The Mary Sue Squad: A Pop Culture Podcast

A classic Homeric poem turned love story, The Song of Achilles will have you sighing, groaning, and maybe even weeping for our two star-crossed lovebirds. But the real question is . . . on a scale of Feyre to Bella Swan, how passive a protagonist is Patroclus? Join us to find out!

Funny Story may not make you laugh but it will have you asking a lot of big questions, like is sex in a shared eating space okay if it's with your roommate? Is Michigan an actual beach vacation destination? Or, are they still a 10 if they moan when they eat? We get into it with Emily Henry's Funny Story.

When a two besties turned coding geniuses decide to program their next game together, they can't dream of where their efforts would take them . . . just like we couldn't dream of where our thoughts were going to land with Gabrielle Zevin's book, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow. Did we enjoy the books (as gamers (TM))? Did we sympathize with Sadie or Sam more? Tune in to find out.

Video games are getting more and more mainstream as people find their favorite niches, and in preparation of our read of Tomorrow, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, we gather 'round to chat about video games and our experience with them! Join us for an informal discussion that ranges from our shared love and thoughts about Zelda to the troubles of other people judging you for video games and being a woman to mmorpgs, video game romances, and anything else we can think of.

I think the only joke we can make about this book is that its full title is Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution. This book is for people who hate nonfiction but are interested in history and need a narrative structure with fantasy candy coating to make the medicine go down. And boy did it go DOWN. We get into it, y'all.