I haven’t been on here in forever. My blogs a mess and no longer reflects me but I have to write this somewhere. I’m a mess and my life is a mess.

I think I’m in love with my best friend but she’s in love with someone else.

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• Welcome to Night Vale (the community news of a small city in the American Southwest where all conspiracy theories are true and a part of every day life; BONUS - canon interracial gay couple as the main couple)
  
• The Message (70-year-old message from outer space, cryptology, things are not as they seem)
• Limetown (everyone in small town disappears and no one knows what happened to them; follow an intrepid journalist as she investigates)
• The Black Tapes (sister show to TANIS; demons, investigation into the unexplainable, asshole Alpha Skeptic, and the journalist who tries to sort this all out)
• TANIS (sister show to The Black Tapes; conspiracy, truth, and the investigation of what Tanis really is, plus an “information specialist” named Meerkatnip)
• Archive 81 (found footage audio series where nothing is quite as it seems and there’s a building that isn’t exactly right)
• Alice Isn’t Dead (from the people behind WtNV, a truck driver tries to find her missing wife and she runs into a lot of conspiracies along the way)
• Within the Wires (again, from the people who brought you WtNV, instructional audio guides that slowly reveal a personal story and the revelation that the world the podcast is set in is that great)
• The Bright Session (imagine what it would be like if the X-Men went to therapy)
• The Behemoth (a girl and her monster walk across America)
• Wolf 359 (the absurd misadventures of a small band of eccentric characters on board the Hephaestus Station in orbit around the dwarf star, Wolf 359, where it’s all fun and games until it’s not and the Blessed Eternal just wants a night light)

• Life.After (by the creators of The Message, follows a low level FBI employee, who spends his days conversing online with his wife Charlie – who died eight months ago)
  

I have listened to WTNV, The Message, Limetown, The Black Tapes, Tanis, and Alice Isn’t Dead.  They are all VERY good.  The Black Tapes and Tanis are my favorites.

Limetown may have been the best, story-wise.  It was actually really disturbing in places, though, especially Episode 3: Napoleon (tw, animal death, not gruesome or painful but definitely psychologically fraught for the human, and the listener), and while I didn’t find it unbearable, I did need to chase it with something lighter.  WTNV would be good for that.  I would not recommend listening to this one straight through.

Tanis is VERY involved, and it merits more than one listening, and can take time to digest and make sense of.  It’s VERY good.

The Black Tapes has great production (as does Tanis, both by PNWS) and Richard Strand is really entertaining.  The story is very X-files in nature, with less of a focus on sci-fi and more of a focus on the supernatural, which is exactly my jam.

Alice Isn’t Dead is just the right mix of dark and humorous, and Jasika Nicole is incredible as the narrator.

The Message is self-contained, only a few episodes long, and won’t take long to listen to.  It’s a really cool little sci-fi story.

I chickened out of Within the Wires because it’s presented as “hypnosis relaxation tapes” and the particular tone of it was inducing dissociative responses in me.  Definitely check it out if you’re interested, I’d hate for it not to get attention because it was VERY cool from what I heard, but don’t feel bad about stopping if it starts to make you feel weird!  Listening to it with someone else present, while doing something else, seemed to help considerably, but I still haven’t gone back to it.

Ok, now all of you drop what you’re doing and go look for The Box on stitcher, itunes, etc. Season 1 just finished, and it’s GOOOOD. Take the Black Tapes, Archive 81, and a healthy dose of the SCP Foundation, and you get The Box.

WILL DO THANKS!

King Falls AM is another really good one! It’s very similar to Nightvale - a weird little town in the mountains instead of a weird little town in the desert. 

GOSH everyone keep those recs coming!  Bear and I need stuff to listen to in the studio!

Ars Paradoxica is a cool time-travel and secret-government-agency shenanigans with ace representation (The Bright Sessions, which it has a crossover with, has ace representation as well).

Uncanny County is a creepy-funny anthology series, sort of like the Twilight Zone.

Foundation After Midnight Radio is full-on SCP Foundation audio fanfic and amusing.

The Truth Podcast from Radiotopia is another anthology, with an adorable ongoing series called Songonauts about an indie band that gets sucked into a strange musical otherworld. If it was a video series instead of audio it would totally combine animation with live action.

Flash Forward is more nonfiction, but every episode takes a hypothetical scenario (from “what if space pirates dragged a second moon into Earth orbit” to “what if all animal products were outlawed”, has a few snippets of ads/news stories/talk segments from that hypothetical future, then discusses how something like that might happen and possible ramifications.

GOOD SHIT GOOD SHIT KEEP IT COMING

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What we learned from Maggie Sawyer tonight: Life is too short not to kiss the girls we want to kiss.

What we learned from Alex Danvers tonight: When life takes away your beer, grab some whisky.