On the far side of the world

Writer and podcaster. Creator of Glasgow Ghost Stories and Tracks. follow for crafts, stuff I like and general nonsense  she/her

[vosling]

audio drama sunday July 5 2026

Happy Disability Pride

I have made a little disability pride flag calendar out of audio fiction to celebrate. This is the first of three. Yep yep yep, with some help I've found enough pods to release three of these through July, isn't that exciting? Plus templates if you want to build your own or play BINGO

Information (= sometimes spoilers) below

1. SINKHOLE - MC has a physical condition; societal ableism and institutional barriers are central to the narrative.

2. Eeler’s Choice - Merry, Nama and Prin are all disabled (vision impaired, amputee, and neurodivergent respectively); canes as mobility aids

3. Station Blue - Panic attack, bipolar disorder, psychosis. Central to the narrative.

4. Dustwalker - Arius is autistic and uses a cane for his chronic pain. Mental disorders unrevealed as of July 2026. 

5. Seen and not Heard - Bet is HoH and has OCD. Central to the narrative.

6. Hello from the Hallowoods - Danielle uses a wheelchair and other means to help her stand and walk. There are characters with dementia and brain fog. Various supernatural disabilities. 

7. Hellside - Jeremiah has schizotypal personality disorder and schizophrenia. Another character in S1 has schizoaffective disorder (confirmed by creator but not yet revealed in work as of July 2026) 

8. Small Victories - Addiction is central to the narrative. Bipolar Disorder, Psychosis

9. Ghost Wax - Charlotte has ADHD and Pip gets permanently blinded

10. The Kingmaker Histories - Colette is autistic and suffers from migraines. Eisen Iyer uses a brace after a leg injury. 

11. Where The Stars Fell - Dyslexia and ADHD. One episode is entirely in sign language 

12. Valence -  Liam Alden has depression and PTSD. 

13. Mayfair Watchers Society - Morgan in Water Damage is physically disabled and uses crutches as mobility aids. Wren in Lost Media has severe memory issues. 

14. Inn Between - Protagonists with anxiety, autism, adhd, narcissism. Phoebe has a physical disability and uses crutches as mobility aids

15. Killjam X X X - Faustina Fetamine is autistic, has narcissistic personality disorder, and PTSD. Bellamy Pink has ASPD and a prosthetic arm. Various other characters use prosthetics and mobility aids. 

16. Our Wars Have Ended - A few characters with physical disabilities. 

17. Camlann - Dai Thomas has Bipolar Disorder

18. Knightfall - Ben is an ambulatory wheelchair/crutch user with chronic pain. Juno has anxiety

19. Slowly Unspooling - Mental health, memory loss, paranoia, disordered eating, depersonalization, chronic pain

20. Afflicted: A Horror Thriller Audio Drama - Wheelchair user. Kelly has auditory hallucinations (some of which are supernatural in origin) 

21. Mystic Prairie - The main characters have disabilities caused by a supernatural event, which roughly map to anemia and chronic fatigue, tinnitus and HoH, a sensory disability affecting taste/causing ARFID. Living with disabilities long term is central to the narrative.

22. Wallpaper - Felicity has rapid cycling bipolar 2 with psychotic features, autism, and hypermobility. John has ADHD. Living with disability is central to the narrative.

23. Monsters of Bureaucracy - MC has chronic pain. Living with disability, institutional barriers, and ableism are central to the narrative. 

24. Red Valley - Warren and Gordon both have PTSD. Bryony is missing an arm. Clive Schill has damaged kneecaps and walks with a cane

25. SPACE SPECKS - Nora is an amputee with a cane as a mobility aid

26. WOE.BEGONE - Mike Walters has face blindness, misophonia. Various injuries and trauma end up giving him chronic pain, physical disabilities, and night terrors/insomnia. Some characters lose one of their legs and use prosthetics. Alcoholism and substance abuse are recurring elements in the show, as are depersonalization, self harm, and (passive) suicidality. 

27. Your Bloodline Dies Here - Harvey Neroson is autistic and uses stim toys. Willow communicates with sign language (BSL), Harvey and Lo both know BSL.

28. The Godshead Incidental - Tervis has anxiety/agoraphobia 

29. The Heresies of Radulf Burntwine - Several characters with chronic illnesses and genetic disorders. Illnesses and disabilities are central to the narrative. 

30. Power Trip - MC is chronically ill, and a transplant patient; she uses a cane as a mobility aid. Cluster B. Central to the narrative. CW vomiting, diet culture (pushed on a child), alcohol abuse

31. The Far Meridian - Agoraphobia, central to the narrative.

[pocketss]

girls night girls night

[darklightcore]

GIRLSSS NIGHTTTT🍷💅🏻

[goblinspod]

Little teaser for episode 3. Releasing Monday 29th June.

[moonwalder]

Does anyone have any recommendations of podcasts that aren’t about death or murder or politics or just other depressing things? Are there any fun and silly podcasts out there? They can be, like, fictional stories, or just someone talking about something. I just PLEASE need recommendations :((

[boombox-fuckboy]

Sure! I'm not sure how non-depressing you want them, so I've played it safe and picked out ten fiction podcasts that I've found good pick-me-ups:

Absolutely No Adventures: (fantasy) A young baker is the chosen one of about a dozen prophecies. He's happy to help out, on the condition that he will be going on absolutely no adventures.

Community Cat News: (Comedy) A radio show by cats, for cats

The Far Meridian: (Slipstream/magical realism) An agorophobic young woman wakes up to find her lighthouse home has moved somewhere completely new overnight. As it continues to travel, she uses the opportunity to look for her missing brother.

Middle:Below: (Supernatural/ Urban Fantasy) Two humans, a ghost, and a cat go on various adventures together to fix ghostly problems.

Sidequesting: (fantasy, adventure, all-ages) Rion is an adventurer like no other: they only do side quests! A wholesome show about avoiding the plot

Skyjacks: Courier's Call: (TTRPG, fantasy, adventure, all-ages) In a world of magic, sky pirates, and giant, rideable birds, three teens become apprentices aboard a flying postal ship.

Starfall: (Fantasy, adventure) A runaway swordswoman finds a place to escape her past with a travelling acting troupe, and discovers the literal and metaphorical magic of the theatre.

Stories From Ylemore: (Fantasy, all-ages) In a modern magical world, three kids (a witch, a werewolf, and a curse-bearer) go on adventures together and make a podcast about it.

The Vesta Clinic: (Sci-fi) Patient records from an interspecies walk-in doctor's clinic on the edge of human space.

Wizard Seeking Wizard: (Comedy, fantasy, romance) A dating show for wizards, hosted by a match-mage to pass the time after being trapped in an orb by his apprentice. Every episode, hear from four wizards looking to go on a romance, friendship, rivalry, or collaborator date, and then next episode hear from the two that got paired up about how their date went.

If you like any specific genres of media or are looking for anything specific, let me know! I've played it pretty safe and might be able to tailor some more recs a little better.

[aarlone]

Additional fun audio dramas (short descriptions bc I'm on mobile)

Me & AU - a sweet sapphic romance set in a fandom for a CW-ish fantasy tv series

Unprescribed Journeys - guided meditations that get a little weird

Travelling Light - a sci fi travelogue with a narrator whose voice and style is like a warm blanket

October Jones & Fish With Legs - a fantasy adventure that is just as fun as the title implies

His Royal Fakin' Highness - somehow they made Hamlet as a romcom... And it works

[bekabloodhound]

A few more suggestions to add to the list:

Waiting For October: Follow along as Karo introduces their girlfriend, Yvonne, to a parallel world from which we draw our stories, and some of the many (perfectly lovely) monsters within, all while they try to understand their own place in October.

Wanderer's Journal: Two strangers each find a magical journal that allows them to record their voice, which can then be read or played back by the other. They each go through their own journey while trying to understand these journals that link them.

The Sound Museum: Follow along with Paris as they seek out and record impossible sound artifacts for their museum.

StarTripper!!: Join Feston Pyxis on a roadtrip through the cosmos, as he goes off in search of the best and wildest experiences the galaxy has to offer!

Saffron and Peri: Follow the adventures of Saffron, a fairy godmother extraordinare, and her best friend Peri, a djinnia who runs the magic support department.

[robotslenderman]

The recent hot VS cold polls have made me realise that a lot of people have no idea how to cool down.

As someone from a hot country that's regularly on fire, here's some tips:

WATER IS YOUR FRIEND! WATER! IS! YOUR! FRIEND! You can transfer SO much heat into this bad boy! You cannot cool down without water!

Wrists under the cold tap. Splash your face and the back of your neck. Fan yourself.

In some countries you can buy a little handeld fan with a water sprayer.

Damp tea towel around the neck. Stick an ice pack in there on hotter days.

Half fill a water bottle with water, stick in freezer. If you use a bottle with a straw, make sure it's lying on its side with the straw side up and out of the water. When frozen top up the rest of the way with tap water and off you go.

Desperate to cool off? Wet T-shirt. Sit in front of a fan. This will nuke it, just don't get hypothermia and don't fall asleep like this.

Cold showers are also your friend in summer. Some people get psyched up by these. Personally, I sleep like a baby, so I'm good to have them before bed. Just keep in mind that it takes a bit of time for the cool to circulate, so your body will tell you that you're colder than you actually are. I find that when I have cold showers I need to step out of the spray when I think I'm cold... I'll just wait, and thirty seconds later the temperature has evened out and I actually need to step under again. Rinse and repeat until you maintain coolness even after stepping out for a bit.

If you can't do cold showers, turn the cold shower on anyway and just stick your arms under. When they're cold, lift your arms up above your head. The sensation of cool blood draining into your body is fucking weird and kinda unpleasant but less unpleasant than being hot.

Feet in a tub of water with ice. Blood naturally flows to your extremities when hot, so take advantage of this. If you don't have a tub of ice water, sticking a wet rag on your feet in front of the fan works too, it's the less powerful version of the wet T-shirt.

Drinks lots of water but make sure that water has electrolytes as well. Stay in the shade.

Keep air circulating. Fans don't actually cool rooms down, they just help transfer heat from your body to the moisture on your skin or the air via evaporative cooling.

Block north facing windows early in the morning so the sun doesn't get in. If you're in the northern hemisphere, this is opposite for you. Keep in mind that if your home is brick, the bricks will still heat up and slowly release heat into your home even after the sun goes down so this will only do so much.

If it's hotter inside than outside, close all your windows but two, making sure they're on opposite sides of the house/unit you're in. Point a fan out of one window, making sure that the doors between the rooms with the open windows are all open. This will help create a mini pressure system in your home, pulling cooler air in and pushing the hotter air out via the fan. Bonus points if you can get that fan high up where the hot air rises; even within a single room the top is much hotter than the air by the floor. Adjust the amount of open windows based on how many fans you have, but generally you want more windows with fans open than windows without fans to keep the pressure correct.

Obviously, use your common sense for these. Not everything WILL work for you, just use the stuff that does and adjust what needs to be adjusted. Some of these will be impossible to use in the workplace but others you can still use. Others are best used at home. If humidity impacts your ability to use any of these, get a dehumidifier if that's an option, or use more ice instead of evaporation.

Also keep in mind that the skinnier you are, the faster these will work. More fat means more insulation, means more heat, so you may need to be more patient with some of these or use them in combination.

[robotslenderman]

Bringing this back for my dying mutuals

[thisfeliciaday]

JULY 20th!!! The Guild is BACK with a Kickstarter for our Reunion movie! Please reblog if you love the show, we don’t want to pay the big platforms to reach our fans, screw that! Help us make an amazing 20th anniversary celebration! PLEASE!

[goblinspod]

[cryptonature]

Sunday Seeds #4

This week I reached the 30k words mark in my next novel and made lots of notes on a new nonfiction book I’m planning to pitch. It was a very writer-y sort of week.

Wonder

I recently met fantasy author Jim Butcher. It was important to me to thank him in person for writing a series I love AND for getting my dad into reading for pleasure. I gave him a copy of Strange Animals and a week later he kindly posted a recommendation of my novel. I also recently reached out to Justin McElroy. I’ve loved Justin’s work for over a decade. I asked if he would do a book event with me in West Virginia in August and he said yes. The wonder here is just that people will surprise you with kindness. I often forget this. And… wonderfully… I’m often reminded that there’s more kindness in the world than I expect.

Whimsy

If you lace your fingers over your head, you have become your own hat. If you think of your body as dangling from your arms, then your entire body is now a hat. But not your head. The moment your head is part of the hat, then your hands are no longer atop a head and you are no longer a hat. And that’s basically philosophy. More or less.

Writing Prompt

Think of a commonplace object or moment and frame it as fantastical or legendary. The trick is to lend the exercise an element of truth. For example, a candle is a tiny pet god because it lets us tame a grand, devouring force and stick it in a little jar on our coffee table.

Consider: what is a cup of coffee? How is the sun involved in that cup (the coffee beans)? How is the earth involved (the clay in your mug)? What else? Keep going.

Bonus for Supporters: A Poem (unlock on my Patreon or Substack)

[goblinspod]

The start of our full season release is nearly here! (Episode 1, the pilot, is available already). Here's a sneak peek of whats coming up in Episode 2!

[yeehawpim]

I can be the ship and its sailors

[yeehawpim]

($4cad) 3x3" Sticker in my shop! :)

[averyterrible]

apparently, chinese goths have figured out how to do qing era costuming. jiangshi time.

[averyterrible]

@post-brahminism check it

[imasithduh]

I need to make sure @gothiccharmschool sees this.

[gothiccharmschool]

This is AMAZING.

[luvnotpercival]

Seeing those polls that have "how many audio dramas have you listened to?" and the highest option is 5+ i have to just sigh and press it even though the number is more like 100+ and i feel like podcast georg

[chemicallywrit]

GOOD AUDIO DRAMA SUNDAY TO YOU ALL! I am at The Audio Fiction Convention today, so I am in full hype mode and having a great time, but I can’t resist the chance to talk about audio drama! Let’s go!

🌅 I feel like Small Forgiveness was a perfect little cap to the masterpiece that is @wgc-productions’s Small Victories. Forgive Me! is great at this sort of self-reflection, by design—like it truly is the perfect crossover show, although it does give up its own story development for the sake of other shows. (Very christian of it.) Small Victories is such a perfect capsule of a story that it truly feels like no stone is left unturned, so what a treat to give an extra little tidbit about something I was curious about: how Marisol thinks about religion. And what a relief for her to be thinking about it on her terms, in her right mind. This feels like the kind of freedom she has needed all along, and what a privilege to get to see it.

🕳️ If you’re not listening to the new season of Alice Isn’t Dead, what a treat you have in store! This show captures everything I liked about the first seasons, especially the creeping road trip loneliness, and ESPECIALLY in this last episode. The church that Keisha hides in is just background to the real thing going on in the episode (hi, is that future!Keisha or some kind of other inherently trustable person perhaps? Maybe future!Alice?), but it struck such a chord with me. Pleeeease listen.

🎸 HELLO IT’S TIME FOR MORE GHOST BANDS! Everyone Leaves Alive is a rock musical with diegetic music that absolutely rules. I love that Haunted Rock Band is becoming an audio drama subgenre (see also Highgate Wood and Phantom Pulse), and this one is especially funny and fun in a way only Jessica Best can pull off. It’s also great that a main conceit of the show is “finally, a way to use my folklore degree.” I cannot wait for more.

💐 Desert Skies always hits so good. I feel like the central thesis to @desertskiespodcast is “people are generally good and trustworthy, and if they’re not it’s because something horrible happened to them—they deserve not anger and vengeance, but pity and help.” And what a powerful thing, what a huge ask, to remind us that actually being kind is quite difficult sometimes, and we are obligated to do it anyway. This episode reminds us why the characters are doing what they’re doing, not just from a plot perspective but from a heroic one. What a comfort, to know that even though there’s a lot of work to do, you’re not doing it alone. (Also, the joke about one guy doing all the voices had me rolling.)

🐀 What an absolutely delightful episode of World Gone Wrong. One with the rarely seen endangered species of Answers! It’s episodes like this that really show how they’re trying to wrap up the last season, tying up loose ends, removing the In The Same Room Obstacle that is the Bermuda River. Like Jamie said, I’m going to miss this.

🚗 This episode of Mayfair Watcher’s Society made me WEEEEEP oh man! Kayla Temshiv has long since proven their writer chops on Something’s Amiss at Juniper’s House, and this perfect little encapsulation of an impossible situation, alongside the new-girlfriends-fear of asking a hard question in a desperate situation, just hits perfectly. What a good episode.

I’m gonna go enjoy TAFCON now—if you see me, please say hi!! You can catch me at early registration, the script clinic, the Adaptation Panel, and the Re: Dracula booth! See you there!

[vestaclinicpod]

Audio Drama Sunday - 14th June ✨

I’m back from holiday and full of audio drama love 🥰

👻 @tellnotalespod (S2E21-22) GOD Nathaniel Gilbert is just AWFUL. There’s something even more sinister in a smiling evil and I hate to think of such an awful soul inside my precious and pure Riley Matkins. Also! Leo on shrooms?! We’re not ready!!

🦋 @remnantspod (51) it sure does hurt to see Eddie and Elio together at a time when their relationship was less fraught. I laughed a little at the moment where he decided to stick to the story of ‘our sister’ despite what the woman had just witnessed! He’s trained himself so well!

🚚  Don’t Tell Alice (1,5) This episode was seriously tense!! There’s so much fear in a situation with such a desperate opponent who would do *anything* to achieve their goal! And the ending! Why?!!!!! Why??!!!! 

🇦🇶 The Harbingers by @gabrielurbinatm (15) oh my god, this episode literally made me feel SICK with the tension of knowing something was going to go wrong but not knowing how!! My god!!! Incredible as always. I’m obsessed with the final segment. It feels like a huge piece of truth has been uncovered and it makes so much sense!! 

⚓️ @eelerschoice is back and I’ve really enjoyed the start of the second season so far! The story remains engaging and the music is, as always, fantastic! I’m very much looking forward to heading back out to sea, but I’m mistrustful that someone from the scrimchantry is going to be acting in a way that supports the team’s goals of preventing further harm to the eels… 

Have a great week!

[lalalalalemon]

Some of the books I've enjoyed in May and June:

The Living Mountain (Nan Shepherd)

(I love descriptive nature writing and this is maybe the best I've ever read, it made me plan walks immediately)

Platform Decay (Martha Wells)

I would die for Murderbot one million times over

The Raw Shark Texts (Steven Hall)

Shark movies are my favourite horror subgenre and the language play and meta storytelling was so good

I've just started From Our Own Fire (William Letford) and I can already tell I'm going to cry, I heard him do a reading of part of it last year at a book festival (my copy is signed yay). I LOVE the format of one page prose one page poetry. And even just three years after the book was first published the fears around AI are more and more real.

[disparition]

i keep seeing people who are surprised that there is a new season of Alice Isn't Dead, and other than these occasional notes of surprise i see very little mention of it at all.

the new season has been out since mid-April and we are already halfway through it. i know the WTNV team has been posting about it on their social channels for months leading up to it. i dont think we are doing anything differently, promotion-wise, than we did with the first three seasons which seemed to find their audience much more quickly.

personally i find it rather frustating given the amount of work we put into this show, but im not really sure what to do about it. i know part of it is down to the fact that audiofiction is a far more competitive field than it used to be, and there's also so much noise and chaos in the world these days that its hard to find anything, and so many terrible problems that fiction feels less important.

these are obviously not all issues that i or anyone else on the team can solve but i am still curious if anyone has thoughts about why it seems to much harder to get the word out now

[audiofictioncouk]

I do think a lot of it is wrapped up in this graph. There's a lot more shows now, making it harder to find ears, and I don't think audience tracked with the number of shows. So more crowded field, looking for fewer people post covid (also linked to less commuting happening in general).

The death of all "social" media didn't help either. Whenever I people watch now (and I do it myself) it's just doom scrolling to death, with the algorithm feeding me, not getting what I actually want to follow. (Bluesky and Tumblr behave better, but they have nothing like the numbers twitter did.)

[starplanes]

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