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@secondstartotheleftpodcast
The final episode!
The last episode is out! It's here! The end has come!
Episode 10: And Straight on Til Morning
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And remember to come drop questions in our ask box for our season-end Q&A session with the cast and crew!
you guys were my #3 podcast for my spotify wrapped, i listened all the way through at least three times 🧍♂️
Ah I’m so glad!
Recommend me audio dramas were the main character is a woman
Hi! 2 of the 3 leads of our show are women! The Night Post is a supernatural mystery about the conscripted couriers of a land haunted by its past.
Some other women-led shows we love:
@vestaclinicpod - A space station doctor treats patients of a variety of species from all over the galaxy. Loooove the world building here.
Small Victories by @wgc-productions - Slice of life following a woman in recovery for drug addiction. Great characters who are also car crashes you can’t look away from.
@killjamxxx - Zany, violent mayhem! Faustina Fetamine is the thickest bitch in this murder arena, and I’d kill for her.
@starfallpod - Woman with a giant sword joins a magical acting troupe! I adore the huge ensemble cast.
This is the nicest thing anyone has ever said about us. Faustina would be touched 💙 Killjam is a show about an all-women death game in the future so it’s really a variety of deranged ladies all the way down.
We’ll share the love and rec some of our fave women-led shows!
@kingmakerpod - A magical alternate history crime show set in the 1910s. Colette Geise is the main character, an extremely awkward woman who has a diamond that can make people explode attached to her skull. She is absolute peak lovable failwoman.
@hinaypod - A show about battling the supernatural from Filipino folklore in modern day Canada. Mari is an awesome protagonist whose deep knowledge of monster fighting techniques makes her the go-to for this (also she’s hot.)
@georgieromeroisdonefor - Halloweeny comedy show where an undead dancer tries to solve her own murder. Georgie is a dogged zombie detective who’s still adjusting to her new unlife, with two other great female characters - a witch and a toiler ghost - at her side.
The main character of our show, Soul Operator, is a woman! We have been described as an emotional horror show, with the first season taking place in a liminal neighborhood that been pulled out of reality. No one knows who they are or how they got there. We just finished our first season, so check us out!
@forgedbondspod is a queer retelling of the love story between Aphrodite and Hephaestus.
@thesiltverses is an incredible commentary on capitalism and religion and what makes gods and what gods make us.
The latest season of @thewhitevault, Goshawk, primarily focuses on several female characters. The setting and lore are horrifying in a way that gets right under your skin.
Parkdale Haunt centers women and their relationships to each other with a paranormal and supernatural backdrop.
Nowhere, On Air is a great option, I adore Jess and the way the show is written. Who doesn't love a spooky radio show?
The Department of Variance of Somewhere Ohio is a psychedelic take on the Weird SCP like facility which primarily features women.
All these shows are phenomenal!
I’d like to add @theholmwoodfoundation, a continuation of the Dracula story in our modern day. One of the dual lead protagonists is Maddie Townsend, a trans woman, who is currently sharing her body with the consciousness of none other than Mina Harker. Currently airing!
Another brilliant show is Trice Forgotten — Captain Alestes is a woman who has been keeping her head down working as a merchant, until she finds herself taking on a crew of disparate travellers, and herself flung headlong into an adventure that threatens the community she has started to build. Queer pirate found family with an all-racialised POC cast! Season two was announced a bit ago!
An audio drama that certainly needs no introduction, but bears adding to this list: @thebrightsessions has multiple, dynamic women in the main character role. Dr. Joan Bright is a psychologist that specialises in working with Atypicals, people with supernatural abilities. Completed series, with spinoffs!
Also from Atypical Artists, we have @breakerwhiskey, a microfiction audio drama following one woman as she roadtrips across the United States in a world where she seems to be the only one left. Main series is complete!
Also, if you like Kingmaker Histories, then you might enjoy @victoriocity ! Clara Entwhistle is a journalist who joins forces with inspector Archibald Fleet to investigate a murder in the steampunky world of Even Greater London. Three seasons out so far!
The Antique Shop is a single-narrator about a young, Scottish woman named Maya who finds a strange antique shop. Follow her journey as she discovers the strange magics this shop holds, and the people who find it.
thank you so much @allatseapod for calling out both The Bright Sessions and Breaker Whiskey!!! it is an honor to be listed among such incredible shows.
I will also selfishly plug @maxinemilespod, my YA mystery starring a teenage girl who is determined to find her missing friend and uncover town corruption. and I'll have another female led show about a 36 year old woman who gets possessed by a demon and tries to unionize her workplace coming in the fall - follow #two thousand and late to keep up with that!
BUT in terms of other fantastic female-led shows, I have to shout-out Life With LEO(h). yes, I produced it, but I did because I genuinely am obsessed with Octavia Bray, who created, wrote, and starred in it and when she pitched me a "romcom about an uptight lawyer who is given an illegal android programmed to love her" I was like, okay, great, how can I personally pay for this so I can listen. and that's what I did.
it was the same deal with Greenhouse, a sapphic love story told entirely through letters between a cynic and an optimist.
but, okay, maybe you're not looking for frothy mysteries or romances, in which case may I recommend Steal the Stars, a sci-fi noir in which the hardboiled hero is a woman in her late 30s and the femme fatale with legs for days is her dreamy new younger male coworker. okay, I realized I've pitched a romance again, but this is also a brilliantly weird sci-fi show about aliens. I just also happen to think the romance part of it is very good.
@arsparadoxica!! brilliant asexual woman goes back in time and so many intricate time hijinks occur. this is a great show to sink your teeth into if you love really cerebral sci-fi with compelling characters.
I recently became obsessed with Un(con)Trolled, an extremely gripping thriller about a woman who goes after internet trolls - it has one season so far, but all these other shows are complete!
On that same note, we love to recommend @secondstartotheleftpodcast (terraforming sci fi with a kick-ass female protagonist!), @clinical-space-podcast (Star Trek vibes - counsellor joins a space exploration vessel), and of course @inkwyrmpodcastt (Devil Wears Prada in space).
We'd also like to do a cheeky shoutout of our own The Pilgrimage Saga, which stars Captain Mika Harris, played by the wonderful Sena Bryer! (Plus our upcoming show Dracula: 2004, featuring many wonderful leading ladies...)
What other shows would you all recommend?
i started this in september for the zine fest, this still counts! i thought, hmmm i’ve been listening to heaps of various forms of space scifi, what could i possibly do a zine about?
this was my first ever zine! i think i might do a follow-up of honorable mentions that didn’t make it in, i already had to modify the format cuz i had too much to say xD
super curious about something because i didn't realize it wasn't a universal thing until my partner said something about it
do you put butter on your rice
yes, and i am from the US south
no, and i am from the US south
yes, and i am not from the US south
no, and i am not from the US south
i don't eat rice/i'm bald/any other nuanced answer
reblog for sample size etc
alone out here
Hi everyone! Hope you're doing good!
I'm looking for new queer fiction podcasts to obsess about! So far I've listened to:
The Adventure Zone (that was a while ago, and I'm still not caught up on Dust S2 or Steeplechase)
Welcome To Night Vale
The Penumbra Podcast (Only the Juno Steel arcs)
Wolf 359 (that was supposed to be my HAPPY COMFORT PODCAST jeez)
King Falls AM (Also was supposed to be my comfort podcast)
Kaleidotrope (This one's really a comfort podcast)
Dragon Shanty (Thanks for the rec!)
Dark Ages (Thanks for the recommendation on this one too!)
The Lavender Tavern
The Two Princes
Second Star To The Left
RADIO: Outcast
So if there are any suggestions, I'd love to have new stuff to check out! (Finished podcasts would be great but if it isn't that's fine) (Also maybe not TMA bc it looks SO GOOD but it seems like it's too violent/gory for my taste)
Edit: Wow! Thanks for all the recommendations! Now my to-watch list is much, much longer than it was before!
hearing that first "scout hartley" is like 🥰🥰🥰
okay the first few episodes of Second Star to the Left are such a comfy world to exist in?? I want my own bot to talk to and take care of too
don’t we all
“See that tree, Boots? I love that tree.”
[Image description: digital drawing of Gwen Hartley and Boots from Second Star to the Left podcast. They are both facing away from the viewer, with Gwen kneeling on one knee while she points with her laser sword at a group of weird looking trees in front of them. Her space suit and leg prosthesis have small scratches and is slightly smudged with dirt. Boots - a spherical robot with wheels on each side and colored a pale yellow - also has some dirt and scratches, indicating that they been traveling for a while. They are surrounded by large blue green and yellow cabbage-like plants. The group of trees in front of them have very thick - almost egg-shaped - trunks topped with small clumps of purple-orange leaves. Their exposed roots raise them from the ground, almost as if they were walking. End description]
somft post series domesticity my beloved 💕
Bello Collective 100 Best Podcast Episodes of 2021
"Second Star to the Left, “The Scout” - Independent
If you enjoy nerding out about science while grappling with the complexities of human emotions and relationships, Second Star to the Left doles out both in perfect unison.
Gwen is a Scout-Explorer, sent on a five-year-long solitary mission to a habitable planet in order to prep and prepare it for settlement. Only, she’s not actually that lonely because she has Bell Summers in her ear for four hours every other day, a minder in another part of space entirely.
Second Star to the Left concentrates on the power of stories, the strength of our voices to build entire relationships, and what it means to be able to simply listen to someone when you think you’re helpless.
It all hinges on voice actors Ishani Kanetkar and Jorin Baas and their confusing, frustrating, explosive meeting in the very first episode. A plot mainly carried by two actors needs stellar voice work to buy into their relationship as a movable, mutable thing, and Kanetkar and Baas have not only embodied the twin feelings of whimsy and fear of taking on a new, uninhabited planet, but the very core of what it means to try to create your own Neverland.
Chosen by Elena Fernández Collins, Bello Collective staff writer and creator of Audio Dramatic"
Find the full run of Second Star to the Left on Spotify, Castos, Apple Podcasts, Audible, or your favorite podcatcher!
Hair evolution of one Gwendolyn Hartley, a Gwenvolution if you will
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absolutely DELIGHTED to hear the high wizardry reference in the q&a portion. great job on the podcast, it was one of my favorite things of 2021
I'm so glad, thank you!
So I finished it just now and wow, just wow!!! I get why you’re so proud of the last few episodes, they’re really great, and I’m so happy with the ending!!! Off to go listen to the cast Q&A now!
haha thank you again! i think we did a pretty good job, even if i say so myself :D and i'm definitely hoping there'll be opportunities to collaborate with the same team again in future!
that's the dream tbh
I started Second Star to the Left and it’s so good!!!! I’m on episode 2 and very worried about Priyanka (I have no idea how to spell her name yet). It’s fun sometimes hearing echoes of Arkady in you doing Gwen, but she’s fully Gwen to me
thank you!! i'm really glad you're enjoying it; the last couple of episodes might be the work i'm proudest of in my career to date.
and it's reassuring to hear that gwen still feels like her own person! (i fully admit that this happens to me, too - i had a moment listening to starfall the other day where i got distracted by a leona line that had a shade of arkady in it XD) but i've got some friends and family who can't listen to any of my shows because it's too weird for them to hear my voice, so knowing the characters i play feel distinct is always a relief!
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