Thank you so much to Jessie for commissioning this episode!
Hoo boy. Y'all, I get real mad during this episode. BIG MAD, as the kids say. This is the one in which Quentyn basically tells Julia that the reason he's refused to help her is because he's pissed she won't fuck him.
Lots of other stuff happens, too, don't get me wrong. There's a pretty awesome subplot with a bottomless fountain that's haunted by the ghosts of students and teachers who drowned themselves, and Alice is determined to find out if her brother is still in there somewhere. It doesn't go super well.
But mostly, I am mad at Quentyn and I want to just punch his stupid face.
Thanks so much for listening, and I will see you soon with a new episode!

Thanks so much to Jill for commissioning this episode!
My apologies ahead of time, because I talked so much about a couple of aspects of the story that I go over time and don't get to talk about everything that happened. However, I promise I made up for it in the next one!
These chapters, the most important thing that happens (in my opinion) is getting to know Wylan a little better. He's the character that I've felt the least connection with, and I love that we get a look inside his head at the way he was treated and the way he internalized that. Finding out that his father was treating someone else this way is the only thing that really gets him to see what his father really is.
This is some good shit.
Thank you so much for listening, and I will see you soon with a new episode!

Such huge thanks to Melanie for commissioning this episode! For those interested, you can watch me watching this for the first time on Facebook Live at facebook.com/unspoiledpod
This was nothing I expected, and I mean that in a good way. I had no idea it was animated, I had no idea it would be so funny, and I didn't know how many GIFs and reaction memes were based on moments from this show. Overall I loved it and I'm so excited to watch more.
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First of all, I owe yet another commissioner an apology. I am beginning to think that I know why so may episodes failed to upload the way they were supposed to right before I went on vacation, but it doesn't matter because I should have checked on it and made sure everything was right. So my apologies to Abbey, because I recorded this episode close to a month ago and I thought it had gone out.

These chapters are the penultimate section of this book, and they're pretty scary IMO. Sabriel is just coming back from Death with her father to help forestall Rogir so that she and Touchstone can escape and destroy his body. The whole description of the sound of the Hands walking and shuffling around is some real creepy shit, and the fact that Mogget has been released yet again gives me serious pause. I do not care for that turn of events.

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Thank you so much to Nicole for commissioning this episode!
We start off this episode in the aftermath of the attack of The Beast, and it's a pretty effective sequence. There's a lot of guilt going around amongst the students that participated in the ritual that "allowed" in this creature...only I don't think it's really their fault at all.
Meanwhile, Julia is getting more and more attached to this shady group of hedge magicians, and gets a damn tattoo even though she knows nothing about who they really are or what they really want. C'mon, girl.
Thank you all so much for listening, and I will see you soon with a new episode!

Oh lordy, y'all. I done messed up. Between this episode and a Deadwood episode that was meant to go up a month ago at this point, somehow I totally dropped the ball. Huge apologies to Rachel for my lateness!

Yay! Time for the next episode, thanks to Megan! I'm so happy to get to pick this back over again.
This episode stirred up so many feelings in me about female friendships and the way that we have certain expectations of backstabbing and cattiness if two women are both, to quote the show, "equally sexually viable".
I really enjoyed this one and I'm super excited to see what other hilarious songs they come up with. 'I'm so good at yoga' is a new classic.
Thanks for listening!

Hey there! It's time to get into the next chapters of The Wall Of Storms and we're getting a slow introduction to a new character that I suspect we're going to be seeing a lot more of.
Thank you so much to Kyle for commissioning this and coming to the chat to hang out!
These chapters deal with the fallout from the Imperial Children running away for a pub and hanging out with some commoners, and then we get to see the actual examination that the aspiring scholars have to sit through. It's intense.
Thanks so much for listening! See you soon with a new episode!

Oh boy, it's time for another new show! I am excite!
Thank you so much to Michael for commissioning this episode! He has gone on to commission episode 2, but I'm booked so far ahead that there will be about a month long wait, so please bear with me!
This episode was really interesting, and leads to me theorizing wildly about what some of the rules and ethics of time traveling in this specific fashion might be. Taking over a body that was about to die is a really specific and unusual kind of travel, and raises all sorts of questions about the future.
I hope that you all enjoy this episode, and I will see you in a bit with a new one!

Many thanks to Jessie for commissioning the first episodes of The Magicians! There's more to come and I'm very interested to see where we go from here.
This episode was a real up and down experience for me. There were parts of it I absolutely loved (scary moth man, anyone?) but then there were some issues that I had a really hard time with, like the mental health plot points and the use of sexual assault threats to provoke magic.
All in all, I'm interested and they have my attention, but I'm side-eyeing some portions and hoping they will get a little smarter with it as time goes on!
I will see you soon with a new episode!