Tales From the Singing Porch

🌘 A folktale-fiction anthology podcast 🌒 Created by Maya 🎧 and Joe 🪶 Pull up a chair wherever you get your podcasts!

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🔮 Listen now wherever you get your podcasts!

🏕️ If this is your first time, Tales From the Singing Porch is a folktale-fiction anthology podcast. The Singing Porch is a magical place where stories creak and whisper under the floorboards, with each episode lovingly brought to life with award-winning sound and music.

🦋 Maya and I believe in making great fiction, and we know the oral tradition is the best way to tell a story. So, we created Tales From the Singing Porch to bring the magic of campfire folktales to life and directly to your ears!

🌼 Well… aren’t you just a teensy bit interested? Make sure to give us a follow and listen to the Singing Porch—you’re welcome here with us anytime. 😉

[betsmusings]

As Pride Month comes to an end, I just want to remind you that July is Disability Pride Month and there's a flag and everything!

Charcoal Grey: Mourning for people who have died due to ableist violence, abuse, suicide, and illness

Red Stripe: Physical disabilities

Gold Stripe: Neurodiversity

Blue Stripe: Emotional and psychiatric disabilities

Green Stripe: Sensory disabilities

White Stripe: Undiagnosed and invisible disabilities

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Happy Disability Pride Month!!

If you’ve listened to the Singing Porch and know of a way I could make it more accessible for you or for other listeners, I’d love to chat :)

[stars-bean]

The Secret Garden (1993) dir. Agnieszka Holland

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And on those perfectly still nights, when no one was looking, that old beautiful swing---the one quietly tended by witches and wise folk---would sway gently under the moonlight, or the early morning sun. See, the wind needed a place to relax too! And what could be more fun for the wind, than to take a journey on the back of something else, away from the demands of the world and its weather. Swish, sway, swish, sway...

[prinz-myshkin]

bird on water

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🐺 he’s actually a really nice guy, once you get past the manipulation blazer!

🏕️ If you want to see all the horrible things that happen BECAUSE of said manipulation blazer, listen to floorboard 14, The Salesman.

🌙 Now that we’re on our break, it’s the perfect time to catch up on any episodes you might’ve missed—let us know what your favorites are!

🍄 Video description: a shadow puppet of a man in a suit with a wolf’s face enters the frame. The angle shifts, and a handsome man’s face emerges. The man then walks in place. The video is framed by branching dead trees, and in the corners of the frame, there is a suit coat, a hunting rrįflẽ, and claw marks.

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🐝 Listen to the full story of The Blade and the Bee wherever you get your podcasts!

🪻 Happy Pride y’all, this one was written for those who’ve fallen in love with someone who could not love them back. So go find your mycelium! Go be loved in a beautifully life affirming, reciprocal way. The grass is greenest where your roots run deep. :)

🍄 Floorboard 15: In a field full of wildflowers, a Blade of grass falls in love with a Bee. But as the Blade grows, it finds that love is not always kind.

[artistsanimals]

From: Grimm’s Animal Stories Publisher: Duffield and Company, 1909 Source: Archive.org

[unusual-suspects]

messenger by kent ambler

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Dragon these………

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Perhaps there was once some fascisty king was seizing power, and, in doing so, burned down a grand old library. But! In that same kingdom, there was a great green dragon who loved reading more than anything.

So the dragon sheltered the fleeing peasants in her lair, killed the tyrant king herself, and made his old castle into an even grander library.

Then in her own happy ever after, the dragon read so much that ink rubbed off on her scales, and she became covered in bits of stories like a collage!

And now whenever that great green dragon is depicted in the people’s art, her scales are covered in text. Which is how we got the beautiful illustration we have here!

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🩸Listen to the full story of The Salesman wherever you get your podcasts!

🐗 if you’ve ever seen our content but weren’t sure about jumping in—just listen to this episode, that’s allllll I ask. I promise you’ll have fun. 😉

I’ve never made audio fiction that feels as fully realized as this episode does, and I’m just really proud, everyone worked so so hard on it. So please, if you give it a listen, let me know what you think!! I’d love to hear it

🏔️Floorboard 14: Young Klaus Apero knows that it is going to be a hard winter for his little village. Then, the Salesman knocks on the Apero’s door to sell them something they cannot refuse.

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We had a week of crazy storms in Chicago, but the blackouts just meant my shadow puppets got even cozier!!

Take a wiiiiiillld guess—do you think Monday’s episode is gonna be sweet? Or s c a r y ? ☺️

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Another sketchbook page, I added in the red background digitally.

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☔️ Hehehehe It’s just a little November gale, what could go wrong?

🌅 Here’s another favorite moment from our second episode of the season, The Wreck of the SS Steadfast! If you’re not quite there yet, don’t worry about it! The Singing Porch is a full anthology, so you’re welcome to listen/skip/skip around for whatever stories suit your fancy :)

I hope you enjoy it 🙂‍↔️

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🧶 Listen to the full story of The Day Martha Started Knitting wherever you get your podcasts!

🧙‍♀️ This story was written for Joe’s brilliant grandma (who will never see this post), and for all the blunt, caring crafters in his and Maya’s family.

🧵 Floorboard 13: On the first day that Martha started knitting, no one had a clue what she was doing. But as she kept on knitting and knitting away, she ignites a hope that changes the world forever.

[thetransgenderprideworm]

For pride month everyone should have to listen to their trans friends favorite gay audio drama

[cowgirl-yogurt]

For pride month everyone should have to listen to audio dramas by trans people.

[thegospelofhaven]

Some incredible trans created audio drama:

The Tower by @tincanaudio

Station Blue by Ester Ellis

The Lion and the Adder by @monstrousproductions

Literally anything by @lawofnamesmedia

There's so many more, please share your favorites

(and us, obviously, I am a trans creator too!)

[boombox-fuckboy]

Tales From The Singing Porch (an anthology of original folk tales) makes me feel almost exactly the same way as a lot of Studio Ghibli films do. That whimsy that feels just a step out of, but not disconnected from, the modern world, and is inexplicable but in a way we simply accept, because that's how things are. A mystery and enticing uncertainty that can turn grand and beautiful, or occasionally sad and sinister, at the drop of a hat. Something just at the edge of a dream. It's delightful. Also, beautiful music.

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Uhh I will perhaps will cry over this tonight, to be honest this means the world 🥺

[thelionheartacademyofmagic]

Fallen Memories is crowdfunding now! It’s a full cast audio drama with immersive sound design and a captivating original score. Help support the show at https://crowdfundr.com/FallenMemories