🦉 Michael Schofield

Hiya. I make 6 podcasts -- 3 #audiodramas, 2 #actualplays, 1 #ttrpg soundscape thing -- and if you've dug any of them, I suuuuper invite you to join patreon.com/thethief for free. And, in 2026 - A comic with @isabeladuffles.bsky.social - A top-tier VTM AP with @nandikayyy.bsky.social - and more 🐈‍⬛

The Magnus Archives novel is out today. To celebrate why not binge season one again. It's all on Bard in order, from statement one. app.playbard.fm/podcast/1dku... @rustyquill.com #TheMagnusArchives #BookSky #BookTok #amlistening

Full of the sillies and darkness, I am.

My relationship with food is inverse of my relationship with mirrors.

A select group of audio drama or actual play creators who ask nicely can now Claim their show on Bard, which will let you control how it's presented. In the future you'll have special metrics (and, maybe ... migrate entirely to Bard's hosting). #indiedev #podcasting #audiofiction #actualplay #ttrpg

Hands down I could never do this kind of improv, but Push the Roll is probably my favorite Call of Cthulhu show. Ross Bryant and friends, one-shots, titles sent in by patrons. @pushtheroll.com #actualplay #CallofCthulhu #amlistening

Legit this and the prologue are really drawing me in. [DÍ 01] Two Nerds and a Reasonable Adult · VARÚÐ RPG app.playbard.fm/podcast/88dyzw #actualplay #Horror

Less than an hour ago I baked a loaf of sourdough bread and now there is no sourdough bread.

This strikes right at my indieweb soul. Hell yes, niche apps!!

Slightly better use of a wide screen on app.playbard.fm .

Darn I missed one. ... but which one.

As someone who listens to a frankly unreasonable amount of audio dramas, I'm pretty excited about Bard. A podcast app specifically for audio fiction & actual plays? YES PLEASE. Really excited to see how it develops. And it's made by a librarian (@schoeyfield.com) so you know it's 👩‍🍳💋 playbard.fm

The sort of good problem to have is that my Bard costs are going up by another $25 per month as I've reached an egress limit on my plan, this means that there are more users and generally more activity. Buuuut I'm going to be hawking ad sales a bit and Bard Pro, which might be annoying on social <3

You might be interested to know that the Apple App Store will reject a new version of your application if you happen to mention Android in the change log (as in, "on Android, such and such works now").

This is a stupid use of my time but it makes me happy.

Your Sorrow Friend might just be dressed for the season. #halloween sorrowfriend.com #cozy #pet

I'm decorating.

#AudioFictionFriday! New show: The Weavers, a horror-comedy. The Minnesotan branch of secret order The Weavers must use their mystical crafting abilities to battle an evil that could blanket the world in darkness. Made by @therealgchu.bsky.social pod.link/6824560441 #audiofiction #audiodrama

Honestly it's won like 18 awards but I'm just now trying The Silt Verses. Two worshippers of an outlawed god on a pilgrimage up a black river, with the police after them. Yeah ok @thesiltverses.bsky.social #audiodrama #horror #amlistening

This made me laugh

Countess Ashina is napping <3 <3 <3. I used my talents for evil and I made a kind of goth neopet called a Sorrow Friend. It's depressed but in the fun way. Free, no sign in, just lives in your browser. sorrowfriend.com

You can now send your Sorrow Friend to the beach sorrowfriend.com

Mass Effect transcends “I think this is great” to “mass effect is important to me.” Maybe we can save it. www.change.org/p/savemassef...

I made you a friend who is depressed but in the fun way. sorrowfriend.com

Kind of wild to me, about two thirds of the people who sign up for Bard literally never press play. A listener who never hears an episode just can't get hooked, so I've been thinking about how to fix that #buildinpublic #podcasting #audiodrama

Mass Effect is one of the most impacting experiences on me. Shout out to KOTOR and Jade Empire.

Varud RPG is an actual play where a family tries to cross Iceland on foot, in winter, during a zombie apocalypse. Three bad ideas at once. They wrote their own infection rules for it, which I respect. #actualplay #ttrpg #zombies #amlistening

FYI for people outside of the U.S. who are curious about my little podcast app

Been looking at the Bard numbers. So far the only thing that has really moved signups is press, like when @podnews.net and @lindsay1970.bsky.social at Fiction Podcast Weekly wrote it up. My own posting here hasn't made much of a dent, which is a little funny to say in a post #buildinpublic

By the end of the year, audio dramas and actual plays will actually be able to be hosted on Bard, and I'm trying to solve the it's-hard-to-social-share-fiction-podcasts problem. Here's an audiogram from The Thief made in Bard. #podcasting #ttrpg

Suurrrrely you've heard the trailer from @therealgchu.bsky.social 's upcoming show THE WEAVERS app.playbard.fm/podcast/1kn1... #audiodrama #MAGIC

Critical Role has like 480 episodes in one feed which is a nightmare to scroll. So Bard groups shows like that by campaign now. Pick one, see how far in you are, stay in it. @criticalrole.bsky.social #CriticalRole #actualplay #ttrpg

We saw Buena Vista Social Club last night and there is a dance when the main character is packing for the airport to catch one of the last planes out of Cuba before the revolution, and that dance was devastating. I'm still thinking about it.

My finch looks awesome

It's Michael, Saul, and Angel from @werealive.com looking off the top of their building at the hundreds of Bards swarming on the streets below, with one Bard covered in tattoos, smelling poorly. (playbard.fm)

An eldritch guardian of @whitevault.bsky.social emerges out of the snows of Svalbard but it's just playbard.fm wearing a leather face mask and it has really awesome bright red fingernails. (help my adhd is taking over over)

Librarian habit. Of course I put all the award winners on their own shelf. Bard has shelves now, the first four are the Audio Verse Awards, the Ambies, the Signal Awards and New Jersey Web Fest. app.playbard.fm/shelves/the-... #audiodrama #actualplay #fictionpodcasts

I’m really glad that Don’t Mind is back. Sealskin Rock is one of my recent favs app.playbard.fm/podcast/t2v4rt #audiodrama #Mystery