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I just want to let you know that I put a couple of references to "Not Entirely Alone" in an episode of an upcoming audiodrama miniseries and I still routinely get comments from my actors about the emotional damage (affectionate) I did making them listen to that track. So good job!

hell yeah babyyy, we break our friends

#omg scott #how dare

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Ancient and forever

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SEASON TWO IS COMING!!

We are officially in production for season two and we will need your help!

Please check out this episode (go HERE for transcript and links) for more information:

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Let's Talk Categories- Characters

Character most fully unaware of the genre they’re in. 

The character that left us too soon. 

The character that didn't leave us soon enough. 

Please just let us take them home and feed them soup (aka the Wet Cat Award) 

We hate them, but love every second they’re on air. 

This character is entirely too pure for the show they're in (aka the Cinnamon Roll Award)

The most character of all time.

Nominations open Monday, January 1, on our webpage.

#audio drama #audio fiction #podcasts

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#SCOTT. #fable of the family

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#amanita has a pet #the sheridan tapes #audio drama

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Audio Drama Yearbook, Class of 2023

What even is this?

The Audio Drama Yearbook is a listener-submitted, completely non-definitive collection of audio drama podcasts, plus Most Likely Awards, including shows aired this year as the Class of 2023, and previously-aired shows as alumni.

How does it work?

Anyone can submit a show to the yearbook. Just fill out the linked form.

Yearbook submissions will be open from January 1 - January 31, 2024

Anyone can also nominate for the Most Likely Awards, featuring categories for Shows, Actors, Writers, Characters, & Editors/Sound Designers.

Nominations will be open from January 1 - January 15, 2024.More about the awards can be found here.

Stuff gets submitted & nominated, then what?

Every show submitted to the Yearbook will be included, complete with quote and link to homepage or feed.

For the Most Likelys, after the nomination period closes, the results will be tallied up. The top four show/actor/creator/candidates will move on to the voting phase, conducted via Tumblr poll on this account.

How does voting work?

Voting will be done via Tumblr poll, over the course of the week of January 16 - January 23, 2024. The polls for one category will be posted each day.

What do they win?

The winners get a dedicated page in the 2023 yearbook, and bragging rights!

The yearbook itself will be available on the website and as a downloadable PDF in mid-February, 2024.

#audio drama #podcasting #audio drama sunday #behold a thing

[kirstywoolven]

I must confess that I've never voted in audience-driven podcast awards, partly because I want to vote for every podcast I've ever heard.

In light of this, I'm inventing a new one I'm calling the Very Nice Podcast Award (VNPA). How it works is that if I listen to a podcast and enjoy it, or suggest it to someone else who does, it wins a VNPA. I understand this is a lot of authority to bestow upon myself but this way every podcast I like gets to win so I think it's okay.

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was no one going to tell me that alan burgon is hot?!? how am i supposed to listen to the amelia project now that i know the interviewer is a total stone cold fox?!? I MEAN LOOK AT HIM!!

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It's premiere day!!!!

The first episode of RED ODYSSEY is now available wherever you get your podcasts. Give it a listen.

"And whatever you do—don't let IT see you.

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productivity culture has damaged people in ways they don't even recognize.

"asking anyone to volunteer their time to your project is exploitation!"

okay. why?

because compensation is not being offered?

here's the thing: people can literally just say no. it's that simple.

the situation here is less morally complex than paid work. with paid work, you may decide you have to do something you don't enjoy or aren't completely comfortable with because you need the money.

when you volunteer your time to somebody's weird little hobby project, that person has literally zero material leverage over you. you can just leave at any time and no one can stop you.

you don't have to agree to it if it seems boring. if you agree to it and then decide it sucks, you can just walk away.

it's truly that simple.

in the indie scene, telling people not to create or participate in the creation of unpaid art is peak capitalist brain rot. this is not hollywood. nobody's strong-arming performers into being involved in projects under threat of blacklisting.

having the option to choose to do something that offers you zero material benefit should be a fundamental human right. it's an act of freedom- of self-expression. it is something you have chosen to do for no other reason than "it seemed neat" or "it seemed fun."

unmonetized and unmonetizable art is critically important to cultural development. it deserves to exist, and people deserve to be allowed to make it without feeling like they have to do so in secrecy.

some people do not work on unpaid projects. that's fine. i also live under capitalism. i get it. zero shame or judgment.

but this shit where people show up under every unpaid casting call to ask why it isn't paid work and loudly comment on how "disrespectful" that is to performers has got to fucking stop.

nobody's trying to make you work for free. you can literally just say no with zero repercussions, and you know that.

you're not defending performers from exploitation.

you're defending toxic productivity culture. you're defending the status quo.

and you're doing so at the direct expense of people's right to self-expression. the right to make art for art's sake.

stop it. seriously, cut that shit out.

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Horror Podcasters

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There’s something out there, lurking in the darkness… Episode 5 drops tomorrow, 6pm UK time!

#nfponies! 👀 #the heathland is calling me

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Happy @cocoa-collabs - @clansocreations kindly reminded me when this was on this year so I was able to plan in advance to make something… I have been vocal about how much I love the Amelia theme variations. ( https://twitter.com/LouJSutcliffe/status/1544008598027751424 Don’t read the last tweet in this thread I was a scamp). Every time there is a new episode, I look forward to whatever new musical twists they come up with.  So, for my cocoa collab I took a prompt I liked the look of – “Remember me for centuries” and composed a selection of Amelia themes through the ages. Fan-themes, if you will. Part one is entirely made entirely with percussion and is meant to be…Stone Age-y (which is (spoilers) strictly pre-Amelia canon I now realise) - like someone thumping on logs and shells and pieces of wood. Part two is based on the rhythms of energetic sixteenth century dances like galliards and voltas and uses strings and rattling snare drums and dulcimers. Part three is mainly synth-generated tones and whispering effects for a space-like feel. The outro combines an instrument from all three for the beeps that finish off the Amelia theme.

Enjoy! and thank you again to the Amelia team for these wonderful stories and beautiful music.

#fuck i wouldnt mind if this was what i heard as my tinnitus #15kHz can piss off #the volta section gives massive odile/carabosse energy

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can we talk about the teamwork podcasters have built??? collaboration is genuinely everywhere in this space—once you've listened to three or four podcasts, you've probably heard the creators of at least four more podcasts, and then in turn will discover other shows from those podcasts, with new voices (alongside creators you're already familiar with!) sure, it's by design, & small shows need to support one another to survive, but idk, i just have such an appreciation for the podcasting community :,)

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When I was a teen, I went to a Christian youth group for a while. I was obsessed with musicals, particularly Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Cats. One day, one of the youth group leaders told me that it seemed I loved Cats the musical more than god, and urged me to give it up. Anyway, I decided after our conversation that I really did love musicals more than god, and I never went to church again. So that’s the story of how Cats made me forsake Jesus and turned me into an atheist.

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AhhhhhSoExciting!!!!! 👀👀👀

Coming 2024 - New Fiction Podcast!

Oh hiiiii tumblr. We're fashionably late to the party in our announcement here - but hi!

Camlann is a new post-apocalyptic, urban fantasy scripted fiction podcast inspired by British folklore and Arthuriana. Alternatively, it's about three idiots and their dog, surviving the apocalypse in a small cottage in Wales. It's full of queer, trans characters and made by a queer, trans, disabled production team. We're really excited about it! The show is written by Ella Watts (hi!) and produced by @tincanaudio

We'll be sharing more soon as we get closer to release, but in the mean time, our ask box is open. It's nice to meet you all!

[Image ID: A hazy golden mist over brown, sparsely tree-covered mountains. Block white capitals read the title, 'Camlann', with smaller text reading: 'Coming 2024' and 'A scripted fiction podcast by Ella Watts, from Tin Can Audio'. In the bottom right is the Tin Can Audio logo, which looks like a simplified mixer.]