We almost skipped this week but Niamh decided we should record a little bit anyway. It’s very low energy, so I’m going to keep this summary proportionally low effort. See ya next week.

Niamh can be found haunting Export Audio with Ghost Divers and Ornate Stairwells (and Pondering Pootan, which has never haunted anyone) and on twitter @foxmomnia

Em can be found working themselves into an early grave here at Abnormal Mapping and on twitter @em_being

Next episode: Sir Thomas Malory's Morte Darthur, a new Modern English translation based on the Winchester Manuscript by Dorsey Armstrong, chapters 24-30

The battle rages but also plenty of strange things happen in this eventful Arthur reading. Also, after saga time, Em jumps on the grenade of ‘let’s not talk about work’ to instead overshare about podcast insecurity, among other things. Other things, of course, meaning vtubers. Please enjoy this episode!

Niamh can be found haunting Export Audio with Ghost Divers and Ornate Stairwells (and Pondering Pootan, which has never haunted anyone) and on twitter @foxmomnia

Em can be found working themselves into an early grave here at Abnormal Mapping and on twitter @em_being

Next episode: Sir Thomas Malory's Morte Darthur, a new Modern English translation based on the Winchester Manuscript by Dorsey Armstrong, chapters 24-30

Episoooode Fifty! We honestly forget that it’s 50 but we have a good time talking about questing, both Merlin and Gawain being irrepressibly dumb men about women, Morgan le Fay’s flop villainy, and much more as Darthur keeps up its wild pace. Also, we talk about the usual odds and ends, video games and movies and vtubers. Y’know, the Long Fire Stuff.

Niamh can be found haunting Export Audio with Ghost Divers and Ornate Stairwells (and Pondering Pootan, which has never haunted anyone) and on twitter @foxmomnia

Em can be found working themselves into an early grave here at Abnormal Mapping and on twitter @em_being

Next episode: Sir Thomas Malory's Morte Darthur, a new Modern English translation based on the Winchester Manuscript by Dorsey Armstrong, chapters 16-23

We fly forward several hundred years to the world of Christian Kings and true legend as we talk about one of the central works of Arthurian canon, Sir Thomas Malory’s Morte Darthur! Boys pull swords from stones, Merlin proves to be a real Kongming, and we already learn we are in a world where canon and linearity simply don’t matter. Also, we talk about movies and vtubers! But that’s hardly a surprise at this point.

Niamh can be found haunting Export Audio with Ghost Divers and Ornate Stairwells (and Pondering Pootan, which has never haunted anyone) and on twitter @foxmomnia

Em can be found working themselves into an early grave here at Abnormal Mapping and on twitter @em_being

Next episode: Sir Thomas Malory's Morte Darthur, a new Modern English translation based on the Winchester Manuscript by Dorsey Armstrong, chapters 6-15

Beowulf ends in a truly awe-inspiring crescendo of anguish as we find ourselves taken with this final section of the reading. Then, Em goes on a tear about movies for a while to make up for a skipped Repertory Screenings, before the rest of the episode covers the usual gambit of RPGs, Gundam, vtubers, and more! A beefy episode to end this book!

Niamh can be found haunting Export Audio with Ghost Divers and Ornate Stairwells (and Pondering Pootan, which has never haunted anyone) and on twitter @foxmomnia

Em can be found working themselves into an early grave here at Abnormal Mapping and on twitter @em_being

Next episode: Sir Thomas Malory's Morte Darthur, a new Modern English translation based on the Winchester Manuscript by Dorsey Armstrong, chapters 1-5

NOTE: internet trouble means there’s a little more cross talk on this episode than I’d like, so please know we aren’t actually talking over each other on purpose, it simply can’t be helped.

We talk about Beowulf diving deep and disrespecting moms and it somehow turns into us talking about movies because of course it does. Also, somehow, Final Fantasy 7 and a bit of early game FF7 Rebirth comes up. Because we simply cannot escape the gravity of it.

Also, Niamh opens fem’s birthday present from me live on air!

Niamh can be found haunting Export Audio with Ghost Divers and Ornate Stairwells (and Pondering Pootan, which has never haunted anyone) and on twitter @foxmomnia

Em can be found working themselves into an early grave here at Abnormal Mapping and on twitter @em_being

Next episode: Beowulf, a new translation by Maria Dahvana Headley, lines 1963-finale

Bro! We are back with one of The Classics, one of the all time greats, the kind of poem where people for a thousand years will say That Was A Good Poem. It’s god damn Beowulf! We’re delighted by this new translation, talk a lot about classics, and also wind down with some talk about Niamh in Florida, movie making, and of course podcasting.

Niamh can be found haunting Export Audio with Ghost Divers and Ornate Stairwells (and Pondering Pootan, which has never haunted anyone) and on twitter @foxmomnia

Em can be found working themselves into an early grave here at Abnormal Mapping and on twitter @em_being

Next episode: Beowulf, a new translation by Maria Dahvana Headley, lines 1008-1963

We’re back with the final sections of the book talking about the work itself, and also Niamh finished FF8! Funny how that worked out! Anyway we talk about the endings of both things, and look forward to the future!

Niamh can be found haunting Export Audio with Ghost Divers and Ornate Stairwells (and Pondering Pootan, which has never haunted anyone) and on twitter @foxmomnia

Em can be found working themselves into an early grave here at Abnormal Mapping and on twitter @em_being

Next episode: Beowulf, a new translation by Maria Dahvana Headley, lines 1-1007

We did it! We finished the Nibelungenlied, and it actually ended really good. Well, actually, it ended in utter woe for everyone involved. But we liked that woe! The woe was crunchy and delicious to us, if a little skewed towards Hagen a man nobody should stan.

We’re taking a week off, and then we’ll be back with the extra parts at the end of the book!

Niamh can be found haunting Export Audio with Ghost Divers and Ornate Stairwells (and Pondering Pootan, which has never haunted anyone) and on twitter @foxmomnia

Em can be found working themselves into an early grave here at Abnormal Mapping and on twitter @em_being

Next episode: The Nibelungenlied, all the back matter

Our saga begins to wrap up and we have a nice chat about it, before going on about the usual weeklies of movies and gaming and the rest. The back half of the pod gets real serious about the mental health and health segment, so we silo’d it off after the plugs. Content warning on that for medical and health talk, eating disorders and body image, discussions of trauma and therapy.

Niamh can be found haunting Export Audio with Ghost Divers and Ornate Stairwells (and Pondering Pootan, which has never haunted anyone) and on twitter @foxmomnia

Em can be found working themselves into an early grave here at Abnormal Mapping and on twitter @em_being

Next episode: The Nibelungenlied, ch. 37-39