We are BACK with another book tour recap for y'all! ***No spoilers for the book but spoilers for the event itself*** If you're going in Redwood City, California, say hi to Carter!
Stay tuned for details on our coverage of the book and what chapters we'll be starting with next week!! Yipee!!!
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This is an encore rerelease of our interview with Mark from 2023 to celebrate one week until COURT OF THE DEAD! Thanks for joining us!
We are joined by VERY SPECIAL GUEST MARK OSHIRO to wrap up and reflect on The Sun And The Star! From decoding their original color-coded note tabs to what got #cutfortime, we are getting deeeeeep into all our TSATS questions, and getting all of Mark's stories in this excluuuuuusive spoiler-filled interview!
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Wrapping up our Hot Girl Odyssey Adaptation Summer this week with OUR pitches for retellings of The Odyssey we feel are missing from the canon. Please do write these things... and then cast Erica.
Next week is a Mark Oshiro interview replay and then we will be diving in to The Court of the Dead!!!
***The explicit marking on this episode is for mention of the phenomenon of pederasty of Ancient Greece in relation to Euripides' satyr play "Cyclops"***
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Big episode today about what IS The Odyssey, what is NOT The Odyssey, why Spirited Away IS NOT The Odyssey but IS the The Odyssey we wanna SEE and also what is Annabeth's fatal flaw, like really???
Watch "Let's Generalize About Men" from Crazy Ex-Girlfriend: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oa_QtMf6alU
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After weeks of dissecting feminist retellings of the odyssey, we welcome Sam back to the podcast to help us digest 3 hours of definitely not that.
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Our Odyssey Adaption Summer continues with The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood! An experimental theatre script— wait, just kidding?— novella* told from the perspective of constant Penelope and an echoing chorus of the maids murdered by Odysseus and Telemachus.
Referenced video from Carter during the final spiral on men misinterpreting media! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zHTg0zM__I&feature=youtu.be
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DELAYED POPMERGENCY- We still haven't discussed the teaser trailer we saw at SDCC!! This week we are remedying that by doing a shot for shot (#shotzbyshotz #shotzbergersrise) conversation about what we know so far and what we can hallucinate ourselves into imagining about the Sea of Monsters.
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Featuring ~exclusive~ interviews with Walker Scobell, Leah Sava Jeffries, Aryan Simhadri, Dior Goodjohn, Charlie Bushnell, Daniel Diemer, Jon Steinberg, Dan Shotz, and Craig Silverstein! Join us as we recap our experience last week at San Diego Comic Con (Thanks, Disney+!) and somehow magically edit together all our roundtable interview audio.
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On this week’s very special episode of Odyssey Adaptation Summer, we are having a formal roundtable discussion and thesis defense of 6 Reasons Why The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie (2004) is The Odyssey (7th Century BC), featuring guests Robert Gaymer, and Temporary Hires Paul Legallet, Maxwell Barnes, and Kyle Prue.
Check out Maxwell and his free toilets: https://www.instagram.com/maxwell_is_online/?hl=en
Paul does sketches: https://www.instagram.com/paul_legallet/?hl=en
Kyle Prue’s books and webseries: https://kyleprue.com/
Together they form Temporary Hires. They did indeed have a show on July 17th but you can catch their NEXT show by following them @TemporaryHires, https://www.instagram.com/temporaryhires/
Robert’s Dam Memes: https://www.instagram.com/thedammemepage/?hl=en
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THINK ABOUT THE SUN, PIPPIN! It’s time for a GRAND FINALE! And we brought in the absolute mother weaver of all grand finale guests. We hope you enjoy this conversation with the Rowan Hall on Chapters 21 through the end of Circe as much as we did.
Join us next week for discussion on SpongeBob SquarePants the movie!
You can find more of Rowan’s coolness at https://rowanhall.com/.
Rowan’s podcast is called Willing and Fable: https://www.willingandfable.com/
Check out Daggerheart here! https://www.daggerheart.com/
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This week is all about single witch moms, Chapters 18-20 with THE Janani K. Jha We are thrilled to be discussing Carter’s favorite topic, having any excuse to bring up Regina Mills, and of course, Deux Ex Leviathans (Leviathan Ex Machinas?) Stick Around.
Join us next week for Part 6: Ch. 21-END
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*Please be aware this episode and the chapters it discusses contain mention of sexual assault and PTSD.
We are thrilled to have New York Times Bestselling Author Kyle Prue here today to talk about his favorite (not so favorite? It’s complicated) hero, the Best of the Greeks, Odysseus. Circe is going through a lot but I think we can all consider this entire relationship a canon event.
Find Kyle at https://kyleprue.com/ and be sure to watch his web series Rabbit on Youtube! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CW-VsxYXEnI
Circe Reading Schedule:
Part 5: Ch. 18-20 Motherhood, Trygon, Telegonus leaves
Part 6: Ch. 21-END Penelope, Telemachus, Finale
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*Please be aware this episode and the chapters it discusses contain mention of sexual assault.
This week we welcome back Jac and Sam to the pod for some real quality #CompLit (positive) Medea time! Evil, madness vs monstrosity as the sole escapes for women, the loss of innocence, nymphs, and more. Jac and Sam are both equally highly qualified to be on the podcast, thank you both Jac and Sam for being on the podcast.
More on Christa Wolf: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christa_Wolf
Circe Reading Schedule:
Part 4: Ch. 15-17 Odysseus
Part 5: Ch. 18-20 Motherhood, Trygon, Telegonus leaves
Part 6: Ch. 21-END Penelope, Telemachus, Finale
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CHAPTERS 7-11 FEATURING OLA AND LIV! Who we forgot to mention on air... got MARRIED since the last time you saw them!!! This week is all about making monsters, pursuing your desires, and second boyfriends. Tell us in the comments what you think of Hermes and Daedalus!!!
External Reading Mentioned In The Episode:
Trans creation quote: “As my friend Julian puts it, only half winkingly: “God blessed me by making me transsexual for the same reason God made wheat but not bread and fruit but not wine, so that humanity might share in the act of creation.”
― Daniel Mallory Ortberg, Something That May Shock and Discredit You
Madeline Miller’s photo essay: https://madelinemiller.com/circe/circe-photo-essay/
Circe Reading Schedule:
Part 3: Ch. 12-14 Medea and Jason *CONTENT WARNING: Ch. 14 depicts Sexual Assault*
Part 4: Ch. 15-17 Odysseus
Part 5: Ch. 18-20 Motherhood, Trygon, Telegonus leaves
Part 6: Ch. 21-END Penelope, Telemachus, Finale
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WELCOME TO ODYSSEY ADAPTATION SUMMER! We are officially setting sail on our quest to best prepare ourselves for Season 2 of Percy Jackson & The Olympians AKA The Sea of Monsters by reading and analyzing various modern adaptations of The Odyssey, beginning with Madeline Miller’s 2018 best selling novel Circe.
This week we are discussing chapters 1-6 with special guest Emily Garber from the Monster Donut Podcast, establishing themes, exploring girlhood (no matter how painful), and making. some. monsters. Stick around!
Circe Reading Schedule:
Part 2: Ch. 7-11 Exile, Hermes, Crete
Part 3: Ch. 12-14 Medea and Jason *CONTENT WARNING: Ch. 14 depicts Sexual Assault*
Part 4: Ch. 15-17 Odysseus
Part 5: Ch. 18-20 Motherhood, Trygon, Telegonus leaves
Part 6: Ch. 21-END Penelope, Telemachus, Finale
External Reading Mentioned In The Episode:
Women and Other Monsters by Jess Zimmerman
Natural Beauty by Ling Ling Huang
Pure Heroine by Lorde
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What do Pokémon, X-men, The Korean Royal family, and the mystery of dreams have in common? They are all excellent ingredients for a brand new middle grade novel about magic school, international relations, and big big feelings.
We could not be more thrilled to welcome Graci Kim back to the pod for her FOURTH guest appearance! This time Graci joins us on the cafetorium stage of Seaweed Brain Middle School to #talkstory about her latest book and all it’s brilliant inspirations.
Order Dreamslinger and The Gifted Clans Trilogy from your local bookstore, and check out Graci's website here: https://www.gracikim.com/Follow Graci on Instagram @GraciKimWrites and Twitter @GraciKim
Don't forget to check out all the Rick Riordan Presents novels here: https://rickriordan.com/rick-riordan-presents/
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Welcome to our two week vacation before Circe officially begins June 11th with chapters 1-6! Bringing you this November 2023 Patreon exclusive episode. More on Patreon.com/seaweedbrain
HERE WE GO!!! A big overview conversation that includes spoilers for pretty much everything...Seasons 1 and 2 of Netflix'a Shadow and Bone, Crooked Kingdom, Ruin and Rising, everything but the King of Scars duology basically.
Featuring Fiona <3
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Thank you everyone who joined live or submitted a question for this special birthday mailbag! And a big thank you to the one and only Robert AKA The DamMemePage AKA TheDamMomPage for moderating for us.
Remember next two weeks will be special patreon released FROM THE VAULT, and then we will be beginning Circe by Madeline Miller starting with Chapters 1-6 on June 11th!
Link to Gillian's article on the order in which to read the Riordanverse: https://thedirect.com/article/percy-jackson-books-order-chronological-rick-riordan-series
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We're turning FIVE and we'd love to see you there! Monday May 12th, 7pm PST live on our Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/live/tfk7pnPDLt4?si=1rBUDDHszilIA9xa
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Circe coverage begins June 11th with Chapters 1-6! See y'all soon <3
We MADE IT to the jam-packed final two chapters of Red Pyramid. We're getting #ThePowerofSiblingship, we're getting teen angst, we're getting teen/immortal (?) teen flirting, we're getting does death really exist or is everything the law of conservation? This is an emotional, stunning, well tied-up finale and we've got Robert AKA TheDamMemePage to help us parse through it all.
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