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ASOIAF Episode 240 — ADWD Cersei I featuring Margo

New year, new book, same old Cersei (pretending to be #New for the High Septon). Margo helps us retrace the steps of Cersei's life and unpack the complexities of her familial and romantic relationships (which are kind of one and the same at times).

Where to find Margo

• https://x.com/King_Margosha

• https://bsky.app/profile/kingcersei.bsky.social

References from Lo

• Essay: A MOST UNCOMMON WOMAN: Cersei Lannister’s Gender Trouble

• Essay: Maidens, maidenheads, and the patriarchy- Virginity norms in ASOIAF

• Lo and Virginie's podcast, Ragman's Harbour

• Mentioned Quotes

  • Susan Stryker definition: "I use [transgender] in this book to refer to people who move away from the gender they were assigned at birth, people who cross (trans-) the boundaries constructed by their culture to define and contain that gender. Some people move away from their birth-assigned gender because they feel strongly that they properly belong to another gender in which it would be better for them to live; others want to strike out toward some new location, some space not yet clearly defined or concretely occupied; still others simply feel the need to get away from the conventional expectations bound up with the gender that was initially put upon them. In any case, it is the movement across a socially imposed boundary away from an unchosen starting place- rather than any particular destination or mode of transition- that best characterizes the concept of ‘transgender’ that I want to develop here."

  • From Leslie Feinberg's Transgender Warriors: “Didn’t Joan of Arc wear men’s clothes?” I asked a friend over coffee in 1975. She had a graduate degree in history; I had barely squeaked through high school. I waited for her answer with great anticipation, but she dismissed my question with a wave of her hand. ”It was just armor.” She seemed so sure, but I couldn’t let my question go. Joan of Arc was the only person associated with cross-dressing in history I’d grown up hearing about. I thought a great deal about my friend’s answer. Was the story of Joan of Arc dressing in men’s clothing merely legend? Was wearing armor significant? If a society strictly mandates only men can be warriors, isn’t a woman military leader dressed in armor an example of cross-gendered expression?"

  • ibid. : "No wonder you’ve passed as a man! This is such an anti-woman society,” a lesbian friend told me. To her, females passing as males are simply trying to escape women’s oppression – period. She believes that once true equality is achieved in society, humankind will be genderless. I don’t have a crystal ball, so I can’t predict human behavior in a distant future. But I know what she’s thinking – if we can build a more just society, people like me will cease to exist. She assumes that I am simply a product of oppression. Gee, thanks so much."

  • From Alica Spencer-Hall and Spencer Gutt's Trans and Genderqueer Subjects in Medieval Hagiography: "Marginalised identities are often written out of the historical record by those with the privilege of formulating “historical truth”. The Middle Ages is frequently viewed as a time “where men were men, women were women, everyone was the same race and practised the same faith, and no one was corrupted by technology, sexuality or democracy”. This is not how any medievalist worth their salt would put it.

    Disingenuous interrogation of the presence of trans people in history is rarely about the factual specifics of the past alone. If talking about trans lives is “anachronistic”, then “trans-ness [is] not an inextricable part of humanity or human diversity”. The transphobe’s dream is an imaginary medieval past in which everyone knows their (gendered) place. Similar themes emerge in the usage of the Middle Ages by the alt-right and beyond: those who fantasize a past in which everyone who mattered was straight, cisgender, white, and Christian. White supremacists and fascists weaponize the Middle Ages to justify their hatred.

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Intro by Anton Langhage

Patreon Public Release Episode 64 — The Hunger Games Episode 1: Act 1, "The Tributes"

A special gift from our Patrons, originally released December 2023.

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The girls ended 2024 (and now, apparently 2024) by embarking on a new series by time traveling to the year 2013. In this first episode, we cover the world building that happens in the first few chapters of The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins, and some of the inspiration behind it. 

Spoilers all The Hunger Games trilogy; hints to The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes

Want more coverage about The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, the prequel book? Check out Arah's YouTube channel, ieatzebra: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGu9dGopzdFfXUhoMP2BNAchBWIkx0AGX 

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Intro by Kevin MacLeod, "Fairytale Waltz"

ASOIAF Episode 239 — AFFC Cersei X

And so we close our coverage of A Feast for Crows for good... with a diva down.

affuck.

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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

ASOIAF Episode 238 — AFFC Cersei IX

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 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

ASOIAF Episode 237 — AFFC Cersei VIII

Cersei ate. (So did Chloe.)

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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

ASOIAF Episode 236 — AFFC Cersei VII featuring Rohanne

"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:

• https://x.com/cyrilwoodcock and https://bsky.app/profile/cyrilwoodcock.bsky.social

Essays and resources mentioned in the episode:

• 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/ 

• Rohanne’s psychoanalytic analysis of Jaime and Cersei’s relationship: https://www.youtube.com/live/vLi47CKhFPA?si=tJL7BpchfyqTXY4Q 

• Rohanne on Melisandre and PTSD on NotACast: https://open.spotify.com/episode/0VPklta6R9p7JLxVfoRQj1?si=2f98e700206745b6 

  Scholarly works mentioned in this episode- 

• The Traffic in Women by Gayle Rubin https://summermeetings2013.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/rubin-traffic.pdf 

• This Sex Which Is Not One by Luce Irigaray https://www.columbia.edu/itc/architecture/ockman/pdfs/feminism/Irigaray.pdf 

• Tori Amos being Cersei- https://youtu.be/a9zAE3qL-sU?si=rtxQExndYDxKZDBu and https://youtu.be/tQ9mpu-t-7Y?si=mz83A5W2kXfMA4E6 

• 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
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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Eliana's blog: https://themanyfacedblog.wordpress.com/

Chloe's twitter: https://twitter.com/liesandarbor

Chloe's blog: liesandarborgold.com

Intro by Anton Langhage

ASOIAF Episode 235 — AFFC Cersei VI featuring Maddy

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:

• https://twitter.com/madeleinewintr

Recommended by Maddy: https://twitter.com/hightowerfunk 

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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

ASOIAF Episode 234 — AFFC Cersei V

It's hard to juggle work-life balance when you're Cersei.

Where to find Maddy:

• https://twitter.com/madeleinewintr

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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

ASOIAF Episode 233 — AFFC Cersei IV

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

ASOIAF Episode 232 — AFFC Cersei III

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 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

ASOIAF Episode 231 — AFFC Cersei II

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 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

ASOIAF Episode 230 — AFFC Cersei I

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:

• Drums of the Deep · Kevin MacLeod Drums of the Deep ℗ Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...

• "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 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

ASOIAF Episode 229 — ADWD Epilogue, Kevan Lannister featuring Stef Lyoness

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

• Twitter — https://x.com/KissedPodcast

• Stef's Twitter — https://x.com/Stef_Lyoness 

• Patreon — https://www.patreon.com/user?u=80234533 

• 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

ASOIAF Episode 228 — ASOS Epilogue, Merrett Frey

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

• Pat's Reddit account and essays: https://www.reddit.com/user/ClankingDragonInn/

• Sanrixian's Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/sanrixian 

• Sanrixian's Twitter: https://x.com/sanrixian

• 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

House of the Dragon: Unleash the D S2E5 ft JoeMagician

 

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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🐦Twitter: / thejoemagician

Unleash the D S2E4: Fashion Hour Ft. Meghan (Birdie Dee Costuming)

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

Minisode: Waiting for 'A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms'

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"

House of the Dragon S2E8: The Queen Who Ever Was

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 

Azorahainess's Timeline

Direwolf City

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!!

House of the Dragon S2E7: The Red Sowing

 

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!!

House of the Dragon S2E6: Smallfolk

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!!