And On A Completely Serious Note, Dracula Daily Was Legit One Of The Most Fun Things I've Done On The

And on a completely serious note, Dracula Daily was legit one of the most fun things I've done on the internet all year and I'm so sad it's over. In a world where the internet feels increasingly corporate and sanitized, having some weird little email book club spring up around a 125 year old novel feels like the Old Internet to me in the best of ways. I'm gonna miss seeing all the shipping, discussion, memes (maybe the memes most of all), and all of the little historical facts I never knew about. I've definitely come out of this with a brand new appreciation for the book, and I hope we can do it again sometime.

Y'all take care out there now! Pour one out for Quincey.

Everything Old is New Again

Hey - I'm Ely. I'm not-quite-fleeing Twitter; Twitter built my career and I'll be there until the end of time, but Tumblr was my first real social media love (and you'll pry that username information from my cold, dead hands).

A long time ago, I started writing about fiction podcasts on Twitter and people... cared about it?

I started a fiction podcast-focused newsletter called Audio Dramatic and essentially launched into my career as a podcast critic at a time when if you said those words, everyone just kind of looked at you funny (jk they still look at me funny). I wrote for a bunch of audio-focused outlets, most of which have now shuttered. I fought with a lot of people about the value, style, history, and future of criticism in audio. I screamed my way through every single piece of podcast industry nonsense you can imagine. I became the host of Radio Drama Revival, a podcast that's been running since 2007 (when it was on the literal radio) dedicated solely to fiction podcasts and their creators.

I burned myself out in late 2019 and spent effectively 2 years trying to scrimp by as a very disabled freelancer.

Now I'm the content and communications manager at Simplecast -- effectively, I'm the managing editor for the blog and I'm using it to create a platform for podcasters and for podcast audiences, written by fairly paid creators and critics. (I am still fighting and screaming.)

I wouldn't have gotten here without fiction podcast creators, nor fiction podcast audiences. The time has come again for me to engage, myself, not through Simplecast (though I'll probably brag about how great my writers are, lbr).

So - looking forward to my Tumblr being as messy as my Twitter, where I talk about podcasts, yell about injustice, share resources about all of it, and also get really weird.

Give me the weird shit.

I think it was very restrained of us not to bring up the murder until act 2

Bit of terminology clash here - we call our episodes acts, and Fiasco calls everything before the tilt act 1 and everything after it act 2. So Monumental Exit Acts 1 and 2 are act 1 of the game, and Act 3 is act 2 of the game. I had to leave a couple of bits in the edit where I'm like "here we are, im act 2!" but it's in Act 3 😬

Monumental Exit, Act 2

Everything’s ready for Bilbo’s swansong at the Beanstalk, but one roadie’s vendetta against the venue owner threatens to stain his perfect farewell.

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STARRING:

Josh Yard as Bilbo Biltong

Natalie Winter as Sue Sherpa

Alexander Pankhurst as Mike Sherpa

Matt Boothman as Gregg Nevin

ROLEPLAYING GAME SYSTEM: Fiasco Classic by Jason Morningstar

MUSIC BY: Alexander Pankhurst

EDITED AND PRODUCED BY: Matt Boothman

st. george and the dragon (1908-9) - briton rivière / the vigil (1884) - john pettie / vanitas still-life (1705) - evert collier / david garrick as richard iii (1745) - william hogarth / micro sff stories tweet

getting hype for the new instalment of my favourite urban fantasy series

there is no greater mystery than What Was That Deleted Video In My Youtube Playlist