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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 Feb 14, 2018
Episode 2: Personality Taxonomies and Shouting about Hogwarts Houses
Wednesday Feb 14, 2018
Wednesday Feb 14, 2018
On this episode of Be the Serpent, we're talking about Hogwarts houses (especially in regards to the Sorting Hat Chats system), the daemons of Phillip Pullman's His Dark Materials, and how personality classification systems can be a fun and useful writing tool.
Things we mentioned:
Sorting Hat Chats
Astrology
Social identity theory
Anne McCaffrey
Divergent (Veronica Roth)
Liminal space
Howl's Moving Castle (Diana Wynne Jones)
His Dark Materials (Philip Pullman)
“He Says He Is an Experimental Theologian” by ErinPtah (Welcome to Night Vale-with-daemons AU)
"What a Beast Is Mankind" by Lady_ragnell (Leverage-with-daemons AU)
Psychoanalytic literary criticism
Navah Wolfe
What we're reading lately:
The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue (Mackenzi Lee)
The Ringed Castle (Dorothy Dunnett)
Raven Strategem (Yoon Ha Lee)
Transcript:
Please find the full transcript of this episode here!
Thanks to Sara, Neharika, and Magali for doing the transcription this week, and thanks to Andrew Turnwall for helping transcribe the previous episode!
Wednesday Jan 31, 2018
Episode 1: False Utopias and... Robot Sex??
Wednesday Jan 31, 2018
Wednesday Jan 31, 2018
On this episode of Be the Serpent, we're talking about the short story "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" by Ursula K Le Guin and the fanfiction "Victory Condition" by astolat.
Other things mentioned during this episode:
Hopepunk, Grimdark, and Noblebright
Amal El-Mohtar
Zen koans
Rev. Martin Luther King
The Trolley Problem
Doctor Who: “The Beast Below”
Strongtime: when stories happen
Siegfried Sassoon and Regeneration
Omar Khayyam
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