Episode 5: O Captain, My Captain

On this episode of Be the Serpent, we're talking about The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison, Jupiter Ascending, and "Dangerous if Unbound" by Astolat -- what do these have in common? Fealty relationships!

 

Other things we mentioned:

Disney princesses
Noblebright & the hieros gamos (again)
A Conspiracy of Truths by Alexandra Rowland
The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison
Jupiter Ascending
"Dangerous if Unbound" by Astolat
The Queen’s Thief series by Megan Whalen Turner
The Empire Trilogy by Janny Wurts and Raymond E. Feist
Self-insert fanfiction
Courtly love
Eleanor of Aquitaine
Anastasia (and the stage musical)
Person of Interest
Kings
Single Use Weapon by Freya
Mathematical theory aka witchcraft
Ninefox Gambit and A Conservation of Shadows by Yoon Ha Lee
Atomic Blonde
Merlin
Star Trek TOS and the Star Trek reboot films

 

What we’re reading lately:

Reflections: On the Magic of Writing by Diana Wynne Jones
An Unsuitable Heir by KJ Charles
Our own books (because edits)

 

Transcription:

The transcription of the episode is available here. Thanks as always to Sara, Neharika, and Magali for their work!