I Dream of Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles

Coziness. Comfort. Hygge. We all enjoy it. Maybe we have a favorite comfort food, or a favorite piece of comfort media, or a favorite comfort character. And there’s nothing wrong with that. Sometimes you need it. But when the pursuit of comfort takes over your entire life, and your entire worldview, your art suffers, and maybe society does too. In this episode, we’re talking about why speculative fiction shouldn’t get too comfortable. We are joined once again by Tai Black.

Transcript available here.

Links

• Sixties Fantasy Sitcoms and the Rise of Cozy Fantasy
• World Magazine (Evangelical on Game of Thrones)
• Albert Mohr (Baptist on GoT)
• Jorts the Cat accused of ableism after Twitter faux pas
• The wellness products Americans love to buy are sold on both InfoWars and GOOP
• Pure Moods CD commercial
• Ray Comfort’s banana argument

About Rite Gud: Raquel S. Benedict is an author, appearing in Fantasy and Science Fiction and Gardner Dozois’ The Very Best of the Best: 35 Years of The Year’s Best Science Fiction. Matt Keeley, founder of Kittysneezes, is producing Rite Gud for KS Media, LLC. Rite Gud is a Kittysneezes production. If you have questions, comments and concerns, email ritegud – at – kittysneezes – dot – com. Rite Gud is also on Patreon, at patreon.com/ritegud. Patrons receive access to the official Kittysneezes Discord, exclusive episodes and more.

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