#comfort audios

[vimiti-x]

i’m really curious as to what everybody’s comfort/sleep audio is. mine is “resting on your tsundere boyfriend’s lap while he games”

it’s the video i go to when i absolutely CANNOT sleep lol, the controller sounds and low talking knock me out

[neds-bastard]

What should my base idea be for my next comfort asmr?

Ideas?

First date

Rainy day

Family argument comfort

Singing

Dysphoria comfort (FTM)

Dysphoria comfort (MTF)

Voting ended onNov 8, 2025

[neds-bastard]

https://youtu.be/5XVRlTQ7-pg?si=Stc-nbP2X7x4kRpt

Hey yall, I started an asmr and general voice stuff channel so go take a look! (ONLY SFW)

[audioroleplayconfessions]

I can't listen to comfort audios. They all feel so patronizing and condescending. I always feel like I'm being treated like either a child or the most pathetically fragile person in the world.

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[audioroleplayconfessions]

I wish more comfort audios treated the listener like an actual competent adult. So many of them talk to the listener like they're an actual stupid idiot baby. It ruins it for me, I'd never want to be with someone who's idea of comforting me was to infantilize me.

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[audioroleplayconfessions]

I'm the anon who made the "chemo comfort" confession

CW: cancer, chemotherapy, romaticization of bad IRL topics, PTSD

The person I'm responding to knows who they are because they made a monster post 💀

I completely understand that! Honestly, I'm not one to get feisty about "representation" or whatnot, but I know some people are.

Also, yeah, I see a lot of fetishy content of these things, and it makes me really sad. I won't go into details, but I've had cancer twice, and I'm still doing some maintenance chemo.

I'll never tell anyone this non-anon *ever*, but I think I've started to "romanticize" my experiences to cope. Maybe it's a cPTSD thing? Idk if this is normal, but eh -_(:/)_-

Again, I completely understand things like that. I don't wanna seem like an insensitive a-hole. I just kinda blurted it, haha

I understand if Ringmaster doesn't want to post this because it's kinda heavy, but it's worth a shot ig

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[audioroleplayconfessions]

In response to the ask for a chemotherapy comfort audio - mild CW for addressing real world health issues including seizures, and apologies for the colossal post, but I felt this is an important topic;

Hey, random meh VA/writer here, just giving my thoughts on this sort of subject in general.

Firstly, I mean no slight against people who do niche comfort audios for real things. If you enjoy that kind of stuff, more power to you! If you make content that broaches real things like this, I have some thoughts but by all means make the content you want! Just giving a few of my thoughts on why I personally err away from making these audios.

The issue as I see it is that there's a murky line between addressing real world issues responsibly, and addressing them in a way that feels wrong. This is why I say it's murky, because it very much comes down to how it feels, it's hard to quantify. There are a lot of period comfort/reverse comfort audios out there, and while I'm not against them (in fact one from a few years ago comes to mind that was very well-written), a lot of people I've spoken to are put-off by them particularly when done by male VAs.

I feel some of the concern with real world issue audios like these is when they're not done with the right amount of familiarity with the subject, or when they feel like they're done for the wrong reasons, i.e. if they're not approached properly they can come off as somewhat... fetishistic? Exploitative?

As an example of the former, coming-out audios. Honestly I have a deep respect for this genre of comfort audio even if they're not my kind of thing, but they do need to be written with the right amount of respect, and you can really get a feeling if the writer isn't familiar enough with the subject, even if they mean well. There's a reason sensitivity readers are important; I'm sure I don't need to list the potential pitfalls of an autism comfort audio if made by someone with no experience with autism. (don't have any creators in mind here, not disparaging anyone, just giving possible examples)

Again, I'm not knocking real life styled comfort audios, it's wonderful they exist! A small VA I saw years ago comes to mind whose speaker characters are (IIRC) all blind, because the creator themselves is also blind, and so the topic felt extremely respectfully and knowledgeably explored! These concerns are just among the reasons I personally don't really do them.

That said, for the subjects I feel I have enough experience to be able to comment meaningfully, some of my audios address fictionalised issues that are coded similarly to these sorts of things, and I feel that as long as I'm careful to make sure the subtext isn't carrying an unintended negative message, then listeners are able to read in their own interpretations depending on how they relate. Honestly the way people react to these sorts of audios means the world! For instance I had an audio where the listener reveals to the speaker that they aren't human. It was a fantasy comfort/acceptance audio, which (while initially unintended) was very obviously coded as a coming-out audio. I'd spotted the coding late in writing, and just made sure that the subtext was respectful to that but I didn't explicitly lean into it, but later a queer friend thanked me for it saying it meant a lot the way it was written, that it was meaningful to them. Other of my characters are coded as genderqueer, so while the stories are fictional and fantastical, their experiences are relatable - to my own experiences and hopefully to the listeners as well - and allow me to address these feelings and, I hope, deliver a good message without hammering the audience with real world problems.

Conversely, imagine if a fictional coming-out story's subtext happened to be "it's better to be what other people tell you to be, don't be who you are" - even if it's a story about magical creatures and not queer people, the message is a problem. I put a lot of thought into one audio I made when I realised the subtext was "gullibly believe what people tell you even when they don't have evidence" to make sure the fictional story still worked for what I was going for, and also didn't unintentionally promote harmful reasoning.

I think I've only gotten a direct request once for a real-world comfort audio; someone commented asking for a seizure comfort audio. As I explained in response, if someone with enough experience on the subject wants to make comfort audios on that subject that sounds great, but I definitely don't know anywhere near enough to be comfortable doing that. For me to weigh in on seizure comfort in a story... I could probably throw something functional and well-meaning together, but it just feels wrong for me to do that. I'm ignorant on the subject, it would feel to me like I were condescending down to people who actually have seizures about their own conditions. A little while later they responded again, I think in their mind trying to pep me up and give some suggestions for a scenario I could write (there's another conversation to be had about unsolicited requests but I'll leave that here). Coincidentally, in the time between my response and their response back, my mother had had a seizure in front of me, and I had received the second "could you make a seizure comfort audio?" comment while she was still at the hospital (she's fine, full recovery). I regret the way I was more terse in my response after that, the commenter deleted everything after so I couldn't reach out later in a better headspace and apologise. But I guess this is the key issue with addressing real world problems in fiction; they're still real world problems. If you're going to do it, you have to do it responsibly.

For the ask this was in response to; if I were asked if I could make a chemo comfort audio, I think it'd have to be a no. I don't have enough knowledge on the subject to feel like I could comfortably comment on it. I could make a generic "you're in the hospital feeling bad" comfort audio, but for me to then slap a "chemo comfort" in the title and no no other work feels to me exploitative. If any of my illness comfort scenarios are relatable to anyone in a similar situation, it's genuinely awesome when people relate to things like that! I do try to make sure that whatever coding the story has, even if it's not intentional, the story isn't delivering a bad message it shouldn't be.

Am I overthinking things? Maybe. Sorry for the huge message again, I understand if the esteemed Ringmaster feels this ask isn't the kind of thing they're looking for and doesn't post it, that's cool! Just had a lot of thoughts in response.

Also most importantly; to the asker and to anyone else going through chemo or similar, sending you energy and love, and wishing you all the best!

I dunno, call me N

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