A podcast by three red-headed fantasy authors talking about everything from academic mythology to dick jokes (and sometimes, both at once), as well as the role of fanfiction as an integral yet oft-overlooked part of the literary conversation and in the broader cultural context. It is, obviously, a podcast of extremely deep literary merit.
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A podcast by three red-headed fantasy authors talking about everything from academic mythology to dick jokes (and sometimes, both at once), as well as the role of fanfiction as an integral yet oft-overlooked part of the literary conversation and in the broader cultural context. It is, obviously, a podcast of extremely deep literary merit.
On today's episode, we're getting unseasonably spooky as we talk about Gothic novels! The tentpoles for this episode are Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia, the film Crimson Peak, and the Untamed fanfic Imago by astrophyllite.
What We’re Into Lately
Word of Honor
The View Was Exhausting by Mikaella Clements and Onjuli Datta
Die, Volume 1 by Kieron Gillen and Stephanie Hans
Dread Nation by Justina Ireland
Don’t Look Back series by acuteneurosis
ShuoshuoChinese
Trading for a Living: Psychology, Trading Tactics, Money Management by Alexander Elder
Untamed fanfic, as always
Other Stuff We Mentioned
The Wicked + the Divine by Kieron Gillen
Young Avengers by Kieron Gillen
American Psycho
Tim Burton’s Alice movies
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
The Untamed
Under The Pendulum Sun by Jeannette Ng
A Song of Ice and Fire series by George R.R. Martin
A Marvellous Light by Freya Marske
Bluebeard folktale
Beauty and the Beast folktale
East of Sun and West of the Moon folktale
Eros and Psyche folktale
The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter
Jane Eyre miniseries (with Ruth Wilson)
‘Restraint and Revelation: or, The Necromancer of Yiling’ (Erotic Gothic Novelist!Lan Wangji)
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
Northanger Abbey TV movie
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Chrestomanci series by Diana Wynne Jones
Howl’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones
House of Many Ways by Diana Wynne Jones
Be the Serpent Episode 36: There's No Place Like Home
Addams Family Values
For Next Time
Hench by Natalie Zina Walschots
Content Warnings
Violence, gore, and incest in all three tentpoles and the episode discussion.
Transcription
The transcript for this episode is available here. Thank you to our beloved team of scribes for their hard work!
Be The Serpent
A podcast by three red-headed fantasy authors talking about everything from academic mythology to dick jokes (and sometimes, both at once), as well as the role of fanfiction as an integral yet oft-overlooked part of the literary conversation and in the broader cultural context. It is, obviously, a podcast of extremely deep literary merit.
