Strangers In A Tangled Wilderness Strangers In a Tangled Widerness

Episode Notes
This episode contains explicit language as well as some graphic violence.

Strangers In A Tangled WIlderness can be found at here or on twitter @tangledwild. You can support this show by subscribing to our Patreon.

The author is Margaret Killjoy and she can be found on twitter @magpiekilljoy or instagram at @margaretkilljoy.

A more reader friendly copy of the story can be found at https://www.tangledwilderness.org/featured/welcometopenumbracity Along with amazing art by Robin Savage.

The game Penumbra City is set in the World of Harrow. To find out more you can find them on twitter @worldofharrow or on instagram @PenumbraCity

The Host is Inmn Neruin. You can find them on instagram @shadowtail.artificery

The theme music is also by Margaret Killjoy.

Show art is by Robin Savage

TRANSCRIPT
Strangers In A Tangled Wilderness 1: Confession To A Dead Man by Margaret Killyjoy

Inmn Neruin:

Hello and welcome to Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness...the podcast. I’m your host Inmn Neruin and I use They/them pronouns . Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness is a collectively run publisher dedicated to producing and curating inclusive and intersectional culture informed by anarchistic ideals. This can include stories, fiction, poetry, memoir, non-fiction, theater pieces, comics, books, pop culture analysis, recipes, music, history, podcasts...and occasionally essays and theory. We are looking for content that doesn’t know where it fits in, for people that don’t know where they fit in.

This podcast will provide audio versions of our monthly featured zine along with interviews from the author. It’s possible we will use this for other formatted content in the future, but for now…it’s for our monthly featured zine. If you would like a hard copy of our monthly feature, please consider subscribing to our Patreon where you will be mailed a lovely zine once a month along with occasional other goodies. Our Patreon helps make things like this podcast possible as well as supporting other podcasts we put out like Live Like The World Is Dying. It also helps us pay authors of the monthly features, transcribers, artists, editors and translators. So if you like what you hear, please consider subscribing at Patreon.com/strangersinatangledwilderness. If you would like to submit a piece that you think would find a good home in our annals, please visit Tangledwilderness.org for our submission guidelines!

This month, we’re excited to bring you a short story by Margaret Killjoy entitled “Confession to a Deadman.” The story is set in the fictional World of Harrow, the setting for an up and coming table top role playing game called Penumbra City that Strangers will be publishing.
In lieu of an interview with Margaret about the story, we will instead have a brief introduction to the game and the game world of which me, her and a collective of other wonderful nerds are co-creators of. If you would like to see some amazing artwork for the game by Robin Savage, please visit our website, or check us out on Twitter or Instagram.

There’s a black fog that hangs over the city, and it’s not as metaphorical as you might hope. It’s coal dust. Somewhere up through that smoke, there’s a glorious silver city hovering in the sunshine—but don’t concern yourself much with the floating quarter, because the likes of you will never see it. Groundside, orphans dig through rubble and trash to scavenge the parts to fix their motorcycles, street poets sell fungus and brawl over territory, and bureaucrats ride black horses to midnight salons where they plot the death of the god king. The graveyard’s been squatted by immigrants now for longer than you’ve been alive, and there’s a gang of nihilist ex-marines who seem intent on blowing up half of everything.

Penumbra City is an upcoming tabletop role playing game set in the mysterious world of Harrow. Designed and imagined by a collective of queer and trans weirdos obsessed with brin

Episode Notes
Strangers In A Tangled WIlderness can be found at here or on twitter @tangledwild. You can support this show by subscribing to our Patreon.

A more reader friendly copy of the story can be found at https://www.tangledwilderness.org/featured/the-great-armored-train Along with amazing art by Robin Savage.

This story appeared in Nick Mamatas's collection The People's Republic of Everything, published in 2018 by Tachyon Publications.

About the author: Nick Mamatas is the author of seven novels, including Love is the Law, I Am Providence, and the forthcoming Hexen Sabbath. His short fiction has appeared in Best American Mystery Stories, Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, and many other venues. Nick is also an anthologist; his books include the Bram Stoker Award winner Haunted Legends (co-edited with Ellen Datlow), the Locus Award nominees The Future is Japanese and Hanzai Japan (both co-edited with Masumi Washington), and Mixed Up (co-edited with Molly Tanzer). His fiction and editorial work has been nominated for the Hugo, Locus, World Fantasy, Bram Stoker, Shirley Jackson, and International Horror Guild Awards. Mamatas lives in Oakland, California.

About the interviewer: Margaret Killjoy is a transfeminine author and editor currently based in the Appalachian mountains. Her most recent book is an anarchist demon hunters novella called The Barrow Will Send What it May, published by Tor.com. She spends her time crafting and complaining about authoritarian power structures and she blogs at birdsbeforethestorm.net.

The theme music is also by Margaret Killjoy.

Show art is by Robin Savage

The Host is Inmn Neruin. You can find them on instagram @shadowtail.artificery


**Strangers In A Tangled Wilderness 2: The Great Armored Train by Nick Mamatas**

Inmn Neruin:
Hello and welcome to Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness...the podcast. I’m your host Inmn Neruin and I use They/them pronouns . Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness is a collectively run publisher dedicated to producing and curating inclusive and intersectional culture informed by anarchistic ideals. This can include stories, fiction, poetry, memoir, non-fiction, theater pieces, comics, books, pop culture analysis, recipes, music, history, podcasts...and occasionally essays and theory. We are looking for content that doesn’t know where it fits in, for people that don’t know where they fit in.
On this podcast we have audio versions of our monthly featured zine read by a brilliant voice actor along with interviews with the author. If you would like to hold in your hands a hard copy of our monthly feature, please consider subscribing to our Patreon where you will be mailed a lovely zine once a month along with other occasional trinkets to add to your horde. Our Patreon helps make things like this podcast possible as well as supporting other podcasts we put out like Live Like The World Is Dying. It also helps us pay authors of the monthly features, transcribers, artists, editors and translators. So if you like what you hear, please consider subscribing at Patreon.com/strangersinatangledwilderness. If you would like to submit a piece that you think would shine nicely in our little dragon horde, please visit Tangledwilderness.org for our submission guidelines!
This month, we are kind of cheating…We bring to you a previously recorded episode of the now on-hold podcast We Will Remember Freedom. In this re-print episode, one of our collaborators, Margaret Killjoy talks with Nick Mamatas about his short story The Great Armored Train. We feel this story is more relevant than usual considering Russia’s current invasion of Ukraine. This story pits Trotsky’s giant armored train against polish folk magic. I really loved this story mostly because it’s simple and I love learning about magic within resistance movements, but I also appreciate a good critique of State Communism. Much like State Communism  paraded this idea of

Episode Notes
Strangers In A Tangled WIlderness can be found at here or on twitter @tangledwild. You can support this show by subscribing to our Patreon.

Celeste Inez Mathilda is an artist, writer, and plant dweeb. They can be found at Etsy: liminalspacesshop.etsy.com Instagram @liminal.spaces.shop or their Patreon page: patreon.com/liminalspaces

The theme music is by Margaret Killjoy. You can find her here.

The Host is Inmn Neruin. You can find them on instagram @shadowtail.artificery

Strangers In A Tangled Wilderness 3: Dandelion

Inmn Neruin:

Hello and welcome to Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness...the podcast. I’m your host Inmn Neruin and I use They/them pronouns . Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness is a collectively run publisher dedicated to producing and curating inclusive and intersectional culture informed by anarchistic ideals. This can include stories, fiction, poetry, memoir, non-fiction, theater pieces, comics, books, pop culture analysis, recipes, music, history, podcasts...and occasionally essays and theory. We are looking for content that doesn’t know where it fits in, for people that don’t know where they fit in.

On this podcast we have audio versions of our monthly featured zine read by a brilliant voice actor along with interviews with the author. If you would like to hold in your hands a hard copy of our monthly feature, please consider subscribing to our Patreon where you will be mailed a lovely zine once a month along with other occasional other remedies. Our Patreon helps make things like this podcast possible as well as supporting other podcasts we put out like Live Like The World Is Dying. It also helps us pay authors of the monthly features, transcribers, artists, editors and translators. So if you like what you hear, please consider subscribing at Patreon.com/strangersinatangledwilderness. If you would like to submit a piece that you think would cure our need for entertainment, please visit Tangledwilderness.org for our submission guidelines!

This month, we do not have an audio recording of the monthly feature. Instead we bring to you an in-depth interview with Celeste Inez Mathilda of Liminal Spaces about their zine Taraxcum Officianale: Dandelion: Break the Binary. We talk a lot about plants, uses of Dandlions and Celeste’s views on plants and forming relationships with them. If you would like to read the zine and aren’t a Patreon subscriber, a digital version can be found for free on our website at http://tangledwilderness.org. I had so much fun talking to Celeste about plants. Also this was my first real interview as the interviewer so you can delight in me being awkward. There’s so much information in the zine that we don’t have time to cover. So please check out the zine and Celeste’s lovely accompanying artwork out on our website. 

Inmn Neruin:
That was Celeste Inez Mathilda on dandelions and forming relationships with plants. If you enjoyed the zine on Dandelions, Celeste has an entire series of similar style zines for plants including Wild Rose, Stinging Nettle, and Echinacea. You can find them all on Celeste’s Etsy shop  liminalspacesshop.etsy.com. You can also find Celeste on instagram @liminal.spaces.shop or their Patreon page: patreon.com/liminalspaces If you want a hard copy of the dandelions zine you can also find it in their shop. And if you do visit those places, you will also get to see that Celeste is a wonderful print maker and makes cool patches. 
 
 
Thanks so much for listening. If you enjoyed this podcast please go tell someone about it. Whisper its name in their ear, put it on on a road trip, write a review and plant it in the ground, bind its name to a dandelion puff before blowing its seeds to the winds, wondering what strange fruit it may bear. If you would like to support us as well as the authors, translators, editors and artists that we work with please consider subscribing to our Patreon. Subscribers receive at different levels: access

Episode Notes
This podcast is published by Strangers In A Tangled Wilderness. We can be found at www.tangledwilderness.org or on Twitter on twitter @tangledwild. You can support this show by subscribing to our Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/strangersinatangledwilderness

The author Bella Hangnail can be found at www.bellahangnail.com or on spotify, twitter, or bandcamp at https://bellahangnail.bandcamp.com/

The Reader is Bea Flowers. If you would like to hear Bea narrate other things, or would like to get them to read things for you check them out at https://voicebea.wixsite.com/website

The Host is Inmn Neruin. You can find them on instagram @shadowtail.artificery

The theme music is by Margaret Killjoy. You can find her at http://birdsbeforethestorm.net
or on twitter @magpiekilljoy

Find out more at https://strangers-in-a-tangled-wildern.pinecast.co

Episode Notes
This podcast is published by Strangers In A Tangled Wilderness. We can be found at www.tangledwilderness.org or on Twitter on twitter @tangledwild. You can support this show by subscribing to our Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/strangersinatangledwilderness

The author is Sofia Samatar. She can be found at https://www.sofiasamatar.com/

The Host is Inmn Neruin. You can find them on instagram @shadowtail.artificery

The theme music is by Margaret Killjoy. You can find her at http://birdsbeforethestorm.net
or on twitter @magpiekilljoy

Find out more at https://strangers-in-a-tangled-wildern.pinecast.co

Episode Notes
Publisher:
This podcast is published by Strangers In A Tangled Wilderness. We can be found at www.tangledwilderness.org or on Twitter on twitter @tangledwild. You can support this show by subscribing to our Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/strangersinatangledwilderness

For a Digital version of the zine click on our website!

Author:
The author is Sevi Xcetera. Sevi is a trans non-binary, multi-media artist and plant enthusiast currently residing in the south west on Tohono O’odham land. Sevi is a youth poetry and art teacher, and a student of ceramics and glass. Sevi just released their first chapbook, Wash Sea Out of Hair and Drive. The self-published version includes photographic accompaniments. Their zine and other info about Sevi can be found here at this link https://sevisevi.wixsite.com/blooms
Or by emailing them at sevi.xcetera@gmail.com

Reader:
The reader is CJ Kitten Miller. She can be found on Instagram @cjkittenmiller, or @leomoondance and @dimberband for dance and music.

Our Guest review is by The Reverent Marigold and can be found on Instagram @Reverent_Marigold or Youtube and Spotify at the same name.

Host:
The Host is Inmn Neruin. You can find them on instagram @shadowtail.artificery

Theme:
The theme music is by Margaret Killjoy. You can find her on twitter @magpiekilljoy