Episode 26: Alien Fucking, or Where There's a Will, There's A Way

As you may have heard, there's been a slight rearrangement of episode topics, due to the fact that the audio of our original recording of Episode 26 (witches!) was haunted. Therefore, this week we're talking about, well, exactly what it says on the tin. In other words, Dead Dove: Do Not Eat. Our tentpoles this week are The Shape of Water, "And I Awoke and Found Me Here on the Cold Hillside" by James Tiptree Jr, and "Bro: discover new talent." by Laylah (Homestuck fic).

What We’ve Been Reading

A Civil Campaign
Warrior’s Apprentice
Komarr
The Priory of the Orange Tree
The Perfect Assassin
“More Tomorrow”
Band Sinister
Ruin of Kings
Into the Spider-Verse
Nirvana in Fire

Other Stuff We Mentioned

Game of Thrones
Dragonriders of Pern
WorldCon (Dublin 2019) and eligibility for the Best Fancast category of the Hugo Awards
Venom
Zelda: Breath of the Wild
Naruto
“I Belong Where the People Are: Disability and The Shape of Water”  by Elsa Sjunneson-Henry
Pan’s Labyrinth
Homestuck
“La Belle Dame sans Merci”
“Hood and Glove” by Fahye, Yuri/Otabek fic
"Writer Wednesday: A Guest Post by Daria Defore" (the monsterfucking article Freya quotes)
Jupiter Ascending
Guardians of the Galaxy
Mass Effect
Avatar
Writing the Other [book] by Nisi Shawl and Cynthia Ward
Writing the Other workshops
the Greek myth of Galatea and Pygmalion
Leda and the Swan
Ron Weasley/Spider fanfiction
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
Oglaf by Trudy Cooper & Doug Bayne
Tam Lin
Tithe by Holly Black
Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik
Be The Serpent drinking game by Magali
Beauty and the Beast
East of Sun, West of Moon
The Bastard’s Lying to You, a Be The Serpent episode on unreliable narrators
“Women Men Don’t See” by James Tiptree Jr.
Pacific Rim
Edge of Tomorrow
Pacific Rim: Uprising

For Next Time

And I Shall Wear Midnight by Terry Pratchett

Transcript:

The transcription of this episode can be found here. Three cheers for the scribes!!!