Wolf 359 (podcast)

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Name: Wolf 359
Abbreviation(s): w359
Creator: Gabriel Urbina, Sarah Shachat
Date(s): August 14, 2014- December 25, 2017
Medium: Podcast, Radio Theater
Country of Origin: USA
External Links: Official website
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Wolf 359 is a podcast produced by Kinda Evil Genius Productions.

The Podcast

Wolf 359 is a podcast that depicts the surreal lives of crew members aboard the U.S.S. Hephaestus Station as they orbit the star Wolf 359, almost 8 light years away from Earth. The show is set in an alternate, technologically advanced modern-day timeline, where mega-corporation Goddard Futuristics develops and sponsors the majority of deep-space missions. Though storylines center exclusively on a core cast of characters (the crew aboard the station), new characters are steadily introduced in later seasons.

Cast & Crew

The Fandom

As of 2024, the Wolf 359 tag on Archive of Our Own has over 2,000 works,[1] with crossover fandoms including other audio-drama series like Welcome to Night Vale, The Magnus Archives, and Time:Bombs. While romantic pairings are popular, Gen (or '&') relationships are also prevalent, being the most tagged category on AO3.[2]

Fandom History

The first episodes of the podcast were released in August 2014. Over time, a fandom began to gain traction on Tumblr. The fandom eventually saw somewhat of a boom in the fall of 2015, with the number of fics on AO3 skyrocketing. A Wolf 359 live show was held in New York City that December.

Pairings

Tropes and Fanon

  • 'X Character Lives': Because of the many canon character deaths in the series, Canon Divergence AUs in which specific characters live, or are brought back to life as clones by the Dear Listeners (a la Lovelace), are common.
  • Post canon works which continue after the finale are often focused on how certain characters adapt to life back on Earth, including Doug's relationship with the crew post-memory loss, Hera being removed from the ship, Minkowski's relationship with her husband, Jacobi's life without the SI-5, and the deconstruction of Goddard Futuristics.
  • Trans Daniel Jacobi: The character Daniel Jacobi is often headcanoned as a trans man.[3]
  • Grief/Mourning: Fanworks often deal with characters processing the traumatic events of canon, especially surrounding character death, identity issues, and autonomy. This is usually paired withAngst and/or Hurt/Comfort.
  • Found Family: Centering on the canon dynamics between the Hephaestus crew and portraying them as a found family, especially in post-canon fics that include the surviving cast keeping in close contact, sometimes even living together. Many SI-5 centric works portray them as a found family as well, though usually as somewhat toxic and unhealthy.

Fanworks

Accounts

Fan Art

Events

Zines

Meta

Unofficial Transcripts

Audio

Fanmixes/Playlists

Videos/Animatics

Misc.

Other Resources

References

  1. ^ https://archiveofourown.org/tags/Wolf%20359%20(Radio)/works
  2. ^ https://archiveofourown.org/works?commit=Sort+and+Filter&work_search%5Bsort_column%5D=revised_at&include_work_search%5Bcategory_ids%5D%5B%5D=21&work_search%5Bother_tag_names%5D=&work_search%5Bexcluded_tag_names%5D=&work_search%5Bcrossover%5D=&work_search%5Bcomplete%5D=&work_search%5Bwords_from%5D=&work_search%5Bwords_to%5D=&work_search%5Bdate_from%5D=&work_search%5Bdate_to%5D=&work_search%5Bquery%5D=&work_search%5Blanguage_id%5D=&tag_id=Wolf+359+%28Radio%29
  3. ^ https://archiveofourown.org/tags/Trans%20Daniel%20Jacobi
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