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Caitlin, Anya, and Alan talk about the trailer for ‘His Dark
Materials’, problematic authors who should not be taken too
seriously, and polar bear plushies. Seriously. Will there be a
chance to buy an Iorek plush?! This is important. And we talk
about why we care about these books and the show and stuff.
Panserbjorn plush!!


Here is LSU’s Creative Writing Program. Maybe it is better now
than when Alan was there.


There is a movie about the Golden Compass??!


What is a Province? It is what Canada calls its States.


What are Robert Jordan books? Related: What were Fantasy Books in
the 90’s?


What are TERFs?


Philip Pullman tweet scandal about Trans Rights: “Phillip Pullman
Wants to Know Which Side of the ‘Trans-Argument’ He Should Be
On.” by Kaila Hale-Stern for The Mary Sue.


.Death of the Author


Philip Pullman has strong opinions about Fantasy which energized
the development of “His Dark Materials”. Read about it in “Far
From Narnia” by Laura Miller for The New Yorker.


Anya and Alan co-host Shadows and Shamblers a podcast about the
STARZ adaptation of American Gods.


The trailer for His Dark Materials


You can see that Lyra Belacqua is blonde in all this fanart.


Lin Manuel Miranda talks about singing a duet.


The Kingkiller Chronicles TV Show


The full cast of His Dark Materials


To Anya’s point- read about an Oregon black bear that was killed
by officials because it was too habituated by tourists taking
selfies with it and feeding it. Please leave wild animals in the
wild.


Check out Bad Wolf which is based in England and came out of the
BBC.


Anya and Caitlin worked together on the podcast Desire Made Real
from Eloquent Gushing about the TV adaptation of “A Discovery of
Witches”.


Check out Hallowed Ground Media for more Anya and Alan.


Check out Caitlin’s podcast about Middle Earth “So You Want to
Read Tolkien”


Our theme song is Clockwork Conundrum by NathanGunn


Follow us on Twitter: Anya @StrangelyLiterl Cailtlin
@inferiorcaitlin The Podcast @MoTPod


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