And here you thought that the Twitter announcement on April Fool's Day about our upcoming shark episode WAS the joke! No! The joke is on us because we had to watch Sharknado for this prank! Also Jaws and Deep Blue Sea.

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If They Haven’t Learned Your Name by silentwalrus

Content Warnings

Gore (in every tentpole & throughout episode discussion)

Transcription

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On this week's episode, we have a two-hour special to answer questions sent in by our darling listeners! Thank you to everyone who has been with us through the last four years! The Great Hiatus begins now, but we will return for at least one more episode next year! Get hype!

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My Name 

Beyond Evil

Honey Girl by Morgan Rogers

All the Feels by Olivia Dade

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

And This, Your Living Kiss by opal_bullets

The Courtier’s Love Affair (and Other Stories) by tridenture

Harlots

Bridgerton 

The Living and the Dead 

Macey’s NaNoWriMo Project: The Resurrection Chalice

In the Realms of Gold by Victoria Goddard

Sword Dance trilogy by AJ Demas

Plum Duff by Victoria Goddard

Alex’s NaNoWriMo Project: Some by Virtue Fall

Other Stuff We’ve Mentioned

Spoiler Alert by Olivia Dade

Supernatural

Sleuth of the Ming Dynasty

Merlin

A Taste of Gold and Iron by Alexandra Rowland

The Vorkosigan Saga by Lois McMaster Bujold

Unmasked by the Marquess by Cat Sebastian

Silk and Steel

The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas by Ursula K. Le Guin

Transcription

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On this week's episode, we're celebrating the release of Freya's debut book by talking about detectives in love! The tentpoles are Of Dragons, Feasts, and Murders by Aliette de Bodard, A Marvellous Light by Freya Marske, and the fanfic If Life Was A Movie We’d Have A Better Soundtrack Than This by galaxysoup.

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Dark Rise by C. S. Pacat

Other Stuff We Mentioned

Captive Prince by C. S. Pacat

Bones

Lord Peter Wimsey series by Dorothy L. Sayers

A Taste of Gold and Iron by Alexandra Rowland

Minor fantasy violence in Of Dragons, Feasts, and Murders and A Marvellous Light.

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Happy (slightly belated) spooky season, darling listeners! On this week's episode we're talking about afterlife career plans and... well, ghosts! Tentpoles this week are Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas, the film Ghost, and the Inception fic, “The Boy Who Spoke With Ghosts” by AvocadoLove.

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The Discord of Gods by Jenn Lyons

Snowpiercer

Dead Like Me (2003)

The Ghost of You by luchia

The Untamed 

All that’s left of two hearts on fire by Lirelyn 

A Christmas Carol  by Charles Dickens

Crimson Peak

For Next Time

A Marvellous Light by Freya Marske

Content Warnings

Transcription

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On this week's episode, we're discussing music! Musicians! Being gripped by the madness of creation! Selling one's soul for art! The tentpoles this week are the film Amadeus, the fanfic "String Theory" by toft,  and Ryka Aoki’s Light from Uncommon Stars.

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The Hellion’s Waltz by Olivia Waite

Leverage

Black Swan (2010)

Aria of the Sea by Dia Calhoun

Catalyst by Jennifer Mace (unreleased)

Scheherazade (character)

A Conspiracy of Truths by Alexandra Rowland

For Next Time

Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas

Content Warnings

Transcription

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On this week's episode, we're discussing body swap fic! Swapping bodies! Trading meatsuits! It's all fun and comedy, right? ...Or is it? Anyway, the tentpoles for this episode are the anime film, Your Name, the fanfic Vinculum by Skadiseven, and the Farscape episode, "Out of Their Minds."

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Bombshell by Sarah MacLean

The Devil and the Dark Water by Stuart Turton

Schmigadoon! (on Apple TV)

Hunger Makes the Wolf by Alex Wells

Pressure Machine by the Killers

Campaign Skyjacks (podcast)

The Bachelor’s Valet by Arden Powell

Other Stuff We Mentioned

The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton

The Dark Crystal

For Next Time

Light From Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki

Content Warnings

Mention of dysphoria & trans erasure in the context of the bodyswap trope (in episode discussion)

Transcription

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On today's episode we're doing another deep dive on the marvelously sapphic fantasy novel The Jasmine Throne by Tasha Suri!

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The Secrets of Charlotte Street series by Scarlett Peckham

Seducing the Sorcerer by Lee Welch

Game of Thrones fanfic

Hunger Makes the Wolf by Alex Wells

cast your bitterness into the sea by Kilerkki 

Campaign Skyjacks

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

Firefly

Hands of the Emperor by Victoria Goddard

Transcription

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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.’

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 ‘a kind of dwell and welcome’ by leupagus

Other Stuff We Mentioned

Ted Lasso

For Next Time

The Jasmine Throne by Tasha Suri

Content Warnings

Transcription

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On this week's episode we're discussing the glamorous authorial life -- authors (and other publishing professionals) through the lens of how they're depicted in media. Tentpoles this week are the film Stranger Than Fiction, the K-Drama Romance Is a Bonus Book, the story “The Bookmaking Habits of Select Species” by Ken Liu and The Unstrung Harp by Edward Gorey.

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Other Stuff We Mentioned

For Next Time

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On today's episode, we're bursting into song at socially inappropriate times to talk about... musicals! Our tentpoles are the Bollywood musical Aaja Nachle, the first two episodes of Galavant, and the musical Wicked.

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Battle Royal by Lucy Parker

Other Stuff We Mentioned

Hadestown the musical

For Next Time

Transcription

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