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Friday Jul 03, 2020
Friday Jul 03, 2020
Jaime learns "never meet your heroes" as he verbally squares off with the Blackfish. Later, he talks to a younger fish and threatens to put an even smaller fish on a trebuchet.
This week, we're joined by Don Willi. Be sure to check out his channels and projects below:
- Don Willi’s Youtube - A DON OF ICE & FIRE
- The Hype's Watch
- AGENTS OF SHIELD COVERAGE over @DarrinJaques youtube
Also check out Tadhya, the graphic novel by Quinn of Quinn's Ideas
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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: www.liesandarborgold.com
Intro by Anton Langhage
Friday Jun 26, 2020
Friday Jun 26, 2020
Lyra and Will start to realize the heavy cost of bearing the subtle knife, while Mary Malone talks to magical Siri.
Chapter 11 - Belvedere
Chapter 12 - Screen Language
Links referenced:
ManaroGeek TV - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1lo_HzhE8_5Q6gxn7h4cUA
"Excerpts from the All-Girl Remake of 'Lord of the Flies'" - https://www.newyorker.com/humor/daily-shouts/excerpts-from-the-all-girl-remake-of-lord-of-the-flies
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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: www.liesandarborgold.com
Intro: Waltz Of The Skeleton Keys by WombatNoisesAudio | https://soundcloud.com/user-734462061
Friday Jun 19, 2020
Friday Jun 19, 2020
Friday Jun 12, 2020
Friday Jun 12, 2020
Jaime makes a stop that's not on the way to Riverrun but is on the way to his character development. He catches up with good ol' cousin Lancel, who confesses, "I wanted to be you."
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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: www.liesandarborgold.com
Thursday Jun 04, 2020
Thursday Jun 04, 2020
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#BlackLivesMatter
This is by no means an exhaustive list, and if you have other creators, resources, articles, actions or organizations that you would like for us to add, please feel free to reach out.
Support Black creators in our communities.
Cast & Content Creators
- The Hype's Watch - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbMRMaprM4O5WzAIQJnvz9g
- A Don of Ice & Fire aka Don Willi - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC507i_iipyO50QZFk4s8brA
- Alicia Kingston - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFINw6LLA-4NiycBCAhxxvQ
- Chrissy of Oldstones - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7SPSiaoyBsXF0bG4Jq8veg
- Quinn - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1rFmaGLYr0Ve_Y_soxZNWQ & https://obsidiannightspodcast.podbean.com/
- Tadhya, Quinn’s upcoming graphic novel: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/tadhya-graphic-novel/coming_soon
- I'ma Need More Wine Pod - http://morewinepod.buzzsprout.com/
- Tee Baby - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSOlQn5fok-SSyschqNbjRA
- Christina/the Sphinx - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmuy1eNsQx0BIqLFWKhM2cw || https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfLhsjfgjyvkjly8iHgrAWQ
- Teflon TV - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCz7FuRHvd0CpH8vwKqU9Ruw
- The Amber Spycast - https://www.theamberspycast.com/
- Critical Hit Shop - https://www.etsy.com/shop/CriticalHitShop
- Drafturgy - https://www.drafturgy.com/about
- ManaroGeek - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1lo_HzhE8_5Q6gxn7h4cUA
- Podcast Winterfell - https://podcastwinterfell.com/
- Misty aka AquaVenatus - https://mistyaquavenatus.com/
- A Thousand Eyes and One Podcast - https://thousandeyespodcast.com/
- Lady Diligence - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFbuPUn7_XyRdQd6VoUnEBg
- Ser Hunts Reviews - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDdSjDnWwcJp-DJUUBlIOFw
Support Black storytellers.
Science Fiction & Fantasy Authors
- Tomi Adeyemi
- Nalo Hopkinson
- Samuel R. Delaney
- N.K. Jemisin
- Nnedi Okorafor
- Tananarive Due
- Airea D. Matthews
- Walter Mosley
- Geoffrey Thorne
- Minister Faust
- Sheree R. Thomas
- Ta-Nehisi Coates
- Tochi Onyebuchi
- Karen Lord
- Steven Barnes
- Sofia Samatar
- David Anthony Durham
- Octavia Butler
- Maurice Broaddus
- Barry Nugent
FURTHER LIST OF BOOKS TO READ, THANKS RACHELGOMES: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1eT3U74lNb9KPLKA3mUmNauSPwbcK5LQv70KmBW7EwdA/edit#gid=0
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE: CHECK OUT THIS LIST OF ANTI-RACISM RESOURCES COMPILED BY SARAH SOPHIE FLICKER AND ALYSSA KLEIN
Sooooo many good resources already listed on here. You’ll see some overlap in the later sections but this is a great compilation that people have put a lot of great work into.
SIMILARLY. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE also check out PLUS1.ORG’S ANTI-RACISM TOOLKIT.
Again, people who are more knowledgeable than us have done this great work so that we can do more to actively dismantle white supremacy. Check it out. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vMlmL9TCZJW9bDNfr_nBu8FZEc8LZQd2fi4hbD1s7dg/edit?fbclid=IwAR1GSNbcbw-KRtvhM-7OQmTt2HtuBUTcPbOMtAb-DDnXe3dBIapMpHWUmto
Books About Anti-Racism, Racist Systems, Criminalization in America, etc.
- Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America - James Forman, Jr.
- Me and White Supremacy - Layla Saad
- How to be An Antiracist - Ibram X. Kendi
- White Fragility: Why it’s so hard for white people to talk about racism - Robin DiAngelo
- Reproductive Justice - Loretta Ross and Rickie Solinger
- So you want to talk about race - Ijeoma Oluo
- How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective - edited by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
- The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness - Michelle Alexander
- GO CHECK OUT THOSE LISTS WE LINKED ABOVE
Organizations You Can Donate To or Financially Support
- George Floyd Memorial Fund - https://www.gofundme.com/f/georgefloyd?fbclid=IwAR342hEyNUlpvaJbtbm0qgLiXUmURvaq845KXTlvIjQtgm5207WIjwimsf0
- Black Owned Bookstores in the United States - https://aalbc.com/bookstores/list.php
- Black Visions Collective - https://www.blackvisionsmn.org/
- Reclaim the Block - https://www.reclaimtheblock.org/home
- Mobile Outreach and Outdoor Drop-In (MOODI) - https://www.givemn.org/story/Mxmjeg
- Pimento Relief Fund - https://abepmpls.org/pimento-relief-fund
- SANCTUARY Philadelphia - Sanctuaryphiladelphia.org
- Philly for REAL Justice - http://phillyrealjustice.com/
- Philadelphia Resource Guide from REAL JUSTICE: - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1c69EhaddDpb5X684S8Bk7B-XwsKg3EuYowbEoN39SRg/edit#gid=0
- DONATE TO DOZENS OF BAIL PLACES AT ONCE - https://t.co/uscstATQLB?amp=1
- Philly Bail Fund - OVERFLOWING - fund BLMPhilly.com - BLMPhilly.com
- Youth Art and Self-Empowerment Project - http://www.yasproject.com/
- Reclaim Philadelphia / Judicial Accountability Table - reclaimphiladelphia.org
- Movement Alliance Project - https://movementalliance.org/
- Black Lives Matter DC - https://www.blacklivesmatterdmv.org/fund-the-movement/
- Black Lives Matter DC Legal Support Fund ($800k goal, currently at $500k) - https://www.gofundme.com/f/defendblmdc?utm_source=fb_copy_link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=m_pd+share-sheet&fbclid=IwAR00qGS94DeimUwk_zrcWCIwhLfM_UUVqUeL4I84xq-exdOJL3PDMahcRg4
- Please note: DC does not have cash bail (though money may be used for legal funds or post-and-forfeit, so do your research if someone is requesting funds for DC bail!)
- DC Black-Owned Restaurants Open During Covid-19 - https://www.feedthemalik.com/post/dc-black-owned-open-covid-19
- Black Mamas Bail Out - nationalbailout.org/black-mamas-bail-out/
- Brooklyn Community Bail Fund - brooklynbailfund.org
- North Star Health Collective - northstarhealthcollective.org
- The Marsha P. Johnson Institute - https://marshap.org/donate/
- Compiled list of bail funds and legal help - https://docs.google.com/document/d/1X4-YS3vFn5CLL9QtJSU0xqmTh_h8XilXgOqGAjZISBI/preview?pru=AAABcorfceg*78tcFXW3vT50KJh-VthBGA&fbclid=IwAR1pEfBcMbEiGLiVtP3hLlf-6sWQiTdG61PY-qBQV3-pdWluVNrqao5HTyc
- Femme Empowerment Project - https://www.instagram.com/femmeempowermentproject/
- Life After Release - https://lifeafterrelease.org/
- Disability Justice Mutual Aid Fund - Venmo: @sheabutterfemme || Cashapp: $HSHA24
Direct Actions You Can Take
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- Click this link with a fully written email and placeholders with your name and city to demand the Minneapolis Police Department take all four of George Floyd’s killers and take them into custody - www.tinyurl.com/emailforfloyd/
- Click this link to write an email demanding justice for Breonna Taylor - www.tinyurl.com/ycha6nuu
- If you are in the DC area:
- More resources and guidance: instagram.com/avahmann
- If you want to call your DC council member and don’t know how, send us a DM!
- Submit a testimony to urge the DC council to divest from the DC Metropolitan Police Department - read this document about the issue, why this is important, and what actually works: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1V2l7bdg6QeqtqVWDr5HFzVzieiT0vg6jZASN6syBNyY/preview?link_id=2&can_id=77140cfd7b3097e48a6e6fdd19b2f451&source=email-make-your-voices-heard-divestfrommpd-now&email_referrer=email_819293&email_subject=make-your-voices-heard-divestfrommpd-now&pru=AAABcpn9JGM*i99REKSEQVFf7imV8Riqog
- Email/call the DC Council Committee on the judiciary and public affairs and demand they redirect the money into programs that help Black communities! (Dept of Health, Dept of Health Care Finance, Dept of Behavioral Health) - judiciary@dccouncil.us - 202-350-1362
- For everyone: Write your state representative! (Don't know your state delegate/representative or senator? Use this website or let us know, and I will help you!)
- Here’s a scripted email about no-knock warrants if you don’t know what to write:
- Hi [State Rep],
My name is [YOUR NAME], and I live in your district. I’ve been moved by the protests against police brutality across the nation. One situation that breaks my heart is the killing of Breonna Taylor in Louisville. She was killed in her own home when officers executed a no-knock warrant at the wrong home.
Nothing can make up for her tragic loss of life. But no-knock warrants aren’t just a problem in Louisville. Police use no-knock warrants in our district! I’m writing to you in hopes that you will file legislation to ban no-knock warrants.
Please see this 2014 ACLU report on police execution of warrants for more info: https://www.aclu.org/sites/default/files/assets/jus14-warcomeshome-report-web-rel1.pdf
- [Please note that this email may not apply to your district if you live in Oregon or Florida.]
Some other articles and resources for non-black people of color regarding anti-blackness in non-white communities:
- 20+ Allyship Actions for Asians to Show Up for the Black Community Right Now - https://medium.com/awaken-blog/20-allyship-actions-for-asians-to-show-up-for-the-black-community-right-now-464e5689cf3e
- Letters for Black lives - on talking to your family about why #BlackLivesMatter (with Tagalog translation) - https://www.instagram.com/p/CA5vzQopEiU/?igshid=qo3lluto6ncj
This list was only possible because of the countless efforts and hours of many people paving the way. Credit to: @trishalvaro (IG), @Stanfordfraser (Twitter), @h_e_r_s_t_o_r_y (IG), @ericachidi (IG), @mireillecharper (IG), @dciwoc (IG), @law4blacklivesdc (IG), @brige0x (IG), @soft_masc_shawty (IG) (I lost the account that drafted the instant email link demanding justice for Breonna Taylor in direct actions, and am working on recovering that)
Friday May 29, 2020
Friday May 29, 2020
Two chapters, two character reveals, many answers for our two young heroes.
Chapter 9 - Theft
Chapter 10 - The Shaman
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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: www.liesandarborgold.com
Friday May 22, 2020
Friday May 22, 2020
Friday May 15, 2020
Friday May 15, 2020
After their father's funeral, Jaime finds that the more time he spends in King's Landing near Cersei, the further apart they become. Jaime relives a lot of history, both some he's lived through and some he's read about.
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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: www.liesandarborgold.com
Intro by Anton Langhage
Friday May 08, 2020
Friday May 08, 2020
Jaime mourns for the family that he has clearly lost, and the man as well.
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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: www.liesandarborgold.com
Intro by Anton Langhage
Friday May 01, 2020
Friday May 01, 2020
After Lyra loses the alethiometer, Will gains his own special object at a very high price.
Chapter 7 - The Rolls-Royce
Chapter 8 - The Tower of the Angels
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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: www.liesandarborgold.com
Intro: Waltz Of The Skeleton Keys by WombatNoisesAudio | https://soundcloud.com/user-734462061
Friday Apr 24, 2020
Friday Apr 24, 2020
Whatever he chose...
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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: www.liesandarborgold.com
Intro by Anton Langhage
Friday Apr 17, 2020
Friday Apr 17, 2020
Jaime reads a book and sits at a table. He calls a couple of other folks, just the Kingsguard, over to the table then deals with the brothers he did not choose.
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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: www.liesandarborgold.com
Intro by Anton Langhage
Friday Apr 10, 2020
Friday Apr 10, 2020
When Jaime returns to King's Landing, his king is dead, the city is changed — and so is he.
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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: www.liesandarborgold.com
Intro by Anton Langhage
Friday Apr 03, 2020
Friday Apr 03, 2020
"You want her? Go get her."
So he did.
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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: www.liesandarborgold.com
Intro by Anton Langhage
Friday Mar 27, 2020
Friday Mar 27, 2020
Friday Mar 20, 2020
Friday Mar 20, 2020
It's the Jaime chapter, the big one where we find out about Aerys and stuff.
Quora answer cited: https://www.quora.com/By-what-measure-does-a-wolf-judge-a-lion/answer/David-Shrauger
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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: www.liesandarborgold.com
Friday Mar 13, 2020
Friday Mar 13, 2020
Jaime is met by his own craven tendencies in the face of the Brave Companions - and Brienne.
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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: www.liesandarborgold.com
Friday Mar 06, 2020
Friday Mar 06, 2020
While Eliana is away, Chloe gets to play - Chloe is joined by Faye from Her Dark Materials and Iain and Amy from the Dark Material Podcast to dustcuss their general reactions to The Secret Commonwealth, and to dustcuss where the heck Philip Pullman is taking the story.
This episode will be posted for public while Eliana is gone, and we couldn't be more grateful for you all letting us bridge the "gap" between worlds in the meantime. This will allow no "off" week for GGC.
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Her Dark Materials Website: https://anchor.fm/her-dark-materials
Her Dark Materials Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/hdmpod
The Dark Material Podcast Website: darkmaterialpodcast.com
The Dark Material Podcast Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/darkmaterialpodcast
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: www.liesandarborgold.com
Friday Feb 28, 2020
Friday Feb 28, 2020
Friday Feb 21, 2020
Friday Feb 21, 2020
FangirlJeanne joins us for a breakdown of Jaime and Brienne's "sword fight", while we explore their dynamic even further and analyze why Jaime just can't be a nice boy.
You can find FanGirlJeanne @FangirlJeanne, or over at this link.
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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: www.liesandarborgold.com