We read two not very good stories and have 2 fantastic conversations about them with special guest Sophie Abromowitz!

Sophie Short Story: https://joylandpublishing.com/fiction/jan-is-important/
Sophie Substack: https://abromowitz.substack.com/
Sophie Website: https://sophie-abromowitz.com/


Next month we'll be reading Alloy of Law. Episode airs, end of April.

Content warnings for this episode: auditory hallucinations, betrayal, bleeding, bullying, child endangerment, conspiracies, death, duels, gender dysphoria, god kings, human sacrifice, mprisonment, insanity, lying, mental illness, mind control, murder, neglect, oligarchy, prisons, religion, royalty, self harm, self hatred, stabbing, undeath, wounds, xenophobia

Infinity Blade Screenshots https://www.epicgames.com/infinityblade/en-US/game-info/infinity-blade-i

Infinity Blade II Screenshots: https://kotaku.com/games/infinity-blade-ii/gallery

Infinity Blade II Opening Cutscene - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSywlxTpqBA

Words of Brandon: https://wob.coppermind.net/events/169/#e8839

Books
Fullmetal Alchemist by Hiromu Arakawa
The Dandelion Dynasty by Ken Liu
The Traitor Baru Cormorant by Seth Dickinson
Piranesi
Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke

Movies
Inception dir by Christopher Nolan
Paprika dir by Satoshi Kon

TV
Star Wars Andor

Other
Boss Baby Tweet https://x.com/afraidofwasps/status/1177301482464526337?lang=en

This show is created by Graham Gillman, Taylor Lane, and Jack McLaughlan.

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Our theme music is "goodnight kiss" by 2mello off the album midnight broadcasts. (https://2mello.net/)

We're back in the era of normal length books with Alcatraz vs The Shattered Lens!

Next month we'll be reading Infinity Blade Awakening & I Hate Dragons. Episode airs, March 25th.

Around 59 Minutes in, we ask if ADX actually does the math correctly, she does not.

References

A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snickett
Percy Jackson and The Olympians by Rick Riordan

The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis

Content warnings for this episode: abandonment, ableism, betrayal, bleeding, bullying, censorship, child abuse, child endangerment, classism, colonialism, conspiracies, cults, death, existentialism, fame, fatphobia, foster homes, Harry Potter, human sacrifice, imprisonment, insanity, J.K. Rowling, lying, mental illness, mind control, murder, neglect, oligarchy, prisons, racism, religion, royalty, self harm, self hatred, settler colonialism, stabbing, transphobia, undeath, wounds

This show is created by Graham Gillman, Taylor Lane, and Jack McLaughlan.

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Our theme music is "goodnight kiss" by 2mello off the album midnight broadcasts. (https://2mello.net/)

We read Towers of Midnight, Book 13 of The Wheel of Time.

Next month we'll be reading all of Alcatraz vs The Shattered Lens, Episode Airs: Feb 18th.

Content warnings for this episode: ableism, addiction, age gap, amputation, betrayal, bleeding, body horror, body modification, broken bones , classism, colonization, death, domestic violence, fetishization, gaslighting, gender roles, hallucinations, insanity, J.K. Rowling, kink, knives, maiming, misogyny, murder, mutilation, rape, real world violence, religious extremism, self harm, sexual content, sexual violence, slavery, stabbing, strangulation, suicide/suicidal ideation, terminal illness, transphobia, trauma, undeath, Vietnam War, wounds and infection

Jordan Quote About Language: https://www.reddit.com/r/WoT/comments/1mv9wv/language_in_the_world_of_wot/

Interviews Jack Cited

https://aidanmoher.com/blog/2010/11/interviews/interview-brandon-sanderson-author-of-towers-of-midnight-and-the-way-of-kings/

https://www.theoryland.com/intvmain.php?i=547

Jack's Rankings

The Way of Kings
Warbreaker
Mistborn
Alcatraz vs. the Scrivener's Bones
The Hero of Ages
Elantris
Alcatraz vs. the Evil Librarians
Alcatraz vs. the Knights of Crystallia (Book 3)
The Well of Ascension

This show is created by Graham Gillman, Taylor Lane, and Jack McLaughlan.

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Our theme music is "goodnight kiss" by 2mello off the album midnight broadcasts. (https://2mello.net/)