Queer rep; homey feel for a place you’ve never been; a narrator with a deep, comforting voice; “anthology” in the sense that it tells different stories but all the stories are actually the same story; tales of both wonderful and horrible things; folklore
Old Gods of Appalachia:
Queer rep; homey feel for a place you’ve never been; a narrator with a deep, comforting voice; “anthology” in the sense that it tells different stories but all the stories are actually the same story; tales of both wonderful and horrible things; folklore
Me: *consumes both at a rapid pace and plans to be patrons of both when I finally have a steady income*
Old Gods of Appalachia is narrated by southern Odin.
Like I can HEAR the beard. I can HEAR the blind-in-one-eye. I can HEAR how whenever he comes to family functions or something no one quite knows how he’s related to the family but they know he is and he gathers the children around him late at night and tells them long, winding stories that adults can’t understand and when he leaves is that a raven on his shoulder??? And when did his cane become a spear??? Papaw what are u doing
Oh, my sweet summer child! If Steve Shell is the voice of Odin, don’t you think his apparent lack of beard is not the Old Man’s glamour?
There’s this problem that nobody talks about with doing creative tasks to keep your hands busy while listening to podcasts, and that problem is that every crafted item in your home comes with vivid auditory memories attached to it. I can’t put my crocheted beanie on without thinking of half of the Hephaestus crew getting blasted into space as their pod detaches from the ship in a fire safety measure.
I work as a domestic cleaner and i listen to podcasts and audiobooks while doing it, so when i think back to what ive listened to lately i have to go house by house like, ah yes, this is the house where vimes arrestes the dragon
I want to read old gods of Appalachia but it looks scary so on a scale of Wolf 359 to the white vault (1-10(if scarier than white vault than go above ten)) how spooky is it
Honestly I’d say a 4-6 range. OgoA isn’t “get in your head and put you on edge” sort of scary, It’s ghost stories around the campfire scary. Its spooks wrapped up in a comforting, home-y familiarity . The narrator spends as much time describing the wonderful things about the setting as he does the terrible things. He talks about home cooking with more passion than I’ve heard some people discuss their god.
ok, I love this for many reasons, not leasst of which, in my favorite podcast @oldgodspod there is a character called Skint Tom, who is prone to saying this very thing when things begin to get weird, and now I’m envisioning him meeting Loki and oh my the brouhaha that would ensue. :D
I’ve just started Old Gods S3 and the oh man the Barrow family is SO fucked up in extremely fun ways I hate them and love hearing about them and I’m very excited for the direction this is going
The Railroad Man appreciates your strive for a shared industrious future.
Fanart for the Old Gods of Appalachia podcast, which I’ve been really into lately. If you like a audio horror set in them there mountains, go give it a listen. Very good storytelling.
