science fiction romance – Deep Dream State

Official cover art for “Evergreen,” the Deep Dream State Season 4 finale. A luminous green ring surrounds a dark center on a textured green field, with EVERGREEN spread across the image.

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.

Cast & Crew

Written, produced, directed, sound designed, and publicized by Neural Nets And Pretty Patterns.
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Assistant Director: Bliss Blank · IMDb

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Evergreen on NNPP | Blubrry | MusicBrainz

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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Human Made Art

The poster image for this arc is from Sunrise Forever on Pixabay, under the Pixabay license. Layer art overlays are used to vary each iteration of the image. Deep Dream State uses human art at every stage of the creative supply chain.

Consent Declaration

Deep Dream State is a monster romance, science fiction romance, and desire horror audio drama written and produced by Neural Nets And Pretty Patterns. It explores psychological fiction at the boundaries of control, identity, desire, and complicity. The elements depicted are fictional and intentional. All performances are works of fiction and take place within a consensual creative context.

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Official cover art for Yield, Deep Dream State S4E17 / GE44, by Neural Nets And Pretty Patterns. A yellow-green ring surrounds an abstract blue-and-white form on a dark olive background.

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.