Not Quite Dead

You are about to hear the pilot episode of Snow Blood, a Not Quite Dead Story, currently crowdfunding on Kickstarter. The rest of Snow Blood will be airing in October, if our funding goals on Kickstarter get met. There’s a bunch of rewards from postcards and stickers to a chance to design a vampire who’ll be mentioned in the show. Do check out the campaign at tiny.cc/snow-blood and support vampire rights and wrongs today. As an indie creator, I rely on support from listeners like you to bring these shows to life, and every little piece goes towards making sure I have a place to live and food to eat whilst I’m making them for you. If you can’t support financially, share links to the campaign on social media if you can, and talk about the show. Thank you for being a part of making vampires happen. Live, laugh, bite.

Kickstarter campaign: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/eira-major/snow-blood-a-not-quite-dead-vampire-story

Transcript: https://hangingslothstudios.com/1-dead-ringer/

Content Warnings
Mentions of blood
Explicit references to sex
Depiction of a character who is dying of terminal illness, wheezing, struggling to speak
'Mercy Killing'
Discussions of the ethics of mercy killings
Descriptions of blood
Biting into flesh, with sound effects.

Not Quite Dead is back, with spin-off series Snow Blood. Set years after the original story, Snow Blood follows Alfie and Neige as they attempt to start to build a better life for themselves and vampires everywhere. One problem; none of the other vampires want to help, and there is this guy who keeps calling, over and over, insisting Alfie comes to meet him... Snow Blood is crowdfunding on Kickstarter from 7th April to 8th May, 2026 and will air in October 2026.
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Snow Blood is crowdfunding now! Check out the campaign, here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/eira-major/snow-blood-a-not-quite-dead-vampire-story
Not Quite Dead is back, with spin-off series Snow Blood. Set years after the original story, Snow Blood follows Alfie and Neige as they attempt to start to build a better life for themselves and vampires everywhere. One problem; none of the other vampires want to help, and there is this guy who keeps calling, over and over, insisting Alfie comes to meet him... Snow Blood is crowdfunding on Kickstarter from 7th April to 8th May, 2026 and will air in October 2026.
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UNKNOWN CALLER
Mr Dellon, I have information which will be important for you. Please go to address listed in my last email; I cannot give information on phone. I know what you are, Mr Dellon. Please.

[PHONE HANGS UP]

ALFIE
For fuck’s sake.

[THUD]

[A DOOR OPENS]

NEIGE
Everything okie?

ALFIE
Ah, yeah. Just got another one of those weird voicemails.

NEIGE
That is what you get for giving out your number the way that you do.

ALFIE
I need people to be able to reach me safely, anonymously if they have to. Everyone’s afraid. I need to make that as small a barrier as I can for people reaching out.

NEIGE
Ah, it is a noble project you are proposing, but the vampires, they will not talk to you yet. It is too soon. They know you have human friends, still living their human lives.

ALFIE
So I’m supposed to sit and wait patiently until everyone I know is dead?!

NEIGE
Non. But I think it may mean you need to rethink your, ah, approche tactique? It is a big risk for to share our stories, even anonymised. Whether or not you say it aloud, you are asking people to expose themselves to the world, and the world is not fond of us.

ALFIE
Visibility is vulnerable, yeah. But if we want acceptance, if we want rights, first we need to show people we exist. We’ve always existed, humans just haven’t really noticed.

NEIGE
All I am saying is that this process will be slow, mon raleur. You know this.

ALFIE
I know. Sorry. I’m just. Annoyed. I get excited every time there’s a message on the voicemail thing but it’s always just these bloody—! like for real, I do not actually fully understand what they’re expecting me to do.

NEIGE
But he is giving you clear instructions, non? Go to this place for more information.

ALFIE
I can’t just go to a random internet cafe in Amsterdam because a nameless voice instructs me to.

NEIGE
And yet I get a sense that each time you get these messages you get closer to doing it.

ALFIE
I’m not going to go.

NEIGE
Perhaps not. But what if it is the beginning of what you want? What if this voice on the machine is a vampire who is willing to talk about his story with you? Hmm?

ALFIE
I thought you wanted me to be patient.

NEIGE
I do, but I am being an, ah. How you say? Advocate for the devil?

ALFIE
Darling, you’re always advocating for the devil. When was the last time you put on clothes?

NEIGE
Nudity is not sinful, I will not allow this nonsense into my home. Anyway, you will do as you like, regardless of what I say or think. You have proven this to me. I am simply attempting to be a good and supportive lover to you. Is there harm in this?

ALFIE
No. No, there’s not.

Snow Blood, a sequel series to Not Quite Dead, will start airing in October 2026. It will be crowdfunding on Kickstarter from the 7th of April. Sign up for updates right now at tiny.cc/snow-blood - to be the first to hear when the campaign launches! The first five people to support at certain tiers will get a ‘first blood’ 10% discount. Go to tiny.cc/snow-blood, live, laugh, bite.
Not Quite Dead is back, with spin-off series Snow Blood. Set years after the original story, Snow Blood follows Alfie and Neige as they attempt to start to build a better life for themselves and vampires everywhere. One problem; none of the other vampires want to help, and there is this guy who keeps calling, over and over, insisting Alfie comes to meet him... Snow Blood is crowdfunding on Kickstarter from 7th April to 8th May, 2026 and will air in October 2026.
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This bite-sized first episode of Vampires on Vampires listens in on Alfie and Neige's post-game chat after watching the Twilight movie. It features spoilers for Twilight, and some of the subsequent films! This is best enjoyed right after you've watched Twilight.

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Transcript: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1upDV6eGshXKA0h-Zdg_nianol1C1k4YieWNxQgof71A/edit?usp=sharing
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Strap in for some of the most long-winded answers to questions I've ever given; multiple times where I just start laughing; and possibly the longest outro segment I've ever done, which happened entirely by accident. Thank you SO much for all of your questions!

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Info about Not Quite Dead is available here: https://hangingslothstudios.com/not-quite-dead/

Not Quite Dead is written, created and performed by Eira Major, under a creative commons 4.0 attribution license, with Kickstarter Vampire Producers Aster and Ted. Live, laugh, bite.
Not Quite Dead is back, with spin-off series Snow Blood. Set years after the original story, Snow Blood follows Alfie and Neige as they attempt to start to build a better life for themselves and vampires everywhere. One problem; none of the other vampires want to help, and there is this guy who keeps calling, over and over, insisting Alfie comes to meet him... Snow Blood is crowdfunding on Kickstarter from 7th April to 8th May, 2026 and will air in October 2026.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.