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What do Fiction Podcasts have to say about the future?

Whenever you write a story set years from now, how you construct the world around it creates a new way to see the future, a fictional image to a reality we could be headed towards.

Fiction podcasts love to play within the sci-fi genre, and the thousands of audio dramas they have given us new pictures of what our world could look like in the next century (or a few years closer).

In this article I want to analyze the settings in the following shows: Hello from the Hallowoods, Desperado and The Strange Case of Starship Iris.

Hello From the Hallowoods

Hello From the Hallowoods welcomes us to a world ravaged by black rains and capitalism’s greed. After a natural (but man-made) disaster involving acid rain and flooding the world’s successions gave birth to two different types of beings: those who prefer to dream in a company’s “Prime Dream” and those who stay awake to continue living.

Even though the world is post-apocalyptic on paper, it never feels like it. Rather it is enchanted, there are woods where gods, revenants, devils, giants and zombies fall in love with themselves and with each other, places where community is found.

This, I attribute this to the fact that most characters don’t lament a nebulous “end of the world”, since this is the world they have always been living in and they are going to make the best of it: find family, friends, lovers, build homes and destroy bigots.

You leave the world of Hello From the Hallowoods knowing that even a doomed world is worthy of being awake for.

Desperado Podcast

Desperado Podcast also takes us to a world that was looted, but this time mainly by religious colonialism. 

Neo-colionalism has made itself tangible through genocides and direct targeting to believers that worship other than the “Old man in the Sky”.  In its first episode a community in México which revere La Catrina (a goddess in the show inspired by a popular figure in mexican art) is wiped out by the crusaders. 

From there our protagonist Elio is the sole survivor of his people, however all is not lost as he teams up with Talia (the chosen of Baron Samedi) and Shinji (whom I believe is a death kami?).

Elio now literally carries the memories of his community as the vessel for her goddess. Likewise in Desperado, the magic of the characters is the legacy their ancestors gave them, and it is what keeps them alive in the violent world. 

Though if we are ever to worry that our protagonist could fall into its clutches, the structure of the world soothes our preoccupations. You see, it is the characters within the story that are narrating their own experiences to the audience so we know that after all the pain, they ended up safe.

What Desperado tells us about the future is that, even with the ongoing genocides, white-washing of our culture, and neo-colonialism in general we will end up victorious in the end, and that our history will be forever within our memory.

The Strange Case of Starship Iris

The Strange Case of Starship Iris, is the most sci-fi audio drama out of the bunch. It follows the crew of the Rumour, a smuggler's ship, as they try to uncover the dark secrets of the Federation and evade persecution.

As with the other two properties, the future is not an easy world, but our characters are making the most of it.

In a post-war galaxy, the crew of the Rumour is smuggling space-ship parts, medicine, and erotic magazines until they find a help alarm coming from the Starship Iris and rescue biologist Violet Liu. From there they are involved in a mystery which, if the truth comes to life, they could be charged with treason against the Intergalactic Republic. 

Throughout the two seasons of the podcast, Violet Liu and company heal together the scars that the war and its result: the Intergalactic Republic left them. They fight against the government not only through robberies, infiltration, and coordinated efforts with rebel groups but also by eating latkes, drinking, singing shanties, and getting gay jewish married.

To conclude

if queer podcasts are telling us something about the future, it is that it may be equally messed up as the present but that queer, disabled people of color will exist beyond the end of the world and that even in the bleakest of futures we will continue to love and thrive.

#hello from the hallowoods #desperado podcast #strange case of starship iris #hfth #tscosi #article #audio drama #audio fiction #fiction podcasts #also #is so funny how only one out of the three shows is like “true” sci-fi but hey the three are set in the future (or an alternate reality in d #desperados case #but whatever)

[fa1ry-sandw1ch3s-6]

Pasithea powder was on this list last year, on the first place with a whopping 4k mins!

#inco #itme #BAM #where the stars fell #strange case of starship iris #rotten mango #spotify wrapped #and pasithea powder because i loved the last episode

[the-acer-scientist]

HEY! HEY PODCAST GAYS! yes, y’all, hello! fellow podcast queer in need of a recommendation! I am completely sane and normal about (read: incredibly hyperfixated on) audiodrama podcasts and was completely normal and neurotypical conversation (went on an ADHD winding trail of a monologue) with my mother, who has now mentioned that she would actually love to try one!

However: I’ve only really listened to horror (a lá Magnus Archives and Janus Descending) and slow-plot-reveal comedy (Wolf359, The Amelia Project), which are her two least favorite genres. And thus I request your help, fellow podcast enjoyers: any recommendations for mystery pods? (For the readers, she’s a big fan of Patterson, Grisham, and I think Nora Roberts)

any recs appreciated!!

#audiodrama podcasts #podcast recommendation #recommendation request #the magnus archives #w359 #the amelia project #strange case of starship Iris #Juno steel #I would rec her Juno Steel but she would Not React Well to Juno Nureyev and Peter Steel #the bright sessions #Janus descending #malevolent #rusty quill #I’m gonna ease her in and then slowly suggest the Juno steel mysteries n see what happens

[spacepirate-rb]

quick question: when does starship iris's story ramp up? i think i've tried to listen to it 3 times and i still can't get into it. the story seems interesting and the characters are well written but it just hasn't kept my attention like other podcasts .

i really wanna listen to it but it's so hard rn 😭

#strange case of starship iris #fiction podcasts #starship iris

[storyteller-aprendiz]

If the token man of you're space opera isn't a trans Jewish linguist in love with a enby person with a not sad or dark but rather "how did this guy got in this situations" back story, then why is he here for.

But actually, like Brian's backstory is so wild. Just the idea that while he was in gradschool he make all this contacts that are somehow involve in very serious situations.

#brian jeeter #tscosi #strange case of starship iris #is it a space opera idk #is it gradschool idk

[the-ash-holio]

you should check out the strange case of starship iris if you haven't already!

Oooh I haven’t, but I’ve heard a lot of good things about it (and it’s still ongoing??) May bump it to the top of my list, thanks anon!

#ask box #ash answers #anon asks #podcasts #podcast recs #strange case of starship iris

[arthurtaylorlester]

going to listen to the strange case of starship iris wish me luck

#strange case of starship iris #queer fiction podcast

[bekaterrier]

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#podcast piece #girl in space #caravan podcast #moonbase theta out #the penumbra podcast #midnight burger #the pasithea powder #the strange case of starship iris #re: dracula #where the stars fell #desperado podcast #wolf 359 #sidequesting #bekaterrier #my jewelry #handmade jewelry #wire knitting #bracelets #audio drama

[z-and-the-space-child]

once again thinking about found family in sci-fi. thinking about how bonds form from sheerly being around one another for a period of time. thinking about families of choice, thinking about how personhood is formed through connections, thinking about shared meals. thinking about calling the people you're stuck with family. thinking about putting up with other people's flaws because you can't leave, but learning to love them for who they are. thinking about getting to experience the beauty of space with the people closest to you. it's found family, right? they found each other, sure, but they MADE the family. it was a conscious effort.

#found family #science fiction #midnight burger #wolf 359 #mb #the wayfarers #the long way to a small angry planet #the strange case of starship iris

[averageatypical]

Note to self: do not listen to space-themed sci-fi podcasts while driving. There will be beeping noises and you will think they are coming from your car and it will freak you out.

#I finally finished s2 of tscosi tho #even if it almost gave me a heart attack #the strange case of the starship iris #wolf 359 #audio drama #podcasts #tscosi

[acepodcastweek]

Did I miss your favourite? Let me know!

Don't know any of these? Pick a show and go listen!

Wondering where Dr. Sally Grissom is? She is too powerful and would likely skew the poll, but rest assured I have not forgotten.

Want to know more about Ace Week Fiction Podcast Festivities? Click here.

#inco #inkwyrm #the strange case of starship iris #and 195 #girl in space #station to station #tides podcast #what's the frequency? #either podcast #jump leads #dining in the void #black box podcast #audio drama #ace podcast week #ace week #fiction podcast

[munchiezxx]

tscosi character design lineup for my portfolio :-) love this crew 4ever 

#the strange case of starship iris #tscosi #starship iris #sana tripathi #krejjh #brian jeeter #violet liu #arkady patel #rj mccabe #jin seon park #stuck pretty closely to my 2 y/o designs for time sake but i kinda wish i coulda gone crazier on the outfits #somedaaaayyyy #my art

[quisters]

My favorite genre is weird space found family

#midnight burger #Drawtectives #drawtectives season 2 #drawtectives celestial spear #the strange case of starship iris #tscosi

[iriscasefiles]

Audition info for the third and final season of Starship Iris!

Twitter is imploding, not with a bang or a whimper, but with sort of a squeaky rubber mallet sound, so if you want to signal boost this to any voice actors or aspiring voice actors you know, it would be much appreciated!

ETA: auditions close at 11:59 EST on April 30th 2023 so if you’re interested, don’t delay!

#the strange case of starship iris #tscosi

[a-side-character]

I love when a woman is a Captain

#That's it that's the post #I'm a sucker for a fictional woman in uniform ig #Captain Kathryn Janeway #Captain Isabelle Lovelace #Captain Sana Tripathi #Fleet Captain Breq Mianaai #Captain Seivarden Vendaai #(Feels odd tagging her in this but she WAS a Captain so. She counts) #anyways tag your captains these are just who I could think of off the top of my head #Janeway #Lovelace #Sana #Breq #Seivarden #Star Trek #Star Trek Voyager #Wolf 359 #the strange case of starship iris #Tscosi #imperial radch #Ancillary Mercy #ancillary sword

[yewstronaut]

alright I need more podcast reccs, fiction, non-fiction, inter-dimensional, all are welcome just drop the name in the comments (I'll tag ones I've already listened too)

#transmissions from a tree #re dracula #old gods of appalachia #welcome to night vale #the white vault #Sherlock and co #wolf 359 #the silt verses #midnight burger #desert skies #the strange case of the starship iris #we fix space junk #where the stars fell #the Amelia project #damn there's a lot of them