Content warning: We discuss (though not in any detail) Amanda's current ear infection and a staph ear infection Austin had a few years back, as well as general health/medical stuff. Skip to 9:38 if this is a potential trigger or squick for you. There are also some spoilers for The Ring/Ringu and the video game Until Dawn.
(First off, apologies for Austin sounding like he recorded in a toilet. Podcasts are hard.)
This episode focuses on craft, specifically on how Amanda and Austin wrangle their stories and write what they want to write—which involves tuning out the voice in their heads that tells them to make only Serious Fiction. But first, they chat recent life and medical shenanigans, Austin talks comics, Amanda gives fic recs and quizzes Austin on his rudimentary Star Trek knowledge, and there's a discussion of horror tropes and how to subvert them a la The Ring/Ringu.
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Everybody's Gone to the Rapture
Strange Horizons
Alternating Current: On Being LGBT+ in Rural Areas and LGBT+ in the Deep South anthology calls
Beyond comics anthologies
Noora Heikkilä - Letters for Lucardo
Space Battle Lunchtime vol. 1
The Adventure Zone: Here There be Gerblins Graphic Novel
yeaka - Inside the River
whochick - Leave No Soul Behind
Marcel Proust - Swann's Way
Chuck Palahniuk - Fight Club
astolat - Peacemaker
wordplay - The Luckiest
Root/Shaw
Vonda N. McIntyre - The Entropy Effect
K.W. Jeter - The Mandalorian Armor: Star Wars Legends
The Ring/Ringu
Until Dawn