Episodes

It’s a fifth Wednesday minisode! In this shorter episode we talk about conventions! Content warnings for strong language and embarrassing childhood stories. We reference: International Association of Amusement Parks and Attractions conferences, World Science Fiction Convention, Noreascon, Return to Oz, and Readercon The transcript will be available soon on nostoryissacred.com The post Minisode 9: Conventions first appeared on No Story Is Sacred.

In this episode we discuss the 1966 movie A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum. You can watch it online on iTunes, Amazon, or Youtube. Content warnings for strong language, discussions of sex work and sexual slavery, failures in disability representation, mysogyny, fat-shaming, and kink shaming Greek gods. We reference or spoil: The Producers, Blazing Saddles, Law and Order: Special Victims Unit, Star Wars, “Who’s On First”, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Rocky and Bullwinkle, Airpla...

In this episode we discuss the 2003 movie What a Girl Wants. You can watch it online on Netflix, Amazon, or Youtube. Content warnings for strong language, discussions related to Electra complexes, racial and socioeconomic differences, and American opinions of British politics. We reference or spoil: The Princess Diaries, William Douglas-Home‘s “The Reluctant Debutante“, Jane Austen‘s Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mamma Mia!, Shakespeare‘s Hamlet, Offices and Bosses podcast, Terry...

In this episode we once again play a game of our own devising called “Wheel of Tropes.” We use random TV Tropes, results from Rory’s Story Cubes, story titles from “The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror: Fourteenth Annual Collection“, edited by Terri Windling and Ellen Datlow, and entries from Diana Wynne Jones‘s The Tough Guide to Fantasyland to create a new story. Content warnings for strong language and bad science/academia jokes. We discuss and potentially spoil: Hamilton: An American Musical...