(EST Toronto time) We can’t pin down an exact day every month because of fluctuating schedules, but we do wanna make sure the day of the week is consistent. Vote on your preferred date. (PHT Philippine Time)
Monthly Streams are 2 hours each and will often have a theme. We have taken to playing the game Observation Duty for many of them, but some of them may be interviews.
Please choose from the options below:
Friday Nights (PHT Saturday Morning)
Saturday Nights (PHT Sunday Morning)
Sunday Nights (PHT Monday Morning)
Other (comment below)
Monthly streams are different from live episode premieres.
We unlocked community posts on our channel!!! Woohoo! Thank you so much to everyone who subscribed and made this happen.
Our first update involves the episode schedule for May, which includes a two-parter episode! Digmaan part 1 will premiere on May 15, 2022 and part 2 will premiere on May 22 at 9PM EST. Come join the chat during the premiere if you can! (Premieres are May 16 and May 23 at 9AM Philippine time)
Our second update involves the draw for who gets free Hi Nay merch from our Redbubble store. We’re still in the process of uploading ALL our designs, and as soon as we’re done, we’ll post a video here on the channel to announce how we will be choosing the lucky winner. Please stay tuned if you’re interested in getting free stuff ;)
As all Filipinos know, it’s Election Day! So please join us in our transition into a new presidency, and our terrified, yet sincere hope for the future. We hope the best candidate (Leni Robredo) will win!
And as always, thank you, we love you, and hanggang sa muli!
Enjoy the bonus content! More amazing content will be announced / released tomorrow during our Livestream, so please join us this Friday 8PM EST / Saturday 8AM PHT on our Youtube and Twitch.
That’s 4/29/2022 Toronto/New York time, and 4/30/2022 Philippine time.
PLEASE REBLOG AND SHARE THIS POST so more people can enjoy the bonus episode! Also please note the content warnings on Youtube and Podbean.
If you’re not sure if you want to get into the full Hi Nay experience yet, consider listening to our special standalone episodes, Remind Me To Tell You Later!
They’re vignettes of protagonist Mari’s experiences with Filipino horrors, and lean more heavily onto Philippine mythology and folklore.
The first two episodes of RMTTYL are available in full! The latter two have their excerpts up on Youtube and Podbean, with full episodes exclusive to Patrons.
If we get to 500 subscribers on Youtube by April 29, we’ll post the full third RMTTYL, Madre, to the public.
If you’re interested in learning about Filipino supernatural creatures, check out the RMTTYL special episodes!
There’s a playlistof all episodes so far on Youtube.
You can also find them on our Podbean! Please note the content warnings, and enjoy!
To celebrate, the Hi Nay special livestream is happening this Friday evening EST (Saturday morning PHT) on our YT and Twitch, so come join us!
Friday 8-10PM Toronto Time || Saturday 8-10AM Philippine time
We’ll be playing some Observation Duty, showing off all the new Hi Nay merch designs, and drawing the winner of free stuff from our Redbubble!
We’ll also be posting the BONUS EPISODE (Remind Me To Tell You Later: Madre) but ONLY if we get to 500, so make sure to get us there before then by getting everyone to sub to the Hi Nay channel!
Come enjoy the gaming, the celebration, and the new content °˖✧◝(⁰▿⁰)◜✧˖°
Forgot to add - our current subscriber count is 469 (nice) so we just need 30+ more to get to our goal!
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See you at TCAF - The Toronto Comic Arts Festival!
We’re releasing Filipino komiks in English with LGBTQ+ themes, by amazing Filipino artists: ️Pinoy Monster Boyfriend Anthology V2 debut with new cover and story! ️ Pinoy Monster Girlfriend Anthology reprint
️⚧️Pinoy Monster Lover Anthology FIRST PRINT RELEASE
We’re also releasing the Filipino political horror komik, Aswang At Berdugo, and selling stickers and other small merch of the Hi Nay Podcast!
Fans of the Hi Nay Podcast can come and meet myself, Motzie Dapul, and the amazing Abigayle, who plays Laura!
️The Pinoy Monster Anthologies were created by amazing Filipino/Filipina/Filipinx artists, with LGBTQ+ themes and Filipino folklore & mythology.
Aswang At Berdugo is a political horror in which a young superhero meets an Aswang who kills murderous Manila police.
Pinoy Monster Boyfriend Anthology V2 has most of the same stories as the original copy, apart from a brand new story by Nowherebear, “First Sacrament”, and a brand new cover and interior art by Defenestratin!
Come visit us if you’re in the area! Toronto Reference Library, second floor.
Hey everyone! Just letting you all know that June is an extremely busy month for us all, and we may end up not releasing an episode this month.
Motzie and Abigayle (voice of Laura) will be tabling at TCAF (Toronto Comics Arts Festival) on June 18-19! Come visit us if you’re in the Toronto area, get some cool Hi Nay merch, and hopefully have a fun time hanging out with a small part of the Hi Nay crew. We’ll be selling Hi Nay related stickers and prints, as well as Motzie’s Pinoy Monster comic anthologies.
Motzie will also be visiting London, UK near the end of June, so we may post a couple of vlog style videos if anyone’s interested in that. Seeing as this podcast was strongly inspired by the Magnus Archives, you can drop suggestions for places and things you want to see below.
Because our Act 2 episode plots have been planned out until October, however, we may release another double episode month in the near future, so stay tuned!
All the love from the Hi Nay team, we hope this June is a great one.Art by the amazing @tsambolero of “Ang Jowa Kong Crosswise” fame! Supernatural romance is right up our alley Thanks for giving us such wonderful art for our main cast!
We’re doing it a little early since June is gonna be a wild month. We’ll be chatting with guest Geekinglikeaboss, writer for the queer erotic monster choose your own adventure game, Monster Brothel, about queerness and horror!
You can join the chat and ask questions, and we’ll mostly be focusing on our love for queerness and horror and how that reflects in our fiction work and our LGBTQ+ characters.
(Hi Nay in particular has a majority LGBTQ+ cast of characters from main characters to recurring characters to villains)
We’ll also be playing the brand new installment to the Observation Duty series, I’m On Observation Duty 5 inbetween our chats.
Come join us at 8PM on Saturday, May 28 EST (Toronto time). That’s Sunday morning, 8AM on Sunday, May 29 PHP (Philippine time). We’ll be broadcasting on both Twitch and Youtube.
Stream starts in 30 mins! Come join us on Youtube or on Twitch and ask any questions, chat and enjoy :D
We’re doing it a little early since June is gonna be a wild month. We’ll be chatting with guest Geekinglikeaboss, writer for the queer erotic monster choose your own adventure game, Monster Brothel, about queerness and horror!
You can join the chat and ask questions, and we’ll mostly be focusing on our love for queerness and horror and how that reflects in our fiction work and our LGBTQ+ characters.
(Hi Nay in particular has a majority LGBTQ+ cast of characters from main characters to recurring characters to villains)
We’ll also be playing the brand new installment to the Observation Duty series, I’m On Observation Duty 5 inbetween our chats.
Come join us at 8PM on Saturday, May 28 EST (Toronto time). That’s Sunday morning, 8AM on Sunday, May 29 PHP (Philippine time). We’ll be broadcasting on both Twitch and Youtube.
TOMORROW! Come join the chat on Youtube and Twitch at 8PM EST for our PRIDE CELEBRATION!
Made some Picrews of characters who have yet to have any official art in Hi Nay just for fun here’s DJ, CJ (why did nobody tell me they have such similar names!!!) and Evelyn Wai as designed in a character generator.
DJ In The Dark, our Toronto radio DJ turned in-universe podcaster who interviews people for their creepy stories. They are non-binary (they/them).
CJ or Claudette-Jean is an Elder who abandoned the order decades ago but who is still both immortal and able to do magic. Her lover, Mary-Anne Weekes created the “Good” foci which act in direct opposition to regular foci, which take their power from “fear-death”. She is a lesbian ciswoman.
Evelyn Wai is a college student ghost story enthusiast turned supernatural researcher. After being saved from a terrifying encounter at the University of Toronto, she ends up assisting the main cast with research in order to learn how to defend herself against the supernatural. She’s biromantic and demisexual.
We’re doing it a little early since June is gonna be a wild month. We’ll be chatting with guest Geekinglikeaboss, writer for the queer erotic monster choose your own adventure game, Monster Brothel, about queerness and horror!
You can join the chat and ask questions, and we’ll mostly be focusing on our love for queerness and horror and how that reflects in our fiction work and our LGBTQ+ characters.
(Hi Nay in particular has a majority LGBTQ+ cast of characters from main characters to recurring characters to villains)
We’ll also be playing the brand new installment to the Observation Duty series, I’m On Observation Duty 5 inbetween our chats.
Come join us at 8PM on Saturday, May 28 EST (Toronto time). That’s Sunday morning, 8AM on Sunday, May 29 PHP (Philippine time). We’ll be broadcasting on both Twitch and Youtube.
As requested from our Hi Nay discord server, I’ve compiled some of the songs I was listening that served as inspiration for characters, events and arcs in Hi Nay, in no particular order.
Bottom of the River byDelta Rae ~ “theme song” for Episode 20 - Siga, aka the Campfire Episode. This gave me a camping vibe with the added bonus of feeling like I wanted to add a scene where they sang around a campfire. Never ended up putting that into the episode, but the vibes for this are immaculate.
Rule #21 - Momento Mori byFish In A Birdcage ~ I recently got fully obsessed with some of the songs by Fish In A Birdcage, a fantastic alternative indie band, many of whose songs you will find on this playlist. Momento Mori in particular was inspired by the Elders, specifically Giuliano Bartalotti, The Benefactor, and George Langford, all because of their proximity to death.
EsmeraldabyAdriel Genet ~ Basically the theme song of the entire puppetmaster arc, specifically The Puppetmaster / The Doctor / Drosselmeyer. I was suprised that this was a lesser known song, it sounds like something that would have really blown up. Glad to hype it up here, it has the PERFECT vibe for this specific part of the story, especially in that it makes me imagine the ballet-loving Drosselmeyer dancing gracefully to the musical interlude.
Rule #4 - Fish in a Birdcage byFish In A Birdcage~ The song the band apparently named itself after (or vice versa), Fish In A Birdcage is my favourite song as of 2022, and tops my On Repeat playlist. The song is truly perfect. The lyrics of the song specifically focus on the story of Mary-Anne Weekes, whose full story has yet to be told. In the story, so far, she is known as the “Good Elder” who created Good Foci, and was CJ’s lover. She was also the only member of the Ordo who was non-white (or non-white passing). Her locket protects Laura in Episode 3.
We Forgot We Were Human byDirt Poor Robbins ~ An incredibly catchy song that I just enjoyed listening to during recent arcs, this particular song seems to illustrate the Elders quite nicely. No specific arc - this is just the Elders and their motivations, at least as we know them currently.
The Haunted PhonographbyThoushaltnot, Seeming ~ No character in particular. I just thought this song was a fun one that matched the general vibe of Hi Nay, and the Foci being cursed objects. Somewhat connected to Mary-Anne for reasons that will later be revealed. May include a cursed phonograph in a future episode. Who knows?
The Dismemberment Song byBlue Kid ~ The primary inspiration for the Cannibal pair of episodes - Episode 18 - Katay, and Episode 19 - Lamon. Her name, by the way, is Minerva The Cannibal.
Sun Goes Down byDavid Jordan ~ Just how I imagine the theme song for a Hi Nay TV show would be. It’s poppy, but it also has the beat that reminds me of traditional dances in the Philippines. Also the lyrics feel like they would fit for a TV series about creepy things happening in a city.
Rule #7 - Angel Tango byFish In A Birdcage ~ The lesson here is to listen to Fish In A Birdcage. Anyway, this song was inspired by the sort of thematic dance between The Puppetmaster and The Benefactor. It’s a little bit of both of their characters, in some ways.
Rule #9 - Child Of The Stars byFish In A Birdcage ~ A song about Ashvin, the fake Guru Mahadev. He has a compelling history and I want to write more about him, though it doesn’t fit in the current plot. He’s been one of my favourite characters concept-wise, and I want to dedicate more to him as a character.
I’ll be adding more songs to this playlist, maybe moving songs around. Hope you all enjoy!
Hey everyone! In case you missed it, here’s some brand new Hi Nay art Motzie commissioned from different “kakampink” artists this week.
Kakampink are supporters of Leni Robredo and Kiko Pangalinan, the most significant opposition against the children of dictators during this election.
Currently they’re working on creating the largest network of anti-poverty assistance throughout the entire country, Angat Buhay, which was originally Leni’s project as vice president.
Here’s a few lovely pieces of Kakampink Mari! To show solidarity. We’re definitely hoping to work with Angat Buhay in the future.
All the designs were inspired by the work of balikbatik, a group that supports local indigenous Filipino weavers by ensuring they’re paid premium prices for unique, handwoven works. You should definitely check em out!
by inkyfishy25 on Twitter!
by @Vaniwee_ on Twitter!
by @_KeyCheyn_ on Twitter!
by @wyarchives on Twitter!
There’s more art to come from other amazing artists, so stay tuned!
Somehow did not realise the significance of releasing the first brand new mini-segment of “Martial Law and the Crimes of the Marcos family” in a Hi Nay episode that’s entitled “Digmaan” (War)
