On this week's episode, your Serpents were in the middle of National Novel Writing Month, so they used their smart juicy brains and planned an episode without ANY TENTPOLES WHATSOEVER. It's a craft discussion episode!!   What We’re Into Lately The Once and Future Witches by Alix E. Harrow Phoenix Extravagant by Yoon Ha Lee May the Best Man Win by Z. R. Ellor The Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells “Artificial Condition” by Martha Wells “Rogue Protocol” by Martha Wells where the stars do not take sides by WitchofEndor His Secret Illuminations by Scarlett Gale “The Mysterious Study of Doctor Sex” by Tamsyn Muir   Other Stuff We Mentioned Avatar renaissance fic “Zuko is an Awkward Turtleduck” Embers by Vathara The Untamed OnlyFans fic That Picture of Gwendoline Christie and Oscar Isaac Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir Harrow the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir The sequel to A Marvellous Light The Great Emu War  Catalyst by Jennifer Mace Chekov’s gun Thor: Ragnarok A Choir of Lies by Alexandra Rowland Becky Chambers “Hallelujah” song by Leonard Cohen A Marvellous Light by Freya Marske   For Next Time Coco (Pixar, 2017)   Transcription The transcript of this episode can be found here. As always, many many thanks to our amazing team of scribes for their work!