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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 Aug 28, 2019
Episode 42: Comedy, the Universe, and Everything
Wednesday Aug 28, 2019
Wednesday Aug 28, 2019
On today's episode, we're discussing what exactly makes things funny. Hardly any dick jokes in this one, folks. (Get it? HARDly? it's a dick joke!) Anyway, our tentpoles (wink wink) this week are The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, The Emperor’s New Groove, and the Hamilton fanfic, “our gilded age” by screamlet.
What We’re Into Lately
Their Brilliant Careers by Ryan O’Neill
Which Witch by Eva Ibbotson
Lettered (writer in Schitt’s Creek and Harry Potter fandoms)
Other Stuff We Mentioned
Hannah Gadsby’s Netflix special Nanette and Ted Talk, “Three Ideas. Three Contradiction. Or Not.”
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Unspoken Name by A.K. Larkwood
To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis
Unseen Academicals by Terry Pratchett
In Other Lands by Sarah Rees Brennan
Pagan series by Catherine Jinks
Lymond series by Dorothy Dunnett
A Civil Campaign by Lois McMaster Bujold
Mark Reads, a video series by Mark Oshiro
For Next Time
"With Fire In Their Eyes" by Asuka Kureru
Transcription
The transcript for this episode can be found here. Have you written a love letter to your local scribes recently? :D
Wednesday Aug 14, 2019
Episode 41: The Democratic Republic of Serpents
Wednesday Aug 14, 2019
Wednesday Aug 14, 2019
On this episode, we're talking about politics! It's gonna get.... kind of weirdly emotional. The tentpoles this week are “Corridors of Power” by blythely, “Hand in Unlovable Hand” by Annakovsky, and Cheesecake and the Art of Political Warfare by Sakana Sara.
What We’re Into Lately
Middlegame by Seanan McGuire
Slow Horses by Mick Herron
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Semiosis by Sue Burke
Red White and Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston
“Lie Back and Think of Dinner” and “Still My Heart Has Wings” by jessthereckless
“By Definition” by idiopathicsmile
Tropic of Serpents by Marie Brennan
Other Stuff We Mentioned
The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton
A Natural History of Dragons by Marie Brennan
A Choir of Lies and A Conspiracy of Truths by Alexandra Rowland
“Spin!” by weatherfront.
Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling
The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison
House of Cards, the UK TV mini-series
House of Cards by Michael Dobbs
The Traitor Baru Cormorant by Seth Dickinson
The Monster Baru Cormorant by Seth Dickinson
Vorkosigan Saga by Lois McMaster Bujold
A Deeper Season by lightgetsin, sahiya
What Passing Bells by lightgetsin, sahiya
For Next Time
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Transcription
The transcript of this episode is available here. Thanks as always to our brilliant and extremely cute scribes! If you'd like to help compensate the scribes for their work, consider contributing a few dollars on Patreon!