OPENING QUOTE: “What’s really going to bake your noodle later on is would you still have broken it if I hadn’t said anything.” (The Oracle, in The Matrix) BOOKS AND STORIES: Moirai (Greek) Norns (Norse) Parcae (Roman) Fortuna (Roman) / Tyche (Greek) Hemsut (Egyptian) Nabu (Babylonian/Assyrian) Sandman (Neil Gaiman) - both the graphic novel and the Netflix series Ananke (Greek) Nyx (Greek) The Starless Sea (Erin Morgenstern) Furies, Sirens Oedipus Tanzara and Dyeer (Armenian) Achilles Hamilton: The Musical She Who Became the Sun (Shelley Parker-Chan) Exhalation: Stories (Ted Chiang) Migrations (Charlotte McConaghy) Mary Oliver’s “The Summer Day” Hadestown Orpheus & Eurydice Cassandra TV SHOWS AND FILMS: Final Destination series Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) The Time Machine (2002) Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (Anna mixes up two series titles in the episode; this is the correct one) Minority Report (2002) Moonknight Paycheck (2003) Grave of the Fireflies (1988) The Adjustment Bureau (2011) The Matrix (1999) Star Trek: Strange New Worlds The Sea Beast (2022) Doctor Who Interstellar (2014) Dark (Netflix) Don’t Look Up (2021) Seeking a Friend for the End of the World (2012) Live. Die. Repeat. (originally titled Edge of Tomorrow) (2014) Back to the Future trilogy Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022) Fringe Arrival (2016)