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Night Shift: An Urban Fantasy Audio Drama
Official blog for Night Shift: An Urban Fantasy Audio Drama. Sebastian Fen finds himself entangled in the mysteries and secrets of Echor City, a place where magic meets unstoppable scientific progress. Art by Bees and Stars and Agonethetic Art. Listen now at nightshiftpod.com!Grab some Night Shift merch!Support us on Patreon or Ko-Fi to help make Season 2!
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Today years old when I realised Styx from Night Shift is spelled like the river Styx and not like...he's just a bag of outraged sticks
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Don't know anyone here? Pick one and go listen!
Am I missing your favourite? Are they from a fantasy? Let me know!
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Dagger sharpens her nails and dips them in poison for special occasions
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Cameron Archer (Night Shift Pod) - 1/100
Biro on Rymans cheapest plain paper book - reference photo from Pinterest
12/13-Dec-2023
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Ember (Night Shift Pod) - 2/100
Biro on Rymans cheapest plain paper book - reference photo from Pinterest
15-19 Dec 2023
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HELOO NIGHT SHIF PODCAST LISTENERS I present to you as an offering a drawing of the way I see the beloved dilf.
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Here's some low-quality Night Shift memes/shitposts that I should've finished months ago when I had a stronger fixation but at least I got around to posting them :P
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Did I miss your favourite? Let me know!
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[ID: A digital illustration of Seymour "Quin" Sterling drinking wine on his balcony, from the fanfiction "sterling silver" by author veil touched and thriving. Seymour is seen from the belt up, his profile to the viewer, arms resting on the railing. The face of his skin is beige; his neck and arms are grey, uncovered by foundation. The makeup on his lips wore off, showing grey skin beneath. He looks into the void with a longing expression. Beside him, a messy handwriting quotes the first line from the fic: "Seymour Sterling could drop off the face of the Earth and no one would notice. He knew that because he did. [Chapter 1, verse 1]" Signed, Meaningless Mikhaïl. End ID.]
@veil-touched-rights-org is doing the Lord's work by writing about Quin, so go on and read sterling silver!
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Hi!
Are there any news regarding season 2? I keep circling back to the asked you answered in June, and just get really curious!
I hope everything goes smoothly on your side, and I look forward to hearing more of this story!
Wishing you a nice day.
Hey, thanks for asking!
I've been meaning to put something out about delays for a few weeks but I've been struggling to find the words and energy. Before I get into it I want to emphasize that these are only delays and I just need more time to complete season 2, which will still be coming as soon as I can get it done. Thank you so much to everyone who has been beautifully patient and remained excited about Season 2 even though I'm a couple of months behind what I predicted!
I won't go too deep into things, but I want to give at least some kind of explanation as to why I'm so behind on everything:
1. Serious illness in my family earlier this year threw off the schedule originally. I lost a good couple of months of productivity through Jan-March because between that and planning my wedding in April, the stress made me sick too. All is well now with both, but I've been struggling to get everything back on track since.
2. I've been promoted twice this year, which is great, but I'm busier and in a pretty intense senior role now that takes up most of my energy and brain power during the week. Last year when I wrote Season 1, I didn't have a full-time job, and I really didn't anticipate the difference.
3. Finally and foremost really, partly because of the points above, I'm struggling with some pretty serious burnout, and I've tried to push through it to finish writing but ultimately I know that's never effective.
Realistically I need to take some time to wind down from creating to recover, although the guilt of trying to get this second season made quickly enough is eating at me.
I'm really super sorry for the delays - it's nothing on the production end, everyone including me is still really enthused to get on with it, it's just that I've hit a huge wall creatively and mentally and the podcast is taking the brunt of it. I really want to get back on track as soon as possible, because I love this show and I want to see Season 2 come to life this year.
Any advice on what to do to get past the burnout and block is greatly appreciated.
And thank you again for everyone's patience, you're all superstars 💚
- J
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Hello!
I kept wondering, about Dagger's abilities, does she have to own an object first to tattoo it on herself or does she "create" objects that are inked on her skin?
For example, could she just continuously tattoo money on herself and never run out of cash?
And another thing! I noticed she had a moth tattoo, I didn't suppose her power applied to living creatures but does it? Or is it just a normal tattoo?
Thanks! Have a good day!
Hello there! I'm always more than happy to talk about my problematic daughter uwu
So Daggers tattoos aren't something she needs to own first, anything tattooed on her can be pulled out of her skin - however there are limitations!
Nothing with internal mechanisms! These items can be pulled from the skin however they will be more for show as without the working internal mechanisms they won't work!
No living creatures/animals, when pulled these instantly return to ink in her hands
Time limit! Each item pulled only lasts a small amount of time and if more items are pulled at once that decreases the overall time for all items. Eg, 1 item can last 4 hours, pulling out 4 items will reduce that time to 1 hour per item and so on. After the time limit is up, the items return to ink.
Size - all items will come out at the size it's tattood on with. So she cant try and save space by making items smaller.
All tattoos are permanent. Even when they're pulled the tattoo on her skin remains there, so she could technically hand out 6 of the same item to people from a single tattoo.
So the short answer is that she could make money, however it wouldn't last very long. Not that it would matter for her since she could just book it after paying and leave them with a mess on their hands!
There are plenty of trial and error tattoos on her body, like a handgun on her inner thigh which is just decoration or for show now. But her favourites are the dagger on her arm and a pair of knuckle dusters on her ribs so she can just reach around herself and pull them out in a quick movement.
I love her v much and I'm always willing to talk about my characters for Night Shift for hours so I hope this isn't too much of an answer for you!
-Ashe
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I posted the Seb and Styx writings 🍋 🥰 🍋
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This is Part 1 of a series of posts about moments in the Night Shift Podcast that made me pause/things that I look back on and have thoughts about (or just thoughts). I’m not planning on doing any kind of deep analysis here (though I’m sure I eventually will be doing that as well), as much as just highlighting some moments that for whatever reason stood out. This will be long, as its the entirety of the first episode.
I also want to be clear that there are spoilers throughout - I’ve also tagged as such. The general tag for this series will be "the veil opens", so watch for that!
All transcript portions pulled from the Night Shift web site (https://www.nightshiftpod.com/)
[Image ID: A portion of a Night Shift: An Urban Fantasy Audio Drama transcript that reads “[Audio cuts]”. End ID.]
Take this in, savor it, it will be a rare occurrence, as Seb has a lot of trouble turning off recorders, as you will later see.
[Image ID: A portion of a Night Shift: An Urban Fantasy Audio Drama transcript that reads: “My goal here, really, isn’t to prove anything. It’s just to talk about it.” End ID.]
Seb, baby, my dear, sweet man, stop lying to yourself.
All jokes aside, I have no doubts that Sebastian actually started with this mentality, at least sort of. Like wanting to talk about it with sources that weren’t exclusively bought out by Augur or state-owned, and as he did so his natural want to know and understand strengthened this into a more investigative thing. Then his goal wasn’t to prove anything specific as much as that something generally was wrong.
[Image ID: A portion of a Night Shift: An Urban Fantasy Audio Drama transcript that reads: “If you’re from Echor, you’ll also know a thing or two about ALPHAs. If you’re not, you’ve probably heard of them on the news or something. Augmented humanity, manufactured by the most progressive - and impressive - scientific minds in the United States.” End ID.]
It’s actually wild that this was the least shady thing going on here. Like, the super soldier genetic engineering program was fine, in the face of everything else. I remember hearing this and being like “that must be a controversial program” and it just wasn’t. Thinking it was weird was the controversial opinion and a rare one.
[Image ID: A portion of a Night Shift: An Urban Fantasy Audio Drama transcript that reads: “Of course they’d say that. Augur are responsible for creating these genetically engineered freaks.” End ID.]
Sebastian, I have some news for you, about your genes.
[Image ID: A portion of a Night Shift: An Urban Fantasy Audio Drama transcript that reads: “North: Well, I think it’ll be good for you anyway. Something to channel all that energy into. Even if Feldman’s a creep. Sorry - is he going to listen to this? Actually, I don’t care. He’s a creep and he should know it. So, how many shots of espresso do you think I can drink before I see God?” End ID.]
I don’t actually have anything to say other than that I love them. Adair North is a treasure who is doing their best, even if they’ve bought the corporate propaganda. In their defense, it seems that not doing so is an even bigger rarity in Echor than in our world.
[Image ID: A portion of a Night Shift: An Urban Fantasy Audio Drama transcript that reads: “Sebastian: I don’t really like the idea of being experimented on for science. End ID.]
This, my friends, is what we call foreshadowing (or just an unfortunate coincidence).
[Image ID: A portion of a Night Shift: An Urban Fantasy Audio Drama transcript that reads: “Sebastian: It’s Friday night, about 1am. The shop is empty as usual. Who wants coffee on a Friday after midnight? Still it pays the bills.” End ID].
Me. I want coffee on a Friday after midnight.
[Image ID: A portion of a Night Shift: An Urban Fantasy Audio Drama transcript that reads: “preternatural”. End ID.]
This sounds like a joke but I did actually pause this here because I LOVE the word preternatural. Like, I sat for a minute happy that this word was here. I’m not sure why I like this word so much, but hearing it so early on probably helped with how much this podcast dug its way into my heart.
[Image ID: A portion of a Night Shift: An Urban Fantasy Audio Drama transcript that reads: I understand what you’re asking here - the answer is yes. It would be possible. Theoretically, it would be easy. I’m sure you’ve heard stories of the incredible feats people can pull off in life or death situations, right? How people can survive climbing down mountains with broken legs or wrestle a polar bear to save their children? It’s called Hysterical Strength, and it happens in extreme situations when there’s just the right cocktail of cortisol, adrenaline, and endorphins. Humans only use a fraction of our maximum theoretical strength and our bodies naturally conserve energy, not waste it. In most cases, pain and fatigue keep us from reaching our max potential to prevent injury, but when those aren’t a factor, anyone could - again theoretically - run at intense speed or lift an unnatural amount of weight. It’s entirely possible that a drug could be developed that would replicate the physical conditions to set off” End ID].
[Image ID: A portion of a Night Shift: An Urban Fantasy Audio Drama transcript that reads: Hysterical Strength. Although, it's never been replicated in a lab on public record, so it still seems unlikely. End ID.]
So, I’m mostly highlighting this to talk about how much I love the way Night Shift grounded itself in reality. (Briefly I also want to praise it for both clearly branding itself as fictional, and making itself obviously fictional as things move on. There have definitely been some podcasts in this style that I had to stop listening to because it messed with my head, and I think this made it much more accessible than it would otherwise be.) Hysterical strength is a very real thing, it really exists in our very real world! And while the specifics of genetics don’t match, the idea of things in our environment altering us in ways we don’t get, and genes being unexplainable also pulls from science in a grounded way. (I personally, have a genetic mutation that is not super understood that does things to me that aren’t entirely understood - unfortunately none of that include preternatural abilities.)
It does a lot to make this show more understandable, as it means that there is more of a base for what’s new, and not explained by the podcast (as it's assumed to be understood by the in-world listeners.) It makes urban fantasy work so so so well!
[Image ID: A portion of a Night Shift: An Urban Fantasy Audio Drama transcript that reads: “augmentation programs, and I’m inclined to believe it. It’s been more than two centuries since widespread magic died out. What remains is little more than the echoes of hereditary powers, and that’s limited to a fraction of our population. End ID.]
When I tell you I gasped. Firstly, this is new for the Urban Fantasy I’ve encountered. The idea that the magic of this world is largely inconsequential now? Again, a moment that got me hooked - how would they compensate for that (amazingly as it turns out). Around here is also when I decided that when I was recommending it to people, I was going to call it “Urban Fantasy with a Sci-Fi flair”.
[Image ID: A portion of a Night Shift: An Urban Fantasy Audio Drama transcript that reads: “Sebastian: This was an interview with Volta earlier this year after CEO Wesley Hastings announced the ‘Alpha Prime’ initiative. This initiative intends to see an ALPHA Prime, aka an ALPHA with superior powers like…generating fire and camouflaging into their environment, placed in law enforcement in every capital city in the United States in the next ten years. As usual, Volta was the poster boy for the project.” End ID]
The impersonal nature and derision of how he approaches Angelo is almost startling after finishing the first season to be honest - but all relationships start somewhere, and the way their relationship grows is great. More importantly than my character/relationship/ship musings is the terror that I have with the idea of every police force having a super soldier who can set me on fire. It effectively set me up to distrust Augur, even more than everything else//
[Image ID: A portion of a Night Shift: An Urban Fantasy Audio Drama transcript that reads: “Sebastian: Never underestimate my ability to stick to a useless task. That is my superpower. End ID.]
Sure it is, buddy. The only one too, I’m sure.
[Image ID: A portion of a Night Shift: An Urban Fantasy Audio Drama transcript that reads: “North: My opinion on ALPHA is… that they’re hot. If you’re an ALPHA you’re hot. It’s like a given, you know?” End ID.]
Look, they're right, right? Like, I’m an asexual lesbian so it's probably a different kind of hot for me than most, but like, they have to be right, at least for the most part. I think that if I saw Lea Parish in real life there’d be a minute where that was on my brain almost exclusively..
(I will say that I think I’d have more thoughts on ALPHA than that, because like, the idea of them is fishy at the very best, but it’d almost definitely be on my mind somewhere.
[Image ID: A portion of a Night Shift: An Urban Fantasy Audio Drama transcript that reads: “What’s not to love anyway? Augur is the future. One day I’ll be living in my smart home, with my smartwatch and my A.I. assistant taking care of everything so I can live a carefree lids in the lap of luxury, and you’ll be grumpy and alone in your tinfoil hat scrounging for dinner in a dumpster. You’ll see.” End ID.]
There is so much not to love about this. Dystopian image of a future, to me. I get why some stuff gets smart/automated (disability reasons mostly), but my whole home absolutely will not be.
[Image ID: A portion of a Night Shift: An Urban Fantasy Audio Drama transcript that reads: “In a simple sense, I don’t agree with any private entity holding as much power as Augur does. Yes - they are the very heart of technological progress, and I don’t begrudge progress by any means - but they also have a chokehold on energy, healthcare, housing… Even balancing their grip on ths country with charity work and initiatives to help people in need, it wouldn’t be a stretch to imagine they’re holding puppet strings in the government.” End ID.]
Seb is so real for this one, actually. I love his anti-corporate sentiments almost as much as I love everything else about him.
[Image ID: A portion of a Night Shift: An Urban Fantasy Audio Drama transcript that reads: “[Sound: Footsteps walking away, stopping] North: Oh Seb? No, he’s really busy right now.] End ID.]
People looking specifically for Sebastian are such great moments!! Especially because at this point it's not because of the podcast, you know? Like whoever this is just wanted to see or talk to him just to do so. The guy is so so good at endearing himself to people and it makes me sad that he doesn’t know that.
[Image ID: A portion of a Night Shift: An Urban Fantasy Audio Drama transcript that reads: “Sebastian: I’ve been investigating some rumors about your ALPHA program? And about a street drug called Hunter that supposedly gives users temporary abilities like ALPHAs have? I found some leads, but it gave me more questions than answers, and I thought for clarity I could speak to… [Silence] You know what, never mind. Sorry to bother you. Angelo: Mr. Fen. Sebastian: Huh? Angelo: Take a seat.” End ID].
This will probably get its own post at some point because I have what those in the industry call thoughts about this. Like, okay, firstly the establishment of Seb as someone with all the audacity on this planet, who will go up to someone who is on their break and just ask to interview them is great. Then, Angelo just being willing to talk to this amateur reporter on said break, especially with what we know, also great.
There are ideas about parallels floating vaguely in my brain that I’m excited to delve into.
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And that is all for this post!! I hope that you enjoyed this long post and dive into this episode, and that you stick around for the next one!! Enjoy your coffee, get some sleep, and remember that the veil touched are just people.
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About Sex new chapter! Now WITHOUT SEX!
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Reading @green-eyes-and-orange-ties' ficlet Sunday Mornings had me needing to write, on the other hand, about Friday Evenings.
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💖😭 thank you so much for your kind words!!! We can’t wait to finish up work on s2 for you too!!!
I can't actually articulate how I feel about night shift I live it so much. like when I try to I just start making squeaky toy noises bc I'm too excited. please please listen to it, I'm only like 7 episodes in but the world is amazing and the narrarator (Sebastian Fen) is incredible and so are all the others. they all have complex lives and it's so cool to see how that impacts what they do and it's urban fantasy and this is the part where I start squeaking
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