After After trailer artwork for Deep Dream State, with a glowing blue-violet Earth surrounded by radiant light and the title “after after.” Monster romance and desire horror from Neural Nets And Pretty Patterns.

After After | Deep Dream State | Season Five Trailer

By Neural Nets and Pretty Patterns | September 4, 2026

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 is the first step to somewhere else. Seasons 1 2 3 4 were bleak. Season Five isn’t. Each story set is a romance. There’s chemistry, stakes, and romantic resolution. There’s a happily ever after on the species level.

The show is still very much about desire. Whether queer posthuman desire is horror or HEA is up to you.

The plot’s up to you as well.

Different extrahuman entities populate S1-S4. After After puts names and some explanation to those entities. This page names and illustrates them (with tattoo options.)

You go there, and vote for your favorite. The vote tallies reflect on the page in real time. They’ll decide what comes After After.

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Evergreen | Vale Four | S4E18 | GE45 | Season Finale

By Neural Nets and Pretty Patterns | August 28, 2026

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 phenomenon. We did earworms, facial telemetry, microtargeting, and gaming. We wrapped up with astroturfing: fake grassroots that makes it unclear what’s real.

The whole season followed a corporate sabotage plot. One faction tried to tank Vale Four before a massive IPO.

In the finale, we’ll find out if that whole plot was real or theater. You have to listen to find out that answer. I can give you some hints, though.

Yes and no.
If you want to fully decode this, check the cycle finales: Sinker, The River, Bullseye, and Sublimate.
These texts matter: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, any Greek myth guide, A Star Is Born, and The Lesser Key of Solomon
It was a dark romance the whole time. It’s on you to figure out who was romancing whom.

A post-credits sequence with the Muppettes explains the show’s transition into monster romance.

State Of The Dream

The Deep Dream State is NSFW. It’s certainly rated R, containing sexual language and references. The website and trailer are PG, as is the Season 4 opener Refrain. That’s all by design; we believe in intimate storytelling but not blindsiding.
I am the showrunner, sound designer, publicist, writer, director, and a voice actor. That’s a lot, but “adult stories are real stories” is my bit, and I’m fully committed.
Season Five, After After, is under supported development. We recently crossed 60,000 downloads despite a very unclear niche, so we don’t intend to stop now. Auditions for Season Five are open. Email deepdreamstates@gmail.com if interested.
Season Five will be resolved by audience voting. The setup will be clear, but the ending isn’t. Listeners choose the faction they want to hear more from.

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Evergreen is the eighteenth episode and Season 4 finale of Deep Dream State, a monster romance, science fiction romance, and desire horror audio drama by Neural Nets And Pretty Patterns. It concludes Season 4: Vale Four. S4E18 / GE45. Duration: 18:08.

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Yield | Vale Four | S4E17 | GE44

By Neural Nets and Pretty Patterns | August 21, 2026

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 for Spotlight, one of the in-universe video games. You can’t play it yet, but you can appreciate the scene setting and Iris Vale‘s very not disguised exhibitionism.

(This pivotal sequence targets the core ‘theater enthusiast’ demographic, successfully tapping into the highly engaged ‘chosen villain’ micro-trend.)

The remaining scenes are in court, since Vale Four’s built up to the trial over 17 episodes. It isn’t boring. There’s running whispered commentary, and things happen to everyone present.

(This final courtroom arc delivers the ultimate payoff for our true crime enthusiast demographic, gamifying the legal procedural to shatter prediction models of even hardcore, 2x-speed audio-bingers.)

If you can predict the sequence here, you’ve been paying close attention. Yield resolves questions posed in S4E1, and stretches back to S3E2. After all that, the remaining question is “was that theater?”

Yes and no. The full answer will be in Evergreen, which finally pulls back the curtain.

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The Deep Dream State definitely contains some adult material. This is by design. The websites and trailers are PG at most. We believe in open expression, not blindsiding.
We’re auditioning for After After, the monster romance season five. Email deepdreamstates@gmail.com if interested.
I’m the showrunner, writer, sound editor, web designer, and court-appointed marketing liaison. I co-direct. I’m part of the cast; I play Z. My creative name is Neural Nets And Pretty Patterns. I am one audio creator, not a team or collective. ISNI 0000 0005 2877 6254.
We’re delighted that we’re over 50k downloads, which we hope to verify as soon as we get OP3 running correctly.

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Written, produced, directed, sound edited, and web designed by Neural Nets And Pretty Patterns.

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Yield is the seventeenth episode of Season 4 of Deep Dream State, a monster romance, science fiction romance, and desire horror audio drama by Neural Nets And Pretty Patterns. It is the penultimate episode of Season 4: Vale Four. S4E17 / GE44. Duration: 15:04.

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Radix | Vale Four | S4E16 | GE43

By Neural Nets and Pretty Patterns | August 16, 2026

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 technology of control and asks the same question: “Why would anyone want this?”

We’re finishing out the season with astroturfing. Astroturfing’s the practice of making planned support look natural and organic. It’s been around for decades, but it’s really accelerated in an era of algorithmic mass manufacture of opinion.

Radix imagines some different takes on the show itself. Behind-the-scenes audio segments give listeners a whole different take on what the show means. Sections of the episode are designed to sound like they’re off-mic bloopers or candid fragments.

They aren’t. The possibilities outlined here are still within the fictional frame. The producer is not in a torrid dynamic with star VA Dizzy Dollie. Dizzy Dollie also ALWAYS gets her lines in on time. The script was not written by an enemies-to-lovers-to-enemies-to-lovers writing team. The Deep Dream State show might have a serious meta kink, but we know it’s always important to stay rooted.

Radix brings Naia Anderson into the final movement of Vale Four, where advertising technology, behavioral conditioning, and manufactured agreement increasingly blur together. Tessa Fine and June Lowell move through shifting layers of performance while the familiar clicker makes control itself difficult to locate. Meg Aerin observes the pattern from another layer, connecting repetition to the behavioral machinery that has shaped the season. The Grassroots Cycle turns astroturfing into desire horror, asking whether apparently organic choices remain meaningful when the pattern has already been engineered.

State Of The Dream

Thank you to all the listeners. We surpassed 50k downloads this week, which is huge for an independent audio drama. We’re delighted!
Deep Dream State is not safe for work. This is by design. The documentation and websites are all SFW. That’s also by design; we believe in freedom of expression but only under conditions of informed consent. No blindsiding.
This episode in particular should be approached via informed disclosure. We move into the Neural / Dizzy dynamic at the three-minute mark, with the door open. The door’s certainly open for the Kees / Bliss scene as well. Just remember that the doors are still opening onto a stage.
Deep Dream State refuses niches. This episode has strong elements of comedy, thriller, and desire horror. We like to think that the movement across genres achieves unique effects that lane following never could. Say what you will, but there is a LOT here.
Deep Dream State is extremely full cast. We’ve cast over 50 people at this point. We’re proud of our status as an artistic outlet and resume builder for so many VAs. If that potentially interests you, please use the audition form or email deepdreamstates@gmail.com.
I am the showrunner, writer, sound designer, editor, publicist, and director. I play the character Z as an actor. I play myself in this episode, but as a fictional character. My creative stage name is Neural Nets And Pretty Patterns (ISNI 0000 0005 2877 6254). I am one person, not a collective or duo. I took the name on tumblr before gen ai was much of a thing; it’s just a pun.

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Written, produced, directed, sound designed, and edited by Neural Nets And Pretty Patterns.

Dizzy Dollie as Naia | Neural Nets And Pretty Patterns as Z | Bliss Blank as June Lowell | Ring of Kees as Tessa Fine | Bun Li as Meg Aerin

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Radix is the sixteenth episode of Season 4 of Deep Dream State, a desire horror and monster romance audio drama by Neural Nets And Pretty Patterns. It is part of Season 4: Vale Four, Grassroots Cycle. S4E16 / GE43.

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Sublimate | Vale Four | S4E15 | GE42

By Neural Nets and Pretty Patterns | August 8, 2026

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 an augmented reality game, in a high fantasy register, used to track down its designers.

The trackers split into teams. We open with the most feral team, Team Leash. Z prepares his wolfgirls for the hunt and releases them. They aren’t unleashed, but they are unhinged. When Porsche and Elle look away from Tessa’s subjugation and see growling wolfgirls loping out of the forest, they’re compelled to flee further into the biolibrary.

Deeper in the stacks, they find the ultimate Level 256. All the most damning documents in Vale Four have been dumped inside an ingame storage room.

This might be a mistake by an incredibly lazy dev. It might be a trap. It might be something else entirely.

Whatever it is, it’ll determine whether anyone in Vale Four is ever able to escape.

State Of The Dream

The Deep Dream State is not safe for work. This is by design. We believe that intimate audio can aspire to the same heights as studio backed productions.We’re deeply gratified that Closing Credits, the official educational branch of Casting Call Club, subscribes to this premise as well. Autumn Ivy’s class, Intimate Audio Business, will feature Deep Dream State casting as a week four class component.The documentation and websites are all SFW. That’s also by design; we believe in freedom of expression but only under conditions of informed consent. No blindsiding.Disclosure is especially important for this one. Some episodes are slow burns. This is not one of them. The thinkykinky spice meter starts at an 11 here.
The Deep Dream State is difficult to fit in a niche.This episode has strong elements of comedy, thriller, litRPG, desire horror, and erotica. We like to think that the movement across genres achieves unique effects that lane following never could. Say what you will, but there is a LOT here.
The Deep Dream State is extremely full cast. We’ve cast over 50 people at this point. We’re proud of our status as an artistic outlet and resume builder for so many VAs.For Season Five, we are especially keen to cast more male voices. We are also looking to cast people with GENUINE British or Irish accents for the first cycle of Ever After. (Genuine accents only.) If that potentially interests you, please use the audition form or email deepdreamstates@gmail.com.
I am the showrunner, writer, sound designer, editor, publicist, and director. I play the character Z as an actor. I am the neophyte coder for the show, which is definitely mocked in this episode in some plot-relevant way. My creative stage name is Neural Nets and Pretty Patterns (ISNI 0000 0005 2877 6254.) I am one person, not a collective or duo. (I took the name on tumblr before gen ai was much of a thing; it’s just a pun.)

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Sublimate is the fifteenth episode of Season 4 of Deep Dream State, a desire horror and monster romance audio drama by Neural Nets and Pretty Patterns. It is part of Season 4: Vale Four, Snarecraft Cycle.

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Rubido | Vale Four | S4E14 | GE41

By Neural Nets and Pretty Patterns | July 31, 2026

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 as he uses the clicker to keep Team Leash ready for the hunt. Gia has fully settled into her concubinded role, and she’s chasing treatstick.

Team Flowers watches from their own vantage point. They’re in the second secret library, which lets them see absolutely all of the action. They can’t look away.

They especially can’t look away from the forest scene with Team Thorns. Queen Tessa‘s been hacking through vines and bullying her thralls. Both the vines and thralls might have learned to adapt. Everything cut down in this forest grows back much, much stronger.

State Of The Dream

S5 has both a title – “After After” – and a thematic emphasis. It’s gravitating to posthuman monster romance. The writing process has begun, so season five should launch directly from season four, with only a week or two hiatus. Serial continuity will be maintained!

Auditions are open now.

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Rubido is the fourteenth episode of Season 4 of Deep Dream State, a desire horror and monster romance audio drama by Neural Nets and Pretty Patterns. It is part of Season 4: Vale Four, Snarecraft Cycle.

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Quintessence | Vale Four | S4E12 | GE39

By Neural Nets and Pretty Patterns | July 18, 2026

We see you scrying.

The Deep Dream State‘s built for some fast lane changes. Whatever it’s got for handling is on display here; each scene’s drastically different.

It’s all unified by the game. An augmented reality game for commercial deployment’s being used to hunt down the game designers. That’s dark. Every scene blends that darkness with high fantasy elements, but the mixes come out much different. That – and some love for live play podcasts – is why there’s a die roll in each scene transition.

It opens comic. The Muppettes, observers who always watch the action, put on their sorceress robes and get to incanting. Even though it’s funny, there are some real secrets uncovered here, including the real origin of the name Meridian A.

It gets dark. When Z sees the Muppettes scrying, he puts his hunting team of wolfgirls through the paces. Prior subjects Gia (played by Valentina Vallay), Celeste, and Clara have found a new place at Vale Four. The writer isn’t barely disguising anything here. The Muppettes are horrified; Z clearly delights in freaking out the audience – listeners included. (The Deep Dream State is NSFW thinkykinky material. This scene should be flagged as high spice level.)

It shifts to unsettling. Team Flowers and Team Alchemy navigate their way through Hespa’s map. They find their way through raging floodwaters, their own unspoken desires, and the medieval origins of the worst sports podcast of any epoch.

They arrive soaked and breathless to a secret they were told didn’t exist.

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Astoria : Dakota Dream
Leads the Muppettes’ ritual, uncovers the force behind Meridian A, discovers that the thing she is watching can watch back.
Hilton : Tickled Panda
The nervous novice whose questions keep the ritual grounded until one word opens Team Leash.
Tessa : Ring of Kees
The queen of Team Thorns, discipline dressed in finery.
Laura : Lux Peralta
Returns as part of the hunting party Astoria watches moving through Snarecraft.
Z : Neural Nets and Pretty Patterns
Catches the Muppettes scrying, turns the gaze back on them, and trains his wolfgirls to hunt by scent.
June : Bliss Blank
Part of the hunt Astoria observes as the teams move through Hespa’s map.
Porsche : Princess Ella
Trusts Elle’s route, accidentally summons Midstream, and reaches the marker for a library that shouldn’t exist.
Elle : Echo Doll
Follows what she believes is Hespa’s pattern, gets stranded in the river, and accepts a deeply dubious rescue.
Meg : Bun Li
Reads traps as systems and Leandra as badly, then confronts a map that refuses to stay legible.
Leandra : Talithara
Knows the route behind the waterfall, remembers the Puzzlers, and reveals that the hidden library leads back through Deep Ward.
Clara : Vixen Clouds
The newest member of Team Leash. Hides under a blanket, remembers FaceTrace, and learns that pretending not to be seen is not the same as hiding.
Gia : Valentina Vallay
Breaks treatstick protocol, accepts correction, and is recruited to hunt by scent.
Celeste : Panda Moanium
Performs tricks for Clara without permission, loses Trixie time, and joins Team Leash’s hunt.
Cael : Jericho Caine
Returns as Caellum, a medieval Midstream merchant selling ball lore, guild membership, and suspicious raft transport.
Mudrick : Violently Passionate
Caellum’s eager shield-mate, fascinated by every kind of ball and fully committed to the worst sports podcast of any epoch.
Hespa : Syndi Rella
The absent architect whose recycled maps, hidden routes, and secret library guide every team toward something they were told did not exist.
Naia : Dizzy Dollie
Part of the wider hunting party Astoria’s ritual observes across Snarecraft.

Quintessence is the twelfth episode of Season 4 of Deep Dream State, a desire horror audio drama by Neural Nets and Pretty Patterns. It is part of Season 4: Vale Four, Snarecraft Cycle.

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