Episode 96: Changing Places

On this week's episode, we're discussing body swap fic! Swapping bodies! Trading meatsuits! It's all fun and comedy, right? ...Or is it? Anyway, the tentpoles for this episode are the anime film, Your Name, the fanfic Vinculum by Skadiseven, and the Farscape episode, "Out of Their Minds."

 

What We’re Into Lately 

Bombshell by Sarah MacLean

The Devil and the Dark Water by Stuart Turton

Schmigadoon! (on Apple TV)

Hunger Makes the Wolf by Alex Wells

Pressure Machine by the Killers

Campaign Skyjacks (podcast)

The Bachelor’s Valet by Arden Powell
Petty Treasons by Victoria Goddard

 

Other Stuff We Mentioned

The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton
The Hands of the Emperor by Victoria Goddard
The Untamed
Star Trek: The Next Generation
Farscape

The Dark Crystal
Jupiter Ascending
Freaky Friday by Mary Rodgers
Star Trek: The Original Series
Laughing Gas by PG Wodehouse
Stranger Than Fiction
Babylon 5
Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle
Sword Art Online
Stargate
The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System
Captain America: The Winter Soldier
to memory now I can’t recall by Etharei
Howl’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones
Castle in the Air by Diana Wynne Jones
Night Watch by Terry Pratchett
Guardian
Feet of Clay by Terry Pratchett
Good Omens by Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett
Good Omens miniseries

 

For Next Time

Light From Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki

 

Content Warnings
Mention of molestation in the context of the bodyswap trope (in episode discussion)

Mention of dysphoria & trans erasure in the context of the bodyswap trope (in episode discussion)

 

Transcription

The transcript for this episode is available here. Thank you to our stylish and fashionable team of scribes!