My Inability to Get My Loved Ones Into Fiction Podcasts...

...is slowly driving me mad.

I mean this lightheartedly, naturally. However, it is extremely difficult to convince people to listen to the tiny people acting in your headphones. 

Especially as the audio medium is more likely to be less constrained and more creative than others, which is absolutely amazing- but how am I meant to explain something like Stellar Firma, nevermind recommend it?

This gets doubly hard when talking about audio dramas, because now it's niche AND old. The Bert Coules Sherlock Holmes radio adaptation? Clive Merrison? Anyone???

And it's not like a tv show, or book, or movie where you can pull snippets to terrorize your friends with, as even without context there is a visual for them to absorb. No this is just sound, and for some reason people do not respond well to just sound.

Which is fine! I like sounds! It is just, again, making me lose my mind.

Not to mention, people don't tend to be very sympathetic when you go 'oH tHeRe'S a MaGnUs ArChIvEs EpIsOdE lIkE tHiS' 24/7, but that might be down to me being insufferable.

I am sort of trained for this response, funnily enough- I've been into niche media for pretty much my whole life (not that fiction podcasts are niche, certainly not TMA, but your average irl person is not deep in these particular weeds). I was a Tintin child, and that only makes you friend with your teachers, and nowadays I find myself enjoying increasingly more obscure murder mystery shows.

I am great collecter and admirer of things that get me blank looks from my peers, and I think it's only getting worse with age.

It's no matter though- cuz I'm not gonna stop talking about my little shows, and my family is contractually obligated to listen to me.

And hey! I have a blog for this very reason!

Anyways, please go listen to Stellar Firma, Super Suits*, The Magnus Archives, Wolf 359, New Year's Day, Tell No Tales, etc etc-

*my beloved please come back to me soon, i miss these dang lawyers