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Very excited to be a part of this! Come hungry, it'll be a feast for your ears!

Professor Pandemonium's Peculiar Panoply, the Writers

Wanderers and wonder-seekers, strangers & star-gazers, we are pleased to introduce the writers for Professor Pandemonium's Peculiar Panoply!

@ash-alder Corvyn Appleby @stardustshimmers @dead-west-podcast @the-official-account Elliot Somerfield @primefactorx01 (our fearless editor, who doesn't get near enough recognition) @idontreallyunderstandanyofthis @rubedeckillerofficial James Big @doctorloup Maddie Girouard Milo Machin SJ Ryker

The show's website is still a work in progress, but you will eventually be able to find it at

https://pppp.lawofnames.com/

Getting rating bombed on your Audio Fiction podcast for being a guest on another show by a single person over many different accounts is WILD. And so very immature. I just started my show a few months ago and already see in the sparse data I have how much it has impacted growth and discoverability. Kill em with kindness and move on I guess?

i always get super frustrated when I'm engaging with media if I don't feel like they have the proper weight given to like. repeated and prolonged periods of intense exertion and/or suffering and/or distress.

what i don't mean is that i think everyone should be screaming and wailing all the time. the thing is that like actually in times of crisis things are really properly like that sometimes. you really do just find this ability in yourself to keep going on. to keep moving forward. because the alternative is sometimes that you will literally die if you don't keep moving. there is no choice.

but this isn't a consequence-less mechanism. the ability to keep moving in a crisis is not a good or positive thing. those perspective-altering shifts have happened whether you acknowledge them or not and the longer you have to ignore them, the sharper the edges get, the more sliced up your sense of self becomes, the more that splatters out of you with every step you take.

and then, when you stop and rest. in a moment of pause and safety. you expect it to be pleasant but it's not. all that stuff you've been carrying with you, that has grown heavier with every step you've taken as you've forced yourself to keep moving because you have no other choice. it's still there. you brought it with you. you had to. there was no other choice about that either.

when you redress those wounds, the bandages are going to take the scabs with them. that moment of pause is filled with washing off old dirt to find you're more injured than you realised.

the keeping on is necessary. but it's the pauses, the brief respites, where you really feel the pain.

and I don't feel like I see enough of that.

A recommendation to all the audio drama creators out there:

Always listen to your show in the way your audience is listening to your show.

We tend to edit using nice gear. Good over-the-ear headphones. Quiet rooms. But most of your audience will not listen to your show this way. A recent poll indicated that almost 20% of AD listeners listen with a *single* earbud in. Almost 10% listen on their phone speaker. That's a significant part of your audience that is listening in a mono environment or with tiny speakers (or both). You also likely have listeners with hearing loss in one of their ears*, and you want your show to be accessible to them. Before you release your show, make sure to listen to it at least once on a single earbud in a noisy environment. Is your show still legible this way? Can a listener still enjoy it like this, and understand all the plot beats and character moments? If not, it's a good idea to spend some more time on your edit so that they can. (And it's still definitely OK to make your show sound *great* for those who have a great audio setup! Just make sure the show still works for those who don't.) *You likely also have audience members with hearing loss in *both* ears. Transcripts are important. I'm behind in getting them posted for Metropolis, I need to get on that. (Episode 3 of Metropolis is live, BTW. Just waiting for Spotify to pick up the RSS feed before the big announcement. 😅)

The Audiodrama community is really about the friends we make along the way. And boy howdy do I have a lot of new friends these days! It is a great feeling, honestly. Thank you to everyone who is supporting me, my art, and my friends as we all make funny lil voices for the stories in our heads.

How you feel when you're Truly Deeply Evil but you find an indie audio drama/podcast community that is kind and welcoming and gets your vibe and you just want everyone to get puppy kisses and shit.

"how do you have time to listen to all these podcasts" great question! i don't. and yet

Looking for Black Nonbinary/Genderqueer VA!

The Mechadova Engine, an upcoming steampunk sci-fi audio drama, is currently casting a main character.

Details in the document below.

Google Docs

The Mechadova Engine - Tinker Casting Call

The Mechadova Engine - Tinker Casting Call DEADLINE: January 20th 2025 About the project Log has spent their entire life, as far as they

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!

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.