Greater Boston

Official Tumblr Page for the Audio Drama 'Greater Boston,' a speculative fiction podcast set in an alt-universe Boston. By Alexander Danner & Jeff Van Dreason

[greaterblogston]

Jeff here. Sorry for just taking over the GB feed with my own project. I'd post from my own Tumblr but LOL that gets even less than this page soooo yeah.

My Bandcamp page is live, and so is the pre-order for The Perfect Sentence! Pre-order it now and get three songs off it ready to download and stream before the release Friday (7/11). The price? $7.11. LOL. Get it?

It's also my birthday. So. You know. There's that!

Also also also! We're having a launch party on Thursday, July 10th at 10pm. Register for it on ZOOM at this link right here.

I've worked really hard on it. So have a lot of people. It's half memoir, half fiction. It's spoken word and it's music. It's a weird, audio fiction concept album about grief, regret, misinformation, memory, and truth. I get it's not everyone's cup of tea, but if you can spare an hour to listen, I'd really appreciate it.

[thelaurenshippen]

10 years exactly since I sent this facebook message to @juliamorizawa and @briggonsnow and changed my life immeasurably forever :')

[greaterblogston]

We love this lore so much...

[earwaxblog]

Hello - this is Jeff from @greaterblogston announcing an exciting new project from ThirdSight Media. EAR•WAX Magazine! EAR•WAX will be a newsletter and podcast specializing in independent music curation and indie audio fiction reviews, and include weird noises and soothing tones, poetry, prose, and more. We have a lot of plans in the works so we hope you check out this little trailer and subscribe on Spotify, Apple Music, or wherever you listen to podcasts.

[greaterblogston]

I've been working hard on this and I'm excited to show you all what's coming. It's going to be fun and different. But don't worry - Season 5 of Greater Boston is still coming too!

[umbrellaes]

Making this for all 10 people who will get it

[greaterblogston]

And it now has ten likes so....

[greaterblogston]

any (ghost related maybe?) comment on the loud noise a few hours ago? this feels like something thatd happen in your show

It is said that sudden, traumatic events that take place city-wide can sometimes reverberate through the multiverse, with aftershocks heard in nearby or neighboring similar universes.

ThirdSight Media is reporting that the sonic boom heard Saturday was the direct result of the entire city of Boston being transported to the moon by magic in a nearby universe.

[greaterblogston]

Only five scripts left.

(and a whole lot of rewriting and planning. But still)

[swarnpert]

they are starving the children of boston right now

[greaterblogston]

Kids may eat free. But kids also *only* eat...

when the Red Sox...

...win...

[swarnpert]

they are starving the children of boston right now

[tiktoks-for-dead-pope]

[greaterblogston]

Angine de Poitrine.

[lucidlymelanated]

Your 30s aren't too late. Don't let nobody tell you that stupid shit.

[aetherograph]

Your 40s aren't too late. Don't let nobody tell you that stupid shit.

[loisfreakinglane]

#as long as you're alive it's literally never too late

[greaterblogston]

You're dead, it's too late.

[lucidlymelanated]

Your 30s aren't too late. Don't let nobody tell you that stupid shit.

[aetherograph]

Your 40s aren't too late. Don't let nobody tell you that stupid shit.

[loisfreakinglane]

#as long as you're alive it's literally never too late

[greaterblogston]

Is there a fixed deadline / timescale for the poetry submission project? I want to submit, but I need a bit of time to decide which of my poems to send (and to do some editing). I'm also intrigued to hear more about the project, it sounds really cool 😊

Nope! The hope is this is an ongoing project where pieces get released gradually over time.

There will be an announcement soon. A new tumblr page too.

[tvandfilm]

Only Murders in the Building (2021-present) Dirty Birds (S05E04)

[greaterblogston]

Poetry Submission or Short Fiction You'd LIke Turned into Audio Art and Published? Submit here!

Do you have a killer poem or short fiction piece you think would make some neat audio art? If so, submit here and we may produce and publish it in an upcoming newsletter and/or podcast.

Small honorariums available upon request. More info coming - I promise.

[thoughtsfromthewindowsill]

The world may suck right now, but Dunks is gonna get the good people of Massachusetts & New Hampshire through it one way or another

[massachusetts-official]

Official Post of Massachusetts

[westernmassposting]

Amherst, MA

[rcmclachlan]

If the child were liquefied.

[fyeahaudiodrama]

@greaterblogston

[greaterblogston]

When we put GREATER in our title, this is what we were talking about.

[greaterblogston]

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[alexanderdanner]

Leon and Autism

So, back when I was first writing Leon in Greater Boston, I gave him a set of idiosyncrasies loosely but consciously based on my wife, Brandy's idiosyncrasies. I was thinking of his quirks as a presentations of anxiety, which Brandy has always struggled with. But then we started releasing the show, and I was surprised when our autistic listeners immediately started claiming Leon as their own. That was fine, and I was glad they found someone in the show whom they related to, but I was a little confused why Brandy's anxiety was reading as autistic coded.

So, um...guess who recently figured out that she's autistic.

Apparently half her friends have figured as much all along, and just assumed she already knew. She only just figured it out because she made a new friend who's autistic and picked Brandy out to be her friend specifically because of her autistic traits.

I feel a little ridiculous not having seen it myself. In hindsight, the signs are everywhere. But I've known her since she was 15, and we didn't have that framework back then. But figuring this out has been really good for addressing some longstanding communication challenges between us.

Anyway, I've always been reluctant to declare Leon canonically autistic because I didn't know anyone autistic intimately enough to feel confident that I could depict autism authentically. But apparently I've had a very close model for him all along.

Anyway, I'm feeling much more comfortable with declaring Leon's autism official canon.