The God-Emperor of all narcissists getting in a twist over an uncooperative reflecting pool is too on-the-nose, even for the fucking hacks they’ve got writing the 21st century these days.
Ross Sutherland
@imaginaryadvice.bsky.social
Writer/producer of IMAGINARY ADVICE (British Podcast Award, Fiction). linktr.ee/ross_sutherland
🔔London shows added🔔 I am doing five nights of my show CAN at Soho Theatre in London May 26th-30th. These will be my final shows of CAN. Last tickets are available here sohotheatre.com/events/rob-a...
Rob Auton: CAN (An Hour-Long Story) - Soho Theatre
Multi award-winning writer, performer and actor Rob Auton presents his debut narrative show.
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engagement bait prompt: what's your favorite Onion article? I think mine has to be this one theonion.com/new-subway-p...
New Subway Promotion To Honor Subtember 11
MILFORD, CT—Citing a wide range of deals customers will “never forget,” fast food chain Subway announced an exciting new promotion this week to honor and commemorate Subtember 11. “With a number of te...
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A short audio play about gift-giving youtu.be/2FaDIghAOLc?...
DOMESTIC HARMONICS
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Hello 2026. Feeling very energised this morning by watching a Devo documentary and drinking 3 cups of coffee. Or possibly I having a heart attack
Still time to give the greatest festive Dickens adaptation (by @imaginaryadvice.bsky.social) a listen before the big day: www.soundcloud.com/ross-sutherl...
109 A Christmas Carol (SNES, 1993)
After all these years, we finally get to see the “good ending” of the 1993 SNES classic A Christmas Carol Written, produced and performed by Ross Sutherland. Support the show: Become a patreon & get
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The fooking cops are fooking keen to fooking keep it fooking clean...
They should have titled them: Now You See Me Now 2 See Me Now 2 3 Me Now 2 3 4
New #audiofiction this coming Monday: the upsettingly named LEAKER (sorry). A 60min story, presented as a lost VHS horror film, complete with fake trailers. [Subscribe to Imaginary Advice via yr usual podcatcher of choice]
Just set all the fireworks off at once, ffs. Every display should last 60 seconds, max.
Its always nice when you're rooting in the bins behind ASDA and you find some perfectly edible bread with your birthday as the expiration date
Excited to introduce Vibes from Meta. Eat your slop, piggies!
My Patreon podcast UNTITLED HORROR SCREENPLAY has a bumper new episode today. I'm looking into The Living Dream: films in which dream-world & real world have become inextricably entangled There's a long discussion of Jacob's Ladder, then in the second half I pitch a new movie idea in the same genre
And on the subject of #realartatters: AI poisoning tool NIGHTSHADE is now free for artists to use: venturebeat.com/ai/nightshad...
Nightshade, the free tool that ‘poisons’ AI models, is now available for artists to use
The tool's creators are seeking to make it so that AI model developers must pay artists to train on data from them that is uncorrupted.
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A BALLAD A story written using only one vowel youtu.be/yb4_Bjn2uU8
A BALLAD
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October 26th! I'm teaching another zoom class for @radiobootcamp.bsky.social. Walking through the whole process of making longform audio. If you're interested in starting a career in podcasts, this is the place to learn a lot, quick. This class always sells out! radiobootcamp.org/classes/how-...
How to make an audio doc from soup to nuts - Radio Boot Camp
Congratulations! Your pitch was greenlit by your favorite show! Your dream of making a longform narrative podcast or radio documentary is about to come
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Maybe the real Ship of Theseus was the Ship of Theseus we made along the way
Hey! Our piece #souvenirs is being broadcast on BBC Radio 4 tomorrow, 22 July at 4pm UK time (also available on the internet for a while thereafter), I’d love for you to listen! Especially if you enjoy tales of hurt feelings & petty revenge.
Broken friendship, typefaces, lost words, self-destruction and the legacies we didn’t intend to leave… Listen to Souvenirs (produced by @allusionistshow.bsky.social’s @helenzaltzman.bsky.social and @martinaustwick.bsky.social) in tomorrow’s Artworks on BBC Radio 4 www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
New episode of Imaginary Advice out today! Another anthology episode: two stories and an essay. It was originally called SHIP OF THESEUS but I've rewritten this thing so many times who knows what to call it anymore 🤡 on.soundcloud.com/sf5qGCd7p4vC...
Predator is an almost-perfect film, failed only by the fact the predator never hunts by sampling/ replaying one of shane black's big pussy jokes
At the heart of what we do remains a belief in radio's imaginative possibilities - audio that can reconfigure the world around us & sink into our dreams. Dip into our archive of nearly 900 audio docs here www.fallingtree.co.uk/our-archive/
Those Final Destination films always get under my skin & I think it's because I live in a small badly made house crammed with terribly made products & I 100% believe the deregulation/ enshittification of capitalism will eventually cross a threshold & turn my home into a rube goldberg murder machine
BATTLE BAR FOR SALE Known for my skill when I rap on these tracks / You're over the Hill like you're Yakety Sax
I am available for hire and my rates are extremely reasonable
Out now on the Imaginary Advice podcast: the first half of THEY WILL / THEY WON'T, an audio-fiction series I wrote in collaboration with @joedunthorne.bsky.social Joe and I took turns writing chapters. Joe had to bring the two characters together. I had to break them apart youtu.be/ebbNSubXSOw?...
Extract: THEY WILL / THEY WON'T
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Baby, just born: waah waah New dads in 2007: I cant wait to show them the twist ending of Bioshock
Maybe I'm just having a tough morning with my toddler but Pingu is a tragic character & I think we all failed him