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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 Sep 22, 2021
Episode 95: The Jasmine Throne
Wednesday Sep 22, 2021
Wednesday Sep 22, 2021
On today's episode we're doing another deep dive on the marvelously sapphic fantasy novel The Jasmine Throne by Tasha Suri!
What We’re Into Lately
The Secrets of Charlotte Street series by Scarlett Peckham
- book 2: The Earl I Ruined
- book 3: The Lord I Left
Seducing the Sorcerer by Lee Welch
The Bachelor’s Valet by Arden Powell
Hunger Makes the Wolf by Alex Wells
cast your bitterness into the sea by Kilerkki
Till Human Voices Wake Us by Victoria Goddard
Other Stuff We Mentioned
Howl’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones
Swordheart and The Paladin’s Grace by T. Kingfisher
Jeeves/Wooster fanfiction
Hands of the Emperor by Victoria Goddard
The Witcher
“Hellfire” from The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Game of Thrones
Empresses in the Palace
The Realm of Ash
The Magpie Lord series
A Cradle of Vines by Jennifer Mace
Sleeping Beauty
‘Seasons of Glass and Iron’ by Amal El-Mohtar
Realm of Ash by Tasha Suri
The Twilight Zone theme
The Unbroken by C.L. Clark
She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan
A Marvellous Light by Freya Marske
For Next Time
Your Name.
Content Warnings
Violence against women, imperialist violence, semi-graphic death descriptions, references to torture and drugging in The Jasmine Throne
Transcription
The transcript of this episode is available here. Thanks once again to our most excellent team of scribes for their hard work!
Wednesday Sep 08, 2021
Episode 94: Into the Woods
Wednesday Sep 08, 2021
Wednesday Sep 08, 2021
On this week's episode, Macey is forcing us to put on our hiking shoes and dragging us out into the forest to look at some "really nice moss." The tentpoles we’re discussing are Princess Mononoke, Silver in the Wood by Emily Tesh, and Ursula K. Le Guin’s story ‘Vaster Than Empires and More Slow.’
What We’re Into Lately
‘a kind of dwell and welcome’ by leupagus
Reputation by Lex Croucher
Seven Days in June by Tia Williams
orange_crushed ‘s Untamed fics (esp Pentimento.)
And What Can We Offer You Tonight by Premee Mohamed
The Necessity of Stars by E. Catherine Tobler
Victoria Goddard’s books:
Greenwing & Dart series (esp Love-in-a-Mist)
Ask A Mortician Youtube Channel
Other Stuff We Mentioned
Ted Lasso
Gundam Wing
Ponyo
Robin Hood legends
Hannibal
The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones
The Jungle Book by Ruyard Kipling
The Secret Life of the Forest by Richard M. Ketchum
The Hidden Life of Trees by by Peter Wohlleben
Pando
QI
Semiosis by Sue Burke
Brain coral
Green Man motif
For the Wolf by Hannah Whitten
Hild by Nicola Griffith
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling
Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik
Into the Woods
Sorrowland by Rivers Solomon
Black Sails
Vikings
Magician by Raymond E. Feist
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
Westworld
Stargate: Atlantis
Star Wars: Return of the Jedi
Black Spot TV show
Avatar
Avatar: The Last Airbender
Pocahontas
Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer
BTS Episode 16: A Bump In the Night, and Not the Sexy Kind
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures by Merlin Sheldrake
Merlin Sheldrake’s YouTube video showing him eating book fungus
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus by Charles C. Mann
Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter by Ben Goldfarb
The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate – Discoveries from a Secret World by Peter Wohlleben
Around the World In 80 Trees by Jonathan Drori
‘Colors of the Wind’ from Pochahontas
The Biggest Estate On Earth: How Aborigines Made Australia by Bill Gammage
Tomorrow, When the War Began by John Marsden
For Next Time
The Jasmine Throne by Tasha Suri
Content Warnings
Racism (in ‘Vaster Than Empires and More Slow’)
Problematic portrayal of an autistic character (in ‘Vaster Than Empires and More Slow’)
Transcription
The transcript for this episode is available here! Thanks to our team of scribes for their great work!