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Thank you to Bob Raymonda (of the amazing audio dramas Forgive Me! and Windfall) for including our most recent episode in his weekly audio drama wrapup newsletter!
If you're an audio drama fan looking to discover new work on the scene, his roundups are varied, thoughtful, and super fun--we've found tons of shows through it as fans ourselves! We can't recommend subscribing (for free!) enough!
Favorite female podcast characters
Okay I know it’s almost the end of International Women’s Day, but I wanted to list my favorite podcast ladies
Evelyn from Less is Morgue
Antigone Funn from Wooden Overcoats
Dr. Marella Morgan from Primordial Deep
Talia from Desperado
Sister Carpenter from The Silt Verses
Dusty from Starship Q Star
Gayle Kruger from Two Flat Earthers Kidnap a Free Mason
JJ Armstrong from Mockery Manor
Kilner from We Fix Space Junk
Madge Stallion from Fawx & Stallion
Tamika Flynn from Welcome to Nightvale
Lily Harper from Unwell
Helina from Windfall
Mahira Varma from Valence
Collette Guise, Ariadne Culver, Clytemnestra Seedeater, and Jenny Ostertag from the Kingmaker Histories
Mama Gabe, Ed Tucker, Sufi, Lucy Kensington from Where the Stars Fell
Daughter Dooly, Polly Barrow, Granny Underwood, The Walker Sisters & the Dead Queen from Old Gods of Appalachia
In conclusion:
Happy almost Valentine's Day! Please enjoy this year's roundup of silly cards for a few of my favorite shows 💗
It's hardly love if there's no years-long fixation on The Vanishing Act
LETTUCE BEGIN to read our medical informational pamphlets with The Pasithea Powder (they get two because I said so)
What are the odds I'll make another Valentine for Inn Between next year?
It's an old-school goofy fandom-style Valentine for Unwell
...Interpret this how you will, on Moonbase Theta, Out
Only one type of joke I could think of to be awful enough for the big bad of Murray Mysteries
And of course, what's Valentine's Day without a little anti-Valentine sentiment for a certain despicable someone over on Windfall?
Sunday Audio Drama Recs!
Happy Sunday from Team Vanishing Act! Here are four more shows we love that we think you will love too!
1) Death By Dying: This show is an all time Hall of Fame favorite round these parts (these parts being our hearts? I guess, idk, lost the trail of that metaphor). Death By Dying is about the Obituary Writer in a small town, and every episode is centered around an obituary he is writing (or will write by the end of the episode). There is literally nothing we don’t love about this show, from it’s dark, wry tone to its hilarious worldbuilding to its genuine creepiness to its ability to turn on a dime from silly to genuinely melancholic and deeply touching. There are so many memorable characters (the Button-Eyed Raven, the Slapper, Pastor Jeff) and bits (the apricot battle in the town market, OW’s immaculate fashion sense, Gert, the line “he wasn’t the talk of the town, but he was the talker of the town”) Over the course of the five main-plot episodes it goes on a truly, insanely well-crafted journey with one of those tone shifts in the last act that feels at once like a huge twist but also inevitable and right. It reminds me so much of Over the Garden Wall in its final episode and I mean that in the best way possible--spooky and dark but also oddly comforting, existentially sad but also life affirming and hopeful. This show means a lot to us here and we hope you’ll give it a shot. Find them @deathbydyingpod
2) Windfall: Alright it’s acton-adventure time, y’all! This show has it all: a full, sweeping instrumental score; a sprawling large-cast fantasy/sci-fi action adventure vibe; reluctant, flawed, morally grey heroes; saying “fuck capitalism”; intricate, lived-in worldbuilding; some of the best voice talent out there; etc etc etc. The show takes place in the nation of Windfall--ever since a castle appeared in the sky, the city has been built upward towards it rather than out, and in a sort of vertical Snowpiercer move, the wealthy live further up, with the poorer classes down below. Our protagonists are a series of “grounders” who get tangled up with the business going on upstairs when one of their own is recruited into the military police (the Wolfpac), creating ripples among our cast that force them to decide where they stand. It’s a grand adventure in every sense told incredibly well--the writing on this show is some of the best you’ll find out there in audio drama and it’s executed in a fantastically immersive way that I hope will sweep you away like it did to me. (Not on tumblr, but find them on twitter here.)
3) Palimpsest: Gothic, atmospheric, psychological anthology fiction fans, this one is 100% gonna be for you. The first season of Palimpsest tells the story of Anneliese, who records an audio diary as she moves into a new house after a breakup, still dealing with the death of her sister--the story is very much a slow burn tale of Anneliese being haunted by the memories of the house, but also bringing her own haunting to the house. Horror stories like this need to be threaded so carefully--they have to keep that slow simmer at just the right level to feel like it could bubble over at any moment, and they have to know when to let it loose. Palimpsest knows what its doing, and rest assured you’re in good hands--trust these fantastic creators. As mentioned, its an anthology series, with a different setting and protagonist each season (season two is set in the 19th century, season three during the Blitz in London), with a common thread connecting them all, so choose what appeals to you! (Not on tumblr but find them on Twitter here.)
4) The Magnus Archives: I almost definitely don’t need to sell this here, it’s fantastic and has deserved love and acclaim--but we do love it and want to shout out what we love about it! We started listening around Halloween of last year and shot through two seasons in a very short period of time. If you want that perfect marriage of horror anthology and overarching slow build narrative, this is really the perfect example. The first season eases you in to the general concept with one-off stories of various people’s experiences with the supernatural entities, which they report to The Magnus Institute--these reports are read aloud by the Archivist, who we get to know personally as time goes on and he becomes less and less skeptical and more and more entangled with said supernatural entities. You, the listener, start to slowly hear commonalities, you hear names come up that you’ve heard before and recognize similar experiences from subject to subject, and the show trusts you to piece these together yourself early on, to be an active part of the narrative alongside Jon. It makes it feel like such an interactive, immersive, addictive experience, and you want to keep listening because you don’t want to lose track of the threads you’re connecting. Even when you don’t know the characters who work for the Archives that well yet, the stories are genuinely scary (the cave diving episode in particular is true Nightmare Fuel and an excellent stand-alone horror story), and when you do get to know them, it’s even scarier because you care about them getting caught up in this terrifying world where there are no rules of fairness and true evil runs free. (Also there’s a whole meta-narrative about how it feels to be a millennial stuck in a job you hate that actively seems to be set out to kill you in horrible ways and it. is. RELATABLE.) (Don’t think they’re on tumblr, but find them on Twitter here.)
If you love these shows, please consider leaving them a review on Apple Podcasts or Podchaser so they can get the word out to more potential listeners!
Previous recommendation posts: one, two, three, four, five, six.
Pick one of my fave podcast character then listen to the podcast they’re from
Liam Alden (Valence)
Helina (Windfall)
Ed Tucker (Where the Stars Fell)
Madge Stallion (Fawx & Stallion)
Dusty (Starship Q Star)
Talia (Desperado)
Argeaux (Caravan)
Jenny Ostertag (Kingmaker Histories)
JJ Armstrong (Mockery Manor)
Arthur Lester (Malevolent)
after that windfall/forgive me crossover, i feel like i need to make a marina & the diamonds “oh no!” edit for root
Wanda: Root! Why do my loyal subjects hate me so? Root: You sure you want to know that? Wanda: Yes! Lay it on me! Root: *takes a deep breath while unrolling a comically long list*
