Sierra and Eleanor discuss their favourite writers through history, and consider whether, in the present day, they would still always be writers. The answer? Sometimes yes. Sometimes Jake Paul.

Backstreet's back, alright. It's been a tumultuous month for Sierra and Eleanor (us), what with moving back to uni and all, so this episode we're going to apologise for our absence by painstakingly going over the events of the past month so you can live our lives just like we do.

I will make no apologies for the intro nor the outro. 

I will make some apologies for the intro and the outro.

Points of Discussion: Let's be real, it's mostly about It (2017) and Barns Courtney, with Life Stuff in the middle. Also Budapest, Disneyland, and how everyone in this terrible world wants to do the dirty with Pennywise.

A literature subject? In MY literature podcast? It's more likely than you think. Sierra and Eleanor enter the heart of creepypasta writing, classic and contemporary, and discuss its significance to horror writing as a whole.

In a special unedited episode of Shakesbear, Sierra and Eleanor discuss a subject they spent a week preparing for: they watched each other's 5 favourite movies, and they're going to give their impressions of each other's film preferences.

The problem is, Eleanor likes contrived action movies, and Sierra likes romance indie bullshit. Joss Whedon got involved in the mix even though this was recorded before Joss Whedon's latest nonsense. The words 'fuck you' are uttered a lot, and then it gets really deep but the editor was forced to keep everything in by means of mutually assured destruction. It's basically a mess.

Movies discussed: Electrick Children, Lost in Translation, Garden State, Palo Alto, My Own Private Idaho, Aliens, Now You See Me, Cabin in the Woods, Yojimbo, Hot Fuzz.

The Gang Pretend They're Creative Writing Experts, and answer audience-submitted writing prompts the best they can: by doing it so bad the editor of the podcast does a face reveal to apologise.

Sierra and Eleanor are very tired. But they did see Spiderman and Dunkirk, so they're going to talk about that. They're so tired.

We invite a friend who knows more about films than us to listen as we fix one of her favourite films by putting Steve-O in it. And also skateboarding, arson, and the real, actual murder of Goldie Hawn by bear. 

Slight spoilers for La La Land within, but only if you haven't seen, like, the trailer. We don't exactly make incisive comments on the story format.

Eleanor and Sierra want to talk about The Mummy (2017) with you for a little while, then fix Universal's new cinematic universe for them by figuring out how we can see the Invisible Man's peen. Shh, shh. Just let it happen.

On the sophomore entry of Shakesbear, we attempt to talk about literature education. Then we see a friend of ours out the window and all hell breaks loose as the three of us attempt to answer the real question: who IS the most fuckable poet?

It's that new secret podcast that literary academics don't want you to know about: Shakesbear! Mostly for very good reasons, because for our very first episode we kick off the festivities by complaining about Shakespeare in Love, a film so historically inaccurate we compare it with absolute sincerity to Gnomeo and Juliet.