Be The Serpent

Be The Serpent

By Alexandra Rowland, Freya Marske, Jennifer MaceArts
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Be The Serpent episodes

  • Episode 4: The Bastard’s Lying to You!

    On this episode of Be the Serpent, we're talking about LIAR by Justine Larbalestier, Yuri!! On Ice, "The Women Men Don't See" by James Tiptree Jr, and the joys and delights of unreliable narrators. 


    Things we mentioned:

    Spoilers, spoilers, spoilers
    Liar (Justine Larbalestier)
    Yuri!!! On Ice (2016)
    "The Women Men Don’t See" (James Tiptree Jr.)
    Kingsman (2014)
    The Captive Prince series (C. S. Pacat)
    Alex’s debut book, A Conspiracy of Truths (forthcoming, Fall 2018)
    The Italians (John Hooper)
    The Handmaiden (2016)
    Fingersmith (Sarah Waters)
    Why street magicians are the worst people alive
    The Queen’s Thief series (Megan Whalen Turner)
    Lots more fanfiction
    "Written by the Victors” (Speranza)
    “The Way of the Apartment Manager” (Elizabeth Culmer) (The Naruto fic Macey mentioned)


     


    What we’re reading lately:

    Lotus Blue (Cat Sparks)
    The Belles (Dhonielle Clayton)
    A novel-length Yuri!!! On Ice Fanfiction
    Even more Person of Interest Fanfiction


    Transcription:

    The transcript is available here.
    As always, thank y

    1 hr 1 min
  • Episode 3: Apocalypse Sometime, Maybe Next Tuesday

    On this episode of Be the Serpent, we're talking about The Book of the Unnamed Midwife by Meg Elison, the Broken Earth Trilogy by N.K. Jemisin, "Sailor's Delight" by jinjurly, and what we'd do in the event of an apocalypse.

    Things we mentioned:

    The Book of the Unnamed Midwife (Meg Ellison)

    Star Wars
    Mad Max: Fury Road
    "Sailor's Delight" 
    Broken Earth trilogy (N. K. Jemisin)
    School’s Out Forever
    Lord of the Flies
    In the End (Alexandra Rowland)
    "Solfege" (Freya Marske)
    “The Day it Fell Apart” (Leslie Fish)
    Natural Disasters


    What we’re reading lately:

    Frederica (Georgette Heyer)

    Lotus Blue (Cat Sparks)
    The Belles (Dhonielle Clayton)
    A lot of Person of Interest fanfiction.

    Transcription

    The transcription of this episode is available here! Thanks to Magali, Neharika, and Sara for their amazing work this week!

    53 min
  • Episode 2: Personality Taxonomies and Shouting about Hogwarts Houses

    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!

    49 min
  • Episode 1: False Utopias and... Robot Sex??

    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

    If you enjoyed this episode, tell your friends! Follow us on Twitter and Tumblr as @serpentcast.

    Transcript available here.

    48 min
  • Episode 1: False Utopias and… Robot Sex??

    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


    If you enjoyed this episode, tell your friends! Follow us on Twitter and Tumblr as @serpentcast.


    Transcript available here.

    48 min

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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…