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What are your favorite disabled audio drama characters? I'll start-

Eisen Iyer, @kingmakerpod

The analyst, @sinkholepodcast

Bet, Seen and Not Heard

Clarity Mariesdottir, Breathing Space

And for my own shows/episodes:

@eelerschoice Merry, Nama and Prin are all disabled (vision impaired, amputee, and neurodivergent respectively)

Mayfair Watchers Society- Morgan in Water Damage is physically disabled and uses crutches, Wren in Lost Media has severe memory issues.

@thegospelofhaven will have a bunch of disabled characters in season 2 but the season isn't out yet!

Some more shows with disabled rep that I haven't listened to yet (soon!)

Apocalypse Radio, This Address Does Not Exist, Dustwalker, Where the Stars Fell, Mystic Prairie, and Station Blue.

Life With Althaar - it took a bit for this show to get its hooks into me, but HOLY MOLY. Most episodes are the length of feature films, but they absolutely fly by. I love this show and I know I will love it more when I eventually relisten to it.

Arden - I was delighted when I ran a poll asking what shows to relisten to this year and Arden was one of the top 3. It's so goddamn good. What more is there to say? I love Arden. I'm really hoping for season 3 news soon.

Under the Electric Stars - I haven't stumbled across a lot of cyberpunk shows, but UTES is certainly one of the top ones for me. It's got a large and fascinating cast of characters and top-notch world building. Plus how sick is that name???

SINKHOLE - sinkhole. Another outstanding cyberpunk show that had me vibrating mildly with each subsequent episode and ready to relisten by the time I was halfway through.

Mil-Liminal - I am not much of a horror girlie, but Mil-Liminal really clicked with me. The stories are chilling, but there is a warmth that comes from Caro's narration that makes the podcast incredibly charming.

The Greatest Matter - I haven't seen much about this in the Tumblr audiodrama ecosphere, but I feel like it will really click with folks. It's a Victorian gothic mystery set in Dublin. It's got spiritualism! A plucky lady journalist! Gruesome murder! And also great audio design and acting!

The Sound Museum - an absolute banger of a first season, this was just a ton of fun all the way through. The finale snuck up on me soooooo fast, I'm not ready for it to be over yet!

Exercises In Sound - I just love what this show is doing. I love when creators make a Choice and just fuckin go for it, and every episode is a new Choice. Voice De-Clicker - All Clicks is audio poison, but I love that they did it. I love that sometimes things are deliberately awful, or uncomfortable with intention. Also Character A is a Small Dog is an instant classic.

TWO THOUSAND AND LATE - what can I say? I love watching a train wreck unfold.

The Hitchhiker's Guide To the Galaxy - I turned 42 this year. I HAD to fit this one in! And it was honestly a delight. H2G2 has been a love of mine since high school, and I was stunned to find that there are SIX series including one produced in 2018, and it still had much of the original cast! I think I had only found the first two series when I first listened, all the way back in 2000. This was my birthday present to myself, and I love me for doing it.

The Harbingers - I don't really think I need to tell Tumblr to listen to a Gabriel Urbina show, but if you needed me to tell you that, I'm glad I told you! I also relistened to Unseen this year, and The Harbingers is a wonderful companion to that delightful podcast.

Mission: Rejected - I have had a fondness for Mission: Rejected for a few years now. I'm always happy to see a new episode in my podcatcher, and I just adore the EMF crew. I love how absolutely silly this show gets, while still managing some very good drama mixed in.

Stories From Ylelmore - SFY got "special treatment" status this year - new episodes get listened to in the last hour of my workday - because of how much I want to be able to focus on it and I'm almost never bothered after 5pm. It is, of of course, a gem of a podcast itself, but the way ItMe puts that sauce on "link in the description" at the end credits never fails to disappoint. It's the little things.