I want to mention a bunch of things that are in Hi Nay to see if people would be interested in listening to it
Creepy priest gets turned into a human puppet by a non-binary magic user surgeon in the 1940s
Romantic full body surgery
Queer detective duos where one is an effervescent smartass and the other is Very Repressed (1980s and 2020s edition) and one is hopelessly in love with the other one
5 foot tall fat pansexual WOC protagonist (cute, terrifying) who canonically left the Philippines during the Duterte presidency
Drippy Bloody Monster Husband Crawling On The Walls (his wife is an Instagram influencer)
1920s interracial lesbian couple
Villain literally named Mr. Realman
Fake conman guru offended to find out his magic is real actually
6 foot 2 strong armed lesbian protagonist who sometimes wields an axe
Wandering magical hobo who saves people from The Horrors (what is his secret)
Elephant sized wolves living in the mountains of Canada who will sometimes bite the heads of human predators
A musical episode
"I assume this character is queer because this is Hi Nay" - one of our listeners
Alasdair Stuart (Peter Lukas from the Magnus Archives) voices a sad pining gay old man in one of the episodes
How scary is the show? As a fellow Canadian and lover of ADs, Hi Nay has been on my radar for a while, but I've hesitated because I'm not generally a big fan of horror. I can handle some, but don't like being terrified. What level would you say the show is at, from "cosy listening" to "will give you nightmares"? Thanks! :)
I like to compare the scary levels of Hi Nay to that of the series Supernatural - the first three seasons are properly spooky, but then as it becomes more plot driven it's less straightforwardly scary and more horror fantasy.
In Hi Nay, we do some spooky sound effects here and there, but I don't think we'll give anyone nightmares~ I'd say, if you've listened to the Magnus Archives, that we're just a bit scarier than that SFX wise, but only for a couple of episodes. The scariest we get are Episode 1: Bulok (Rot), Episode 12: Pagbigti (Hanging), and Episode 25: Talikuran (Turn Your Back).
Each episode has extensive trigger warnings to help people decide what they can handle content-wise.
Most of the rest of the series isn't too spooky, though some may be conceptually scary. But I'd love to hear other listeners chime in as well about how spooky you all think Hi Nay is!
People call us cozy listening regardless of all this, but I think that's because of our characters 😊 They have a fantastic and compelling relationship, and they add a level of comedy and warmth that helps combat the scares.
Tl;dr It might help to listen to us in the daytime for some of our episodes, but the overall experience isn't just all scares, and I hope you get to listen and enjoy anyway!
Monstrous Agonies is a fiction podcast created by @monstrousproductions that captures the weekly advice segment on the UK's only dedicated radio station for creatures of the night 👻🥰
Featuring:
A late-night radio advice show for monsters
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Monsters as a metaphor for marginalisation
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It’s called the train to caleco hill and currently only the prologue is air but still!!!!
It’s about this stupid little guy called Tash who gets on this spooky train to try and escape the place he is living, which he can’t remember anything before.
But also the train is super messed up
And everything is awful
Here is an extremely vague drawing of Tash you can have- I’ll leave the rest up to interpretation