TAFCON this weekend was perfect??? Shoutout to the Malevolent cosplayer, to the well-known creators who still got flabbergasted by having fans, to everyone who signed my yearbook, to people whose tumblr names I recognized, to the live bloggers, to Roshan Singh Sambi making me wheeze with laughter describing Madame Web, to Gabriel Urbina stopping by the script clinic and even reading for a character, to DESTINY HOWELL I LOVE YOU, to all my new fantasy podcast besties, to the artists who thanked me for bringing them a table (apparently cons don’t always do that?), to the Boston contingent, to Hera, to Victoria, to everyone I met who worked on Breathing Space, to Ester for telling me all about dndads workflow, to people who were like “you’re such a good moderator,” (I’M CRY), to running out of stickers, to the confused Boulder uber driver, to falling into perfect synch with a partner I just met in person, and above all, to Tal and Will and Anne.
I love this con and I love these people and I love audio drama and I love the world.
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TAFCON this weekend was perfect??? Shoutout to the Malevolent cosplayer, to the well-known creators who still got flabbergasted by having fans, to everyone who signed my yearbook, to people whose tumblr names I recognized, to the live bloggers, to Roshan Singh Sambi making me wheeze with laughter describing Madame Web, to Gabriel Urbina stopping by the script clinic and even reading for a character, to DESTINY HOWELL I LOVE YOU, to all my new fantasy podcast besties, to the artists who thanked me for bringing them a table (apparently cons don’t always do that?), to the Boston contingent, to Hera, to Victoria, to everyone I met who worked on Breathing Space, to Ester for telling me all about dndads workflow, to people who were like “you’re such a good moderator,” (I’M CRY), to running out of stickers, to the confused Boulder uber driver, to falling into perfect synch with a partner I just met in person, and above all, to Tal and Will and Anne.
I love this con and I love these people and I love audio drama and I love the world.
Suffice it to say, TAFCon was one the most beautiful, creatively inspiring, genuinely impactful experiences I've had as an artist - I will have SO MUCH to say about it soon, but for now I just want to shout out all of the organizers, volunteers, and sponsoring shows that made it possible. What a special thing we've made together! What a rare an spectacular celebration of this art form and the people who make it!
The award-winning comedy-mystery audio drama about the (second) best detectives in London is raising funds for its third season!
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!
What can you expect from season 3?
LONDON, 1892! Now established as the go-to detective team in London, Fawx & Stallion are hired by a Canadian showbiz duo who believes they've brought a Curse with them across the Atlantic. The case kicks off a chain of events that sprawl across a rapidly-evolving London and threaten not only the soul of the city, but also the character development of the last two seasons!
As a team, we're always asking ourselves how we can continue to grow with this story, how we can challenge not only our characters, but ourselves - how we can find new ways to expand what this story can be. In doing that, we ended up with a set of scripts that are more ambitious than anything we've attempted before. Some things you can expect out of Season Three:
More Episodes! This season we’re expanding our plate to 12 episodes! That’s 2-to-2.5 more than usual! Why? Keep reading!
More Writers! Part of the concept for this season was to expand not just the world of the show, but even our own conception of it! With that in mind, this season features new mysteries crafted by 5 incredible guest artists including Bob Raymonda (Forgive Me!, Windfall), Newton Schottelkotte (Where the Stars Fell), Christopher Hainsworth (Monstrous Regiment, Midnight Cowboy), Sam Robotham (Dead Coats, Chocolate Grandpa), and Shawn Pfautsch & Jessica Ridenour (The Green Heron; Season on the Line and Captive)!
Serialized Mysteries! That’s right: along with our season-long arc, within this season you can expect full-meal, original, beginning-to-end mysteries! Fawx & Stallion are getting new cases and you are going to see more of them than ever before, in our love letter to the Golden Age of Detective Fiction!
More World Building! One of our favorite things that came from Season Two was getting to explore our version of Victorian London. This season we really dove in on that idea, getting a larger picture of the colorful characters and ludicrous locations that make up the world of the show, including (but not limited to) the West End, the Victorian Culinary Scene, Secret Clubs, the Sewers of London, a Yacht Party, a Trip to the Countryside, and Big Ben!
New Characters! Season Three is easily the most expansive season we’ve done so far, and with that expanse comes a dearth of new characters, new voices, and new stories. We've got over 100 characters in this new season!
Special Surprises! You didn’t think we’d show all our cards in the crowdfund, did you? As much as we’d love to, all we’ll say is this season is so special in the evolution of Fawx & Stallion, the show and characters. Maybe it includes talking animals! Maybe one of them gets a dog! Maybe there are musical numbers! Who knows…?
Happy Sunday! I didn’t listen to much this week, but I did go on a day trip to the countryside and finish reading the feminist satire Yesteryear.
🛸 When Angels Visit Armadillo — I: Where is Cassidy Summers - VI: No Answers: how is this not more popular? A Southern lesbian woman looks back on her teenage years, when a local high schooler vanishes in plain sight. She believes aliens took her. The voice actors are dream-worthy, the plot is mysterious and sci-fi, and even the setting is described gorgeously. But what was really behind the disappearances in this story? Also, the portrayal of being queer in a small American town in the 80s 💙.
🌳 In Strange Woods — 1: Chapter 1 - A Man Who Cannot Be Saved: it’s a relisten! I have dragged a relative into listening to this fiction podcast (it’s their first indie audio drama) and we’re playing it together when we hang out. I forgot how amazing this story is — especially once the vague comparisons to gods of the woods and wild get started.
🎇 Lost/Thread — Episode 1: Outsider - Episode 3: The Space Between: the plot to this podcast is pretty intriguing. A newcomer joins a group of college friends to look into a strange online theory (a little like The Left/Right Game), performs a ritual and enters a strange new world.
👹 @theredactedunit — Postmortem: Nightfisher: aww, Sloan got to make a joke. And Jacob laughed at it! It was obvious joining the team would make his life better, but it’s a delight to see how many other people’s daily lives he’s improving too.
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GOOD AUDIO DRAMA SUNDAY TO YOU ALL! I am at The Audio Fiction Convention today, so I am in full hype mode and having a great time, but I can’t resist the chance to talk about audio drama! Let’s go!
🌅 I feel like Small Forgiveness was a perfect little cap to the masterpiece that is @wgc-productions’s Small Victories. Forgive Me! is great at this sort of self-reflection, by design—like it truly is the perfect crossover show, although it does give up its own story development for the sake of other shows. (Very christian of it.) Small Victories is such a perfect capsule of a story that it truly feels like no stone is left unturned, so what a treat to give an extra little tidbit about something I was curious about: how Marisol thinks about religion. And what a relief for her to be thinking about it on her terms, in her right mind. This feels like the kind of freedom she has needed all along, and what a privilege to get to see it.
🕳️ If you’re not listening to the new season of Alice Isn’t Dead, what a treat you have in store! This show captures everything I liked about the first seasons, especially the creeping road trip loneliness, and ESPECIALLY in this last episode. The church that Keisha hides in is just background to the real thing going on in the episode (hi, is that future!Keisha or some kind of other inherently trustable person perhaps? Maybe future!Alice?), but it struck such a chord with me. Pleeeease listen.
🎸 HELLO IT’S TIME FOR MORE GHOST BANDS! Everyone Leaves Alive is a rock musical with diegetic music that absolutely rules. I love that Haunted Rock Band is becoming an audio drama subgenre (see also Highgate Wood and Phantom Pulse), and this one is especially funny and fun in a way only Jessica Best can pull off. It’s also great that a main conceit of the show is “finally, a way to use my folklore degree.” I cannot wait for more.
💐 Desert Skies always hits so good. I feel like the central thesis to @desertskiespodcast is “people are generally good and trustworthy, and if they’re not it’s because something horrible happened to them—they deserve not anger and vengeance, but pity and help.” And what a powerful thing, what a huge ask, to remind us that actually being kind is quite difficult sometimes, and we are obligated to do it anyway. This episode reminds us why the characters are doing what they’re doing, not just from a plot perspective but from a heroic one. What a comfort, to know that even though there’s a lot of work to do, you’re not doing it alone. (Also, the joke about one guy doing all the voices had me rolling.)
🐀 What an absolutely delightful episode of World Gone Wrong. One with the rarely seen endangered species of Answers! It’s episodes like this that really show how they’re trying to wrap up the last season, tying up loose ends, removing the In The Same Room Obstacle that is the Bermuda River. Like Jamie said, I’m going to miss this.
🚗 This episode of Mayfair Watcher’s Society made me WEEEEEP oh man! Kayla Temshiv has long since proven their writer chops on Something’s Amiss at Juniper’s House, and this perfect little encapsulation of an impossible situation, alongside the new-girlfriends-fear of asking a hard question in a desperate situation, just hits perfectly. What a good episode.
I’m gonna go enjoy TAFCON now—if you see me, please say hi!! You can catch me at early registration, the script clinic, the Adaptation Panel, and the Re: Dracula booth! See you there!
does anyone have any audio drama recommendations that have prominent characters that are trans men/masc? (That aren’t Hello from the Hallowoods, The Silt Verses, or Camp Here and There)
Heartglass recently started releasing (ep 2 coming tomorrow), and one of the MCs, Allan Coleman, is a trans man. Allan is one of a trio of characters trapped in a strange version of hell, trying to make the best of his afterlife by working in an ice cream shop. (I’m Allan’s VA, and I’m also transmasc).
It’s a fake non-fiction podcast a guy is making about his family, specifically his great, great aunt that is also slow-burn folk horror. Aidan’s explicitly, talked-about-on-screen trans, with that playing an important part in his story, though probably not in the way most people’d expect.
Spirit Box Radio by @hangingslothcentral - so Eira who writes, sound designs, composes and performs all the Hanging Sloth shows is a trans guy, but also SBR's protag is explicitly a trans guy. The other shows: Not Quite Dead and Remnants don't explicitly have trans male protags but are entirely voiced by Eira. Clockwork Bird is fun for gender reasons in the same way Frankenstein is. Go listen!
@eelerschoice ! Is both written by a trans person, Dr Lou Sutcliffe, and one of its leads is our beloved B Narr, who you may know from The Silt Verses. Also it's a creepy ocean horror story. What's not to love!
@theholmwoodfoundation is both co-written by a trans man, Fio Trethewey, AND has a major character who is a trans man - namely Van Helsing's grandson, which is delightful to me. Also Mina Harker is possessing a trans woman and they're both being lovely about it, so bonus points.
@nightshiftpodcast has a lead who is a queer man played by a trans man, and the story is an urban fantasy about his enemies to lovers romance with a guy who is essentially the PR man for urban fantasy Meta. It's so much and I love it so much god bless.
Love and Luck by Passer Vulpes productions is a love story between two men, one of whom is played by a trans man and wheelchair user. It's a very sweet magical realist / light urban fantasy about the queer community in Melbourne, Australia. Extra points because the two leads are played by irl husbands Lee Davis-Thalbourne and Erin Kyan, which is charming to me.
Kind of a deep cut but The Blood Crow Stories Season 2 is a wild west horror story that stars a trans man and it makes me really happy listening to a wild west 1800s setting where a badass outlaw lady gives a guy rags for his monthly bleed without making a big deal of it.
Moonbase Theta Out by @monkeymanproductions has a morally grey (french!) trans guy antagonist from S2 onwards and it's like, A Whole Thing. Also in general a buttload of excellent queer rep including the show's leads from S1, a person who figures out they're non binary, and their husband.
@iriscasefiles stars Brian Jeeter, one of the core cast of a motley crew of space rebels and outlaws, he's a xenolinguistics specialist married to a non-binary alien called Krejjh, it's delightful, he's delightful, they're currently releasing their third and final season!
@dosafteryou is a fucked up and toxic love story between a trans guy and essentially a god? It is tasty and terrifying and very fun, bonus points for being written by a trans guy too, about out to David Orion.
@folxlorepod is a smorgasbord anthology of queer horror stories, including episodes with trans masc protagonists. It's generally full of queer and trans joy and also wrath, and is made by a queer and trans team. You should check it out!
There are more but I am currently at a train station so can't do proper research. I think Evelyn Glass in @pasitheapowder is trans? And the very definition of haunting the narrative. Also I'm sure The Pilgrimage Saga by @starstrider-productions must have a trans dude protag but I cannot remember (it definitely has one of my favourite trans women in all of fiction.) I'm also sure @innbetween has trans guy protags but I cannot remember which series. I suspect The Gospel of Haven has a trans guy protag too but needs more research.
One thing that makes me sad is I can't think of shows with trans guys of colour as protags. I'm sure they exist, hopefully folk can recommend some.
Happy listening!
(Also a heads up that whilst a popular fanon for the eldritch demon John Doe in Malevolent is that he's a trans man, the creator has explicitly clarified that none of the show's protagonists are textually queer or trans. Still, if you want to have fun Supernatural-style, you absolutely can.)
@hinaypod ; transmasc character with special episodes and cool story! hi nay is also queer BIPOC story in general. it's horror but it's wholesome horror, if it makes sense.
@surceasepod is mostly transmasc cast and crew with many transmasc characters! it is anthology-to-plot horror, deals a lot with mental illnesses as it takes place in mental institute.
@asbestos4president is a comedy of transmascs (afaik? please confirm if true. they're trans-something) and I have deemed it the best comedy out there (sorry to other comedies)
I can name more but these are the ones that pop up to my name (except the ones already mentioned in these posts so far)
Flynn Velasco in @valencepod! He's played by Caleb Del Rio (who is also in The Silt Verses) and has so many good lines. We gave Caleb a lot of freedom to adlib lines and he really brought Flynn to life as one of our favorite characters in the show—and we wrote all of them so it says a lot that we can pick a favorite child! 😂 The show completed in 2023 after 3 seasons so you can listen to the whole thing now!
(It's also full of other queer characters across the spectrum, so there's a little something for everyone! 💚)
Currently don't have trans characters only because the first season cast is cis but I will be looking for trans performers for Season 2! So if there are any trans performers, please reach out!
So a couple of years ago I put out this post of queer creators you can support financially during Pride month instead of buying Pride merch from Target
This year I’m compiling a new one, and I’m taking suggestions!! Please let me know if there’s anyone you’d like me to include (either in the tags or replies, or send me an ask, DM or even an email at [email protected])
It can be anything, audio drama related or not, and can include purchasable items or merch, music, art, books, games or any other media, or just Patreons or Ko-Fis.
Just any way to financially support a queer person directly this pride month!
The list is coming along BEAUTIFULLY, and is growing far too large for a single post, so I'll be sharing it as a google doc that I hope to continue maintaining long-term, and will keep the link up indefinitely on my websites (both personal and podcast).
That means there'll still be chances to add more to it even once it's posted, but if you'd like to add yourself or any other creators to the list before it goes live, I'm still taking suggestions and additions!
Current categories are:
Urgent Calls for Financial Aid
Physical Purchases
Music
Art Commissions
Streamers
Books
Games and TTRPGs
Patreons/Ko-Fis/Donations
Creative Services
Events
But if you'd like to suggest something not covered by any of these, let me know! I want this list to be as comprehensive as possible.
I've had a few really helpful additions, and am incorporating all suggestions form the previous post, but it's currently still very limited to my personal experiences with creators (mostly UK-based and in audio drama or Balfolk circles), so PLEASE help me broaden the scope however you can!
Ghost InSpectors won Best Supernatural Audio Fiction at Colorado Webfest!! This goes out to our cast, crew, family, friends, and listeners who made this show what it is ❤️
Thank you so much to the judges and organizers, it was awesome to celebrate the hard work of so many creators in person! And congratulations to all the other finalists and winners ✨
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This is a really great full circle moment. TGOH began when I was inspired by a song, and now our first Webfest win is to honor the music made by our incredible composer Dana and theme musician @sealsapocalypticmusic. Thank you Colorado Webfest!
Other shows will have one antisocial guy as their ace rep. Meanwhile, Doctor preist Rebecca Moore ripped out her own uterus as an offering to her meat god because she knew she could never love a husband or child more than she lived her god and her congregation
The Lionheart Academy of Magic has lots of secrets such as hidden passageways 👀 Support the show to uncover what other mysteries there might be! https://crowdfundr.com/FallenMemories
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“My father says that love is the most beautiful thing in the world, but I think games are. I think chess is the most beautiful thing in the world.”
And
“Girls are the most beautiful thing.”
And
“Why do you like playing chess alone? That’s not normal. Why don’t you speak on the telephone to anyone, just get a friend. Anyone.”
Alice
From Hello From The Hallowoods
Canonically aspec
[Image Description: white text on dark blue. “Not like that,” Alice said, and looked over the marsh. “I love the wind, also. And the twilight. And spring rainstorms. And a hundred other things I could never really hold. There’s a joy in being there to appreciate them, for a moment. It’s an honor to get the chance. I think anything I could have forever, I’d fall out of love with.”]
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Often expresses confusion/disinterest in traditional romantic and sexual experiences, has had at least two of their actors (Colin Baker and Matt Smith) describe them as "asexual" (and "aromantic" in Baker's case), and The Ninth Doctor literally saves the day through his lack of romantic feelings in an audio drama ("Swipe Right").
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