#podcast rec

[etherealblaseballresearch]

coming in under the wire for the fiction podcast zine fest - a zine of 8 space-themed podcasts. (i had to limit myself to podcasts i'd listened to all the way through to keep to a sensible number lol)

zine text under the cut:

Fiction podcasts... in space!!

Wolf 359: Comms Officer Eiffel's attempts to not do his job are foiled by stickler Commander Minkowski, malfunctioning AI Hera, dubiously ethical Dr Hilbert and... aliens?

The Strange Case of Starship Iris: Violet Liu is rescued after an explosion kills the rest of the Iris crew. Her rescuers may not be... above board, but they're her best chance to figure out what happned - and to stop a war.

The Pasithea Powder: Voicemails between Sophie, war hero, and Jane, scientist, traitor, ex-friend and the only person Sophie can turn to when a "friendship delegation" goes wrong.

Janus Descending: Horror following Chel and Peter as they explore an apparently lifeless planet. Chel's story starts from the beginning, Peter's from the end.

Second Star to the Left: Gwen has 5 years to explore a planet all alone - except for a long distance caller.

Girl in Space: X has lived alone on this spaceship (except for an AI and a Jurassic Park DVD) - until now.

We Fix Space Junk: Two repair women travel the galaxy fixing space junk. Planet of the week, quick and funny

The Adventure Zone: Amnesty: Not tecnically a space podcast? You'll get it. Minerva [heart]

Happy listening [smily face]

[oopyromaniac]

FINALLY LISTENED TO MIDNIGHT BURGER CH 33 SCREAMING CRYING SOBBING

WE FINALLY GOT TO MEET CASPAR'S SON!!! OH MY GOD DAVID MY BELOVED I LOVE HIM SM

[just-an-enby-lemon]

Clockwork Bird is a 30 episodes podcast made by a group of friends on their free time for pretty much free and it is genuinally one of the best things I ever listened. The mistery is genuinally well writen and interesting and I think it was my favorite podcast conspiracy board, the drama and the romance is compelling, the soundtrack is beutifull, the characthers are compelling (Noah is my everything) and I'm just destroyed by it in all the best ways.

It's so good I genuinally could not stop listened. I finished it in 3 days because I just keept needing to know what happened next.

Also it's from the same creators of Spirit Box Radio so another reason that is really good and while very different it has a similar vibe.

[delaylays]

@breakerwhiskey never misses istg guys 😭

“I didn’t want you living with the consequences of my actions when all I’ve been doing for years is living with the consequences of yours”

I AUDIBLY SCREAMED

It’s like a little treat at the end of the week/over the weekend to binge all the episodes that came out during the week I love this show dearly and if you haven’t taken a listen yet I highly recommend! Also there’s so much queer yearning and feelings and I adore it so much.

[vaguely-concerned]

I can't get over how well Skyjacks: Courier's Call manages to capture the feeling of really, really good children's literature. Listening to it seriously does make me feel like a bookish eleven year old all over again, all the sedimentary layers of my adult cynicism and ennui about the fantasy genre washed away for a moment to lay my heart as bare and excitable as it was back then haha.

This podcast also has what I think might be my favourite moment out of all podcasts of all time, full stop... and it's just a snowball fight with no real narrative stakes at all, only a dwelling on the joy and the characters in that particular moment. To this day, thinking about it feels like a big smile in my chest. (To be clear it's not like the show doesn't have powerful narrative stakes or High Drama overall! But I have rarely found a story so willing to and so skillfull at lingering in delight and discovery just for the sake of it. There's such an immense generosity in that which I think is an underappreciated aspect of storytelling, and that I am really grateful for.)

(If you've never heard of it before, I'm talking about the all-ages actual play podcast Skyjacks: Courier's Call, and you can check it out over here if you'd like! It also carries over and builds on a lot of really amazing worldbuilding from Campaign Skyjacks, part of which is a deeply queernorm approach, so that's another level on which people might connect with it. And if all of this weren't enough: absolute banger music at every turn, as with Skyjacks itself. Season 3 is just starting now, so it's a good time to get caught up!)

[podplane]

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[thoughtsofthegirlwiththecurl]

All the episodes so far have been bangers, but this latest ep of World Gone Wrong is just *chef's kiss*

[aestian]

are you an audio drama fan? if you are can you please listen to Achewillow? It's an audio drama podcast available free wherever you prefer to listen to podcasts, including Spotify. Unlike many audio drama podcasts, this is a single person narration and there is no meta component — it is like listening to a story being told with enhanced elements rather than a play being enacted or the recording being a known aspect of the story.

If you like T. Kingfisher (I'm specifically thinking of Nettle and Bone) Achewillow has a similar vibe to it. I hesitate to use the term "cozy horror" as it is only a little bit horror and I don't particularly like cozy as a genre modifier but I'll have to stick with that for now. The brief synopsis is that a very young french canadian woman with a passion (or as she might put it, a destiny) for cooking stumbles into a strange inheritance from an unknown long lost great aunt — a small coffee shop and bakery and the building it occupies, now hers if she chooses to accept living in the strange town of Achewillow that somehow rests exactly along the US-Canadian border, noted by a visible line drawn through town and through the little shop itself and without any kind of border security. This is somehow not the strangest part of Achewillow, and neither are the demon-fearing raccoons that keep breaking in to steal both her salt and her brioche.

I listen to a lot of audio dramas, radio plays, audio books, etc. I always have since I was young which l believe helped trained me into listening and focusing skills that are otherwise difficult. I've listened to poetry recitations on tape, old time radio plays over AM stations, and heaps and heaps of the glut of drama podcasts that have come out. After finishing the first season I think Achewillow is a particularly good listen. The narrative doesn't meander, the narrator is pleasant to listen to, and the audio quality is high so it never takes you out of the listening experience. If you like audio fiction please give it a listen and then post about it on Tumblr so I can see your thoughts, this is a selfish post in the end after all 😈🖤

[igottatho]

It’s been about one month since Aaron Bushnell, active duty serviceman, immolated himself in front of the DC Israeli embassy.

Today the UN called for a “non-binding” (qualifier added by US) ceasefire for the remainder of Ramadan (~two weeks). Meanwhile, yesterday Biden unilaterally approved another 3 billion dollars to be sent to Israel, begging the question, will Israel truly abide by a ceasefire?

In the past (years, not since Oct 7) ceasefires have been enacted, which Hamas and Palestinian Authority have respected, but Israel meanwhile would continue to control Gaza’s water, food & medical access, and yes, inflict violence upon Palestinian peoples. Knowing this, what is the incentive for Hamas to abide by a false ceasefire? when Israel now continues to murder children, rape women and cripple a population indefinitely.

Today I found my first real bit of info re: the Arab Spring of 2011. I worked within a large box bookstore at this time and through my years there, I was unable to find any literature on this topic. It’s been about 6 years and this may have changed, but typing “Arab Spring” into the billion dollar search function, there were NO RESULTS. This doesn’t mean the info wasn’t out there, somewhere, only that access wasn’t condoned, and academic thought was likely restricted (or … that’s how I understand it).

This is the podcast I found today and learned from. The show “Throughline” is really worthwhile in its entirety, but this episode shows us the power of social media and organizing dissent. On this near- anniversary of Aaron Bushnell political and radical act, I think a lot about the man in Tunisia who self immolated in January of 2011. His name was Mohamed Bouazizi, and his death sparked the Arab Spring,

Find it here.

[benzedrine-calmstheitch]

I just can’t help but feel that the hope is worth the fear. That life isn’t about the people who’ve hurt you. It’s about the people who didn’t.

Camlann is a hopepunk postapaclyptic podcast set in the wilderness of Wales and based on Arthuriana and other folklore. It's only a few eps in and a lot of fun so far!

[deepwaterwritingprompts]

Hello hello! I'm just here to recommend a podcast: Camlann! It's a post-apocalyptic urban fantasy story based in folklore and arthuriana, and a big theme is the power of names. It's very good and very queer and there are only seven half-hour episodes out so it's very easy to get into! I love it a lot <3

thank you for the rec!! sounds cool and thank you for mentioning its not that far along yet, i find it so difficult to get into media with hundreds of episodes. everyone else: go check this out

- L

(It's Ask Day! Ask me anything about anything. Tag to block/follow is L Answers)

[syndesinae]

[peonybookblog]

I’m not very far in, but this podcast is excellent so far!

[silvandar]

Dream of Gale in deep discussion about british folklore? Oh boy, do I have a podcast for you :)

Hosted by Tim Downie (va for Gale BG3)

[evidenceof]

I appreciate you and your wonderful tags on our pod!

Thank you for sharing it, Faye! Kept me really wonderful company during a long work afternoon. No joke, I was laughing while analyzing my campaign metrics. And tbh listening to the pod was just...leagues more enjoyable for me than watching the actual movie. lol! *** For the people who haven't listened in, fellow modern war enjoyers, people who love to love, diss, laugh and cry for WWII media Rosie The Reviewer is such a great podcast! Also @fayestardust and @almost-a-class-act are just naturally funny so cackling alone to yourself in your room/at a cafe while two friends chat about myth-making in war media inside your earphones is an expected hazard. Their rating system is Great.

They've done whole discussions about Band of Brothers that I'm about to inhale next, and more recently SaS: Rogue Heroes. Good fucking food.