#hornblas

[shmiki]

#bvm podcast #brimstone valley mall fanart #brimstone valley mall #asmoraius #misroch fanart #belzagor #trent bvm #xaphan #hornblas #the whisperforge #vivís art #redrawing them bcd i’m re listening to the pod :3

[brimstonevalleymall]

We’re SO CLOSE! Let the demons in your life know that the queer indie fiction podcast filled with 90s nostalgia and demons from Hell needs THEM to help make it happen. Spread the word, let’s do this! And hey, when we get to 80% we’ll release our final script sneak peek. 👀

#brimstone valley mall #bvmpod #indie podcast #fiction podcast #belzagor #xaphan #misroch #asmoraius #hornblas #audio drama #fundraising

[asmoshoebox]

asmoraius and hornblas have such a funny friend dynamic to me because they're both the kind of people who will stop at nothing in service of The Bit, but their Bits are wildly different

like i think asmoraius's Bits are simply stuff he enjoys doing and he thinks it's funny to take something overly seriously/literally and then wink at the audience. for him it's all sex stuff, which he genuinely enjoys, but he also plays it up because it's funny as hell and gets a reaction. and that's it, that's his whole deal, he knows who he is and he likes getting attention for it.

but hornblas's Bits are much more interesting in terms of Why he does them, and i think it comes down to him being fundamentally Emo (whereas asmoraius is much more of a romantic and glam type goth), by which i mean, he doesn't know who he is. on some level. and he's full of existential Angst about it.

now, i dont know that it's ever stated outright, but it's heavily implied that he never had a particular Station within hell, he simply had a Job, which was to summon demons to and fro, and he himself was free to fuck around the rest of the time. he seems to have spent most of his time pulling elaborate pranks and schemes, and the only connection i can draw between them is that they tend to be collaborative. he's also said to be "constantly leading demons astray" and good at "getting people to follow him wherever he goes"

combine this with his other consistent descriptions--that he is moody, prone to isolation, sensitive to negative feedback, and the de facto leader of any group he's in--and it's pretty obvious that leading people into funny situations, specifically, is the only way he knows how to bond with others.

and i think this is directly due to the fact that he doesn't have a Station, which is shown to be a super important part of how demons identify themselves and form communities. he has a Job that ranks him above everyone else and prevents him from forming genuine peer-to-peer relationships.

what happens to your sense of identity when you can't form lateral relationships? it fucking withers away into dust is what it does

we don't get to see him define himself (before the ending), but we do get to see how misroch thinks he defines himself (i.e. entirely around his One Special Ability), and i think the pushback misroch gets from belzagor about this, combined with the many other interests that hornblas is said to have, would indicate that hornblas has spent a lot of time trying to distance himself from that role, or at least to find out who he is outside of it. and i think we can also see that he hasn't been successful, because he's still super sensitive to rejection and misroch still thinks his whole identity is based in his Job.

and that leads directly to his final decision to leave. someone desperate for connection, with no tools to create it, and too much rejection sensitivity to handle relatively normal relationships, who feels isolated by their one assigned identity and trapped within it--- is going to be super receptive to someone offering them the ultimate get out of jail hell free card.

.....and if i could add one final observation: narratively, he's placed directly opposite misroch, and so we might expect to see some of misroch's issues mirrored in him. and i think we do:

misroch knows who they are, but struggles to value themselves. hornblas values himself very highly, but doesn't know who he is.

#brimstone valley mall #brimstone valley mall meta #this one got away from me and i lost the original topic of asmo and hornblas friendship oops #anyway i also think hornblas is the most adhd representation ive ever seen and i fucking love it #hornblas #asmoraius

[playgroundpods]

Attention Brimstone Valley Mall shoppers! SJ and Gab have decided to take over the PA system. If you do not hear what they say, then simply do! Listen to it now!

Listen to it here!

#brimstone valley mall #kristen dimercurio #hornblas #misroch #belzegor #xaphan #asmoraius #trent

[bi-mirandalawson]

Bath and body works and build a bear both started in the 90s can I PLEASE get a brimstone valley mall au where that last post happens

#angel and demon each working at one store….. #COMPLETELY unrelated to any of the main plot. never even heard of hornblas. #just a fun offshoot #sinatext

[boombox-fuckboy]

Podcasts Crowdfunding

Let me know if I'm missing any, and I'll add them.

Hi Nay (Act 3)

Closes 2023-04-07

Hi Nay, literally translated to “Hi Mom”, is a supernatural horror fiction podcast about Filipina immigrant Mari Datuin, whose babaylan (shaman) family background accidentally gets her involved in stopping dangerous supernatural events in Toronto.

Arden (Season 3)

Closes 2023-04-13

In Season 3, Bea, Brenda and the rest of Team Arden will be heading to NYC, the Very Large Apple, to investigate the robbery of the lost painting A Long Summer's Night. Stolen in 1929, the masterpiece by mysterious artist Ronald Overton has been missing ever since... except for one night, July 4th, 2001, when it appeared in the background of a photograph taken by siblings Linus and Demi Callas at a party that neither can quite remember.

The Last Echoes (Season 1)

Closes 2023-04-20

The Last Echoes is an audio drama that tells the story of one planet's decision after they're offered membership in the galaxy's greatest alliance. It also tells the stories of 8 people living on worlds that are nothing but history and memory and gives audio glimpses into the sound of those lost worlds.

Twigs and Hearts (Season 1)

Closes 2023-04-21

A book that ties many together. Who picks up a copy? What powers do they serve? Between missing people and people missing, who will you trust? Twigs and Hearts. Open at your own risk. Twigs and Hearts is a queer supernatural horror audio drama that questions reality, relationships and radios.

Project Gnosis (Part 2)

Closes 2023-05-01

Project Gnosis follows supernatural agents, both monsters and beings of legend, as they travel around the world to stop conspiracies and acts of terror waged by forces from humans to cryptids. Follow a jiangshi, a werehorse, and an Irish legend in a story filled with a diverse and talented cast.

The Attic Monologues (Season 2)

Closes 2023-05-01

The Attic Monologues is a serialised urban fantasy audio drama from Audio Verse Award winner Morgan Greensmith, following Nyx Ryland, a drama student who starts practising with a mysterious collection of monologues they discover in their attic. But when they start receiving strange threats from the supposed author of these monologues, it all begins to feel like more than just coincidence.

Brimstone Valley Mall (Season 2)

Closes 2023-05-02

It's been almost three years since this dark comedy fiction podcast left our fans on a cliffhanger. And wasn't that fun? Now here we are! Three years and a global pandemic later, bringing you a final season that will answer all of your burning questions! Like: What happened to Hornblas? Will our demons make it back to the mall? What IS a bagel bite? We want to wrap up this story in a way that's more satisfying than a five finger corndog shoved down the gullet. And with your help, we plan to do just that.

#This is unlikely to become a regular thing #audio drama #crowdfunding #hi nay #arden #the last echoes #twigs and hearts #project gnosis #the attic monologues #brimstone valley mall

[imgonnagetkilledbynutstink]

Ight i finished the measley 10 episodes of Brimstone Valley Mall so heres the characters in picrew (i didn't make Hornblas cause fuck that guy)

Misroch

Asmoraius

Belzagor

Xaphan

Trent

Picrew is Grgikau Character Maker

#brimstone valley mall #bvm #misroch #asmoraius #belzagor #xaphan #trent bvm #picrew

[gavindna]

Girl help I’m such a dumbass for the longest time I thought brimstone valley ball just got, like, discontinued or something, just relistened to it and only just now realized that the Angel guy in the reckoning was hornblas

#brimstone valley mall

[maximumpenetration]

Look mom I'm listening to podcasts again

I've been on sort of a podcast listening binge lately. Between the school year making my commutes longer to being able to spend more time focused on work projects uninterrupted, I've had a lot more time to just vibe out and take in a good story or two. I've been catching up on some that I left hanging after work started calling us back to the office, and I also picked up a bunch from a serial fiction recommendation thread elsewhere.

The first one of these I ended up cracking open was Brimstone Valley Mall. Set in the few days before Y2K, the story follows a group of demons from Hell masquerading as humans in a band, as they try to figure out why one of them has gone missing on the cusp of biggest gig of their lives. It's a pretty rad setup, and the story's paced well enough that once everyone's on the same page (where exactly is Hornblas?) I was genuinely interested enough to power through the back half of the season. I give this a pretty solid recommendation.

I have some issues with some of the knowing wink humor of being set in the 90s (no, man, I really don't need a three minute diatribe about how hilarious it is that one character thinks that cell phones aren't going to take off), and there's one really bad over 9000 reference that nearly made me switch to something else. I think it's especially a bummer because there are a lot of genuinely funny moments in the show, but the writing feeling like it has to lean on "haha what if the Wallace Didney Association overtook all media!" really drags down the mood. It smooths over after the first few episodes, so it's worth powering through. I know the second season is starting up recording now, so I only hope some of this feedback went their way after the end of the first season.

Solid listen, though, and each episode is like 20-25 minutes combining up to about four hours of run time.

[waveridden]

In hell, you’re assigned to do something, and you figure out how to do it. But human jobs? Belzagor Smith — it was the only human last name she could think of, okay, not everyone has an elaborate backstory (Asmoraius) or a total disregard for naming conventions (Misroch) or a deep amount of care for how first and last names flow together and making sure that it sounds nicely (Hornblas) — is apparently not very hireable.

The first week in south central Pennsylvania, and all the bumps in the road. 2.7k. Written as a charity commission for @candidateofloyalty!

#brimstone valley mall #bvmpod #belzagor #asmoraius #misroch #hornblas #waveridden.fic #bvm #i think that's enough tags! god this was fun to write #it's PRE CANON so if the idea of demons pretending to be human at a mall in the 90s sounds fun you can just read this probably #this was such a delight thank you kalcifer as always for having the best ideas

[misnis]

hiiiiiii me and @youve-got-a-novel-in-you made a buzzfeed unsolved au for mall rat <3

#brimstone valley mall #bvm podcast #hornblas #misroch #belzagor #asmoraius #xaphan

[youve-got-a-novel-in-you]

haha whoops (writes bvm fanfic and fucks up time) 

#safe to rb #brimstone valley mall #bvm #fanfic #belzagor #hornblas

[podcastbigbang]

Untitled BVM Angst Fic

Synopsis:

Hornblas is gone, and Belzagor knows that... it just hasn't quite hit her yet. When it does, it's because they're already trying to replace him, and Misroch and Asmoraius have to try to help her figure out how to handle it. Eventually, she musters up the ability to talk to Xaphan, and finds that (while she is no Hornblas Replacement) her company is rather pleasant, too.

Rating: Teen

Pairings or Main Characters: Belzagor & Misroch & Asmoraius, Belzagor & Hornblas, Belzagor & Xaphan 

Author Intro: 

@youve-got-a-novel-in-you : Hi i’m farren and i have no idea what i’m doing 

Artist Intros: 

@apple-scrumper : hi!!! I’m axel and im here to also be evil

@stygiomedusa : howdy! i’m styg and i have decided to be evil now <3 

Beta Intros: 

@starshipviolet : Hey! I’m Vi, I’m here for Belzagor who deserves the world and that’s not evil! I don’t know why everyone keeps pointing at the path of destruction furbys have wreaked!

@bisexualoftheblade : Hey yall! I’m Cai, and I’m here because I thought BVM wasn’t quite sad enough the first time around.

#podcast big bang 2021 #podcast big bang 2021 fic intros #brimstone valley mall #belzagor #misroch #asmoraius #hornblas #xaphan #fpbbbvm

[asmoshoebox]

#asmoraius #also #hornblas #(on separate occasions)

[completelyhopelessprocrastinator]

brimstone valley mall is good

#brimstone valley mall #asmoraius #belzagor #hornblas #xaphan #misroch

[tryerofpods]

Let's talk about Brimstone Valley Mall (@brimstonevalleymall ) from The Whisper Forge. Written and directed by Kristen DiMercurio (Dr. Sally Grissom from Ars Paradoxica). A fiction, comedy, mystery podcast. The year is 1999, and four demons, Belsagor, Misroch, Hornblas, and Asmoraius have been sent up from hell to sow discord and evil among the living, as part of the fight between good and evil. It's supposed to be a punishment to earn their way back into Satan's good graces, but the secret is, they don't want to go back to hell, they LIKE it up on the surface, so their goal is to make enough evil and discord that they can stay, but not so much that they earn their way back. Studied incompetence. *Besides* it's hard to get in time for band practice down in hell. So they all share a house together as roomies, and they all work at the Mall. Ahh yes, pre-Y2K mall vibes. Asmoraius is a succubus who works at Hot Topic and is hassled by goth kids, and just got a preppy boy friend whose a really good guy, *maybe* too good? Misroch is a hellish cook who's neurotic, bad at pretending to be human, and works at Weiner World, where he busily tries to come up with new recipes to out compete the other places in the food court, and fails horribly. Maybe it would help if he didn't keep human hands in the fryer, but who can say. Belsagor is Hornblas' BFF and works at Gadget Hut, and might have accidentally created the Tomagotchi, which creates *way* too many "Sin Coins" than she would like. And Hornblas, who is the lead singer of their band, Mall Rat--he was supposed to start work at Weiner World today, but he's gone missing...and now Xaphan, the Stoker of the Bellows of Hell, has come up to join the gang and knows *literally* nothing about surface life. Uuuuugggh. But at least she likes Misroch's cuisine, so that's something. But seriously, where *the hell* is Hornblas?? There's no way he would abandon them right before Y2K! It's just fun from top to bottom. Rediculous and full of nostalgic late 90s vibes. In the fight for good and evil, you'll strangely be rooting for evil, maybe just this once. 10, 30ish minute episodes in season 1, hopefully waiting for season 2.

#brimstone valley mall #whisperforge #hornblas #mallrat #belsagor #misroch #asmoraius #comedy #evil #goodandevil #kristendimercurio #satire #fiction podcast #fictionpodcasts #trypod #podcasts #podcast