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Posting the flowchart I followed years ago at the beginning of my career lol The Magnus Archives was my first podcast and did irreparable damage to my worldview about fiction audiodramas
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
Podcast recommendation master log!!! :3
I’ve listened to well over 100 hours of podcasts from a lot of different genres so I’m gonna give you some recommendations. These will all be audio dramas so no ttrpgs or conversation podcasts. I’ll include a short description, the amount of episodes they have as I’m writing this (not including bonus content), if it’s finished, and probably my own little thoughts about it cus I have too many thoughts. Please feel free to add any podcasts you recommend that I didn’t include I’m always looking for more!!
Recommendations under the cut. Fair warning there’s a lot
Media I imagine different fiction podcasts in instead of the media of being a podcast.
TMA: A selection of volumes, relating to the fears, each with those removable covers. Those covers has a victim or two, and then underneath the cover is a really detailed cover. The paper is decoratively ripped, with a kind of scraggly font, and each has a foreword and ‘author’s note’ from Jonathan Sims.
Malevolent: A really gritty graphic novel with deadly detail in each panel, and very little color. Maybe a trinket on each important character has a color? Like Arthur’s eyes being yellow or Oscar’s collar having a blue sheen to it. The novels are long, dramatic, and intimate in a visceral way.
Welcome to Night Vale: Local 58 bullshit. A broadcast on television with low quality images and audio, tacky music, and a kind of 80’s aesthetic. Each episode the words WELCOME TO NIGHT VALE zoom onto the screen, the purple eye behind them. And each weather segment is an animated short by a different artist.
The Penumbra(Juno Steel): A webcomic. Hours spent scrolling downward a comic that has so much color and GEOMETRIC design. Juno and his curvy jaw, brown pie slice eyes, a cartoonishly high collar for his investigator jacket. Nureyev and his sharp square jaw, shimmering jewelry, and stick legs. Characters sticking out of the panels, fonts changing constantly, a little blue Juno that does his narration and *guitar theme plays* each time he appears.
Wolf 359: A classic comic. Issues month by month. Different special covers of the characters in extra dramatic poses or scenes. Even MORE panel breaking than Juno Steel. So MUCH onomatopoeia, even for small things like the clink of a panel or the disapproving hiss of Hilbert in the background. Geometric designs like Juno Steel, but less colorful. Like the superhero art style mixed with a more stylized look.
Midnight Burger: You pull up the Midnight Burger website. They have a hidden page that has a sort of script-comic thing going on, where the art is next to the writing. Small coded in notes from Leif sometimes pop up if you hold your arrow over the art. Links are attached to the parts where Effie and Zebulon play music, linking you to the music so you can listen to it while you read.
Desert Skies: An animated show. Indie, something you’d find on YouTube. The animation is bouncy and incorporates 3D animation alongside the 2D. Maybe the Sphere Movers have 3D models and the staff don’t? The credits are short because it was made by one guy. People are complaining about it on Twitter /j. People are making content farms about it. Everyone is pissed at Corson like they’re pissed at Jax.
The Amelia Project: A sort of simulation video game. You play as Arthur. You listen to their stories and draw pieces of the tale to invent their death. Every once in a while the game transitions to a point and click suspense game where you solve puzzles as Cole and Haines. Maybe there should even be an Operation-esque part of it where you work as Kozlowski.
Ghost Wax: A novel with a lot of pictures spliced in it. The stories are all in a single book, though the book is through Luca’s perspective— so he picks up on the ghost’s body language and Voncid’s reactions. The pictures are tarot cards with each victim as a card. Some are repeat cards— Lorem does not have a card at the end of the story. Nor does Our Home or Evening at the Ardent. The pictures are only white with black line art. No color whatsoever.
Kakos Industries: A company newsletter. Not a broadcast. A newspaper that arrives at your door and has big bold letters with the main story and pictures of the events that happen in the story as it goes. And the Sunday Comic page is full of employee shenanigans. Some innocent… some not.
I am losing my mind.
I really respect your taste in podcasts. I find myself almost always agreeing with both your praise and criticism when listening to the ones you talk about. I'm curious, what are your top 5 (or 10 if you feel up to it) favorite podcasts? (Asking partially to fish for recommendations for more stuff to listen to.)
Oh score, thanks so much for that, kindred podcast spirit <33 Happy to give some recs.
But if we're talking favorites and not like, best, these all come with caveats. There are several shows I super enjoy except for the fact that they ended abruptly and will probably never conclude, or there's that one actor that's clearly a buddy talking into their laptop while everyone else has an actual recording setup etc. So I'll be making notes like that, but that's part of enjoying small creators making the art they love.
Not necessarily in order of most favorite but whatever:
-Kane and Feels. Paranormal investigators in a psychedelic buddy comedy. The real star here is the relationship between Kane and Feels themselves: the writing is snappy and fun, which gives them a great banter, and a complicated, heartfelt friendship. Character interactions is where is at! The writing itself is also really good, and season 2 is... some of the weirdest shit I've ever heard. So weird you might be mad about it at first. But it's still a lot of fun.
Downside: Sound quality. Sometimes the show likes to layer dialogue overtop other dialogue for reasons unknown to me, and some major plot points are entirely obscured by SFX. Parts of the S1 finale I didn't understand at all until reading the transcripts, ngl.
-SAYER. I talked about this recently I think: a super AI is charged with overseeing workers on a space station in the ultra-capitalist dystopian future. The original "spooky voice in the ear of the protag" podcast. It begins as a very dark, very dry comedy about what it might have been like to work with GLADOS (I originally bailed after S1 because it was too cynical for me, but came back on rec from a friend - bless u @kahtiihma) but later morphs into a sci fi thriller, with a heavy emphasis on personhood and identity. Really good stuff, and the cat & mouse game in season 4 is my favorite in fiction, probably.
And then, STOP. Because the downside is, Season 6 is not finished and never will be. There is a season 5, but it's a prequel, and it retconned a bunch of things in a way I wasn't fond of. So as much I recommend getting to season 4 because of how good it is, let that ending be it!
-Ghost Wax. This is TMA is the Institute were run by competent people who gave a shit, lol. The protag is a necromancer who takes "statements" from the dead about the supernatural things that killed them, and then does something about it. The statements are varied, the characters are extremely likeable, and the pacing is very satisfying. There's a lot going on and a lot to enjoy, and with so many characters and monsters, a lot of great diversity. The season 1 finale was absolutely harrowing.
Downside: the production quality is pretty rough, sorry to say. Because every statement is voiced by the victim, there are a LOT of one off actors, and they vary wildly in quality. Some of the mains, too. The creator is very charismatic and pulls it all together admirably, though.
-Steal the Stars. A very rare het show from me! This is a good old fashioned romance and heist story. The protagonist is an older, military woman who works at a top secret base, who falls for a new, young soldier, and hijinks ensue. The love story is very "we were both hot and that's what love is" BUT the protag is just so good, I loved her a lot. And the thriller aspect was so well plotted, I was just so smitten, I LOVE a tight plot. But the chef's kiss was the ending. Holy shit. I had no idea where it was going and... yeah. Worth it.
-The Beating Heartland. Yeah yeah, I'm in the honeymoon phase. I've yapped enough but for something that starts slow, it goes into SUCH iddy places, I'm very happy with it and I can't wait for season 2. I'll link to my actual rec post if you haven't seen it already.
bonus round
-Shelterwood. I had to add this one because even if I wouldn't say it was the most gripping the entire way through, I'm pretty sure this is the only podcast to have made me cry like a baby in my stupid car. A man goes looking for his missing sister and ends up in hell-suburbia, while making a podcast with his best friend and producer. It's eerie and interesting, and the production value and acting quality are all SUPER high, I could rec it on that, but it's the ending of season 1 that punched me in the stomach. Big shout out to actor Sam Stark for their performance and the way it fucking eviscerated me. It was such a perfect ending I'm scared to listen to season 2 when it eventually comes out.
-I Am In Eskew. The gnarliest horror around, bar none. For some reason I keep bouncing off Silt Verses, but early Eskew really does it for me. It would be a favorite if not for the ending.
-Archive 81, season 3. Season 1 is very rough, season 2 is extremely weird and doesn't really conclude. But season 3 is incredible, one of the best endings in a podcast, absolutely slapped me. Another great performance by Peter Musante.
Thanks for the ask! I could talk about podcast forever~
I can’t find some good and LONG fiction podcasts got any good recommendations??
All the stuff I’ve listened to or listening to⬇️
The Magnus Archives
Red Valley
The Amelia Project
How I Died
Sherlock & Co.
Scp Find Us Alive
Ghost wax
The Penumbra Podcast
Where The Stars Fell
Archives 81
Tower 4
Woe.Begone
Wolf 359
Malevolent
Welcome to night Vale
Nowhere in Air
A bind for @renegadeguild 's 2025 Tiny Book Exchange! [An exchange where you typeset a smaller fic and then someone binds it for you! [or you only typeset a fic or just bind someone else's submitted typeset, ya got options]]
typeset made | bind made (you're here)
I got to bind @bossbot97 's lovely typeset of @croik 's Kane & Feels / Ghost Wax crossover: The Title of this Fic has been Redacted for your Safety! (which i'm realizing now I didn't get any other interior pictures ahhhh)
The finished book measures approx. 2"x 3"
Hey will open up commissions again soon? I will have money when are up to it, I'd like some more ghost wax art.
hi, thankyou for your interest! i don’t think commissions will be open anytime soon unfortunately, but your message inspired me this morning when i was sketching, so here are some more voncids! i’m still super behind on ghost wax, so my interpretation might be a bit off - forgive me!
<3 hopefully you enjoy!