It's our first short fiction anthology show! This one features:

How to Swallow the Moon by Isabel Yap

Florilega; Or Some Lies About Flowers by Amal El-Mohtar

The Demon-Sage's Daughter by Varsha Dinesh

Which are increasingly weird adaptations of mythopoetic traditions from around the world (The Philippines, Wales and Kerala, specifically.)

This is a book about a trans runaway who is a survival sex worker and a violin prodigy and the demons and aliens she encounters in suburban LA but it is mostly about eating really amazing meals in restaurants. Isaac LOVED this one, but it is Not Without Its Problems.

What if you took a standard romance novel setup - girl abducted and made to serve in the harem of the handsome prince - and really leaned into how awful that would be in real life? You'd get this, a YA novel whose major tone is the suffocating dread of violent sexual assault, but with forbidden lesbian romance and a clan of secret ninjas thrown into the mix. It's a challenging one.

We've been doing this for a year! Unbelievably! To celebrate, it's time for one of my favorite podcast tropes: the silly award show, in which we discuss who the best lesbian is, who the best wizard is, and so forth.

There's a girl trapped in a tower, a handsome prince comes to save her, and then everything goes wrong. Thankfully there's a lesbian moth demon there to help.

I mean, what is there to say?

It's our 25th episode, and so we're going to discuss an anime that is very important to us, and which is absolutely a foundational text in the wizards vs lesbians idiom. We could fill up multiple podcasts talking about this show, and just might, if provoked.

It's another retro episode! This one to takes us back to gay London in the 1990s, where a queer cab driver named Rainbow is being haunted not only by her variously-kosher gaggle of aunts but by an actual dybbuk, unleashed upon her to fulfill a centuries-old curse. It's Good Omens but Jewish and with lesbians - what's not to like?

It's an accidental holiday episode! The Raven and the Reindeer is a retelling of Hans Christian Andersen's The Snow Queen by T Kingfisher, AKA Ursula Vernon, furry webcomic artist of the old school. And it's great - keeps all the weirdness of the original and adds a whole shovelful of gay.

The rare modern contemporary wizards vs lesbians novel, set here and now. It's about a young woman of Malaysian Chinese descent who returns to Penang under difficult circumstances and has to deal, among other things, with the ghost of her grandmother. An extremely solid piece of work: If you have any litfic snobs in your circle, this is the one to break 'em in with.