secretsloth5d ago
Hey! Hi! Do you have any audio fiction podcasts to recommend? I especially like indie ones, feel free to plug your own or a friend's, I'm running low on the list that I had bookmarked, so recommendations welcome! Currently only looking for fiction, brain is not the best at absorbing facts lately.  
#podcasts #AudioDrama
Show threadoliver5d ago
@secretsloth i am curious what's on the list that's running out! 👀
Show threadsecretsloth

@o1vr so many things 🤣
Hello From The Hallowoods
Selene
Less is Morgue
Palimpsest
Unwell
City of Ghosts
Desert Skies
Wooden Overcoats
Badlands Cola
Victoriocity
Archive 81
Ghost Wax
Lavender Evening Fog
Wayward Guide for the Untrained Eye
Night Shift
McGillicuddy and Murder's Pawn Shop
Crap Noir
The Shadow Dispatch
Dark Ages
The Way We Haunt Now
The Book of Constellations
Arden
What Happened in Skinner
Sporadic Phantoms
Nowhere, On Air
Achewillow
Haunted Happenstance
Murphy

So many 🥰

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Show threadoliver5d ago
@secretsloth oh wow, that is a lot. thanks for writing it all out 🙈 i will now copy it down into my notebook hehe
Show threadsecretsloth5d ago
@o1vr oh there are more I just ran out of characters xD you want some more?
Show threadoliver5d ago
@secretsloth yes! when you have a moment
Show threadsecretsloth5d ago

@o1vr
Blake Skye, Private Eye
The Night Post
Tanis
King Falls AM
We Fix Space Junk
Woodbine
The Wrong Station (ad free)
Greater Boston
The Blood Crow Stories
The Technomancy Project
Kalila Stormfire's Economical Magick Services
The Dead Letter Office of Somewhere, Ohio
Tell No Tales
The Silt Verses
The Heart of Ether
Chronicles of the Essence Guard
Haunted House Flippers
Georgie Romero is Done For
LeVar Burton Reads
Happy Medium
Under the Shroud
The Lovecraft Investigations

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Show threadsecretsloth5d ago

@o1vr
The Holmwood Foundation
October Jones & Fish With Legs
InSpecter: Deceased Detective
The Haunted Hour
Ella Oleander
The Secret of St Kilda
The Alnerwick Files
Embergreen Bay
Homicide at Heavensgate
The Aberrant Report
Beatrix Greene
The Mistholme Museum
Alba Salix, Royal Physician
Tales of the Echowood

There are more that I've finished but my podcatcher reset my progress at some point. Not all of them are 10/10, but a lot of them are fun to check out all the same. :)

Show threadoliver5d ago
@secretsloth sooo many! thank you for taking the time, i might have left too little space in the notebook, haha!
Show threadSam Levine5d ago

@secretsloth @o1vr Thank you for this list! @titania and I were commiserating at one point about the problem of finding good fiction podcasts unless someone you know listened to one to recommend it.

Are there any in particular you'd recommend for not-romance with excellent narrators? I enjoy full cast but it isn't required.

Show threadsecretsloth5d ago
@SRLevine @o1vr @titania oh goodness yes! How much not-romance, is like, mention of romance okay, but not having it as a heavy part of the story? Hallowoods is one of my absolute favorites, it's very heavily queer, so there are a few times where characters pair up, but it isn't 🤔 uncomfortable, the bigger focus is on found family and community. Let me check my list and double check my memory. I dislike almost all romance myself buuuuut just want to reflect in case I forgot something.
Show threadSam Levine5d ago
@secretsloth @o1vr @titania I don't mind romance (I've read & listened to plenty of it), but I'd prefer it to not be the focus.
Show threadsecretsloth5d ago

@SRLevine @o1vr @titania gotcha. Check these out (some are on the big list) and see if any call to you, I've tried to include a mix of things.
Hallowoods
The Book of Constellations
Wooden Overcoats (comedy)
Dark Ages
The Technomancy Project
City of Ghosts
Palimpsest
The Lost Cat Podcast (I'm still listening to this one but it's promising)

There are more that I can add, I'm checking the narration quality to make sure I'm not confusing the names. 

Show threadJenn, blobby goblin5d ago
@secretsloth I second Dark Ages! SHORT BUT PERFECT. @SRLevine @o1vr
Show threadJenn, blobby goblin5d ago
@secretsloth oh man someone who's heard of City of Ghosts! @o1vr
Show threadsecretsloth5d ago
@titania @o1vr I adore City of Ghosts! I've been branching out into more SciFi lately, basically anything that isn't romance or too violent is good for me, I adore stories, quirky is good, fairy tale inspired is good, anything that the author clearly loved making is something I will listen to and appreciate, basically, as long as there aren't noises that will trigger my tinnitus too much.
Show threadJenn, blobby goblin5d ago

@secretsloth Okay, if you haven't listened to the Phosphene Catalog, it's wonderful (and they're on Mastodon! @phosphenecatalogue). I loved, uh, Wolf 359 (space station!) and Unseen (urban fantasy), the other podcast by the creator of it. The Strange Case of Starship Iris is great. I really dug Olive Hill, for fake-but-feels-real true "crime" (not too graphic, not too violent -- it's about a case where a girl dies in the woods and the narrator, returning to her hometown, is trying to figure out what happened and who isn't telling all they know). I also loved The Antique Shop and The McIlwraith Statements (sole narrator in both, but she's great, they're weird paranormal/urban fantasy). Our Fair City is super-fun weird SF that takes some of the pulp tropes of the 50s and turns them on their heads...

I can probably think of more if allowed to, ha. I love audiodramas. :)

Show threadsecretsloth5d ago
@titania @phosphenecatalogue :o you have great ideas, I will add all of these and any other suggestions you have! (Hoovers up all the audio dramas like Kirby)
Show threadJenn, blobby goblin5d ago

@secretsloth haha, well! The first season of Out of Place is GREAT, weird alt-history stuff. Also love the second season, but it gets a bit more graphic at points. The two can be listened to separately/as stand-alones; there's no reason to do both. (It's not SUPER violent, but it does go into some really heavy themes and I hesitate reccing it wholeheartedly because of that -- I personally loved it, but not everyone will!)

You (probably?) heard about it, but Passenger List was fucking *epic* and it lives rent-free in my head to this day. Modern what-if sort of podcast about a flight that goes down over the Atlantic, and a woman who is just trying to understand what happened, because her brother was on it. It's a weird sort of thriller thing about grief and how well we know the people we love, and it's *great*.

Um, I also loved The Wrong Station -- anthology horror, you can pick and choose based on what episodes sound interesting to you.

Nonfic, but amazing: SNAP JUDGMENT. Not informative, still stories!

Show threadsecretsloth5d ago
@titania oh I did hear about passenger list but somehow forgot to add it! Yesssss! It did sound super good. Gosh I just love stories so much. Especially since I'm stuck in bed a lot, and I'm so tired, I love that these lovely people make these dramas and tell me these great stories so I'm not bored.  so many great thoughts and ideas and honestly, even some of the difficult themes have helped me process some of my own feelings. They're so eloquent sometimes.
Show threadJenn, blobby goblin5d ago
@secretsloth I love to listen to them while I'm doing other stuff, like cross-stitch. It's nice to feel like I get to be somewhere else for a while! Love a good audiodrama. :)
Show threadsecretsloth5d ago
@titania oh same, as soon as I'm back to crafting I will be doing both at once. :o do you post photos of your cross stitch? Do you mind if I follow you? I loooove cross stitch! 🥰
Show threadJenn, blobby goblin5d ago

@secretsloth I do, it's all in my media -- I haven't done anything for a while, but I have a project I've been meaning to start!

And yes, feel free, I'll request you too. :)