Life Narrated

In this episode we are judgmental about other people's work, including stories about bull selkies, decoy princes, basic bitch fantasy, apex predators, platoons of necromancers, angry editors; we take note of content warnings, learn that all librarians are witches, and these are out opinions so don't @ us. Unless you have something nice to say, in which case email us at suggestions at lifenarrated dot com

In this episode we talk about Animal Protagonists, including smear campaigns against pigs, snake birthday rituals, can we, as a nation, move on from hating rays? That bear wants to maul you, he doesn't want a relationship, we throw Sharktale under the bus because DON'T GIVE ANIMALS JOBS, and Lauren and Emily discuss our perfectly rational fears of Killer Whales. Our fabulous guest is Allyson!

In this episode we talk Egypt, including 4,000 years of bird art, Ocean's Eleven: Early Christianity Edition, the decision making process in religious vandalism, #VictoriansAreTheWorst, and you can't beat 200 million years of evolution, so you should jump on this Sobek train. Don't need no evolution.

In this episode we talk about fictionalizing recent tragedies, including searching for a standardized version of history, when it is too soon, rule-making, Lauren has a box that will take our podcasting to THE NEXT LEVEL, Chicago 10/13 coming 2020, de-contextualized war, murder podcasts, and trans-humanism is still somehow part of this podcast.

In this episode we talk about Hamilton vs Les Miserables, including moral absolutism vs moral flexibility, Hamilton as the hero and the villain, Marius needs to focus, we hear from friend of the show and semi-colon enthusiast, Victor Hugo, ugly crying when the lights cut on, and the return of 'swiftboating' and 'strategery.'

Please excuse the wonky audio - we had sound issues, which made this episode REALLY hard to cut. Spoilers for both Hamilton and Les Mis!

In this episode we have some guest hosts who talk about high fantasy, including how the land of Oz was not ready for Dorothy the Despot, that there are no villains in *high* fantasy, and how fantasy is a safe space to work through real world problems.

Just a quick update! We'll be back soon!

In this episode we discuss what makes something part of a franchise's canon, and what makes it non-canonical, including Star Wars extended universe, Coffee Shop AUs, X-men Evo fan fic, #TechnicallyNotRelated, Rule 34, and we come circle back around to transhumanism.

In this episode, we struggle with the definition of a reboot vs an adaptation, suddenly somehow Sherlock's drug use is a 'problem', adaptations we want to see, adaptations we unfortunately did see, Reverse MacGyvers, and Emily gets Capital R Romantic about X-Men.

In this episode we discuss mirrors and graven images, catoptromancy, how cats commune with evil, liminal spaces, mirror worlds, Emily uses a puddle as a mirror, the social media mirror dimension, why did we do so much witch craft at sleepovers? and Lauren has a very special message for the teens.