“We are only mortal
but being mortal
can defy our fate.”

Law of Names Media is a collective of audio entertainment programs that came together without a great deal of conscious volition.What was one podcast primarily under one director, became two, became four, became a half-dozen projects, with multiple originators and contributors. Our projects are volunteer-driven, and made available, ad-free, for all listeners.We create the works we want to see, and the worlds we want to explore. We fill them with people who represent us and our communities.From cricket farmers on Mercury, to OSHA inspectors touring haunted houses, to teenage filmmakers in small-town Northern California, our show tell stories of human experiences, and all the shapes they take.

Audio Drama Yearbook

The Audio Drama Yearbook is a listener-submitted, completely non-definitive collection of audio drama podcasts. It is open to any scripted audio drama that released at least 1 full episode in a given year. In keeping with the yearbook vibe, it also includes fan-nominated-and-voted Most Likely Awards.With all activity happening on Tumblr, nominations are open during the month of January, voting is held in February, and the final yearbook is released in March.Started in 2024, it's meant to be both a relaxed, community-building event, as well as a chance for Ash to play with graphic design aesthetics he hasn't gotten to use yet.More information, as well as previous yearbooks, can be found on the ADYB website.

Role Playing Games

Full-Length TTRPGS
Resistor: High School, Low Life
Angry teens with brain computers in the near future San Angeles MegacityMicro-RPGs
The Food Truck Rebellion
Covert culinary operatives fight back against the Food Industrial Complex.The Daisy-Chain House
A game about creating family, & finding love in whatever form it might take.Casserole
A delicious game creating the recipes for stories about home.The Wild Hunt
A tarot-based game of Hunters and quarry.Seedling
A game about discovering one'sself while turning into a plant.Cut
An experimental, free-form game of shifting rules and mental vivisection.A Risky Gambol
A game of dice and bluffs and winning or losing one's whole self.Micro-LARPs
Bread & Stone
A dinner LARP of Hospitality between Arcadians lords and their guests.Peacocktail.com
A no-prep LARP of rating your friends video dating profiles.What Happened to the Theater
A game of improvising the stories of the background characters in Commedia Dell’ArteEpistolary Games
Under Hill, Over Hill
A game of letters between a Changeling and the human they replaced.When The Messages Began
A game of digital exchanges between strangers in a post-apocalyptic worldText-based computer games
Like Trying to Learn to Breathe Underwater
Identity

Other Projects

A mindfulness guidebook.Remember! Life is just a reflection of will!

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Explore the special collection.A Blake Skye:PI fan project.

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We're always open to connecting with other creators, and other audio projects.As a collective, we mostly are here to support and encourage each other, and to spread out some of the work that goes into producing shows, and bringing them to the ears of audiences.Projects that are part of Law of Namees are volunteer-made, advertising-free, diverse, and inclusive of all races, ethnicities, national backgrounds, languages, accents, genders, and sexualities.Shows are free to split off from us at any time, and are always the property of the creators that make them.If you are interested in bringing your audio drama or fiction to our collective, please email Ash.You can also contact us on Bluesky or Tumblr.

What

To know the true and complete name of something is to be able to control it.Law of Names Media is a collection of projects that were each made with intention, but came together organically, and without a great deal of conscious volition. What was one podcast primarily under one director, became two, became four, became a half-dozen projects, with multiple originators and contributors.Now, we are a group of people who work together, and toward similar goals. Though the projects are different, every creator here pushes themselves to create work that makes the world better, for its existence.We are here to tell stories. And stories should be just as strange, and wild, and diverse, and beautiful, as the people who tell them.

Who

Ash was the first person who fell under the banner of Law of Names, & he continues to organize, maintain, and generally herd cats for the now-expanded entity that is LoN Media.He's fairly sure he isn’t a changeling, but wouldn’t tell you if he were.He grew up thinking librarians were basically the coolest people in the world, and that the primary rule of hiking is that you never take the same trail on the way back.He loves tattoos, and honey, and pomegranates, and glitter, and realizes that he often sounds like a hipster despite his best intentions.He has spent the majority of his creative life trying to recreate The NeverEnding Story and the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Movie (1990).He lives in Sacramento, California in a Freehold with his husband, another debatably Arcadian, five cats with lofty names, a dog called Ivysaur, and cages full of creepy dolls.For more about his personal work, check out his digital portfolio.If you want to talk to him, you can email him or message him on Discord as ash.alder .