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Hey. Could you rec any podcasts with sapphic couples as their mains? Or a sapphic story. And so on. I only really know about where the stars fell and Alice isn't dead.

You're off to a strong start. Here's 20, there's more out there, but I tried to pick a variety. I'm going to put a ★ next to the ones I think will fit best, but they're all good.

Arden: (Fictional "True Crime", Investigative, Comedy). On the 25th of December, 2007, heiress and young actress Julie Capsom crashed her car into a tree and fled into a nearby forest clearing, leaving a trail that seemingly vanished into thin air, and a dismembered torso in the trunk. A decade later, Bea, the first reporter on the scene, and Brenda, a detective on the case, are hosting a true crime podcast about it, and neither is remotely impressed with what the other has to say. Arden is also a retelling of various Shakespeare plays.

The Author's Anathema: (Horror) Looking for some extra cash, and with some help from her girlfriend Eleanor, college student Natalie takes a small job to narrate an audiobook for a reclusive anonymous author. The book being a horror wouldn't be such a bother, but the stories within are... Familiar. Too familar.

The Beacon: (Urban Fantasy) Bee is a perpetually anxious university student who discovers she has the ability to create fire, and decides to start a podcast to find others like herself. She quickly discovers she's not alone, but a series of bizzare animal attacks suggest superpowered freshers are far from the only strange thing on campus.

The Department of Variance of Somewhere, Ohio: (Weird Fiction, Horror, Sci-Fi) On day one of a new job at the Department of Variance, in the middle of her workplace orientation, Jasmine's new workplace goes into lockdown. Guided via walkie-talkie by Scarlet, an experienced security officer, Jasmine must make her way down 20-odd shifting floors of strange entities and experiments. Ideally without becoming one of them. As a disclaimer, this one is the only addition to this list that isn't actively romantic yet, however there are canonically sapphic characters, and I am fairly confident it's headed that way.

★ Elixir: (Urban Fantasy, Romance) Set in a fantasy world's equivalent of the american prohibition, lawmakers daughter Elsie approaches someone unexpected in search of her missing sister: Vera, an alchemist and propriator of the local now-elicit hush bar.

The Far Meridian: (Magical Realism) An agorophobic young woman wakes up to discover her lighthouse home has moved overnight. It quickly becomes clear this isn't a once-off, and she decides to use this as an opportunity to search for her missing brother, having some strange encounters along the way.

Interference: (Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Romance) Jacq is a D&D podcaster. Geneva is an orc scientist studying ancient human ruins the next world over. What happens when these women from different realities begin picking up each other's broadcasts?

Khôra Podcast: (Sci-Fi) Somewhere between adapted from and inspired by various greek myths, Khôra follows four women who deserved better (Atalanta, Echo, Medea, and Medusa) on a grand space adventure to find the golden fleece while keeping out of the reach of the olympians who own and run the galaxy.

★ Mabel: (Mystery, Supernatural, Horror, Romance). The live-in carer of a dying elderly woman attempts to contact her granddaughter, with little success. The contents of voicemails only get stranger, and what starts as a subtley creepy mystery-horror develops to poetic lesbian fae body-horror.

★ Midnight Radio: (Light Supernatural, Romance). Sybil McIntyre, host of the ever-popular 1950's nightly radio hour, begins exchanging letters with an old fan who has reluctantly returned to visit Sybil's beloved town.

Mina's Story: (Sci-Fi, Romance Elements) Still dealing with a major loss in her family, a young woman volunteers for a long-term cryonics project. The episodes are her audio logs after waking up each time, always the same place but centuries after she went to sleep. A story about grief, change, and the intersection of past and future.

Mirrors: (Sci-fi, Mystery, Supernatural). The audio journal of three women from different periods (past, present, and future) who seem to share little in common bar the strange inhuman, ghostly figures they have started seeing.

Night Life: (Supernatural, Noir) Utterly wacky one-episode story (more of a short audio movie) about an ex-vampire hunter turned private eye who finds herself dealing with the shenanigans of mafia and vampires in the wake of an upcoming mayoral election. Find it on the feed for The Lightning Bottler.

The Night Post: (Supernatural, Mystery). The conscripted couriers of Gilt City are both respected and shunned, integral to the city's function, but inexplicably tied to the supernatural. It's not something they like to talk about. When his husband goes missing on the job, Milo is called to take over. Clementine took over from her father a long time ago, yet recently someone else with her face has been delivering her own unsent letters. Val's not going to discuss how she ended up there, but she will absolutely open people's mail (filled with their own supernatural tales) to read aloud.

Palimpsest, Season 2: (Horror, Romance, Fantasy Elements). Set in the 1800s, a young woman becomes the maid to a supposed fairy noblewoman, who is being kept as one of many "denizens", living curiousities, in a large house. Each season is a different story, this is Season 2.

★ The Pasithea Powder: (Sci-Fi, Thriller?) The last major interplanetary war was full of atrocities, but none more infamous then the creation of Pasithea Powder, a memory altering drug which was used to horrible effect and landed it's entire team of creators in prison. So when decorated war hero Captain Sophie Green sees one of them wandering free, worlds away from his prison, she gets in touch with a very old, estranged friend: one Dr. Jane Gonzalez, who's behind bars for the very same reason.

Starship Q Star: (Sci-Fi, Comedy) The small crew of a tone-deaf space agency's attempt at a PR mission wake up at Mars to discover that they - and the one botanist abandoned on Mars base - are now the last surviving members of humanity. Co-captains and ex-girlfriends Aurelia and Sim must now dedicate themselves to protecting their crew and finding a new home, but they're rarely on the same page about how best to do it.

★ The Strange Case of Starship Iris: (Sci-Fi) When the shuttle carrying the crew of scientific research ship Iris explodes, Violet Liu finds herself stranded in space, the last survivor with no way out. Until her emergency broadcast is picked up by a passing ship. But the crew aren't who they seem to be, there's more going on here than anyone knows yet, and Violet must decide who she can really trust.

Unwell: (Supernatural). Lily Harper revisits her supposedly haunted childhood home to help take care of her aging mother. The house is weird, sure, but there's something far stranger haunting the town of Mount Absolm than simply ghosts.

Weaver: (Supernatural, Romance Elements). The musings of the entity within the old house about the girl she fell in love with (the only thing she can remember), and her two new coinhabitants, who do not yet know she exists.

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The Author's Anathema Podcast Review

I am obsessed with this one

Summary: Natalie is hired to make an audio recording of a book, only to find the book filled with the worst memories of people she knows. Curiosity already killed the cat, is our protagonist its next victim? Genre/Tag: Horror, Mystery Guys, I think I found the spiritual successor to The Magnus Archives in this podcast. There’s an ace lesbian who’s just trying to do her job and survive…

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Celebrate the beginning of Fall by listening to the Season Finale of The Author’s Anathema! Out now on all major platforms.

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Eleanor Watson Moodboard

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Natalie Thurmond Moodboard

Created by Cassidy Elliott

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Quick lil drawing of Natalie and Eleanor from the new podcast, The Author's Anathema

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Eleanor Watson Character Introduction

Age: 21 (Born September 2, 2000)

Pronouns: She/Her/Hers

Nickname: N/A

Sexuality: Bisexual

Appearance: Short red hair, glasses, freckles, dark academia-esque clothing

Personality: Eleanor is introverted and intelligent. She is a piano student at the local college, and tech savvy. She enjoys baking, when she’s not practicing, and loves using her fancy expresso machine to make the best coffee possible. She’s not much of a people person beyond her girlfriend Nat and her childhood best friend Sebastian, and can be a bit blunt. True crime is facinating to her, and she can stay up all night watching documentaries. Eleanor has Dyslexia and so Nat reads out loud to her before they go to bed.

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Natalie Thurmond Character Introduction

Age: 22 (Born March 28, 2000)

Pronouns: She/Her/Hers

Nickname: Nat

Sexuality: Asexual Lesbian

Appearance: Dark curly hair, plus size, freckles, and wears colorful clothing, usually overalls

Personality: Nat is an extrovert who loves to ramble. She is a very hard worker and never stops a task until it is done in completion. She lives in a homey apartment with her girlfriend Eleanor where they bake and garden together. Nat’s guilty pleasure is knitting in an old rocking chair she found at an estate sale. She’s a technophobe, and only has an old iPhone so that Eleanor can easily contact her. Nat doesn’t use social media because she thinks it’s weird. She loves insects a lot and thought about being an entomologist (her favorites are lighting bugs). She loves reading, but what she loves even more is reading aloud, which led her to start narrating audiobooks for a living!

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Do you like horror? Do you like queer media?

Then check out The Author’s Anathema! We are a small, queer led sapphic horror podcast about a young woman hired to narrate an audiobook for a mysterious novel written by an anonymous author (and assisted by her intelligent girlfriend). The main character is an asexual lesbian and her girlfriend is bisexual!

We are halfway through Season 1, and you can find us on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, and other platforms.

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A message before tonight’s release of Episode Three: Liar, Liar!

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Here's my design for natalie :)

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The Crackling Man

He’s a bit more bloody then I intended him to be

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Currently carrying the entire fandom with my mediocre art skills ngl

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Updated concept for Eleanor

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to any horror podcast enthusiasts, check out The Author's Anathema! the first episode is supposed to come out at midnight (ET) and the trailer has been out for over a month now!

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