#tanispodcast

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Geoff Van Sant seems to always want to talk to Nic over beer. One would almost think he’s asking him out...

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Tanis conspiracy theories

Hey @ pnws fandom, just finished a relisten of season 2 today and I have a huge craving for meta, theories, and wild speculation to prep for the release of 301 in less than a month. So pull on your tin foil hat, get out your red string and push pins, and let’s do this.

To start:

1. Anyone else think Geoff is an agent not of the Cult of Tanis or Cameron Ellis, but in fact sent by Tanis itself to rope Nic into the whole adventure? Or it was trying to do that with Karl first and then picked Geoff later?

1a. Geoff is Karl.

2. The author of the Eld Fen manuscript, who was a student/mentee/friend of some sort of John Coroman’s, mentioned meeting Coroman in college. The author originally studied philosophy but switched to writing. The author also mentioned the relationship lasted like 20 years I think? So that puts the author’s age around 38? And the author and Coroman were both living in Seattle. Might need to double check all my facts. But sounds like maybe Morgan Miller? Or even wilder theory, Karl van Zant?

3. One theory that’s not mine but that I’ve seen floating around is that the cabin in 112 wasn’t actually Tanis and was instead a distraction from Tanis. Either that or like the dark side of Tanis, like Culty Paul mentioned, about Tanis having both a dark and light side?

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Started listening to Tanis. 

I have fallen right down the rabbit hole.

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Let's talk about @tanispodcast from Public Radio Alliance and Minnow Beats Whale. Tanis has been giving us the *fictional* suspenseful creeps since 2015. And I have a love/hate relationship with it. 😅 Nic Silver is a radio producer at a faux NPR-type radio station in the Pacific Northwest of the US, when he comes across references to a word/thing/place(?) called Tanis. Tanis is a myth/idea that's been mentioned off and on since Egyptian times. So Nic starts with history and hires a top level hacker, MK, to help him research Tanis across the internet, though posts are few and far between and sometimes disappear quickly. As Nic goes deeper down the hole we begin to fear for his safety; dreams, strange feelings, lost time, the occult, locations in the forest, standing stones...if you follow Nic down this path, you will never be able to explain this without a crazy wall collage of scraps of paper and string. And that's part of what I love about it, complex plots, decent character development, suspense, myths, occultism, creepy history. It's a wild ride, and I'm down to listen to it. Right down to the keyboards meets odd sounds and reverb music lightly playing under the "segments". So what urks me. *Sigh* Well, in our modern world of misinformation and "fake news" crap, TANIS and its sister podcasts, The Black Tapes, Rabbits, and The Last Movie, (but TANIS especially), go out of their way to pretend that they're true stories. Interweaving and blurring history, mythology, current events, actual sites with fictional backstories; which would be fun, but that they claim Nic is actually experiencing all this. Going so far as to say they've changed names to protect the innocent, doing shows with a tip line with fans suggesting solutions to the mystery; and the website doesn't much clarify that the "reality" is fiction either. Maybe it's just my pet peeve, but this one thing really sticks in my craw--taking the "Serial-esque host falls into something beyond imagining" #podtrope to this degree. All that said, it will hook you in. If you like Limetown, Magnus Archives vibes, or what if Aaron Mahnke literally fell into the World of Lore, than this pod is for you.

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Went to the coast. Saw some trees, spent sometime with an apple by the ocean listening to #tanispodcast #indiaink #tanispod #pentelpocketbrush #lowbrowsurrealism https://www.instagram.com/p/Bp0Cm65hD9F/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=6myv0ab9c9xc

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DAE headcanon Nic as Michael Cera? Maybe not completely him but someone soft and small, quiet and gentle. Cera is the first who comes to my mind but I know there are better faces out there for him... might also look good as Fabrizio Moretti now that I think about it.

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Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

I know Geoff isn’t who he says he is buT I STILL SHIP HIM AND NIC SO BADLY

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NIC NO DO NOT TALK TO CAMERON ELLIS NICODEMUS DO NOT