BEFORE THE TONE

Knave Of Hearts. Somewhere between a jack of all trades and a joker. Audio drama productions. Before The Tone coming soon! A Somewhat Peculiar Frog out now! KnaveOfHearts.com

[knaveofheartsad]

Introduction to Knave of Hearts

Knave of Hearts is making audio drama productions in a variety of genres. We're somewhere between a Jack of All Trades and a Joker.

Before The Tone is a queer science fiction horror podcast. We follow Mack as she leaves voicemails for her sister about her job at the increasingly-suspicious Atlas Consulting. But we may not be the only one following. Season 1 (13 episodes) is currently releasing every other week.

A Somewhat Peculiar Frog is a completed limited series about frogs, friendship, storytelling, mystery, and trust. We follow Matthew Ingeri, surveying intern at a new nature preserve, as he finds a frog that defies identification. Things only get stranger when the frog starts speaking.

Follow us here and on Twitter for updates on our shows, reblogs of podcast memes and cute frog pictures, and ominous messaging.

Go to our website for details on the shows, RSS feeds, credits, transcripts, and crew bios.

Want to discuss the podcasts without me seeing? I have blocked the tag "KOH Deleted Message". If you tag a post with that, I will not see it!

Disclaimer: The tales are told. Consequences are yet to be understood. Proceed with caution.

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tornado spawn point

[valdiviansfinest]

Sci-Fi Audio Fiction We're Listening To!

A list collected from This Post calling for Sci-Fi Pods! And also some personal recommendations.

Not all of these have been listened to yet, but we'll be sharing our thoughts on once we have. If you listen/listened, let us know your thoughts so we can chat about them!

Before The Tone (Horror and Sci-Fi) @knaveofheartsad

A Somewhat Peculiar Frog (Sci-Fi Weird Fiction) @knaveofheartsad

InCo @itmeblog

Hamuel Burger and the American Dream (Sci-Fi Comedy) @asbestos4president

Inc: The Podcast (Dark Sci-Fi Office Comedy) @wolfmountainworkshop

Project Daydream (Weird Queer Science Fiction Adventure series) @project-daydream

Hope's Hearth (Solar Hopepunk Sci-Fantasy Actual Play) @lotsadeer

Space Specks (Post-Apocalyptic Sci-Fi) @spacespeckspod

[ndnbutch]

the author’s thinly veiled nothing #notwriting #straightupnotwritingit

[leaveitalonesky]

trying to go back to my audio drama shit; can I get some recs?

stuff that I like: sci-fi, horror and weird stuff in general. I also love mystery/suspense like murder investigation stories.

It's better if there's transcripts of the episodes available, because english is not my first language and sometimes I need to read alongside it to understand some stuff. But it's not a requirement.

(I'm not a big fan of high fantasy, medieval fantasy type of stories)

Also, if anyone has recs for non-fiction podcasts that talk about tecnology, science, politics, philosophy, literature and cinema (specially like horror movies) I'm accepting those recs too!

[knaveofheartsad]

My show, Before The Tone, is sci-fi horror! We follow Mack, a woman who has just gotten a job as a CCTV operator at the increasingly-suspicious Atlas Consulting. It takes the format of voicemails from Mack to her sister, Daria, who never seems to answer her calls. The horror tends towards the psychological as Mack is stalked and reality becomes a little less solid where Atlas is concerned. The science fiction is focused on time and how its fabric can be manipulated.

My other show, A Somewhat Peculiar Frog, is weird sci-fi! Matthew is a surveying intern at a new nature preserve being established by the PA State Park Service, making audio notes as he goes. He has just found a frog that he cannot identify. It only gets stranger when the frog speaks.

[knaveofheartsad]

Common Bonds 2

That story about refusing the call to sit back and be sacrificed is my story!

Common Bonds 2 is an anthology of aromantic speculative fiction, and I am included in it! My story, "Screw Everybody," is about a timeline that is falling apart in the wake of someone being saved. Not the main character, no, the main character's survival was an accident. One that the MC will not be giving up any time soon.

Check it out :D

[catchymemes]

[specialagentartemis]

Trans women characters in podcasts:

Olivia Breckenridge (Arden)

Paige Duplass (The Silt Verses)

Anne (Woe.begone)

Trans men characters in podcasts:

Brother Faulkner (The Silt Verses)

Brian Jeeter (The Strange Case of Starship Iris)

Michele (Moonbase Theta, Out)

Quil, iirc (This Planet Needs a Name)

Non-binary characters in podcasts:

Adjudicator Shrue, Vaughn, Gage, and Sibling Rane (The Silt Verses)

R. J. McCabe and Krejjh* (The Strange Case of Starship Iris)

Cal* (Microcosmos)

The Traveller and Óli* (Travelling Light)

Medusa (Khôra)

Ashwini Ray (Moonbase Theta, Out)

(a * indicates an AI or alien character)

[ghostsandmermaids]

Some more recs:

Trans women:

Danielle O'Hara (Hello From The Hallowoods)

Kove (Dustwalker)

Maddie Townsend (The Holmwood Foundation)

Hephaestus (Forged Bonds)

Trans men:

Percy Reed (Hello From The Hallowoods)

Arius Rosemund (Dustwalker)

Sydney Sargent (Camp Here & There)

Bellamy Pink (Killjam XXX)

Nonbinary characters:

Diggory Graves (Hello From The Hallowoods)

Olivier Song (Hello From The Hallowoods)

Leo Quinn (Tell No Tales)

[boombox-fuckboy]

A few more off the top of my head

Trans Women:

The Agent (PSST: Paranatural Support Services Team)

Annie InkWyrm (InkWyrm)

Agent 4815 (Project: Daydream)

Geneva (Interference)

Val Torres (The Night Post)

Rosie, Stella Muneshyl, Yak (Inn Between)

Alice Dyer (The Magnus Protocol)

Trans Men:

Sam Enfield (Spirit Box Radio)

Leosha (Lost Terminal)

Castor Acroterion (Inn Between)

Thomas van Helsing (The Holmwood Foundation)

Sebastian Fen (Night Shift)

The Man With The Voice (The Mistholme Museum of Mystery, Morbidity and Mortality)

Flynn Velasco (VALENCE)

Deck (Dos: After You)

Nonbinary:

Sopon* (Life With Althaar)

The Audio Tour Guide*, The Queen (The Mistholme Museum of Mystery, Morbidity, and Mortality)

Deseree O'Nassis (Kalila Stormfire's Economical Magick Services)

Kosa (Ghost Wax)

Wren (The Dead Letter Office of Somewhere, Ohio)

Captain Yeshi (Lost Terminal)

Rion (Sidequesting)

Friar Velune, Sargent Teric Knowles, (Inn Between)

Adair North (Night Shift)

[REDACTED] (SINKHOLE)

Riley (Tell No Tales)

Dr. Vida (The Patient Files)

The Runner (And 195)

Gable, Leotoa, The Broker (Campaign: Skyjacks)

Kiran Rao, Captain Mulden Foxskull, Captain Wiltham Nott, Starwatcher Ugne Winchwind (Skyjacks: Courier's Call)

Jade Wolfe (Skyjoust!!)

Lorum Ipsum (The Godshead Incidental)

Elas (Stories From Ylelmore)

Drosselmeyer (Hi Nay)

The Puppeteer (Malevolent)

Riley Matkins (World Gone Wrong)

Aksol, various (Starfall)

J. J. (Elixir)

Collette Geisse (The Kingmaker Histories) (she's genderfluid, in modern terms)

Dr. George Moreau (The Pasithea Powder)

Spirrus (Lost Cat Podcast)

Bell Summers (Second Star to the Left)

Polity Yellow (Gastronaut)

Abby (Unwell)

Perry (Camlann)

Caine Reyes (Under the Electric Stars)

Kai (Girl in Space)

Tyche* (Bodies in Space)

The Inominate* (Erraticus)

Caro Greene (Mil-Liminal)

[lawofnamesmedia]

Adding some specifically from our stuff.

(Excluding the anthologies because that starts making the number of characters untenable.)

Trans Women

All the Roxannes (Dakota Gold Mysteries, Cloud City Sonata)

Screw-Loose Lugh (Dakota Gold Mysteries, Cloud City Sonata)

Trans Men

Elliot Baldwin (Arcadia, CA)

Aidan Moss (At the Bottom of the Garden)

Engstrom (Dakota Gold Mysteries, Cloud City Sonata)

Nonbinary People

Tessa Thorne (At the Bottom of the Garden)

[boombox-fuckboy]

I added it late but at the risk of it getting lost: Breathing Space (also by previous) has a delightfully large number of all three, but the anthology of it is indeed unmanagable for this activity.

Also, I fucked up earlier, so:

Nonbinary:

Riley Matkins (Tell No Tales)

Riley R. (World Gone Wrong)

The Dollmaker (Malevolent)

[bichir-gang]

I don't usually bring it up when I suggest Midst to people because it could be a bit spoilery, but I absolutely adore that they don't tell you which father is trans. Unend, the sequel, follows a nonbinary protagonist and one of the prominent secondary characters is a trans woman.

[heinouspod]

From Heinous Investigations…

Nonbinary:

* Morgan Pendleton (side character, local witch)

*Spoiler characters who have not been formally introduced

We also have a few characters who don’t fit into the gender (or sex) binary, but I don’t feel like I can categorize them in the style of this list. As an example, one of them is from a species that does not express sex and gender like humans.

I hope to include more representation in the future. 🏳️‍⚧️💛🤍💜🖤

[thenightpost]

Trans men:

Allan Coleman (Heartglass)

Hamuel Burger (Hamuel Burger and the American Dream)

Connor (Leftovers at the End of the World)

Nonbinary:

Clementina Bianchi (Additional Postage Required)

Jamilla Gardner (Woe.Begone)

Nama Fishercliff (Eeler’s Choice)

Ran Fishercliff (Eeler’s Choice)

Emeril Augustine (The Night Post)

Archangel Michael (Be Not Afraid)

Evan Harbinger (The Veins Below)

Thana (Copperheart)

[knaveofheartsad]

Trans Women:

Captain Harris (The Pilgrimage Saga)

Trans Men:

Elias Green (Hubris 9.4 "Lonely Am I")

Nonbinary:

Danny (Before The Tone)

Ned (The Sheridan Tapes (genderfluid)*)

Ren Park (The Sheridan Tapes)

[luvnotpercival]

⚠️ Warning: if you are a SMALL audio drama with TINY MINISCULE FANDOM you are NOT SAFE because we WILL MAKE FANART...

[knaveofheartsad]

Interview with Anna about horror and podcasts

If anybody's interested, Knave of Hearts' own knave in charge, Anna, did an interview for Coffee Shop Chats with @podcast-bookclub! It is out now, listen here!

[holographicva]

For what it's worth you should make audiodrama because you love audiodrama.

[podcast-bookclub]

Happy end-of-AuFiCon to all who celebrate 📻

Thanks everyone who came to a strean, stopped by the artist alley, spoke at an event, and made this weekend the lovely whirlwind that it was. Special thank yous to the volunteers that made the weekend run smoothly ✨

PBC mods are now in recovery mode, but we will be back soon with some final updates regarding the '26 event, as well as info about this year's PodJam, very soon! 🎙️

[knaveofheartsad]

Casting Call: The Writing On The Wall

I am currently casting two voice actors for an episode of the anthology pod This Address Does Not Exist (@lawofnamesmedia ). My episode is entitled "The Writing On The Wall". It's short. It's unnerving. It's got a unique format. And it's the script I am most proud of in recent memory.

A young street artist tags the side of an abandoned house and ends up striking up a conversation with another artist who they never seem to see.

Audition here.

[knaveofheartsad]

This casting call is running until January 12, 2026 (8am Pacific)! Get those auditions in!

[knaveofheartsad]

Casting Call: The Writing On The Wall

I am currently casting two voice actors for an episode of the anthology pod This Address Does Not Exist (@lawofnamesmedia ). My episode is entitled "The Writing On The Wall". It's short. It's unnerving. It's got a unique format. And it's the script I am most proud of in recent memory.

A young street artist tags the side of an abandoned house and ends up striking up a conversation with another artist who they never seem to see.

Audition here.

[lawofnamesmedia]

Introducing the writers for This Address Does Not Exist

"When it all began, the house had no name at all. It stood, perched and perilously alone, on a bit of land upraised like a clenched fist."

Casting for our epistolary haunted house anthology This Address Does Not Exist opens on Dec 22.

We'd like to take this time to introduce our writers.

In no particular order...

Kira Pelletier, The House on the Iron Road

Emma Skinner, The Starling

@gemaydin , Ev

@fortunechaos , The Library

Corvyn Appleby, Morning, Jane

@idontreallyunderstandanyofthis Eggs of Emerald & The Black Spot

@man-in-jumpsuit , The Thatcher

@7cfc00 , This is the House My Grandmother Died In

@mintiliciouss , Belly of the Beast

@hamlets-bootycheeks , Towards the Beginning of All Music

@ash-alder , They Shall Not Labor In Vain & DIY

@knaveofheartsad , The Writing on the Wall

And watch this space for the casting call, coming December 22.

[hellofromthehallowoods]

We're recruiting for three ongoing Dungeons and Dragons campaigns! Wild Beyond the Witchlight, a plunge into an enchanted and twisted world that lurks just beyond the veneer of the world's most magical carnival, starts November 26th on Wednesday evenings. Candlekeep Mysteries, a series of investigations and misadventures themed after a collection of twenty cursed and mysterious books, begins November 30th on Sunday afternoons. and Descent Into Avernus, a wild ride across the first layer of hell to save the souls of your loved ones and prevent the apocalypse, begins December 4th on Thursday nights. Signups and more details available here!

[knaveofheartsad]

I cannot recommend William as a DM highly enough! We recently finished the Out Of The Abyss campaign, and it was so fun. If you enjoy really rich storytelling, character-driven DMing decisions, lots of wiggle room for creative and wild solutions to problems, and an all-around fantastic time, give their new campaigns a look!

[a-magpie-in-ankh-morpork]

"Useful when there's... something like a loose dog in the archives" TMA reference?!?