#nym's nebulous notions

[passerkirbius]

You might not know his name, but if you've been listening to fiction podcasts, you've almost definitely heard his work. Erin Kyan is a transman artist in Melbourne, Australia, and you may well have heard the show he wrote, produced and co-starred in, Love and Luck. You might also have heard some of his other work, having co-wrote and co-produced Nym's Nebulous Notions and Floodlight Viscera, as well as a whole bunch of acting credits to his name, on shows such as Interference, The Nuclear Solution, Mars' Best Brisket, or you might have heard his writing on the Someone Dies in This Elevator episode Hot Wheels, as well as a bunch more appearances in other podcasts as well.

He's done a lot, is what I'm saying.

Erin came out as trans 20 years ago, and unsurprisingly, trans health care in Australia wasn't particularly great for fat trans men at the time, and has spent a long time being unable to get the care he needs. But 20 years is a long time, and things are changing - not only are the gatekeepers no longer there to stop him, but there are surgeons willing to do top surgery, even on fat people like Erin - the surgery date is even booked!

Of course, even in Australia, this kind of surgery costs a lot - It's not on Medicare, you need to go Private. And so, like so many others, he's opening himself up to the generosity of others to help cover at least some of the costs of this surgery.

So, if you would like to give back to an amazing trans man within the fiction podcast world, and you have the capacity to do so (he's very clear about this - if you're making less than $40K a year, you need that money more than he does), Please considering donating to his surgery fund. Even if it's just a little bit, every bit helps.

And if you can't? Reblogging this so that as many people as possible can see it would be a wonderful thing.

#love and luck podcast #love and luck #erin kyan #top surgery #trans masc #podcasts #mars best brisket #interference #nym's nebulous notions #supernatural sexuality with dr. seabrooke #floodlight viscera #trans artists #trans podcasts #trans men

[skyfullofpods]

N is for Nym's Nebulous Notions!

Sci-fi. Nym presents a show where she investigates conspiracies. When she intercepts a mysterious signal from an abandoned spaceship, she sets off to uncover the truth, recording what she discovers for her fans.

#Nym's Nebulous Notions #Random Podcast Recommendations #audio fiction #audio drama #podcasts #podcast recommendations #podcast recs #sci-fi podcasts

[tunedtostatic]

Podcast Girls Week (belated) day one - favorite episode episode that made you cry

In a day late - I thought I would have time yesterday but I did not! I'm also breaking the rules creatively interpreting Monday's optional prompt, because I knew I'd never in a million years be able to come up with a favorite episode (even per show, tbh). The alternative criteria that immediately popped into my head was "episode that made you cry" - I don't cry at fiction often but one podcast episode series of episodes has caused the waterworks, which makes it an easy choice for a category.

Nym's Nebulous Notions is a self-contained, one-season science fiction podcast of short episodes following Nym as she explores the source of a mysterious signal in space. It's a mix of humor, mild suspense, and tragedy both realistic and science fictional, with a tragic but hopeful ending about the power of connection.

After going back to find the episode number, it turns out I'm also breaking my own made-up criteria because it wasn't one episode, it was a sequence of episodes (in my defense, they're short, so in my memory it's one well-written blur of tears). I wibbled my way through episodes eight through twelve, from the recording of the autopsy through to Nym's backstory and on to the ending.

This turned into more of a rec post than a meta post because it's a mystery show and I don't want to give too much away, but yeah. If you need a cathartic cry, want to explore an abandoned spaceship, and like (or hate) the idea of Space YouTubers, this one's for you.

#podcastgirlsweek #nym's nebulous notions #meta

[violetren]

Don't suppose anyone out there has any recs for Aussie made fiction audio dramas???

So far I've listened to:

The Mistholme Museum of Mystery, Morbidity and Mortality

A Beginner's Guide to the Occult

Terror Forming

Nym's Nebulous Notions

I also listened to a bit of Margaret Moves to Mars and Blockbuster Radio and while they weren't bad neither of them were my thing. Idk I might try Blockbuster Radio again some other time...

So yeah what other Australian written/produced fiction podcasts/audio dramas can people recommend?

#podcasts #audio dramas #podcast recommendations #the mistholme museum of mystery morbidity and mortality #a beginner's guide to the occult #terror forming #nym's nebulous notions #margaret moves to mars #blockbuster radio

[tropinano]

List of As Many Fiction Podcasts As I Could Think Of

NOT ORGANIZED! This is a big list of fiction podcasts with no descriptions, meant for the sole purpose of picking one based on the title and just trying it out. Just a big ol' list of titles. Kindof like a blind date! Explore a couple of the ones that intrigue you and come back later for more.

The Hotel

The Night Post

I am in Eskew

Whisperling

Residents of Proserpina Park

The Daedalus Compound

EOS10

The Magnus Archives

Francis Forever

SMILE GROVE

Janus Descending

The Godfrey Audio Guide

Old Gods of Appalachia

Camp Here & There

The Way We Haunt Now

Jack of All Trades

SUPERSUITS

Illuminati Interns

Death by Dying

Life with Leo(h)

Hello from the Hallowoods

Malevolent

The 12:37

Spirit Box Radio

Lost Terminal

Desperado

Neighbourly

The Switchboard

The Mistholme Museum of Mystery, Morbidity and Mortality

Aurora Everlasting

The Swashbuckling Ladies Debate Society

CARAVAN

The Amelia Project

Jar of Rebuke

Monstrous Agonies

Where the Stars Fell

Kisses In The Dark

The Town Whispers

Uncommon Commons

The Author's Anathema

Elevator Pitch

Brimstone Valley Mall

Kane & Feels

Middle:Below

The McIlwraith Statements

Caledonian Gothic

I have seen Niagara

Petrified

In Darkness Vast

The Outside Tapes

Seren

Gather the Suspects

This Foul Earth

John from Home

Glasgow Ghost Stories

The Tower

The Antique Shop

either

Tales from Aletheian Society

The Secret of St Kilda

The Green Horizon

Road X

THE NOWHERE MALL

Seven of Hearts

The Department of Variance of Somewhere, Ohio

SubverCity Transmit

The Nuclear Solution

Inkwyrm

Jim Robbie and the Wanderers

Burst

With Caulk and Candles

This Planet Needs a Name

The Glass Appeal

Mar's Best Brisket

Nym's Nebulous Notions

Midnight Radio

The Bright Sessions

When Angels Visit Armadillo

The Mysterious Secrets of Uncle Bertie's Botanarium

Nowhere, On Air

Dark Ages

Welcome to Night Vale

The Silt Verses

Care & Feeding of Werewolves

The Bridge

The Far Meridian

ars PARADOXICA

Among the Stars and Bones

Counterbalance

Primordial Deep

Hannahpocalypse

Someone dies in this Elevator

Mabel

Seen and Not Heard

Abyss FM

Bodies in Space

Among the Stacks

Station Arcadia

Station Blue

Mnemosyne

Wolf 359

Tranthologies

Mx Bad Luck

SAYER

Limetown

What will be here?

Wake of Corrosion

The Pasithea Powder

SINKHOLE

Tell No Tales

The Vesta Clinic

Dreamboy

Georgie Romero is Done For

The Domestic Life of Anthony Todd

Alice isn't Dead

Stellar Firma

Unwell

The Strange Case of Starship Iris

The Heart of Ether

The Orbiting Human Circus

Wooden Overcoats

Greater Boston

Valence

Moonbase Theta Out

The Penumbra Podcast

Desert Skies

Deviser

Leaving Corvat

Red Valley

Back Again Back Again

Sidequesting

#camp here & there #chnt #tma #wtnv #ch&t #welcome to night vale #indie podcast #podcast reccomendation #the penumbra podcast #the hotel #the night post #hello from the hallowoods #old gods of appalachia #i am in eskew #podcasts #audio fiction

[jinkies-binx]

Sooooo about a year ago, I was cast in a project called Nym’s Nebulous Notions, a sci-fi podcast following a conspiracy investigator named Nym as she searches for the truth about a mysterious signal. It was officially released today, and after listening to the whole thing, I am INCREDIBLY proud to have been a part of it. It’s 12 episodes long, with episodes ranging from 5-16 minutes. If you have the time, it would be greatly appreciated to give it a listen.

I play the role Cassie Riggs-Jorgan in episode 3. My role in it is short and sweet, but honestly this is something I would recommend regardless of whether I was in it or not. Here’s the first episode!

You can also read more about it on the website, nymsnotions.com if you’re interested

#this is a long shot but remember when i was excited to get paid to yell a couple lines in a mic a year ago? #this is that project #i’ve never done a promo like this before i hope i did good? #like i enjoyed listening to this so much i just really wanna share this!!!! #Nym’s Nebulous Notions

[boombox-fuckboy]

do you know of any podcasts about radio stations set in space? that feels like a genre that would exist considering it combines two popular categories of audio dramas but the only one i can think of is tscosi sort of

I do! But technically just the one?

Solutions to Problems

"Solutions to Problems is a Dear Prudence style advice podcast set on a space station in some version of the future hovering over some version of Earth. Join us every other Friday for advice on work, relationships, time travel paradoxes, and the occasional brain parasite."

The description is a good summary but I do also want to say I really enjoyed this podcast and it is worth checking out. Fun worldbuilding, queer, good soundwork, really funny.

And you mentioned The Strange Case of Starship Iris, so probably also a good opportunity to mention The Pasithea Powder, Life With Althaar, and Midst feature one as well! And In Transit mentioned one in the latest episode.

Startripper!!, and (if memory serves) Nym's Nebulous Notions feature space-made podcasts. And I'm way behind but I think Ophiuchus Radio might be an interdimensional radio show?

Anyone know any others?

#solutions to problems #i am working on two other lists rn as well. for later this week #█████ posts

[hooklineandpodcast]

Podcatch of the Week 08/14/2020

[Description: a yellow rocket ship with a wrench logo in the middle. Atthe top in yellow is: WE FIX SPACE JUNK. The background is a stary sky. At the bottom it says: By BETH CRANE]

We Fix Space Junk - By Battle Bird Productions

The Hook:  'We Fix Space Junk' follows seasoned smuggler Kilner and reluctant fugitive Samantha as they travel the galaxy, dodging bullets and meeting strange and wonderful beings as they carry out odd jobs on the fringes of the law.A female-led sci-fi comedy sitcom set in the far future, in a high-tech, dystopian world, We Fix Space Junk draws on the sci-fi of the past, following in the footsteps of Harry Harrison and of Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.Equal parts love-letter to sci-fi and satire of the present-day, Space Junk is lovingly produced by Beth Crane and Hedley Knights of Battle Bird Productions. 

Favourite Line:

KILNER: You’re stuck here. With me. To work it off. 

SAMANTHA: I can’t work it off! I’m a Trapp! Surely — 

KILNER: That means less than nothing to Automnicon. Believe me, I’m as thrilled as you are. After what happened last time. 

SAMANTHA: And what happened last time? 

KILNER: Crocodiles. Look, it’s not a bad life. It’s interesting, at least. 

Patreon: Yes find them at Battle Bird Productions. They also have a Kofi under We Fix Space Junk

Thoughts: We Fix Space junk is an extremely enjoyable listen. Growing up I loved Douglas Adams and absurd sci-fi comedies, especially when those comedies aren’t afraid of drama and serious matters. You can do a lot in a sci-fi setting and We Fix Space Junk goes far to put out a thoughtful and important story while also keeping its humour. I should have a checklist on these reviews because this one ticks all my favourite boxes: Anti-capitalist, found family, great music (the automnicon briefing is always my favorite even when I know it means the protagonists are about to get a headache). I’ve been recommended We Fix Space Junk a few times and I’m disappointed in myself that it took me so long to actually listen. Don’t make my mistake give it a follow as soon as possible. 

LGBTQA+ Characters: Yes

Transcript Available: Yes

If you liked: Alba Salix, Burst, Here Be Dragons, Wolf 359, or Nym’s Nebulous Notions you might like We Fix Space Junk

Podcast Info: find them @wefixspacejunk ​ 

Enjoying We Fix Space Junk? Please reblog and spread the word. Podcasts are usually passion projects and need the support of their listeners to get the word out. Catch you next week!

#we fix space junk #podcast rec #podcasts #podcatchoftheweek #sci-fi podcast #LGBTQA character #transcripts available #I decided to add dates from here on out

[theradioghost]

So I’ve realized recently that I actually really really like podcasts when my audio processing isn’t acting up (thanks tma!) and was wondering what recs you have for completed podcasts. I’m cool with basically any genre and theme, though I would appreciate a warning for tragedy. Thanks for your time!

Of course! I’ll put this one under a cut just so the length is a bit less ridiculous.

Some of my favorite completed shows are

Wolf 359 – a scifi comedy about four squabbling coworkers on a malfunctioning, isolated space station which then takes a hard right into a spectacular, heartwrenching drama. Not a tragedy, but many tears are shed when listening. Probably one of the best podcasts out there tbqh.

Ars Paradoxica – a modern physicist accidentally invents time travel, landing her back at the start of the Cold War and changing the course of history forever. The creators literally described it as “a tragedy” and they weren’t lying, although the finale is sort of hopefully bittersweet.

The Hidden Almanac – a grouchy professor in a plague doctor mask offers bite-sized pieces of history and hagiography from his fantastical world as well as gardening advice, occasionally interrupted and/or dragged off on unwilling shenanigans by his tequila-loving accidental necromancer best friend coworker. Fantasy writer/artist Ursula Vernon and her husband put this 4-minute show out three times a week for SEVEN YEARS, and it’s funny and cozy and poetic and can be found in full here, as there are too many episodes for most podcatchers to display.

Alice Isn’t Dead – lesbian Americana road-trip horror. A cross-country trucker searches for her missing wife while monsters and conspiracies pursue her across the vast empty and abandoned spaces of America. Actually also exists in novel form.

The Bright Sessions – records from the office of Dr. Bright, a therapist who specializes in people with strange and secret abilities. However, her patients aren’t the only ones with secrets. Personally this show never completely absorbed me like some others did, but the character writing is genuinely amazing. The story obviously also deals a lot with mental illness and some other difficult topics and content.

Our Fair City – the eight-season saga of the inhabitants of a post-apocalyptic underground city ruled over by the remnants of an insurance company, featuring mole people, lightning-harvesting sky sailors, giant ants, and a found family of mad scientists among others. Part comedy, part drama, all anticapitalist satire. You kind of have to give it a couple of seasons to find its stride (this was one of the very first shows in the podcast-based audio drama revival) but it is absolutely worth it. Disclaimer that while I am on the final season of the show I have not quite finished it yet.

Jarnsaxa Rising – a unique scifi-fantasy hybrid, in which a vengeful Norse giantess escapes imprisonment with the goal of destroying the gods and bringing about Ragnarok, only to find herself in a post-climate-change dystopian future.

Glasgow Ghost Stories – a Scottish woman begins noticing the many ghosts inhabiting the streets of her city; but the ghosts have begun to notice her too, and not all of them are friendly. Pigeons are involved.

Big Data – an odd little heist comedy about a rogue journalist investigating a spectacular crime in which the “seven keys to the internet” are stolen, leading to a story about hacking in which no actual hacking is involved. There are two fun side notes to it: one, everything that happens in it could technically happen in real life. Two, it involves an absurd amount of cameos from other well-known podcasts (and also Taika Waititi?), which you don’t need to get to follow the story but which make it kind of hilarious on a whole other level when you listen to those shows.

I Am In Eskew – a surreal, intense, disturbingly poetic horror about a man trapped in a shifting, malevolent, impossible city, and a woman on the outside trying to find him. Extremely good but I do recommend thoroughly checking the trigger warnings on this one. (Surprisingly non-tragic finale, although not a typical “happy ending.”)

The Alexandria Archives – half comedy and half horror, in the form of a late-night radio show at Alexandria University, on the edge of North Carolina’s Great Dismal Swamp. Half of each episode is a standalone cosmic horror story set in and around the town of Alexandria. The other half features the antics of the university’s students, including the host MW and her friends who are definitely Canadian exchange students, and not a vampire hiding from his ex and a bunch of stranded space pirates. (A little goofy? Yes, but I love it a ton for all its faults anyway. Also, some of the short stories are genuinely terrifying.)

and also, some completed miniseries!!

The Tower – a gorgeous experimental audio drama in which a young woman decides to climb the mysterious Tower, from which no one ever returns.

Time:Bombs – a comedy by the folks who made Wolf 359 about a bomb disposal squad on New Year’s Eve, trying to survive their leader’s obsession with breaking a record.

They Say a Lot of Things – upon discovering that she can interact with a dropped tape recorder, the ghost of a young girl tells her story, interwoven with the stories of those who have passed through the abandoned house that she cannot leave over the years that she’s haunted it.

Podcaster A. R. Olivieri specializes in microfiction miniseries, ranging from scifi to experimental to fantasy. (Side note, a lot of his work crosses over with the still-running scifi podcast Girl In Space, but you don’t need to have listened to GIS to understand what’s going on in his shows.)

Nym’s Nebulous Notions – a self-declared investigative journalist decides to check out a mysterious SOS signal and finds herself on a mysteriously abandoned ship – or so she thinks. Arguably a tragedy, although not necessarily in the way you might think.

Palimpsest – technically not finished, but each season of this anthology makes up a complete 10-part story, and seasons 1 and 2 are complete. Season 1 is a ghost story about a woman who is suspicious about strange happenings in her new home and her odd new neighbors. Season 2 is a turn-of-the-century dark urban fantasy about a girl who escapes her career criminal mother’s house, taking a job as the companion to what her new employer claims is an imprisoned faerie princess. (Season 3 is ongoing and is about a codebreaker who begins seeing ghosts on London’s streets during the Blitz.) It’s a heartbreaking sort of show, albeit in a very beautiful and moving way.

The Details is a short piece about an office worker who goes in to negotiate for a promotion and finds himself negotiating with the devil himself instead. The number of genuinely surprising and excellent twists it packs into just 45 minutes is really fun.

The London Necropolis Railway – a really underappreciated little fantasy-mystery about a recently-dead detective who refuses to board the train scheduled to take her to the afterlife until one of its hapless employees helps her solve her supernatural murder.

Janus Descending – a scifi horror told in two intertwining perspectives, one in reverse order and one in chronological order, about two scientists who land on a remote planet to investigate the ruins of its lost civilization, only to encounter the thing that killed the former inhabitants. A fantastic story told in a really clever and unique way, but stamp a big old tragedy warning all OVER this one, although because of the structure you technically know how it’s going to end right from the start – what makes this show so good is how you get there. It will make you cry, though.

… and also my show, Midnight Radio, which is about lesbian romance, small towns, old radio shows, the good and bad sides of nostalgia, and ghost stories.

#Anonymous #asks #my posts #podcast recs #bobbie recommends things

[clockworkcheetah]

finished 3 podcasts today

#they were husk dreamland and nyms nebulous notions #husk was kinda meh but the cover art is super pretty #dreamland is really good but is it on hiatus? it hadnt updated for a while and didnt feel finished #and nnn was just kinda sweet and standard sci-fi? rly short so you can easily finish a couple hours #starting a new list tomorrow

[skyfullofpods]

Random Podcast Recommendations Mega-List Part 2!

Updated: 09/12/23

Collected here in part 2 of my alphabetical list are the fiction podcasts from N-Z I've recommended so far for my random podcast recommendations! Part 1 is here

N The Night Post Night Shift The North West Footwear Database Novitero Null/Void Nym's Nebulous Notions

O Oblivity Of The Sword The One Stars The Oracle of Dusk The Orphans Our Fair City Out of Place

P Paired Palimpsest Paragon The Pasithea Powder The Path Down The Pilgrimage Saga The Prickwillow Papers Primordial Deep

Q Quid Pro Euro

R Radio Elusia Radioland Rapture 518 Red Valley Regina Prime Retribution ROGUEMAKER ROGUE RUNNERS

S Saffron and Peri Second Star to the Left Seen and Not Heard Sidequesting The Silt Verses Small Victories Spire Starfall

T Tales from the Low City Tartarus Temporal Light Temujin This Planet Needs a Name Tides The Tower

U Under Pressure Unseen Unwell

V VAST Horizon Vega: A Sci-Fi Adventure Podcast! The Vesta Clinic Victoriocity Voidless

W The Way We Haunt Now We Fix Space Junk We Know None Weaver What's The Frequency? The White Vault Windfall Witchever Path

Y Y2K

Z Zero Hours

#Random Podcast Recommendations #audio fiction #audio drama #podcasts #fiction podcasts #podcast recommendations #podcast recs

[hooklineandpodcast]

Podcatch of the Week

[Description: Three bubble tea cups in green and pink. The middle one is biggest. Behindd is a space background. “adc online” is in the top left corner in white and at the bottom is burst in green with pink highlight]

Burst  - by Marina McCready

The Hook:  Starting your own business is tricky at the best of times, but when you’re the owner of a bubble tea shop on a space station - with a communist as your financial advisor and an alien as a head chef, not to mention the universe’s biggest ethically-questionable coffee-shop conglomerate has it in for you- it’s a real adventure. (From their website)

Favourite Line:

Beth: (Obviously stalling for time and uses the first thing that pops in her head) There’s something I’ve been hiding from all of you. Like as a personal secret maybe and I never told anyone. And it’s been so hard. So ... so difficult to find the words... to express it. To say it...

Ben: Go on.

Beth: Um... I’m gay!

Ben: Oh... yeah... I thought. I thought you were already out of the proverbial closet.

Beth: What made you think that?

Ben: Well all the rainbow flags, and the t-shirt that said: “I like girls.” And the doc martins. That really sort of gave it away.

Beth: But I hadn’t told you. You can’t just assume my identity. 

Thoughts: Burst is a comedy slice of life in space with some added drama and anti-capitalist megacorp sentiments (these are a few of my favourite things). I really enjoyed the lovely co-workers to friends narrative. Very quick episodes so easy to listen to in one or two sittings. Just a warning though. If you’re a fan of bubble tea you might want to have some while you listen because I was craving it all day. 

Patreon: No, so the best way to support them is to like them on their facebook page (bubbleburstadc) and leave them reviews. 

LGBTQA+ Characters: Yes

Transcript Available: No edit: yes as of July 2020

If you liked: Nym’s Nebulous Notions, Fan Wars, Here Be Dragons, Alba Salix you might like Burst.

Podcast Info: Find them here @burstpodcast​  and their Facebook bubbleburstadc. I couldn’t find them on my usual podcatcher but you can find episodes on spotify. Their website is anchor.fm/burstpodcast

Enjoying Burst? Please reblog and spread the word. Podcasts are usually passion projects and need the support of their listeners to get the word out. Catch you next week!

#podcatch of the week #podcast rec #podcasts #burst podcast #sci-fi podcast #comedy podcast #slice of life podcast #lgbtqa character #transcripts available

[hooklineandpodcast]

Podcatch of the Week

[Three teens standing on what seems to be a dock with a mountain behind them. The mountain has a circular hole at the top. Starting from the left the first teen is tall, lean, white skin with freckles, red hair with a braid. The next is the shortest with dark skin with wavy dark brown hair with a shy expression, and the last is slightly shorter than the first with a bigger build, with longer wavy dark hair, light brown skin with a purple flower in her hair. All of them are wearing red coats and blue pants/End Description]

Skyjacks Couriers Call - by the Oneshot Podcast Network

The Hook:  The world of Spéir is vast, and filled with strange, magnificent, and dangerous things. Airships sail the skies over land and sea - and the waves churn below with monsters in the deep. Tucked away in the Thornback Mountains is the autumnal village of Thornvale, whose primary business is that of the Swiftwell Courier Service. Four Audron ships and a number of individual All-Couriers fly out of Thornvale to make their rounds across the whole of Spéir, carrying mail to and from dozens and dozens of locations, avoiding storms, pirates, and the ominous Red Feather Syndicate as they go. The Audrons also keep griffins, or lion birds, as part of their trade: working with these enormous, rideable birds are a necessary part of the airiner or Courier business. Beyond even all these wondrous things, there are yet more pieces of the world waiting to be discovered. Magic lurks in the shadows of everyday life, and using it comes at a sometimes terrible price. 

This is where we begin: in Thornvale, with three young novices about to become apprentices within the Swiftwell Courier Service. - From their Kickstarter

Favourite Line:

Thethina: By the stars and moons and suns. By the bounties of the cosmos, by the abundant potential of our personal eternities. We call upon such forces that see fit to look upon us in this moment gaze favorably upon these brave souls who risk their lives upon the streams and eddies of our sky to serve the people of our world, upon all who fly under our banner we ask for these blessings: 

For purity of thought towards all with whom you meet [...] for clarity of sight in the performance of your duties, [...] for the speaking of truth not only to those around you, but also to yourselves [...] for the hope of prosperity and bounty on this journey and all journeys to come. May the stars watch you my couriers, may the winds carry you and your crew mates shield you.  Remember do mercies right wrongs and take flight.

Crowd: Take flight! 

Coriander: And also remember to deliver the mail!

Thoughts: I know, you’re saying: HLP you already did Skyjacks. Which yes, yes I did. But they have a wonderful spin off for all ages called Skyjacks Couriers Call. It is also an actual play, although in this case using the Fate system along with the world of Spéir setting. It has everything you love about Skyjacks: the amazing music, the interesting and mysterious world setting, the comedy, but has it’s own flavour not following a band of (mostly) seasoned Skyjack corsairs, but with a coming of age story about three young people finding their places in the world and discovering along with us what it holds while delivering mail. Connecting a world that has been fractured geographically. There are six episodes out so far so it’s easy to catch up. 

Patreon: Yes, look for the Oneshot Podcast Network on Patreon, but also Skyjacks Couriers Call is currently in the middle of a Kickstarter to fund its first season. It funded within a day, but it’s still open to those interested and able which is why I decided to showcase it this week. 

LGBTQA+ Characters: Yes

Transcript Available: No, there are fan transcripts being made for Campaign Skyjacks, but as far as I know there are none yet for Couriers Call. 

If you liked: Campaign: Skyjacks, Lakeshore and Limbo, The Adventure Zone: Graduation, Nym’s Nebulous Notions, or Star Tripper you might like Skyjacks: Couriers Call

Podcast Info: Their website is oneshotpodcast.com and I think @campaignskyjacks​ I couldn’t find their own dedicated tumblr, at least not at the moment. 

Enjoying Skyjacks Couriers Call? Please reblog and spread the word. Podcasts are usually passion projects and need the support of their listeners to get the word out. Catch you next week!

#skyjacks couriers call #podcast #podcast recs #actual play #podcatch of the week #LGBTQA character #fantasy podcast

[hooklineandpodcast]

Podcatch of the Week

[Description: A purple baseball cap with I Survived the Ophelia with Ophelia crossed out and in white the word: Rusalka underneath. The cap is held by a pink tentacle seen through the view port of a submarine with the tentacle in dark blue water. - art by Kay Qin]

Here Be Dragons  - by Jordon Cobb

The Hook: Here Be Dragons is a twice-a-month radio drama podcast series, following the story of four women and a submarine.

When the body of a previously unknown aquatic creature washes up on shore, four women are called together for the expedition of a lifetime. Tasked by the U.S. Government to find and record evidence of this new breed of sea monster, Harper Bennett, Pippa Cambell, Lt. Commander Adrienne Scarlett and Dr. Natalya Atlas set off into the untamed wilds of The Bermuda Triangle.

But when technologies fail, monsters abound, and new friendships are pushed to their limits, these ladies find that they just might be in over their heads. - From their Website

Favourite Line:

HARPER: Which is who exactly? 

KILLIAN: Oh I’m sorry. The United States Government. Why, are you expecting someone else? 

HARPER: Is this a joke? 

KILLIAN: Oh no. Quite the opposite. In fact, this is probably the most serious call you’re ever going to get in your life.

HARPER: Am I being abducted? 

KILLIAN: (cheerfully) You’ve been recruited! Big difference! 

Thoughts: Don’t you just want  an adventure in a submarine in the Bermuda Triangle? Don’t you wanna run into cryptids and monsters?

High seas adventures abound in Here Be Dragons. It reminds me of pulpy adventure comics that was usually four dudes and one girl(friend) on an ocean adventure, except it’s four ladies working together on a broken down submarine.

Unfortunately it’s on permanent hiatus, but I think season one is worth a listen in entirety even if not a lot of the set up questions are answered.  

Patreon: No it’s been shut down as has the Gofundme, so the best way to support this show is leaving positive reviews. I would advice not leaving please continue reviews though since those are more stressful than helpful. I’ve been checking out Cobb’s other works so if you like this story check out her stuff! 

LGBTQA+ Characters: Yes

Transcript Available: Yes

If you liked: Wolf 359, Nym’s Nebulous Notions, the Strange Case of the Starship Iris, Dining in the Void, or the Bridge you might like Here Be Dragons

Podcast Info: find them on twitter @herebdragonspod ​ 

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Podcatch of the Week

[Description: Three people in front of a desk: On the left is an older man wearing a sweatsuit holding a book. He has salt and pepper hair with a beard and hsi hair pulled back, he has small glasses on his nose, the the middle is a blond man in a nice suit. He is sitting. He has a pencil mustache. Beside him is a woman with grey wavy hair wearing a bomber jacket. She is leaning on the desk. They’re in front of a window. A feather is caught in the blinds and a ghostly hand is pulling the blinds down. On the desk is a skull with fangs, a piece of paper and a magnfying glass. At the bottom is says: Lakeshore & Limbo /description] - Art by:  Megan O'Neal

Lakeshore & Limbo - by Arcade Audio

The Hook:  The sun sets over the second city. Graves yawn and shadows stretch as the night comes awake. And you’re on a strange corner of Chicago, where mysteries gather. At Lakeshore & Limbo.

Lakeshore & Limbo is an improvised Occult-Noir story, told using the rules of the Freeform Universal tabletop roleplaying game system. 

Favourite Line:

Vince: Necropunks for life... 

Necropunk: Necropunks for life!

Vince: And Beyond!

Thoughts: L&L is a very fun supernatural occult actual play. I think it’s a common trope for actual plays (and my taste in actual plays in particular), but we have an odd little found family that just keeps getting bigger to my endless delight. The players have a really great rhythm with one another and are quick to pull out terrible one liners (which is a must in this sort of setting in my opinion). James the game master always has wonderful mysteries to be solved. The gaming system is built for a lot of very free improve which the players take and run with. I’m often really impressed with how they solve the problems and puzzles put in front of them. 

Also one of the characters used to be a cat and that’s endless comedy right there. 

Patreon: Yes, look for Arcade Audio

LGBTQA+ Characters: Yes

Transcript Available: No

If you liked: Campaign: Skyjacks, The Adventure Zone: Graduation, Nym’s Nebulous Notions, or Star Tripper you might like Lakeshore & Limbo

Podcast Info: Their website is arcadeaudio.net and they’re on twitter @lakeshorelimbo 

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Podcatch of the Week

[A lucky side up horseshoe with a pink string knotted in the shape of a heart tied in the middle]

Love and Luck - by Passer Vulpes Productions

The Hook:  Australia's first LGBT audio drama, Love and Luck is a fictional radio play podcast, told via voicemails.  It’s a slice of life queer romance story with a touch of magic.

The story is about two men who fall in love, learn they have magic powers, and use those powers to support and protect their community. The good guys win, no one gets killed, and queer people of all types are all loved and valued. 

Made for people who like healthy relationships and happy endings, Love and Luck’s goal is to bring a few minutes of warmth and happiness to listeners once a week.  

Set in Melbourne, Australia in the present day, the world of Love and Luck is populated with many real life queer Melbourne people, events and places alongside its fictional characters  - Their Website

Favourite Line:

KANE: Hey... I love you.  Thank you for... well, everything.  Being so good about all this.

Also, thank you for brain sparks, although you can probably dial down the intensity a bit!  The first one that happened literally made me startle and the woman in the cubicle next to me asked me if I was okay!  It's kind of like you're occasionally dropping pop rocks into my brain, which is... I mean, it's an interesting enough experience, and I certainly appreciate the love and tenderness that comes along with it, but I could probably do with looking a little less weird to my coworkers.  Although, I guess I'm not going to be here much longer, so maybe it doesn't matter.

Having said that... my day still improved a lot after your little psychic pop rocks.  It's difficult to feel bad when there's tingly reminders of your wizard boyfriend's love floating around in your head.

- Episode 19 - Witch Boyfriends

Thoughts: I decided to go with the fluffiest podcast in the podcast sphere this week. Love and Luck is a nice pick me up when I’m feeling low. It’s about love, support, community (especially the queer community), and a little bit of magic. There’s not a huge amount of conflict, but it’s really about hearing a loving relationship bloom, a beautiful community blossom, and the goodness of people. In the real world no one has magic soothing power, but Love and Luck underlines that you don’t need magic powers to support and help people. 

Patreon: Yes, find them by looking up Passer Vulpes Productions

LGBTQA+ Characters: Big time

Transcript Available: Yes

If you liked: Star Tripper, Nyms Nebulous Notions, Kaleidotrope, or the Bright Sessions you might like Love and Luck

Podcast Info: Their Website is loveandluckpodcast.com and also passervulpes.com. They’re also on tumblr @loveandluckpodcast​

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