Infinity Blade: Awakening & I Hate Dragons - Episode 14

We read two not very good stories and have 2 fantastic conversations about them with special guest Sophie Abromowitz!

Sophie Short Story: https://joylandpublishing.com/fiction/jan-is-important/
Sophie Substack: https://abromowitz.substack.com/
Sophie Website: https://sophie-abromowitz.com/


Next month we'll be reading Alloy of Law. Episode airs, end of April.

Content warnings for this episode: auditory hallucinations, betrayal, bleeding, bullying, child endangerment, conspiracies, death, duels, gender dysphoria, god kings, human sacrifice, mprisonment, insanity, lying, mental illness, mind control, murder, neglect, oligarchy, prisons, religion, royalty, self harm, self hatred, stabbing, undeath, wounds, xenophobia

Infinity Blade Screenshots https://www.epicgames.com/infinityblade/en-US/game-info/infinity-blade-i

Infinity Blade II Screenshots: https://kotaku.com/games/infinity-blade-ii/gallery

Infinity Blade II Opening Cutscene - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSywlxTpqBA

Words of Brandon: https://wob.coppermind.net/events/169/#e8839

Books
Fullmetal Alchemist by Hiromu Arakawa
The Dandelion Dynasty by Ken Liu
The Traitor Baru Cormorant by Seth Dickinson
Piranesi
Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke

Movies
Inception dir by Christopher Nolan
Paprika dir by Satoshi Kon

TV
Star Wars Andor

Other
Boss Baby Tweet https://x.com/afraidofwasps/status/1177301482464526337?lang=en

This show is created by Graham Gillman, Taylor Lane, and Jack McLaughlan.

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Our theme music is "goodnight kiss" by 2mello off the album midnight broadcasts. (https://2mello.net/)