Lin/Blue

Elias art by @herodzn

Artist who volunteered art for Jesus wished to not be credited

Jon art by @drawsmaddy

I SCREAMED ALOUD

Grace was put into coma by the people who cared about him. They (especially Yáo being Yáo) probably double-triple-quadruple checked everything. They watched him sleep for those first few days — I doubt they went into coma immediately after leaving Earth's orbit. They probably talked to him, assuring him that he'll be okay.

Ilyukhina's coma procedure was probably supervised by Yáo. He made sure that everything was in order, but — he is just one man and he is not a doctor. There was much more room for mistakes.

When Yáo went to sleep, he was alone. He had to rely on the technology completely.

and grace who is so alien, but reflects eridian mannerisms that they've never considered strange before but coming from a creature so soft and strange, it just doesn't feel right. grace who stomps his foot twice when he asks a question, and it rings out flat and dull instead of the strong, sharp sound of an eridian hand on the ground. grace whose voice is so alien, so one-note, so full of articulations that are sharp and round and everywhere in between, but who echoes the melodies of eridian poetry and music, sometimes on accident but sometimes perfectly in time with what rocky translates him as saying, and later, perfectly in time with his keyboard.

nasa employee: this guy hasn't interacted with humans in like 20/60 years should he really be giving interviews?

nasa employee 2: ehh just give him some media training and it should be fine

this is more of a silly one bc i just wanted to draw grace in a suit ^^

Who is the Sexiest Fictional Podcast Character? 2026 Edition.

Hello! Welcome back as we undertake our fifth attempt to find the sexiest fictional podcast character! How did we get here? First, when tumblr polls were new, fictionpodsexyperson ran a 64 entrant single-elimination bracket, but deactivated before the final two rounds (however, we performed a minor act of necromancy and saw them through, but that's getting ahead of ourselves). In the fall of 2023 I ran three single-elimination brackets with 64 Non-Night Vale scripted characters, 64 unscripted characters, and 32 Night Vale character. The 2024 brackets were delayed to 2025, as I figured out how to structure two double elimination brackets, with 64 scripted character and 32 unscripted characters. The 2025 tournament was a 10 character round robin, using the previous winners.

Which brings us to now.

Due unscripted podcasts being less popular in general* on Tumblr (as seen both in number of submissions and average votes per poll (last year 366 for the scripted bracket and 288 for the unscripted bracket)), I have seeded the scripted and unscripted characters separately, although they are still in one bracket and will start going against each other in Round 3. Due to filling out the polls with some honorary mentions from last year, we have more scripted characters than unscripted characters.

After 85** submissions for 66 characters from 42 podcasts, 2 honorary mentions and 6 late submissions from 2024, and 2 characters of Mod's selection, we held one round of preliminaries that received 1,402 votes across 7 polls. This year we will be holding a single elimination bracket, which means if a character loses once they are out of the running (except for the third place poll).

*The TAZ tumblr fandom in 2017–2018 is an outlier adn should be handled carefully, with the 2013–2014 WtNV fandom and the 2020-ish TMA fandom.

**This includes a submission for Moth which came after the Hello From The Hallowoods preliminary was already running.

Round 1: