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Harlem Queen
Listened to Season 3 and 4 this week. Season 4 is told in a slightly different format and it's such a fun switch up. I'm heading into the final season and I'm genuinely sad to see this interbellum era story close, I've grown fond of The Numbers Queen and the show's fast-pace quick switch storytelling.
Seen and Not Heard
Yearned for a "life with disability" narrative and knew where to find it. Knew this show was good but whoa it is GOOD. Comes with great "let's talk about Deafness/HoH" talk episodes. Enjoying it all a lot
Shelterwood
The Podcast Bookclub discord server is listening to this show (which has been on my to listens for a while). Sadly not a timezone that works for me, so I'm trying to listen along-ish in my own time. Just two episodes in, the "true crime" element is really well done (great framing) but that also means I'm aggravated more. So taking it easy. Curious to see how things develop in terms of monsters and grief themes.
Shadows at the Door
Now that I'm about to be a patron (Beck's End wrapped up a successful kickstarter yahooo) I figured I should listen to at least some of SatD (I've heard so many great things but anthologies are hard for me to stick to). Two episodes in. I think it's going to be a great podcast to have on while I'm sewing or doing embroidery… and I learned from the discord there's an aroace spec recurring character
Our Wars Have Ended
Listened to episode one, part one and part two. Had a decent idea of where it would go because of the call to audition last year. I watched two seasons of Sharpe with my partner and bestie and that made me appreciate this Napoleonic level of warfare technology more, I think. Curious to see where it will go. Shaking off the mental comparison to the Silt Verses, which I'm sure will get easier as the story progresses.
The Sterling Girl
Knew this horror/fairytale story was going to focus on the autistic experience and oof, my heart. Made me ache and laugh and cry. Highlight of the week, I think.
Happy Audio Drama Sundayyyyyy it is so hot. Everyone stop using oil. Maybe we can head off climate change in time for me to go to work tomorrow. And if we can’t, well, at least we have audio drama.
🌽 These last few episodes of Alice Isn’t Dead have been CHILLING. I do really love those very American things like the corn palace (Did you know it’s kind of a community project?), and to use those things to introduce the real threat of this season, the cold lack of morality presented by curiosity…I’m starting to see why we’re not telling Alice.
🔮 The Adventure Zone will never be Balance again (who else up crying their eyes out about the graphic novel?), but this series, Royale, is so freakin good. Griffin is just really good at setting up a metaphor. Oh you want ultimate power by killing off the competition? Yeah it turns out that the competition is just there to harvest you. No winners. The founders wanted to save the world without being self-sacrificial and what they created ate them alive. This certainly has no relevance to now.
🎤 I loooooooved the @storiesfromylelmore Q&A. Anyone who follows ItMe! knows that they talk about their little brother often, and I can really feel that tone and compassion in the way they talk to the characters, even up to and including protecting them from things they’re not ready for yet. It’s a sort of kindness and I love it.
👂This week kicked off the podcast version of @earwaxblog!!! I am so pleased to be involved in this project, getting to do what I already do with these Audio Drama Sunday posts in more depth and detail. I’m sure y’all will recognize this month’s review and the reviews I’ve done for future episodes from my gushing here, but I also get to read them and have the Ear*Wax team lovingly sound design them. There’s nothing like Ear*Wax right now. If you want reviews of audio drama, music recs, interviews, editorials, and audio experiments, look no further.
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This was already posted on Patreon but I wanted to post it here too for audio drama Sunday after a few weeks. Long story short, I've been working with concept artist, Max Portugal, to come up with character designs for the ANA leads (and some of the more prominent side characters)!
Of course, this remains an audio show: imagine/draw the characters however you want, I left it up for interpretation on purpose, there are no wrong answers, etc, etc. But that being said, it's still fun to get art made! I basically gave him some light design notes and let him run wild!
Left to right that's Sig, Bea, Happy, Lady Isadora, Luxe, and Oliver. Design notes/commentary under the cut!
Top of the lineup, we have Sig. I'm Black so I almost always picture the main characters of the things that I write as Black. Specifically, I picture him as being mixed (Black and white) but I don't think real world racial distinctions mean that much in Solegard besides which colors work best for your skin tone and how much sunscreen you need to avoid a burn. For his build, we went with the idea that, at a glance, he looks like he could be a stereotypical hero type but, in reality, he just Looks Like That. Like, in Sleeping Beauty Aurora was blessed with beauty. Sig was blessed with looking dashing but that doesn't actually translate into being good at cardio. (He also prob has some of that Peeta Mellark natural baker buffness haha.) So it's just really clear that if he was interested in being a hero, he def could be. He just Really Doesn't Want To.
Next up is our girl Bea! Bea, I always picture with short brown hair like her actress because they are so similar in personality, haha. I like that it's a little all over the place just like her. The embroidered jeans and funky colors with the shirt and jacket were all Max and they match her loud personality super well. She is, as always, holding her laptop and you can see her Toad House medallion on her right lapel.
Happy! I thought Happy was going to be the biggest design challenge because, based on how people react to him in the show, he as to look passingly human at a first glance, but also obviously inhuman at a second glance. He also has the most canon physical description in the show with a grand total of 2 features: inky black eyes and his Business Babe hat. But Max killed it with a solution that was so simple that it almost made me mad I didn't think of it: just make his skin tone inhuman and point his ears. Easy. That, plus a powerful build and dark palate really brings the whole look together. And the pop of pink from the hat is the cherry on top.
Isadora is next and the star of the show here is the armor. Sig mentions in her first episode that she has impressive armor as captain of the Queensguard and Max ran with it. The cream and gold color palate with the marigold pauldrons and filigree down the cuirass? Love. With the color scheme, it made sense to also make her blonde so that it all matches and I love the ombre. As a side note, that length of hair is so impractical for her job but it's fiiiiiiine, she's a protagonist. In the same way that Ana has Princess Hair (tm) that always looks amazing no matter how disheveled she should be, Isadora's hair never gets in the way and just flares out dramatically while in combat. You can see a scar going through her right eyebrow (one of several I'm sure) and she has her blessed sword. I especially like how stoic and all business she is here. Sig is making pies so good he's able to get this person to willingly participate in sitcom shenanigans. Their friendship is so funny to me.
Shrouded under the assassin's hood we have Luxe! For this one, Max had the cover of Mazed and Confused to look at which features a bit of Luxe. I always imagine fae to be beautiful but in an angular and unnatural way and that's the note I gave both Sunny (our cover artist) and Max. Similarly to Happy, she has an unnatural skin tone and you can't see her ears under the hood, but they're pointed. Her outfit has leaf-like veins because, as a fae, I think she's connected to nature. You'll remember that in Mazed and Confused when she does the whole As The World Falls Down ballroom scene, she glamours outfits made of flowers onto the gang.
And finally, Oliver. I feel like this one speaks for itself. Look at his little glasses. Have you ever seen a cat that was more clearly fantasy-British? No notes.
Anyway, I'm not planning on doing anything specific with these designs this second buuuuut it's nice to have them in the back pocket for the future!
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You may have noticed that we have promoted a couple of different shows on The Mechadova Engine feed so far. I figured I'd give them each a post to shout them out, as I haven't had the time to record the introductions I usually do when doing these types of feed/promo swaps.
Sidequesting
@sidequestingpod is about Rion, a budding adventurer who’s willing to help out just about anyone, as long as they’re not being asked to deal with the scary wizard everyone keeps talking about. Each episode follows a new sidequest of Rion’s as they travel from town to town, meeting new people and doing new things. It pulls from classic tropes across fantasy stories, but subverts them. It’s a fun, light-hearted, and exciting adventure.
Sidequesting is one of the most comforting podcasts that I have ever listened to. It is incredibly sweet, and captures a particular nostalgic feeling. I absolutely recommend it if you're looking for some comforting fantasy, with wonderful characters and a vibrant world.
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Sidequesting is a fantasy podcast about avoiding the main plot. It follows Rion, an adventurer who’s willing to help just about anyone out - as long as they’re not being asked to deal with the scary wizard everyone keeps talking about.
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