CriggsyCat

James Edwards (he/him)

Sound Designer/Editor

James is an Audio Engineer with a Bachelors of Audio from SAE University College. He's an experienced and passionate practitioner with time spent in music production, audio for film and live sound.

Reintroducing (in order of S1 appearance):

Lea Lawson as Ainsley

Ani Rey as Calypso

Jason Francey as Michael

Bella C. Garcia as Cady

Sparrow Delgado as Caroline and Father Alexius

Jesse May as Deacon Samuel

Alex Chew as Niko

Rae Lundberg as Landon

Matt Bartlett as Tim

Alex Povey as the Courier

These folks have been working together to make Season 1 happen, along with the crew we know and love from Season 0: Chloe Briggs, Eva J Hansen Smith, Ani Engdahl, and myself Haven Gay,

Happy audio drama Sunday! I went to another city to visit my friend yesterday, and the trains were horrifying but the city was cool. Plus, a long train journey means a lot of podcast episodes. Hopefully other people got the chance to do something new this week.

🧟‍♂️ Radio San Lazaro — 0.1 (Prologue 1) Patience: Zero - 0.3 (Prologue 3) You Can Sleep When You’re Dead: prologue three ruined my life. This new series is about a city trying to keep going after the zombie apocalypse. It’s also kinda light, and the first three episodes are told through virtual meetings, by people who’ve heard about some disease going round and want to work from home. I wasn’t that engaged by prologue one, except for liking/hating the appropriate characters. Prologue two started getting interesting — but prologue three was intense and the sound design was horrifying. I even started warming towards the awful boss at the very end. Can’t wait for more episodes.

🦈 Beneath the Cosmic Waves — Episode 7: Sharks in the Water: okay, this is the episode where I thought it properly got good. Firstly, Evelyn was great in this episode and it had great stakes. Secondly, the characters have developed! Thirdly, BtCW is really good at making voices echo in large spaces, which is such a specific compliment but the only other podcast (that I can think of) that has that sense of location is Shelterwood.

👹 @theredactedunit — Postmortem: Hooked on Phonics: ooh, Eli and Sloane argued! This was kind of a tense episode, and it was cool hearing Eli lie for his team. Seems like he does that a lot more nowadays…

🏰 The Second Citadel — 2.28: The Spiral Sage (Part 1): the difference between Arum’s behaviour when he thinks he’s alone and when he hears Rilla’s voice is living rent-free in my brain.

The Season 0 Premiere begins now! Its first of three episodes "Patience: Zero" is out wherever you get the rest of your weird little fiction podcasts, and the second and third epidodes ("RE: FWD: The End Times" and "You Can Sleep When You're Dead") will be dropping in about 12 and 24 hours, respectively.

It takes place a year and a half before Season 1, and centers around the question "At what point during the end of the world will your boss tell you that you don't have to go to work anymore?" Overall I think it explores the upper and lower bounds of intensity for what will be found throughout the rest of the series.

Be advised of strong language, corporate bullshit from an insensitive manager, and of course zombies. Especially in the third episode (which is probably predictable enough it doesn't count as a spoiler, right?).

Season 0 features the voice talents of (in order of appearance) Alex Povey, Lea Lawson, Matt Bartlett, Bella Garcia, Jason Francey, Rae Lundberg, Sparrow Delgado, Jesse May, and Alex Chew; and lots of behind-the-scenes effort and expertise from Ani Engdahl, James Edwards, Eva J Hansen-Smith, Chloe Briggs, Ani Rey, and Haven Gay (that's me!).

For your enjoyment,

It's very fun releasing them all close together like this and getting everyone involved extra excited by making it An Event. 12 hours was about as close together as I was willing to go so as to try and avoid problems in the RSS feed – but we felt that since Season 0 is so short overall, it made sense to put it all out at once, relatively speaking.

I am so thrilled about how it turned out. Episode 2 started out as the weakest of Season 0, but the addition of a few scenes really made it shine. I'm so grateful to everyone involved for truly understanding (and often improving) the vision of this show.

And now the finale!

You can now listen to the full beginning, middle, and end of a zombie apocalypse show without even leaving this post! I mean, it will still take you an hour though, so... you can multitask.

I want to give a special shoutout to our sound folks on this episode, and a listener warning packaged with it. Ani E, with James' help, really took this episode beyond what we imagined – when Ani Rey and I first listened to the design of the instense scene that's flagged in the episode notes, we just sat in stunned silence for a few minutes. When writing episode 3, we had just expected a quick scream and a cutoff at that part. What they'd made with what Eva and the VA had provided (plus a certain sfx clip) was viscerally disturbing in such a masterful way that we couldn't not include it in the final cut.

And that's far from the only case of someone catching the vision of this project and delivering more than I imagined of it. Eva, our acting director, provided so much skill and professionalism to recording sessions and helped our VAs deliver amazing performances. Chloe, our production manager, did more behind the scenes stuff than I can count, and you'd probably be reading this in January of next year if not for her.

I can't wait for Season 1. Our writers Chloe, Quinn, Bel, Mya, and David have cooked up some amazing stories for your ears, and our cast (now up to nearly 30 people) has already begun bringing it to life in spectacular fashion.

We've got something special here, and we're going to keep making more of it as long as we can. Stay tuned.

The Season 0 Premiere begins now! Its first of three episodes "Patience: Zero" is out wherever you get the rest of your weird little fiction podcasts, and the second and third epidodes ("RE: FWD: The End Times" and "You Can Sleep When You're Dead") will be dropping in about 12 and 24 hours, respectively.

It takes place a year and a half before Season 1, and centers around the question "At what point during the end of the world will your boss tell you that you don't have to go to work anymore?" Overall I think it explores the upper and lower bounds of intensity for what will be found throughout the rest of the series.

Be advised of strong language, corporate bullshit from an insensitive manager, and of course zombies. Especially in the third episode (which is probably predictable enough it doesn't count as a spoiler, right?).

Season 0 features the voice talents of (in order of appearance) Alex Povey, Lea Lawson, Matt Bartlett, Bella Garcia, Jason Francey, Rae Lundberg, Sparrow Delgado, Jesse May, and Alex Chew; and lots of behind-the-scenes effort and expertise from Ani Engdahl, James Edwards, Eva J Hansen-Smith, Chloe Briggs, Ani Rey, and Haven Gay (that's me!).

For your enjoyment,

It's very fun releasing them all close together like this and getting everyone involved extra excited by making it An Event. 12 hours was about as close together as I was willing to go so as to try and avoid problems in the RSS feed – but we felt that since Season 0 is so short overall, it made sense to put it all out at once, relatively speaking.

I am so thrilled about how it turned out. Episode 2 started out as the weakest of Season 0, but the addition of a few scenes really made it shine. I'm so grateful to everyone involved for truly understanding (and often improving) the vision of this show.

The Season 0 Premiere begins now! Its first of three episodes "Patience: Zero" is out wherever you get the rest of your weird little fiction podcasts, and the second and third epidodes ("RE: FWD: The End Times" and "You Can Sleep When You're Dead") will be dropping in about 12 and 24 hours, respectively.

It takes place a year and a half before Season 1, and centers around the question "At what point during the end of the world will your boss tell you that you don't have to go to work anymore?" Overall I think it explores the upper and lower bounds of intensity for what will be found throughout the rest of the series.

Be advised of strong language, corporate bullshit from an insensitive manager, and of course zombies. Especially in the third episode (which is probably predictable enough it doesn't count as a spoiler, right?).

Season 0 features the voice talents of (in order of appearance) Alex Povey, Lea Lawson, Matt Bartlett, Bella Garcia, Jason Francey, Rae Lundberg, Sparrow Delgado, Jesse May, and Alex Chew; and lots of behind-the-scenes effort and expertise from Ani Engdahl, James Edwards, Eva J Hansen-Smith, Chloe Briggs, Ani Rey, and Haven Gay (that's me!).

For your enjoyment,

We plan to do this with complete transparency surrounding the movement of funds. Every month, we will publicly post our earnings from the Patreon, as well as where we have donated the funds to show that they have gone entirely to the causes we promised.

Some of the initial places we will be donating to are the Trans Continental Pipeline, a service for helping relocate transfolk from more hostile states to Colorado; and the Colorado Rapid Response Network, which actively helps protect communities from ICE, because ALL ICE activity is unjust.

Not all our funds will be going toward Colorado-specific organizations, and we will continue to search out additional recipients, but these first few are ones that are literally close to home for the show's producers. We personally know people who have been helped by TCP, as well as some of those volunteering with the organization. We also know people whose families have been targeted by ICE and who have been helped by the CRRN.

This is one of those non-poem things that are among my favorite poems.

As the OP stated, the use of alliterative consonants is aesthetically just great, especially the placement of the strongest use at the end: “fuck him on the floor.” The use of “chintz” is indeed great word choice.

Because I’m insane, decided to scan the poem:

Not only is the second sentence, indeed, perfect iambic pentameter, the entire poem is perfectly metered, though the first sentence has four iambs rather than five.

There are further things I love about this poem, though: I like the casual connotations of “keep it real” juxtaposed with “chintz.” It causes me to interpret the “chintz” more strongly as meaning something fake, a facade. There is also of course the coarseness of “fuck,” which is a contrast with “chintz” but a different kind of contrast, gutsy and carnal where “chintz” is flimsy and inanimate.

And then there is the storytelling: there is SO MUCH storytelling in just these two lines. To break it down: The speaker is having sex with a married man, in the house he shares with his wife, which is “filled with chintz”—something that here connotes fakeness, in contrast with “keep it real.”

The illicit encounter in the poem takes place within a house filled with facade, the flimsy construction of the wife’s marriage and domestic sphere, but the encounter itself is a taste of something “real.” That’s a story, and it’s just two lines.

This is EIGHTEEN SYLLABLES, y’all. The amount of meaning condensed into these eighteen syllables is stunning, and it is so elegantly done.

“Ghosts aren’t real” it’s very fair and rational that you believe that

“Ghosts aren’t real anymore” I’m about to hear a poem or very sad story

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The literal cofounder of queer theory as an academic field says that abandoning trans people is fascist logic.

The voices in our community trying to exclude us may be loud, but they are not right, and they do not speak for the community as a whole or our history or anything at all.