The third and final part of the NQD S3 Q&A! I talk about voice acting and performance, sound, and answer some more personal questions about my relationship with the show. Plus, there's an announcement at the end!

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Part Two of the Season Three Q&A covers questions about research, writing, inspiration and Alfie!

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Part One of the Season Three Q&A covers questions about vampire biology and also about everyone's favourite Not Quite French vampire, Neige!

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Alfie and Neige meet in sanctuary. Tensions are high as they attempt to navigate the new topographies of their relationship and the context they exist in. The Halloween Special

Transcript: https://hangingslothstudios.com/nqd-41/

Or: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1eL1U_sAxj3z10UjYQ_0DS56H7RYXHhj2mYlFNWN0ndY/edit?tab=t.0

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Episode Content Warnings

Please bear in mind that this show is a work of horror fiction and frequently places characters in situations which jeopardise their psychological and physical health. This episode contains:

• References to murder
• References to severe injury
• Mentions of blood and blood drinking
• Discussions of sex
• Depictions and discussions of grieving a loved one
• Emotional manipulation
• Implications of sexual conduct
• Use of sex and sexual acts as a coercive/argumentative tactic

Not Quite Dead is written, created and performed by Eira Major, under a creative commons 4.0 attribution license, and this is the end of season three. I couldn’t make this show without the incredible support of my contributors over on Patreon. Without you none of this would have happened, thank you so much for helping make this possible. I make this show for you, the listeners, and it means the world that you tune in to listen to it. Thank you so much for coming with me on this journey. I look forward to bringing you Season 4 in 2025. Until then, live, laugh, bite.

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Hey folks! Something a bit different this week. Last year, I got quite a lot of interest in the idea of me talking about my relationship with existing vampire media, queer readings of those vampires, and how those things contributed to the creation of Not Quite Dead. Mild Spoiler Warnings for Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Twilight, Dracula, Interview with the Vampire and Underworld. Based Vampirification is me discussing the various pieces of vampire media that set me down the path which would eventually lead to the conception of Not Quite Dead. It involves tenuous leaps, stretched interpretations and deeply personal readings of the texts in question, all informed by many years of academic literary study and not-so-academic vampire brain rot.

Transcript available here: https://hangingslothstudios.com/based-vampirification/

Or here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1AZ0aYTVZ9j_FL1OBoNQAlfWUoPsPQxAAKaYqssHe_Ns/edit

If you're intrigued to take a slightly more scholarly jaunt into this subject matter, here are some things which I think make for a great jumping off point. There's a range of things listed here, including a fun video essay, some non-academic articles and an academic paper:

• ‘The trail of blood : queer history through vampire literature’ https://louis.uah.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1220&context=uah-theses
• ‘Vampires Are Us’ https://glreview.org/article/vampires-are-us/
• ‘Closet and Coffins: The Queer-Coded History of Vampires and Representation’ https://ohiofusion.com/closet-and-coffins-the-queer-coded-history-of-vampires-and-representation/
• ‘Vampiric Seduction and Vicissitudes of Masculine Identity in Bram Stoker’s Dracula’ https://www.jstor.org/stable/40347238 
• ‘Twilight’ (a video essay) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqloPw5wp48

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Hi everyone! It’s Eira here, creator of the show and voice of both Alfie and Neige! I’m planning a Season 3 Q&A, and I’m really excited about it. I have some questions left over from the last Q&A which I didn’t get chance to answer last time, and I’m actively seeking out more! You can send your questions using the form you can find at https://hangingslothstudios.com/qna, that’s hangingslothstudios.com/ the letters ‘Q', 'N', 'A’.

You don’t have to put your name on the form, you can just put ‘anon’ or a nickname there if you’d prefer. Please note that it may not be possible for me to answer every question I receive, though I’ll do my best to answer as many as possible. If you have multiple questions, feel free to group them together, or send them separately. There is no upper limit on the number of questions you can ask.

And one more time, you can send your questions from hangingslothstudios.com/qna.

There’s a link in the notes for this episode, too, and it’ll be posted across all social media. Looking forward to answering you!

Live, laugh, bite.

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Alfie tries his best to make a note of everything that's happened, but he's struggling to keep it together. The finale of Season Three.

Transcript: https://hangingslothstudios.com/nqd-40/

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Episode Content Warnings

Please bear in mind that this show is a work of horror fiction and frequently places characters in situations which jeopardise their psychological and physical health. This episode contains:

– characters in extreme emotional distress (including crying, hyperventilation)

– discussions of death, grief and loss

– detailed discussions and descriptions of medical abuse and torture

– descriptions of violent injury and murder

– depicition of a character in a state of deliriousness and semi-coherence

– depictions of physical distress, including struggling to breathe

– gun shots (not dreadfully loud but fairly loud)

– depiction of a character in physical pain

– loud sound effects (motorbike engines, banging sounds)

– depiction of extreme, gory violence, including screaming, gargling, and sounds of tearing flesh

Not Quite Dead is written, created and performed by Eira Major, under a creative commons 4.0 attribution license, and this is the end of season three. I couldn’t make this show without the incredible support of my contributors over on Patreon. Without you none of this would have happened, thank you so much for helping make this possible. I make this show for you, the listeners, and it means the world that you tune in to listen to it. Thank you so much for coming with me on this journey. I look forward to bringing you Season 4 in 2025. Until then, live, laugh, bite.

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Alfie struggles to make sense of things in light of recent revelations, but before any new status quo can be established, something lurking in the shadows snaps any sense of security that remains.

This episode crunches. Be sure to check the content warnings, which are available below, and at the top of the transcript, which can be found here: https://hangingslothstudios.com/nqd-39/

Or alternatively here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WEarddVRczqnHARcyJ7uFmKDl-rGIzSeW4xmhRlG83Q/edit?usp=sharing

Show-wide Content Warnings

This show is a work of horror fiction frequently places characters in situations which jeopardise their psychological and physical health. In addition, listeners should be aware that this show contains the following throughout:

- profanity

- references to sex

- frequent violence

- traumatic injury

- death, including violent death

- references to medical procedures

- hospital settings

Episode Content Warnings

- depiction of a character smoking a cigarette

- discussions of death, grief and loss

- references to sex and blood drinking

- depiction of violent injury, with sound effects

- sounds of a characters in emotional distress 

- depictions of physical distress, including struggling to breathe 

- loud sound effects (cars, sirens, slamming metal)

- discussion of violent abuse and torture

Not Quite Dead is a show about vampires which is written, produced and performed by Eira Major and is part of the Rusty Quill Network.

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Alfie and Neige are at an impasse. To move forward, one of them will have to compromise, and whichever of them it is, the consequences might be enough to change the dynamic between them forever.

Transcript: https://hangingslothstudios.com/nqd-38/

Or: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rBgtJ70jk6_GYNljgyTb5ScmSC8VGwa4kafUNjH8JJE/edit?usp=sharing

Show-wide Content Warnings

This show is a work of horror fiction frequently places characters in situations which jeopardise their psychological and physical health. In addition, listeners should be aware that this show contains the following throughout:

- profanity

- references to sex

- frequent violence

- traumatic injury

- death, including violent death

- references to medical procedures

- hospital settings

Episode Content Warnings

- sounds of a character in distress from the outset

- depictions of complex and potentially unhealthy grieving

- raised voices with high emotionality

- mentions of traumatic bodily injury, up to murder and dismemberment

- mishandling of bodies

- references to sex and sexual encounters

- references to unhealthy and potentially abusive relationships

- brief depiction of intense anxiety

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Hello, I’m Eira, creator of Spirit Box Radio, Not Quite Dead and Clockwork Bird. This July I’m releasing a brand new show, Remnants, a gothic fantasy thriller. The show follows the new Apprentice at the First and Last Place as he sorts through objects who hold the remnants of their previous owners within them. His job is to decide which of them is re-shelved, and which is discarded, but he has no criteria to work with and no idea what the consequences of his decisions will be. As the story goes on, the Apprentice begins to wonder why he, of everyone, was chosen for this task, and why his near-omniscient boss, known only as ‘sir’, has chosen now to train an assistant.

Remnants has a new story to muse over every week, and a mystery at its core which will have you pinning red string to cork boards as you try to solve it. Think The Talented Mr Ripley meets The Good Place and The Sandman.

Remnants, an audio drama will start airing wherever you listen to podcasts from 15th July 2024.

Find out more: https://hangingslothstudios.com/remnants/

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In this episode, we see beyond Alfie's immediate plight and examine some older, deeper wounds which somehow still seem not fully healed.

Transcript: https://hangingslothstudios.com/nqd-37/

Or: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rBgtJ70jk6_GYNljgyTb5ScmSC8VGwa4kafUNjH8JJE/edit?usp=sharing

Show-wide Content Warnings

This show is a work of horror fiction frequently places characters in situations which jeopardise their psychological and physical health. In addition, listeners should be aware that this show contains the following throughout:

- profanity

- references to sex

- frequent violence

- traumatic injury

- death, including violent death

- references to medical procedures

- hospital settings

Episode Content Warnings

- sounds of a character in emotional distress, ranging from quiet tearfulness to loud hysteria

- references to medical procedures both consensual and non-consensual

- descriptions of blood drinking

- mentions of traumatic bodily injury

- descriptions of violent death and the process of dying

- descriptions of corpses (one in detail, specific mentions of normal decay. Many with less specifics and references to mutilated body states)

- mentions of frostbite

- references to sex

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