“CHLOE! ELIANA!
Manu Latecomer has arrived, after finally catching up, and the Hour of the iTunes Reviewer is upon us. I could boast forever about how your insight moves me and humor tickles me, and (at the risk of being reductive) how necessary it is to have a podcast hosted by rad LADIES in a fandom that is so wonderfully diverse but not always represented that way in the podcasting world (says a man who is half of an all-male GoT podcast himself). Your explanation of menstrual pains as the butt-end of a screwdriver twisting into ovaries was not only painfully vivid, but just a sample of what perspectives we don’t get enough of.
But it’d be foul of me to limit the scope or impact of your scholarship to just that. As someone who prays at the altar of the (social justice) Warrior, your episodes on Barristan were particularly illuminating. Discussion of how he refuses to adapt Meereenese verbiage and uses “Your Grace” propelled me into a settler-colonialist understanding of the themes in his chapters, made even more apparently by the old white man-ness of it all. That new reading has stuck in my mind ever since, a chapter I’d previously read a dozen times and heard dissected a dozen more.
This is just a long and tedious way to say, yall are smart, yall are funny, y’all are beautiful and y’all are making me love the things I love that much more. I’ve very much enjoyed the last several years chatting on twitter (or gossiping in the DMs), but it feels extra special to bring you guys into my home and brain every week now.
xoxoxoxo
Manu”
Manu (ManuclearBomb) via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
12/12/18