Episodes
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Welcome back! This week we discuss the first episode of season 2 of the Netflix show, A Grain of Truth, and answer the age old question: are Witchers more afraid of cats than cats are afraid of Witchers?
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Welcome back! Apologies for the two month absence, things got a little busy.
We're interrupting our series on Time of Contempt to cover the new season of the Netflix series! Join us while we chat our immediate take on the series as a whole with full spoilers for all seasons, games and books. After this we'll be covering the series episode-by-episode.
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Welcome back! this week we get into the second chapter of Time of Contempt - essentially, The Witcher's version of the Stranger Things mall episode. It's a fun slice of life, except tinged with war, racism, classism, and facing the horror of killing.
cn: racism, genocide, violence
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Welcome back! This week, we finally get started on Time of Contempt! Join us for discussion of Eist Tuirseach: Wife Guy, Geralt's questionable fundraising activities, and why Aplegatt is the best minor character in the Witcher canon.
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Welcome back! This time, we're discussing the second half of the Netflix anime film The Witcher: Nightmare of the Wolf! Join us for chat about Vesemir's distrust of dark-haired sorceresses and why Witchers are like the carbon tax.
cn: violence, genocide
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Welcome back! We are thrilled to bring you our first episode about Nightmare of the Wolf, the Netflix anime based on an original story and some of the properly new Witcher content in years. Join us for a chat about lore, castle design, and bath scenes.
Note, we don't go too heavily into it but as with our other non-mainline episodes this one does get into spoiler territory.
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Welcome back! A wee break in our progress through the books today as we talk about some of the recent developments in the growing universe of Netflix's Witcher adaptation
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Welcome back - we did it! We've finished Blood of Elves/three whole books since the first season of the show aired. Join us for a full-spoilers episode where we discuss worldbuilding, the larger themes of the book as a whole, and why you should definitely get statutory sick pay when you go through the trial of the grasses.
cn: sexual assault, rape, illness
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Welcome back! After much delay, some moving and summer holidays, we finally bring you the thrilling (or, really, relatively calm) conclusion of Blood of Elves. Join us for coming of age, found family, and chill vibes.
tw: gendered slurs, transphobia, sexual assault
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Welcome back! A slightly shorter one than usual this week as we round out the second half of chapter 6. Still plenty to enjoy as we discuss how Geralt is parenting goals and Philippa is.... terrifying.
cn: ableist language, torture
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And we're back! Apologies for the interruption in the schedule - a data storage issue meant we needed to re-record this episode. This time, we're doing something a little different and only looking at half of episode 6 as Sapek wrote a ridiculously long chapter. Join us for chat about the nature of violence, rulership, and possibly upsetting every fandom on the internet.
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Welcome back! We couldn't have known when we recorded it that this episode would be released on Earth Day but, coincidentally, topics of discussion include: the ecological niche of monsters, climate change, and water pollution. Join us for a dizzying mix of high fantasy and environmental philosophy!
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Welcome back! This week's episode gets pretty heavy, with such questions as whether it is possible to remain neutral on a moving cart, the ethical limits of pacifism, and whether gastroenteritis is a sufficient punishment for Triss' crimes.
cn: sexual assault, ethnic cleansing, genocide, death
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Welcome back! This week, Ciri has a training montage, Triss lectures some witchers, and Geralt struggles with parenting.
cn: rape, CSA
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Welcome back! Apologies for the delay - better late than never. Please join us while we finally explain why we have been talking about Triss this whole time.
cn: rape, transphobia
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Welcome back! This week, we finally get into the novels with chapter one of Blood of Elves. Join us while we try to figure out whether every single background character is one of Dijkstra's spies and how to reconcile reading literature in translation.
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Welcome back! This week we're taking a wee break before diving into Blood of Elves to discuss one of the major themes of this series - infertility and reproduction! We're joined by friend of the show Georgia (twitter: @sniphist), a PhD student studying the history of vasectomy, to discuss the under-explored theme of Geralt and the other Witchers' infertility and relationship with reproduction.
Note: this episode has spoilers for the full series
cn: miscarriage, infertility, sterilisation
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Welcome Back and apologies for the slightly late episode! This week, we discuss the Sword of Destiny anthology as a whole, with full spoilers for the series. We consider the meaning of destiny, relationships with super-human lifespans, what makes a hero, and how much Sapek just really, really loves to hurt Geralt.
tw: sexual assault, dubious consent
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Welcome back! This week, we discuss the final story of the Sword of Destiny anthology, which is also the last of the Witcher short stories. Join us for discussion of Geralt's trauma, Witcher prophecies, and the power of good people in a scary world.
cn: pregnancy, abortion, infertility
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Welcome back! For the first episode of 2021, we're looking at the penultimate (and eponymous) story of the Sword of Destiny anthology. Come for a too-detailed discussion of Dryad mating practices, stay for excavation of Geralt's trauma and abandonment issues.
cn: sexual assault, pregnancy
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