The world weighs heavy but luckily art is great! I hope you're all having a good Audio Drama Sunday, my friends.
🔔 @goodpointepodcasts' Someone Just Like You never misses, and this week's episode was especially chilling. "Don't Look For Lady Bluebell" is about safety gone wrong, about a monster that's much worse than you can imagine, and how danger can twist you into something monstrous. The imagery of the bells on ribbons is going to stick with me for sure, and Atticus Jackson just kills it on this one. If you're ever in the market for a new anthology horror show, you can't do much better than Someone Just Like You.
🙃 Small Victories is back baybeeee, and oh man what a banger. It is so difficult and so important in the depths of recovery to be able to picture a good future for yourself. So it's gotta be a REAL ISSUE when that future version of you is like, HEY, DON'T BLOW THIS FOR US. What a genius setup for this season. Rest in pieces Marisol, I guess good luck with your recovery. Don't lose that future! No pressure!
💎 @dustwalkerpod's new episode does a bunch of my favorite kind of worldbuilding: put that guy (or magic teenage girl) in a dang situation and now they have to deal with it. Watching Kove try to pretend to be an aide (and honestly not even try very hard) did a bunch of work for the lore of this story and the characterization of both Kove and Arius. I'm fascinated by the way this culture is building strata on strata of oppression, and I really want to watch it all burn to the ground. You can imagine how much I enjoy Kove's perspective in this show based on that, and I'm thrilled to find out what will happen now that she knows exactly how far out of her depth she is.
🩸 @starstrider-productions' Dracula: 2004 is back also!!!!! Just in time for me to remember how harrowing this second act is, as we watch Lucy's "mysterious" ""illness"" progress. This Van Helsing is LEGENDARY, she keeps all of the alternating weird humor and seriousness of the original and loses none of the mysteriousness, despite being (still! just like the OG!) a scientist first and foremost. What a relief to Lucy as well, having a doctor take you seriously, for once. I am waiting for the next episode with my hands over my eyes, peeking through my fingers.
❓How fun was @killjamxxx's in-character Q&A? Not much to say here analysis-wise, but I did absolutely lose count of how many times I cackled. I missed them so much.
That's it for me! Have you tried a new show this week? Looked into Mechadova Engine or Something's Amiss at Juniper's House? Give 'em a try!