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I am SO glad the public is rediscovering the joys of listening to audio plays, and damn well hope we can get some more variety. currently BBC Radio is doing amazing things with audio dramas (but the availability on their website is...not great. some shows pop up on archive.org before getting taken down for copyright, so pirate it when possible).

I would be remiss to not mention that this also means that the queer rep is better in audiodrama than any other medium. As someone who is ace, I can name a couple ace characters in all other media, I could name 10 canonically ace audiodrama characters off the top of my head.

If anyone is reading this and looking for some suggestions, check out my website or send me an ask. I listen to every genre except horror and have 100+ recs, searchable and filterable.

⚔️ 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.

By reblogging this post you are also a part of our GIVEAWAY! Two winners will be drawn at the end of the pre-order period and one winner will receive a free copy of the Volume 3 digital zine, the other will receive a free copy of the Volume 3 physical zine. (If you win the giveaway but already purchased the zine, you will be refunded in full.) You can only reblog once a day, but the more reblogs, the better your odds, so keep at it! Pricing details and shipping costs below the cut ⚔️

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!