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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 May 19, 2021
Episode 86: 9 to 5 (What a Way to Make a Living)
Wednesday May 19, 2021
Wednesday May 19, 2021
On this week's episode, we're discussing jobs, occupations, and vocations, both fantastical and mundane despite the fantastical settings. The tentpoles for this episode are Rupert Wong, Cannibal Chef by Cassandra Khaw, Hench by Natalie Zina Walschots, and “Always Near” by afrai.
What We’re Into Lately
A Master of Djinn by P. Djèlí Clark
How to Find a Princess by Alyssa Cole
Hollow Empire by Sam Hawke
Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
Hiding in the Leaves by aventria & iluxia (Naruto fanfic)
Other Stuff We Mentioned
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
"The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" by Ursula K. Le Guin
After Working At Google, I’ll Never Let Myself Love A Job Again (Op-Ed, NYT)
My Life as a Background Slytherin (webcomic)
Avengers movies
Superhero Damage Insurance (TikTok)
Star Wars franchise
Be the Serpent Space Sweepers episode
The Sorcerer of the Wildeeps by Kai Ashante Wilson
October Daye series by Seanan McGuire
Three Parts Dead by Max Gladstone
Discworld series by Terry Pratchett
Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Rivers of London series by Ben Aaronovitch
To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis
Vorkosigan series by Lois McMaster Bujold
John Scalzi (author)
Honor Harrington series by David Weber
We Ride the Storm by Devin Madson
Catalyst by Jennifer Mace
Foundryside by Robert Jackson Bennett
“Period Piece” by thimblefullofdespair
for a hundred vision and revisions by aventria, iluxia
Merlin TV show
Macey’s Fun Facts Tech Job Corner
An Example of Bad Radio
The Story Engine storytelling game
For Next Time
Hikaru no Go (2020 live action Chinese drama)
Content Warnings
Slavery (in “Always Near” + episode discussion)
Medical trauma & body horror (in Hench)
Cannibalism and gore (in Rupert Wong, Cannibal Chef + episode discussion)
Transcription
The transcript for this episode is available here. Thanks as always to our fabulous team of scribes!
Wednesday May 05, 2021
Episode 85: Girl Meets House
Wednesday May 05, 2021
Wednesday May 05, 2021
On today's episode, we're getting unseasonably spooky as we talk about Gothic novels! The tentpoles for this episode are Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia, the film Crimson Peak, and the Untamed fanfic Imago by astrophyllite.
What We’re Into Lately
The View Was Exhausting by Mikaella Clements and Onjuli Datta
Die, Volume 1 by Kieron Gillen and Stephanie Hans
Dread Nation by Justina Ireland
Don’t Look Back series by acuteneurosis
Trading for a Living: Psychology, Trading Tactics, Money Management by Alexander Elder
Untamed fanfic, as always
Other Stuff We Mentioned
The Wicked + the Divine by Kieron Gillen
Young Avengers by Kieron Gillen
Tim Burton’s Alice movies
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
Under The Pendulum Sun by Jeannette Ng
A Song of Ice and Fire series by George R.R. Martin
A Marvellous Light by Freya Marske
Bluebeard folktale
Beauty and the Beast folktale
East of Sun and West of the Moon folktale
Eros and Psyche folktale
The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter
Jane Eyre miniseries (with Ruth Wilson)
‘Restraint and Revelation: or, The Necromancer of Yiling’ (Erotic Gothic Novelist!Lan Wangji)
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
Northanger Abbey TV movie
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Chrestomanci series by Diana Wynne Jones
Howl’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones
House of Many Ways by Diana Wynne Jones
Be the Serpent Episode 36: There's No Place Like Home
For Next Time
Hench by Natalie Zina Walschots
Content Warnings
Violence, gore, and incest in all three tentpoles and the episode discussion.
Transcription
The transcript for this episode is available here. Thank you to our beloved team of scribes for their hard work!