#remnants

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[msrinran]

I hope he is a yearner. Like the yearnest yearner. Even more than Casper. I want him to be head over heels for MC. I want him to love, desire, yearn, be jealous. Release all his pent-up feelings onto MC.

[amilva]

"The First and Last Place" from @remnantspod with Sir and Apprentice

[thejakeformerlyknownasprince]

Do you have any thoughts on the Remnants series? Because I always see people talk about how frightening they found the Animorphs series as kids, and while a lot of the horror in that series went over my head, Remnants was absolutely terrifying.

I haven't finished the series, but! A few thoughts on Remnants:

I love how prescient the depictions of Earth in the 2020s end up being. Jobs's parents' music is "whiny emo stuff" from the turn of the millennium, cars have gotten self-driving but still suck, and trust in the U.S. government is at rock bottom.

TBH, the big thing Remnants is missing for me is the within-team love and support of Animorphs. I said the same thing about Everworld and Gone (also series I gave up on ~3 books in), but if you're going to surround your protagonists with horror, you have GOT to have something warm or comforting to balance that out. The Mayflower crew distrusting each other AND being under constant attack by the alien ship just makes the series feel too relentless with not enough humor or love to balance it out. At some point the 40th terrible thing happening to Jobs or Mo'Steel in a single day isn't so much horrifying as it is exhausting to read.

Relatedly, the other issue with Remnants is that it'd be a pretty good horror novel, but it's marketed as (and in many ways kind of tries to be) a sci fi adventure story. I can take a guess as to why — if I was Scholastic I'd also be pumping this as the spiritual sequel to Animorphs — but it's Procrustean as hell.

That series is begging to be YA, even though it predates YA genre conventions. It would work so much better as a trilogy of big meaty stories (see: Endling, which is spectacular) than as fourteen choppy little novels. As it is, each novel feels like it doesn't so much tell an episode in the survivors' lives as, like, half an episode, followed by a cliffhanger for the next book.

Speaking of Endling: holy hell does Remnants need to be illustrated. I don't often say that, but. "Mother Ship tried to recreate Earth, but all she had to work from was Hieronymus Bosch paintings" is such a cool concept for me as an adult... and it completely flew over my head as a kid. And I was that weird freaky horror-obsessed kid who literally had printouts of Bosch paintings hanging on my bedroom walls — I'm about as close to the target audience as you can get! But there's just too much going on in that story for the concept to come across. I wish it'd been illustrated, or even better been published as a comic book.

So, like: there's a lot of good stuff in there, but I don't think it hangs together into a page-turner whole. And more than anything, I think it's forced into the wrong genre.

[whiskereatsmeow]

me when im soooo cute and my name is hanni and i live with my friends at the survivors stand and i like to pounce on things

[remnantspod]

It's Remnants' first birthday!

Crazy that it's been a whole year since this show launched. It's had over 120k downloads, some beautiful fan works, incredibly engaged fans unpicking its mysteries and some gorgeous coverage from podcast reviewers and journalists.

Happy birthday Remnants!

[vestaclinicpod]

Audio Drama Sunday - 3rd May ✨

🦁 New minisode for The Lion and the Adder by @monstrousproductions !! What a wonderful introduction to a character who I am sure is going to become such a huge favourite of mine as the show goes on. I would have been sitting there with my head on my chin asking for more details about this porridge situation. What a woman!! Pretty please support the TLATA crowdfunder if you can!! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/monstrousproductions/thelionandtheadder 

🦋 @remnantspod (49) Oh, this show loves to let me feel like I’m getting an understanding of what’s going on before fully pulling the rug out from beneath my audio drama feet! Edward???? TWO Edwards??? What do you mean??!! Who was that voice??!!! Remnants, I love you and I am so confused!  

👻 @tellnotalespod (S2E5-6.5) That phone conversation between Leo and Julia broke me all over again. Especially with the context that something really is wrong with Riley! As usual, Julia is right!!  I’m so excited for the return of the show next week!! 

🚚  Don’t Tell Alice (2) Oooh, this creative team do twisty, reality bending horror so well and this episode was no different. I love weird horror and Alice Isn’t Dead can always be relied up to be Weird. Keisha seems to be back in our reality, we’d be foolish to presume that means that she’s safe! 

🦭  Okay, so I didn’t exactly relisten to @twelvelms this week but this is a PSA that getting your friends into your fave audio dramas is a gift that GIVES. Leon ( @tellnotalespod) and I have been yapping about Twelvelms non-stop this week and he raised so many interesting points that I hadn’t considered. This show has depths, people!!! (Pun fully embraced) LISTEN TO TWELVELMS!  

💀 Our Wars Have Ended by @thesiltverses (2) God, I love this show already!! Complex familial relationships on a bedrock of complex societal relationships is *chef’s kiss*. The voice acting from the entire cast was remarkable but a special shout out to the Morels, I felt that exchange about who would ride into the forest as a lump in my own throat. The sound design of that action scene was so good as well!! 

🌵 @desertskiespodcast (19) Ohhh CASH 😭 I need robogirl to get back to Desert Skies and experience love from real friends! 

Have a great week! 💫