telling stories about other ways of being

stray /strā/ adj. wandering or lost. lung <龍> ㄌㄨㄥˊ n. dragons. www.straylungs.com based in brooklyn, ny🇹🇼🌻🏳️‍🌈

[straylungs]

illustration by @anyaboz

Announcing our next project in development...

My Darling Monk, a Journey to the West visual novel

You are One who has left the family. Thousands of miles lie between you and salvation for the people back home. You're all alone. Oh, except for your posse of demon-crushing, cloud-riding, immortal besties. They'll follow you to the ends of earth. If they don't kill each other first.

My Darling Monk is a story of choice, change, and transformation. It's also a story of being irresistibly yummy to monsters (smash), solving problems for useless monarchs (pass), and having absolutely no powers at all. Sound interesting?

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[trans-humanoid-automaton]

Chat I got a long road trip ahead of me any good audio dramas recommendations?

[someoneq]

hearthbound is a classic for road trips, queer odyssey untelling about Odessa driving across the post-apocalyptic American Great Basin to get back to her wife with fantastic folk music

[glucose-king]

is there anything better than listening to the Hearthbound OST on a train while sipping generic brand soda and sorting out your screenshot library?

I think not

[ranni-thewitch]

divert all power to the funk engine

[chernobog13]

Posters of the pilgrims from Journey to the West used to advertise the films The Monkey King 2 (2016) and The Monkey King 3 (2018).

[fears-for-your-ears]

Hearthbound

Official Website Listen on Spotify Created by: Jo Chiang, Stray Lungs Aired: 2025 Episodes: 10

Odessa's just trying to get home to her wife, but along the Loneliest Road in America, she'll encounter strange hosts, stray souls, and echoes of the past she's running from... or running towards.

Hearthbound is an award-winning folk musical audio drama, set across a post-apocalyptic Great Basin. It's a road trip, a queer love story, and a ballad for ecological restoration. You coming our way?

Hearthbound is basically if you re-imagined The Odyssey as a cozy, post-apocalyptic musical road trip. It begins with flavors of Alice Isn't Dead - a woman on the road, hoping to pick up her long-lost wife (Penelope) on her CB. But despite the "something horrific has left America a scattered wasteland" setting, the tone is very chill and hopeful.

Perfect if you're looking for a gentle story about people connecting and reconnecting, and/or you're a fan of folk music.

[straylungs]

HEARTHBOUND | Episode 10: Anagnorisis

Greek anagnōrisis, from anagnōrizein to recognize, from ana- + gnōrizein to make known; akin to Greek gnōrimos well-known, gignōskein to come to know.

illustrated by @cutetanuki-chan

[straylungs]

(via @someoneq)

[biophonies]

new mini zine up! and it's all about milkweed~

free to download, but you can buy one pre-cut & folded here. native plants show us that we can be lifelines for species through small acts of caretaking… here in california, countless native plants like milkweed have nearly been wiped out by cattle ranchers and industrial scale farmers who only see value in what feeds their business... push back, sprout some milkweed.

[straylungs]

take a deep breath 🍃

"Everything's Gonna be Alright" remixed by @tincanaudio animated by @maroonracoon

𝘖𝘥𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘢'𝘴 𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘵𝘳𝘺𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘰 𝘨𝘦𝘵 𝘩𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘸𝘪𝘧𝘦, 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘢𝘭𝘰𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘓𝘰𝘯𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘙𝘰𝘢𝘥 𝘪𝘯 𝘈𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘢, 𝘴𝘩𝘦'𝘭𝘭 𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘦 𝘩𝘰𝘴𝘵𝘴, 𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘺 𝘴𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘴, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘦𝘤𝘩𝘰𝘦𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘢𝘴𝘵 𝘴𝘩𝘦’𝘴 𝘳𝘶𝘯𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮… 𝘰𝘳 𝘳𝘶𝘯𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘰𝘸𝘢𝘳𝘥𝘴.

HEARTHBOUND is an Asian-Americana folk musical audio drama, set across a post-apocalyptic Great Basin. It's a road trip, a queer love story, and a ballad for ecological restoration.

You coming our way? [ Bandcamp | Podcast ]

[heartsl0b]

forest cabin

[javascript-official]

Just found out about this list and I am obessed with analysing which videogames the buddah would not play, and consequently, which ones he could play.

Tetris (Not buddihst), has 10 columns, here rows may be interpreted as any series of segments regardless of orientations, breaks rule 1.

Doom (buddihst), follows all the rules

Super monkey ball (NOT BUDDIHST), ball game, breaks rule 7.

Stardew Valley (Not buddihst), playing with a toy plough (rule 9.)i.e simulation of farming

Most mario games (Buddihst)

GTA 5 (Not buddihst) Playing with toy cart's Rule 12.

Overall we can conclude that if the buddah was alive today he would rip and tear demons until there is nothing left and jerk off to goombas from super mario brothers. Thank you for comming to my ted talk

[anyaboz]

The Story Brook Mural

You can see it at the Keller Public Library in Keller TX.

[straylungs]

Happy Bandcamp Friday!

Today, Bandcamp waives their cut of revenue so that all proceeds go directly to us, the artists. To celebrate, we're dropping the official animatic for "Everything's Gonna Be Alright (Tin Can Audio Remix)," created in collaboration with @tincanaudio and @maroonracoon.

Earlier this year, the wonderful Amber Devereux remixed the song “Friend of Mind,” featured on Hearthbound, live on Twitch. The result is this dreamy, luminescent spark of a track, brought to life by the marvelous Anatola Howard.

Watch the full animatic on the Stray Lungs Youtube channel.

If you've already bought the Hearthbound soundtrack, you can download the bonus track now and burn it onto your favorite mixtape for that friend who could really use some sleep (me, I'm the friend).

Otherwise, now's the perfect time to buy Hearthbound (Original Soundtrack) with the remix included!

Want to support more artists? Here are some friends of Stray Lungs you can check out on Bandcamp as well:

Tin Can Audio

Dead Signals

Pete Lanctot

Keren Abreu

Ali Dineen

As always you can listen to Hearthbound wherever you get your podcasts. Or sign up for our newsletter for the latest on what we're making next.

[farewell-to-lorien]

If there’s a stranger at your door Ask her not about the war Give her bread and whisky pour Let her rest upon your floor You can see it in her eyes A beggar choosing a disguise Will you keep her by your side And listen to her humble lies With belly fed, she may dare To speak a name into the air Lover faithful, lover fair Lover restless, lover rare If there’s a stranger all alone Set her back to walk the stone You may wonder (but never know) “Will she find her way back home?”

[eurydice-was-dead]

Hearthbound is a comedy podcast, observe:

[fictionfrequency1]

7 Free Audio Dramas to Bring You into Spring

Hurry Hurry by Air Traffic Controller might be the perfect Spring song. Firstly, it has a very peppy tune. Secondly, it reminds the listener

Here are all the best feel-good podcasts for your Spring listening needs! If you like characters who reinvent themselves, ecological restoration, comedy, sweet romance and the power of platonic human connection, these are gonna be up your street.

Also if anyone knows an audio drama with gardening or gardens as a main theme, please let me know.

[straylungs]

[eurydice-was-dead]

What if I was bound to the hearth and you were bound for the hearth.

And we were both girls.

[straylungs]

#and have the same instinct to stab annoying people in the hand (via @eurydice-was-dead) that's it that's the show