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mooching about on the internet looking at yearly wall planners and thinking, "god the dry erase ones are so expensive, if only there was something you could use to write on paper that you could erase"

imagine

imagine if such a thing existed

✏️🫠

Digital illustration of Resimus and Oyan arguing.

"Recreational Arguing"

After a tense few weeks in deep space the crew of the Guillemot spend some very much needed time apart.

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To be fair, I don't think Óli can handle *anything* without falling into absolute dramatics. It'd be more accurate to say they have occasional bouts of short-lived level-headededness 😂

As always, if you love the show, please share it! Word of mouth is the only way we advertise, so tell a friend, leave a review, or make a post on social media to help spread the word 🥰

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How should the Traveller spend their time? - Click to view on Ko-fi Monstrous Productions added a poll for monthly subscribers!

This episode includes an audience decision. The Traveller needs to find something to kill the time on Albothi Station. Would you rather they went to a sporting event or to the theatre? ⚽🎭

Voting closes at 12 noon UK time on Tuesday 3rd and the result will be revealed in Episode 74 🗳️💕

submissions — Monstrous Productions

This week’s entry was based on an idea by August Thevoldsoy 💇 It was illustrated by our fabulous co-creator, @diabeticspoon92.bsky.social

This is the final arc of Season 2 - if you want to hear your ideas in the show before the finale, get them in to us now via email, social media or the website!

A digital drawing of the entrance to a building on a space station with light-up signs directing passers-by inside.

✨Episode 73 - Decision Episode!✨

The Guillemot finally arrives in the Tilfar system; and the Traveller discovers a salon offering its clients a fresh start…

Plus an audience decision - details below! 🗳️⬇️

Subscribe now wherever you get your podcasts, and find a full transcript via the show-notes🚀✨

coming back to TL after a break every time like "who is this Trangler and why are they obsessed with Oil?"

Travelling Light is back this Friday, you caught up yet?

let me SEE!!

while the cat's* away** the mice*** will play****

*matthew
**at his mammy's birthday do in donegal
***me
****close the bathroom window and have the big light on in the living room

For more Hearthbound, give @jochiang.bsky.social a follow - the show's outrageously multitalented creator 😍

We LOVED having Audrey as one of our guest voices for this season — and if you haven’t heard The Heart Pyre, you’re missing OUT!
And don’t forget to listen to the newest episode of Syntax if you haven’t!

Stray Lungs | Hearthbound Telling stories a little slant.

I think TL fans will particularly love Hearthbound as it embraces the very best elements of hopepunk - not shying away from the dark, but refusing to be cowed by it ✨

Listen to Episode One: Telemachus right now on the Travelling Light feed, or search for Hearthbound wherever you get your podcasts!

The Hearthbound logo - the name of the show background of assorted objects on a wooden table, including a carabiner with car keys and a pen knife - edited to look like Travelling Light art

For the second week of our break, we're sharing the first episode of Hearthbound, a musical reimagining of the Odyssey!

Hearthbound is a 10-episode folk musical set across a post-apocalyptic Great Basin. It's a road trip, a queer love story, and a ballad for ecological restoration 🍃💕

a photo of a cat sitting in front of a TV playing When Harry Met Sally

perfect valentines activity 😍🌹

(matthew not pictured)

Deep Space Radio is perfect for fans of Welcome to Night Vale and Star Trek – or Travelling Light! It even has an interactive element, where you can roleplay with ther passengers on the show’s Discord.

For sci-fi hijinks with a big heart, check out Deep Space Radio wherever you get your podcasts 🚀✨

The Deep Space Radio logo - the name of the show against a galaxy background with a light-skinned man wearing headphones and leaning into a radio microphone - edited to look like Travelling Light art

To tide you over during our break, we’re running a feed drop for Deep Space Radio, a podcast that captures the daily news broadcasts of a colony ship as it plunges through the depths of space!

Today we’re sharing their first arc, The Artifact, in which the crew encounter a mysterious object…

Don't forget folks - there is less than one week to go until the listening party for Article 2: The Forever Wake kicks off!

We can't wait for series 2 of The Bad Articles!

QR code for joining the Discord server can be found here.

Open to all, brave enough to join!

This consultation closes tonight at midnight so do please get your responses in if you can!

Digital illustration of a small animal figure whittled into some wood.

Dinner?

In the most recent episode, the Traveller and Scarry go out for dinner and talk about their situationship.

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The Podcaster’s Dilemma Lately, I’ve been doing a lot of soul searching, and very little writing. It focussed mostly around my activity as a podcaster…

I just published The Podcaster’s Dilemma medium.com/p/the-podcas...

Finally, remember – every recommendation helps us grow our audience, which in turn helps us to keep making the show! Tell a friend, post on your socials, whatever you want to do to spread the word 💕

🚀✨ See you soon! ✨🚀

We’re coming into the home stretch for Season 2 but before we start the last arc, we need a wee break! We’ll be taking two weeks off, as usual, and will be back on February 27th. In the meantime, you can talk to us on social media or get in touch via the website.

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submissions — Monstrous Productions

This week’s entry to the archives was based on an idea by Matthew Walker, and was illustrated by our home-grown Matthew @diabeticspoon92.bsky.social 🎨

If you’ve got a person or a culture you’d like the Traveller to encounter, send it in by social media, via email or through the website.

A digital drawing of large spaceship that looks like a block of flats, with illuminated windows and coloured marks all over the hull.

✨Travelling Light - Episode 72✨

A culture where repair work takes on spiritual meaning; and the Traveller and Scarry go out for dinner…

Plus the reveal of last episode's audience vote!

Subscribe now wherever you get your podcasts, and find a full transcript via the show-notes🚀✨

A graphic of an alien wearing a ceremonial mitre and standing on a tiny planet. The text reasd, "Exploring religion in Sci-Fi Fantasy"

For this week’s blog, I thought I’d dig a bit more deeply into a topic close to my heart - the portrayal of religion and religious characters in science fiction and fantasy 👽🙏

Read it now on our Ko-Fi - link in bio! 🔗

I like to think they just love their granny so much, it didn't occur to them that genetics had anything to do with it. "but thats my gramma!!"

A screenshot of a podcast transcript that reads, "Little wonder the Cenit are so averse to wasting time. I have since done the calculations. Giving myself a life expectancy of 96 – not unreasonable, given my grandmother’s longevity – then to Bayske, a day speaking to me would be the equivalent of my spending a month and a half in conversation."

tfw you go back to your own work and realise a future decision to make your protagonist an adoptee means a previous line makes them sound like an absolute numpty