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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 Jun 30, 2021
Episode 89: A Particularly Heartless Wizard
Wednesday Jun 30, 2021
Wednesday Jun 30, 2021
On today’s episode, we're finally getting around to doing our Diana Wynne Jones Episode! Well, sort of -- it's not exactly a deep-dive. Our tentpoles this week are Howl’s Moving Castle, Howl’s Moving Castle, and two Howl’s Moving Castle fanfics — “Hearts and Their Consumption” by setepenre_set and “Second Time Lucky” by labellementeuse.
What We’re Into Lately
Rosaline Palmer Takes the Cake by Alexis Hall
Sistersong by Lucy Holland
Half a Soul by Olivia Atwater
A Taste of Gold and Iron by Alexandra Rowland
Unconquerable Sun by Kate Elliott
Persona 5 fanfic
The Hands of the Emperor by Victoria Goddard
Other Stuff We Mentioned
The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison
To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis
The Little Mermaid
Spirited Away
Snow White
Coraline by Neil Gaiman
Children’s author Frances Hardinge
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Jane Eyre miniseries
Good Omens TV series
Dark Lord of Derkholm by Diana Wynne Jones
Fire and Hemlock by Diana Wynne Jones
Tam Lin Scottish ballad
Castle In the Air by Diana Wynne Jones
Aladdin folktale
Tales of the Arabian Nights
Lord of the Rings trilogy by JRR Tolkien
Labyrinth
Deep Secret by Diana Wynne Jones
House of Many Ways by Diana Wynne Jones
Be the Serpent Episode 36: There’s No Place Like Home
Chrestomanci series by Diana Wynne Jones
The Lives of Christopher Chant by Diana Wynne Jones
Archer’s Goon by Diana Wynne Jones
Eight days of Luke by Diana Wynne Jones
For Next Time
Episode 90: Extravaganza!
Content Warnings
Gore / Violence - Hearts and Their Consumption by setepenre_set.
Transcription
The transcript of this episode is available here. Thank you to our fabulous team of scribes for their hard work, as always :)
Wednesday Jun 16, 2021
Episode 88: Singing a Song of Angry Men
Wednesday Jun 16, 2021
Wednesday Jun 16, 2021
On today's episode we are talking about dystopian stratified societies and "layered cities". Our tentpoles this week are An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon, the Snowpiercer movie (the original one), and “To the Victor, The Spoil” by Annakovsky.
What We’re Into Lately
Black Water Sister by Zen Cho
The Witness for the Dead by Katherine Addison
Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo
The Devil Comes Courting by Courtney Milan
Empress of Forever by Max Gladstone
marigolds by colbub
Avatar: The Last Airbender fic
Rogue One fic
Winter’s Orbit by Everina Maxwell
City of Blades by Robert Jackson Bennett
The Hands of the Emperor by Victoria Goddard
Other Stuff We Mentioned
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
“Dixit Dominus” by George Frideric Handel
Spirits Abroad by Zen Cho
The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison
The Testaments by Margaret Atwood
The Duke Who Didn’t by Courtney Milan
Embers by Vathara
City of Stairs by Robert Jackson Bennett
City of Miracles by Robert Jackson Bennett
Tam Lin by Pamela Dean
This post by missellewoods
The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins
Lara Elena Donnelly’s Amberlough series
The Traitor Baru Cormorant by Seth Dickinson
The Unbroken by C. L. Clark
“And Now His Lordship Is Laughing” by Shiv Ramdas
Hench by Natalie Zina Walschots
“The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas” by Ursula K. Le Guin
"Victory Condition" by astolat
Les Mis (musical)
Les Miserables (disambiguation)
For Next Time
Howl’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones
Content Warnings
Sexual assault, racism, and slavery in An Unkindness of Ghosts
Violence, child harm in Snowpiercer
Sex trafficking, attempted suicide, and adult/minor relationship in “To the Victor, The Spoil”
General warnings for discussion in the episode: the spectre of pedophilia, cannibalism, classism and prejudice (as well as all above listed warnings from the tentpoles)
Transcription
The transcript of this episode can be found here. Thank you to our team of scribes for their great work!
Wednesday Jun 02, 2021
Episode 87: Let the Games Begin!
Wednesday Jun 02, 2021
Wednesday Jun 02, 2021
On this week's episode, we're discussing those models of decorum and tranquility: Games, and game-adjacent narratives! The tentpoles this week are the C-drama version of Hikaru no Go, the film Jumanji: Into the Jungle, and the fanfic you wait and you wonder who’ll take on your odds by paperclipbitch.
What We’re Into Lately
The Charm Offensive by Alison Cochrum
The Last House on Needless Street by Catriona Ward
The Wolf and the Woodsman by Ava Reid
All the Murmuring Bones by A.G. Slatter
Yellow Jessamine by Caitlin Starling
marigolds by colbub
The Shepherd’s Crown by Terry Pratchett
Other Stuff We Mentioned
Uprooted by Naomi Novik
Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik
Chess (musical)
The Lymond Chronicles by Dorothy Dunnett
The Gauntlet by Karuna Riazi
Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
DIE by Kieron Gillen & Stephanie Hans
Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s/Sorcerer’s Stone by J.K. Rowling
Alex’s Fun Facts History of Games Corner
Kriegsspiel game
Discworld series by Terry Pratchett
Playing at the World: A History of Simulating Wars, People, and Fantastic Adventure from Chess to Role-Playing Games by Jon Peterson
Checkmate by Naadi
The Grandfather Clock by Anthony Hill
For Next Time
An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon
Content Warnings
None
Transcription
The transcript for this episode can be found here. Thanks to our most excellent scribes for their hard work!