Episode 39: The Serpents’ School of Witchcraft and Wizzzardry

On this episode, we're talking wizards! We're comparing the magic systems of Brandon Sanderson's The Emperor's Soul and RB Lemberg's "Geometries of Belonging". Also, Freya has designed a fun game for Alex and Macey!

What We’re Into Lately

Silver in the Wood by Emily Tesh

The Name of All Things by Jenn Lyons

Chronin by Alison Wilgus

Catalyst by Jennifer Mace

A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine

Lots of Good Omens shit, including:

Alex’s Good Omens fanvids “Bohemian Rhapsody” and “Hallelujah”.

“vintage demon art, vape pens, & other treasures” by kyrilu

 “Don’t Stop Me Now” and “My Best Friend” fanvids

"Making An Effort: Queer (Trans) Masculinity in the Ethereal & Occult Beings of Good Omens" 

Much Ado About Nothing (2011)

 

Other Stuff We Mentioned

Oxford Time Travel series by Connie Willis

Dragon Age: Inquisition

DA:I fanfiction 

Analog July/August Issue (ft. Freya’s short story)

Moving Pictures 

Soul Music

Unseen Academicals

Wayward Children series

Every Heart a Doorway

Ursula K. Le Guin 

Freya’s fairy fic ‘Hood & Glove’

The Magicians

Machineries of Empire series by Yoon Ha Lee

The Birdverse section of R.B. Lemberg’s website

Kingdom (2019-)

“What We Named the Needle" by Freya Marske

Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik

The Elenium series by David Eddings

The Tamuli series by David Eddings

The Queen’s Thief series by Megan Whalen Turner

Tamora Pierce 

 

For Next Time

Nothing! It's the Episode 40 Extravaganza!

 

Transcript

The transcription for this episode can be found here. Thanks as always to our wondrous scribes, the lights of our life!