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WHERE ARE THE SAPPHIC SUPERNATURAL PODCASTS??
We got @believerpod
We got large casts with sapphic ladies (Hi Nay, Night Post, Care and Feeding of Werewolves)
But I want more sapphic main pairings!
oh oh oh MABEL!
You must check out @mabelpodcast!
@unwellpodcast also has a great sapphic relationship with the main character, though it isn't necessarily the main focus of the series.
It will one day come time to break ‘queer horror podcast’ into subgenres so people can find shows they actually like.
I nominate myself for the subgenre naming committee. Please find examples enclosed:
- Cassettepunk - Found Footage Family - Gender Buffet - vlw (vampire loving werewolf) - Monsters to Flawed But Still Lovable
- Excessive Eye Imagery - Yes, You’re Still Even Human - Tree Description (they’re tall and dark) - Mysterious Figure Description (they’re tall and dark) - Too Many Characters
- Enemies to One Of Them Dies - Oops, That Was Actually A Romance - No Idea What Anyone Looks Like - LOUD NOISES - First Season Amateur Hour
Just here to claim Tree Description
fun fact for you all: bram stoker started writing dracula just weeks after oscar wilde’s conviction…….we really are in it now
Dracula! And Oscar Wilde! YES! *drops papers everywhere*
I’ll just casually drop this here–it’s a long (and good) read, but essentially, the author argues that:
Stoker wrote Dracula as a direct reaction to the Wilde trials
Many of Dracula’s characteristics actually echo Wilde as described to the trials, and Dracula’s lifestyle resembles an exaggerated version of precautions to hide homosexuality
Stoker is basically the pro-closeted 1890s alternative to Wilde’s flamboyancy, and that comes out in how he portrays Dracula and Jonathan Harker
Like if you look deeper into Stoker’s letters to Whitman, he’s practically obsessed with feeling “naturally secretive” and “reticent”
(Also he and Wilde had some weird personal rivalry going on, since Stoker married Wilde’s definitely-not-straight ex-fiancee, though later they were friendly…there’s a lot to unpack here)
So, arguably, Dracula was Stoker’s way of apologizing for his silence during Wilde’s trials.
Some highlights:
Wilde’s trial had such a profound effect on Stoker precisely because it fed Stoker’s pre-existing obsession with secrecy, making Stoker retrospectively exaggerate the secrecy in his own writings on male love.
It is difficult, Stoker admits, to speak openly about “so private a matter” as desire. In carefully calibrated language, Stoker asks forgiveness from those who might see that his silence is a sin-to those few nameless souls who know his secret affinity with Wilde.
Since Dracula is a dreamlike projection of Wilde’s traumatic trial, Stoker elaborated and distorted the evidence that the prosecutor used to convict Wilde. In particular, the conditions of secrecy necessary for nineteenth-century homosexual life–nocturnal visits, shrouded windows, no servants–become ominous emblems of Count Dracula’s evil.
Dracula…represents not so much Oscar Wilde as the complex of fears, desires, secrecies, repressions, and punishments that Wilde’s name evoked in 1895. Dracula is Wilde-as-threat, a complex cultural construction not to be confused with the historical individual Oscar Wilde.
tl;dr:
Stoker is actually too repressed to function
Oscar Wilde (especially his trials) absolutely influenced Stoker
Dracula gay
If anyone wants to read a very well-written and surprisingly entertaining account on pretty much everything and everyone Stoker was influenced by, ESPECIALLY his connection with Wilde and Whitman, do yourself a favour and read “Something in the Blood” by David J. Skal. It’s the most thorough recent account on everything that made Dracula and the onlly one that doesn’t shy away from all the points in the above post (Also, it won the Stoker award, which is basically the Pulitzer for horror(-related) literature - There’s a joke in there somewhere, but my brain’s too tired to craft it rn 🦇
what would happen if a werewolf and a vampire bit a human at the same time
turns them into a furby
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Believer is a Goodpods Team pick today! If you like podcast apps that are also kind of like social apps, Goodpods is a fun one. And today they featured Believer alongside the following great shows:
Indie Podcasts Unite!
The Bald and the Beautiful
More Than a Feeling
Making Gay History
Sinister Story Hour
Reverie True Crime
Empodera Latina
El Hombre De Hoy
Good is in the Details
No Guilt Mom
Eye on Veterans
StoryCorps
Kermode & Mayo’s Take
Recode Media
Thanks so much to Goodpods and to @ossacollective, who helped put us on their radar! Have a happy Pride, and support indie podcasts!
Introducing the team behind Re: Dracula, a chronological retelling of Dracula as a fiction podcast!
Tal Minear is our showrunner, sound designer, and graphic artist. They’re known for their work on Sidequesting, What Will Be Here?, Someone Dies In This Elevator, and more! Stephen Indrisano is our co-producer, script editor, and dialogue editor. They’re known for their work on Feminist Fairytales, Roguemaker, and more! Ella Watts is our associate producer, director, and vampire wrangler. She’s known for her work on Doctor Who Redacted, Wooden Overcoats, The Orphans, and more! Hannah Wright is our co-producer, script editor, and director. She’s known for her work on Inn Between, Joy to the World, and more!
Welcome to Night Vale, Hello From the Hallowoods, and Death by Dying are all the same strange, distinct mixture of comforting and creepy.
(and also very gay)
They also create like, a pretty perfect scale from Funny In A Dark Way to Dark In A Funny Way
DBD Pod (mostly just funny but still about murder, ghosts, and monsters) -- WTNV (a pretty even mixture of funny and creepy) -- HFTH (mostly creepy but the funny sneaks in bc the narrator and characters are amazing)
In this interview with Julie Saunders, we talk horror podcasting! We discuss how to get started in podcasting, booking voice actors, and we
Big thanks to Nico Bell for interviewing our writer/producer/voice of Lara, Julie Saunders! Click through for Julie’s thoughts on how Believer came together, why she loves messing with Lara, and her advice for aspiring fiction podcasters. And while you’re there, check out Nico’s other work!
“Looking back, I realize how much of this came about as I was formally breaking away from the religion I was raised with, and how much of Lara’s worldview captured my attempts to find a new line between what I believed was true, what I believed was useful, and how I wanted to live my life. But at the time, I just thought, ‘I can’t stop thinking about this character, and how much I want to challenge her over and over again.’”
Girls will simp on anyone related to the moon.
I bet Bigfoot is in the forest right now, playing baseball with the other cryptids, and they’re all having the time of their lives.
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“One man’s cringe is another man’s epic” and “a flawed story is still a thousand times better than a story never told” are two pieces of advice that a lot of people aspiring to be writers really need to take to heart. Stop tearing yourself up over getting every little insignificant thing right.
Enough of Zodiac signs and moon-risings, what’s your Crestfall Insignia?
JANUARY – Shadow in the Dark Woods: Deranged, hypnotic eyes, loves animals, or potentially is an animal. Filled with life, always seeking new, questionable experiences. Should lay in the sun more often.
FEBRUARY – Still-Beating Heart in a Jam Jar: Loving, self-sacrificing, excessively into poetry. Sees the best in everyone. You like to stare into the foggy, middle distance with a sense of melancholic yearning, but you’re also down to hang. Please get therapy.
MARCH – Some Sentient, Earthy Mass I Found in My Backyard: I don’t know what you are. You whisper things in the dead of night. I’m not sure why I invited you inside, you won’t leave. You’re still curled up on a beanbag in a dark corner enjoying a good book.
APRIL – Man-Eating Cat: You are adorable chaos incarnate. We watch you destroy and devour and then give you little head scratches. A ball of fluff with an air of danger. Unassuming and friendly, but secretly, and sometimes not so secretly, an admirer of the dark and perverse. I love you, I fear you.
MAY – A Human Skull Growing Off a Rosemary Bush: Surprising, natural, smiling in a way that is difficult to interpret. You show up in unexpected places and delight and tantalize in your unique strangeness. We didn’t ask for you, but you are what we needed, and we love having you around. Should probably grow some skin at some point.
JUNE – Loose Death Cannon: Consistent, reliable, but can be explosive at times. We need to learn how to dodge your literal and metaphorical cannonballs, or maybe you should just learn to aim better, but you’re lively and definitely totally not deadly at all…
JULY – Rogue Piece of Flesh That Miraculously Hasn’t Rotted Yet: You’re resilient, tender, and most likely dissociating right now. Doesn’t tan well in the sun, spends too much time in the dirt, but loves a fun time despite needing some convincing to have a fun time.
AUGUST – Crime-Solving Goat: You’re unstoppable. You’re astute, curious, and shed too much. Enjoys the excitement of the unknown and harbers a tragic past. Loves making friends, is happy to be here, and forms deep attachments to the endearingly nefarious.
SEPTEMBER – Eldritch Potato God: It’s a rising concern that you are overpowered. You came from the ground, you came from outer space. Your all-seeing eye is hungry for knowledge, and desires worship. Wants the world, and we’ll give it to you, but must moisturize daily.
OCTOBER – Phantom Bicycle: Fiercely loyal, haunting and haunted, loves a midnight stroll. Feels held by the cover of nightfall, but could use a sunrise every now and then. Generously kind, often spooky, but needs to remember to let other people put air in their tires sometimes.
NOVEMBER – Button-Eyed Raven: Dreary, edgy soft boy who loves crafts. An omen, a harbinger of the end, a great addition to any friend group. You’re a little rough around the edges, but you’re always there… Ugh, you’re ALWAYS there.
DECEMBER – The Abyss Stares Back: Comforting, immense, the only true thing on this mortal coil. You love giving gifts and existential crisises. Infinitely deep and we could get lost in those eternal, beautiful, terrifying eyes. And oh god how the eyes are everywhere.
In the season one finale, oblivion comes to Charity, Oregon…that is, unless Lara can get there first. Transcript for this episode is
ICYMI: Believer's SEASON ONE FINALE is now available in all your podcast destinations!
It's been a long and rocky road to get this first season out into the world, but I'm incredibly proud of the result. To celebrate, the finale is twice the length of a regular episode and received sound design input from three different people (two of which are very good at this!) (the third one is me, Julie).
If you've been waiting for a full season to listen to at once, start at episode one, "Charity" and move forward. I recommend you listen to the three "Tale of Sodapop" episodes after episode 1.4 and before episode 1.6. The prequel, "Sun and Moon," is a standalone that you can listen to any time.
Content notes for the finale:
Harm to wild animals, distressed animal sounds
Human screaming, including children
Cult behavior, religious content
Violence
Loud noises/chaos
Nausea/retching sounds
Respiratory distress
Full credits and transcript link available in the show notes or at https://believerpodcast.com/episodes
It’s just me and my gay little horror podcasts against the world huh
