Oh! Rabbits is back! Rabbits is another podcast from Minnow Beats Whale/Terry Miles. Much like Tanis, Rabbits is a brain child of Terry Miles' particular brand of fantastic altered reality faux investigative journalism, where they script the fiction like its reality, interweaving reality with fictional events, people, plots, etc...and exclamations of changing names to protect the innocent 🙄. And while that one thing continues to nag at me, I'm still hooked on all of it. 😂 So here we are! 'Rabbits' is a secret alternate reality game that's been going on for quite some time, and you don't know it exists until you look for it, or trip over it. You'll get pulled in by finding something you shouldn't, or solving an odd puzzle you find, and then things start to get weird. In season 1, Carly Parker is looking for her friend, Yumiko Takada, whose gone missing. When the cops do nothing, Carly takes it into her own hands to find her, and Carly starts to follow the game herself, in order to find Yumiko, but she finds more than she bargained for. Season 2 is just starting, and there's a "Rabbits" novel from Terry out there, so there's a decent amount for you to "jump" into. If you like, Tanis or anything else Terry Miles/PRA/Nic Silver, alternate reality fiction podcasts, creepy & thrilling adventures, and plots that if you explained them, you look like a crazy dude with a string wall, than Rabbits is for you!

Let's talk about @tanispodcast from Public Radio Alliance and Minnow Beats Whale. Tanis has been giving us the *fictional* suspenseful creeps since 2015. And I have a love/hate relationship with it. 😅 Nic Silver is a radio producer at a faux NPR-type radio station in the Pacific Northwest of the US, when he comes across references to a word/thing/place(?) called Tanis. Tanis is a myth/idea that's been mentioned off and on since Egyptian times. So Nic starts with history and hires a top level hacker, MK, to help him research Tanis across the internet, though posts are few and far between and sometimes disappear quickly. As Nic goes deeper down the hole we begin to fear for his safety; dreams, strange feelings, lost time, the occult, locations in the forest, standing stones...if you follow Nic down this path, you will never be able to explain this without a crazy wall collage of scraps of paper and string. And that's part of what I love about it, complex plots, decent character development, suspense, myths, occultism, creepy history. It's a wild ride, and I'm down to listen to it. Right down to the keyboards meets odd sounds and reverb music lightly playing under the "segments". So what urks me. *Sigh* Well, in our modern world of misinformation and "fake news" crap, TANIS and its sister podcasts, The Black Tapes, Rabbits, and The Last Movie, (but TANIS especially), go out of their way to pretend that they're true stories. Interweaving and blurring history, mythology, current events, actual sites with fictional backstories; which would be fun, but that they claim Nic is actually experiencing all this. Going so far as to say they've changed names to protect the innocent, doing shows with a tip line with fans suggesting solutions to the mystery; and the website doesn't much clarify that the "reality" is fiction either. Maybe it's just my pet peeve, but this one thing really sticks in my craw--taking the "Serial-esque host falls into something beyond imagining" #podtrope to this degree. All that said, it will hook you in. If you like Limetown, Magnus Archives vibes, or what if Aaron Mahnke literally fell into the World of Lore, than this pod is for you.

Also Alex: *has 10 minute rant with Strand about Sumerian mythology*

still looking for the person who will fill in the silence when i take off my headphones #keeplooking #tanis #nicsilver #love #aromantic #asexual #smol #cats #welovecats #everyonewelcome #safe #lgbtsafe #lovewins

Runners. Wanted. http://tanispodcast.com ART: Bruce Pennington