I want to be best friends with everyone on this podcast.
This podcast is great if you love fannish things, meta, the lines between profic and fanfic, exploring tropes, drawing connections between serious and less-serious literary works and understanding why both are important, and listening in on a conversation between three extremely smart and interesting people who love all the same things I do. Also if you love/hate it when your to-be-read pile blows up every other week because of an infux of new and amazing recommendations. After every episode, I find myself bringing up that trope or topic pretty regularly within the next week or so (e.g. episode 2, about personality taxonomies/labels, both in real life and in fiction, sent me off on several tangents at work) because the Serpents often reference things that I'm already thinking about but didn't have a framework of semi-academic arguments to work from and organize my thinking around. They provide that, plus a lot of laughs. I normally am not a big podcast person, but I highly recommend this one!Read full review »
magaliiiii via Apple Podcasts · United States of America · 04/03/18
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As someone who eventually gave up on trying to make herself "grow up" out of genre fiction and into the literary canon, it is a balm to my soul to hear fanfic and genre fic discussed in this manner. You might do as I did and trip into reading fanfic in new fandoms as a result of this...Read full review »
Lele R. via Apple Podcasts · United States of America · 03/31/19
5/5
my new favourite podcast! deep intellectual literary discussion of various literary works and fanfiction? this is so my jam. definitely recommend giving this a listen!
lukadolphin_ via Apple Podcasts · Australia · 06/24/18
even when i have negative interest in the tentpoles they're discussing it's a good time just to listen to three friends bounce ideas and chat and hang out. which is not to say my TBR is not groaning from the weight of all the stuff the serpents mention. absolute top tier favorite podcast,...Read full review »
Lyanna S via Apple Podcasts · United States of America · 09/18/20
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