What The Folklore?

This week's episode is like a scattered dream, or perhaps a far-off memory. We try to line the pieces up.

Music in chronological order:
Victory Fanfare (Holder & Ephixa Remix)

Deep Dive by Yoko Shimomura

 Final Fantasy Ending Theme by Nobuo Uematsu

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This week on WTFolkore, we read The Rebel Princess, a Ukrainian tale. What begins as your average Boy Meets Girl, Boy and Girl pour over ancient manuscripts, Girl becomes feral tree person story rapidly escalates to a high seas adventure for a bookclub of drunk lady pirates. It's pretty rad.

Suggested talking points: Agen-C, Smash Glass in case of Life, True Stank, Very Fancy Babies, Fantasy King FOMO, Flute Fingers, King SATs, Water Harvard, Ancient Crime Manuscripts

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This week on WTFolkore, we read Salt, Sauce, and Spice, Onion Leaves, Pepper, and Drippings, a Hausa tale from Northern Nigeria. We spend a considerable amount of the episode reflecting on soup and it's metaphorical capabilities, going so far as to radically change the one presented in a story. Ironically, we forgot a core component of any soup: Evil Spirits.

Suggested talking points: Download Integrity, Drinkable Whimsy, Condolences to Drippings Spice, the Scoville Level of Abs, What if the World was Soup?, Spice as a Metaphor for War

As mentioned at the end of the episode, we'll be donating our June patreon contributions (and making personal donations as well) evenly between Color of Change and The National Center for Transgender Equality. Please follow these links if you'd like to learn more and make donations of your own!

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This week on WTFolklore, we read Tunjur, Tunjur, a Palestinian Arabic tale that presents the world with some exciting new challenges in parenting. It also allows us to reexamine the lasting trauma of being born as an inanimate object.

Suggested talking points: Husband Juice, Classic Verbal Memes, The Storkitron, Human Kilns, Crave Paintings, Inanimate Object Support Group

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Tyler continues his Focus to explain the plot of every Final Fantasy to his captive co-hosts this week, lest a vengeful Pulse Fal'Cie come along and make a motorcycle jetplane dragon lady burst out of his tattoo to turn him a Cieth. Tuesdays, amirite?

Special Thanks to Eric for joining us again on this one!

Music in chronological order:
Victory Fanfare (Holder & Ephixa Remix)

Blinded by Light by Masashi Hamauzu

 Final Fantasy Ending Theme by Nobuo Uematsu

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This week on WTFolklore, we're covering Achol and Her Wild Mother, a Sudanese tale that we think is an absolutely perfect fit for the brand new and not at all desperate new streaming platform, Quibi!

Suggested talking points: Accidental EGOT, Entry-Level Lion, Bits of Important Limbs, Well-Rassled Steaks, For Quibi's Consideration

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This week on WTFolklore we're reading The Enchanter and The Enchantress,  a story so poorly titled it'll make your head spin.  It does, however, sport some very compelling characters and some sexy, sexy magic.

Suggested talking points: Gendertoad, Scrambled Dog Eggs (with Ketchup), Internally-screamed Magic Spells, Myth-times Walmart, Crimebelina

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This week we're reading the Haitian tale, The Gizzard, which may sound at first like well-worn territory for us, but in fact comes with many advancements in Gizzard Tech, as well as cautionary information about Yard Devils

Suggested talking points: Fart Margins, Oompa Boompas, The Bacon Flap, GizzPizz, Non-Consensual Blood Brotherhood, Boynana Sundaes, Brain Swag

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Spoilers: You will hear 12 loud, unpleasant sounds played in succession from 43:13-43:52, if you would like to skip it.

This week on WTFolklore we're covering Final Fanta..mphg ghppphf splrf (sound of being gagged), (sound of being tied up with ropes)

This week on WTFolklore we're covering The Story of Mo-e Mo-e: Also a Story About Po-o and About Kau-hu-hu the Shark-God, and About Mo-e Moe's Son, The Man Who Was Bold in His Wish, A delightful tale within a tale within a tale within a tale from Hawaii. It's about a spear that can feel love, we think.

Suggested talking points: boat rope, "normal fast" AKA "slow", godsharks, a cascade of belongings, gendered wishes, babies vs. genies, Chekov's callout post 

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Have you ever wished that Star Wars was about magic rocks, took place entirely on land, and had names like Zargabaath and Bhujerba? Wish no more! 

Special Thanks to Eric for joining us again on this one!

Music in chronological order:
Victory Fanfare (Holder & Ephixa Remix)

Final Fantasy XII Boss Theme by Hitoshi Sakimoto

 Final Fantasy Ending Theme by Nobuo Uematsu

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