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A podcast by three red-headed fantasy authors talking about everything from academic mythology to dick jokes (and sometimes, both at once), as well as the role of fanfiction as an integral yet oft-overlooked part of the literary conversation and in the broader cultural context. It is, obviously, a podcast of extremely deep literary merit.
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Wednesday Feb 28, 2018
Episode 3: Apocalypse Sometime, Maybe Next Tuesday
Wednesday Feb 28, 2018
Wednesday Feb 28, 2018
On this episode of Be the Serpent, we're talking about The Book of the Unnamed Midwife by Meg Elison, the Broken Earth Trilogy by N.K. Jemisin, "Sailor's Delight" by jinjurly, and what we'd do in the event of an apocalypse.
Things we mentioned:
The Book of the Unnamed Midwife (Meg Ellison)
Star Wars
Mad Max: Fury Road
"Sailor's Delight"
Broken Earth trilogy (N. K. Jemisin)
School’s Out Forever
Lord of the Flies
In the End (Alexandra Rowland)
"Solfege" (Freya Marske)
“The Day it Fell Apart” (Leslie Fish)
Natural Disasters
What we’re reading lately:
Frederica (Georgette Heyer)
Lotus Blue (Cat Sparks)
The Belles (Dhonielle Clayton)
A lot of Person of Interest fanfiction.
Transcription
The transcription of this episode is available here! Thanks to Magali, Neharika, and Sara for their amazing work this week!
Wednesday Feb 14, 2018
Episode 2: Personality Taxonomies and Shouting about Hogwarts Houses
Wednesday Feb 14, 2018
Wednesday Feb 14, 2018
On this episode of Be the Serpent, we're talking about Hogwarts houses (especially in regards to the Sorting Hat Chats system), the daemons of Phillip Pullman's His Dark Materials, and how personality classification systems can be a fun and useful writing tool.
Things we mentioned:
Sorting Hat Chats
Astrology
Social identity theory
Anne McCaffrey
Divergent (Veronica Roth)
Liminal space
Howl's Moving Castle (Diana Wynne Jones)
His Dark Materials (Philip Pullman)
“He Says He Is an Experimental Theologian” by ErinPtah (Welcome to Night Vale-with-daemons AU)
"What a Beast Is Mankind" by Lady_ragnell (Leverage-with-daemons AU)
Psychoanalytic literary criticism
Navah Wolfe
What we're reading lately:
The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue (Mackenzi Lee)
The Ringed Castle (Dorothy Dunnett)
Raven Strategem (Yoon Ha Lee)
Transcript:
Please find the full transcript of this episode here!
Thanks to Sara, Neharika, and Magali for doing the transcription this week, and thanks to Andrew Turnwall for helping transcribe the previous episode!