podcast and freshwater fish enthusiast

"There are no mountains in Saskatoon."

Currently In My Listen Roster (They might be on hiatus or finished as a series, but I'm not caught up yet.)

Hi Nay: It'll give you one piece of information and then later another piece of information, and then you'll have a moment where you make a connection and realize that such and such character is the character you heard about in the other episode.

World Gone Wrong: Captures the experience of going through a crisis and still having to worry about the mundane aspects of life.

Under the Electric Stars: Quality cyberpunk.

Heinous Investigations: Quality hijinks.

Witchpunk: Also quality cyberpunk.

Mabel: Very avant-garde.

Hymns for the Road: The supernatural threats aren't scary because they're supernatural; they're scary because they're abusive shitheads.

Wolf 359: Season Two has been mining the Season One finale for every bit of Consequences, and I love it.

Hannahpocalypse: It's doing it's own thing, and I will always respect that in a piece of art.

InCo: Come, micro-dose on a haughty prince getting bullied each episode by someone he thinks himself better than.

Red Valley: Every episode has me wanting to immediately listen to the next one to find out what's going on!

The Harbingers: The intrigue! The mystery! The unreliable narrators! This one deserves a massive fan base, and everyone should go listen to it right now.

Eeler's Choice: It has giant eels and B. Narr.

The Kingmaker Histories: Excellent shenanigans. Just loads of fun.

Back Again, Back Again: It's a deconstruction of Magical Teenager Chosen One fantasy.

Tales From the Singing Porch: A nice little unsettling tale each episode.

Project Gnosis: It's like an anime you can solely listen to!

Old Gods of Appalachia: It's an exploration of the awful underbelly of U.S. history.

The Strange Case of Starship Iris: The crew is being covertly recorded, and upon learning this, they began to act differently and say different things.

Two Thousand and Late: Very snappy back and forth dialogue.

Where the Stars Fell: I love the dynamic between the two leads.

Malevolent: Threshold: This is a great follow up to a great series.

Welcome to Night Vale: There are not many shows that can run for as many seasons as WtNV and still get a laugh out of the audience.

The Black Chest: The episodic stories are engaging.

Station 404: Great humor. Bingeing this one cheered me up on a day when I was feeling absolutely awful.

Star Files: This one just started, but I think it's neat.

Welcome to Isaiah: This one just started, but I like that it was inspired by AI psychosis.

Dominus: This one just started, but I'm here for the priest yaoi.

The Lion and the Adder: This one just started, but the lead is delightful.

The Mechadova Engine: This one just started, but the lead's enthusiasm is infectious.

The Disappearances of Lydia Fountayne: This one just started, but the reveal at the end of the pilot has me hooked.

Dustwalker: The characters are conspiring to overthrow the shitty government without the story bending over backwards to try to convince me that they're paragons of saintliness.

Twigs and Hearts: The Fey through the lens of 1950s sitcoms.

On Hiatus/Between Seasons

The Magnus Protocol: A really great follow up to one of the greatest audio dramas out there.

The Gospel of Haven: Gorgeous opening music, a solid story, and fascinating worldbuilding.

Camp Here and There: Toxic yaoi in Ohio!

Killjam XXX: Brilliant satire and action.

Camlann: Really interesting worldbuilding.

Project: Daydream: What if, instead of a character who was a trans woman dying, she was revealed to have superpowers instead?

Ones I Finished That Shouldn't Be Forgotten

The Pasithea Powder: Please listen to this one. It's amazing. Just wonderful intrigue and plot arcs.

The Magnus Archives: If you're somehow reading a post about audio dramas and are unfamiliar with The Magnus Archives, yeah, this is another one of the greats. Please go listen to all 200 episodes. Highlight is the worldbuilding.

Unwell: Just absolutely wonderful. This is another standout audio drama. The character work is the highlight.

Mirrors: It does both it's horror and scifi aspects really well.

The Silt Verses: Wonderfully done satire. Absolutely heartbreaking. This is another one of the greats.

Sheeple Chase: A delightful addition to the Magnus storyverse.

Except that you weren't close enough to anyone in uni to do that. And that seems wildly incongruous with your personality. So something fucked up is happening here. Something potentially dangerous, with a very strong memetic effect.

But nobody at work seems alarmed by your tattoos. "What's the confusion," they say, "you've always had those". It still might be a dangerous anomaly, but the much more obvious answer is that your memories have been wiped, which is pretty common in your line of work. It's best not to go poking at this sort of thing in case the memories themselves are dangerous, but you cna't help it -- you keep your eyes open and your mind focused, and you learn that, yes, you used to do different work in this organisation. You used to be extremely highly ranked in this organisation. You do not know what you did or experienced to get mindwiped and demoted and shunted away somewhere else, but you hope you were a victim and not a perpetrator. You do not know why you are covered in tattoos.

Then one day you take a sharp implement to your body, gouge a strange sigil into your flesh, and are teleported to a big room full of strangers. You do not know why you have done this. You have never seen this sigil before in your life.

These strangers all know you. They treat you with a level of respect and deference that you have no memory of experiencing before. They are all also covered in tattoos, and not nearly alarmed enough for the situation; they seem to know where they are and what to do. They talk about "the reset" and "the entity" as if they assume that you know what's going on, even though they catch on pretty quickly that you've been amnestitised. They are all discussing the possibility of living their whole lives in an underground interdimensional bunker with some level of grim resignation but not nearly enough upset, as if this scenario is old ground for them. You are hearing of the potential for perpetual imprisonment down here for the first time and trying very hard not to visibly freak out.

Harley: Why? If we ever get out of here, they're only going to get amnestetized again.