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The creator of Malevolent, Harlan Guthrie, responded to this on his Tumblr. His show is part of the Rusty Quill network, so he’s not a neutral player either. https://at.tumblr.com/malevolentcast/you-probably-already-know-about-this-but-an/2hxdt6c0wt1g
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If anyone was listening to the sci-fi sitcom/adventure series EOS10 back when it was suddenly abandoned on a massive cliffhanger 3 years ago, you should know the show recently came back with a three-part special that wrapped up all the plot threads in a fantasticly satisfying cap to the adventures. The only thing missing after all this time is that Levi’s actor isn’t on the cast, but his role is now filled by one of his sibling princes who appeared in an earlier season
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May 12, 2023 13:47
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The fact that original article started out by quoting an average wage for audio creatives in $ and compared it to Rusty Quill's wages in £ made me stop reading after the first section - not converting currencies because the difference looks bigger when you don't do so is tabloid-tier journalism. (and it says something sad about my life that I looked at the hourly RQ wage and went "Actually that's pretty decent") Rusty Quill's response was typical corporate-speak, I fully believe whoever wrote that could write a big old NDA for all their staff. Then the editors of the original piece (but not the secret marketing director for the competitor) wrote a response to the response, which battled the accusations of bias by claiming that trying to write an objective article perpetuates white supremist and oppressive structures... I stopped reading after getting through that claim. Maybe they were actually incredible pieces of investigative journalism... but I'd rather have at least a veneer of integrity and objectivity if I'm supposed to read that much text.
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and instead of mumbling on about podcaster drama let me make a rec Has anyone listened to This Thing of Darkness? It's a crime drama produced by BBC Scotland about the psychological impact of a murder. Season 1: a young man is killed in the family home and his father is arrested for his murder, though he maintains his innocence. Three subplots happen here: Alex the forensic psychologist/narrator interviewing the father on behalf of the defence team, a subplot following how the mother and sister of the dead man desperately try/fail to cope with the loss and the false accusation, and Alex's group therapy sessions helping serious criminals come to terms with why they committed their crimes. Given it's a professional radio show it's fantastically acted/soundscaped, but it's also completely compelling. I whacked it on, intending to listen to the first 15 minutes while doing my dishes, and ended staying up until dawn listening to the entire first season, the murder mystery was that gripping. It's based on the work of real forensic psychologists and it's a bit queasy how well it made me empathise with the criminals even as they admitted the details of their violent crimes. And that's a content warning: it does involve graphic descriptions of stalking, psychological abuse, and murders by the people who committed them, as well a description of the psychological impact of child sexual abuse in one monologue (though no details of the act itself) Season 2 is about a woman being released from prison on remand after serving ten years for arson. Another three subplots are going on here: Alex acting in an official capacity as the psychologist assessing how the woman is reintegrating into society, the domestic struggles of the woman's ex-boyfriend, who was badly injured in the arson attack, and Alex's community group therapy session for people with post-injury PTSD. Once again, I binged this season for an entire day straight.
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neongrey posted:okay yeah i'm about halfway through the first season right now and this is riveting I’d love to hear your opinion once you finish it!
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Jun 11, 2023 13:03
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The Silt Verses has just started Season 3 of 3 and this is genuinely the best soundscaped podcast and the most richly imagined world I’ve ever listened to. I don’t know if it’s been recommended recently but I hands down recommend it to you all. It’s set in an earth where gods are created by human thought - pay too much attention to the lightning, spend too much time hoping the river will give you bounty and a god will appear - and a god must be fed. In the modern era gods have become commercialised and deliberately manufactured by corporations (eg, a god of abundant crops that started life as a cereal box mascot) and in the process many of the old traditional gods have been banned. The story follows several intertwining strands: a pair of cultists from a brutal and outlawed river faith looking for signs of other worshippers; a mediocre cop hunting outlawed faiths; and a woman who works in an advertising company that manufactures new gods for corporate clients. This isn’t one of those shows where you have to listen to a dozen episodes for it to find its groove - episode 1 starts off strong and if you’re not into it by the end the show isn’t for you.
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Sep 13, 2023 12:51
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I did like the final season of Magnus for the most part, but I was disappointed by the ending when John decided to release the fears into another dimension instead of trapping them forever to stop them spreading. I don’t know, it felt like a betrayal of the entire conceit of how once you traumatise someone, you can’t just snap your fingers and make the trauma vanish, they just have to keep on living and coping with the results. Having a happily ever after where all our side characters talk about the world moving on, free of their curse, just felt shallow. (I just want a good tragic ending)
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One thing I’ve noticed about Silt Verses is that they’re no longer using monologues to set the scene - it’s all implied by soundscaping now. I’m going to be honest, I do miss the descriptions. Without them you get far less of the narrator’s personal reaction to the setting - we’re now watching them all from the outside.
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Have to say I did enjoy it more than I thought I would - for some reason I was fully assuming that Magnus Protocols would be milking the concept way past the time it should have naturally come to an end.
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Fil5000 posted:Interesting too that the institute is now near Manchester instead of central London. I assume it's supposed to be another universe but I wonder why there. Maybe it’s time for them to dig deeper into the mundane areas of other cities in England rather than just focusing so much on London? A lot of the stories from Magnus Archives were set in London - I spent the entire time listening going “oh yeah, I know that place, and there… is that the bus I get too??” and getting way too spooked out by how accurate all the geographical/cultural details were. Literally the only detail I noticed was inaccurate in the entire run was that in Episode 12 (First Aid) the nurse giving her statement never calls her hospital “Tommies”, like people working in the London hospital networks do. That’s such a tiny little detail as well. Other parts of the country deserve the same mundane/horrifying experience.
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Jan 22, 2024 19:15
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Hughlander posted:Wow, only 16% of the population of England lives in London, I'd thought it be larger. Yup, 1/6th of the UK population is here. We've got more people than Scotland and Wales combined... but if you go by the UK media's representation you'd think we were 5/6ths of the country.
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Yeah, hopefully this is the beginning of a character arc for Alice and not her set personality. I can take people being grating, but not if the story expects me to find them endearing. I’m taking it on trust here that she’s going to change, as Jon was also deliberately a grating personality at first (though a different “difficult” archetype)
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