Fiction/Audio Dramas:

Batman Unburied - A batman story heavy on detective work and psychological fuckery that features Barbara Gordon and the Riddler (more like BTAS Riddler tho not The Batman Riddler) prominently. Lots of other fun C-listers and deep cuts wind up being heavily important, but I'd consider saying their villain alias a spoiler.

The Silt Verses - A vaguely post-collapse society I believe in the UK where something caused animist/chaote religion to be real, basically. So you have all these Forgotten Gods of various sizes cropping up again. And the remnants of the government basically exists to regulate and control people thru the cults of these gods. So there’s like licensed and unlicensed religions. Licensed religions are like gods to capitalism basically, you have an electricity god, a coffee god, a train god. They’re literally made in a marketing department. Unlicensed gods are mostly gods of nature, that a lot of people turned against after Whatever Vaguely Apocalyptic Event poisoned much of the land. The story follows two unlicensed river cultists trying to rebuild their religion after their river turned poisonous and their people got progromed.

bviously there’s a lot of Political Allegory, but it doesn’t really delve into jerking itself off about politics, which I like. A glut of queer characters. Some of the most beautiful prose I’ve heard in a podcast.

The Magnus Archives - A skeptic gets a job at an institute in London that interviews eye witnesses of "paranormal" events. A digital corruption has required a number of files to be backed up on a physical medium, cassette tapes. However, the institute winds up being much more than it seems. Starts off feeling vaguely SCP-y, but by the end of season one its clear that everything is connect, important to thru plots and sub plots, and that there's Much More Going On than "Oooo the ghosts are real."

I Am in Eskew - David Ward finds himself in a dark city filled with ghouls, spirits, lost souls, and a perpetual rain. Once again starts off very "horror in an urban fantasy setting with loose connections," about 1/4 of the way through though, Riyo finds herself hired by David's mom to investigate his mysterious disappearance. After this, the structure changes to Riyo and David exchanging narration every episode, and the story finds its footing/pace really well.

Leftist Politics:

It's Going Down - Anarchist news and current events

Coffee with Comrades - Anarchist interviews

Live Like the World is Dying - Post-civ views on various topics

Political but not necessarily leftist:

Knowledge Fight - Two homies who have found themselves accidentally in the shoes of the World's Most Well Regarded Alex Jones Researchers, Dan and Jordan take you through Alex Jones's current and past escapades, and take some occasional detours on other quacks.

5-4 - Lawyers Peter, Michael and Rhiannon go over various supreme court decisions, justices' opinions, etc. As they say, "Welcome to 5-4, a podcast about how much the supreme court sucks."

Media Analysis:

Madoka Magicast - 3 queer women analyze Madoka Magica and related media. Only 3 episodes deep but so far their analysis is phenomenal. Two of them run the biggest english language Utena fansite in the world.

Eat the Rudecast - A podcast analyzing Hannibal's TV show and movies. Have not watched personally.

Cop Critical True Crime:

Serial Season 1 - An investigative journalist goes over how the Baltimore PD framed the murder of a young girl in high school as an "honor killing" by her ethnically muslim but not (at the time) religious ex boyfriend. Just got the subject of the podcast released from podcast and inspired me to make this thread.

Algorithm - A journalist with an interest in stats gets his hands on the General Homicide Report, a list of data associated with various unsolved homicides. Captivated, he attempts to train an algorithm to detect when an area has an uncaught serial killer.... and it works. What's even more disturbing, is the Gary Indiana Police Department is ignoring his calls and pleas, and they have 100's of missing women on their hands.

Seriously the BEST True Crime podcast I've ever heard. If you ever wanted to hear an extensive serial killer recounting that also leaves you with "fuck fuck fuck ACAB ACAB ACAB" thoughts, this is it chief.

Le Monstre

Hobby:

Shut Up and Sit Down - Reviews and analysis of board games, and more recently, RPGs :)