#tanispodcast

3. One theory that’s not mine but that I’ve seen floating around is that the cabin in 112 wasn’t actually Tanis and was instead a distraction from Tanis. Either that or like the dark side of Tanis, like Culty Paul mentioned, about Tanis having both a dark and light side?

I have fallen right down the rabbit hole.

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.

Went to the coast. Saw some trees, spent sometime with an apple by the ocean listening to #tanispodcast #indiaink #tanispod #pentelpocketbrush #lowbrowsurrealism https://www.instagram.com/p/Bp0Cm65hD9F/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=6myv0ab9c9xc

I know Geoff isn’t who he says he is buT I STILL SHIP HIM AND NIC SO BADLY