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Whether this diva is up or down, one thing's for sure: The Blue Bard won't be playing in any of this diva's backing tracks.
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Eliana's twitter: https://twitter.com/arhythmetric
Eliana's reddit account: https://www.reddit.com/user/glass_table_girl
Eliana's blog: https://themanyfacedblog.wordpress.com/
Chloe's twitter: https://twitter.com/liesandarbor
Chloe's blog: liesandarborgold.com
Intro by Anton Langhage
Friday Nov 29, 2024
Friday Nov 29, 2024
Cersei ate. (So did Chloe.)
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Eliana's twitter: https://twitter.com/arhythmetric
Eliana's reddit account: https://www.reddit.com/user/glass_table_girl
Eliana's blog: https://themanyfacedblog.wordpress.com/
Chloe's twitter: https://twitter.com/liesandarbor
Chloe's blog: liesandarborgold.com
Intro by Anton Langhage
Friday Nov 15, 2024
Friday Nov 15, 2024
"Ten thousand of your children perished in my palm, Your Grace, she thought, slipping a third finger into Myr. Whilst you snored, I would lick your sons off my face and fingers one by one, all those pale sticky princes. You claimed your rights, my lord, but in the darkness I would eat your heirs."
Professor of Cerseiology at the University of Lesbos, Rohanne, joins us to do a deep dive about Cersei, queerness, and the importance of complex narratives.
Where to find Rohanne:
Essays and resources mentioned in the episode:
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A Most Uncommon Woman: Cersei Lannister’s Gender Trouble by Rohanne and Lo the Lynx https://lothelynx.wordpress.com/2021/10/17/a-most-uncommon-woman-cersei-lannisters-gender-trouble/
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Rohanne’s psychoanalytic analysis of Jaime and Cersei’s relationship: https://www.youtube.com/live/vLi47CKhFPA?si=tJL7BpchfyqTXY4Q
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Rohanne on Melisandre and PTSD on NotACast: https://open.spotify.com/episode/0VPklta6R9p7JLxVfoRQj1?si=2f98e700206745b6
Scholarly works mentioned in this episode-
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The Traffic in Women by Gayle Rubin https://summermeetings2013.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/rubin-traffic.pdf
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This Sex Which Is Not One by Luce Irigaray https://www.columbia.edu/itc/architecture/ockman/pdfs/feminism/Irigaray.pdf
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Tori Amos being Cersei- https://youtu.be/a9zAE3qL-sU?si=rtxQExndYDxKZDBu and https://youtu.be/tQ9mpu-t-7Y?si=mz83A5W2kXfMA4E6
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Rohanne's Cersei playlist https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5Vqe6prPlLf54kdP0iYX2W
Music credits:
"Spring Thaw" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License
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Eliana's twitter: https://twitter.com/arhythmetric
Eliana's reddit account: https://www.reddit.com/user/glass_table_girl
Eliana's blog: https://themanyfacedblog.wordpress.com/
Chloe's twitter: https://twitter.com/liesandarbor
Chloe's blog: liesandarborgold.com
Intro by Anton Langhage
Friday Nov 08, 2024
Friday Nov 08, 2024
Get on your knees: The queen is visiting the Great Sept of Baelor and giving new rights to the Faith. Special guest Maddy breaks down the historical influences and parallels (particularly from the history of the Catholic Church) for the outcomes of Cersei's meeting with the new High Septon.
Where to find Maddy:
Recommended by Maddy: https://twitter.com/hightowerfunk
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Eliana's twitter: https://twitter.com/arhythmetric
Eliana's reddit account: https://www.reddit.com/user/glass_table_girl
Eliana's blog: https://themanyfacedblog.wordpress.com/
Chloe's twitter: https://twitter.com/liesandarbor
Chloe's blog: liesandarborgold.com
Intro by Anton Langhage
Friday Nov 01, 2024
Friday Nov 01, 2024
It's hard to juggle work-life balance when you're Cersei.
Where to find Maddy:
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Eliana's twitter: https://twitter.com/arhythmetric
Eliana's reddit account: https://www.reddit.com/user/glass_table_girl
Eliana's blog: https://themanyfacedblog.wordpress.com/
Chloe's twitter: https://twitter.com/liesandarbor
Chloe's blog: liesandarborgold.com
Intro by Anton Langhage
Friday Oct 25, 2024
Friday Oct 25, 2024
Cersei finally gets to join and lead a Small Council meeting made up of mostly unqualified people with newfangled titles.
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Eliana's twitter: https://twitter.com/arhythmetric
Eliana's reddit account: https://www.reddit.com/user/glass_table_girl
Eliana's blog: https://themanyfacedblog.wordpress.com/
Chloe's twitter: https://twitter.com/liesandarbor
Chloe's blog: liesandarborgold.com
Intro by Anton Langhage
Friday Oct 18, 2024
Friday Oct 18, 2024
There's a wedding (again) where no one dies except Cersei's patience. Ghosts of weddings haunt her (and the reader).
Bonus: Listen to a developing, ongoing B plot where the "B" stands for baseball.
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Eliana's twitter: https://twitter.com/arhythmetric
Eliana's reddit account: https://www.reddit.com/user/glass_table_girl
Eliana's blog: https://themanyfacedblog.wordpress.com/
Chloe's twitter: https://twitter.com/liesandarbor
Chloe's blog: liesandarborgold.com
Intro by Anton Langhage
Friday Oct 11, 2024
Friday Oct 11, 2024
It's a fitting day for rain at Tywin's funeral. It's not a very comforting one for the family, though, as Cersei bats away the grasping mourners and tries to keep the pack—er, lion's pride—together. (They do not wish to be together.)
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Eliana's twitter: https://twitter.com/arhythmetric
Eliana's reddit account: https://www.reddit.com/user/glass_table_girl
Eliana's blog: https://themanyfacedblog.wordpress.com/
Chloe's twitter: https://twitter.com/liesandarbor
Chloe's blog: liesandarborgold.com
Intro by Anton Langhage
Friday Oct 04, 2024
Friday Oct 04, 2024
Okay, it's real this time: We're starting the Cersei chapters. The King's Hand is dead but long live the queen. Cersei Lannister. An icon.
Background music:
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Drums of the Deep · Kevin MacLeod Drums of the Deep ℗ Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...
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"Unease" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Eliana's twitter: https://twitter.com/arhythmetric
Eliana's reddit account: https://www.reddit.com/user/glass_table_girl
Eliana's blog: https://themanyfacedblog.wordpress.com/
Chloe's twitter: https://twitter.com/liesandarbor
Chloe's blog: liesandarborgold.com
Intro by Anton Langhage
Friday Sep 27, 2024
Friday Sep 27, 2024
The last published chapter of A Song of Ice and Fire, brought to you by a spider, little birds... AND STEF LYONESS of the Kissed by Fire Podcast!
Join us for the heralding of winter: A lion roars his last as the spider's web comes into focus.
Where to find Stef Lyoness
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Twitter — https://x.com/KissedPodcast
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Stef's Twitter — https://x.com/Stef_Lyoness
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Patreon — https://www.patreon.com/user?u=80234533
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Threadless — https://kissedbyfire.threadless.com/
Background music
"Tenebrous Brothers Carnival - Mermaid" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Eliana's twitter: https://twitter.com/arhythmetric
Eliana's reddit account: https://www.reddit.com/user/glass_table_girl
Eliana's blog: https://themanyfacedblog.wordpress.com/
Chloe's twitter: https://twitter.com/liesandarbor
Chloe's blog: liesandarborgold.com
Intro by Anton Langhage
Friday Sep 20, 2024
Friday Sep 20, 2024
She don't speak, but she remember... AND SO DOES OUR SPECIAL GUEST, PAT, who joins us to remember pretty much every single thing about the Freys that you didn't know you missed about their family!
Come hang with us and our special guest for one of the best and mind-blowing chapters of ASOIAF
Where to find Pat
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Pat's Reddit account and essays: https://www.reddit.com/user/ClankingDragonInn/
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Sanrixian's Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/sanrixian
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Sanrixian's Twitter: https://x.com/sanrixian
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Sanrixian's Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/sanrixian
Kissed by Fire Podcast: https://x.com/kissedpodcast
Background music:
"Right Behind You" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Eliana's twitter: https://twitter.com/arhythmetric
Eliana's reddit account: https://www.reddit.com/user/glass_table_girl
Eliana's blog: https://themanyfacedblog.wordpress.com/
Chloe's twitter: https://twitter.com/liesandarbor
Chloe's blog: liesandarborgold.com
Intro by Anton Langhage
Friday Sep 13, 2024
Friday Sep 13, 2024
Doctor Professor Joseph Magician joins us to talk about Magic in HOTD.
Tune in for the SEASON FINALE of Unleash the D. The critically acclaimed, yadda yadda, yadda
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Friday Sep 06, 2024
Friday Sep 06, 2024
Welcome back to the final two episodes of S2 UNLEASH THE D, the hit primer series critics are saying serves major [REDACTED VAGINAL TERM].
It's post-season of House of the Dragon. Seamstress, costumer, and all around brilliant mind Meghan (Birdie Dee Costuming) has joined us to talk about everything costuming in the world of Westeros. Let us take you on color journeys, talk about who wore it best, and discuss both real-world and Westeros-world influences.
We have released a PATREON EXCLUSIVE video version of this episode that includes visual aids to help you better follow the conversation. We highly recommend checking that out over at: https://www.patreon.com/posts/unleash-d-s2e4-111408996
A special thank you to our patrons at patreon.com/girlsgonecanon for sponsoring every episode that we produce.
You can check out several other visuals below, as well as find Meghan's costuming online at........
Costuming by Meghan
Instagram
X (formerly Twitter)
Chloe's Costuming
Found around the internet in an unorganized fashion, also at
Chloeandthehawk DeviantArt
Screenshots from HBO Series
Game of Thrones
House of the Dragon
(Various episodes and scenes)
Rosalia Culora
Hair, Wigs, Hairpieces
Instagram
Stephanie Miles
Headwear, Hats, Tiaras
Instagram
Claire Kitchener
Embroidery
Instagram
Game of Thrones Embroidery
Michele Carragher Embroidery
House of the Dragon Costumes
Season One
Jany Temime
House of the Dragon Costumes
Season Two
Caroline McCall
French Meadows
18th Century Stays
The Dreamtress
Textile School
Hand Stitch Types
Hellosewing.com
Mindy Makes
The Graphics Fairy
Regency Dresses
Makeup FX
Hand Knotting Wigs
YouTube Video
Fashion Through Herstory
“A Green Medieval Cote”
Website
The Consolation of Philosophy
Philosophy Presenting the Seven Liberal Arts to Boethius
(Manuscript)
Treasury.com
Dreamfyre Art by Sanrixian
Sanrixian Threadless
Friday Aug 30, 2024
Friday Aug 30, 2024
Chloe and Eliana talk about the casting of the upcoming series, 'A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms' and some things we're excited to see
Intro by Anton Langhage, "Cup of Coffee"
Wednesday Aug 07, 2024
Wednesday Aug 07, 2024
SPOILERS: ASOIAF, F&B, KOT7K, TWOIAF, ETC
All must choose.
The finale is here.
Be sure to check back for the final two episodes of "Unleash the D" with special guests, as well as the main ASOIAF POV Podcast.
Correction - Sharp Point is Bar Emmon's house and Elinda will not pay for her crimes today
Rhaenys the Conqueror: From Her Blood
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Sound Effects from Pixabay
"Night Vigil" "Big Drumming" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ THANKS KEVIN!!
Wednesday Jul 31, 2024
Wednesday Jul 31, 2024
SPOILERS: ASOIAF, F&B, KOT7K, TWOIAF, ETC
Princess Saera herself was still alive and well in Volantis, and only thirty-four years of age; her own claim was clearly superior to those of any of her bastard sons, but she did not choose to press it. “I have my own kingdom here,” she said, when asked if she meant to return to Westeros.
Join us for the penultimate episode of S2, the Red Sowing.
We'll be LIVE with Direwolf City after the season finale, 8/4. Subscribe to them at: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVUTAOYvXNEU3zc3-G_uifA
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Sound Effects from Pixabay
"Night Vigil" "Big Drumming" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ THANKS KEVIN!!
Wednesday Jul 24, 2024
Wednesday Jul 24, 2024
SPOILERS: ASOIAF, F&B, KOT7K, TWOIAF, ETC
"He should have stayed in Dorne. He should have stayed a frog. Not all men are meant to dance with dragons."
We're soft launching a lot in this episode - but hard launching the smallfolk!
(had a couple technical issues on audio this week so please bear with us. rowr. bear.)
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Sound Effects from Pixabay
"Night Vigil" "Big Drumming" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ THANKS KEVIN!!
Wednesday Jul 17, 2024
Wednesday Jul 17, 2024
SPOILERS: ASOIAF, F&B, KOT7K, TWOIAF, ETC
“The only thing that could tear down the House of the Dragon… was itself.”
... and boy are they tearing it down!
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Sound Effects from Pixabay
"Night Vigil" "Big Drumming" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ THANKS KEVIN!!
Wednesday Jul 10, 2024
Wednesday Jul 10, 2024
SPOILERS: ASOIAF, F&B, KOT7K, TWOIAF, ETC
“It’s been said that Targaryens are closer to gods than men…
In my eyes, you were a god. Daemon Targaryen. The Prince of the City. The Lord of Flea Bottom.
I was an innocent. You exploited me and abandoned me. You sullied my name at court. You empowered my rivals. You tried to make my ruin.
You put me on that throne. And you love me and you hate me for it.
You created me, Daemon. Yet you are now set on destroying me.
All because your brother loved me more than he did you.
This is what you always wanted, is it not?”
In what can only be described as "an epic hour of television", the Red Dragon and the Gold surpasses our expectations as the biggest battle with dragons we've yet seen on our screens. Meet the halfway mark of the season with us in this episode.
Otto Joining the Caltrops theory by u/Beepulons: https://www.reddit.com/r/asoiaf/comments/1dtk5vw/spoilers_extended_hotd_otto_hightower_is_being/
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Sound Effects from Pixabay
"Night Vigil" "Big Drumming" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ THANKS KEVIN!!
Wednesday Jul 03, 2024
Wednesday Jul 03, 2024
Sin begets sin begets sin - and war makes monsters of us all. We chat cyclical violence within and outside of the family, parentified children, and of course, the behemoth that is Harrenhal.
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Sound Effects from Pixabay
"Night Vigil" "Big Drumming" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ THANKS KEVIN!!