Episode “Someone always decides what I am.” Tessa the succubus tells her story to the posthuman court beneath Dupont Circle. She tells them about her forbidden romance with a human. As a succubus, the Dominion dictates her choices. Her lover, Cassady, is a behavioral analyst. Cops dictate his choices. Neither authority anticipated them falling for …
Episode “It IS impossible. But it’s happening.” FMC succubus Tessa tells her romance story to an assembled court of posthumans. The Court frame is surreal fantasy; the Story is magical realist romance. In her story, she’s under investigation for her rich husbands’ cardiac misfortune. The undercover investigator is rapidly developing feelings for her. She’s developing …
Episode “I want them to see what we are.” This is the Halloween episode. It’s the premiere of Season Five : Lilies. It’s succubus monster romance with a monster FMC, human MMC. Succubus Tessa’s a suspected “black widow.” She’s got three dead husbands, piles of money, and a growling demon overlord. A human investigating her …
Humanity is over. After After is a big evolution in Deep Dream State. It’s just a big evolution overall. Naia‘s in charge of evolution now, and she says it out loud. It’s closing time, humanity. That isn’t a villain threat. It’s a statement of fact – maybe even an optimistic one. Saying it out loud …
I know exactly what you are. You’re trade. Evergreen is the finale of DDS’s fourth season, Vale Four. Every DDS season looks at something through the lens of desire horror. That means it asks why we want unsettling things. This season looked at ads. Each linked set of stories, or cycle, was about an advertising …
It’s showtime! In the penultimate episode of Vale Four, we discover many things. Off mic, WE recently discovered our marketing department. They were huddled cowering behind the wolfgirl pen E. Who knew? As part of the settlement, we’ll be identifying our target markets more clearly going forward. In the first scene, we hear the ad …
The pattern’s what matters. Deep Dream State is all coming together, or it’s all falling apart. It’s hard to tell which. Grassroots is the final Cycle of Vale Four. In a few episodes, the season will be resolved. Each Cycle is about a different advertising phenomenon, made “thinkykinky.” The show looks at a different fictionalized …
We’d all better get used to the spotlight. Sublimate is the 42nd total episode of the desire horror audio drama, Deep Dream State. It is definitely a narrative high point – the aspirations of DDS are really crystallizing. It wraps up the Snarecraft Cycle. Cycle just describes storylines in a season. Snarecraft’s a story about …
Everyone gets exactly what they deserve. In Snarecraft, hubris is a lot more than an allusion. It’s a game mechanic. We open with the wolfgirls choosing to run on their exercise wheels – really everyone in the game is doing the same thing. Team Alchemy is still inside the Panoptic Library. Z observes it directly …
Everything in its place. The Deep Dream State is kinky. The show also aspires to thinky. We call it “thinkykinky.” That’s most clearly exhibited in Sealed. I’m not sure anyone asked for a kinky retelling of “Exactitude in Science.” If you’ve ever felt the need for magical realism gone wild, though, this might be the …