Currently obsessing over so many audio dramas / Actively looking for more audio dramas to obsess over / Always obsessing over Tamora Pierce / Jewelry sideblog: bekaterrier
Audio drama fans! Do you like finding new fiction podcasts? Do you want to hear a group of audio fiction creators talk about what they do and how they do it? Then you should check out this new magazine/bi-monthly newsletter/podcast!
EAR•WAX is an audio drama/indie music project made by Greater Boston co-creator Jeff Van Dreason (@earwaxblog).
There’s going to be a monthly themed mixtape, a bunch of audio drama reviews, and talks about podcast production with Tal Minear (Re: Dracula), Jade Madison Scott (founder of WGC Productions), Oliver Morris (Creative Producer for Skadi's symphony podcasting group) and Editor in Chief Jeff.
I’m writing reviews of new fiction podcasts on there (like Higher Grounds), but there are also incredible writers like:
đźš‹ Jordan Stillman (works on The Land Whale Murders and Greater Boston, also the production manager)
This project is bringing attention to new musicians and audio drama, and if you follow it, you’ll also be supporting the work of writers and creators.
The magazine already has blog posts on it, and the first podcast episode released yesterday. This episode has a review of Something’s Amiss at Juniper's House, an interview with Lauren Shippen and loads of other cool stuff!! And after that it’ll be releasing every fourth Wednesday a month. Anyway, you can find the website here.
Music curation, audio fiction reviews, cool sounds, soothing tones. All things ears.
And if you want to follow the magazine on Patreon, you can do that here (because you’ll get ad-free listening to the podcast, and some other goodies).
Get more from EAR•WAX Magazine on Patreon. A newsletter & several podcasts about music and audio fiction.. Support EAR•WAX Magazine and get
Recording Rudyard Ruins Everything, which drops 24 - 27 September wherever you get your podcasts.
Photos: Odinn Orn Hilmarsson
Rudyard on the Moon will be onstage and available to stream on 6 September.
Book now: https://www.woodenovercoats.com/listings
test weaving of penelope's tapestry on the chiusi skyphos:
reference:
there are some adjustments I need to make for tension, but I'd like to make the next version into a header band for a warp-weighted loom so I can try weaving the whole pot, including telemachus and penelope.
makes my heart feel like bursting when kel is chasing after the haven refugees, fully prepared to be tried for treason in the name of her own higher sense of duty and honour to her charges, and to bear it alone, and then all of her friends keeps showing up. waking up to dom and his whole squad making oatcakes and ready to take kel's orders.... what the hell man, that was so awesome. and then tobe & owen & peachblossom, and then the knights!! makes me feel like jumping off a cliff and yelling. kel is such a special protagonist because she's not a lone wolf renegade, she's a commander, but she also doesn't like, command respect exactly she earns it by being supremely competent and likeable and genuinely caring about every individual, and pots shows us this in tangible ways again and again. and like she's so heroic without veering into either fantastical or gritty and i feel like that's such a rare and perfect balance for a fantasy character
The Penultimate Episode of The Twelvelms Conspiracy is here!
Podcast Episode · The Twelvelms Conspiracy · July 21 · 29m
Cyan's stress and anxiety is coming to a head as he recounts the final days before his exams at Twelvelms, and his friends argue about who could be responsible for the horrors they've seen in the last few months...
Listen wherever you find your podcasts, or at the link above!
do you also maybe love cryptids, ufos, mysterious conspiracies, and pirate radio?
maybe you will like "The Cold Cases of Glacier Falls"!
The Cold Cases of Glacier Falls is the story of KP, a mysterious pirate radio host who takes command of his little pocket of airwaves to tell you all about his hometown, Glacier Falls, and the weird stuff that happens there - including ghost cars, ufos, robot ducks, mayoral madness, and large fish monsters.
this post wasn’t intentionally a psyop to convince Murderbot Diaries and Project Hail Mary fans to listen to more audio dramas. However I do hope everyone tagging it “huh I’ll have to look into those other ones!” do. something also unintentional was that something the three books on the list have in common—The Murderbot Diaries, Project Hail Mary, and Dungeon Crawler Carl—is that fans love to rave glowingly about the audiobook. Audiobook fans it is just one small step into audio drama, but one giant leap into the diversity and creativity of the spec fic narratives (and a-spec narratives) available to you!!
These vacations might not be peaceful, but they’re all a treat to listen to.
If you want to listen to some audio dramas about people going on holidays or taking long journeys (in time for the summer), here are some recommendations! They’re mostly horror, but there’s a peaceful sci-fi, a murder mystery, and lots of cool stories with exciting plots. Check it out if you want to feel like you’re going somewhere new.
Harlem Queen
Listened to Season 3 and 4 this week. Season 4 is told in a slightly different format and it's such a fun switch up. I'm heading into the final season and I'm genuinely sad to see this interbellum era story close, I've grown fond of The Numbers Queen and the show's fast-pace quick switch storytelling.
Seen and Not Heard
Yearned for a "life with disability" narrative and knew where to find it. Knew this show was good but whoa it is GOOD. Comes with great "let's talk about Deafness/HoH" talk episodes. Enjoying it all a lot
Shelterwood
The Podcast Bookclub discord server is listening to this show (which has been on my to listens for a while). Sadly not a timezone that works for me, so I'm trying to listen along-ish in my own time. Just two episodes in, the "true crime" element is really well done (great framing) but that also means I'm aggravated more. So taking it easy. Curious to see how things develop in terms of monsters and grief themes.
Shadows at the Door
Now that I'm about to be a patron (Beck's End wrapped up a successful kickstarter yahooo) I figured I should listen to at least some of SatD (I've heard so many great things but anthologies are hard for me to stick to). Two episodes in. I think it's going to be a great podcast to have on while I'm sewing or doing embroidery… and I learned from the discord there's an aroace spec recurring character
Our Wars Have Ended
Listened to episode one, part one and part two. Had a decent idea of where it would go because of the call to audition last year. I watched two seasons of Sharpe with my partner and bestie and that made me appreciate this Napoleonic level of warfare technology more, I think. Curious to see where it will go. Shaking off the mental comparison to the Silt Verses, which I'm sure will get easier as the story progresses.
The Sterling Girl
Knew this horror/fairytale story was going to focus on the autistic experience and oof, my heart. Made me ache and laugh and cry. Highlight of the week, I think.
Third and final edition of the Disability Pride Flag Audio Fiction Calendar. Click for the first, second, and related BINGO. Plus as an amazing bonus, @rainbownestmedia shared another calendar here. Next week: my notes in one neat overview :)
Information (= sometimes spoilers) below
Two Thousand and Late - Harper was disabled by COVID-19
I Am In Eskew - Depression
Sojourners' Trails - Mobility aids & prosthetic
The Way We Haunt Now - Lota is a ghost and wheelchair user
Someone Dies In This Elevator - Hot Weels episode. Shannon uses a manual wheelchair and Waverly uses a powered wheelchair.
Surcease - Mental health treatment/facility is central to the story. Wheelchair user
Ethics Town - Noah Morley is dyslexic
Earth Eclipsed - One of characters becomes blind
Petrified
Forgive Me! - Margaret has kleptomania
Secret of St. Kilda - Character with chronic pain
Camp Here And There - Sydney is autistic and chronically ill, with chronic pain, respiratory/use of an inhaler, experiences psychotic episodes.
We’re Alive - Several disabled characters
Soul Operator - Many disabled characters, including the MC
Within the Wires - (S3) Post-natal depression. (S8) The narrator is physically disabled with limited mobility and chronic pain.
October’s Children - Physically disabled lead
Things Unsaid - A deaf main character and a deaf supporting character.
What Will Be Here? - Kei is disabled
Among the Stacks - Tale 6 has a character with adhd-d
Before I Forget (Again) - Many of the characters are neurodiverse in some way- Cielle and Danny are ADHD, Larry is autistic, and Bea is AuDHD. Without spoiling anything major, one main character will have a chronic illness by the end of season 1.
The Sterling Girl - Etta is autistic (semi-verbal). Sable is autistic and ADHD, and also has a lazy eye which she wears a monocle for. Penny is autistic. Oscar is autistic and ADHD. The narrator is autistic.
Our Fair City - Clear Skies Tim is injured and becomes physically disabled (loss of mobility). Loamy loses an arm and later starts using a supernatural prosthetic.
Human Error - Multiple HoH/Deaf characters. Billie has anxiety. Most of not all of the characters have PTSD
Hi Nay - Mari Datuin has chronic pain
Monstrous Agonies - Some episodes feature disability narratives. Features DID (Note: some systems reject the pathologization of plurality but may still consider it a disability under the social model, outside of DID. Some systems don’t consider it a disability at all, similar to Deafness)
Arden - Pamela Pink has depression, Rosalind Ursula has type 1 bipolar disorder. Dana Hamill (S2) has bipolar.
The Penumbra Podcast - (Juno Steel) Juno Steel loses an eye and learning to navigate this is a long-term story element. Buddy Aurinko has narcissistic personality disorder and is physically disabled from radiation sickness. Vespa Ilkay needs daily medication to prevent severe psychotic episodes with hallucinations. (Second Citadel) Sir Marc is a disabled knight; ableism and institutional barriers are important themes to the setting.
Levian - Tanathea Tellari has a history of psychiatric illness (described with in-world terms)
SCP Research Archives - Betram has an anomalous disability, gets migraines, and they suffer from insomnia.
Midst - Moc Weepe has a (supernatural/in-world) medical condition that requires regular treatment.
Vesta Clinic - The space clinic providing medical care is central to the story. Disability narratives included
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