#the call of the void

[hobgobknowsbest]

which one of you works at Starbucks...?

[pupcaliber]

[ghostflowerdreams]

Audio Drama Recommendations, Pt. II

For part one, click here. I went on another audio drama binge and I found some that were pretty fun to listen to. I usually tend to go after the ones that are completed because the longer the wait, the more likely I will forget the details, but this time I just went for anything that caught my attention. This also isn’t in any particular order.

The Magnus Archives – is a horror fiction anthology podcast written by Jonathan Sims, directed by Alexander J. Newall, and distributed by Rusty Quill.

The new Head Archivist of the Magnus Institute, Jonathan Sims, attempts to bring a seemingly neglected collection of people’s testimonials of their encounters with the supernatural up to date, converting them to audio and supplementing them with follow-up work from his small but dedicated team. [COMPLETED]

It has five seasons, each 40 episodes long, as well as additional content such as Q&As, non-canon fan-submitted statements and one-off episodes that tie in with Rusty Quill's other podcasts.

It does start out slow and maybe at some point you’ll be wondering where is this going and what does some of these episodes have to do with the overall story, but it does all eventually connect. Your patience will pay off because once the build-up is done it picks up and things get really interesting!

Unwell – is a horror podcast starring Clarisa Cherie Rios and produced by Hartlife NFP.

The story follows Lillian Harper who has returned home to Mt. Absalom, Ohio to care for her estranged mother Dorothy after an injury. Living in the town's boarding house which has been run by her family for generations, she discovers conspiracies, ghosts, and a new family in the house's strange assortment of residents. [ONGOING]

This audio drama has five seasons which runs for 12 episodes. It currently has 54 episodes in total and each one is about 20-30 minutes long. New episodes are released fortnightly (biweekly) on Wednesdays. They take a mid-season break between episodes 6 and 7.

Bridgewater – is a supernatural thriller audio drama produced by Grim & Mild and by iHeartRadio, created by Aaron Mahnke and written/directed by Lauren Shippen.

Folklore professor Jeremy Bradshaw is pulled into the mysterious 1980 disappearance of his police officer father, Thomas, by new evidence that threatens to upend decades of certainty. Along the way, he’s helped by some unlikely partners who challenge everything he believes in, and ultimately tries to answer the question: can the past actually be rewritten?

Together with his father’s former partner, retired Detective Anne Becker, Jeremy must chase the clues that will tell him whether his father really did fall victim to a Satanic cult in the Bridgewater Triangle—or something much more dark and unexplainable. [ONGOING]

It has two seasons, the first consist of 10 episodes and the second has 12 episodes. Each one runs about 20-30 minutes long. Season three was put on hold when there was news of a possible television series. However, that fell through and by then everyone was working on other projects. So a season three, well, that’s pretty much up in the air.

It stars Misha Collins (Supernatural), Melissa Ponzio (Teen Wolf), Nathan Fillion (Firefly, The Rookie), Karan Soni (Deadpool), Kristin Bauer (True Blood), Hilarie Burton Morgan (The Walking Dead, One Tree Hill), Wil Wheaton (Star Trek: The Next Generation), Jonathan Joss (The Magnificent Seven, Parks and Rec) and Lori Alan (Spongebob Squarepants, Family Guy).

The Lovecraft Investigations -- is a mystery thriller/horror fiction podcast written and directed by Julian Simpson, based on several works of H.P. Lovecraft. It’s produced by Sweet Talk Productions for BBC Radio 4. It concluded with three seasons and each episode is about 25-30 minutes long. There might be a fourth season in the works, but even if there isn’t the series is considered to be finished.

The first season starts off with an investigation into the disappearance of a young man, Charles Dexter Ward from a locked room in an asylum. [COMPLETED]

It stars Barnaby Kay (Shakespeare in Love), Jana Carpenter (Doctor Who), Nicola Walker (MI-5, Unforgotten), Mark Bazeley (The Queen, The Bourne Ultimatum), Phoebe Fox (Eye in the Sky, The Woman in Black 2: Angel of Death), Steven Mackintosh (Rang De Basanti, Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels), Samuel Barnett (Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, Penny Dreadful), Alun Armstrong (Sleepy Hollow, The Mummy Returns), Adam Godley (The Great, The Umbrella Academy), and so on.

Midnight Burger – is a monthly sci-fi audio drama about a diner at the end – and somehow the beginning – of the universe.

When Gloria took a waitressing job at Midnight Burger outside of Phoenix, she didn’t realize she was now an employee of a time-traveling, dimension-spanning diner. Every day Midnight Burger appears somewhere new in the cosmos along with its staff: a galactic drifter, a rogue theoretical physicist, a sentient old-timey radio, and some guy named Caspar.

No one knows who built Midnight Burger or how it works, but when it appears there's always someone around who could really use a cup of coffee. Come by any time, we open at six. [ONGOING]

The audio drama currently has three seasons and each episodes averages about 30 minutes to an hour or so.

Rex Rivetter: Private Eye – is a 1950s-style noir detective audio drama written by Greg McAfee, directed by Rhiannon McAfee, and produced in San Diego, CA by Downstairs Entertainment with editing and sound design by Steve Murdock. The Rex Rivetter theme “Nightmare” by the Artie Shaw Orchestra is used with permission of Music Sales Corp.

The year is 1955. Tinsel town. The land of make-believe. It's a time of growth in American prosperity. Especially in Los Angeles. Here, dreams are bought and sold.

But there's a seedier side to the City of Angels, the shadows where pimps and narcotics pushers live, where organized crime stands just around every corner with one hand out, and the other wrapped around a roscoe. It's a city full of fancy dames and slick cons, where bookies know the vig, so you better, too.

Some folks call it noir or pulp fiction. But for a private eye named Rex Rivetter, it's home. [ONGOING]

It has four seasons and each one runs about 20-30 minutes long. Due to the pandemic, it is still unknown if season five will ever come out and so far there hasn’t been any news about it either.

Mansfield Mysteries – is a satirical, cozy murder whodunit written by Amy Henson, directed by Nicholas Hoyt and produced by The QuaranTeam.

It follows the inquisitive, martini-loving socialite Dorinda Mansfield and is set in quiet, affluent Berkshire Bay. So far it only has one season, which contains nine hilarious episodes, each three-chapter story finds Dorinda wrapped up in a new murder. With the help of her devoted daughter, Stacey—as well as the occasional frenemy—Dorinda digs for clues, navigates Berkshire Bay’s elite social circles, and sifts through years’ worth of grudges and motives. In this company town, no one can be trusted, and everyone has something to hide.

Whether at the Labor Day Extravaganza, the Halloween Tennis Club Open, or secret karaoke night, Dorinda sets out to find the real killer before they get away with murder… Just as soon as she orders her martini! [COMPLETED]

If you’re looking for a bite-sized audio drama, this might be for you. It has three seasons (or chapters) and each one only takes three episodes to complete its tales, which is fun, amusing and will keep you entertained while you’re working on something or resting your eyes.

The Call of the Void – is an indie science fiction mystery audio drama created and written by Josie Eli Herman and Michael Alan Herman. It’s produced by Acorn Arts & Entertainment. It contains three seasons of 28 episodes and each one is about 25-30 minutes long with a cast of about 35 actors.

In the bustling streets of New Orleans, a tour guide and a palm-reading outcast team up to unravel the mystery behind cases of sudden insanity besetting the city. [COMPLETED]

Wolf 359 – is a science fiction audio drama created by Gabriel Urbina and produced by Gabriel Urbina and Zach Valenti under Kinda Evil Genius Productions. It consists of four seasons with 61 episodes in total and each one is about 25-40 minutes long.

It is set on board the U.S.S. Hephaestus space station orbiting the star Wolf 359 on a deep space survey mission. The dysfunctional crew deals with daily life-or-death emergencies, while searching for signs of alien life and discovering there might be more to their mission than they thought. [COMPLETED]

[lupescx]

“You don’t have to say anything,” she tries to reassure; she gets it. They both do; they’re both calculated and reckless at the same time. Things slip out and sometimes there’s no choice but to quietly forgive it. In which Clara tells the Master something she never intended to say aloud.

[alistisius]

My original characters Vale (left) and Altair (right)

The two are main protagonists of my story The Call of The Void

Vale’s uniform was easy to design, especially because I had previously drawn a reference draft for it. Altair on the other though…. he gave me so much struggle… 🤕 I had a very vague idea of what I wanted it to look like but it was hard to actually draw it out. Took numerous refrences and retries to get it right 😭

I like to think Altair probably gets his clothes from trading with the folks settled in towns in the borderlands (though he himself doesn’t live in those small towns). Perhaps sometimes they’d gift him some stuff too as gratitude for his aid.

As for Vale, he’s just wearing an embellished version of a typical Shaam division soldier uniform at AMINA

[feelingsofaithless]

We don't need a savior Scream and shout, the time is now This generation will save ourselves A million invaders Can't break us down, we'll take the crown Not even these walls can keep us out

[europeangreencrab]

[papillondusublime]

Les mathématiciens ont une série de problèmes. Les physiciens ont la force et l'énergie, mais ce sont les chimistes qui préparent des solutions! Sauf que pour moi, aucune solution n'existe. Je ne suis pas un problème à résoudre mais un paradoxe, n'essayez pas de me comprendre. God works in mysterious ways, well nothing works with me because my mysterious ways are wayyy too mysterious... Non, ne me suivez pas (sauf sur Tumblr) car ceux qui suivent le fil de mes pensées finissent par perdre la boule... de laine dans la gueule du loup... J'ai faim lol mais le petit creux c'est le vide intérieur qui me dévore ;)

[just-jetfire]

Hey! This is anon with headcanons again. This time it's long and maybe not particularly interesting (that's why I'm sending asks anonymously, heh). It will be such a comprehensive headcanon about the psyche, culture and lifestyle of shuttles.

Shuttles are subject to such a phenomenon as the "Call of the Void", which is more literal than the phenomenon we are familiar with. It lies in the fact that shuttles, especially those that go on long-distance interplanetary flights, can fall into a certain state and go astray, heading into the depths of space and getting lost there.

The reasons reinforced by this condition may be different:

- Loss of landmarks, ignoring navigators and wrong route change; - Panic; - Perception of non-existent signals and direction along these non-existent coordinates; - Self-confidence and the desire to test yourself, ignoring the need for refueling and the danger of an unknown route; - Curiosity and the desire to go further, to look beyond the edge; - A melancholic state caused by a long absence from home, leading to a desire to seek a better life on other planets; - Monotony, loss of sense of time and movement in the midst of a large empty space, the desire to «go with the flow of gravitational waves»; - Just a trance state (it is, in principle, characteristic for any other reasons).

For this reason, shuttles most often travel with a crew that can, if necessary, bring the shuttle to senses or take over control.

Usually, to avoid such problems, shuttles are used for atmospheric flights or familiar interplanetary routes where there are many intermediate stations, or through space bridges.

But there are cases when the shuttle needs to use routes through outer space. Most often, when the previous routes have become unavailable in some way or a new route needs to be laid. The latter reason is the most dangerous, since shuttles go on such trips alone without a crew for utilitarian reasons, since the loss of one Cybertronian is not the loss of a whole dozen or even more. And besides all the other dangers of the unexplored depths of space, the "Call of the Void" is one of the main ones. Because of this, such work is sometimes called "Star embrace", because these embraces may not let go.

To avoid this, several methods have been invented, the main one being serious resistance training to this phenomenon. Basically, the training consists in the fact that a beginner is thrown out along with a beacon in an area of space, where, in case of a failure, they can be found, unlike in an unfamiliar area, where, if the signal is lost, no one will even search, because no one will never find. However, failures are not the end, shuttles always have a lot of safer work, besides they can try more than once.

Another, less official method is a strong sparkbond, love and affection for a partner, which is considered the reason why the shuttle will not be affected by this phenomenon. The partner of such a traveling shuttle is sometimes called a Spark Beacon, not in an offensive sense. The usual ritual is that the partner gives the shuttle some important symbolic thing, as a promise that the shuttle will return home. On rare occasions, a couple travels together.

Another opinion is that some shuttles deny and reject any sparkbond because they believe that it disrupts their connection with their native space element, and that it is this connection that protects them from the influence of the Call. Well, there are ordinary neutral shuttles that are not adherents of any theories.

Both approaches have a downside to the coin. In the first method, when a partner is lost, shuttles often go on the last flight, succumbing to the Call. Adherents of the second method go to the last star rendezvous when they feel or think that their life and career are coming to an end. In both cases, it is customary to send signals and data to the last in order to fulfill one's duty for the last time and make part of the space explored. Some consider it a great misfortune to be sent along such routes.

And, of course, superstitions and stories are connected with all this that these lost shuttles are responsible for unknown signals that can sometimes be picked up. Someone thinks that these signals help to find the way home, someone thinks that this is a trap that makes them repeat the fate of lost shuttles, and someone thinks that this is a kind of "hello" from those who have found another life among the stars. But most still consider this superstition, and that the source of the signals may be natural space objects or ships of other aliens.

As for Skyfire, he is one of those who often flies alone and sets routes, having good resistance to the Call. He is not a follower of any specific approaches and just enjoys his work and discoveries. But sometimes he still thinks that he is too far away from home and could try to live on some other planet. Who knows if that will change if he meets someone on Cybertron and finally understands what it's like to really want to come home…

Perhaps this headcanon is too reminiscent of some stories about sailors, but it seems to me that if some Cybertronians have this aura of danger, suspense, discoveries and adventures as in the era of Great Geographical Discoveries, then it is the shuttles.

Anon I literally love this so much I hope we can make this post blow up because this is so cool I love this so much

The Call of the void thing is sick and I love it

[petiterazu]

Call Of The Void - Flirt - Part 1

Beginning - Next

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Woooooooo it’s out! Can you tell which panels are the older ones ?💀

Super excited for this Route!!!!!

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Linktree - Commissions - MasterPost

[skyfullofpods]

66 is The Call of the Void!

Sci-fi/mystery set in and around New Orleans. The story follows siblings Topher and Simone Summers, as they investigate their father's disappearance. This leads them to discover a wider mystery of supernatural events in the area.

Completed series. Three seasons of nine episodes each, plus an epilogue at the end of season three.

[thisaintascenereviews]

Nita Strauss - The Call Of The Void

While it's common for bands and solo artists to release albums, it's more uncommon these days to see an instrumental musician release a solo album, especially in certain genres. Jazz music, for example, is known for instrumental albums, and many different artists have released their own records by themselves, or with other musicians, but rock and metal aren't known for that. They're known for singers to release solo albums, but not musicians. That's why the sophomore solo album, entitled The Call Of The Void, from guitarist Nita Strauss is very interesting. Strauss has been getting a lot of buzz and hype lately, thanks to being both a guitarist of Alice Cooper's backing band and Demi Lovato's backing band, but she's also found the time to release solo albums, starting with 2018's Uncontrolled Chaos. I've never listened to that, but instrumental albums can be kind of overwhelming and intimidating, especially if they're long. That album was quite long, if I recall, but so is The Call Of The Void. What separates this one, however, is that Strauss does the smart thing by making this record a bit more accessible by adding a handful of guest vocalists from the worlds of rock and metal.

Both records are still around an hour long (this one is even longer if you include the instrumental versions of the songs with vocalists on them), but this one doesn't feel its length. The album is littered with a variety of instrumental cuts and songs with vocalists, so it makes for an interesting listen. Hell, even just the list of guest vocalists is interesting, and should make most rock and metal fans curious about this, thanks to featuring Lzzy Hale of Halestorm, Chris Motionless of Motionless In White, Alissa White-Gluz of Arch Enemy, David Draiman of Disturbed, Anders Friden of In Flames, and Alice Cooper himself. There are a few more, but those are some huge names. You'd think that this record would be a mixed bag, because each song would sound different, or the quality would vary between vocalists, but it doesn't. Honestly, I love The Call Of The Void, and this is easily one of the best rock and metal albums I've heard all year (possibly of the last few years as well). The sad thing is, this record will go unnoticed by a lot of people because Strauss isn't a household name just yet. This record has a very consistent sound and feel to it, all the while having enough variety in each track to make it a unique listen. Every song goes between hard-rock and heavy metal, whereas some tracks leans towards metalcore, arena-rock, melodic death metal, and nu-metal, but there's just enough of the "core" sound of this record that keep them all somewhat similar, especially when Strauss comes in at various points with killer riffs and solos.

Yeah, as great as a lot of the vocalists are here (more on that in a second), Strauss herself is the best part of it. Her guitarplaying is utterly fantastic, and I find myself really going back to some of the instrumental cuts on here, such as opener "Summer Storm," or "Consume The Fire," "Scorched," and "Momentum." The songs with vocalists are great, too, and a lot of them feature fantastic hooks that really get stuck in your head, as well as some great riffs and solos that showcase her playing very well, despite being a more accessible sound. One could argue that she limits herself by contorting her playing to that of the guest vocalists, and to an extent, I can understand that, but it's also a testament to the amount of different styles she can play and not miss a beat. She doesn't sound out of place at any point. She can play nu-metal / alt-metal with David Draiman on "Dead Inside," hard-rock with Lzzy Hale on "Through The Noise," or melodic death metal with Alissa White-Gluz on "The Wolf You Feed," and it all sounds natural. Even the metalcore cut on this record with Chris Motionless, "Digital Bullets," still works very well, because alongside a pretty solid breakdown, there's a great solo in that song (definitely one of the best on the album).

The album's length at around an hour may turn some people off, and I get that, but I find myself coming back to this album a lot. I get super excited when certain tracks come up, because I'm just so excited to listen to it over and over. If you enjoy hard-rock and/or heavy metal in any capacity, I'd listen to this. It doesn't do anything that you haven't heard before, but the solos, riffs, and hooks are enough to really elevate this album. The vocalists on here never become the sole focus of the record, which can be an issue when musicians feature vocalists, because the vocalists can take center stage, but just when you think that the vocalists are becoming the most important part, Strauss comes through with a face-melting solo that reminds you that this is her record. Adding vocalists, however, is a very good idea, because it makes for a more accessible and digestible listen. Sure, it's around an hour, but it doesn't lose its edge, momentum, or interest. It never gets boring, and that's surprising with albums this long, but I've always said that it takes the right album to keep me engaged for more than 40 - 45 minutes. If an album can do that, it's something special, and boy, this album is something special. it's one of the best of the year, so check it out.

[citrine-elephant]

i have the sudden urge to explore the ***darkest*** parts of leon's mind/mental health but i'm not sure if i'm ready to slip properly into that headspace with triggering myself

listening to KMS by Sub Urban atm and-

[starbirdaltair]

Do you ever just stare out into the rainstorm and have this visceral and innate urge to just walk. To just go.

You don't necessarily want it per say, but there's just this urge, this undeniable feeling you can't shake. You must. Go. Go through the storm, through the woods, across the fields, into the mountains, into the Void.

[lupescx]

wrote next in the series for the call of the void instead of sleeping but i must rest before editing and posting bc i cannot trust my deprived brain to not make massive oversights

[alistisius]

Do you ever imagine your stories being in manhwa/Webtoon format? Which story would you like to see drawn out like that the most? Heh >.<

Yesssssss I most definitely do! 😭

Actually, before I settled on wanting to publish my projects in the form of a novel, I really wanted them to be webcomics… but then I realised the sheer amount of work that be… handling both the art and the writing 🤒

But, in my head, I have specific artstyles that each of these series would have had lol

To answer your question though, probably The Call of the Void? It honestly could work really really well as one

Oh and also Echoes of Lament! It would’ve been so amazing to see that story as a webcomic \(//∇//)\

[Sometimes I do just want to f*ck it and draw it all out…. But it’s just not feasible for me lol…]