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One of you mfers has got to have heard of Midnight Burger. This cannot be an actually niche nerd thing.
HEARTGLASS needs your help!
"Everybody has a story. Everybody is a story."
Heartglass is a unique, lovingly crafted audio drama with compelling characters and immersive design. Enter a town plagued by storms and otherworldly forces, and follow three desperate strangers as they seek the truth behind the strange tragedy that took their loved ones.
The creator has funded most of the production himself, but needs your help to complete the story! Check out the Kickstarter to listen to the first half of Episode 1, and get months-early access to the full episode:
Now, I might be biased because I'm part of this show, but I've gotten a peek at the epic story, fantastic music, and lush sound design at work here, and this show is going to be really special. I play Allan Coleman, one of three people killed in a supernatural incident, who now spends his afterlife working at an ice cream shop in Hell. Allan is a trans man who is trying his damnedest to just have a normal one, despite the circumstances. I love these characters, and I've had so much fun already with lending my voice to Allan.
The campaign still has a ways to go to meet its goal by Feb. 28. Please consider helping to bring Heartglass to life!
We only have 4 days left to fund Heartglass.
And it'll take a miraculous run of support to get it done. If you like - Strange fiction - Fun, philosophic storytelling - Intense, immersive sound design - A unique and fully crafted mythology Then you're going to love Heartglass.
Visit our project page, and throw in your support today!
i was put on this earth today to give you this:
✨ reverse malevolent ✨
polite/slightly violent british man talking into your ear and reassuring you that he is your "friend"
and in the hospital he goes:
"one of those nurses, lively one, comes in everyday to check on you. Since you had no id on you, she would say, 'Good morning, John.' ...But after a couple days, she-"
"what?"
"She took it back. Said you looked more like an... Arthur. Said it fit you more and I guess it stuck with me, John. I... I like it"
Fundraiser For Blue
Hello, all.
There was a fundriaser started for Blue Mayfield, the founder of the podcast Camp Here and There. On January 21st, while he was moving his apartment, his van was broken into and he was robbed of almost $20,000 worth of items. This leaves him with no clothing and without the laptop used to create the podcast, almost 3 years of work and a steady income lost.
***UPDATE
the official fundraiser is now:
If you can donate anything, please do.
You can also donate to his paypal, if you'd like to directly support him.
I made an animatic! And I barely use tumblr but I figured I might as well advertise it bc it took a bit of work :/
This show deserves way more love I adore it so much
this episode of welcome to night vale really fucked me up folks
Saw this the other day and it had me rolling! But I figured I would share the lyrics to our main theme! You can head over to our Patreon to check them out! Our Patreon is free with only a single "support tier" since we know times are tough and would rather just foster more places for our community to grow!
Dolly better watch out. Elly Parton is making moves!!! High key, Joleen is one of my favorite songs of all time so this is amazing and I 10000% had it on repeat.
As promised, at 50% Funded, we have released Joleel. A Jolene parody with lyrics by Lou Sutcliffe. Performed by Daisy McNamara on vocals, and Lou Sutcliffe on Kazoo.
Image description: An eel with blonde hair and a cowboy hat singing. Text reads 50% Funded, Joleel
If you want even more stupidity from us, our next BIG DUMB THING goal is 75% funded. I'm looking into the logistics of doing a rowdy showing of Razortooth, an eel horror movie with 24% on rotten tomatoes, with the cast. More word soon.
Lyrics: https://docs.google.com/document/d/10hHTJZ_HWD_2XW-qJqKiSTbJ73GeE6GvkCiRdziXfoY/edit?usp=sharing
Donate for more stupid eel shit:
Dead West Part 7: Paw and Poppet is Live!
In Part 7, Conrad and Louis compare their pasts and confront one another about the use of knacks and other magics.
Trigger warnings: Talk of closed practices, medical procedures through out, harm to children (implied), old practices using antiquated terms. ================================================ LISTEN HERE: SPOTIFY: APPLE: WEB RSS YOUR PREFERRED PLAYER ================================================
Be sure to check out our Ko-fi and Patreon for options to support the show.
Hey all apologies for not updating sooner but the next Episode will drop on Monday the 12th. Little life events and work stuff have piled up so that I only really get a fraction of the time needed to pick away at the show. But this weekend is thankfully lighter and I will have the ability to really sit with the show and finish it out to the degree we have all come to expect with it!
Gothic Western is one of my favorite sub-genres to sit with and enjoy. Now, I have started Preacher based on several recommendations but when I went to watch it Netflix played the last episode first and I was ignorant to the fact until pretty far in, so I had the a lot of the ending spoiled. I want to go back but I find the motivation hard to find. Also, special mention to Penny Dreadful and Supernatural for being super formative for Dead West but neither really sits firmly within Western Gothic.
WHERE DO I START?!
@eelerschoice has an incredible world to explore and dives head long into generational trauma and environmental destruction. Amazing character interactions, well paced, and reaaaaally fun sound design. They are also doing their funds drive for SEASON FRICKEN 2! @lawofnamesmedia's At the Bottom of the Garden uses fairies as a means to explore stories about the stories we tell ourselves about ourselves (and others) and the writing is exquisite so far. I am only a few episodes into this but it has me in a chokehold.
@strangekindstudio Mercy: A Queer Eldritch Western. Set during the Wild West, full of super rich characters (like I am envious of how well they are written), and kicks it off with a monster that is SUPER fun and unique. I literally check each day to see if the next episode has dropped. @thegospelofhaven Give this one a go. You will like it, trust me from there. Just know the sound design is very very very... wet.
@goodmorningevildoers just wrapped their first season and I am so happy I stumbled on this one. It takes the "radio personality" and flips it on it's head a bit. It is super fun and quick, I swear the longer episodes flew by.
Hey Cuties! It’s ya girl, Faustina! Every audio drama Sunday, I make a little video called Faustina’s Faves for shouting out audio dramas I love. And I wanna hear about your show, or a show you love!!
If you want to be featured on Faustina’s Faves, tell me about an audio drama and why you think I might enjoy it! Self promos super welcome!
Love ya, mean it!
-Faustina, xx
10,000 listens! Thank y'all so much for checking out the DEAD WEST podcast!
Your support has been incredible, so appreciated, and insanely validating. When you put a creative piece of yourself out there, you dream of it finding the right audience and it is incredible to me that this show has resonated with so many folxs. Knowing that 10,000 people gave us a shot blows my mind.
Every listen, every share, every review, every rating, every piece of engagement on social media, every single thing YOU all have done has helped to lead us here. So, speaking on behalf of the incredible cast and crew, we at the Dead West thank you so much for showing up & showing our story love! Spotify Apple Web Your Preferred Player
DEAD WEST PART 6: As above, so below is Live!
In Part 6, Conrad comes face to face with the Mother of the Mountain only to realize that around every corner there is some monster or another.
Please be aware there are a LOT of content warnings for this episode. Be sure to check them out before diving. ================================================ LISTEN HERE: SPOTIFY APPLE WEB RSS Your Preferred Player ================================================ Be sure to check out our Ko-fi and Patreon for options to support the show.
UHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH. BE COOL! BE COOL!
My favorite comment to date.
HOLY MOTHER UNDER THE MOUNTAIN I love this so much. This is very close to how Conrad looks in my head and I LOOOOOOOOOVE this interpretation of Louis. Incredible work and thank you so much! GAH! The more I look at it the more I fall in love with it.
Fanart of the Dead West podcast cuz I’ve really enjoyed listening to it. ^_^
@dead-west-podcast
The Glasshouse by Iness Rychlik
Aka, Something I would expect to see in the Gospel of Haven.
My feeds are just mood boards and references for podcasts that I love now.
Making an audio drama is like "Oh, I like those voices in my head. I should make them kiss. Oooooh I should share this with other people."
Episode drops tomorrow, catch it everywhere!
Conrad and Father Gregory finally meet! Letting us learn more about Blackwater and the Father's role in it. VA credit: Zach Scott
I HAVE A GOD DAMN PLAN, to listen to this for the rest of the day! Honestly between this new beauty and the Port Sulphur Band record I am in hog heaven while I finish up some writing and planning for the next podcast episodes.
This makes me so damn proud.
When I was first spinning this show up I had a lot of reservations with putting it out into the world. The time period I wanted to set the show in comes with a LOT of bigotry, religious zealotry, racism, sexism, and xenophobia. With that, fictional media coverage of this time period is traditionally through the lens of a glorified "tough guy" acting under the eye of the Christian God or guided by the principles of Manifest Destiny. Which means the audience that flocks to Westerns are traditionally cis white dudes in which the bigoted, racist, sexist, xenophobic rhetoric has the possibility of feeding into their lived experiences and view points. Hell, I even started a TikTok for the show to help market it. My first podcast episode EXPLODED from a couple of posts I did over on TikTok, with 90% of the listener-ship being funneled over from social media identifying as men. Which on it's own isn't a huge issue; it becomes one when some of these commenters on Tiktok have usernames like "yourn*zihero88." Saying they see this being their favorite podcast in the future. (Username exaggerated for this post, but not by much.) So seeing stats like this give me a lot of hope for the future of the story I am working on telling here with Dead West. And we haven't even gotten to the real depth of this world or the stories I want to see come to life in it yet. Still on the horizon: - Sapphic Betrayal and Revenge - Trans Outlaws - POC Monster Hunters All informed by real life examples from the Wild West. Don't believe me? Go check out Henry Allen! I know at this point and time we have a little white boy as our driving narrative force, but my intent with the show wasn't to stay with Conrad forever.
Mood Board for the Dead West Podcast
DEAD WEST PART 4: NOTHING BESIDE REMAINS is Live!
In this episode we start peeling back the layers of the greater forces at work in the world of the Dead West. Please be aware there are a LOT of content warnings for this episode. Be sure to check them out before diving. ================================================ LISTEN HERE: SPOTIFY APPLE WEB RSS Your Preferred Player ================================================ Be sure to check out our Ko-fi and Patreon for options to support the show.
Seance in the White House Fun fact: Mary Lincoln hosted many Seances in the Red Room of the White House after her son Willie died.
Show Update:
We have a family member undergoing open heart surgery this week so my household is doing a lot of planning and prep, physically and mentally. Due to this tomorrow's episode will be delayed until Tues, the 28th. Sorry for the inconvenience but thank you so much for your patience. For clarity, they are going to be on a 48-hour constant watch cycle afterwards and the reality of it is that this will come down to my partner and I alternating this time between us while also tending to the rest of our family, and my job. Cuz Capitalism don't stop.
For anyone interested we have kicked up a Discord Server for folks to talk about the show, show off some gothic artwork, share some music, whatever!
Excited to announce that our next Tales from the Dead West episode is going to be written by the amazing @lawofnamesmedia! Be on the look out here and on their pages for casting calls, live dates, and more!