December. 31, 2022

Length: 7 new episodes in Part 1, approximately 30 minutes each

Recording location: Primarily remote synchronous recordings during North American daytime and/or evening hours, mainly weekends 

Recording period: Spring/Summer 2023

Compensation: $15 USD/hour of recording time; minimum pay of $20 per VA

See roles and audition instructions

[shy-sapphic-ace]

Hi everyone! Hope you're doing good!

I'm looking for new queer fiction podcasts to obsess about! So far I've listened to:

The Adventure Zone (that was a while ago, and I'm still not caught up on Steeplechase and everything after that)

Welcome To Night Vale

The Penumbra Podcast (Juno Steel and Second Citadel now!)

Wolf 359 (that was supposed to be my HAPPY COMFORT PODCAST jeez)

King Falls AM (Also was supposed to be my comfort podcast...)

Kaleidotrope (This one's really a comfort podcast)

Dragon Shanty (Thanks for the rec!)

Dark Ages

The Lavender Tavern

The Two Princes

Second Star To The Left

RADIO: Outcast

The Bright Sessions

Vega

The Magnus Archives

The Strange Case of Starship Iris

Stellar Firma

Me And AU

Trice Forgotten

Maxine Miles

Light Hearts

Wooden Overcoats

Faux & Stallion

Camp Here And There

Malevolent

The Night Shift

The White Vault

Old Gods of Appalachia!

Archive 81

So if there are any suggestions, I'd love to have new stuff to check out! (Finished podcasts would be great but if it isn't that's fine)

Edit: Wow! Thanks for all the recommendations! Now my to-watch list is much, much longer than it was before!

[vbsvartalf]

Audio drama peeps, I need some recommendations. I’m looking for something light hearted but still serious, something a little moody but still has lots of hope running through it. Maybe something you’d listen to on a rainy Saturday afternoon. I’m thinking along similar lines as “Me and AU” or “Desert Skies”. Whatcha got?

[tincanaudio]

3 from the Podcast Creator Ask Game

'What are some audio dramas that inspire you? Both in general and for your podcast.'

There are a couple of show-specific inspirations that I'll talk about first and then I'll go a bit more general.

For The Tower I was massively inspired by The Far Meridian, I first heard it back in 2017 and it was first time I'd heard a podcast be so quiet, it made something click inside my brain for making things.

The Dungeon Economic Model took a lot of cues from Quid Pro Euro. The idea had been in development for a while and I remember being furious when it first came out as my reaction was 'that's what we were going to do!' but it also showed me that this kind of frenetic public information style audio comedy could work as a series.

On a more general note: I'm really interested in shows that fuse audio drama with something else.

Chain of Being has become this delightful blend of sci-fi drama and noise music.

Soul Operator takes solo TTRPGs and fuses them with audio drama. (a concept I love and experimented with with Anamnesis).

The Lightning Bottler is a beautiful mix of poetry, wit and jazz music.

Between Heartbeats is a gripping urban fantasy that incorporates meditative practices into it's narrative and scripting.

There are other interesting shows that I'm enjoying and taking inspiration from for projects that are still incubating. I'm only just catching up to Me & AU which is a delightful listen, Paddleboat is a brilliant, completely minimalist microfiction series, and I love the freewheeling approach to Breaker Whiskey.

That was a lot, thank you for the question!

[podcastgirlsweek]

You're invited!

This central podcast wlw couple is getting married (or renewing their vows) and you're invited! This may or may not be a good idea, but it is definitely happening.

[bekaterrier]

Not every podcast piece I've ever made is in my shop, but most of them are! This includes some newer shows and some older shows with less active fan spaces, but that are still incredibly beloved to me. Check them out and get a 15% discount (using the link below or the code PODCASTLOVE) until the end of the year!

[mercuryandmoonpods]

✨12 Podcasts for 12 Days of Podmas ✨

a belated podmas post from me, asha!

thanks to @vestaclinicpod for coming up with the idea, it's genius! <3

in no particular order, the podcasts I reviewed (and a link to their spotify/podchaser when I rb this later):

SPIRIT BOX RADIO @spiritboxradio: Absolutely charming! I'm now very attached to the main cast of characters, and the overall tone of the show is (pardon the pun) bewitching! Plus gorgeous music that loops in my head constantly when I'm not listening!

MONSTROUS AGONIES @monstrousagonies: An agony column for 'creatures of the night'? What a brilliant concept! Monstrous Agonies manages to be oftentimes soothing, funny and heart-wrenching all in the space of an episode! It has swiftly become a favourite of mine and stands to stay that way.

THE PASITHEA POWDER @pasitheapowder: Complex, unique storytelling methods and a plot that unravels deliciously. I'm constantly on the edge of my seat! The intense relationships between the main characters (Sophie and Jane, but also them and Evelyn and Jane with George to name just a few) all feel very realistic and I can't wait to see what happens next!

THE STRANGE CASE OF STARSHIP IRIS @iriscasefiles: Never fails to cheer me up! Complex and compelling characters, delightful sci-fi setting and concept of an alien culture. At this point I think I've recommended TSCOSI to everyone I know at least twice. Sad? Starship Iris. Happy? Starship Iris. Not sure yet? Starship Irisss!

UNSEEN @unseendotshow: Seemingly standalone stories build up a rich lore for the world of the podcast. Always a delight! Each episode adds a new layer/type of story to consider, and the voice work is always jaw-dropping.

ROGUEMAKER @roguemaker: Super fast paced, does NOT pull its punches. I need the songs to be on spotify by themselves so I can listen on repeat because they're so so beautiful! Dynamic, intriguing and most importantly, very very enjoyable! <3

NIGHT SHIFT @nightshiftpodcast: Phenomenal audio work! A treat for your ears :) the world of the podcast is one almost like our own, but just a step or two to the left, making for highly entertaining listening as we (and Seb) learn the secrets of Echor City. I'm very excited to see where season two takes us!

BODIES IN SPACE @bodiesinspacepod: Very funny and very heartfelt! Delightful protagonists, each with their own thing going on that we get to find out about over the course of the show. Really lovely sound work!

SOMEONE DIES IN THIS ELEVATOR @sditepod: Every single episode blows me away! I dread the day I get properly up to date and have no more to just casually rip my heart out on an otherwise average afternoon :') Consistently stellar writing, and you'd be surprised by just how many ways someone can die in an elevator…

MABEL @mabelpodcast: How to even begin to describe this rollercoaster of a story?! I devoured this podcast. The style is hard to pinpoint but unique, refreshing and absolutely enthralling. If you like fae horror and fantastic sound design, Mabel is right up your alley!

ME AND AU @meandaupod: I find myself returning to Me and AU frequently, because the characters are just so sweet! A truly delightful show, I'd recommend it to anyone who has spent any time in a fandom - especially a tiny one! The experience is well represented here :))

CHAPTER AND MULTIVERSE: The characters of Masks are going to live in my heart for a long time! The players and GM bounce off one another very well, making for deliciously complex relationships between their characters, who are all, in their own ways, really very sweet. Tonally each episode balances the serious with the sweet in a way that I find lovely to listen to :)

[bekabloodhound]

Re-listening to Me & AU and I'm struck again by a couple things:

1. The theme song is such a jam! I am literally dancing in my seat everytime - love it so much!

2. Kate's monologue about fandom:

Okay -- sometimes you see a movie, hear a podcast, read a book and it's like finding a home you didn't know you were missing. And you want to be in that place more often . . . it's like, being seen. Like somehow, this thing you love looked inside you and went, 'oh yeah, me too.' And when you feel that way all you want to do is to create something that keeps that feeling going. Something that finds whatever is in this thing that's speaking to you and runs with it as hard as it can.

She was speaking more specifically about fanfic culture but I definitely think it applies to all types of fan art (speaking as someone who doesn't write but channels their feelings into beading instead). This just resonated with me so much tonight, and had me thinking about all the podcasts that make me feel seen and that have given me a home.

[nobutseriouslywhat]

The Pink Opaque walked so Selkirk could run

[skyfullofpods]

M is for @meandaupod!

Romcom. Kate and Ella are huge fans of the TV show Selkirk, and when the two first meet online, the show’s fandom is very small. They bond over the fanfic they write and send each other, theories about the show, and their live reactions to episodes.

[youaremysunshine-court]

😌- comfort podcast

Ooh good one!

I don't really have one, but I do cycle through three comfort podcasts:

- folxlore is high up on my comfort list bc it's so lovely to be sad and have someone like,,, validate that? Or be going through it themself??

- love and luck is also something I go back to when I'm feeling down, there's just something so beautiful about these two queer people creating a safe space for everyone else in their community idk it gives me hope

- last but not least, me and au is a frikking cute one shot podcast when you're feeling down istg the number of times I've binge relistened to it and just felt my burdens lift, it's amazing

Thanks for the ask!!♡

[meandaupod]

Hi! I just remembered this podcast has a tumblr, and what better place to scream about my love for it here! I started listening when it was still airing, I think I caught up around episode 8? I have a lot of fond memories of feeling seen in all the little fandom details and Kate, and I would genuinely watch Selkirk if it was real. And Kate and Ella’s relationship was so cute! Definitely one of my favourite pods of all time - it’s so homey to me! Thanks for making it!

Thank you so much for listening! Amazing how releasing episode 8 does not feel like it was that long ago but also, man what a blast from the past.

Also, in Selkirk news, we wrapped a bunch of actors' audio this month, and I can't wait for you to hear Ella's VA go from cool love interest who's also just a big nerd to uh... "your majesty."