Some Time To Explain

Pride Month Spectacular!


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Coming in hot at the end of June '21 to celebrate, it's our Pride Month Spectacular! Join Kit, Josh, Andrew, and Jez as they discuss how the Destiny franchise and its universe handles queerness. Spoilers up to Season of the Splicer week 6.SCHEDULE UPDATE: We are taking a week off, so there will be no new episode next week (7/8). We will return to our Season of the Splicer coverage the following week (7/15). See you then!Things discussed: queerness and queer romances in Destiny compared to Bioware games, Chioma Esi, Maya Sundaresh, Ghost Fragment: Vex 5 , lore delivery systems, Saint-14, Osiris, Crow, Mara Sov, Sjur Eido, the Marasenna book, Clovis Bray, romance options, Destiny fan fiction, Ao3, Ana Bray, Cameron Dumuzi, definitions and depictions of family in the Destiny universe, definitions of personhood, Ikora Rey, Elsie Bray, the Dark Future book, Shaxx, Mark of the Great Hunt, Aro and Ace characters in Destiny, trans stories in Destiny and common pitfalls, Oryx and trans representation, Hive biology, the Books of Sorrow, Lost Lament: Locate Dead Exos - Mia-9, Exos: transness and class, character interiority, the Awoken, the Bechdel test, Alis Li, Uldren Sov, Jolyon, Kit's Awoken theory, the Imperial Radch series, non-binary people in the Destiny universe, Utopias, Eris Morn, the Drifter, Devrim Kay, Marc, Dawning Delights book entry - Our Choices Define Us, Quria's gender, Medusa, Savathun, Truth to Power book, Eliksni gender, Destiny 2's queer communityIntro Music: strongboi by strongboiOutro Music: SHUM by Go_ACover Art by Jez Winters @jez_wintersPodcast Name by Michael MoldovanEmail us: [email protected]'s contact info: @macclubbin, www.michaelmaccubbin.comKit's contact info: @kit_boyoteReferences:Robert Brooks on Saint-14 and OsirisDestiny Comics reader (click the icon that looks like an open book to select issues)
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Some Time To ExplainBy Michael MacCubbin and Kit Walsh