Around the Long Fire

By Abnormal Mapping

A weekly quest by Niamh to guide Em and the listeners through the Icelandic sagas fae loves so much, as we all sit in the dark and feel mortal and small.

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The podcast currently has 108 episodes available.

Around the Long Fire episodes:

July 28, 2025 Around the Long Fire 108: Táin Bó Cúailnge, parts II through IV
The final episode before our little break, we talk about Cú Chulainn, some books, and the vtuber news of the week.
Things Discussed: death and illness, Detransition, Baby, Tehanu, the Vshojo implosion, Nimi Nightmare is getting married!, Pootan 2 and 3
Opening music for this book is Ferdia’s Song and Gae Bolga by Horslips
See the show schedule here! This’ll tell you which versions of books and which sections of those books we’re reading each week.
Niamh podcasts on Export Audio with Ghost Divers and Ornate Stairwells. Fae posts on bluesky at foxmomnia.exportaud.io and on twitter @foxmomnia
Em hosts Abnormal Mapping and Repertory Screenings on abnormalmapping.com and also is the Pokemon Master of Ceremonies on The Great Gundam Project. She posts on bluesky at polarbearsummer.online and on twitter @em_being
Next episode: Táin Bó Cúailnge, parts V through VI from The Táin, trans. Ciaran Carson (Penguin Classics)
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1h 42min
July 21, 2025 Around the Long Fire 107: Táin Bó Cúailnge, Intro and part I
We pivot to Irish myth and legend this week as our hosts really struggle with exhaustion and life, but there’s st8ill plenty to talk about.
Things Discussed: health and reasons for exhaustion (the FMLA paperwork did get done!), the reading of this book aloud, Tehanu, Nodame Cantabile, Niamh plays a new video game, Persona 4 and 5, Freckled1der's Persona 4 LP, the question bucket, bumper stickers, Hokuto and Kamiyama's Pondering Pootan, Beyblade, Pondering Proctors
Opening music for this book is Ferdia’s Song and Gae Bolga by Horslips
See the show schedule here! This’ll tell you which versions of books and which sections of those books we’re reading each week.
Niamh podcasts on Export Audio with Ghost Divers and Ornate Stairwells. Fae posts on bluesky at foxmomnia.exportaud.io and on twitter @foxmomnia
Em hosts Abnormal Mapping and Repertory Screenings on abnormalmapping.com and also is the Pokemon Master of Ceremonies on The Great Gundam Project. She posts on bluesky at polarbearsummer.online and on twitter @em_being
Next episode: Táin Bó Cúailnge, parts II through IV from The Táin, trans. Ciaran Carson (Penguin Classics)
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July 14, 2025 Around the Long Fire 106: La Vita Nuova, parts 24 through the end
We finish off La Vita Nuova, and have a general chat mostly about what we’ve been reading. Please enjoy!
Things Discussed: the weather, Seattle part 1, Niamh's got a throat thing, upcoming time off, what to do between Seattle parts, Seattle part 2, crab boils and Reubens, Dune Messiah, Gender Outlaw, Nodame Cantabile, The Sluts, Question Bucket x2, a very important Mario ranking
Opening music for this book is La vita nuova by Christine and the Queens
See the show schedule here! This’ll tell you which versions of books and which sections of those books we’re reading each week.
Niamh podcasts on Export Audio with Ghost Divers and Ornate Stairwells. Fae posts on bluesky at foxmomnia.exportaud.io and on twitter @foxmomnia
Em hosts Abnormal Mapping and Repertory Screenings on abnormalmapping.com and also is the Pokemon Master of Ceremonies on The Great Gundam Project. She posts on bluesky at polarbearsummer.online and on twitter @em_being
Next episode: Táin Bó Cúailnge, intro & part 1 from The Táin, trans. Ciaran Carson (Penguin Classics)
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2h 13min
June 30, 2025 Around the Long Fire 105: La Vita Nuova, parts 9-23
We break format and put the Pootans in various places around the episode. You know, figured we’d get a little meta with it. Dante has a bad dream, but it’s fine. :)
Things Discussed: Blue Prince, Pokémon Sleep, Hokuto and Kamiyama's Pondering Pootan, Vinyl, Researching Purchases, The Lathe of Heaven, Nodame Cantabile, Clothing Disaster, Eureka Seven, Incredible Animation, Gender Outlaws, Fountain Pens, Relistening to Podcasts, Pondering Proctors, Superstition
Opening music for this book is La vita nuova by Christine and the Queens
See the show schedule here! This’ll tell you which versions of books and which sections of those books we’re reading each week.
Niamh podcasts on Export Audio with Ghost Divers and Ornate Stairwells. Fae posts on bluesky at foxmomnia.exportaud.io and on twitter @foxmomnia
Em hosts Abnormal Mapping and Repertory Screenings on abnormalmapping.com and also is the Pokemon Master of Ceremonies on The Great Gundam Project. She posts on bluesky at polarbearsummer.online and on twitter @em_being
Next episode (in two weeks!): La Vita Nuova, part 24 to the end from Vita Nuova, Dante Alighieri, trans. Joseph Luzzi (Liveright Publishing)
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1h 60min
June 23, 2025 Around the Long Fire 104: La Vita Nuova, Intro-Part 8
We begin season five of Around the Long Fire by going back to the classics that forged Em into the weirdo she is today, as we crack open Dante and talk about pining and eating hearts, among other things. Usual ALF fun follows, in classic fashion.
Things Discussed: Dante studies, Wotakoi, Nodame Cantabile, Hey Kids Watch This, The Beginning of the Slow Bucket Draining, Pokemon, Dagger: On Butch Women, Dear Brother, Piercings, Clothes Shopping, Hokuto and Kamiyama's Pondering Pootan, Pondering Proctors, GGP Backup Shows
Opening music for this book is La vita nuova by Christine and the Queens
See the show schedule here! This’ll tell you which versions of books and which sections of those books we’re reading each week.
Niamh podcasts on Export Audio with Ghost Divers and Ornate Stairwells. Fae posts on bluesky at foxmomnia.exportaud.io and on twitter @foxmomnia
Em hosts Abnormal Mapping and Repertory Screenings on abnormalmapping.com and also is the Pokemon Master of Ceremonies on The Great Gundam Project. She posts on bluesky at polarbearsummer.online and on twitter @em_being
Next episode: La Vita Nuova, intro & parts 9-23 from Vita Nuova, Dante Alighieri, trans. Joseph Luzzi (Liveright Publishing)
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2h 5min
June 16, 2025 Around the Long Fire 103: Season Four Question Bucket
The mighty question bucket arrives and we manage to get through about 30% of the questions we got. We’ll hold onto these and chip away at them in the future, thank you to everyone who wrote in and also thank you to Autumn for showing up this season!
NOTE: Autumn’s audio is a little weird, hopefully they aren’t too quiet I did my best to adjust them. You’ll hear it on the pod. It was a mess.
See the show schedule here! This’ll tell you which versions of books and which sections of those books we’re reading each week.
Niamh podcasts on Export Audio with Ghost Divers and Ornate Stairwells. Fae posts on bluesky at foxmomnia.exportaud.io and on twitter @foxmomnia
Em hosts Abnormal Mapping and Repertory Screenings on abnormalmapping.com and also is the Pokemon Master of Ceremonies on The Great Gundam Project. She posts on bluesky at polarbearsummer.online and on twitter @em_being
Autumn podcasts on on Export Audio with Coffee & Comic Books and Ornate Stairwells. They’re on bluesky at autumnalcoffee.exportaud.io
Next episode: La Vita Nuova, intro & parts 1–8 from Vita Nuova, Dante Alighieri, trans. Joseph Luzzi (Liveright Publishing)
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2h 47min
June 09, 2025 Around the Long Fire 102: Berlin Alexanderplatz (2020)
We watch a modern adaptation of BA reframing it as a story of the now. How does it do? Wellllllll, not great, turns out.
Things Discussed: scams, King of Fighters characters and other fighting games, Wotakoi, Autumn not finishing manga, Dune
Non-Autumn Zone: Faggots, armpits, haircuts, recording podcasts while sick, Switch 2, Hokuto and Kamiyama’s Pondering Pootan, Pondering Proctors
See the show schedule here! This’ll tell you which versions of books and which sections of those books we’re reading each week.
Niamh podcasts on Export Audio with Ghost Divers and Ornate Stairwells. Fae posts on bluesky at foxmomnia.exportaud.io and on twitter @foxmomnia
Em hosts Abnormal Mapping and Repertory Screenings on abnormalmapping.com and also is the Pokemon Master of Ceremonies on The Great Gundam Project. She posts on bluesky at polarbearsummer.online and on twitter @em_being
Autumn podcasts on on Export Audio with Coffee & Comic Books and Ornate Stairwells. They’re on bluesky at autumnalcoffee.exportaud.io
Next episode: Season 4 question bucket
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2h 24min
June 02, 2025 Around the Long Fire 101: Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980) part 14 "My Dream of the Dream of Franz Biberkopf by Alfred Döblin, an Epilogue"
A century of excellence comes to a close and we reach the end of the tale of Franz Biberkopf for the second time, but certainly not the last. We get reflective about our time adjacent to or within games culture on this episode, and then rotate some stupid Star Trek stuff for a bit.
Things Discussed: Animal Crossing, star ratings, Nerissa musical, Gigi Murin coming out as ace and demi, talking about demisexuality, Pride talk, Hokuto and Kamiya's Pondering Pootan: A Podcast within a Podcast, Pondering Proctors
See the show schedule here! This’ll tell you which versions of books and which sections of those books we’re reading each week.
Niamh podcasts on Export Audio with Ghost Divers and Ornate Stairwells. Fae posts on bluesky at foxmomnia.exportaud.io and on twitter @foxmomnia
Em hosts Abnormal Mapping and Repertory Screenings on abnormalmapping.com and also is the Pokemon Master of Ceremonies on The Great Gundam Project. She posts on bluesky at polarbearsummer.online and on twitter @em_being
Autumn podcasts on on Export Audio with Coffee & Comic Books and Ornate Stairwells. They’re on bluesky at autumnalcoffee.exportaud.io
Next episode: Berlin Alexanderplatz (2020)
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2h 36min
May 25, 2025 Around the Long Fire 100: Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980) part 13 "The Outside and the Inside and the Secret of Fear of the Secret"
A century of excellence comes to a close and we reach the end of the tale of Franz Biberkopf for the second time, but certainly not the last. We get reflective about our time adjacent to or within games culture on this episode, and then rotate some stupid Star Trek stuff for a bit.
Things Discussed: Idle Thumbs, Giant Bomb, Star Gladiator, Rival Schools, indie games, media length, Wayside Stories from Wayside School, Star Trek, Hadestown, a welcome surprise
Non-Autumn Zone: Hokuto and Kamiya's Pondering Pootan: A Podcast within a Podcast, Pondering Proctors
The opening theme this season is “Das lila Lied” sung by Ute Lemper
See the show schedule here! This’ll tell you which versions of books and which sections of those books we’re reading each week.
Niamh podcasts on Export Audio with Ghost Divers and Ornate Stairwells. Fae posts on bluesky at foxmomnia.exportaud.io and on twitter @foxmomnia
Em hosts Abnormal Mapping and Repertory Screenings on abnormalmapping.com and also is the Pokemon Master of Ceremonies on The Great Gundam Project. She posts on bluesky at polarbearsummer.online and on twitter @em_being
Autumn podcasts on on Export Audio with Coffee & Comic Books and Ornate Stairwells. They’re on bluesky at autumnalcoffee.exportaud.io
Next episode: Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980) part 14 "Mein Traum vom Traum des Franz Biberkopf von Alfred Döblin - Ein Epilog"
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2h 28min
May 12, 2025 Around the Long Fire 99: Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980) part 12 "The Serpent in the Soul of the Serpent"
It feels in many ways like the entire season was building to this episode, though I’m sure we’ll feel the same way in two weeks. A harrowing show today, and then we enjoy talking about some manga and some books, before Em gets heated about Online and we reflect on the Autumn months (months with Autumn as co-host, not the months of fall).
Things Discussed: balancing act of doing stuff, Honey and Clover, currently running and long running manga, X/1999, Wotakoi, How Do We Relationship, Dune, Gundam Seed, some thoughts on the Andor BDS boycott and criticism at large, winding down the Autumn season, picking songs for the podcast
Non-Autumn Zone: Hokuto and Kamiya's Pondering Pootan: A Podcast within a Podcast, Pondering Proctors
The opening theme this season is “Das lila Lied” sung by Ute Lemper
See the show schedule here! This’ll tell you which versions of books and which sections of those books we’re reading each week.
Niamh podcasts on Export Audio with Ghost Divers and Ornate Stairwells. Fae posts on bluesky at foxmomnia.exportaud.io and on twitter @foxmomnia
Em hosts Abnormal Mapping and Repertory Screenings on abnormalmapping.com and also is the Pokemon Master of Ceremonies on The Great Gundam Project. She posts on bluesky at polarbearsummer.online and on twitter @em_being
Autumn podcasts on on Export Audio with Coffee & Comic Books and Ornate Stairwells. They’re on bluesky at autumnalcoffee.exportaud.io
Next episode: Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980) part 13 "Das Äußere und das Innere und das Geheimnis der Angst vor dem Geheimnis"
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2h 26min

FAQs about Around the Long Fire:

How many episodes does Around the Long Fire have?

The podcast currently has 108 episodes available.