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This is the best contemporary book we've done in a good while. Night in the Woods vibes but set in a little Italian (ITALIAN) town in the dying days of the 20th century. It's rich, deep, complex, funny - hits practically every established Wizards vs Lesbians trope on the way. Isaac may unfortunately have become a little overexcited.

#wizards vs lesbians #feast while you can #mikaella clements #onjulli data

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Anonymous asked:

Since you mentioned them, Isaac: recs for podcasts about industrial disasters and misfought wars? 👀

Sure. For industrial disasters, I listen to Well There's Your Problem, a podcast which is a disaster in and of itself. Your mileage will vary greatly depending on your tolerance for.. oh, all kinds of things. They've got audio problems. They've got brain problems. They've got train obsessives (or "foamers", as I have learned they're called.) They have November Kelly, who is so smart and funny that you may start to think she's right about everything, which makes her a wizard on top of being a lesbian. Start with the Hindenburg disaster episode, maybe, or the one about air mail. OR: actually, start with the one about the 1963 Salad Oil Scandal, unless you're Italian.

For military history I listen to Lions Led By Donkeys, which is hosted by a guy named Joe Kassabian, who is an Afghan War vet - because he's Armenian, he is a third-generation Afghan War vet, which is something it's possible to be - and kind of a goofy nerd. He also has a masters in Genocide Studies and writes science fiction. Horrible things make him laugh. He keeps losing co-hosts because they get too depressed to continue.

These are both part of an extended network of more or less leftist podcasts loosely centered around another vet, an army brat named Nate Bethea who has the kind of autism which renders him able to network incredibly talented people together while working unceasingly and learning all things, as far as I can tell. He is an occasional cohost on Trashfuture, which is the podcast I listen to when I want to hear about a mountaineering disaster but the mountain is the world (or at least the US and the UK) and I'm on it and for some reason I keep climbing.

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Wizards Vs. Lesbians: MOBY-DICK

Finally, the all-caps title is correct! During the 2023 Wizzly awards we all said we were going to read Moby Dick by the time the next Wizzl

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Come on down to Wizards Vs. Lesbians, where we've recorded our longest episode yet - and, fittingly, it's on a book about the biggest animal ever, the sperm whale. I am sure the sperm whale is the biggest animal there is. The sperm whale is big and it's real and it's my nemesis and I don't know what that emo kid's getting up to with my harpooneer over there but it sure smacks of lesbianism.

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btw for anyone interested, this is the sketch of the proto-whale basilosaurus from Whale Fact Number 9(?) at the very end of the episode:

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Wizards Vs. Lesbians: BONUS: THE EXPEDITION (A LOVE STORY)

We adventure into the realm of non-fiction - mostly - for the first time, courtesy of Isaac Fellman, who has joined us to discuss a book abo

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We continue our author's choice bonus series with Isaac Fellman, who has brought us our first-ever piece of non-fiction. (Mostly.) Following the thematic lead from The Ministry of Time, this is another book about the consequences of becoming parasocially attached to dead arctic explorers.

#the expedition #bea uusma #wizards vs lesbians

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Tfw u give urself a lobotomy and the love of ur life killed herself in front of u and keeps hijacking ur brain to tell u ur holding ur sword wrong and it’s called a “pommel”

#the locked tomb #art

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A few people have asked about Buc-ees and the fear of God. (Listen to our Moby Dick episode for details.) I say unto you, yea, the beef was plentiful, and the bathrooms clean - but take care on your pilgrimage to those sainted bathrooms, to leave your offering to that divine cleanliness, as the shrine attendant whose work never ceases shuffles to the next stall over. Take care, for on your journey you are seen -

Either by this cold sentinel or her brother in crystal blue across the hall - and by one only, and one forever, and never the twain shall meet

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sesquipedalian-thaumaturge asked:

Loved the Moby Dick episode, and it reminded me: are you still planning to cover the Aubrey-Maturin series at some point?

Yes! Probably! I got distracted! No disrespect to Aubrey or Maturin but they are kind of thin gruel next to the big Dick. We'll get to it.

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Anonymous asked:

Hello! Your podcast is lovely. I hope this ask finds you well.

I don’t know if The Tragedy of Arthur, by Arthur Philips, would fit into the “wizlez” genre. Even so, I’d like to make a case for it.

It’s not SFF, but you’ve done some stuff that isn’t. It plays around a lot with narrative in interesting ways.

The main character/narrator of the book’s first part is manipulative and unreliable enough that I think he could be a wizard, and a main conflict is his relationship with his lesbian twin.

The second part of the book is straight-up Shakespeare pastiche about King Arthur, which the audiobook did excellent voices for, and I think pushes the book more into “speculative” territory.

Well, I'm interested - we like a bit of metafiction around here. On the to-read list it goes.

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Wizards Vs. Lesbians: MOBY-DICK

Finally, the all-caps title is correct! During the 2023 Wizzly awards we all said we were going to read Moby Dick by the time the next Wizzl

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#moby dick #herman melville #wizards vs lesbians #it's fucking whale time

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Because of Re: Carmilla, I thought you all would enjoy my edition of Carmilla :

The holes go all the way through, the sides of the book are red, and on some pages the text is colored red just under the holes !

I was so happy when I found it in a little french bookshop specialized in queer texts ❤️

#carmen could never

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moonmilk asked:

I had to stop listening to the podcast and run to the computer to say "nice one" the moment I heard the couplet "white boys are moaning / lyrics are phoning it in"

Thank you. I'd like to take this opportunity to say that I think Beck has written some decent songs and that he's a great producer. His Sad Albums aren't his best but they sure are the ones I listened to the most (with collateral damage) when I was in college.

Sad white boy music is a curse that simply will not go away. It's a horrible ghoul and it's currently occupying MGK's body. Still, I can't pretend there aren't a few sad white boy albums that I return to. They have to be indie, they can't even have the wads of major label money to stuff in their wounds. The Wrens, forever the most divorced men in New Jersey. Yoni Wolf, drowning in a pit of himself on the Alopecia trilogy. Scott "Frightened Rabbit" Hutchison, who made good on swimming til he couldn't see land.

#let's not forget elliott smith #I can't believe everyone still believes courtney killed suicidal drug addict kurt #and then everyone's like sure elliott smith stabbed himself through the chest with a kitchen knife #and his girlfriend just found him like that #do you know how much strength you would need. famous bodybuilder elliott smith #but I digress

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Reader: wait I get it now. The whale is a metaphor for the consequences of human greed. He represents divine punishment for hubris

Ishmael: for the last time the whale is real and it ate my husband

#stay tuned...

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Wizards Vs. Lesbians: BONUS: STARS IN MY POCKET LIKE GRAINS OF SAND

We kick off a new series of author's choice episodes with Cameron Reed, who has brought us a novel you can chew on like the ragged edge of a

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The author of the Fortunate Fall joins us to discuss a book which is about the internet (astonishingly prescient), desire (rather quaint) and dinner parties (terrifying, as usual.)

#wizards vs lesbians #stars in my pocket like grains of sand #samuel delaney

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”Hate me, but live”

#the jasmine throne #art

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Richard Goldstein & James Baldwin | The Last Interview

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lol i litereally stopped reading right before one of his most important quotes. including it with a lot of added context because i always see that quote on its own without the rest of the conversation which is really fascinating.

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#readings in wizards vs lesbians #and queer desire as the revolutionary force

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Wizards Vs. Lesbians: THE GOLEM OF BROOKLYN

This book is about whether murdering antisemites is a good idea or not, morally and strategically, and as such it's about Israel without eve

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There is a big Israeli elephant in the room, and this book manages to describe it without acknowledging it, which is impressive but leads to some problems (throwing the state of Kentucky under the bus, for example.) That last may also be a product of this book's New Yorkitude, featuring as it does the expected combo of cleverness and smug chauvinism.

All that being said, it does a remarkably good job with the impossible material it's covering, and it made us laugh.

#wizards vs lesbians #adam mansbach #the golem of brooklyn