#victoriocity podcast

[weaverofink]

A Clara portrait because I love her so so much :) dialogue from the last episode of season 3

image without dialogue below:

she :)

[boombox-fuckboy]

FLEET: Hey, I uh. I got something for you.

CLARA: Fleet, you bought me a present? Is this because I saved your life again? Or is it for my birthday- which you should know, if you want to write it down, is April-

FLEET: Open it.

CLARA: So it's not for my birthday.

FLEET: Open it.

CLARA: April 15th.

FLEET: Open it!

Victoriocity, Season 2 Episode 7 - SMS Brandenburg

A very happy 163rd(?) birthday to Clara Entwhistle.

[silvascribble]

Some Clara and Fleet I did a few days ago

[hephaestuscrew]

Books and reading are really important to Clara Entwhistle. She bonds with Jasper the cabbie over having read The Grey Book, with Titus Byrne over Captain Swift novels, and with a random pickpocket over Figgler's Prestidigitation. She sees the right reading material as a potential solution to any uncertainty in her life. Trilling's Arts of Detection can teach her how to be a detective. Posner's A Guide to Business for Gentlemen can tell her how to make Fleet-Entwhistle Investigations a success. She only moved to London in the first place because she read Horrocks' Tales from the City in the Harrogate Herald.

I find this particularly interesting because we have significant evidence that Clara's access to reading material has been tightly controlled and subject to judgement for most of her life. She tells Fleet, "once, when I was young, Mother caught me reading a sensation novel and threatened to send me to the Mesmer Institute". She considers this a formative enough experience that it's one of the first facts she lists when wanting to share information about herself with Fleet. As a child, her reading choices were something shameful, something that indicated she wasn't the kind of young woman her mother wanted her to be. And even as an adult, arriving into London for the first time, she is chastised by her mother for wanting to buy a newspaper: "What need have you for a newspaper?... You can read my copy of this month's All a Lady Need Know. Disagreement resolved." In the world Clara has been trapped in, the ladylike thing is to only access a very limited sphere of appropriate information and not to read anything that falls outside of that sphere. And those boundaries of ladylike-ness will be rigidly enforced.

So perhaps it's no wonder that after Clara arrives in London, she's devouring everything from taxi regulation manuals to adventure novels, repeatedly calling the librarian for recommendations in the middle of the night, taking out 20 books at a time and then realising she's underestimated how long it will take her to read them. No wonder she's so often telling people about books she's read. For Clara Entwhistle, being able to do any of those things openly is a new and thrilling kind of freedom.

[paintingspaceghosts]

started Victoriocity... how to stop thinking CHAPMANNNN every time Tom Crowley speaks

[starstrider-productions]

Cast reveal!

Some eagle-eyed listeners might have already spotted this on our crowdfunding page...

This is our fantastic cast so far! If you're excited to hear all of these lovely voices in your ears, please consider donating to our crowdfunding campaign when April rolls around.

Our preview is here: https://igg.me/at/dracula2004

Care to take a bite?

[littleacebee]

The only thing I have to say for myself is: Songs in podcasts my beloveds <3

IDs in alt text and under the cut

[ID: Front cover of a zine. In the middle of the page there is big red heart with text in it: „Songs in podcasts my beloveds”.

Page 1. Text saying: „I love songs in podcasts! They are so cool and great and amazing and wonderful and fun and fabulous and excellent and brilliant”

Page 2. On the top of the page there is text: „Me when there is song in podcast:”. Below there are three doodles of a person. First is singing dramatically, other two are dancing. There are colourful musical notes around.

Page 3. Text saying: „Some of my fav songs from podcasts with honest and totally not biased rating:

„Die Berliner Luft” from The Amelia Project - 10/10

Songs from Roguemaker - 10/10

Theme song from Night Shift - 10/10

„Magistrate’s daughter” Travelling light - 10/10”

Page 4. Text saying: „Musical episode of Mission rejected - 10/10

Folks songs in Camlann - 10/10

Songs from The Strange Case of Starship Iris - 10/10

„It’s all made up!” from Victoriocity - 10/10

Musical episode of The Bright Sessions - 10/10

Song in the last episode of Trice Forgotten - 10/10”

Page 5. Text saying: „”Poisoning Pigeons in the Park” from Midnight Burger - 10/10

Songs from Re: Dracula - 10/10

Cabaret Night at Cosmic Lounge from Stellar Firma - 69/10

Theme song from Dark Ages - 10/10

Songs from Welcome to the Brass Eagle - 10/10

The Ballad of Anne & Mary 1000/10”

Page 6. At the top of the page there is text saying: „”To be an Undertaker” from Wooden Overcoats - 100000000000000000000000/10”. Below there is doodle of a person playing on a mandolin.

Page 7. There is a doodle of a person holding a big sign with text: „You should add song to your podcast!”. At the bottom of the page there is text saying: „#fiction podcast zine event”. End ID]

[moosha-mushroom]

favorite podcast blorbos!

Love me some podcast characters that roam in my brain rent-free.

Magnus Archives - Tim Stoker (literally can do no wrong)

Malevolent - Noel Finley (I adore him)

Welcome to Night Vale - Kevin (obsessed wit him)

Midnight Burger - Caspar Scott (SCREEE)

Kakos Industries - Corin Deeth III (I need to comfort him)

Penumbra Podcast - Peter Nureyev (SLAYYYY)

The Amelia Project - Piotr Kozlowski (he’s my fave <333)

Desert Skies - Tendy the Attendant (sweeeeeeeetie :3)

Wolf 359 - Doug Eiffel (AUGH)

Victoriocity - Archibald Fleet (I have a thing for protags)

Sherlock & Co. - Sherlock Holmes (His voice)

Red Valley - Clive Schill (ASSHOLE /A)

The Meat Blockade - Karl Berenger (Hope he’s okay)

Hotel Daydream - Lionel Autuary (love him)

Ghost Wax - Owen Voncid (AAAAAAAAAAH)

The Patient Files - Lucian Donahue (I hate him, but I love him)

The Technomancy Projects - Elijah Long (WARLOCK)

Station 112.211 - Haley (She’s my favorite)

[224bbaker]

By popular demand, a new pinned post about us and the show for new followers/audio drama listeners/people who might be here because of our Sherlock Holmes postings! Find more info on the show and how to listen on our website, 224bbaker.com

UPDATE: If you're posting about the show but don't want any of the team to see it for whatever reason, use the hashtag "#NOT for Ambrosius"

[weaverofink]

I've drawn my new clara design twice now, so I am legally obligated to draw a new fleet design as well

[haveyoulistenedtothispodcast]

Summary:

A detective comedy podcast. Even Greater London, 1887. In this vast metropolis, Inspector Archibald Fleet and journalist Clara Entwhistle investigate a murder, only to find themselves at the centre of a conspiracy of impossible proportions.

[hephaestuscrew]

I'm still thinking about that scene in Victoriocity S3E7 where Fleet runs back towards the Beast so as to lure it into the path of the train...

Clara's exclamation of 'Teamwork, Fleet!' after Fleet says he's got a plan reflects her conviction that any plan that Fleet has will be a shared plan, something they do together.

This conviction is a kind of trust, and that trust is part of the reason Clara takes a moment to realise Fleet has headed back towards the Beast. She trusts that he's following behind her. She keeps talking to him, her words full of optimism.

When she realises Fleet isn't there, she immediately realises what that must mean he's done, and her voice sounds more small and scared than I think we've ever heard it before.

Fleet's attempt at self-sacrifice is a kind of betrayal of Clara's trust, but when he echoes her celebration of their teamwork in a more somber tone, I think it suggests that he understands the weight of that betrayal.

If Fleet's plan is that Clara won't realise he's gone until it's already too late, then he thinks "Teamwork, Clara" will be the last words he'll ever speak to her. In what he imagines will be their final conversation, Fleet affirms Clara's understanding of them as a team who work well together, even as he is making a choice that rejects the possibility of their teamwork in this scenario. It's a recognition of what their dynamic has meant. It's a goodbye and an apology, even if Clara doesn't understand it as such at first.

I don't think Fleet sounds scared as he initially faces down the train. When he shouts "Yeah, this way, you stupid machine! Come on then!", he sounds defiant and grimly determined.

In fact, I don't think he sounds afraid until Clara appears, until she might be at risk of being in the path of the Beast or the train as well. It's when he shouts "Clara, stay back for God's sake!" and "Please, get back!" that there's real fear and desperation in his voice. He can confront the idea of giving his own life, but not the idea that doing so might put Clara in danger.

Another thing about these lines is that the move from 'stay back' to 'get back' suggests that Clara didn't obey his first instruction but got closer to him (and therefore to the path of the Beast and the train) between those two lines.

Then Fleet gives what might be another attempt at his last words: "I'm sorry! I'm sorry."  A repeated apology before an attempted self-sacrifice is an implicit acknowledgement of how much losing him would hurt Clara. He regrets causing her pain.

Even so, he's accepted that he is about to die and that it'd be worth it to destroy the Beast. But Clara very much hasn't accepted either those things. She's still trying to yell over the noise of the train; she's pulling off her ring to throw at him.

I think it's a good illustration of how Clara's optimism is a kind of strength. She always believes that they can "make a new plan" and that it'll be one in which no one has to die. I think Archibald Fleet needs someone like that, someone who'll tell him to drop to the ground when his death advances from both sides, someone who - even in a dark tunnel with an murderous metal monster and a speeding train - won't stop shouting that there's hope.

[paintingspaceghosts]

he calls himself Archie im in love with Fleet

[victoriocity]

'Joyously Funny' (The Financial Times)

'The start of something very special' (BSFA)

GIVE AWAY TIME! 'High Vaultage' is released in the the USA & Canada on 22nd October. To celebrate we are giving away TWO signed copies (one first edition hardback and one special edition hardback).

To be in with a chance of winning either of these beautiful editions - head over to @victoriocity on Twitter (X) & @victoriocitypod on Instagram and follow the instructions!

Entries close at 12pm Saturday UK Time. Open to anyone, anywhere.

Good luck!

[yamikakyuu]

Much as people (myself included) use the TMA to other horror podcasts pipeline, when recommending shows, I'm now using Wooden Overcoats to rec other comedy shows.

My friend who LOVED Wooden Overcoats is now listening to Victoriocity because of it, I told him the wit is quick like WO and Eric Chapman (Tom Crowley) is in it with bit parts from Rudyard and Antigone (Felix and Beth) and he's already done with s1.

Because of that I've now told him to try The Amelia Project, The Kingmaker Histories, and Fawx & Stallion.

Woooden Overcoats pipelines exists, let's use it!

[skyfullofpods]

V is for @victoriocity!

Detective comedy set in an alternate Victorian Britain. Even Greater London is a huge and sprawling metropolis, powered by The Tower, and Queen Victoria is a cyborg. Newly-arrived journalist Clara Entwhistle teams up with Inspector Archibald Fleet to investigate a murder, only to find themselves drawn into a dangerous conspiracy.

Three full seasons consisting of a total of 20 episodes, as well as one miniseries, various bonus episodes, and a novel!