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Merely 🦇 Matt

@merelymatt.bsky.social

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I make I Need A Miracle, a divine audio drama, and Merely Roleplayers, a podcast where theatrical people play roleplaying games. Find me at www.foggyoutline.com

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Merely 🦇 Matt @merelymatt.bsky.social · Jan 6

I write audio drama, like the award-finalist I NEED A MIRACLE produced last year by @wirelesstheatre.bsky.social, where each episode is a prayer, some prayers are answered, and a granted prayer can upend the world.

www.foggyoutline.com/ineedamiracle

I Need A Miracle, an original audio drama podcast — Foggy Outline

Each episode a prayer; some prayers are granted; a prayer granted can upend the world. Featuring Annette Badland and Patrick McKenzie, and produced by multi-award winning Wireless Theatre.

www.foggyoutline.com

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Flloyd Kennedy Thunder’s Mouth Theatre @flloydwith2ells.bsky.social · 1d

Characters of both podcasts come together at Helen’s favourite hangout. She expects to enjoy a quiet pastrami sandwich when participants of Caroline’s latest online cookery class arrive for an in-person meetup with their chef tutor Margot. What could possibly go wrong? #Hubfest #podcast #livereading

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Merely 🦇 Matt @merelymatt.bsky.social · 3h

This RULES

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Live show tix also get you in to see BEYOND SHAKESPEARE, AM I OLD YET?, INSPECTOR MURDER INSPECTS, and Audio Drama Done (Dashingly Quirky) Quick! All that and I NEED A MIRACLE for a tenner.

For event updates follow @audiodramahub.bsky.social

Merely 🦇 Matt @merelymatt.bsky.social · 3h

Come see the first ever I NEED A MIRACLE live show!

Bonus – it's the first ep that's not a monologue!

Individual miracles wrecked up the world plenty enough in season 1. What happens when two miracles collide?

Tix: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/audio-dram...

Audio Drama Hubfest 2025 itinerary. Riverside Club, High Wycombe, 1 November, 10:30 to 21:30. Main Room: 10:30 keynote speakers, 11:05 speed networking, 11:40 voice actor comedy workshop, 12:30 voice acting panel, 14:30 physical voice acting with Susie Riddell of The Archers, 15:25 competition judging, 16:00 game voice masterclass with Harry Myers, 17:00 worldwide voice acting chat, 18:45 live shows - Audio Drama Done Dashingly Quirky Quick, I Need A Miracle, Baked Off/Am I Old Yet, Beyond Shakespeare, Inspector Murder Inspects, 21:30 event end. Workshop room sponsored by Wireless Theatre, Rusty Quill and The Podcast Host: 11:05 sedate speed networking, 12:15 finding character voices with Flloyd Kennedy, 13:15 auditioning 101, 14:15 beginner remote recording with Fiona Thraille and Sarah Golding, 15:15 directing and acting masterclass with Nicolette Chin, 16:15 improvised and creature voices for actual plays with Jess Jewell, 17:15 horror voice acting masterclass with Erika Sanderson. Tickets now £40, £30 in person, £25 live stream, £10 after 6pm for live shows and £10 for workshops.

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NZ Web Fest @nzwebfest.co.nz · 1d

Who’s nominated for our award for BEST WRITING, FICTION PODCAST?

Good luck to them all!

🎧🤞🎉🤞🎧

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Merely 🦇 Matt @merelymatt.bsky.social · 1d

This evening, I have been mostly reading my own work out loud

Jesse from the Fast Show coming out of his shed to tell us what he has been mostly doing

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ONSTAGE
28 Oct: Act 1
11 Nov: Act 2
25 Nov: Act 3

BACKSTAGE
4 Nov: Character creation
18 Nov: Altars
2 Dec: Talkback

Merely 🦇 Matt @merelymatt.bsky.social · 5d

Coming soon.

Starring @thesiltverses.bsky.social' own @martadasilva.bsky.social and @sassylich.bsky.social, and RPG horror pro @fkth.bsky.social.

A god must feed. What do you do when it's your decision who to feed to it?

Merely Roleplayers Studio: It Feeds on Fire, an actual play of The Silt Verses RPG

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Merely 🦇 Matt @merelymatt.bsky.social · 1d

The first I NEED A MIRACLE live show is at @audiodramahub.bsky.social Hubfest on 1 November! You can get tickets for the whole day or just for the live shows in the evening

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/audio-dram...

The full Audio Drama Hubfest 2025 itinerary, including I Need A Miracle listed as one of the Live Shows from 18:45 to 21:15

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Merely 🦇 Matt @merelymatt.bsky.social · 1d

Introduce yourself using only one food you refuse to eat, one movie you’ll never watch again, and one song you can’t stand

Scrambled eggs
Star Wars Episode IX: The Rise of Skywalker
Jump Around – House of Pain

I had the song and movie locked immediately but had to really think about the food!

Emily Inkpen @emilyinkpen.bsky.social · 1d

Introduce yourself using only one food you refuse to eat, one movie you’ll never watch again, and one song you can’t stand

Octopus
That terrible War of the Worlds with Ice Cube
Wonderwall

Doctor Logic @saraluckelman.bsky.social · 1d

Introduce yourself using only one food you refuse to eat, one movie you’ll never watch again, and one song you can’t stand

Potatoes
Requiem for a Dream
The Entertainer by Scott Joplin

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 18d

Waiting for Godot: The Hunt for Godot is the recently announced newest installment of the Godotverse. The long awaited sidequel follows Godot's adventures during the events of the original play.

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satah @posatahchips.gaygothvibes.online · 3d

when folio becomes the biggest actual play podcast of all time i'm going to do an art installation in union station like the humans of new york guy is doing in central station but instead of portraits it's ten metre tall prints of the unique wave forms of every guest i've ever had saying "um"

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Merely 🦇 Matt @merelymatt.bsky.social · 3d

Hidden movement games all need a contingency rule for how you keep the game going as designed after you fuck up and accidentally give yourself away, like by putting your movement card face up by accident, for example

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Whaaat?? 😆🎉☠️

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David Blandy makes games sometimes @davidblandyrpgs.bsky.social · 3d

Multi-purpose point-crawls. Might be handy for your game this evening

open.substack.com/pub/davidbla...

Multi-purpose Maps

Need a map for your game tonight, but run out of time/spoons?

open.substack.com

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Merely 🦇 Matt @merelymatt.bsky.social · 4d

Categories are not vacuum-walled strongboxes that keep like things in and unlike things out. The walls are more like outlines. Outlines that you could describe as somewhat ... foggy. www.meditationsinanemergency.com/categories-a...

Categories Are Leaky (Over-Generalizations are Dangerous)

Many people seem to love sweeping generalizations. Not all people, but lots of people I come across trying to discuss the politics of our time fall back on pretending that a category of people is homo...

www.meditationsinanemergency.com

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 4d

A billion dollars is the socio-political equivalent of a loose nuke, and we should work as ruthlessly and diligently to prevent the acquisition of the former as we do the latter.

Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 4d

“The problem with billionaires isn’t that they’re hoarding money that would otherwise pay for a Scandinavian social utopia. It’s that their money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.”

Billionaires Are Hoarding Power, Not Money

Billionaire money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.

www.liberalcurrents.com

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 5d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcc.bsky.social · 5d

Higgledy piggledy
Timothée Chalamet
Has a name meriting
Endless design

Much like his forerunner
Benedict Cumberbatch:
Hexasyllabically,
Easy to rhyme

tweet from childish branzino @absflora:
timothée chalamet is the new benedict cumberbatch in the sense that you can say ANYTHING and we know who you mean. tiffany chevrolet. timpanogos charlemagne. symphony cabernet. jiminy castaway.

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The Midnight Society @midnightpals.bsky.social · 5d

Patricia Highsmith: don't worry steve, i'll get to the bottom of this
King: oh thank goodness
Highsmith: of course, to prove your innocence
Highsmith: i'll have to extensively interview all of elon's hot widows

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Merely 🦇 Matt @merelymatt.bsky.social · 5d

AS IF you needed wrangling to charge directly into the maw of The Horrors!

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Fiona K.T. Howat @fkth.bsky.social · 5d

This was so much fun to do! 💜 @merelymatt.bsky.social was brilliant at wrangling us despite our best efforts!

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Mike Harrison-Wood @mikeharrisonwood.bsky.social · 5d

Role announcement!

I play as Clive Donahue (narrator and protagonist) in Paraspective, a free to play visual novel!

Without saying too much it involves some awesome meta-narrative stuff that keeps you on your toes and leads to the "true" ending. Can you find it?

housewrennt.itch.io/paraspective

Paraspective by housewrennt

What if you were the monster?

housewrennt.itch.io

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Merely 🦇 Matt @merelymatt.bsky.social · 5d

Thank you, I appreciate it!

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Trans+ Solidarity Alliance @transsolidarity.bsky.social · 28d

The EHRC guidance is unworkable for business.

Signatories include Ben & Jerry's, Lush, Lucy & Yak and hundreds of large and small businesses across the country

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

Hundreds of firms warn new draft guidance on single sex spaces is ‘unworkable’

Exclusive: More than 650 organisations have urged Bridget Phillipson to ‘take immediate action to prevent these proposals from moving forward’

www.independent.co.uk

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