Through The Wind Door

Before The Voyage - Part 3 (Steamheart)

The conclusion of looking at chapters 1-4, with our focus being on the events of Chapter 4 itself. In this week's episode, we get into:

• How Abigail, James, and harry interact with people, both people they know, and people they don't...
• Reflections on how elements from Secret Rooms start making themselves known in this chapter (something we'll talk about even more as we proceed)
• A deep discussion on Harry, and what is revealed though her first person narration
• Comparing and contrasting Harry and James's neuro-atypical brains
• Outtakes, and much, much more!

Next week, we begin our look at chapters 5-7, since we ended up having much more to talk about than expected with the 'Previously On New Century' chapters...

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Intro is "Together We Stand" by Scott Holmes of Free Music Archive

Outro is "Unwell" by Matchbox 20

Before The Voyage - Part 2 (Steamheart)

Okay. Now we actually cover more than one chapter of Steamheart: 2, 3, and the beginning of 4.

Topics today:

• (Re)introducing Annie and Frank
• The Meet-Cute
• Introducing (more thoroughly) Jeremy Pines!
• A discussion of the neurodiverse spectrum and Jeremy's place on it
• The beginning of Jeremy's arc
• How Chapters 2 and 3 keep worldbuilding
• Team Steam begins to assemble!
• How it feels to return to James and Abigail

Gotta say, it feels good to finally talk about Steamheart. But boy, is there a lot of ground to recover. Thank goodness we have a nice vehicle to do it in.

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Intro is "Together We Stand" by Scott Holmes of Free Music Archive

Outro is "I Choose You" by Sara Bareilles

Before The Voyage - Part 1 (Steamheart)

Eleven days till our anniversary. Exactly the right time to begin the Retrospective on the Culmination of Phase 1 of New Century.

Steamheart.

Today, we discuss:

• Emily Dickenson, and her poem
• The larger theme of journey narratives
• An unusual digression on the Tarot
• How our first introduction is framed, and by whom
• And much, much more

Today covers only chapter 1 in detail, but the arc of this and the next two episodes will be referring to chapters 1-4. So be prepared, for those to whom Spoilers matter.

 

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Intro is "Together We Stand" by Scott Holmes of Free Music Archive

Outro is "We Said Hello Goodbye" by Phil Collins

Behind The Whitescarves: Stonespring Maidens - Part 8

The last interview episode. You don't want to miss this one. Because it's got:

• How Harry views Autumn, as opposed to how the average person of her world would view it
• Senator MacPherson, or Sir Not Appearing In This Audiodrama
• The influence of real world events on crafting this story, and others
• The things Alex is most proud of with this outing
• Color Theory
• Sharon devolving into fits of laughter (along with the rest of us)
• And Even More Outtakes

Next time we see you... Season 5. The Steamheart Saga.

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Intro is "The Future is Ours" by Scott Holmes of Free Music Archive

Outro is "Together We Stand" by Scott Holmes of Free Music Archive

 

 

Behind The Whitescarves: Stonespring Maidens - Part 7

And here we are, back to the big interview. 2 episodes to go!

• Discussion on the story's overarching antagonist, Mr. Wight
• What it's like to narrate over being a main character for Alex
• Discussion on the many new voice talents that were brought in
• The Sounds and Music of Stonespring Maidens
• The difficulties of writing this story due to the events of 2020
• And finally, the experience of visiting past trauma through creating

Ending with the new Gibbet: Citrus Fruits.

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Intro is "The Future is Ours" by Scott Holmes of Free Music Archive

Greg and Toby React! to Phase 3 Covers - Part 2

More Reacting! Today we talk about the covers for: 

Castle of the Moon

 

The Black Ronin:

 

And as a bonus, the mockup for Four Worlds Collide:

 

There are spoiler warnings for different parts of the episode, you'll get them in progress.

Next week, we finally finish the interviews! And then... Season 5: The Year of Steam Heart.

Greg and Toby React! to Phase 3 Covers - Part 1

And now for something completely different. Except not that different, because it's still New Century.

As we had to wait a bit to get Alex and Sharon back on the horn for the rest of our Stonespring Maidens interviews, me and Toby did a little speculation show on the implications of the new covers that had been shared over the last few months. Today we discuss the next two Thieves covers: Thief Knights and Dragon Flights, and The Worst Unicorn.

No music before or after, just us rambling, with some mild spoiler potential, but only for books that have already been published and out for a long while. 

Thief Knights:

The Worst Unicorn:

Also, referring back to the titles Alex released back in 2020, which was partly source material for our first React video:

 

 

 

Behind The Whitescarves: Stonespring Maidens - Part 6

The second half of our first Alex/Sharon interview. But we're not done! There will be a short pause next week where we run something else, but there will be more interviewing!

Today:

• The Worldbuilding of Autumn
• The experience of restructuring the chapter layout mid-audiodrama release
• Stonespring Maidens's influences - the third one may (not) surprise you!
• Doing alternate takes on traditional fantasy races
• Even More Outtakes

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Intro is "The Future is Ours" by Scott Holmes of Free Music Archive

Outro is "The Last Elemental" by Danny Elfman

Behind The Whitescarves: Stonespring Maidens - Part 5

And here it is. The final interviews for Stonespring Maidens to help us close out the year and bring us into the next. Alex and Sharon take us through the origins and the building of the latest story and audiodrama of New Century.

We get off on several tangents throughout this first part, talking as much about New century in general and how stories are crafted as some of the details of this latest iteration. We get into discussions about romance literature, romances (and their patterns) in New Century, Representation and genres, and more about the construction of Autumn itself in the early days.

Some more TTWD outtakes at the end, and much thanks to Maureen Foley for her help at the beginning of our show. 

 

The etymology of the interchangable use of 'Fall' and 'Autumn': https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/600316/reason-why-americans-refer-autumn-fall

Todd In The Shadows - Lil Nas X breakout hit 'Old Town Road' and Music's issue with genre: https://youtu.be/msz0bGZtdFQ

 

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Intro is "The Future is Ours" by Scott Holmes of Free Music Archive

Outro is "Thunderstuck" by 2Cellos

Behind The Whitescarves: Stonespring Maidens - Part 4

Happy Holidays, y'all. And happy Episode 100 for Through The Wind Door.

My present to all of you is predictable: more fun interview shenanigans with Felix, Orion, and Maya. I hope it's a good present.

• A further deep dive with Maya about Katherine (as well as other roles past and future)
• Exciting speculations for the future about future roles in and out of New Century
• What Autumn would be like for our cast
• Personal color theory!
• General Silliness!
• Duchess Karen du Hardcore!

Also, as promised, a link to the Panther Soul Sizzle reel for those who might not have heard it:

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Intro is "The Future is Ours" by Scott Holmes of Free Music Archive

Background music for Outtakes is "Hidden Agenda" by Kevin MacLeod