"Mabel" is a horror/folklore/weird fiction podcast regarding a series of phone messages sent by the main characters. It was created and produced by Becca De La Rosa, who also voices Anna Limon, and is co-written/co-created by Mabel Martin. The storyline focuses on Anna Limon, a home health caregiver, starting to realize that the house in which she cares for the elderly Sally Martin, and the Martin family itself, may not be as simple as she had originally thought.The story is ongoing.The main page for the website can be found here http://mabelpodcast.com/
Mabel contains examples of:
- Abusive Parents: Sally towards Mabel, although technically she's her grandmother.
- Ascended Fangirl: Anna about Mabel, she starts the podcast only knowing Mabel through the stories told by Sally and the pictures of Mabel scattered throughout her childhood home. The story progresses through Anna's voice mails left on Mabel's phone, in almost the form of a diary. Anna apparently befriends the actual Mabel while they are both trapped in the other world, though they appear to get separated when Anna escapes.
- Badass Boast: Mabel when she's fighting the changeling.Mabel: I am not the frog, you stupid ball of twig and moss. I am always the scorpion. I am not the helpless girl in a trap. I am a many-webbed spider.
- Big Good: Anna.
- Big Damn Kiss: Anna and Mabel in Episode 32, after Anna releases Mabel from her control.
- Big Storm Episode: Technically, the big snow storm episode, in the season one finale, "The Freeze."
- Blatant Lies: In the first episode featuring Mabel, she attempts to warn Anna off the more dangerous parts of the house and grounds...without mentioning the supernatural. Her attempts at mundane explanations are obviously flimsy. (Sure, the garden is dangerous because of...foxes.)
- Breather Episode: Episode 8.5:"Letter From Juniper"
- Creepy Child: Young Mabel, with her sharp, sharp teeth and cryptic message in Anna's dream.
- Dead to Begin With: Mabel, Luna, Veratrine, and Aconite.
- Disconnectedby Death: Sort of— rather than a phone call ending, the call never picks up in the first place.
- Eldritch Abomination: the King.
- Eldritch Location: The house itself. Its layout changes even from person to person, depending upon their experience of it.
- Everybody Smokes: In episode 13, "Thomas," Anna confesses that she smoked when she was younger.
- The Fair Folk: The people of the court.Anna: You know these people, Mabel. You know what they value. Loyalty and talent, and beauty of a kind we don't understand in the world above, and wit, too. They value cleverness above almost all else.
- From Bad to Worse: Having your child, even a grown one, disappear, leaving you to raise your grandchild. And then having her go missing, too.
- Genius Loci: The house appears to be one, independent even from the King. It looks after Mabel, but also won't let her leave.
- Girl in the Tower: All of the Martin women, along with Luna Thorne.
- Grave-Marking Scene: Anna and Mabel both visit Sally's grave at different points in the series.
- Guardian Angel: Mabel, for Anna, when the two of them go into the Court together.
- I Needa Freaking Drink: Anna, after Sally almost dies in episode 2.
- I Will Find You: Anna to Mabel, in later episodes. In season three, it flips.
- Living Weapon: In some ways, Mabel for Anna; in others, The House (again for Anna).
- Love Before First Sight: Anna and Mabel.
- Missing Mom: Lily, Mabel's mother, went missing and later died when Mabel was four.
- Nature Spirit: As made clear by their names: Juniper, Veratrine, Luna, etc.
- Noodle Incident: What exactly happens in the Other World version of the Martin House. And the details of Mabel and Anna's first meeting.
- Ouroboros: Tressa Davies references this when she unstitches time with the help of Becca and Mabel.
- Pocket Dimension: Mabel is sent to one in Temporal Snake.
- Releasing from the Promise: Anna deliberately releases Mabel from her control in Episode 32 because she doesn't think they can be together as a couple while Anna can control her.
- Scary Teeth: Mabel.
- Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: Mabel and Anna spend most of Season 4 working with Veratrine, who Mabel killed at the end of Season 3. Their team work consists mostly of threats and insults.
- This Is Gonna Suck: Mabel's dash back into the Martin Place during episode 24.
- Tome of Eldritch Lore: The book that Anna finds to create the poison she takes in episode fifteen, with no name, hand-typed.
- Where the Hell Is Springfield?: Every mention of the town's name is bleeped out and a mixture of American and Irish accents are used, though Anna's work is called King's County.
- Will They or Won't They?: Mabel and Anna, not least because it seems like it's hard for them to be in the same world for more than five seconds straight. Spoiler alert: they will.
