Be The Serpent Alexandra Rowland, Freya Marske, Jennifer Mace

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.

On this week's episode, we're talking about postapocalyptic fiction, specifically stories set in the wake of a climate apocalypse. The tentpoles are Trail of Lightning by Rebecca Roanhorse, the fanfic "Moebius" by AuroraNova and Mad Max: Fury Road.
 
What We’re Into Lately
The House of Niccolò series by Dorothy Dunnett
Act Your Age, Eve Brown by Talia Hibbert
Parks and Recreation
The World Figure Skating Championship
A Face Like Glass by Frances Hardinge
love, in fire and blood by cicer
Practical Creativity by Raph Koster 
 
Other Stuff We Mentioned
Be the Serpent, Episode 3: Apocalypse Sometime, Maybe Next Tuesday
Cuckoo Song by Frances Hardinge 
The Lie Tree by Frances Hardinge 
Be the Serpent, Episode 38: A Hugo Award Special — The Novels of 2018
“Small Changes Over Long Periods of Time” by K.M. Szpara
The Old Guard
Atomic Blonde
Studio Ghibli movies
James Bond movies
“Peer Gynt” by Grieg
The first Mad Max movie
Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
 Mass Effect games
The ending of Mass Effect 3
Deal with the Devil by Kit Rocha
Book of the Unnamed Midwife by Meg Elison
The Day After Tomorrow
Who Should Live In Flooded Old New York? by Brooke Bolander
Embers by Vathara
The Calculating Stars by Mary Robinette Kowal
The Fifth Season by NK Jemisin
Lotus Blue by Cat Sparks
Mortal Engines by Philip Reeve
The Sea and Summer (aka Drowning Towers) by George Turner 
‘The Fall of Civilizations’ podcast
How We Get to Carbon Zero by Bianca Nogrady
The Expanse 
Space Sweepers
Mars Trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson
Macey’s Fun Facts Bronze Age Mediterranean Corner
1177 BC: The Year Civilization Collapsed by Eric H. Cline
The most famous and meme-able trader to ever live, Ea-nasir
 
For Next Time
Crimson Peak film
 
Content Warnings
Gore and implied sexual assault in Mad Max: Fury RoadGore and (urban fantasy standard) violence in Trail of LightningTranscription
The transcript for this episode is available here. Thank you as always to our brilliant team of scribes!!

On today's episode we're buckling on our space shoes, picking up our space harpoons, and charging up our space laser guns, because we're doing a deep dive on the new South Korean scifi film, Space Sweepers.
 
What We’re Into Lately
An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon
The House of Always by Jenn Lyon
Disarmed by Sarah Rees Brennan
Word of Honor
The Midnight Bargain by C.L. Polk
Mexican Gothic by Sylvia Moreno Garcia
Boku no Hero Academia fanfic of the Star Wars crossover variety
Mòxiāng Tóngxiù fanfic 
Architects of Memory by Karen Osborne
 
Other Stuff We Mentioned
Jupiter Ascending
Untamed
Hikaru No Go
Hannibal 
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
Firefly
The Expanse
Star Trek
Star Wars
Babylon 5
Killjoys
The Mandalorian
Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
Be the Serpent episode 1
Acorna series by Anne McCaffrey
Born Sexy Yesterday 
Logan
Interstellar
The Expanse
Futurama
Bond movies
 
For Next Time
Trail of Lightning by Rebecca Roanhorse
 
Content Warnings
Death of a child (dealt with in-text) in Space Sweepers
 
Transcription
The transcript for this episode can be found here. Huge thanks to our team of scribes!!

On this week's episode, we're getting the gang back together to talk about girl gangs, teen squads, and spooky witchy girls! The tentpoles this week are The Scapegracers by Hannah Abigail Clarke, Ring Shout by P. Djèlí Clark, and the fanfic “21st Century Girls” by springgreen.
 
What We’re Into Lately
Foul is Fair by Hannah Capin
The Prophets by Robert Jones Jr.
Amari and the Night Brothers by B. B. Alston
The Gentle Art of Fortune Hunting by K.J. Charles
Riot Baby by Tochi Onyebuchi
Dawn by Octavia Butler
A Bouquet of Czech Folktales by Karel Jaromír Erben, trans. Marcela Sulak
Boku No Hero Academia fanfic
as day follows night by The_Eclectic_Bookworm
The Untamed fanfic
Word of Honor
 
Other Stuff We Mentioned
Men in Black 
Society of Gentlemen series by K.J. Charles
The Chrysalids by John Wyndham
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Guardian
Nirvana in Fire
20th Century Boys manga series
Sailor Moon manga series
My Little Pony 
St. Trinians 
Ralph Breaks the Internet
Stranger Things
Jennifer’s Body
Wild Beauty by Anna-Marie McLemore
Mean Girls
Sex and the City
Golden Girls
Ocean’s 8
Charlie’s Angels
Totally Spies
D.E.B.S
Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo
Dark Angel
The Old Guard
Wonder Woman
Mad Max: Fury Road
Dollhouse
River Tam from Firefly
Steven Universe
 
For Next Time
Space Sweepers
 
Content Warnings
Very brief mention of sexual assault (and description of its fallout) in Foul Is Fair, one of the "What We're Into Lately" books.
Explicit depictions of racism (including the KKK) in Ring Shout.
Kidnapping, attempted assault in The Scapegracers.
Transcription
The transcript for this episode can be found here. Huge thanks to our scribe team for their excellent work, as usual!

On this week's episode, we're discussing a few changes we're making in our approach to the podcast, and we're gushing about some of our favorite recent and upcoming works, including Raybearer by Jordan Ifueko, The Duke Who Didn’t by Courtney Milan, and She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan.
 
What We’re Into Lately
Seven of Infinities by Aliette de Bodard
Fireheart Tiger by Aliette de Bodard 
The Jasmine Throne by Tasha Suri
The Queer Principles of Kit Webb by Cat Sebastian
A Spindle Splintered by Alix E. Harrow
The Name of All Things by Jenn Lyons
thepartyresponsible’s Batman-Avengers crossover fic
Do Every Stupid Thing by thepartyresponsible
Star Daughter by Shveta Thakrar
Elatsoe by Darcie Little Badger
Raybearer by Jordan Ifueko
Bridgerton
Cherry Magic! Thirty Years of Virginity Can Make You a Wizard?!
The Sleuth of the Ming Dynasty
Invitation to Wine (将进酒) by Tang Jiu Qing 唐酒卿 (Mandarin)
 
Other Stuff We Mentioned
Be the Serpent Episode 71: Back To School (feat. Naomi Novik)
Be the Serpent Episode 72: Fangs for the Memories
A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik
Trail of Lightning by Rebecca Roanhorse
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-verse
The Saddle Club
Gossip Girl
The Belles  by Dhonielle Clayton
Wild Beauty Anna-Marie McLemore
She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan
The Traitor Baru Cormorant by Seth Dickinson
The Duke Who Didn’t by Courtney Milan
The infamous Only One Bed trope
Reluctant Royals series by Alyssa Cole
Runaway Royals series by Alyssa Cole
Books by Alisha Rai  
 
For Next Time
Ring Shout by P. Djèlí Clark
 
Content Warnings:
The Duke Who Didn't concerns protagonists encountering racism (both ambient and direct).
She Who Became The Sun interrogates gender essentialist prejudice accurate to its historical setting.
Raybearer deals with themes of child abuse/neglect.

On this week's episode, we're bringing you an extra-long, extra special surprise: We're playing a one-shot of an RPG, using a game system designed by Alex, which uses a tarot deck rather than dice! Enjoy!
 
As per the outro of this episode, the links to our statements in response to feedback we received on Episode 71:
Macey’s statement RE BTS ep 71
Freya’s statement RE BTS ep 71
Alex’s statement RE BTS ep 71
 
For Next Time
We're taking a week off our regular release schedule. Never fear, we will return to your ears four weeks hence, rather than two.
 
Transcription
The transcript for this episode can be found  here. Extra thanks to our scribe team this week, they really knocked it out of the park with this chonky episiode!