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Eira Major, Hanging Sloth
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Eira Major. Creator of multi-award-winning audio drama. Now releasing Remnants & Twelvelms. Made Not Quite Dead, Spirit Box Radio & Clockwork Bird. (he/him)🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿
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Eira Major, Hanging Sloth @hangingsloth.bsky.social · Oct 22
I'm currently releasing two shows. The Twelvelms Conspiracy is brand new for 2025, a dark fantasy mystery centring around a magical university; Twelvelms. Remnants, a dark fantasy thriller, has just come back for its second season, set in a strange netherworld filled with the remnants of the dead.
The cover art for both Ther Twelvelms Conspiracy and Remnants. Twelvelms' cover is depp purple covered in swirly, lighter shades. The pattern is broken by the outline of a tree whose branches mirror its roots. At the top of the cover it says 'Mischief, mayhem, madness, magic', and the show's title is in the centre, over the tree. The remnants artwork has a warm dark blue background, decorated with a pattern made of repeated images of a moth, in warm rust red. Several of the moths are pale blue and upside down, covered in dust. In the centre of the pattern is a gap, in which it says 'remnants, an audio drama by eira major'
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hangingsloth.bsky.social
Yesterday, the 39th episode of Remnants went live. The first ten episodes of Season Two have been building up to something. Episode 39 opens the door; episode 40 lets it inside.
Remnants, episode thirty-nine: Empty Canvas. On a dark blue background, repeated images of a blank canvas on an easel, each one almost touching the others, rendered in warm red. One image is larger, flipped the opposite way to the others, in pale blue, emerging from a cloud of dust. Remnants, episode forty: Dripping Paint. On a dark blue background, splatters of pale blue paint. Across one corner, the splatters are more deliberate and rendered in warm red.
December 9, 2025 at 5:00 AM
hangingsloth.bsky.social
Yesterday, the 39th episode of Remnants went live. The first ten episodes of Season Two have been building up to something. Episode 39 opens the door; episode 40 lets it inside.
Remnants, episode thirty-nine: Empty Canvas. On a dark blue background, repeated images of a blank canvas on an easel, each one almost touching the others, rendered in warm red. One image is larger, flipped the opposite way to the others, in pale blue, emerging from a cloud of dust. Remnants, episode forty: Dripping Paint. On a dark blue background, splatters of pale blue paint. Across one corner, the splatters are more deliberate and rendered in warm red.
December 9, 2025 at 5:00 AM
hangingsloth.bsky.social
This episode is now live wherever you listen to podcasts!!
hangingsloth.bsky.social Eira Major, Hanging Sloth @hangingsloth.bsky.social · 4d
Patreon folks just got Early Access to Remnants 39: Empty Canvas!

This one is really fun to me, despite having some really grim moments. There's some complicated tangles in the mystery happening.

Sign up for £2pcm to listen right now! www.patreon.com/posts/early-...

Or wait until Monday 💞
Remnants, episode thirty-nine: Empty. On a dark blue background, repeated images of a blank canvas on an easel, each one almost touching the others, rendered in warm red. One image is larger, flipped the opposite way to the others, in pale blue, emerging from a cloud of dust.
December 8, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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aimeekitty.bsky.social
Remember your favorite creator possibly might be struggling with imposter syndrome and doubt and this timeline sucks.. so if you find yourself thinking “wow I really relate to this persons work” or that persons work gives you joy, you should probably tell them. It’s a hard time to be a creative.
November 26, 2025 at 6:57 AM
hangingsloth.bsky.social
the thing about seals, right, is that they sound like a person doing an impression of a seal. they just sound like that. this is part of why the selkie myth exists in the first place; they sound like people laughing or crying or shouting.
December 6, 2025 at 11:13 AM
hangingsloth.bsky.social
This episode is actually another one of two, of sorts, and will be followed by its twin in a week's time 👀
hangingsloth.bsky.social Eira Major, Hanging Sloth @hangingsloth.bsky.social · 4d
Patreon folks just got Early Access to Remnants 39: Empty Canvas!

This one is really fun to me, despite having some really grim moments. There's some complicated tangles in the mystery happening.

Sign up for £2pcm to listen right now! www.patreon.com/posts/early-...

Or wait until Monday 💞
Remnants, episode thirty-nine: Empty. On a dark blue background, repeated images of a blank canvas on an easel, each one almost touching the others, rendered in warm red. One image is larger, flipped the opposite way to the others, in pale blue, emerging from a cloud of dust.
December 5, 2025 at 8:04 PM
hangingsloth.bsky.social
Patreon folks just got Early Access to Remnants 39: Empty Canvas!

This one is really fun to me, despite having some really grim moments. There's some complicated tangles in the mystery happening.

Sign up for £2pcm to listen right now! www.patreon.com/posts/early-...

Or wait until Monday 💞
Remnants, episode thirty-nine: Empty. On a dark blue background, repeated images of a blank canvas on an easel, each one almost touching the others, rendered in warm red. One image is larger, flipped the opposite way to the others, in pale blue, emerging from a cloud of dust.
December 5, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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brendelbored.bsky.social
I’ve sometimes fallen into the trap of thinking that complementing a creative person for their work is less sophisticated or desired than discussion or debate about it but very often the best thing you can say to them is hell yeah and that doesn’t make you dumb it just makes you nice
December 4, 2025 at 3:05 AM
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sushifox.bsky.social
Some wrapped highlights including @malevolent.ca deservedly on top, the day I listened to give me away for 8 hours straight, and 156 genres??
Also Remnants by @hangingsloth.bsky.social is only not higher because it has fewer episodes and TMA by @rustyquill.com is the one I've listened to the longest
Top five podcasts: 1. Malevolent 2. Give Me Away 3. The Magnus Archives 4. How i Died 5. Remnants: An Audio Drama Text reads: Biggest podcast listening day, Jan 19, 2025 The day you let "Give Me Away" fill every silence from dawn to dusk From the first notes of "episode 0106: this is my home" in the morning to the late night twists of "ep 0206: in these bodies, in this life", you spent the entire day in the world of give me away. 518 minutes, 20 episodes, 1 podcast-your most podcast-immersed day of the year, eclipsing even your annual top show. Text reads: taste like yours can't be defined. But let's try anyway. You listened to 156 genres.
December 3, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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yamikakyuu.bsky.social
I switched platforms for podcasts so this is significantly down from previous years. Also TMA being my top show, is it 2020 again? (Absolutely it's for Protocal).
@rustyquill.com @hangingsloth.bsky.social @thehallowoods.bsky.social @224bbaker.bsky.social
December 3, 2025 at 4:50 PM
hangingsloth.bsky.social
wait oh my GOD??!?!?! Twelvelms is ranking on Listen Notes and THERE ARE ONLY FOUR EPISODES OUT

thanks for all the love you've all been giving this show already, my mind is slightly blown ngl
screenshot of the listen notes page for 'The Twelvelms Conspiracy', showing a rank of 24 and that it is in the top 10% of shows world wide
December 2, 2025 at 7:02 PM
hangingsloth.bsky.social
Twelvelms Tuesday #11

This week, we're expanding on something discussed in Episode 4: familiars.

These animals are magically bound to mages, and there are specific cultural significances to it, plus intense ethical debates. This overview adds to, rather than speaks past, Episode 4's insights.
FAMILIARS A familiar is an animal magically bonded to a mage. The kind of magic that joins the two is called 'interscission', and involves the magical cutting and sewing of the souls of both the animal and the mage so that they function as two distinct parts within a larger whole. The ethics of binding an animal who is incapable of self-advocacy to a mage have been hotly debated in recent years, but the practise is still widespread, particularly amongst mages with influence and power. The benefits of having a familiar include an increased amount of magical energy at your disposal, a trusted companion, and the ability to send your familiar as a representative to important events and locations, freeing up your time to focus on other pursuits. Most familiars are purpose-bred to have a larger-than-normal capacity for magical energy. It is possible to have more than one familiar but this can become difficult to manage emotionally, particularly where familiars of several differing species are concerned, as a degree of empathic leakage is guaranteed between mages and thier familiars.
December 2, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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alexyquest.bsky.social
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specawards.bsky.social Small Spec Book Awards @specawards.bsky.social · 8d
The winner in the sci-fi category for the 2025 Small Spec Book Awards is EMPRESS OF DUST by @alexyquest.bsky.social (@wctracy.bsky.social)!

#SSBA #SSBA2025
Sci-fi winner: EMPRESS OF DUST by Alex Kingsley. The image is of the EMPRESS OF DUST book cover against a space background.
December 1, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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hangingsloth.bsky.social
looking for a new show to listen to?
the words 'why you (yes you) should listen to' with an arrown pointing to the coverart for Remnants: an audio drama. on the other side of the artwork it says 'a treatise by me (Eira)'
November 10, 2024 at 11:03 AM
hangingsloth.bsky.social
Oh damn, 150,000 downloads! Thanks so much for spending time with this show. It's wonderful that so many people have been so thoughtful about the sorts of questions Remnants wants to ask, and it's great to see how thoroughly people engage with this show's mysteries!
A large, pale blue moth with a skull over where it's head should be. The moth is facing down, but the skull is right-side up. Underneath, it says 'remnants, an audio drama by eira major. 150000 downloads'
December 1, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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bobbys-snacks.bsky.social
Happy #AudioDramaSunday again pals! #BobbysSnacks is back! I'm obsessed with the new @gabrielurbina.bsky.social digs (and not just because I helped make it), as well as @theameliaproject.bsky.social, @kingmakerpod.bsky.social, and @224bbaker.bsky.social:

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Bobby's Snacks Vol. 41: On & On (& On & On)
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April 14, 2025 at 12:24 AM
hangingsloth.bsky.social
Due to me being unwell, there's no new episode of Remnants on the feed this week, but you will get to hear the Apprentice reading a Shakespeare Monologue instead!

As it's 1st December, today is also Newsletter Day! Read it here by signing up as a free member!

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December 1, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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atypicalartists.co
IT’S THE FINAL COUNTDOWN!!!!!!!

We’re entering the last few days of the Phantom Pulse Kickstarter campaign. Now is the time to join the groupies and get loud!! www.kickstarter.com/projects/aty...
the phantom pulse zine cover page with the words THE FINAL COUNTDOWN and Ren, the frontman
December 1, 2025 at 3:48 AM
hangingsloth.bsky.social
‘Wilting’ is a good word for Lady Ottilie
vestaclinicpod.bsky.social The Vesta Clinic @vestaclinicpod.bsky.social · 9d
🪄 Twelvelms by @hangingsloth.bsky.social (4) Yeah, I listened to Twelvelms again, what are you going to do about it??? I think this relisten has really helped me grasp the lore in this ep and I’ve grown particularly fond of the wilting librarian we met towards the end 💙
November 30, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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hinaypod.bsky.social
Come by tomorrow if you're in #Toronto and love Queer Filipino monsters!
motzied.bsky.social Motzie Dapul @motzied.bsky.social · 17d
SEE YOU ALL NEXT SUNDAY MONSTER LOVERS!!!🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️😈

COME ON OVER AND GRAB YOURSELF A COPY OF OUR MONSTER ROMANCE COMICS BY FILIPINO ARTISTS!

#TorontoArtist #toronto #monsterfucker #monsterlover #queercomics
GLAD DAY LIT queer zine and local author book fair, SAVE THE DATE, SUNDAY NOV 30 12pm-6pm, 32 Lisgar CUTE MERCH, KEYCHAINS ENAMEL PINS STICKERS with images of Filipino monster merch HORROR STORIES COMIC NOVELLA STICKERS with images of a Filipino horror book, comic and stickers MONSTER ROMANCE COMICS KEYCHAINS ART PRINTS with images of the Pinoy Monster Romance Anthology comics
November 30, 2025 at 12:09 AM
hangingsloth.bsky.social
I am on day 8 of what I think is tonsillitis, and there is no Sir recorded yet for 39 which is the problem. As you can imagine, one cannot Sir when one has a sore throat. Alas, this means there will be no new episode of Remnants on Monday.
November 29, 2025 at 10:55 PM
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monstrouspod.bsky.social
Travelling Light just passed 80k total downloads!! Very proud of our wee show 🥰

If you're not listening yet, you're missing out on some seriously cosy science fantasy - think the gentleness of Monk & Robot crossed with Ursula Le Guin's anthropological vibes 👽✨

And if you ARE listening, thank you!!
A digital drawing of a bulky spaceship against a starry sky with the caption "80k listens"
November 28, 2025 at 12:38 PM
hangingsloth.bsky.social
The Q&A is now live wherever you listen to podcasts!
Blood-spattered image with the words 'Not Quite Dead: A show about vampires. Across the blood, it says 'Q&A'. A set of fangs emerges beneath.
November 27, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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gabrielurbina.com
I know it can feel a little trivial, but reviews and ratings really are the currency of the podcasting world.

They can be the difference between a new listener checking out the show or not, and they greatly impact which shows our robot overlords show to wanderers on the RSS roads.
November 27, 2025 at 3:49 PM
hangingsloth.bsky.social
today caught myself thinking the phrase 'he's a real vampire's vampire, you know'

dw I don't know what I mean either
November 25, 2025 at 8:08 PM