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WWBUT 113 – Stalker With Manners

It’s time for OPINIONS as we get into what we’ve been up to! Missy begins this year’s Oscar journey and Merri has thoughts on reality TV and stalker romance. Notes: The sound on this one is a little rougher than usual because a piece of our usual recording equipment went out and we weren’t able to monitor the sound the way we normally do. We should have this under control for our next episode! What Missy’s Been Up To: Watching Wake Up, Dead Man Dust Bunny Sinners Bugonia One Battle After Another The Moment Send Help Dogma Until Dawn Heated Rivalry Reading Don’t Want You Like a Best Friend by Emma R. Alban What Merri’s Been Up To: Watching Predator: Badlands Heated Rivalry The Traitors Season 3 Toy Story 1 – 4 Summer House Website [https://fakegeekgirlscast.com/] | Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/fakegeekgirlscast] | Bluesky [https://bsky.app/profile/fakegeekgirls.bsky.social] | Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/fakegeekgirls/] | Threads [https://www.threads.net/@fakegeekgirls?xmt=AQGzpDNlCr1L1HnoG3lSplr-Lic5NS48f8kbEUKew1xlMwc] | Patreon [https://www.patreon.com/fakegeekgirls] | Merch [https://www.redbubble.com/people/fakegeekgirls/shop?asc=u] | Episode Transcripts [https://fakegeekgirlscast.com/episode-transcripts/] The post WWBUT 113 – Stalker With Manners [https://fakegeekgirlscast.com/wwbut-113-stalker-with-manners/] appeared first on FAKE GEEK GIRLS [https://fakegeekgirlscast.com].

Episode 211 – A Wrinkle in Time

Let’s get into personal history, religion, the power of love, and sado-masochism (the clinical kind, let’s not get too excited) as we discuss Madeleine L’Engle’s A Wrinkle in Time! This is the first in our series of episodes on L’Engle’s Time Quartet (or Quintet?)—we’ll be back throughout the year with more! Some Sources You Might Find Interesting: * There is Such a Thing as a Tesseract: A Wrinkle in Time [https://reactormag.com/there-is-such-a-thing-as-a-tesseract-a-wrinkle-in-time/] by Mari Ness * Breaking Out of the “Muffin Tins”: A Wrinkle in Time, Cosmopolitanism, and Children’s Literature [https://www.academia.edu/38589471/Journal_of_American_Studies_48_2_10_Williams_pdf]by Deborah Lindsay William * From Camazotz to Stranger Things: A Wrinkle in Time [https://reactormag.com/from-camazotz-to-stranger-things-a-wrinkle-in-time-by-madeleine-lengle/] by Madeleine L’Engle by Alan Brown * Unusual Children: Queerishness and Strange Growth in A Wrinkle in Time and The Giver [https://surface.syr.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1947&context=honors_capstone] by Olivia Morris * The Pied Pipers : interviews with the influential creators of children’s literature by Justin Wintle and Emma Fisher * Why We Still Need Aunt Beast [https://electricliterature.com/why-we-still-need-aunt-beast/] by Jaime Green * Seraphim, Cherubim, and Virtual Unicorns: Order and Being in Madeline L’Engle’s Time Quartet [https://www.jstor.org/stable/26812513?searchText=a+wrinkle+in+time&searchUri=%2Faction%2FdoBasicSearch%3FQuery%3Da%2Bwrinkle%2Bin%2Btime%26so%3Drel&ab_segments=0%2Fspellcheck_basic_search%2Fcontrol&refreqid=fastly-default%3A4896e88c8f6acc274b975b602cb65bda&seq=1] by Wayne G. Hammond * I Saw Myself in Meg Murry Even Before She Looked Like Me [https://electricliterature.com/i-saw-myself-in-meg-murry-even-before-she-looked-like-me/] by Tajja Isen * The Grand Inquisitor for Children: Rejecting Sadism and Masochism in A Wrinkle in Time by Julie Straight * The Inadequacy of Language in A Wrinkle in Time [https://static1.squarespace.com/static/581cc2583e00be1af46f468e/t/5aa697c753450aa04e63a5e9/1520867273307/Lilienthal-Inadequacy_of_Language_in_A_Wrinkle_in_Time.pdf] by Michael G. Lilienthal * A Better Country: The Worlds of Religious Fantasy and Science Fiction by Martha Sammons * The Time Quartet as Madeleine L’Engle’s Theology [https://www.jstor.org/stable/26390170?searchText=a%20wrinkle%20in%20time&searchUri=%2Faction%2FdoBasicSearch%3FQuery%3Da%2Bwrinkle%2Bin%2Btime%26so%3Drel&ab_segments=0%2Fspellcheck_basic_search%2Fcontrol&refreqid=fastly-default%3A4896e88c8f6acc274b975b602cb65bda] by Marek Oziewicz * The Art of Loving by Erich Fromm * Why We Still Need Aunt Beast [https://electricliterature.com/why-we-still-need-aunt-beast/] by Jaime Green Website [https://fakegeekgirlscast.com/] | Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/fakegeekgirlscast] | Bluesky [https://bsky.app/profile/fakegeekgirls.bsky.social] | Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/fakegeekgirls/] | Threads [https://www.threads.net/@fakegeekgirls?xmt=AQGzpDNlCr1L1HnoG3lSplr-Lic5NS48f8kbEUKew1xlMwc] | Patreon [https://www.patreon.com/fakegeekgirls] | Merch [https://www.redbubble.com/people/fakegeekgirls/shop?asc=u] | Episode Transcripts [https://fakegeekgirlscast.com/episode-transcripts/] The post Episode 211 – A Wrinkle in Time [https://fakegeekgirlscast.com/episode-211-a-wrinkle-in-time/] appeared first on FAKE GEEK GIRLS [https://fakegeekgirlscast.com].

WWBUT 112 – Paddington’s Brother Eddington

Oh, what a month we’ve had. We’re back with a belated WWBUT, covering everything we did while our brains turned to mush. What Missy’s Been Up To: Reading * The Stranger by Albert Camus * It Came from the Closet edited by Joe Vallese * Emily Wilde’s Encyclopedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett * Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro Watching * The Lobster * Fleabag * Eddington What Merri’s Been Up To: Watching * The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives * Fantastic Four * Wicked: For Good * The Grinch Website [https://fakegeekgirlscast.com/] | Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/fakegeekgirlscast] | Bluesky [https://bsky.app/profile/fakegeekgirls.bsky.social] | Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/fakegeekgirls/] | Threads [https://www.threads.net/@fakegeekgirls?xmt=AQGzpDNlCr1L1HnoG3lSplr-Lic5NS48f8kbEUKew1xlMwc] | Patreon [https://www.patreon.com/fakegeekgirls] | Merch [https://www.redbubble.com/people/fakegeekgirls/shop?asc=u] | Episode Transcripts [https://fakegeekgirlscast.com/episode-transcripts/] The post WWBUT 112 – Paddington’s Brother Eddington [https://fakegeekgirlscast.com/wwbut-112-paddingtons-brother-eddington/] appeared first on FAKE GEEK GIRLS [https://fakegeekgirlscast.com].

Episode 210 – The Righteous Gemstones

Join us as we journey into history, depravity, and hypocrisy as we take a closer look at Danny McBride’s The Righteous Gemstones! Can people this bad be redeemed? Isn’t that what the whole Christ story is about? And how close to reality is this, anyway? Let’s find out. Some Links You Might Find Interesting: * The prosperity gospel, explained: Why Joel Osteen believes that prayer can make you rich [https://www.vox.com/identities/2017/9/1/15951874/prosperity-gospel-explained-why-joel-osteen-believes-prayer-can-make-you-rich-trump] by Tara Isabella Burton * The Joel Osteen Fiasco Says A Lot About American Christianity [https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/lauraturner/people-were-waiting-for-a-reason-to-hate-joel-osteen] by Laura Turner * THE RIGHTEOUS GEMSTONES: What is a “Megachurch”? [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpdXQyzjANY&pp=ygUjdGhlIHJpZ2h0ZW91cyBnZW1zdG9uZXMgdmlkZW8gZXNzYXk%3D] by Shrink Tank * Psychology of THE RIGHTEOUS GEMSTONES [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jg0aRb42vIA&t=1s&pp=ygUjdGhlIHJpZ2h0ZW91cyBnZW1zdG9uZXMgdmlkZW8gZXNzYXk%3D] by Shrink Tank * John Oliver set up his own church to expose televangelists for fleecing vulnerable people [https://www.vox.com/2015/8/17/9164511/john-oliver-televangelists-last-week-tonight] by German Lopez * John Oliver forms his own church and just keeps on winning [https://www.cnn.com/2015/08/17/entertainment/john-oliver-last-week-tonight-feat/index.html] by Lisa Respers France * What HBO’s The Righteous Gemstones gets right about evangelicals [https://www.vox.com/culture/2019/8/19/20807632/righteous-gemstones-recap-evangelicals-pilot-episode-1] by Emily St. James and Alissa Wilkinson * The Righteous Gemstones: The Good, The Bad, & The Brilliant [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=haLM2HpI-EA&pp=ygUjdGhlIHJpZ2h0ZW91cyBnZW1zdG9uZXMgdmlkZW8gZXNzYXk%3D] by Wisecrack * Berlioz’s Requiem [https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=gSJDEQAAQBAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PP1&dq=the+%22righteous+gemstones%22&ots=jmreduhvFR&sig=UCfSkOSNw_etG2X_PVBM_wr2vCY#v=onepage&q=the%20%22righteous%20gemstones%22&f=false] by Jennifer Walker * How The Righteous Gemstones Quietly Became TV’s Most Homoerotic Show [https://www.them.us/story/the-righteous-gemstones-season-two-finale-kelvin-keefe-gay] by Nadine Smith * ‘The Righteous Gemstones’ skewers pro-Trump evangelicals’ real-life hypocrisies [https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/17/opinions/the-righteous-gemstones-graves-fitzsimmons] by Guthrie Graves-Fitzsimmons * White evangelical voters show steadfast support for Donald Trump’s presidency [https://apnews.com/article/white-evangelical-voters-support-donald-trump-president-dbfd2b4fe5b2ea27968876f19ee20c84] by Peter Smith * In God’s country [https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/08/14/evangelicals-view-trump-their-protector-will-they-stand-by-him/] by Elizabeth Bruenig * Pastor defends Trump amid affair allegations [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMpO74f1BcQ&t=9s] * Danny McBride Is the Darkest Artist on the Planet, and Righteous Gemstones Is His Magnum Opus [https://www.pastemagazine.com/comedy/the-righteous-gemstones/danny-mcbride-righteous-gemstones-darkness] by Shane Ryan * The Righteous Gemstones Careens Wildly Through Emotional Tones, and Nails Them All [https://www.pastemagazine.com/tv/the-righteous-gemstones/righteous-gemstones-review] by Shane Ryan * The Lost Sheep of Danny McBride’s “The Righteous Gemstones” [https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/01/24/the-lost-sheep-of-danny-mcbrides-the-righteous-gemstones] by Doreen St. Felix * Judy’s diary prop photos [https://www.reddit.com/r/RighteousGemstones/comments/1kkuqok/teenage_judys_diary_entries] * Righteous Gemstone Wiki [https://righteous-gemstones.fandom.com/wiki/Judy_Gemstone#cite_note-1] * God bless The Righteous Gemstones, the TV show that helped me reckon with my religious trauma [https://www.cbc.ca/arts/emerging-queer-voices-righteous-gemstones-1.7598608] by Jay Ashdown Website [https://fakegeekgirlscast.com/] | Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/fakegeekgirlscast] | Bluesky [https://bsky.app/profile/fakegeekgirls.bsky.social] | Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/fakegeekgirls/] | Threads [https://www.threads.net/@fakegeekgirls?xmt=AQGzpDNlCr1L1HnoG3lSplr-Lic5NS48f8kbEUKew1xlMwc] | Patreon [https://www.patreon.com/fakegeekgirls] | Merch [https://www.redbubble.com/people/fakegeekgirls/shop?asc=u] | Episode Transcripts [https://fakegeekgirlscast.com/episode-transcripts/] The post Episode 210 – The Righteous Gemstones [https://fakegeekgirlscast.com/episode-210-the-righteous-gemstones/] appeared first on FAKE GEEK GIRLS [https://fakegeekgirlscast.com].

WWBUT 111 – Deep Dive Into Nicholas Hoult’s Face

What have we been up to? A lot! Join us as we discuss whether Nicholas Hoult’s face has any trace of the uncanny, why it pays to be perpetually behind, and the eternal wisdom of the Real Housewives. Also: a bit about this year’s PAX West, including our experience with the game Ten Candles. What Missy’s Been Up To: Watching The Queen’s Gambit Mickey 17 The Smashing Machine Reading The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden The Swallowed Man by Edward Carey Playing Ten Candles What Merri’s Been Up To: Watching Superman Alien: Earth Elio Lilo and Stitch How to Train Your Dragon Playing Ten Candles A Link You Might Find Interesting: When Everyone’s a Critic, No One’s a Fan [https://loverarchives.substack.com/p/when-everyones-a-critic-no-ones-a?utm_source=substack&utm_campaign=post_embed&utm_medium=email] by Gigi / loverarchives Website [https://fakegeekgirlscast.com/] | Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/fakegeekgirlscast] | Bluesky [https://bsky.app/profile/fakegeekgirls.bsky.social] | Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/fakegeekgirls/] | Threads [https://www.threads.net/@fakegeekgirls?xmt=AQGzpDNlCr1L1HnoG3lSplr-Lic5NS48f8kbEUKew1xlMwc] | Patreon [https://www.patreon.com/fakegeekgirls] | Merch [https://www.redbubble.com/people/fakegeekgirls/shop?asc=u] | Episode Transcripts [https://fakegeekgirlscast.com/episode-transcripts/] The post WWBUT 111 – Deep Dive Into Nicholas Hoult’s Face [https://fakegeekgirlscast.com/wwbut-111-deep-dive-into-nicholas-hoults-face/] appeared first on FAKE GEEK GIRLS [https://fakegeekgirlscast.com].