#started relistening to the black tapes

[murkycran]

2023 is apparently the year of me revisiting fandoms and pairings which I know have very, very little content outside of the source work. That’s right y’all, I’m ready to be hurt again.

#my personal fandom renaissance #started relistening to the black tapes #again #now I’m here on tumblr scrolling the tag #also once again #watch I’ll probably pull up the ao3 tag in a day or so #probably somehow mosey on back to king falls am #the two podcasts that ruined me #I don’t even want to talk about eos10 either #here we go again #oh I also got back into a rare pair of a fandom I left a couple years ago #there’s maybe 100 new fics and only 1/3 of them center on the rare pair and not the big fandom pairing #*stares wistfully in the distance*

[podcast-queen]

I finished TMA and was itching for something to listen to next and found myself relistening to first episode of The Black Tapes Podcast knowing damn well I hate the way the entire show ended.

The second I started tho I was completely immersed once again. 😔

#podcast #podcasts #the black tapes podcast #the black tapes #tbtp #pnws podcast #richard strand #podcast hell #alex reagan #the magnus archives #tma #rabbits podcast #pnws

[mio-nika]

I promised @turquoisewaves07 podcast recommendations

So let's get going. I will not obviously include every podcast I ever listened, only the ones that I really like and sometimes relisten.

1. Knifepoint horror.

Possibly my favourite podcast ever. It's the series of stories written and narrated by a guy called Soren Narnia. They are not usually connected and would sound similar to oneshots of MAG (almost every story starts as "my name is..." just like the "statement of..."). They usually very weird in nature, and it's really hard to explain why I like them so much. I usually recommend starting from "school".

2. Limetown.

Oh, the classic story about "every living person disappeared from this small unassuming town in the middle of the night".

It's like. One of the most famous ones in my list? They even had show adaption?? I never saw it, even tho every time I listen to it I think " fuck, it was really made with visuals in mind". Especially the last scenes.

3. The White Vault.

If it still snowing where you are it's a great one. Small expedition goes to a remote arctic station to fix things. Bad things happen. Interesting that almost the entire crew (both characters and actors) are bilingual and it plays big part in the story. Well, except one character. The Canadian-russian guy played by Peter Lewis. But I like him so I'm not even THAT mad.

4. Mabel.

Hi, so do you like LESBIANS? Mabel is really hard to recommend, because it made almost like a theatrical play where characters are talking in verses. It's a story about fae, lesbians, haunted buildings and women emancipation? It's extremely good. You will want to write lines over all of your walls, on your hands, on your heart.

5. The Big Loop.

It's the second podcast in the list, that is basically one guy writing not connected stories. He's name is Paul Bae and he more famous as one of the authors of "The Black Tapes". He left after the first season and he's probably the ONLY reason why first season is good. I highly recommend starting from "The Surrogate" if you like horror and "F.M.L." if you into hopefull dark comedy.

6. Alice isn't Dead

Do you remember how good were early podcasts writtend by a WTNV staff? I think we starting to forget. It's another "do you like lesbians" story, but its actually so much more. I cried real fuckin tears in a bus after the last episode, not from sadness, but from overwhelming hope for humans.

7. Death by Dying.

I've already recommended it in another post. But if you liked WTNV you need to listen to Death by Dying. It's a series of obituaries from a small weird town written by a guy who are very very VERY weird. He talks to a Angel of Death, he adopts cannibalistic cats and writes his abituaties more like personal stories of stupidity.

8. Small Town Horror.

This one usually gets overlooked, probably because of the very generic name, but for me it's really a hidden gem. Traumatized guy are trying to put together things that happened to him in his childhood and why he's so fucked up. If you really want to read story written by an unreliable narrator, this one is for you.

9. Within the Wires.

I already sang my praises about how good was the early podcasts written by a WTNV, but I will repeat it here. THEY WERE REALLY GOOD. It has a very different styles of storytelling from season to season. The first one is told through a series of mindfullness recordings. The second one is an art lections. Every season happens in the same universe and expands the over-arching story.

10. Spines.

I was thinking that to put as a last one and mostly torn beetween Spines and Girl in Space, but I'm a horror visual girl, so I choose Spines. Our heroine wakes up with no memory in the bath full of blood with a cultist-looking people and a probably other cult victims around her. Slowly she learns that she really is and in that horrying reality she was born.

#podcasts

[oaxleaf]

mag 28 - skintight

melanie!!! :) aside from jon, i think she's my favorite character for reasons we'll get into further on, but it's go to hear her

melanie and jon wanting to tear each other's throats out was so fun when it wasn't literal. they're both such hypocrites in this episode and i love them

"chances are very strong that i won't believe you either" why did he even take this job lmao

melanie admitting crimes on tape is so funny. the fact that jon presumably doesn't bother to report it is funnier

georgie!!!

it wasn't until, like, my third relisten of Anglerfish that i recognized sarah's name, which is odd considering i'm usually good at remembering minor characters, but it was a fun thing to notice going back

funny how melanie and andy live together but i don't think he ever really gets mentioned again? at least i think so?

"light black jacket" i know this probably means a thin black jacket, by my immeadiate instinct was "light black? you mean grey?"

i can excuse being an eldritch fear murder-avatar but i cannot excuse being rude to your coworkers

do you think the stranger is the one providing the cigarettes or does she need to buy them in bulk herself?

"a slight drop in temperature around on in the morning" lmao isn't this place devoid of heating? i can understand making fun of this honestly

what is that smell even? is it some taxidermy thing?

the skin stuff is really gross. almost more flesh-like than stranger-aligned

"weird vibes" oh really?

props to melanie for at least attempting to get some evidence

christ jon, is it really the time?

"i should have known this was a complete waste of my time!" "probably" have i told you i love them?

jon acting like he doesn't know georgie is really funny, but i do like to think they started getting back into contact a bit after this which is why she was so willing to harbour him from police after what we were told was a pretty bad break-up

the stranger going to networking events is also a hilarious image. quite frankly this episode is funnier than it is scary

i love this episode even is i haven't really relistened to it before. i love melanie and i love her and jon's interactions

#tma #the magnus archives #a mag a day #mag 28

[aflyingcontradiction]

The Magnus Archives Relisten: Episode 200 - Last Words

Jonah: Jon? I-I-Is that you? Uh, I, I was having the most wonderful dream…

And here I was feeling slightly sorry for him about his fate.

Jonah: I’ve seen more than I could have lived in a thousand lifetimes, and every moment was so –

This is so alien! ALL YOU'VE SEEN IS HORRORS, DUDE! How is that desirable? The immortality bit I can just about wrap my mind around (although even that is difficult for me) but in exchange for THAT???

Jon: It ends now. All of it. I am going to take this world that you used me to create, and I am going to burn it out.

God, I love Johnny's acting! The intensity!

Jon: I will have the satisfaction of knowing that I’ll be leaving these things that you serve trapped and starving in their own private hell.

That did have me going "Waaaaait a minute, I'm pretty sure that wasn't the plan anymore". Before this I straight-up hadn't realised Jon just went ahead against everyone else's vote. Which I really should have, what with the absence of Martin.

Jonah: We both know you that don’t have it in you –

How can you be both omniscient and so clueless at the same time?

Jon: the flaying of skin… burning, retching on the smog of… hide, hide, hide… it is not real but still it comes to… falling through the pitch black daa-aaaaaargh!

Have I mentioned that the acting is amazing? This section gave me actual physical shivers.

And by the time these minds had reached a point of intricacy to lie and scheme and puppet one other, they had also learned to conceive of war.

I appreciate that the Slaughter once again gets musical accompaniment - the drumbeat starts up in the background the moment Jon starts speaking of war.

And so the things that were fear began to sing

Oooh, the creepy ethereal singing in the background! I love it!

Martin: What’s that?

What does Jonah/Elias's body even look like at this point to make Martin go 'What's that'? I mean, I kinda assumed it's just ... a dead body?

Jon: It’s still me, Martin. I’m still here. Martin: How would you even know?

Not sure what Martin actually means by this. I mean, how do any of us know that we're still us after some huge life event, really? I don't think that Jon is in a different position from the average person on the street here.

Jon: Do it! The knife’s just there. Let them go.

It does feel weird that Jon would choose to actually change his mind at this moment. I mean, yes, love and all that, but he seemed preeeeetty set on NOT allowing the Fears out into other universes.

Basira: Still works.

Hm, so what does it mean for the tape recorder to still work, actually? What are the implications here, seeing as the avatars apparently lost their power.

Melanie: You remember what happened when they found Simon Fairchild?

I assume he was torn apart by a vast crowd of people?

Melanie: And I’m sure Rosie’s keen for us to take the Admiral back off her hands.

Heh, the cat made it through the apocalypse, seemingly unscathed. Go, you, fluffybutt!

Basira: If anyone’s listening… Goodbye. I’m sorry, and… Good luck.

... thanks?

My impression of this episode

By the time this episode came out, I actually had become part of the fandom, so I'm well aware people have OPINIONS on how the show ended. I don't actually feel all that strongly about that part, oddly enough. I was just a little disappointed that the greater part of this episode was a recap of things we basically already knew or that didn't feel all that interesting to me. I didn't really NEED a history of the Fears. I'm not sure what I wanted but the statement really wasn't it. I would have liked more focus on what exactly made Jon change his mind or maybe a minute or two more on the world post-Fears. Mind, I really, really enjoy the soundscaping and the acting in this episode.

#tma relisten #the magnus archives

[nellasbookplanet]

With Worldhoppers nearing its end, I'm thinking about future projects (spoilers: it won’t be fanfic, because I've already let this eat a year of my time and I'm itching to get back to my personal projects). And what the hell, I get to talk about my original writing and process on my own blog (sorry to everyone who’s here for critrole stuff).

What I'm most curious about is whether I can approach my original work the same way I have fic writing. Because the thing is, I'm actually terrible at finishing things. I rewrite and revise and eventually get bored and wander off into my next project. Before Among the Nein, I had only ever fully finished one story, and the only reason I did was because I was under a hard deadline (and also a hard maximum word count of 90k, which was painful but ultimately for the best because wow I can go off on unnecessary tangents when so permitted).

But when writing fic, not only did I finish the story, I did so in a fairly respectable amount of time. And I've been wondering why, and if I can translate that into my own work.

One aspect is obviously the feedback. Fic writing comes with immediate validation after every posted chapter, urging me to quickly write the next to get another kick. That part I obviously won’t be able to translate into original writing. What else?

I'm definitely more structured in my fic writing. I did outlines and research before too, but with fic I've taken a very chronological, one chapter at a time approach, with a very meticulous outline that I update/change frequently. Normally I'm more sporadic in my writing, doing random scenes according to a vague plan and tying them together retroactively. With fic I can’t do that, seeing as I want to post every chapter as it was written, and I can’t exactly post them with big holes in them. I still do random scenes, but they are generally random scenes meant for the same chapter, not wildly different parts of the story.

Obviously my fic writing process has drawbacks. There’s very little time to revise or add things like foreshadowing (though having a good outline helps in that regard!). I'm really curious to try and merge these two methods and see if I land on something that’ll actually work well in the long run.

#now the big question is whether i should return to what i was working on before fic distracted me for a year #(a girl who unvillingly visits people’s dreams and one night wanders into the dreamscape of something decidedly not human) #(spoilers: it's a dragon) #or whether to start working on this new thing that started brewing in the back of my mind when relistening to the black tapes #(ghosthunters! bc i want to play with/subvert the whole believer/sceptic dynamic. also someone gets possessed) #there are other stories i'm itching to write #(the soulmate subversion one!) #(the magic in space/space vampires and rebellion one!) #(the post apocalypse roadtrip one!) #(the demon apocalypse/befriend the demon who possesses you one!) #(the alien abduction one!) #but these are all very vague still and will have to wait #nella writes

[fox-guardian]

[ID: A digital drawing of Jonathan Sims and Martin Blackwood on a muted green background. Jon is lit with orange with a purple under-light, and Martin is lit with yellow with a teal under-light. Their clothes are all partly tattered and torn, with rips and patches.

Jon is a short, thin, Arab man with brown eyes and brown skin covered in various scars, including a burn across the side of his face that disrupts his beard. He has long, curly white hair half-pulled back in a bun with stripes of black tape coming out of it and a beard to match. He has half-moon glasses on a green beaded chain and a small stud earring, and is wearing a black turtleneck, green sweater, long brown coat, dark jeans with red knee patches, purple boots, and red fingerless gloves. He is holding onto the straps of a brown backpack and looking sadly towards the viewer. His right leg is wrapped in bloody bandages and the pantleg is torn.

Martin is a tall, fat, white man with brown eyes, freckles, a tooth gap, and bright red hair with white streaks pulled into a low ponytail with a beard to match. He has round gold glasses and gold stud earrings, and is wearing a blue sweater, a yellow striped scarf, a light blue denim hoodie, cuffed blue jeans with large rips on the thighs and colorful patches on the knees, blue socks, red sneakers, and blue and red striped fingerless gloves. He's also wearing a dark grey backpack with a sleeping bag tied to it, and he is looking uncertainly off into the distance holding his hands in a t-rex position. He has a bloody bandage taped to his throat. end ID]

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kept forgetting about this one. i had started it during my pre-finale-anniversary relisten and just. never completely finished it. here it is. here they are. enjoy the thems

#fg's art #the magnus archives #tma #jonathan sims #martin blackwood #blood #blood tw #injury #injury tw #ask to tag #getting marmar's proportions was hard but i GOT HIM

[moon--boy]

Alex Reagan from the Black Tapes podcast, just because I started relistening to it and almost died. 

#the black tapes podcast #the black tapes #alex reagan #richard strand #horror podcast

[ashes-in-a-jar]

Tma relisten Episodes 11-15

So this round already has two other posts out of it about Oliver because he Bae.

These have alot of ideas regarding entities changing around reality, controlling non victims to set the stage, and turning around what people love most to their worst fear. Also insane abilities of the crew to obtain hard to access info and evidence! And some more Jon sass. Enjoy!

11 dreamer

Wow this episode had alot. I made a separate post with a theory about Oliver's statement here and a realization regarding him and Jane Prentiss here. They are alot to unpack

Oliver is so. Freaking. Relatable! Learned economics and hated it. Nearly had a breakdown like him because of it. "going to stay with some of the few friends that had survived my year of stress-fuelled outbursts and constantly cancelled plans." yep. That.

Boyfriend Graham ey? You notebook eating Graham?? Wow that guy is full of surprises.

I love the dream sequences and their descriptions it's a really beautiful thing to try and picture.

Its interesting how he went from passive to desparate to passive again about death. He tries but can't help. I wonder when the dreams started to bother him so much he sought after the silence of point Nemo. Was it when they became so full of red because of the apocalypse coming closer? Hmmm

Another person named John. I guess that makes sense it's a common name. But I forgot how many people are fully named in this podcast. Hundreds of names to come up with! Jonny I'm quite impressed!

He worked with Jane Prentiss in the magic shop! I can't believe I forgot about that! Wow small avatar world indeed.

"It led me to a room, the label of which was still visible, and read “Archive”. I entered to see walls covered with shelves and cabinets stretching off into the distance. These shelves were coated in a sticky black tar, which I knew at that moment was the thickened, pulpy blood that pumped through each and every one of those veins." everything that has to do with the Fears I bet. Full of death and destruction and stolen from the veins to be out on display for the Eye's pleasure.

Yo Jon is scared of this he's seriously considering going to Elias for advice

" I had Tim look into it, as I don’t entirely trust the others not to have written it as a practical joke" wait. He trusts TIM? Not to do a practical joke? How. Why. Eh?

"died in the line of duty" fuck you Jonah.

Now Jon will get every new statement immediately when it's made. Perhaps this was Elias' intention all along. To scare him into making sure he does not miss any paranormal activity recorded by the institute.

12 first aid

I'm not immune to more Gerry badassery, hell yeah

And we get polish Martin which hell yeah! Even if Jon doesn't believe it. I'm sure he's repressing the fact that he's thoroughly impressed.

I think it's really interesting the effect entities have on people who are decidedly not their victims. Everyone leaving no questions so the entity can set the scene for the scare. Like with Gillespie how no one lived in the apartment building he was in etc. Alot of work into a handful of people being genuinely scared.

Gerry's burns stopped at the neck? How did he manage that. Also it's hilarious to imagine that he's like "yes burn all of me but please. not my goth makeup"

Zippo lighter with eye design!! And Jon has web design! They are brothers (joke but still really interesting)

Liquids were boiling around her and she didn't feel the heat. Also an interesting effect just for the scare.

Gerry got eye superpowers like Jon if he can function while injure and filled with painkillers.

“Yes. For you, better beholding than the lightless flame.” Gerry knew she'd be haunted by a Fear from that day on and realised that perhaps being watched would be easier for her specifically to deal with than the Desolation. I guess that's a way of assessing people. Which fear would least bother you.

Jon is already enamoured with Gerry you can tell. He can't wait to hear more from him. Just you wait Jon.

They really can access alot of information huh. CCTV Interviews files. Pretty impressive for a non-research team. They're so good at it they'd rather do that than actual archiving.

13 alone

The sound editing in this episode is not that great it was a bit to get used to.

We get a glimpse at the Lukases which is... Ugh

Jon is actually trying to be nice. Granted it's not working and she is a bit of a standoffish person herself who just went through a bad time but alot of her reactions are not his fault. He was trying to be considerate giving her space to record but he did stay when she asked.

She had already leaned into the Lonely before the incident it's interesting to see how some of these statements start with a person actually liking the aspect that later turns to fear. Same happens in lost johns' cave.

Evan Lukas sounds like an avatar of the exact opposite of the Lonely. At least to her. That's a really interesting effect from someone, especially a Lukas.

But maybe dying wasn't his family killing him but him not feeding his patron which he tried to leave. Really tragic.

She was in Martin's domain eyyy!

It's got a bit of buried aspects to it with the grave stuff and all.

"My fingers dug into the soft cemetery dirt as I looked around desperately for anything I could use to save myself, and my hand closed upon that heavy piece of headstone. It took all my self-control to keep a grip on that anchor, as I slowly dragged myself away from the edge of my lonely grave." The headstone was her anchor? But it said forgotten. I wonder how it helped her pull away. It probably had to go together with Evan's voice. Like the rib and the tape recorders having to work together! I just wonder what meaning the stone had for her.

"I’d be tempted to chalk this one up to a hallucination from stress and trauma, if it wasn’t for the fact... " God he does believe her heavens. He's not a skeptic!

This is when Jon's dreams start which... Good luck Jon.

14 piecemeal

Rentoul is terrifying sonofabitch and I would never want to meet him irl

I remembered them talking about how he was supposed to be a person who cursed alot and they couldn't do it because of sensor and I have to agree this could have been much better for the story. I tried imagining curses in some places.

LOL Jon reading this is funny. Trying to voice act the bad boy. Doesn't sound right on his voice.

With these kinds of statements happening alot where the person does something bad, the institute has to be in touch with police over them. The nda has to include that.

Hello Angela! I really wonder what her deal is. She scared the bid bully so she gotta have creepy vibes to the extreme.

Another lighter! Hmm do I have to start following the lighter motiff in this podcast. This one has a topless woman on it. Flesh lighter?

Salesa's also appearing that's cool! Noriega was probably looking for an artifact to reverse the curse. Didn't work tho since they left with the crate. The buried crate perhaps?

I'm wondering. Was this written? Because the statement sounds like he's talking. If so, Where's the recording?

Oh Jon your attitude towards Martin is so bad. He works so hard and it's not even in what he's good at, sorting and filing like he knows how to do from the library. God.

What's the deal with all the furniture gone? Did he think it'll help not get injured? He's not that smart if he thought that would help him.

15 lost Johns' cave

Ack a bad statement she was not a good person all around

Another example of the entities setting the stage by controlling others not to interfere with the victim's experience.

Also another example of the person liking the subject (cave exploration in this case. And the dark for that matter) only for it to turn against them.

Not much to say about this one other than its one of the scarier ones for sure. And her recording in the end is really the cherry on top. There is alot of discrepancy between what she believed happened and what actually did which shows how much the fear plays with and changes around reality. That's also how she manages to lie in a statement to Beholding. It wasn't a lie. It was her version of reality and she did not remember saying those awful words.

Taught me alot about cave diving and how much I will never do it in my life.

The Dark was mixed into this as well so it wasn't purely Buried.

Btw Where did she get the candles she was found with?

It feels like she made a choice. Didn't want to spend her last moments with her sister and then didn't want to die. She chose her sister to be taken over her. Her sister called for help and the candle coming closer might have been her! But she just shut her eyes.

How did Tim gain access to the recording?? Wow that's some prime evidence.

Martin is claustrophobic amongst other things huh? Live how Jon just dismisses this as an excuse not to work. At least he didn't push it.

#tma #the magnus archives #jonathan sims #martin blackwood #Tim stoker #Oliver banks #Tma hiatus liveblog #gerry keay

[cantarellangel]

angel's list of podcasts

Podcasts I'm up to date with:

The Magnus Archives: What got me started on podcasts again after wtnv in 2013. Really like it, the slow buildup to the overarching plot is v impressive. Frightening sometimes. (8.5/10)

Alice isn't Dead: Some genuinely touching moments. Dragged a bit in the middle, but I really liked it. Not all that attached to the characters but I'm making this list a year later. Lesbians!(7.5/10)

Archive 81: This is..... alright. I suppose. I mean I don't care about any of the characters and the plot is.... fine. I've got to listen to Season 3. Not scary. (6/10)

Caravan: I didn't like any character in this :( or the plot :( maybe i don't like non horror podcasts? representation is cool but i need to like the story as well :/(3/10)

Death by Dying: Solidly okay. The main character was funny...... but like thats it. The story was solidly okay. (4.5/10)

Gender Forking: This is a twilight podcast. (7.5/10)

Girl in Space: I liked this! Solid likeable characters and a plot that's actually halfway decent. Am I just rating these podcasts lower bc they're not horror? Has the magnus archives flowers for algernon-ed me? (6.8/10)

I am in eskew: REALLY LIKED THIS ONE. Lots of allegories and metaphors to draw parallels to that i recognised in some dark corner of my pitiful heart. It took me a while to get through this bc of the ambient rain sounds and the main character is a british man narrating so I kept falling asleep. Didn't scare me though, even though people say it's scarier than tma. (9/10)

Inkwyrm: I was told this was like devil wears prada in space and it is....... but like it's not that funny. And like instead of Andy growing more Miranda-like, in this Miranda becomes a better person which would appeal to some people i guess but not me. (4/10)

LifeAfter/The Message: I liked LifeAfter more than The Message tbh but it's good. Says interesting things about technology and capitalism but not in a boring black mirror sort of way. I liked it! (7/10)

Limetown: This is like LifeAfter but with more episodes and a more likable main character. Ep 2 warning was the scariest thing I've ever heard. I really like stories about brave women seeking out truth to an extent that everything else (including their own safety) becomes background noise. (8/10)

Mabel: This is so poetic and pretty and I love the characters and world and story and plot. Unfortunately it's so poetic I've missed whole chunks of it, and so i have to relisten. (8.5/10)

Old Gods of Appalachia: This is really fun, I like how the narrator refers to the audience as family. The plot is also really good. Horror. (8/10)

Olive Hill: This is a good one, like Limetown but the production quality is like rather indie. But it's the best modern adaptation of the changeling metaphor that I've seen. (7.5/10)

Philosphize This: Well it's a philosophy podcast. I've not finished it but it's good. (7/10)

Rabbits: Solid premise, annoying narration, bad execution and ending. (2/10)

Spines: I like this! Really good body horror!! Not frightening but like I love it. (7/10)

Stellar Firma: Well it's okay. Definitely more fun listening to it while interacting with the fandom than taking the pure source material. It's fun, it's alright. (7/10)

The Domestic Life of Anthony Todd: This is nice except I have barely any idea whats going on like world-wise and I don't like any of the characters. It's also not horror, god, do I really have a bias against non scary podcasts? (5.5/10)

Time:Bombs: This was funny. Also 3 episodes. (7/10)

Wolf359: LOVE LOVE LOVE THIS. Sometimes scary, sometimes funny, mostly a drama and I love all the characters. Really want to write a character driven drama like this (9/10)

Wooden Overcoats: Got to be real this isn't funny and tbh it's kinda boring. I've only listened to the 1st season and I may drop it. (3/10)

The 6 disappearances of Ella McCray: I liked this one! It's short and cute I think (5/10)

Mirrors: I liked this a lot more than Ella McCray, the characters were fun and the plot is intriguing and heart-warming (6.5/10)

Zero Hours: Love this as well! Though I'm glad I listened to this before 2020 since it's about the end of the world. (8/10)

Podcasts to be listened to:

Sayer

The Black Tapes

The Deca Tapes

The White Vault

Unwell

Within the wires

Podcasts I've dropped:

The Penumbra Podcast: Tried a solid amount of eps but it was a slog and i didn't like any of the characters or the plot or anything

The Bright Sessions: Why's the narrator so... aloof like? ugh. It's also a bit over produced

The Adventure Zone-Graduation: How do you make a boarding school story unfun? :(

The Adventure Zone-Amnesty: No idea wtf is happening here

My Brother, my brother and me : Maybe I just don't like these dudes.

Rusty Quill Gaming: Sorry Alex :( Maybe I just don't like gaming podcasts without a plot :((

Lore: Just not my style :/ Maybe I don't like real stories

Welcome to Night Vale: I love wtnv but like without a solid overarching plot it loses steam & direction.

(Last updated: 19-09-2020 3:25 p.m.)

#angel. txt #long live the radio star

[mio-nika]

The podcast anthology stories recs that I promised you. The bonus part.

Let me tell you about The Big Loop. If you were destroyed by listening to a Black Tapes in some point of your life. You could have gleamed that first season feels different.

I don't have any evidence, but I think the reason is that at the start Black Tapes had two writers, and one of the left after the first season. And this writer was Paul Bae.

Paul Bae created an anthology podcast called The Big Loop. And it's GREAT. Most of it can't be called horror, but alas. Here's a list of episodes you NEED to listen to:

FML & Smoke - it's actually two different stories, but it's following the same character, so let me go. It follows this assassin who're killing people if they want to commit suicide, but for some reason don't want to do it themselves. One very long contract later and you WILL die in seven days. You don't understand how funny (and uplifting) this story is! The first part is kinda garbled, the audio quality is not super good and accent is thick. But if you're native, I don't think you will have problems.

The Surrogate - this story rattled me. I don't think I ever experienced this level of sadness while listening to a audio story. It follows a girl who's work is to carry a grief of other people. Basically something happened to you, you cannot process it yourself. So you go to this clinic, where all your memories about the experience are transferred to a surrogate carrier. I mean. It's already a stellar concept. But the story obviously goes much deeper with it.

The Promise - story about a gangster and a dog. DOG WILL NOT DIE. But story includes scene of self mutilation, so if you're uncomfortable please skip it. I think I cried first time I listened to it. I almost cried the second time when I relistened it now. But. It's a good story?

[tmileseason3fanfic]

A spooky season relisten.

Alright folks so it’s spooky season, and we’re gonna be hosting a Halloween relisten of all of The Black Tapes in the Discord. starting at 7 pm EST on Friday, October 30th. Additionally, I will be playing the TBTP drinking game if other people want to as well. 

Hope to see you guys there! 

#the black tapes podcast #the black tapes #tbtp

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The Black Tapes Relisten 2020

ONE-OFF RELISTEN PARTY

Feb 2, 2020, 3pm EST / 12pm PST

Episodes planned:

1. 104 - Turn That Frown Upside Down

2. 107 - Cabin Fever

3. 211 - About a Boy

4. 306 - Into the Black

If you can’t make Feb 2, @aproclivity has offered to run a second session on the evening of Feb 1 to accommodate other folks.

WEEKLY RELISTEN

Tentatively every Sunday at 8pm EST / 5pm PST starting Feb 9, 2020, but we can adjust scheduling and discuss on the Discord server as needed. We’ll listen to 2 episodes each week gathered on Discord.

DISCORD LINK

https://discord.gg/xdGNGfT

On a personal note, I’m so delighted this generated so much interest. Looking forward to talking with you all!

#tbtp #the black tapes #the black tapes podcast #black tapes podcast #tbtp relisten 2020

[tbtp-relisten]

The weekly Black Tapes Podcast relisten starts tomorrow, Feb 9 at 8pm EST / 5pm PST (Feb 10, 1am GMT)!! We’ll listen to episodes 1 & 2.

Join us: https://discord.gg/xdGNGfT

#the black tapes #black tapes podcast #the black tapes podcast #tbtp #tbtp fandom

[aflyingcontradiction]

The Magnus Archives Relisten: Episode 130 - Meat

Oh, the subtlety of this title... "What's this episode going to be about, I wonder..."

Gertrude: Well, there’s nothing wrong with tape. A bit old-fashioned, but I suppose ... so am I.

Oh god, Gertrude and her "harmless little old lady" act is ... actually quite creepy in hindsight.

Lucia: Telling my story. Do you… will-will it help with the nightmares?

Yikes, knowing what happens to the dreams of people who give statements, I feel so bad for her!

Gertrude: And whatever nightmares your experiences left you with, I’m sure they won’t be bothering you much longer.

Well, that's not ominous at all.

It’s the sort of dualism that places the purity and goodness of the spiritual world in opposition to the baseness and corruption of the material world. Some gnostic movements even go so far as to posit the existence of the demiurge: A counterpoint to the god of the spiritual world, who created material existence as a warped, imperfect imitation of its purity. Everything that is base, corrupt, and vile in the physical world comes from them. If God, as gnostics see him, is the god of the soul, then the demiurge could easily be called the god of the flesh. Of- bone and blood. Of meat.

Okay, I know practically nothing about gnosticism, but if this isn't warping the idea too much to make it fit, I really like the bridge they're building from the demiurge to the Flesh here. It's clever.

There had been an old woman coming out of it when I arrived, but I hadn’t seen anyone apart from her, not even at the ticketing booth.

Yeah, you're literally talking to the old woman right now. (Mind, I could totally see that happening to me. If I only see someone once and briefly, I'm probably not going to remember their face well enough to identify them later.)

At first I thought the bodies were all human-that perhaps I had somehow stumbled upon some sort of – gang, disposing of a massacre’s worth of corpses. But then some of them started to move. Squirming limbs were dragging, rising, extracting themselves from this massive mound of flesh, and making their way down to join their companions on the ground, one by one. Most of them could still be mistaken for humans at a distance.

Ah, yet another moment of "Let's not describe the "monsters" in detail and let your imagination do the rest." It's always so fucking effective on me too!

He was rail-thin, dressed in rough overalls, with shaggy black hair and pale skin. He was East Asian – Chinese, maybe, but he called me over in a crisp British accent.

Ah, Tom Haan, so we meat again.

The driver nodded to himself, like he’d made the right decision, and I turned, and started to walk towards the door, afraid that any hesitation might make him reconsider, mark me out as something other than what he had decided I was.

So what is it that makes Lucia particularly suitable for participating in the Flesh's ritual?

But then it moved, and I realized in a second what it actually was I was looking at. Not a pit. A mouth.

This is actually very reminiscent of the hole that Jared Hopworth uses to dispose of bodies and body parts in The Butcher's Window. Like a much much bigger version of that.

The air became thick, and the walls began to sweat a pinkish liquid, like cutting into a steak.

OI! DON'T RUIN STEAKS FOR ME!

Gertrude: Well that’s a shame. Hang on, let me see if I can find you the number for that counseling service. They’re actually quite good.

I kinda want to slap Gertrude upside the head for this. Sure, act all caring and recommend a counselling service when you know perfectly well that she won't be able to recover 'cause your old ass will be HAUNTING HER EVERY TIME SHE GOES TO SLEEP.

Well. That is a relief. When I heard there had been survivors of the Last Feast, I was rather concerned that one of them might be able to positively identify me - Gertrude

Do I want to think about what Gertrude might've done if Lucia HAD remembered her?

Also worth watching out for any… additional esoteric fallout from the ritual attempt, like that Carlisle boy down in Wandsworth.

That's the "neighbour upstairs" who was hammering meat to the walls. (Also mildly amused at her referring to him as "the Carlisle boy" because my mum will also frequently refer to people in a way that makes you think she's talking about a teenager and then it turns out the person in question is in their 40s or something.)

Shame about the dreams. I would avoid them if I could.

The nonchalant tone Gertrude takes here doesn't really make it seem like she's all too cut up about it, actually. Compare Jon, on the other hand...

At least we know for sure that these grand rituals can be disrupted by conventional means, though a more… nuanced approach will be needed for some of them, I’m sure.

I love how she refers to "not a giant explosion" as a "more nuanced approach". Understatement if I ever saw one.

My impression of this episode

This episode, like most Flesh-centred episodes, was a bit gross. But it was also genuinely a little eerie, though not enough to really unsettle me (except for the bit where I now find the mere existence of Gertrude viscerally unsettling, apparently. The helpful-old-lady facade hiding her utter ruthlessness creeps me out.) It's also just an interesting depiction a Ritual that is just really obviously Something Big. Some of the other powers' attempted rituals don't come across that way (the odd hole in "We all ignore the pit" just felt like yet another Buried apparition for instance).

#tma relisten #the magnus archives

[crowsounds]

Bingeing podcasts again !!! Just finished alice isnt dead! And since november started I relistened to the black tapes and cryptids podcast!! And now im onto welcome to night vale- i am so severely behind- and then I'll go onto wolf 359 and the only podcast left hhhhh I am very excited !!!!

#i want to listen to dnd podcasts but for some reason i cant get into them???? #i have a hard time actually comprehending whats happening and i feel d u m b lmao #i want to find more horror podcasts though !!! #be quiet adrian