The Heroine's Journey

This week, LC gets her geek on over two of her favorite things: board gaming and romance novels. It’s all about Pandemic: Legacy and the works of Zoe Archer, including: Board games with plot: What makes Pandemic: Legacy different than vanilla Pandemic How a board game can evolve with its players Adventure romance, competency porn, […]

We’re back, baby! This week, LC digs into two of the things that have kept her sane over the past few weeks: Naomi Novik’s Uprooted and Trespasser, the final DLC for Dragon Age:Inquisition, including: Uprooted and the the dark, bloody history of fairytales Why friendship as a fairytale motivator is so unusual Trespasser as humanism […]

This week, LC solos a short, mostly spoiler-free show about Hatoful Boyfriend, the post-apocalyptic pigeon dating sim (yes, you read that right) that’s eaten her brain. Highlights include: A quick update about LC’s health and posting schedule How did a dating sim about birds get to be so good? How does one romance a bird, […]

This week, LC geeks out with Sylvia Monreal, creator of @comosedicenerd, over The Terminator films. It’s an extra-huge episode to contain our extra-huge feels, including: The Terminator as humanity’s case for existence The man in the machine, the machine in the man: Where does Kyle Reese – or Sarah Connor – end and the Terminator […]

This week, Feminist Deck creator Kiva Bay returns to the show to talk about The Triplets of Belleville, the 2003 dark and weird animated French movie about road racing, grandmothers, and 1920’s movie stars, including: How a movie without words can communicate so much about family, aging, and horses Why do grandmothers and aging starlets […]

In honor of our 20th episode, LC welcomes our first guest, Jay, back to the show to talk about Jurassic Park films, including: Ellie Satler: Fending off velociraptors and gross male academics since 1993 How Lex Murphy got a generation of girls interested in STEM Our lasting impressions of The Lost World: Crushes, gymnastics and […]

This week, we record live (sort of) from Rabbitcon!  LC pulls in some of the women in attendance to talk about what they’re reading, watching and playing now. Join Jen, Kate, Kittylexy, Ariel, Sam, JennSka and Lola as they talk about: Pretty Little Liars; Sue Ann Jaffarian’s Odelia Gray mysteries; Alexander McCall Smith’s No. 1 […]

Nadia comes back to the show to geek out over Portal, the 2007 first-person puzzle platformer by Valve and source of a thousand memes, including: Looking back on Chell as a heroine, eight years later GLaDOS as the dark mother, and how a computer got to be so good at emotional abuse Why LC never […]

This week, LC is joined by Sylvia Monreal, creator of @ComoSeDiceNerd and one of the organizers of GeekGirlCon, to dig into Jane the Virgin, the CW’s awesome foray into the world of telenovelas, including: Drama with heart, characters without shame: How Jane the Virgin subverts stereotype How women propel the action, while men struggle with […]

LC is joined by Tess, one of our Patreon patrons, to geek out over Ms. Marvel, the new Kamala Khan-led line that’s taking the comics world by storm, including: Why we love Kamala Khan and the parts of her that are “too big, too weird” Why so many adults struggle to write believable teenagers Kamala […]