#dustwalker

So... what is Dustwalker, anyway?

With the first 3 episodes out and the 4th baking in the oven (my DAW), I thought it might be time for a formal introduction to my queer audio drama promoting transgenderism and messy found family! It's Dustwalker, babey!

Summary:

Dustwalker is a full-cast audio drama following a shaky alliance between a transfem teen and a powerful politician—a trans man who was meant to be her adoptive father. Taking place on a post-cataclysm earth, the two navigate a dangerous magic system in hopes to tear down their city-state’s regime… and maybe grow to care for each other along the way.

Get ready to be completely immersed into an imaginary science-fantasy world with this one. Listen to just ten minutes of this show and you will understand what I'm talking about. They seriously know what they are doing with the soundscaping.

The exploration of queerness in a fantastical setting is so refreshing to see, especially since it comes from queer voices. The main characters contrast each other in a really interesting way, and I can't wait to see them topple the status quo together (it's going to be messy, and I'm soo here for it).

🔔 @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.

What a week of listening it’s been!

🦋 I have listened to so much @remnantspod this week. Not only did I catch the fantastic new episode. I relistened to eps 1-13. It’s honestly kind of mind boggling to go back to the beginning with all the new information from the rest of the show. It’s like time doesn’t work, or being able to exist in multiple places at once, watching it all play out at the same time. I had forgotten so much detail that made me want to yell! For example: why Celine never told Benoit anything about his father!!! The end of ep 45 asked two very interesting questions, the first was ‘Do you really think you mattered so much to them, in the end?’. And the second, of course, was ‘Shelve or discard?’.

🌲 @hellofromthehallowoods (202) That CLIFFHANGER! I listened to the ep in two halves so I really wasn’t ready for it to end when it did! I was so suspicious of Mulder last season, I really hope that Shelby is right but every scene with him makes me so on edge! I can’t believe Olivier killed off Granny Briar. It’s not funny but Friday’s reaction was! I am looooving being back in this world, I’ve missed it so much!

🧳 Travelling Light by @monstrousproductions (74) A very fun ep! I can’t pretend that I was able to keep up with the rules and regs of shako, but the enthusiasm was palpable! Trav and Scarry are pretty fucking cute … I fear the inevitable 🥲

👣 @dustwalkerpod (3) this show continues to be so inventive and such a treat to listen to! I do love getting into a new magic system and the way that gender politics are woven into the story feels fresh and also despairingly familiar at the same time!

📖 @storiesfromylelmore (7+8) These episodes made my heart hurt a little. Aw, Keryth! My granny passed away last year and I also hold on to lots of memories of her teaching me things as a child. I want to give Keryth a big hug!!

🐢 @redvalleypod (S4E6) GOOD FINALE. God, I feel like I should have seen Malcolm’s completion coming but it still caught me off guard. Red Valley has always mastered the balance of tension and humour and this ep was no different - Gord vs Bryony made me laugh so much. More, please! 🙏

February 18, 2026:

Beige Primary, Veilspun, Daub.