Usually, boarding the wrong train means you have to text your date to tell them you’re going to be late. Unfortunately for Nora Pacinelli, she’s probably going to be really late–or maybe perfectly on time–since she appears to have boarded …
How can we practice radical empathy and self-care?
Digital spaces can sometimes get a bit noisy: a lot of ideas, thoughts, demands, needs, cries for help overlapping one another, and it can be hard to spend the emotional energy to sift through it, to know how to respond, …
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HartLife NFP’s “Unwell” is Both a Quiet Example and Direct Subversion of Midwestern Gothic
The creeping, quiet dread of the desolate Midwest—those distant areas where there’s nothing but corn, a gas station, and one ancient diner for miles—is the ideal setting for the terror and dysfunction that lives inside the Gothic family home, like …
How is narration in audio a useful tool?
The conversation surrounding the place of narration in audio fiction is one that has often plagued both my listening and my commentary, due to the huge divide on whether or not narration is a tool creators should still be using …
“The Response” Passes the Microphone to Disaster-Affected Communities
It isn’t easy to provide nuanced and descriptive reports on natural disasters without taking up a huge amount of time, but The Response manages, with apparent ease, to consider one angle to each of three natural disasters in the United …
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Janus Descending Weaves Beauty into Tragic Horror
(The following review contains minor spoilers for tangential narrative elements.) The tragedy inside modern horror is an element sometimes not well-played for me, either overdone or undercooked. Janus Descending, a space horror set on a distant planet with evidence of …
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How can we support marginalized creators at conventions?
While I did not give any specifics for PodCon 2 hopes in the previous issue, I think it would be helpful to talk briefly about one thing: featured guests, speakers, and why podcasting as a medium growing into having multiple, …
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Best in Podcasting for 2018
Not to just keep repeating myself, but 2018 has been the longest decade I’ve ever experienced, up to the point where a couple of my choices on the best of lists were placed after I realized “wait, that came out …
First Look: “Minefire” Summons Demons and Psychics for a Wild Romp
I can think of no better demon-hunting dream team than a human who makes bad decisions with ouija boards, the demon entity she summons, and said demon’s perpetually annoyed psychic friend. When a seance goes awry, Rob finds herself stuck …
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First Look: “Dark Dice” is Immersive, Action-Packed Horror Actual Play
Immersive in-character conversation and sound design are the two aspects of any actual play podcast most likely to get me hooked. Fool and Scholar Production’s actual play podcast, Dark Dice, is a horror podcast made up of Game Master and …
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