Dissecting Dragons
By J.A. Ironside & M.E. Vaughan
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Authors J.A. Ironside and M.E. Vaughan talk about books, films and all aspects of speculative fiction, from the nuts and bolts of writing it, to its (occasionally) obscure origins.
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Episode 466: The Better Angels of Our Nature - 2025 in Review
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Jan 02, 2026 |
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Episode 465: Tinsel and Time Loops - Temporal Chaos at Christmas
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Dec 26, 2025 |
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Episode 464: Krampus The Grinch and Holiday Mischief - Why Christmas Needs Villains
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Dec 19, 2025 |
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Episode 463: A Season of Giving - Gifts as Plot Devices in Speculative Fiction
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Dec 12, 2025 |
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Episode 462: Beauty is a Beast - the Problem with Ugly Characters in Speculative Fiction
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Dec 05, 2025 |
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Episode 461: The Girl with a Sword - strong female characters and the death of nuance
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Nov 28, 2025 |
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Episode 460: Folklore of the Forgotten - Mythic Creatures Born From Obsolete Jobs
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Nov 21, 2025 |
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Episode 459: The Ghost in the Machine - Folklore Meets Firmware in Speculative Fiction
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Nov 14, 2025 |
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Episode 458: The Mummy Unwrapped - Bandaged Horror to Unlikely Romantic Hero
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Nov 07, 2025 |
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Episode 457: The Graveyard Shift - Nightmares Sleep Paralysis & Dreamscapes in Folklore and Modern Horror
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Oct 31, 2025 |
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Episode 456: Haunted Attics & Cursed Kitchens - the Paradoxical Terror of the Mundane
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Oct 24, 2025 |
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Episode 455: Tangle Bottles & Bone Charms - Everyday Magic in Folklore & Fiction
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Oct 17, 2025 |
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Episode 544: The Uninvited Guest - Unseen Entities and Invisible Fear in Myth and Modern Horror
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Oct 10, 2025 |
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Episode 453: The Outsider - When the Gothic meets the Contemporary
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Oct 03, 2025 |
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Episode 452: A Bull on the Tongue - 10 years of Writing
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Aug 08, 2025 |
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Episode 451: The Work place dystopia - The soul crushing reality of the modern workplace in SFF - part 2
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Aug 01, 2025 |
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Episode 450: The Work place dystopia - The soul crushing reality of the modern workplace in SFF
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Jul 25, 2025 |
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Episode 449: The Crumbling Castle - Disney's Downward Spiral
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Jun 27, 2025 |
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Episode 448: Unbelievably Popular - why do bad books become best sellers?
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Jun 06, 2025 |
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Episode 447: Wit & Readability - 250 years of Jane Austen
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May 23, 2025 |
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Episode 446: Getting Your House in Order - Writing as a Career or a Serious Side Gig
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May 16, 2025 |
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Episode 445: No More Mr Nice Guy - the Geek Misogynist in Speculative Fiction Part 2
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May 09, 2025 |
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Episode 444: No More Mr Nice Guy - the Geek Misogynist in Speculative Fiction part 1
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May 02, 2025 |
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Episode 443: 2024, the Real Life Experience - A Year in Review
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Dec 27, 2024 |
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Episode 442: The Witches of Midwinter - Following the Wild Dance and Furious Hosts of Christmas
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Dec 20, 2024 |
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Episode 441: Remaking the 80s - Rewriting Classic Films for a Modern Audience
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Dec 15, 2024 |
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Episode 440: The Devil's Music - the Occult, Rock'n'Roll and Storytelling
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Dec 06, 2024 |
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Episode 439: It Grows in Darkness - Mushrooms in Horror and SFF
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Nov 29, 2024 |
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Episode 438: Jeeves Blackadder and Puss - Canny Domestics and Sneaky smart servants
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Nov 22, 2024 |
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Episode 437: Popular, you're gonna be popular - or are you? - Why Stage Production Musicals Often Fail on the Big Screen
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Nov 15, 2024 |
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DD 436: The Tiffany Problem - When Reality is too real for Speculative Fiction
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Nov 02, 2024 |
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Episode 435: Snatchers surfers and Hitchers - Bodysnatching in Speculative Fiction
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Oct 25, 2024 |
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Episode 434 -The Allure of the Curse - Speculative Fictions Oldest Trope
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Oct 18, 2024 |
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Episode 433: The Woods, the Mountains and Emptiness - an Examination of Survival Horror
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Oct 11, 2024 |
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Episode 432: Haunt Sweet Home - How to Write a Haunted a House
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Oct 04, 2024 |
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Episode 431: This is Fine - Writing Trauma in Scifi and Fantasy part two
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Sep 27, 2024 |
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Episode 430: This is Fine - Writing Trauma in Sci-fi & Fantasy
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Sep 20, 2024 |
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Episode 429: All in the Details - How to Use Description in Speculative Fiction part 2
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Sep 13, 2024 |
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Episode 428: All in the Details - How to Use Description in Speculative Fiction part 1
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Sep 06, 2024 |
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Episode 427: The Boys are Back in Town - the Dark Heart of the Superhero Genre
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Aug 02, 2024 |
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Episode 426: Change, Uncertainty and Unhappiness - making low stakes compelling
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Jul 26, 2024 |
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Episode 425: A Thousand Ships - The Awkward Side of Retelling Greek Myths
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Jul 18, 2024 |
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Episode 424: Starving Artists and Worshipped Writers - unrealistic depictions of creatives in Film and TV
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Jul 12, 2024 |
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Episode 423: Memory became legend legend became myth - the dawn of the fantasy genre part 2
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Jul 05, 2024 |
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Episode 422: Memory became legend legend became myth - the dawn of the fantasy genre part 1
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Jun 28, 2024 |
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Episode 421: Impossible Monsters - Dinosaurs and Megafauna in Speculative Fiction
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Jun 21, 2024 |
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Episode 420: Never Coming Home - The Moving Beyond Bereavement and Death is a Sad Thing Tropes
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Jun 14, 2024 |
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Episode 419: The Sun, the Moon & the Spindle - Tracing the Origins of Sleeping Beauty
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Jun 07, 2024 |
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Episode 418: the Dark Decent - Transforming a Hero into a Villain in SFF
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May 31, 2024 |
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Episode 417: An Abundance of Janes and Cathys - Retellings of the classics and why they usually suck pt 2
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May 24, 2024 |
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Episode 416: An Abundance of Janes and Cathys - Retellings of the classics and why they usually suck part 1
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May 17, 2024 |
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Episode 415: Seafarers, Swashbucklers and Chaotic Archaeologists - the evolution of Adventure Fiction
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May 10, 2024 |
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Episode 414: Seasons May Change - Stars Farmers & Wild Weather Calendars
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May 03, 2024 |
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Episode 413: Dragon riders & wolf speakers - the Animal Soul Bond in Speculative Fiction
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Feb 09, 2024 |
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Episode 412: By the Blade - the Evolution of Heroic Fantasy
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Feb 02, 2024 |
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Episode 411: Kitchen Heroes - Humble Protagonists who get Things Done in Speculative Fiction
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Jan 19, 2024 |
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Episode 410: In a Rural Dream - The Rise of Cottagecore
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Jan 12, 2024 |
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Episode 409: Pitched Perfectly - The Film was Better than the Book
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Jan 05, 2024 |
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Episode 408: There’s good news and...more good news - 2023 in review
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Dec 29, 2023 |
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Episode 407: Jingle Bell Rock - Storytelling through the medium of songs the Christmas edition
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Dec 22, 2023 |
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Episode 406: A Picture Says a Thousand Words - The Rise of the Graphic Novel
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Dec 15, 2023 |
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Episode 405: The Fairest of Them All - The Pursuit of Beauty as a Literary Device
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Dec 08, 2023 |
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Episode 404: It was Great Apart from the Ending - Beloved Fiction that Wobbled on the Dismount
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Nov 30, 2023 |
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Episode 403: The Old Family Business - Gangster Witches and Legacy Monster Hunters
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Nov 24, 2023 |
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Episode: 402 Of Gold and Hubris - Tracing the Origins of Rumpelstiltskin
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Nov 17, 2023 |
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Episode 401: Girls on Ice - a History of the Fridging Trope
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Nov 10, 2023 |
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Episode 400: Strange Fruit in the Gallant South - Exploring the Southern Gothic
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Nov 03, 2023 |
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Episode 399: This Set is Cursed - Strange Events Behind the Scenes at Horror Films
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Oct 27, 2023 |
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DD Episode 398: Joyous Companions Forever - examining the queerness of the vampire genre
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Oct 20, 2023 |
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Episode 397: The Beautiful and the Damned - examining the Queerness of the Vampire Genre
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Oct 13, 2023 |
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Ep 396: It Came from Out of the closet - The Queer Relationship with Horror
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Oct 06, 2023 |
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Ep 395: Weirdstones and Magic Keys - What makes a Children’s book a classic?
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Sep 29, 2023 |
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Ep 394: Divas Debutantes and Girls next door - the best and worst female main characters
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Sep 22, 2023 |
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Episode 393: Unlikely Rebels - the Moral Outlaw Trope
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Sep 15, 2023 |
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Episode 392: An Awful Lot of Walking - Mastering Pacing in Speculative Fiction
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Sep 08, 2023 |
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Episode 391: Lost in the Woods - Tracing the Origins of Hansel and Gretel
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Sep 01, 2023 |
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Episode 390: Let the Games Begin - Why the Competition Trope is so Popular in Speculative Fiction
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Aug 25, 2023 |
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Episode 389: Beautiful Misery - The Hunger for the Afflicted Woman in Fiction
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Aug 18, 2023 |
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Episode 388: A Conflagration of Authors - AI, Audiobooks and Infringement
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Aug 11, 2023 |
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Episode 387: Complicated Runes and Ineffable Power - Hard Versus Soft Magic Systems in Speculative Fiction
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Aug 04, 2023 |
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Episode 386: The Art of Not Fitting In - A collection of Not Like the Other Girls Trope Observations
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Jul 27, 2023 |
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Episode 385: Both is Good - Examining Bisexual Representation in Speculative Fiction
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Jul 21, 2023 |
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Episode 384: Appearances Can be Deceiving - The Hidden Power of Modern Fairytales
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Jul 14, 2023 |
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Episode 383: Gaslit Magic and Immortal Monsters Hunters - Incorporating Strong Historical Elements in UF
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Jul 07, 2023 |
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Episode 382: Part of Your World - Tracing the Origins of The Little Mermaid
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Jun 30, 2023 |
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Episode 381: Hard Times in Magic & Logic - Examining the Parameters of Hard Scifi and fantasy
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Jun 23, 2023 |
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Episode 380: Will He Escape those Dastardedly Clutches - Why Cliffhangers Are a Bad Idea
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Jun 16, 2023 |
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Episode 379: Exuding Menace 101 - How to Create Menacing Villains
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Jun 09, 2023 |
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Ep 378: Separated by a Common Language - Examining the Differences between UK and US Urban Fantasy
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Jun 01, 2023 |
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Episode 377: Bringing in Dessert - Serving Up Delicious Endings Against Desperate Odds
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May 26, 2023 |
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Episode 376: In that Time In that Place - the Monomyth and Other Storytelling Modes
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May 19, 2023 |
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Episode 375: The Batcherlorette - Bookish Edition
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May 12, 2023 |
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Ep 374: Her Fatal Curiosity - Tracing the Origins of Bluebeard
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May 05, 2023 |
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Ep 373: Circe Morgana and Rosaline - The Problem with Feminist Retellings
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Apr 28, 2023 |
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Episode 372: Truth Fiction and Outright Absurdity - More Strange Author Mysteries
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Apr 21, 2023 |
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Episode 371: Breaking the Stained Glass Window - Language Storytelling Absolutism and Censorship
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Apr 14, 2023 |
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Episode 370: Running with th Wolves - Werewolves in Folklore and Speculative Fiction Part 2
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Apr 07, 2023 |
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Episode 369: Running with the Wolves - Werewolves in Folklore and Speculative Fiction Part 1
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Mar 31, 2023 |
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Episode 368: Help I’ve Written a Book - What to do next when you want to get published
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Mar 10, 2023 |
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Episode 367: To Like or Not to Like - Writing Likeable Characters in Speculative Fiction
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Mar 03, 2023 |