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Three grown up biologists rereading books from our teens (while desperately trying to make biological sense of glittery vampires, and dragons, and bird kids).
And it’s totally cool.
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Tuesday Dec 21, 2021
Tuesday Dec 21, 2021
Jingle your bells, don your gay apparel, and get ready for a holly jolly good time as we depart from our regularly-scheduled Eragon content to bring you CHRISTMAS DRAGON LLC, the festive rom-com (with dragons!) you didn't know you were missing! Join Sophie, Sam, and Hannah as they pitch their feel-good holiday love story with with miscommunications aplenty, totally scientific dragon magic, and the true meaning of Christmas: unionizing your workplace.
Tuesday Dec 07, 2021
Tuesday Dec 07, 2021
Chapter 34 is lurking in the Unprecedentedshadows, ready to leap out of a hidden bramble on the back of a dragon! Join Sophie, Sam, and Hannah as they discuss the use of glottal stops in fantasy, the two different types of hemlock, and who is faster: a dragon or a vampire?
Tuesday Nov 23, 2021
Tuesday Nov 23, 2021
Welcome to the hut of Gertrude, the town healer, sit down and enjoy Chapter 33 with a side of poultice or whatever. Join Sophie, Sam, and Hannah as they discuss draconic stamina, shark teeth, and the many potential horrors of chafing.
Tuesday Nov 09, 2021
Tuesday Nov 09, 2021
Freak out and hide in the woods to listen to Chapter 32, because some mysterious strangers are in town! Join Sophie, Sam, and Hannah as they discuss the implications of hexapods in fantasy literature, napping in the face of certain disaster, and whether dragons have thumbs.
Tuesday Oct 26, 2021
Tuesday Oct 26, 2021
Open up your Dragonology textbook and turn to Chapter 31 for a life history lesson! Join Sophie, Sam, and Hannah as they calculate dragon growth rates, discuss delayed embryonic development, and spiral into existential dread.
Tuesday Oct 12, 2021
Tuesday Oct 12, 2021
Pour yourself a cup of tea and get ready for story time with Brom! Join Sophie, Sam, and Hannah as they discuss wing loading, how absolutely huge dragons can get, and the intricacies of dealing with animal dung.
Tuesday Sep 28, 2021
Tuesday Sep 28, 2021
Chapter 29 arrives in Carvahall to tell treasonous stories! Join Sophie, Sam, and Hannah as they discuss the secret history of Alagaësia, the fantasy patriarchy, and eggs (again, but longer).
Tuesday Sep 14, 2021
Tuesday Sep 14, 2021
Pull out your fantasy maps and join us in an exploration of Chapter 28! Join Sophie, Sam, and Hannah as they discuss how far Eragon lives from town, the teen perspective FROM the teen perspective, and E G G S.
Tuesday Aug 31, 2021
Tuesday Aug 31, 2021
Put that copy of Midnight Sun back on the shelf (or follow in Sam's footsteps and do, um, something else with it) and crack open our next read, because we've finally moved on to a new book! Join Sophie, Sam, and Hannah as they find their fantasy names, discuss the hottest new series of 2001, and accidentally find a vampire in a story that is absolutely NOT supposed to have one.
Tuesday Aug 17, 2021
Tuesday Aug 17, 2021
Chapter 26 races into your podcatcher at 69 m/s, bringing with it all the secrets of the mythical, mysterious Twilight vampire! Join Sophie, Sam, and Hannah as they review, summarize, and lock in the biological theories of the last 25 chapters to finally and definitively answer the question: But how does a Twilight vampire really work?