Welcome, dear readers, to Forged Bonds! I am your humble narrator, Calliope, here to talk you through our show. Starting out with what this is: Forged Bonds is a myth-bending retelling of the story of Aphrodite and Hephaestus. In traditional mythology, they are forced into a marriage together leading to Aphrodite cheating with Ares. What if Aphrodite and Ares were best friends forced into a political marriage? What if Aphrodite started to fall in love with Hephaestus? What if Hephaestus was a trans woman who had been isolated from Olympus in the attempts to protect her own heart? This show strives to answer all of these questions while also taking a look at the love stories and politics of Olympus as a whole.
Hello dear listeners! We have a special announcement that has just gone live on our feed! Our next mini series is launching very soon and in the meantime we've got our q+a open for y'all which you can find here
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This is so exciting, guys, only one week in and we've already surpassed 40% funding for Beck's End!!! We even got the esteemed Project We Love badge π
We're so thrilled and grateful for everyone who has already contributed to this project, and we hope many more of you will join us as we work to bring the creeping, seeping horrors of this Lake District town to your feeds and ears. Tiers start as low as Β£4, and all thirteen of them feature perks like art prints, stickers, annotated scripts, early episode drops, and access to ad free feeds for both Beck's End and Shadows at the Door!
Don't miss your chance to be part of this exciting project, and please help us spread the word so as many people as possible can hear the news π
The road to hell is a babbling brook...
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Last week was so crazy that I forgot to post about our penultimate episode!!
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This episode features @delaylays, AJ Fidalgo, @anouchard, Leon Egan, and @kit-n-kboodl
If you enjoyed this episode and want early access to the finale, you can join our patreon over at patreon.com/pinetreepods and listen to the finale this Saturday!
Help a queer indie podcast reach our crowdfunding goal this pride month!
We have a wonderful cast and crew, including @thevoicefromthestars , @billielhindle , @fagrajeda , and so many more. Please help us reach our goal tonight!
About us:
An in-production queer time travel workplace comedy podcast. Coming to your podcatcher of choice in Spring, 2026.
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The start of our full season release is nearly here! (Episode 1, the pilot, is available already). Here's a sneak peek of whats coming up in Episode 2!
We are so pleased that TWO THOUSAND AND LATE won both Best Writing and Best Lead Performance at Colorado Web Fest!! Thank you to everyone who has listened to our scrappy little show!!!
genuinely so chuffed about this!!! when I submitted, it was just for the "audio fiction" category so I truly had no idea what we might get if any, and I'm so honored. it's especially meaningful to get the best performance award, because I never submit myself for acting awards or really even consider myself much of an actor. so this really means the world πππ
It is finale week here at The Harbingers, and we've got so much going on. In-person events, livestreams, shocking revelations, and more! All leading up to Episode 16 out of 16, which comes out on Thursday the 18th!
Details below the cut!
First off, if you are around Chicago, it's not too late to be there for our in-person listening event for the season finale! It's gonna be a BIG CROWD tonight, but there's still tickets available! And it's going to be really special, with special appearances by a lot of the team, and a Q&A session after the episode is done. So come on down if you can!
One night only in Chicago - hear The Harbingers season finale before anyone else!
Can't be there in person but still want to hear the episode ASAP? We got you! We'll be doing the customary Episode 16 listening party online on Wednesday night! And it'll be one not to miss - the chat's going to be nuts for this one, I think!
The grand finale. Join series creator and writer Gabriel Urbina for a listening party ahead of Episode 16's premiere, and be among the first
And then Thursday is the big day.
Episode 16: Wrapped Around Your Finger.
Out wherever quality podcasts are found. The end of and culmination to the first big movement in the story of The Harbingers.
There's a lot more to say about this show. About this first roller coaster of a year, and where it's going next. What the future might hold. And we'll get there. We'll talk about it all after Thursday.
But for now... one more episode. One more step. It's gonna be a very big week.
having heard The Harbingers finale at the live listening event last week in NY, trust me when I say you want to go to the event in Chicago or tune in to the livestream because you WILL want to yell at @gabrielurbinatm in person/live virtually, it's one of my favorite activities and this episode really gave me things to yell about
We have assembled an incredible cast to populate the tiny village of Beck's End.
Check our blog for the gorgeous concept art we have of each character, and check out our Kickstarter page to see some of these amazing people in action and to help us bring Beck's End and the folk horror story found therein to your RSS feeds!
Happy Monday! S2 E23, Utility and Sentiment, is out now! You can find it haunting your local podcatcher, or you could try interrogating an enemyβs old associates for a chat with this week's ghost, voiced by the incomparable Tal Minear.
Also, as an aside, I need you all to know that my FAVOURITE line from Riley this episode was completely ad-libbed by Phil. I think youβll know which line I mean when you get to it. The original script read βbe gay do crimeβ, and when we got to that scene in recording, I said to Phil that I wanted to change it, but wasnβt sure what to change it to. Phil cracked out the line that you hear in the episode without missing a BEAT.
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Part one: We are thrilled to announce that Dracula: 2004 is officially a winner for Colorado Webfest 2026, for Best Theme Song (Audio Fiction)! We are particularly happy for our wonderful composer, Joash Kari, who wrote and performed the theme song himself (inspired, of course, by Buffy the Vampire Slayer). We hope you'll all go and take a listen to his amazing music here: https://dracula2004.wordpress.com/music/.
Part two: Our second piece of exciting news is that we have a release date for Episode 26! Eps 26 and 27 were unfortunately delayed due to recording issues, but everything is once again in place, and we are go for the final two episode of Part Two: Veins.
Chapter Twenty-Six: Left Outside Alone of Dracula: 2004 will release this Saturday on the 20th June, and normal scheduling will resume from there. Don't forget to tune in!
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!Β 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:Β
More Episodes! This season weβre expanding our plate to 12 episodes! Thatβs 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),Β 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! Thatβs 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!Β
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 weβve 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!Β
Special Surprises! You didnβt think weβd show all our cards in the crowdfund, did you? As much as weβd love to, all weβll 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 knowsβ¦?
Other Greek Heroes and whether they'd look back at Eurydice
Heracles: No, he wouldn't look back. Partly because he's smart enough to know it wouldn't change anything, and partially because he knows the Gods well enough that Hades keeps his word. Eurydice gets out and they high five. Unfortunately he misjudges the strength of his high five and Eurydice spends her first couple of weeks back to life with her arm in a cast.
Jason: Oh yeah. This dumbass looks behind him before he leaves Hades throne room and then loudly insists that NO HE DIDN'T HE TOTALLY DIDN'T AND IS HE DID IT WASN'T HIS FAULT IT'S EURYDICE'S FAULT! Eurydice is just like "maybe I'm better off here."
Perseus: Nope. He's a good boi who pays attention and blindfolds himself to make sure he doesn't, feeling his way along the path to make sure he doesn't trip. It takes him longer to get out, but they DO get out.
Theseus: Actually they do get out. Not because Theseus is smart enough to not look back or anything but because he's too self important to look back. The moment she steps outside the Underworld, Eurydice is running at top speed and Theseus never bothers to check to see if she's still following.
Odysseus: He cheats, using a polished mirror to keep track of her through the reflection the way Perseus kept track of Medusa. Unfortunately because he thought he outsmarted the system he fails to look where he's going, looses his footing, the mirror, and accidentally looks back anyway. Too clever for his own good, he was the architect of his own failure.
Achilles: He doesn't even bother asking. Full fire in his fury he fights Hades, wins, and takes Euridyice away his own way. Unfortunately, he can only bring her back as a shade without the Lord of the Dead's permission. It only brings him greater sorrow.
Medea: She thinks Hades is lying and Eurydice isnβt behind her but doesnβt look back because if she gets out of the underworld without Eurydice she has grounds to complain to the gods that Hades broke his vow and start the 900bc equivalent if a fraud lawsuit. The whole way she plots her revenge only to reach the surface and be genuinely surprised (and a little bit disappointed) that Eury is actually there.
Atalanta: She learned from the apple-race-incident. Looking back will only slow her down. She bolts back up to the surface in record time only to actually manage to loose Eurydice on the way. Whoops.
Ariadne: Her sentimental ass looks back, sorry Eurydice, it was in the name of love.
Penelope: They make it out. Penelope trusted her allegedly dead husband to come back for 10 years she can trust that a silent ghost is behind her for 2 hours. Persephone could walk up with her the whole way telling her βactually you should turn around sheβs not thereβ and she still wouldnβt.
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the "rip ___ you would have loved ___" meme is inherently more fun with ancient characters. rip clytemnestra you would have loved morse code. rip theseus you would have loved the airtag. rip callisto you would have loved wearing shorts.
Happy Pride (and Happy Philippine Independence Day)! π³οΈβππ΅π
Today we're celebrating one of our canonically queer characters in Dominus, Father Jonas Katigbak, for HIS month and HIS day as a baklang aktibistang pari (Gay activist priest).
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I won't spoil too much for the series at large, but I can confirm that Jonas is canonically gay.
He was gay long before he became a priest, and this fact did in some small way contribute to him becoming a priest in the first place.
It's also one of the reasons he almost didn't become a priest at all.
His favourite director is Lino Brocka, a gay radical antifascist filmmaker and national artist of the Philippines, and his favourite film is Brocka's "Macho Dancer", which is what helped him come to terms with his sexuality.
(which just released a 4k restoration trailer on Youtube LAST WEEK??? complete coincidence btw I had no idea it was happening)
And while he doesn't talk about his queerness publicly due to his position, it's not exactly a secret among the nuns in his parish. Jonas can definitely be heard chanting a familiar chant at protests alongside other queer radicals:
MAKIBEKI! WAG MASHOKOT! πβπ½π£οΈ
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