1. what a delight to read a dwj i hadn't read before!! and to listen to your analysis! 2. love the trans!chris reading. 3. i thought this felt a little like another run at the master, but for kids?? shared at least the looming tension and the wolves.

just finished my christopher chant reread and am listening so delightedly. i literally screamed when you compared tacroy to tom!!!!! so good!

this is fascinating! for me, an emoji basically replaces punctuation—i would never end with a period and *then* an emoji ⭐️

also this season prompted me to dig up my own college paper on fire & hemlock that i spent an entire semester writing, almost twenty years ago!! wild!

omg this is going to tide me over while i wait for s3 :) thank you as always for your excellent work!

ok what are the dozen shows that are higher tho??

oh my gosh i'm catching up on episodes and LOVED this one. legit never thought to connect mother/monster, love what you two say about dissociating/ghosthood, omg it was such a PUNCH of a book and a fantastic episode analyzing it! ty!

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ooh i would love a biweekly schedule

fyi i have been waiting to listen to your podcast every week until i finish my assigned reading aka whatever you're talking about that week and am also reading the essays in between and have deeply enjoyed the whole experience, v excited for this podcast to continue!!

...but also in her other works too. and like on the one hand, i identified strongly with "not like other girls" narratives as a kid and now identify as nonbinary but on the other hand, yknow. (3/3)

...reading it on the heels of reading all of her other 70s books, it feels so strongly to me like it's just ordinary not-like-other-girls misogyny / internalized misogyny—the girls are shitty boring heroes, femininity kind of sucks, all the themes that we've been seeing pop up in spellcoat (2/...)

1. i would love any and all conspiracy theories about hoban
2. tysm i'm obsessed with the romance of hern x kars adon now and had somehow FULLY glossed over it during my reading
3. regrettably i feel like tanaqui wishing to be a boy is less trans than i want it to be! i feel like especially (1/...)

ooh yes i love that Companion parallel! and also really strikingly different from slender beautiful masculinity (Chrestomanci), which is objectively Good

omg reading drowned ammet immediately after charmed life is SO RICH

i'm bad at bluesky but also meant to reply that of course we've got brenda from power of three but she's been promised thinness as a reward for virtue/adulthood

...have both fat evil characters and fat nice characters, as well as of course gwendolen's weaponized prettiness?

3. i'm interested in the way the fatphobia is sort of evolving?? like my childhood memory of dwj is that her heroes end up looking quite ordinary, or very old, or otherwise not, you know, the pinnacle of beauty in a way i found very reassuring. would you say this is the first dwj book where we

1. i have read this book so many times and somehow NEVER PIECED TOGETHER gwendolen as a mass murderer of everyone on that boat in order to kill her parents?!?! PLS
2. "god forbid women do anything" made me absolutely cackle with laughter thank you so much