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A weekly quest by Niamh to guide Em and the listeners through the Icelandic sagas fae loves so much, as we all sit in the dark and feel mortal and small.
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A weekly quest by Niamh to guide Em and the listeners through the Icelandic sagas fae loves so much, as we all sit in the dark and feel mortal and small.
82 episodes
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Around the Long Fire
We’re tired and busy so this one is not us at our best and brightest, but we try to have a good pod anyway. Next week we’re actually taking off reading the saga, ignore what we say in this episode, we’ll mostly just talk about some movies we watched probably. Things discussed: legal name changes, How Do We Relationship (through to chapter 127), scheduling, Evangelion manga, Eyes Wide Shut (spoilers for the ending, it's right at the end of the pod) See the show schedule here! This’ll tell you which versions of books and which sections of those books we’re reading each week. Niamh podcasts on Export Audio with Ghost Divers, Ornate Stairwells, and Pondering Pootan. Fae posts on twitter @foxmomnia and on bluesky at foxmomnia.bsky.social Em hosts Abnormal Mapping and Repertory Screenings on abnormalmapping.com and also is the Pokemon Master of Ceremonies on The Great Gundam Project. They post on twitter @em_being and on bluesky at polarbearsummer.online Next episode: The Adolescence of Utena, probably, mostly. No sagas.…
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We start our final saga of the season and whew it’s a long one! Egil doesn’t even show up in this reading! But we cover all the goings on leading up to his birth, the fickleness of kings, and then spend our time catching up on what we did over the holidays. Things discussed: holidays, what we've been up to, Tokyo Godfathers, Revolutionary Girl Utena, Sonic 3 (the movie), Hack/Slash Back to School, Honey and Clover, Tombs of Atuan, ereaders, Cruising Utopia, Metaphor game club returns! Utena discussion starts at 50:30 and goes until (1:05:04)! See the show schedule here! This’ll tell you which versions of books and which sections of those books we’re reading each week. Niamh podcasts on Export Audio with Ghost Divers, Ornate Stairwells, and Pondering Pootan. Fae posts on twitter @foxmomnia and on bluesky at foxmomnia.bsky.social Em hosts Abnormal Mapping and Repertory Screenings on abnormalmapping.com and also is the Pokemon Master of Ceremonies on The Great Gundam Project. They post on twitter @em_being and on bluesky at polarbearsummer.online Next episode: Egils saga, ch. 29-56, trans. Bernard Scudder, published in The Sagas of Icelanders (Penguin Classics)…
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We’re back for the end of this wild ass saga about elk men, bear men, bad men, and dead men! We had a great time with this one, to the point we finally suggest doing what I never thought we would: ranking the sagas, at the end of the season! Then, Em talks about their favorite episode of Utena so far watching it, and some of the things it brought up for them that they don’t feel other people would probably speak to. This is our final episode for the year, as we’re taking next week off, so I hope you enjoy! There will be more oversharing in 2025, god willing. Content warning: during the Utena and Persona 3 section, there's some not explicit but open talk about grooming and sexualization of minors. If you'd like to skip that, the rest of the podcast continues at 1:30:15. Things discussed: what we've been up to, Revolutionary Girl Utena (spoilers up through episode 18), Persona 3 Portable, Pondering Pootan, the podcasting year See the show schedule here! This’ll tell you which versions of books and which sections of those books we’re reading each week. Niamh podcasts on Export Audio with Ghost Divers, Ornate Stairwells, and Pondering Pootan. Fae posts on twitter @foxmomnia and on bluesky at foxmomnia.bsky.social Em hosts Abnormal Mapping and Repertory Screenings on abnormalmapping.com and also is the Pokemon Master of Ceremonies on The Great Gundam Project. They post on twitter @em_being and on bluesky at polarbearsummer.online Next episode (in two weeks!): Egils saga, ch. 1-28, trans. Bernard Scudder, published in The Sagas of Icelanders (Penguin Classics)…
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We read the first half of the first new-to-Niamh saga this week, and have a great time with awful men, questionable gender politics, and high drama. Also, some violence is done to a bearman, don’t really like that but so it goes sometimes. Our chat about everything else continues as usual, as Niamh overtakes Em in Metaphor, we watch and read some stuff, and a conversation started last week gets finished as Em finally gets to their point about some stuff. Things This Episode: The Guy She Was Interested in Wasn't a Guy at All, Even Though We're Adults, Infinity Nikki, To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar, gender and queerness talk, Metaphor: ReFantazio Note: we meant to circle around to the discussion of Lapland and the Sami people but didn’t actually remember to do that. We’ll try to bring it up when it recurs next time but note that the region referred to in Sweden as Lapland is home to an indigenous people called the Sami people, and “Lapp” while common in the sagas is considered an offensive term to refer to these peoples. in my (Em) research, even Lapland itself seems like a disputed term depending on who you ask. That’s the short version of it, highly recommend people do research on their own! See the show schedule here! This’ll tell you which versions of books and which sections of those books we’re reading each week. Niamh podcasts on Export Audio with Ghost Divers, Ornate Stairwells, and Pondering Pootan. Fae posts on twitter @foxmomnia and on bluesky at foxmomnia.bsky.social Em hosts Abnormal Mapping and Repertory Screenings on abnormalmapping.com and also is the Pokemon Master of Ceremonies on The Great Gundam Project. They post on twitter @em_being and on bluesky at polarbearsummer.online Next episode: Hrólfs saga kraka, ch. 21-34; from The Saga of King Hrolf Kraki , trans. Jesse L. Byock (Penguin Classics)…
We’re both a little run down and we just read the intro to a book, so very short saga this week as we just kind of have a small chat and take it easy. Some days are just harder than others. Hope you enjoy nonetheless. Things discussed this episode: Thanksgiving, Trivia Games, being a student, Look Back (the film), Multiple Maniacs, Even Though We're Adults, Nana, Ranma 1/2, Ravencroft news, Ceres Fauna graduating See the show schedule here! This’ll tell you which versions of books and which sections of those books we’re reading each week. Niamh podcasts on Export Audio with Ghost Divers, Ornate Stairwells, and Pondering Pootan. Fae posts on twitter @foxmomnia and on bluesky at foxmomnia.bsky.social Em hosts Abnormal Mapping and Repertory Screenings on abnormalmapping.com and also is the Pokemon Master of Ceremonies on The Great Gundam Project. They post on twitter @em_being and on bluesky at polarbearsummer.online Next episode: Hrólfs saga kraka, ch. 1-20; from The Saga of King Hrolf Kraki , trans. Jesse L. Byock (Penguin Classics)…
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We talk about Ref, a man who is pretty chill until you call him gay so much his family begins asking questions. Then he’s going to end your whole bloodline. We have a good time with this relatively light saga, and then talk about our usual manga and vtuber spread, including some extra time with Nerissa for her birthday stream. Things in this episode include: Ref's Saga, Even Though We're Adults, Look Back (the manga), Ranma 1/2, Christmas Carol, Pokémon Cards, Nerissa birthday stream , vtuber merch, a little bit of Metaphor (not much) See the show schedule here! This’ll tell you which versions of books and which sections of those books we’re reading each week. Niamh podcasts on Export Audio with Ghost Divers, Ornate Stairwells, and Pondering Pootan. Fae posts on twitter @foxmomnia and on bluesky at foxmomnia.bsky.social Em hosts Abnormal Mapping and Repertory Screenings on abnormalmapping.com and also is the Pokemon Master of Ceremonies on The Great Gundam Project. They post on twitter @em_being and on bluesky at polarbearsummer.online Next episode: Introduction to the Saga of King Hrolf Kraki; from The Saga of King Hrolf Kraki , trans. Jesse L. Byock (Penguin Classics)…
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We finish Arrow-Odd’s Saga, and then Em has a few more Icelandic things to talk about that end up taking up a good portion of the episode. Things in this episode include: Arrow-Odd's Saga, Independent People, Godland, Even Though We're Adults, Holocure, Duklyon: Clamp School Defenders, Shirahimeshou: Snow Goddess Tales Check out the Ghost Divers on Independent People! See the show schedule here! This’ll tell you which versions of books and which sections of those books we’re reading each week. Niamh podcasts on Export Audio with Ghost Divers, Ornate Stairwells, and Pondering Pootan. Posting on twitter @foxmomnia and on bluesky at foxmomnia.bsky.social Em hosts Abnormal Mapping and Repertory Screenings on abnormalmapping.com and also is the Pokemon Master of Ceremonies on The Great Gundam Project. They post on twitter @em_being and on bluesky at polarbearsummer.online Next episode: Króka-Refs Saga; The Saga of Ref the Sly, trans. George Clark, published in The Sagas of Icelanders (Penguin Classics)…
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We begin Arrow-Odd’s saga, and talk about being back in the land of prose and strange Giantess fanfic on this week’s episode. Bonus talk includes: Independent People, I Am A Cat, Tokyo Babylon, But We’re Both Adults, and the usual Metaphor talk. I probably missed a few things, but I’m editing against a deadline today so that’ll have to do. Please enjoy! See the show schedule here! This’ll tell you which versions of books and which sections of those books we’re reading each week. Niamh podcasts on Export Audio with Ghost Divers, Ornate Stairwells, and Pondering Pootan. Posting on twitter @foxmomnia and on bluesky at foxmomnia.bsky.social Em hosts Abnormal Mapping and Repertory Screenings on abnormalmapping.com and also is the Pokemon Master of Ceremonies on The Great Gundam Project. They post on twitter @em_being and on bluesky at polarbearsummer.online Next episode: Örvar-Odds saga, ch. 19-32, from Arrow-Odd, trans. Hermann Pálsson and Paul Edwards, published in Seven Viking Romances (Penguin Classics)…
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[taking a very deep breath] On this enormous episode of Around the Long Fire, we finally finish the Poetic Edda! It ends really well, but with a surprising difference between our two versions. The cartoon Em mentions is Zack Snyder's "Twilight of the Gods", for the record. After an extra long Saga segment, we briefly talk about the election ( please read Em's friend Madiha's blog about waking up the day after carrying on as we always do ), Em talks about the first third of the book Independent People, Em is reading Clamp manga Tokyo Babylon, Niamh talks about travelling to get hololive merch with faer kid, we compare our Culvers orders as Jailbirds must, we have a vtuber corner (featuring Mint's 3.0 karaoke), we both talk about wrapping up How Do We Relationship? so far (up through Volume 11) and talk about how the girls continue to speak directly to our memories, Niamh talks a bit about Still Sick, and then we have a very extended Metaphor segment where we might not actually play very much (up to reaching the third city) but also talk about Personas 3, 4 and 5 and go on at length about what we like about the storytelling of Atlus games at large. Also mentioned are Evangelion and Pastoral: To Die in the Country. Peppered throughout with talk about life and trauma, as we always do. Truly we're cooking on our bullshit so much in this episode, it's great. See the show schedule here! This’ll tell you which versions of books and which sections of those books we’re reading each week. Niamh podcasts on Export Audio with Ghost Divers, Ornate Stairwells, and Pondering Pootan. Posting on twitter @foxmomnia and on bluesky at foxmomnia.bsky.social Em hosts Abnormal Mapping and Repertory Screenings on abnormalmapping.com and also is the Pokemon Master of Ceremonies on The Great Gundam Project. They post on twitter @em_being and on bluesky at polarbearsummer.online Next episode: Örvar-Odds saga, ch. 1-18, from Arrow-Odd, trans. Hermann Pálsson and Paul Edwards, published in Seven Viking Romances (Penguin Classics)…
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We continue with Gudrun’s vengeance against her family, for better or worse, as we begin to wind down the Poetic Edda. On top of that, we have the usual vtuber corner, a big talk about How Do We Relationship?, a health update … and then decide to spill our next season an entire week early because we both finished some prep work we’d done for it! Then, in our Metaphor Game Club, we wrap up the second major story dungeon, get our bat friend Heismay, and talk about how we’ve been spending our free time around that event. See the show schedule here! This’ll tell you which versions of books and which sections of those books we’re reading each week. Niamh podcasts on Export Audio with Ghost Divers, Ornate Stairwells, and Pondering Pootan. Posting on twitter @foxmomnia and on bluesky at foxmomnia.bsky.social Em hosts Abnormal Mapping and Repertory Screenings on abnormalmapping.com and also is the Pokemon Master of Ceremonies on The Great Gundam Project. They post on twitter @em_being and on bluesky at polarbearsummer.online Next episode: Parts 30-The End of The Poetic Edda , a new translation by Carolyne Larrington (Oxford World's Classics); The Jörmunrekkr Lays — Guðrúnarhvöt and Hamðismál & Other mythological poems — Baldrs draumar, Rígsþula, Hyndluljóð, and Gróttasöngr…
We have an absolutely jam packed episode this week as not only do we talk about the return of Gudrun and her sorrows, but we also talk a bit about vtubers, we both watch some movies (some classic, some not), Niamh continues to read How Do We Relationship?, and we continue to talk about Metaphor: ReFantazio through the next two hours or so of game (up until you get the 4th party member, which Niamh hadn’t done as of recording this week). Just so many things! See the show schedule here! This’ll tell you which versions of books and which sections of those books we’re reading each week. Niamh podcasts on Export Audio with Ghost Divers, Ornate Stairwells, and Pondering Pootan. Posting on twitter @foxmomnia and on bluesky at foxmomnia.bsky.social Em hosts Abnormal Mapping and Repertory Screenings on abnormalmapping.com and also is the Pokemon Master of Ceremonies on The Great Gundam Project. They post on twitter @em_being and on bluesky at polarbearsummer.online Next episode: Parts 27-29 of The Poetic Edda , a new translation by Carolyne Larrington (Oxford World's Classics); The Niflung Cycle — Oddrúnargrátr, Atlakviða, and Atlamál hin groenlenzku…
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We revisit some of the first stories we read on this podcast, this time in verse form! They’re pretty pleasant, even if they’re a bit disjointed. We take care of some odds and ends before getting into our main event: our Metaphor game club begins in earnest, which contains a few surprises including a new challenger, some mechanical decisions that surprise, and putting the Persona fandom on notice. See the show schedule here! This’ll tell you which versions of books and which sections of those books we’re reading each week. Niamh podcasts on Export Audio with Ghost Divers, Ornate Stairwells, and Pondering Pootan. Posting on twitter @foxmomnia and on bluesky at foxmomnia.bsky.social Em hosts Abnormal Mapping and Repertory Screenings on abnormalmapping.com and also is the Pokemon Master of Ceremonies on The Great Gundam Project. They post on twitter @em_being and on bluesky at polarbearsummer.online Next episode: Parts 20-26 of The Poetic Edda , a new translation by Carolyne Larrington (Oxford World's Classics); The Niflung Cycle — Brot af Sigurðarkviðu, Guðrúnarkviða I, Sigurðarkviða hin skamma, Helreið Brynhildar, Dráp Niflunga, Guðrúnarkviða II, and Guðrúnarkviða III…
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The sagas finally begin to cook as we talk about tragic love and reincarnation and what exactly is a Valkyrie. Also, speaking of tragic love, Niamh watched Twilight movies and Labyrinth, so we have plenty of misplaced sexual angst to pick over. Finally, Em celebrates Kiara’s big day as she had her fourth anniversary live this past week. See the show schedule here! This’ll tell you whis versions of books and which sections of those books we’re reading each week. Niamh podcasts on Export Audio with Ghost Divers, Ornate Stairwells, and Pondering Pootan. Posting on twitter @foxmomnia and on bluesky at foxmomnia.bsky.social Em hosts Abnormal Mapping and Repertory Screenings on abnormalmapping.com and also is the Pokemon Master of Ceremonies on The Great Gundam Project. They post on twitter @em_being and on bluesky at polarbearsummer.online Next episode: Parts 15-19 of The Poetic Edda , a new translation by Carolyne Larrington (Oxford World's Classics); The Niflung Cycle — Frá dauða Sinfjötla, Grípisspá, Reginsmál, Fáfnismál, and Sigrdrífumál…
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The sagas aren’t exactly setting our world aflame this week, so we instead talk a bunch about Licorice Pizza (building off of Ornate Stairwells), vtubers, and video games. In fact, some night say this is the beginning of our lengthy Metaphor game club, to be performed over the next 6-12 months! See the show schedule here! This’ll tell you whis versions of books and which sections of those books we’re reading each week. Niamh podcasts on Export Audio with Ghost Divers, Ornate Stairwells, and Pondering Pootan. Posting on twitter @foxmomnia and on bluesky at foxmomnia.bsky.social Em hosts Abnormal Mapping and Repertory Screenings on abnormalmapping.com and also is the Pokemon Master of Ceremonies on The Great Gundam Project. They post on twitter @em_being and on bluesky at polarbearsummer.online Next episode: Parts 12-14 of The Poetic Edda , a new translation by Carolyne Larrington (Oxford World's Classics); The Helgi Lays — Helgakviða Hundingsbana I, Helgakviða Hjörvarðssonar, and Helgakviða Hundingsbana II…
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Odin gets up to trouble, including being weirdly homophobic to his stupid son Thor, in this wild episode of poetry and would-be plays. After that, Em gets a little too real venting about their current medical situation, but then we recover as Niamh talks about vtubers and movies until everyone has a good time again. Thanks for listening, sorry for the emotional rollercoaster this week! See the show schedule here! This’ll tell you whis versions of books and which sections of those books we’re reading each week. Niamh podcasts on Export Audio with Ghost Divers, Ornate Stairwells, and Pondering Pootan. Posting on twitter @foxmomnia and on bluesky at foxmomnia.bsky.social Em hosts Abnormal Mapping and Repertory Screenings on abnormalmapping.com and also is the Pokemon Master of Ceremonies on The Great Gundam Project. They post on twitter @em_being and on bluesky at polarbearsummer.online Next episode: Parts 7-12 of The Poetic Edda , a new translation by Carolyne Larrington (Oxford World's Classics)…
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