when Alvina pitched the Smart Coffin to the Incognito Project, she had to file papers for the fake death-faking consultancy—so she doodled up a logo for Falsa Mortem one quiet afternoon.
(she did wonder later whether the lull had been because the Incognito Project was poaching their clients with their subpar services.)
i just realised the bits i'm making art of so far are all bonus/Patreon content. oops.
(Also known as me finally catching up with the Amelia project since Spotify did not inform me the new season had started. Excellent work btw guys!! Enjoying the heck out of it <333
So I sorta refuse to listen to The Magnus Archives Season 5 because I just do not vibe with JMart and I actively dislike Martin (extensive reason for that, uh, here.) Although I suppose I have to get to season 5 because of my recent writing project.
But anyone who enjoys/ enjoyed TMA, I have some podcast recommendations for you if you didn’t find them already:
The Amelia Project
Where the Stars Fell
The Storage Papers
ETA 17/01/24:
Mistholme Museum of Mystery, Morbidity and Mortality
Cellar Letters
Malevolent
You need to be okay with swearing (loads of swearing) for WTSF and you need to be okay with Death being extensively thematised and somewhat ridiculed for TAP
Religious imagery is getting kinda weird in both WTSF and TSP but I’m so far intrigued rather than put off.
And a side-note: Season 5 of TAP is coming up (12th May) and will apparently feature not just Ben Meredith but also Jonny Sims as a guest voice actor
It might seem counter-intuitive but I wold suggest you check out the TAP Anniversary Special to get a feeling for the main character. Then you go back and start at Season 1, the story only really picks up at season 2 but trust me, it’s intriguing and will hook you!
What I love about TAP aside from its premise and story is that it’s a European podcast. It feels inherently European rather than English or French or contained to any one nationality. And this comes through quite early on and very strongly. I love that! The characters are fun, whimsical and quirky. The premise has its charme and it has a “case of the week” feeling to it even while the overarching story picks up weight. There’s really a lot I like about it.
Like, I only got into TSP and WTSF because I was antsy for Amelia Project to update again. (Sorry, no offence.) Which doesn’t change the fact that I wholeheartedly recommend WTSF and TSP. (And maybe you can get into other podcasts from the Rusty Quill Network or Fable & Folly Network; I just couldn’t yet because they didn’t really catch my interest as much.)
For WTSF, huh… I don’t know which episode I would point you towards there, best start from the beginning. Although WTSF Episode 7 is a good hook, probably. It’s a bit ‘Good Omens’-esque and very fun, even though I occasionally need the transcripts pulled up to catch everything.
And TSP was supposed to be an anthology, I think, but it very very quickly devolved into a solid storyline so best to just start with the first episode and binge a few. The story will start puzzling together and making sense.
Characters: Alvina (The Amelia Project), The Interviewer (The Amelia Project), Amelia (The Amelia Project)
Tags: Lies, Alternate Universe, phoenix au, in which the interviewer is a phoenix, kind of, Secrets, Gaslighting, Sick Character, kind of? hes sort of dying, the interviewer refusing to tell alvina his secret
Summary:
"I can’t tell you what’s happening to him,” Amelia tells her, and Alvina could feel the hope physically deflate on her chest. “It is not my secret to keep, nor is it Amelia’s”
She can read between the lines. It was an Arthur thing, then. He was the one who didn’t want to tell her, like he hadn’t wanted to give her his name.
“But,” she continues, and Alvina listen closely, because she has the feeling that she shouldn’t be saying the things she’s going to reveal to her. “We’ve known each other for nine years. I consider you a friend, and I know you two are close as well. So believe me when I tell you that he’s going to be okay. That’s an objective truth. He’s gone through this before, and it’s going to get ugly before it gets better, but it will get better”
I wrote a fic! I finished listening to this podcast last night after not following it for two years, and the ending absolutely destroyed me. I had my computer near by and I decided to make that everyone else's problem
Normally I'm kinda ambivalent about singing in podcasts but in this week's episode of The Amelia Project when The Interviewer broke into Die Vogelfänger bin Ich ja I found myself hoping I would get to hear him sing the whole aria (haven't finished the episode yet so fingers crossed!). It's one of my favorites and imo Alan Burgon does well with the bit he does sing.
Since I usually only share my cosplays on TikTok I don’t usually take photos, so I’ll probably just be reposting videos from there
I don’t know what?? Happened with this?? But for some reason when I posted this video to TikTok it saved an identical draft?? Bit weird but I’m also p happy about it because it meant I could get this one without a watermark!! Yay!!