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⚔️ BROADS AND BROADSWORDS VOLUME 3 PREORDERS ARE NOW OPEN! ⚔️

Broads and Broadswords is a charity zine and a celebration of varied women, varied genders, and the swords and blades that love them. This zine collects 80 pages of original color illustrations and comics made entirely by 60+ independent artists-- and no AI at all--in a perfect bound book, available in both digital and print format. All proceeds from the Broads and Broadswords zine will be split between the Transgender Law Center and Point of Pride.

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Our season 3 Kickstarter is live! Fawx & Stallion is a comedy-mystery podcast about the best detective team in London! Not that one. The other one. Across the street, and slightly to the left, at 224B Baker Street. We've successfully solved two mysteries, and we'll need your help to get a crack at a third! Scripts are written, pre-production has begun, and all we need is the funding to make this show's engine start in earnest!

Season one of the show was primarily self-financed, and season two's 10 episodes were crowdfunded and produced for $8000. For season 3, we are telling a story unlike any you've heard, with 12 full-cast episodes. Thank you to our Patreon members who have helped finance our pre-production and our wonderful team of five guest writers! For this season, we are asking for $10,000 to bring this sprawling, absurd, ambitious story to life.

We invite you to check out our crowdfunding page, which is live now, for more info on the season, our budget breakdown, and our fantastic set of rewards (early access! annotated Holmes stories! stickers! for the first time, the opportunity to name a character or provide walla for the show!)

In the interest of highlighting our rewards, take a look at our first set of 4 stickers, because we have an offer for you: help us get $3000 in pledges in the first 72 hours, and we'll add a FIFTH pride-themed sticker to all $30 and up tiers!

More info about the season under the cut!

the new season has been out since mid-April and we are already halfway through it. i know the WTNV team has been posting about it on their social channels for months leading up to it. i dont think we are doing anything differently, promotion-wise, than we did with the first three seasons which seemed to find their audience much more quickly.

personally i find it rather frustating given the amount of work we put into this show, but im not really sure what to do about it. i know part of it is down to the fact that audiofiction is a far more competitive field than it used to be, and there's also so much noise and chaos in the world these days that its hard to find anything, and so many terrible problems that fiction feels less important.

1.) a mild oversaturation problem in the audio drama space. back in the day, and by that i mean the early 2010's, night vale/night vale presents projects were a dime a dozen and made people aware that podcasts could even be used as vehicles for storytelling. nowadays, there's SO MUCH stuff coming out on a monthly, and, dare i say, weekly basis at this point that getting lost in the shuffle of new content is inevitable

2.) alice isn't dead came out about a decade ago, around the same time as night vale's peak in popularity, so people losing track of a sequel being in production is mildly understandable

3.) a harsh truth is that the general fascination of the audio drama space has almost always been about white men with either heavily implied or canon homoerotic relationships with other white men. wlw, especially if they're woc, are treated as a divisive niche in the long run and just don't attract the tumblr hordes always looking for their new white boy of the week

4.) social media has changed. a lot. i blame all of this on the twitter takeover that used to be one of the best places to advertise audio drama back in the day (i would know, i was there) but ever since the change in ownership, people had to gravitate more to different platforms and rebuild their following from scratch on websites that aren't quite suited for promoting shows (that's not to say you can't build a substantial following, of course. it's always possible.)

the new season has been out since mid-April and we are already halfway through it. i know the WTNV team has been posting about it on their social channels for months leading up to it. i dont think we are doing anything differently, promotion-wise, than we did with the first three seasons which seemed to find their audience much more quickly.

personally i find it rather frustating given the amount of work we put into this show, but im not really sure what to do about it. i know part of it is down to the fact that audiofiction is a far more competitive field than it used to be, and there's also so much noise and chaos in the world these days that its hard to find anything, and so many terrible problems that fiction feels less important.

The death of all "social" media didn't help either. Whenever I people watch now (and I do it myself) it's just doom scrolling to death, with the algorithm feeding me, not getting what I actually want to follow. (Bluesky and Tumblr behave better, but they have nothing like the numbers twitter did.)

This has been a long time coming, we're beyond excited to finally have reached the point where we can say:

Please join us on Kickstarter to help make Beck's End, our atmospheric folk horror audio drama, a reality!

We're working with some fantastic people to make this happen, and we are absolutely certain you'll love what we're making. Once the show is made it will be released for free, in full, for everyone (the Shadows at the Door guarantee!) but in order for that to happen, we need some help in the coming month. Please support our campaign if you can, any amount you can spare will help, and if you cannot – trust us, we know what the times are like – a reblog, or a share, or a "hey look at this thing I found on tumblr" to a friend or a discord server will all be massively appreciated too. The AD community on here is one of the best corners of the internet, and we can't wait to bring you a brand new show to love!

The pilot episode of Everyone Leaves Alive is now available for your listening enjoyment!

Everyone Leaves Alive is a musical audio drama about a struggling indie rock band that secretly solves paranormal problems. Life on the road isn’t easy when you’ve gotta worry about counteracting the more traditional “kill the beast”-style monster hunters and negotiating a fair contract for performing a gig for the Fae King. But with friendship, humor, a dash of queer romance, and the occasional sing-along, our plucky rock band just might prevail—and even get their shit together enough to finish recording their single.

You can listen here on Apple Podcasts, here on Spotify, and it should be filtering down to the rest of the podcatchers soon. If there’s a particular listening platform you’d like to hear it on, reach out and I’ll see about getting it added there. You can also check out our website for more info, including an episode transcript.

roughly in order of duration:

Paddleboat - existential experimental microfiction (12 episodes, ~25 mins)

Generation Crossing - scifi album that made me sob uncontrollably 😁 (~1h 40mins)

The Goblet Wire - extremely cool surreal microfiction (~2h)

Land's End: A Shepherd's Tale - vv cool short folk horror with scary sheep and gay people (5 episodes, ~2h)

The Tower - reflective & gorgeous & strange, 3 short seasons all of extremely manageable length & then a 2-part finale that ripped me apart <3 (~4 and a half hours altogether but you dont need to listen all at once)

Camlann - i actually feel like you might have heard this one before? if not i think it's up your alley. really cool mythological post-apocalypse fantasy w really gorgeously real-feeling characters (~4h 20mins)

SINKHOLE - cool weird fiction w/ unique framing device & world (2 seasons, ~5h altogether)

Conversations With Ghosts - pretty much what it sounds like lol. it's about 6 and a half hours altogether but the episodes are a v digestible length & i think knowing you like Remnants this might be a good pick for you thematically :)

for individual episodes i will also put forth The Cryptonaturalist, which in the past has been one of my go-to shows when i've been in a listening slump. episodes are about 20 mins and don't require you to follow an overarching plot it has a lovely overall feeling of wonder and weirdness and nature :) and also features a poetry interlude each episode. helps me get back in a podcast-friendly frame of mind

+ here they are in podcard form - not all the cards r fully complete atp but hopefully still useful to have a bit more of a visual format & trailers all on one page :D

As we continue working towards Season Two, and on the anniversary of Season One, please enjoy our second minisode! Titled "1985"

Find it at the link below, or wherever you get your podcasts.

Content Warning: Static, themes of captivity and surveillance, and implied torture. Listener discretion is advised.

The Holmwood Foundation is a Found Footage Horror-Fiction Podcast, a modern-day sequel to the gothic novel Dracula.

We follow Maddie Townsend (Rebecca Root) and Jeremy Larkin (Seán Carlsen), two co-workers at the Holmwood Foundation: a secret organisation that has been maintaining and studying the remains of Count Dracula for the last 130 years, as they are possessed by the ghosts of Jonathan and Mina Harker, and embark on a nightmare road trip, carrying Dracula's severed head across the UK, in an effort to stop him once and for all.

EPISODE CAST AND CREW: Asset #6/Elena - Jackie Calistahhh Young Jonathan Harker 3rd - Jonathon Carley Scientist - Anusia Battersby The episode was produced and written by Georgia Cook and Fio Trethewey. Directing by Samuel Clemens. Script Editing by Katharine Armitage. Sound Design and Engineering by Benji Clifford The Theme music was composed and produced by Duncan Muggleton, and the episode art was produced by Georgia Cook

For more information, as well as transcripts and further Cast and Crew details, please visit our official website:

www.theholmwoodfoundation.com

Happy Pride! Queer people have been around for a very long time - here's some medieval examples.