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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 Dec 30, 2020
Episode 77: Sneks Bless Us, Everyone!
Wednesday Dec 30, 2020
Wednesday Dec 30, 2020
Happy holidays, everybody! On this episode, we're sticking with the theme of the season and discussing holidays in fiction! The tentpoles this week are the Doctor Who episode “A Christmas Carol,” the Disney film Coco, and the Scum Villain's Self Saving System fanfic “Shang Qinghua's No Good Very Bad Several Iterations Of A Day.”
What We’re Into Lately
The Art of Theft by Sherry Thomas
How to Catch a Queen by Alyssa Cole
Four Letter Word For Intercourse by bendingsignpost
The Scapegracers by Hannah Abigail Clarke
Other Stuff We Mentioned
Lady Sherlock series by Sherry Thomas
Sherlock Holmes series by Arthur Conan Doyle
Runaway Royals series by Alyssa Cole
Reluctant Royals series by Alyssa Cole
Freya’s favorite Supernatural fic
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries: Murder under the Mistletoe
"Ernesto de la Cruz vs. The Court of Public Opinion" by skater_of_the_surface
The Scum Villain’s Self-Saving System by Mò Xiāng Tóngxiù
The Deep by Rivers Solomon
The Princess Switch: Switched Again
A Christmas Prince: The Royal Wedding
A Christmas Prince: The Royal Baby
The Netflix Christmas Cinematic Universe fey conspiracy by Jodi McAlister
The Nightmare Before Christmas
World Building for Masochists episode 14
reputation by Taylor Swift
For Next Time
Spoiler Alert by Olivia Dade
Transcription
The transcript of this episode is available here. Huge thanks as always to our team of scribes!
Wednesday Dec 16, 2020
Episode 76: Structure?? I Don't Even Know 'Er!
Wednesday Dec 16, 2020
Wednesday Dec 16, 2020
On this week's episode, your Serpents were in the middle of National Novel Writing Month, so they used their smart juicy brains and planned an episode without ANY TENTPOLES WHATSOEVER. It's a craft discussion episode!!
What We’re Into Lately
The Once and Future Witches by Alix E. Harrow
Phoenix Extravagant by Yoon Ha Lee
May the Best Man Win by Z. R. Ellor
The Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells
“Artificial Condition” by Martha Wells
“Rogue Protocol” by Martha Wells
where the stars do not take sides by WitchofEndor
His Secret Illuminations by Scarlett Gale
“The Mysterious Study of Doctor Sex” by Tamsyn Muir
Other Stuff We Mentioned
Avatar renaissance fic
“Zuko is an Awkward Turtleduck”
Embers by Vathara
That Picture of Gwendoline Christie and Oscar Isaac
Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
Harrow the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
The sequel to A Marvellous Light
Catalyst by Jennifer Mace
A Choir of Lies by Alexandra Rowland
“Hallelujah” song by Leonard Cohen
A Marvellous Light by Freya Marske
For Next Time
Coco (Pixar, 2017)
Transcription
The transcript of this episode can be found here. As always, many many thanks to our amazing team of scribes for their work!
Wednesday Dec 02, 2020
Episode 75: Bread and Roses
Wednesday Dec 02, 2020
Wednesday Dec 02, 2020
On today's episode, we're talking about bards and storytellers! What is art even FOR? The tentpoles this week are Dragonsinger by Anne McCaffrey, “With a Conquering Air” by inexplicifics, and When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain by Nghi Vo.
Other Stuff We Mentioned
Chronicles of Ghadid series by K. A. Doore
Space Opera by Catherynne M. Valente
Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo
Viable Paradise roommates
The Thief by Megan Whalen Turner
Murder wife from Luther
A Taste of Golden Iron by Alexandra Rowland
Ruoxi Chen at Tor.com
BtS Untamed episode
BtS Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells the Story episode
Dragonsong by Anne McCaffrey
Asterix comics by René Goscinny
“Only Love Proudly and Gladly and Well” by inexplicifics
In Other Lands by Sarah Rees Brennan
Empress of Salt and Fortune by Nghi Vo
Silver in the Wood by Emily Tesh
Dragon Harper books
Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
BtS Sympathy for the Devil episode
Bread and Roses protest song
Bread and Circuses phrase
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
The Unstrung Harp by Edward Gorey
Symphony For the City of the Dead: Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad by M.T. Anderson
Captain America
Tchaikovsky (composer)
Kalevala Finnish epic poetry compilation
4 Chord Song by Axis of Awesome
New World Symphony by Antonin Dvorak
A Conspiracy of Truths by Alexandra Rowland
A Choir of Lies by Alexandra Rowland
Macey’s bardic piano performance at the Nebula Awards
Cats musical
Les Mis musical
For Next Time
Nothing! (Next time is the mid-Nano episode)
Transcription
The transcript for this episode is available here. Thank you to our brilliant team of scribes!