On this week's episode, we're talking about mermaids, sirens, selkies, and other moist ladies who may or may not want to eat your whole face off! Guess what: The sea is terrifying! Fuck the sea! Tentpoles this week are The Deep by Rivers Solomon, Into the Drowning Deep by Mira Grant, and the Studio Ghibli movie Ponyo.
What We’re Into Lately
Piranesi by Susanna Clark
Return of the Thief by Megan Whalen Turner
Division Bells by Iona Datt Sharma
Lynchpin by ShanaStoryteller
Please miss postman by Shamelesscooper
Care and Custody by esama
Scum Villain fanfic
Harrow the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
Other Stuff We Mentioned
Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clark
A Choir of Lies by Alexandra Rowland
The Queen’s Thief series by Megan Whalen Turner
Veep
The West Wing
The Untamed fix-its
Kingsman fic
Finding Faeries by Alexandra Rowland
clipping.
How enslaved peoples escaped into the swamps
The Sea and Civilization: A Maritime History of the World by Lincoln Paine
The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas by Ursula K. le Guin
On Drakon
The City in the Middle of the Night by Charlie Jane Anders
The Little Mermaid by Hans Christian Andersen
Fantasia
Maleficent
“The Deep” by clipping. (song)
“Ride of the Valkyries” (song)
Ponyo On the Cliff By the Sea (song)
Tithe by Holly Black
Moana
Scum Villain fanfic
Eat Prey, Love by Freya Marske
Unnatural Order (upcoming short story anthology)
‘saltwashed’ by Jennifer Mace
Catalyst by Jennifer Mace
Oglaf NSFW webcomic
Diamonds of the Sea mermen holiday ornaments
Macey’s mentioned NSFW Bad Dragon link can be found here
RE Mermaid Fucking research: ‘cloaca’
The Little Mermaid
For Next Time
Dragonsinger (Harper Hall of Pern) by Anne McCaffrey
Transcription
The transcript for this episode is available here. Thanks as always to our most excellent scribblin' scribes for their hard work.
Episode 22: Out of Cheese, Error, Redo from Start
Episode 21: Believing the Little Lies
Episode 20: Extravaganza
Episode 19: You and Me and Our Boyfriend Makes Three
Episode 18: Heist, Heist, Baby
Episode 17: A Bump in the Night (The Sexy Kind)
Episode 16: A Bump in the Night, and Not the Sexy Kind
Episode 15: My (Psychic, Firebreathing) Little Pony
Episode 14: Once Upon a Something
Episode 13: Machiavellian Overthinkers
Episode 12: Yes, It Goes On and On, My Friends
Episode 11: It's All About the Money, Money, Money
Episode 10: Extravaganza
Episode 9: Like Rome, But With Lasers
Episode 8: Once More, With Feelings!
Episode 7: Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells the Story
Episode 6: Cross Your Stars and Hope to Bi
Episode 5: O Captain, My Captain
Episode 4: The Bastard's Lying to You!
Episode 3: Apocalypse Sometime, Maybe Next Tuesday
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