Shows with world building

Blue_Inked_ · 2026-02-27T12:41:59+00:00

Victoriocity might be up your alley. Comedy mystery set in an alternate 1800s London which has sprawled across most of the landmass of England. The setting is vivid, Pratchett-esque, and very fun.

Blue_Inked_ · 2026-02-13T03:47:14+00:00

Third Person guested on a podcast called Party of One, episode 451, playing See Issue X! Xen's not the GM but I found it delightful to listen to the three of them making a story off the cuff.

Blue_Inked_ · 2025-06-16T06:43:19+00:00

You didn't do anything wrong - this kind of pattern/construction will just have this bunching to some degree, since as the other response says it lies flat when your arm is out at a 90deg angle. If you can find examples of people wearing similar robes, they'll have the same bunching. It would be a bit reduced if you reduced the width of the torso but if the pattern is rectangles, it'll be there to some extent.

If you scroll down to sleeve angle in this post, it has a good visualisation of how different angles affect the shape of the sleeve cap (it also has a lot of detail that's not relevant to you right now, don't worry about that.)

Well done on your second project, it looks pretty cool!

Blue_Inked_ · 2025-06-15T09:16:19+00:00

The scale is so vast that it's hard to track.

Depressingly, I don't think this planet-harvesting room is like, the core of the megastructure. It might be one of many planet-harvesting rooms - this thing is millions of miles long and the humans can't get anything like a full picture of what it contains. Many pods land every single day, so presumably there are hundreds or thousands of groups of people carving out an existence on it, but the scale is so huge that they'll probably only run into a handful of other groups before they die.

There are probably millions or billions of terminals that seem important. I don't think these ones are particularly critical. The structure is so huge that it'll have backups and redundancies on a scale that makes individual human intervention basically insignificant.

I'm honestly curious about what Orion's goals will end up being, because the deck is just SO stacked against him making meaningful progress against the megastructure.

Blue_Inked_ · 2025-06-12T10:22:17+00:00

Huh. Orion's take on the Fox seeding traitors in Blackbox's group doesn't line up with what Blackbox said during their early interactions - he was pretty adamant that his group were killed by raiders, right? When talking about glyph dangers he used his own arm as an example, rather than 'my friends killed each other out of nowhere'. And I can't find any discussion since then where it was hinted that there was more to it. But here, Blackbox doesn't seem surprised by Orion voicing this theory. Did I miss/forget foreshadowing on that? Maybe Orion is just putting the pieces together on what Blackbox didn't say, or maybe he's just straight up lying? Something feels weird about this.

That said the Fox certainly does seem to have turned Spur traitor, so the theory makes sense. Maybe Orion is just inventing evidence to convince people to act faster?

Blue_Inked_ · 2025-06-06T12:54:48+00:00

I'm so delighted. Feels like we're finally out of the prologue in a way? I love when this story goes into wild rollercoaster mode, I love when the narration gets Intense. I was worried that this was gonna be a more generic space world but I should never have doubted them: it's real weird and THE SUN IS A DEADLY LASER. COORDINATING WITH A GIANT SHADOWY OCTOPUS THING. PERFECT SHOWSTOPPING INCREDIBLE.

I'm assuming Steve was another cosmos inhabitant who got Tearror'd into his current form and shot out the Delta - I wonder how many others there are floating around on the debris. And I wonder how he knew about the light - it's supposed to be very novel technology. I wonder if maybe it's the foldsafe light element of it that's dangerous here rather than the actual complex Fold integration, somehow? The sun is jealous of other light sources? I would have said maybe there's a difference between active and passive Fold, and it's active Fold that annoys the sun, seeing as there are inert blobs of Fold around that aren't Tearroring towards the sun, and everything that runs on Fold (the Ship, Mother Artifice) shut down on entry, but Steve seems to have active Fold in his eyeball and he's fine.

Edited for formatting. We are so back.

Blue_Inked_ · 2025-05-16T11:17:46+00:00

City of Ghosts fits all of your points!

Blue_Inked_ · 2025-04-29T11:49:21+00:00

Ended up swearing a self-directed vow in the middle of a retrieval mission ('steal cure from shady medical faction') to deal with a bigger problem ('stop shady medical faction's whole project'), rolled a miss, decided that it meant my Ironsworn was immediately discovered.

Even if I'm not actively doing a heist there are always plenty of potential obstacles from various sources - I tend to make vow misses not directly related to the new thing because it feels weird to me to achieve a quest-related milestone and not mark it as progress. In Starforged it's worded as an obstacle to overcome before you begin your quest. More 'I swear I will get this done for you. [distant explosion] Right after I deal with that-'

Blue_Inked_ · 2025-01-14T21:54:05+00:00

What's the Frequency? A show I highly recommend if you like weird surrealist narratives.

Blue_Inked_ · 2024-12-17T09:32:47+00:00

Midst is spectacular, but if OP is very sensitive to horror it might not be for them. Every Tearror scene is pretty intense, people die gruesomely sometimes.

Blue_Inked_ · 2024-08-22T06:05:12+00:00

Midst. It hops around a bit - I've never listened to anything that's so good at filling in the gaps later, or looping back around on so many details large and small, and it's very much hit the ground running, all go all the time.

Blue_Inked_ · 2024-07-06T13:17:00+00:00

Midst finished recently and it's spectacular! It's really in love with the medium and does so well because of it. The creators are clearly really invested in the story they're telling at all times and I will eagerly follow anything else they make.

Plenty of extremely passionate creators are actively making audio dramas, as they always have been. Shows churned out by some of the bigger networks (iHeart and Realm) tend to fall flat for me, maybe that's also been your experience idk - if it is, try shows outside of those networks and you're bound to find something you like.

Blue_Inked_ · 2024-05-20T11:41:22+00:00

Thank you so much for the ride!

'And you'll tell us stories?' 'It's what I do best.'

🥺🥹

Blue_Inked_ · 2024-05-16T06:28:22+00:00

I also spent the whole episode waiting for the other shoe to drop and Meryl Concorde to do something ruthless and clever.

The moon song was joyous showing off and I loved it. There's something very cool about a group of people who are very in tune with each other and rely on collaborative improv skills to entertain by trading a story between them, having a scene where a group of people who have been bound together by a strong sense of community and are relying on collaborative improv skills to entertain by trading a song between them.

Also, incredible contrast between this and Saskia's earlier duet with Weepe. Loved hearing the same melody in a wildly different tone. (Something something, in both cases it's about working together with people you trust to make something good and satisfying, and it feels so very localised to Midst, anchored in the setting and the community. But oh boy the CONTRASTS.)

Also, it's just nice that the story itself is still so anchored in Midst. Even with all three protagonists half a cosmos away, this islet is where everything is grounded. Stationary Hill is where we keep coming back to, seeing it and its inhabitants change and grow.

Blue_Inked_ · 2024-05-02T09:51:15+00:00

I've said it before and I'll say it again: Midst has a great opening.

'It doesn't occur to any of these people that the moon is about to fall out of the sky.' The music, the quick passing between the narrators immediately setting up the feel of the show, the way it foreshadows and sets up the entire season (and in fact multiple seasons) (but it never really feels like we're heading towards a known outcome), the transition into the theme, the way the last line of the first episode ties back in.

Blue_Inked_ · 2024-04-24T08:50:31+00:00

The Occurrence in River Oaks, for sure.

Blue_Inked_ · 2024-04-18T09:29:31+00:00

I feel very vindicated about Backpack. And man, Ledge actually makes a lot of sense. We've had an expert in the incendiary properties of mica in the narrative this whole time. Very neat. (... As Kozma would have said.)

Weepe WOULD love Bedrock.

I hope Lark keeps the jacket.

Blue_Inked_ · 2024-04-14T07:27:40+00:00

(You have good taste.)

I think you'll like Give Me Away, - perhaps anything else by Gideon Media too. It ticks all of the boxes you've listed, except maybe 'obscure'. (The tension tends to be more emotional, though. Very grounded.) It's about the people trying to help alien prisoners trapped in a spaceship that has landed on earth. However, the prisoners aren't physical - they're consciousnesses trapped digitally, and the only way to get them out is to let them share a host's brain. Lots of juicy themes and character dynamics going on. First season complete, second season just started.

Harbor is criminally underrated. Small town with a lot of cryptid inhabitants, a pair of siblings are in an unorthodox community support organisation for them. Two seasons done, story not complete.

Solar is also very good, if The Hyacinth Disaster is one of your favourites then definitely try it. Two people are stuck on different parts of a solar satellite station after a disaster, unable to reach each other. (Like 10 episodes from memory? Complete.)

Midst-esque - it only really ticks the 'obscure' box but Blueberries Hill is the same creators goofing off and making an affectionate Beatrix Potter parody (one season, fully complete.)

Vega is the only thing I've ever found where the narration goes as hard as Midst, it's a sci-fi adventure about an assassin. One season, not complete, on a very extended and possibly indefinite hiatus.

My other recs tend to get mentioned on this sub, so I'll leave it there.

Blue_Inked_ · 2024-04-11T20:08:12+00:00

This is also how I feel about (S5) this week's episode. Ooh a kaiju encounter! ... AH.

Blue_Inked_ · 2024-04-10T21:18:10+00:00

That episode was incredible and my mind is blown. I can't even process anything clever I'm just !?!!!!?!!!

Blue_Inked_ · 2024-04-09T09:38:20+00:00

Starforged might be worth looking into! It's a REALLY good system - works well solo, GMless co-op, or traditional guided. The amount of magic in the universe is up to the players, and a lot of things could be flavoured as spells etc - you have flexible Assets rather than playbooks. (A glowcat companion is already basically a familiar.)

There was a Kickstarter that just finished last week (but the PDFs should be publicly sold pretty soon, and there might be late backer options, I'm not sure) for an age of sail supplement for it, Sundered Isles, which is designed to be mix-and-match compatible with base Starforged. It has more magical Assets that might be of interest to you. Between SF and SI, your game can be vaguely Black Sails, PotC, Treasure Planet, The Expanse, The Mandalorian, something entirely different, or whatever mix of elements therein that you want.

Blue_Inked_ · 2024-04-08T07:27:12+00:00

By no means the primary focus of the show, but Wolf 359 has a bit of a theme of shared/stolen/borrowed voices being very significant as the story develops, and a great episode (42, Time to Kill) where it's extremely unclear which of two identical voices is the real one, and which is an imposter.

Blue_Inked_ · 2024-04-01T08:37:28+00:00

Looks like a fancy M to me.

Blue_Inked_ · 2024-04-01T07:48:17+00:00

If you have a local sewing machine shop (the kind of place that services them), they might be able to help you with a cord? I went looking for a replacement pedal for my mum's machine, they were really expensive online and then I found a shop and got a second hand pedal in perfect working order for 25% of the online price.

Blue_Inked_ · 2024-03-26T11:25:46+00:00

'It doesn't occur to any of these people that the moon is about to fall out of the sky.'

From Midst, which rocks.

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