...And if time and tide roil you too harshly, or diurnal courses leave you with no safe havens, just remember we're out there, somewhere, lookin' for ya'. We open at six.
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Cover art by Jan Ma.
It is herrrreeee. Chapter 54: Diner in the Desert. The conclusion to the quite Jarring cliffhanger in Chapter 53. Now available on public feeds.
Hope you enjoy! Let us know what you thought!
His voice. Sexy as FUCK. He's a weird little freak. He's a cocky prick. There's this thing that Jon can do where he compels someone to answer a question, and Elias says that it's nice and tingly and. well. his response is what is described as a "pleasured exhale." He's compelled to answer something that he doesn't necessarily want to and that's like. sexual for him I guess? His voice actor has said, "I'm just very intimate with Beholding." In character. I know bringing up this one specific quote again is redundant but it CANNOT be understated how much that one time Daisy called Elias a "weird little freak" she was hitting the nail on the head. He's fucked up and evil. He's freaky. I love it.
Dr. Ava Maddox (Midnight Burger):
VOTE FOR DR. AVA MADDOX!!!! She’s even schrodinger’s bisexual!!!
She has, as of season 4, figured out All of the Universe(s) (yes all of it she knows how it works she is the biggest brain ever), and is well on her way to figuring out All of the Existence.
Found The Diner, so a time-travelling dimension-spanning vessel that is notoriously impossible to find, through the power of Math and her GIGANTIC BRAIN. SHE IS SO SMART. SHE'S A SMART MEAN LADY WHAT MORE DO YOU WANT
Mean in the funniest, coolest, sexiest way possible. She will cut you to pieces and leave you to metaphorically bleed out on the sidewalk if you try her.
"The more you disconnect me from my physical body, the more powerful I become." Is an actual thing she said. And she is right.
Art of Elias Bouchard courtesy of @unfairlyfallen.
Additional propaganda below the cut:
Elias Bouchard (The Magnus Archives):
For further elaboration on my [pleasured exhalation] thoughts, read this post: https://www.tumblr.com/magnuspanoptes/770121313794785280/elias-being-aroused-by-the-compulsion-is-so-like
Elias Bouchard is the ultimate smarmy queer villain; he has an exceptionally sexy voice and some of the best lines in media. He loves scheduling.
My propaganda is the brutal pipe murder scene. Also, MAG92.
Dr. Ava Maddox (Midnight Burger):
Theoretical physicist with four PhDs
She writes in a fucking terrible dead form of Dutch shorthand because if she doesn't people will try to steal her science
She was a professor at Cornell so she's been through the pits of academia and back. And it very much shows.
She was disowned by her mom
Once she was kidnapped by space fascists and she made them cry and question the nature of their reality
Terrible taste in men. Sorry to say it but. It's true.
Lives in Her Booth like some sort of fae creature attached to her territory. No one is allowed to touch Her Booth.
Is fuelled by "coffee, nicotine and pure darkness"
Does Not Have Time For Your Bullshit
Does not know how to handle emotions
Tom Lehrer fan
She's in a situashionship with the most miserable man of the multiverse
Taking a moment to celebrate some coffee today!
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Sending a shout out to these wonderful folks for the monetary support and the extremely kind words.
Hi, Happy Audio Drama Sunday folks, i'm big chilling today. We're puttering around the house. We are aimless and vibing. As long as laundry gets done at some point, it's allll good. And I get to catch up on audio drama while I do it! That new episode of Calling All Adventurers is looking particularly delicious. Here's what I was into this week!
📻 Yeah, yeah, whatever, blah blah blah, @midnightburgr made me cry. Big shocker. But for real though, in this episode, I find myself so proud of Leif. It's such a smart storyline to have a dozen versions of the character whose potential is literally enough to move an empire toward One Guy. Leif could have been anything, and we see that over and over again. And our Leif, the Leif who belongs at Midnight Burger, chose to do the right thing, and to give as many people the ability to do the same and he could. “If we truly work together, then we’ll finally be free. All of us.” I hope that's true for you, Leif.
🗡️ Can we talk about The Bardic Hearth? Can we TALK about the BARDIC HEARTH? This episode really makes a meal out of the divine politics that are pretty much my favorite part about this show. (Hiiiii Cat Blackard as the goddess of love hiiiiiii.) And then it gives my new favorite character dynamic--arcane grad student and living weapon. And they're best friends now. That might be an exaggeration, but the developing friendship between Ari and Tabetha is absolutely delightful. I hope their weird road trip to the Feywild is fun. It'll certainly be interesting.
🥀 I haven't talked about Wake of Corrosion yet, but I really like @wakeofcorrosion. I just finished season one, so I'm far off from discovering the mystery of it all now, but I have to commend them for such an interesting apocalypse. The time warping, sudden and without warning (or maybe not without warning, if you know what to look for) is a fascinating way to bring about the end of the world. I have a lot of questions--why are the bunkers safe? What's up with the gal at the observatory? Where are Roman's kids? Is it normal to have a bunch of like, county bunkers around in the UK, or is that part of the story? Are the weird figures looping like...time ghosts? I can't wait to find out.
That's all for me, see you later, I'm gonna go....idk, clean the cat's little fountain or whatever. Puttering around forever. Later!
We are also releasing Chapter 54 to our Patreon tomorrow, so come join us in the Patreon or Discord for Night Breakfast! Where we sit down in a live chat with Joe, Finlay, and all of our other Midnight Burger friends to listen to the new episode together!
recently had access to a foggy sea and almost took a “fiona midnightburger x The Lonely when” picture but like. that’s just normal fiona midnightburger
(i have actually kinda sorted mb characters into smirke’s 14. does anyone want my thoughts.)
okok the people have spoken. i’m tellin u man, fangirl first fiona second
starting easy: verge as The Hunt (bounty on their head, survival above all, vapus vella) and kazi as The Flesh (one body a prison, the other a grave, an outlaw for taking biology into her own hands).
for the main crew i’m going ava as The Eye (must figure out how literally everything works and tell everyone), the mucklewains as The Stranger (a borrowed voicebox! made out of other people, but also ARE those other people), leif as The Dark (the shelliak, paranoid hideout in a basically-sunless wasteland), gloria as The End (blurring endings/beginnings, her worlds keep collapsing), and caspar as The Spiral (sadness so vicious it feels like madness, breaking with reality in service of an impossible goal, assuming you’re hallucinating your only companions).
less confidently here’s the rest of what i’m thinking:
- clementine as The Desolation (she is the fire which consumes her </3)
- teta as The Slaughter (personified battering ram complete with ram’s horns! casual, unflinching brutality)
- libuza as The Web (wired in to be able to see a cosmos of causal relations)
- ex as The Buried? (early ex was Stranger but babygirl was submerged in a riverbed for decades to dig herself out of her programming, she is from the mud <3)
- krok as The Corruption? (lowkey Extinction but he’s also altering the genes of entire galaxy to cure them of entropic decay)
- bert bert as The Vast? (there is so much out there, ends up responsible for trillions of people, o great emergence from dark waters)
- fiona as The Lonely? (taken out of her society only to find out no one—including herself—has any idea who she actually is, surrounded by people living a fundamentally different life*)
*welllll. yk how connected the spiral and the lonely are? watch out for chapter 54 tomorrow on paid feeds, in a couple weeks for the masses!
"This is Purpee. She's not in San Francisco anymore, Koschei. When you step in shit in Purpee, you're gonna track that all the way to your goddamn grave."
"I'm the motherfuckin' PRINCE of Purpee, Koschei."
Happy Audio Drama Sunday my beloveds! Trying not to be overwrought by the Tasks ™ this weekend, we’ll just see how that goes. At least there is audio drama.
🧪 I can't believe I forgot to talk about @theholmwoodfoundation's new bonus episode last week. The sheer...I guess I'm looking for the word brutality, in the way that Elena was treated by the foundation definitely shows it to be a different sort of organization than (I bet) Mina ever meant it to be. But maybe I'm wrong; this is not the first time Holmwood's played with an "alternate history" sort of Dracula interpretation. Can't wait for more.
🦄 Let's hear it for Witchpunk's first season! I really love what @citeogs did with this series. It's hard for a piece of media to capture just how doomed cyberpunk feels for its characters, but Witchpunk frikkin did that, with some of the most excellent political worldbuilding I've seen in a long time. I love this show, I love the characters, I love the story.
⬛️ Like, what do I even say about @midnightburgr? That it made me cry this week? It made me cry this week. I'm really proud of Casper's character development and his newfound sense of fatherhood. Trying no matter what (even if it's hopeless) because it matters is such an important message right now.
đź’» I had the pleasure of meeting maybe like, 80% of the @san-lazaro-podcast team at @tafcon, and boy oh boy did those delightful humans make we want to hear their show. And THEN, what do I find but the most compelling opener for a zombie apocalypse story that I have ever heard? The absolute finesse of the three story prologues that currently make up Radio San Lazaro is incredible. If you want a masterclass in writing (and then an excellent example of how to run a volunteer project!), check this show out.
🌔 I'd be remiss if I didn't mention The Harbingers, which wrapped up its first season this week with a bang. I'm not always a fan of the way Gabriel Urbina builds characters, but I can't argue with his storylines. This show slaps. Of course no one's getting away with sending Boston to the moon; that doesn't mean the story’s over.
🍂 I want to get a little more attention on the crowdfund for Fallen Memories! It’s a warm and cozy audio drama that I happen to know has been in the works for ages, and darnit, I want to hear it! Give them your money! Their first episode is up on youtube now!
hi tess!! I've been thinking about Fiona a loooot recently she's very silly and relatable and I love her very much, you do such an amazing job
I just wanted to ask:
1. are there any colours you associate with Fiona?
2. any headcanons you have for her?
3. what kind of music do you think she'd like?
4. what's her coffee order? :))
ik that's kind of a lot to npre to answer, I just wanted to send my love!!
ohhh you are so kind. answers below the cut bc they’re long! also this might go without saying but nothing i say is canon, just for fun!
i think the ragdoll storyline is ripe for projection/headcanons, which don’t need my blessing but y’all have it anyway! if anyone reads her deprogramming/realization/liberation as religious deconstruction, or autism, or transness, or otherwise unpacking cisheteropatriarchy, etc., it is an honor for my character to have a seat at your table!
1. honestly i haven’t given it much thought—definitely warmer/lighter tones at first (that very 2012 orangey tint, or the pink/brown/green combination). i might be less of a visual thinker than others!
2. she absolutely has written her number on someone’s cup before (when she was still on earth-2012). i also tried to write out my versus fiona’s top 5 favorites for a few things, since it helps me figure out a character to pinpoint how they’re not just me— my (all 2012 or earlier tyvm) picks for her are fantastic mr. fox, the muppets, perks of being a wallflower, 10 things i hate about you, and mayyybe watermelon woman if we’re imagining that it wouldn’t awaken anything.
3. in 2012 she would’ve kinda toed the line between mainstream pop and indie twee, probably both katy perry and regina spektor yk? i’m struggling to think of modern music for her. open to offers. she is my girl of constant sorrow so i would also like to say joan baez. once she’s cool/deprogrammed, but still wants to connect with her late aughts/early teens roots, 100% her nametwin fiona apple.
4. this is a surprisingly complicated question. so ~15 years ago, iced lattes weren’t as common (just an iced drip/regular coffee), and i think she would’ve been a tazo/teavana girl at a 2012 starbucks. if she were on earth in 2026 she might go for an iced matcha, but that’s too involved to be worth making at the diner (doubtful that p3t3r has finesse to properly clean and dry a bamboo whisk, yk?)
I love making art I love playing with color and going oh my gosh my hands made that!!!! So I made some midnight burger fan art and not only am I SUPER happy with how it turned out, I am also so so so happy with how it looks in different lighting and on camera! Art is so fun AI's bastard hands could never <3
hey fellow Caspted fanatics come eat!!! we have caspar in his PJs and Ted in leifs old clothes :3 Happy pride month from the most doomed yaoi in all of midnight burger
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