#a81 spoilers

[drinzen]

The trend of characters saying "I sympathize, I really do" to Dan is really interesting to me, because basically every time somebody says that to him they aren't even being honest with him.

#just a silly observation #like davenport says it and clara says it #davenport is obviously not being honest while clara says “i sympathize BUT you are involved in weird shit and that's not good” #after dan legit said he was forecully operated on against his will like #Archive 81 #archive 81 spoilers #a81 #a81 spoilers #daniel powell #dan powell

[arthurtaylorlester]

just finished the first season of archive 81 and samuel just sounds like john doe malevolent hes so fucking silly

#thats not a cult leader thats a homosexual #mad at him for eating ratty but other than that #archive 81 #a81 spoilers #malevolent #john malevolent #john doe #unhinged aromantics #!! red !!

[danielpowell]

#archive 81 #a81 spoilers #mel makes polls

[fortunechaos]

W.bg 🤝 Archive 81

Has a mad scientist who's in love with his test subject

#woe.begone #woe.begone spoilers #archive 81 #a81 #mikety #danrat #posts made specifically to be like pspspsps at Solipsistful hi y'all #a81 spoilers #w.bg #w.bg spoilers #archive 81 spoilers

[podcast-song-showdown]

But first, let's check our archive of audience reactions:

Echo

"Listen. I don't remember the exact name or episode it was from but it's the one where Nick is walking in like, limbo, meets himself(?) who has a cello for some reason, he plays this absolute banger of a song then dips and Nick wakes back up in the real world, and the song still haunts me to this day it's beautiful"

Lights You Can't See

"Beautiful eldritch song that comes midway through a tragic gay love story. What else is there to want"

#a81 #a81 spoilers #podcast song showdown #tournament poll

[aeightyone]

archive 81 season 2 summary

#a81 #archive 81 #archive 81 spoilers

[dumbass-extraordinaire]

still a person, after all

(do not repost w/ out permission)

[image id: a traditional pen and ink drawing of daniel powell, a blond white man in his twenties, before and after his surgery in season two.  end id.]

#my art #my art tag #daniel powell #dan powell #a81 #archive 81 #archive 81 spoilers #a81 fanart #a81 fan art #a81 art #archive 81 fanart #archive 81 fan art #archive 81 art #daniell powell fanart #dan powell fanart #tw body horror #tw partial nudity #tw gore #podcast fanart #now with image id

[suncrayon]

why don't you listen to lights you can't see archive 81 on repeat and maybe you'll calm down

#im going insane #chatter #a81 #no spoilers pls im only just past this ep

[a-majus]

hearing someone say pay phone in a podcast freaks me out, I do not trust it

#malevolent #malevolent spoilers #a81 has scarred me #liveblogging

[mistercesare]

HELLO i was dead bc of uni BUT i managed to design some of the guys from a81 that i am totally normal about (spoilers untill s2 under the cut probably AND a cw for minor bodyhorror and injury/blood)

rat first!! i thought about his feet being a little animalistic so he can both walk normally and get in his tiptoes and skitter wghwgwhg

little doodle of trying to figure out how to draw dan

caroline lesta who is rotating in my brain constantly

thought ab lmg shaving her hair when they got her (in all of the aus i created to cope with the season finale she grows her hair back)

the boatwoman! wanted her to be a little like those statues on the ships?? and also wings that are referense to the messenger

#archive 81 #a81 #daniel powell #daniel powell a81 #rat a81 #rat archive 81 #caroline lesta #suit archive 81 #the boatwoman a81 #the boatwoman archive 81 #archive 81 fanart

[omophagic-beast]

TELL ME ABOUT THOSE PODCASTS!!! TELL ME WHY YOU LOVE IT AND WHY IT STUCK OUT!!!!!!!!! I LOVE PODCASTS!!!!!!!!

my friend, you have activated my trap card in such a major way, this is the special interest that has me writing a dissertation in one of my friends discords, they had to quarantine me in a thread because of how much I love Archive 81. I'll be quarantining myself below a read more so I dont clog up dashes.

Archive 81 is a podcast about ritual, stories, and sound. It's also a REALLY, REALLY BAD NETFLIX SHOW. DO NOT WATCH THE NETFLIX "ADAPTATION", PLEASE. (this is whats in the discord thread, by the way, a currently ongoing compare and contrast of the podcast and the show where im breaking down why the show is so truly fucking terrible)

There are currently three seasons to A81, and two miniseries that exist between the second and third season, and after the third season. All are equally important and I sincerely recommend listening to each season in order, and not skipping the miniseries. However, each season is very different from the last, so I will pretty much be focusing only on season one to avoid spoilers.

Archive 81 season one is about Daniel Powell, a capital G Guy who has just taken a job with the Housing Historical Committee of New York State to digitize some old tapes. If you've listened to The Magnus Archives, this premise may sound familiar to you, and I promise if you enjoyed that podcast you'll like A81 as well.

I think that the first episode of A81 is a masterclass in setup, and really I can talk about it forever but you should just go listen to it, it's only 16 minutes long and seriously sets everything up so, so well. But I'll go over the basic premise here, partially because I really do just like talking about it.

First episode Dan gets set up by his boss, a condescending man named Davenport, in his new temporary home: a concrete bunker in the middle of nowhere with no internet and limited cell service. Sounds super normal and not sketchy At All! Oh, also the stocked food consists of mainly canned peaches, there's no sheets on the bed, and the power goes out intermittently. Again, just ideal living conditions.

And there's one more thing! Dan has to be recorded, constantly. 24/7.

So he's set up and immediately set to work, Davenport leaves and Dan slots in the first tape.

This is where we meet Melody Pendras, a journalist working for the Urban Preservation and Development Department of New York State and god, don't these departments and committees just sound so official?

All of Melody's tapes take place in the mid-90s and contain a series of interviews that she conducted in the Visser Apartments in New York. See, the apartments are kinda... weird. To put it mildly. There's voices that disappear when you turn the corner, music that comes from nowhere, and a cult run by someone named Samuel.

See, this is where I have to geek out a bit about the first episode in particular. Its, *insert hand flaps here* its so good.

The first tape that Dan puts is Melody's first time going in to Visser. She introduces herself, the apartment, and gives us the beginning of her story. The second tape Dan puts in is Melody's last time going in to Visser. She's panicked, talking about Samuel and how hes evil and a boiler room and how shes got a plan and -

the tape cuts off, damaged, warped, something.

This is how the story hooks Dan, showing him it's beginning and almost-end. Leaving him to figure out it's middle and the mystery of what actually happened to Melody.

At the end of the first episode, we meet Mark. Mark informs us that what we just listened to was a tape sent to him by Dan, before Dan went missing. He's not sure what to do, but is hoping that, by putting these tapes out here, someone who knows something will come forward.

This is how the story hooks us, showing us it's beginning and almost-end. Leaving us to figure out it's middle and the mystery of what actually happened to Dan.

And that's the first season. We, the audience, parallel Dan the whole way through. Its just, so good, for reasons I, again, don't want to spoil. But this parallel becomes important in The Golden Age, the miniseries between the second and third season.

Speaking of the second season, this is why I think the switch was so jarring to a lot of listeners. The first season gets us to relate to Dan so closely because we are him in a way, and the second season breaks that parallel. Well, this and the uhh. cough. there's a community created content warning document for the show, and the second season required a breakdown of body horror into four different types. so. yeah. If you're not a fan of Bad Meat Noises, it... may not be for you, sadly (season 2 is my favorite season).

The third season I will talk a bit about because it again turns a 180 to the point where a brief summary is not much of a spoiler. This is partially because Dan is not our main character! Instead we get to meet Nicholas and Christine, half-siblings who are attempting to preform a ritual left by their horrible occultist father.

When I say season two is my favorite it is by the smallest margin. I adore this whole entire show so, so much. Including the miniseries. The third season is fucking excellent, and if you find yourself turned off by the second season then honestly go ahead and scooch up to the third, with a stop at The Golden Age on the way. You'll be a bit confused, but ok.

There are also transcripts of the show available (the lovely unofficial ones which are fantastic but not finished, and the official ones) if you don't want to listen to the Bad Meat Noises but don't mind reading them, however I really strongly recommend against this. Sound is a huge part of the show (rituals, stories, and sound, remember?) and the sound design is really good.

Again I can talk about A81 all day, and when I finish my lecture on the podcast versus the show (evil, terrible) I'll clean it up and post it on here, because I'm actually rather proud of it so far and I'm not even halfway through my talking points.

Hopefully this has convinced you to give A81 a try! Seriously, the whole first season is 10 15-18 minute episodes, you can chomp through the whole thing in an afternoon.

Thanks for giving me a space to talk about it :3 <3

#corvid caws #a81 #archive 81 #a81 podcast #its so good and the things it has to say about stories are very important to me #seriously i love it so much #like #so so much

[drinzen]

Listening to Archive 81 for the fourth time and just realised that Dan ACTUALLY regains his human appearance at the end of s3? But he says "in this bubble you won't see me as a cyborg" does that imply his actual true appearance is the cyborg body but he's just masking it up now? Because he managed to modify the "________" to get his body back in a way. Also if his true appearance is the cyborg body, then he must have the same abilities still, so I feel like s3 ended with "yay Daniel escaped" but I feel Dan will inherently be tied to the weirdness from The City due to everything that's happened and his curiosity.

#archive 81 #a81 spoilers #archive 81 spoilers #Sorry for rant #Idk i just really dislike the idea that he might be “normal” now #Because it's just highly unlikely to me #At least my personal headcanon is that he has an illusion of a human appearance but his true appearance is the cyborg one #I bet in the city he doesn't look human either way #Would've been so cool if in s4 that he shows up in the city and somehow meets Chris and she'll see how he actually looks #Just speculation really #I really want the series to continue istg

[noeyesmayseeyou]

I posted 491 times in 2022

70 posts created (14%)

421 posts reblogged (86%)

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I tagged 459 of my posts in 2022

Only 7% of my posts had no tags

#tma - 236 posts

#a81 adaptation - 78 posts

#archive 81 netflix spoilers - 49 posts

#wolf 359 - 23 posts

#spirit box radio - 19 posts

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#wtnv - 15 posts

#tmp - 9 posts

#chapter and multiverse - 7 posts

#a81 - 7 posts

Longest Tag: 136 characters

#because of the recent mcr brainrot (that i believe those reblogs have also fallen victim to) i also initially thought it was about g way

My Top Posts in 2022:

#5

7 MINUTES IN AND THEY GAL PALLED MELODY AND ALEXA WHAT THE FUCK I'M SUING

13 notes - Posted January 14, 2022

#4

Fjfkfk Dan can just leave. Like he can leave whenever he wants and is in constant contact with Mark and they are actually MEETING IN PERSON LMAO.

14 notes - Posted January 14, 2022

#3

As usual, absolute Fear at how the Archive 81 TV show is gonna turn out

21 notes - Posted January 5, 2022

#2

Whenever Dan smiles at the Melody footage I wanna kill everyone responsible for this adaptation HE DOESN'T LIKE HER. LIKE CANONICALLY IN THE PODCAST HE LITERALLY SAYS SO. HOW DO YOU FUCK UP THIS BAD.

29 notes - Posted January 14, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

Hey there! If you consider yourself a fan of fiction horror podcasts, then I have a recommendation for you!

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The show has the creeping sense of unease of The Magnus Archives, the weird whimsy of Welcome to Night Vale and the LGBTQ+ representation of Hello from the Hallowoods!

If this sounds like something you'd like, then I have good news for you: The show has completed two whole seasons and a third (and final!) one is in the works, but it needs your help!

The show is trying to raise £6500 by October 28th to pay everyone who works on it, like it was able to do in its second season thanks to the previous crowdfunder. Please consider supporting if you've got the means!

Other ways you can support are reblogging this post and/or this post, retweeting this tweet and, of course, listening to the show on your podcatcher of choice!

EDIT: The crowdfunder has now closed, a huge thank you to everyone who supported it!! I still highly recommend you give this pod a listen.

169 notes - Posted October 4, 2022

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#loving sbr and hating the a81 adaptation truly defined my year hah #Youtube

[thelonely]

a boombox! like the 90s :)

#archive 81 #a81 #daniel powell #a81 spoilers #sar.art #body.horror #gif warning #me relistening to this ep: i wonder if rat established a sterile field #anatomy game weak and wish i had made the stereo chunkier but. i already spent too much time here

[hopefully-inspiring-persona]

We had to do a cyborg for my Advanced 3D modeling class and so I’m doing Dan ofc, so here’s my progress as of last Monday. Will be finished by next Monday cuz it’s due :)

#archive 81 #a81 #a81 spoilers #a81 podcast #archive 81 dan #daniel powell #dan powell #archive 81 podcast #archive 81 art #a81 art

[liebredeaconito]

I just think it’s neat

#archive 81 spoilers #archive 81 #a81 #a81 spoilers