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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 Oct 24, 2018
Episode 20: Extravaganza
Wednesday Oct 24, 2018
Wednesday Oct 24, 2018
It's time for another Extravaganza episode! This week we're taking a fantastic selection of listener questions and trying to pressure Freya into making some Weird Sounds!
What We’re Into This Week
The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
Band Sinister by K.J. Charles
Homestuck
Torn by Rowenna Miller
Wynonna Earp
Other Stuff We Mentioned
“The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson
We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
Georgette Heyer
Les Miserables
The Chinese drama Guardian
A Conspiracy of Truths by Alexandra Rowland
The Watchmaker of Filigree Street by Natasha Pulley
Yellowcake (esp. “Ferryman”) by Margo Lanagan
“Murder Mysteries” by Neil Gaiman
“Extracurricular Activities” by Yoon Ha Lee
“Seasons of Glass and Iron” by Amal El-Mohtar
“Unprimary Sources” by coveredinfeels
The Starlit Wood, edited by Dominik Parisien & Navah Wolfe
Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik
Conservation of Shadows by Yoon Ha Lee
A. Merc Rustad
John Wiswell
“Salamander Six-Guns” by Martin Cahill
In The End by Alexandra Rowland
“The Manor House” by Fahye
“A Cradle of Vines” by Jennifer Mace
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
The Redwall series by Brian Jaques
Lord of the Rings fanfiction
The Very Secret Diaries by Cassandra Clare
Shaman King
Transcript:
The transcript of this episode is available here. Our wonderful scribes (Magali, Neharika, Sara, and Millie) did a fantastic job!
Wednesday Oct 10, 2018
Episode 19: You and Me and Our Boyfriend Makes Three
Wednesday Oct 10, 2018
Wednesday Oct 10, 2018
On this episode of Be the Serpent, we're discussing OT3s (One True Threesomes). After all, it's twentygayteen, people! Give us more polyamory in canon media! Our tentpoles this week are “The Rundown Job” (Leverage season 5, episode 9); “Always Starts the Same, with a Boy and a Girl”, by lightgetsin (White Collar fanfic); and “Didn’t Know How Lost I Was”, by Annakovsky (Star Wars fanfic).
What We’re Into this Week
Mother of Invention edited by Tansy Rayner Roberts and Rivqa Rafael
The Beast’s Heart by Leife Shallcross
City of Lies by Sam Hawke
Bannerless by Carrie Vaughn
Ada Harper’s A Treason of Truths
1688: A Global History by John E. Wills Jr.
The Adventure Zone
The Chinese drama Guardian
Other Stuff We Mentioned
A Conspiracy of Truths by Alexandra Rowland
Spiders Georg
Leverage
The Raven Cycle by Maggie Stiefvater
White Collar
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Star Wars: The Last Jedi
Mirror Empire by Kameron Hurley
Ursula Le Guin’s story “A Fisherman of the Inland Sea”
Sedoretu
Black Sails
For Next Time
Nothing! Next the Episode 20 Extravaganza! Catch up on your TBR pile and preorder A Conspiracy of Truths!
Transcript:
The transcript of this episode can be found here, lovingly crafted by Sara, Neharika, and Millie.