#podcast book club

[podcast-bookclub]

Happy Audio Drama Sunday, everyone! Some updates this week regarding our plans for the audio fiction convention, so hang tight with me here:

Firstly - it's official, it's happening, time to get excited! The event will be held from Friday, January 31 to Sunday, February 2nd 2025, so be sure to mark your calendars! It'll be virtually through our Discord server, with panels streamed through Twitch.

Applications for those interested in being involved are live now and will be open until September 30th. If you have any questions regarding involvement, feel free to open a ticket in the server, or email finch@podcast-bookclub.com.

Application links:

Panelists

Event Volunteers/Panel Hosts

Artists

That's all, have a great week! We're looking forward to sharing more information both for attendees & generally about the event in the coming months and hope y'all are as excited as we are for this adventure ✨

[podcastjam]

Podcast Jam Listening Party!

Join us in the Podcast Book Club Discord server on June 1st for the Jam Marathon! We'll be listening to all of the pilots, as well as chatting with the cast & crew of each show, answering questions submitted through this form.

After the event, the recordings of the live questions will be available for PBC Ko-fi supporters, so if you're interested in having access to that, be sure to join here!

Hope to see you there 🍊

[smallsies]

Audio Drama Sunday — June 16th

Happy AD Sunday! I had a pretty quiet week re: podcasts, time is a construct and definitely got away from me, whoops. Still, here's what I heard this week in @podcast-bookclub:

Wanderer's Journal @wanderersjournalpod; Over in the bookclub, we had a little marathon of the first four episodes with some of the cast and crew, ahead of the public release of episode 5 this week! I love this show dearly, and think Marigold should get to eat as many plants as she wants tbh.

Not Quite Dead @notquitedeadpod; Also in the bookclub, we started a new weekly listen-through of everyone's favorite vampire show on Thursdays.!! We listened to the first episode, and are checking out the second later this week.

WOE.BEGONE; I feel like I am always mentioning this show (maybe because I am always listening to it /lh) but we're finishing up the listens of our server shows this week, and the w.bg mods decided to run a marathon of all of s1! This will be ongoing for a good chunk of today (we're just finishing up episode 3 now :))

And in bookclub news, because I haven't talked about it enough already, we've got a lot of listening party opportunities this week! As I said, the w.bg listen is ongoing today, and also at 5pm EST, @wolfmountainworkshop is hosting an event for the first two episodes of the upcoming The City Unending. Then we've got e5 of WJ & e2 of NQD on Tuesday (1pm EST) + Thursday (2pm EST), respectively. Saturday at 8am EST, @townofadaliah will be hosting a listen for the first two episodes of their show as well ✨

[bearjam]

Okay caught up with the Magnus protocol. A few comments:

Cecilia I do not and will never trust you <3

Alice I love you and you had the most self perseveration out of any horror character I’ve ever seen

Cloin (I spelt it wrong once in the chat and now this is Colin’s name) please outlast season one Sasha

[gavinswindowpod]

Gavin's Window is now on Tumblr!

Inspired by the people behind the gamemaster screens and character sheets, Gavin's Window is a love letter to TTRPGs and the candid stories that arise from folks gathering around the table and just roleplaying their hearts out!

If you came from the pilot episode: Hiya! We're Gavin's Window, an audio drama about the stories beyond the dice and rulebooks, and we're officially on Tumblr now! We hope you're looking forward to some of the extra content we're cooking up as we count down to the Podcast Book Club listening party on June 1st! We might also have an announcement once the listening party is over!

If you aren't here from the Podjam, and are interested in listening to our pilot episode, feel free to check out the episode on Spotify or the 2024 Podcast Jam's Acast feed!

[pocketfullofarchivists]

listening s1 wbg with podcast book club: oh wow. I forgot Some Things

stakes felt so important then. and now we’re here, with our found family and all the walters boys you can get

[filohazard]

My project for the Podcast Book Club's 'Podcast Jam' is out now!

Check out 'The Block', an action cartoon block from a parallel cartoon channel...

This was a one-Filo show, produced in 48 hours. I'm pretty happy with it!

[podcastsagainstapartheid]

We're honored to have Coffee Shop Chats by @podcast-bookclub on the list of Podcasts Against Apartheid.

If you would like to be added to the AFZ podcast list, let us know.

[hellofromthehallowoods]

mx.wellman you mentioned recently there was a group listening to hfthw over the break? Is it one of the fan discords?

It's actually the @podcast-bookclub! You can check them out over here I believe:

[emiko-matsui]

if you wanna listen to naddpod you should know this about the hosts: brian murphy is a straightman to his inner most core and he's the funniest person alive, these things exist simultaneously and would not exist without the other. emily axford is clinically insane to a point where it's easier to not try to follow her logic when she says things. jake hurwitz is a certified cool guy but he's the biggest loser in a room of nerds playing dungeons and dragons. caldwell tanner can only be described as exactly what a 1930's cartoon describes as a rascal. three of them are a throuple and the fourth is their boss.

[podcast-bookclub]

Marisa was a wonderful guest, it was my pleasure to have you! This episode was such a fun one. In the downtime before the episode is out, be sure to check out Liars & Leeches wherever you get your podcasts!!

Coffee Shop Chats!

Thank you @podcast-bookclub for inviting me to be a guest on Coffee Shop Chats. Coffee Shop Chats is an indie podcast that interviews other indie podcast creators. Once the episode is released, you can hear me talk about sound design, burn out, my process for creating the horror audio drama @liarsandleechespod, and how characters from “Liars & Leeches” would play Minecraft.

All questions from my episode were submitted by members of the @podcast-bookclub discord server. If you’re looking to participate in a book club for podcasts, you should check them out and join the discord!

[podcast-bookclub]

Audio Fiction Virtual Convention Interest Check

Happy Audio Drama Sunday!!! While we've got some new shows kicking off today, we've also got a survey regarding a potential future event for the bookclub. Online conventions have been much more common in our pandemic-affected world, and we'd love to help bring one to life in the audio drama/actual play community. :)

An online event of this scale would be quite a pivot from our colloquial work, so we'd like to have some foundational data from y'all before diving in too deeply. If you've got a minute, we'd appreciate your answering this interest check form we've set up.

If you have any questions, you can reach us by email at finch@podcast-bookclub.com, or by opening a ticket in the server.

[podcastjam]

Jam episodes are going live now! We're hanging out in the Discord now for a little launch party, stop by and say hi!

[smallsies]

Happy Audio Drama Sunday! ✨

I've never done one of these before, but there's no time like the present, right?

This week, I've been caught between relistening to The Silt Verses and also trying to catch up to the latest episodes of WOE.BEGONE at the same time, so those shows have been on rotation & keeping me company while I'm in the midst of packing to move again soon and/or chipping away at the seemingly endless slew of projects! For the coming week, I've already heard Episode 1 of Wanderer's Journal, but I'm definitely looking forward to a relisten after the show's public release in a couple of days.

In SPACE SPECKS @spacespeckspod news this week, we're finalizing the script for our pilot episode, editing a new show teaser, keeping up with our crew call, and our lovely artist is finishing up some character art for our casting announcements soon!

And in the Podcast Book Club @podcast-bookclub realm, we're celebrating our 1 year anniversary this upcoming weekend with a Marathon event. Alongside this, we've got a trio of new shows about to start in the server, so this is a great time to join in with us.

Tangentially, the end of Podcast Jam @podcastjam is finally on the horizon! We've just passed the halfway point of scriptwriting et al, with the weekend after next being Jam Weekend, where everyone might begin to regret the "edit and record everything within a few days" part of the event. Then it'll be a little over a month from now (May 25!) until those pilots will be publicly available for everyone's ears :)

Have a great week, friends!

[oswednesday]

how many people are you following and how many followers do you have?

just you and me buddy

[communistkenobi]

I’m listening to the podcast Game Studies Study Buddies review the book Engineering Play by Mizuko Ito. They’re discussing the theory of fun that gets argued for in this book, specifically in the context of children’s “edutainment” games that are/were common in North American primary schools (idk if they’re still popular, but I played a lot of them when I was kid) - that saying “I’m having fun” for children in this environment is a non-confrontational way of disagreeing with authority, that “having fun” is a good rationale for not listening to adults, not putting away the toys or getting off the computer or etc. Children grab onto the fact that playing these “edutainment” games and other “fun” activities they’re forced to do in school is premised on the idea that children learn better (and can be fooled into learning) when they’re “having fun.” This is despite the fact that the definition of “having fun” is often very different for adults in positions of authority than it is for children, but it is a shared language children can use to articulate their resistance to authority in these educational settings in a way that is not immediately read as hostile/anti-social (or at least, less so than outright saying “I don’t want to do what you’re telling me to do”).

And the hosts connect this to the concept of ‘escapist media’ - they call it “the rhetoric of non-obligation,” this idea that you can engage with a piece of art and intentionally not think about its political or social content as a way of “having fun,” that “having fun” is necessarily divorced from any critical evaluation of art, and that this rationale of having fun is sufficient to explain this mode of engagement. But when placed in the context of adults describing their relationship to mass produced art, it’s no longer a child bucking against authority, but rather a person resisting some larger critical discussion they perceive as authoritarian or otherwise intruding on their “fun” by being critical - in essence, viewing critical evaluation of a piece of art as a de facto argument to stop having fun, that the only reason to do this critical evaluation would be for the purposes of telling other people to stop having fun.

Obviously I don’t think everyone using the term ‘escapist media’ are like, automatically and universally behaving like children or anything, it is a widely popular term whose casual usage doesn’t mean you’re committing to that form of argument. But I do very frequently see people use their enjoyment of ‘escapist media’ as a way of like, articulating their desire not to confront critical readings of whatever they like, always placing “critical thinking” (a very loaded term) as this necessarily miserable, upsetting, unfun activity that can only ever intrude on an emotional state of “having fun.” And this includes a lot of discussions online about the benefits of “critically engaging” with media, that while it may not be fun it’s still necessary because it makes you more a moral/smart/sophisticated/etc person. and I think that is a very miserable way of approaching critical engagement