The best podcasts to listen to while you write Bella's Comet

I picked up 5 GMs when I caught wind of their "Across the Spiderverse" miniseries run by the brilliant Adam Gonzales. Hearing their web slinging adventures got me into their campaign proper being run by Tanner and BOY, I got hooked! It has a great table feel and feels like a fun hangout with some of your coolest friends. They kept me company for a lot of late nights while I was researching space and its phenomena.

There's an ever-looming horror influence in Bella's Comet. Sometimes to get the knobs turned into the horrific just right, I turned to The Old Ways Podcast to make sure I was taking things seriously and understanding exactly how to turn the nobs. Every Old Ways series is brilliant, but if you haven't checked out their Agatha Christie-inspired Call of Cthulhu series', I feel bad for you. Really solid music production on this show too, if the music in BC ever gives ya the willies and a sense of dread, you can think Old Ways for that.

The BBC every now and again remembers that this podcast exists and gives you REALLY COOL updates on the goings on in space exploration. It sadly hasn't updated in like 4 years but hey that makes it all the easier to binge! A BIG BIG influence on some of the geopolitical stuff in Bella's Comet comes from their episode "How Do We Rule The Universe?" which talks about astromining, hunting space junk, and other odd jobs that might and DO exist in the field.

I love Boys' Bible Study, but I'd fallen off the wagon over the past like...year. It's essentially a film podcast exclusively discussing Christian films. The show is funny but not in a mean-spirited kind of way, a lot of it is explored from their own Christian backgrounds and their filmmaking backgrounds. It's a really good chat show that's bizarrely earnest for what it's about. I'm not saying there's a RELIGIOUS thing happening in Bella's Comet, that's not the influence here, I just like the Boys' candor. Kept me from making the villains TOO cartoony.

I listened to a lot of Cyberpunk: Tales from the Oasis to make sure I wasn't ripping them off. Just kidding (kind of) CTFTO is just a really great sci-fi podcast that fuses human reality with far-out futurism. Writing a cyberpunk genre story was intimidating so I just needed to hear one done well to remind myself that it's possible. And also to make sure I didn't rip them off.