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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 Jan 31, 2023
Tuesday Jan 31, 2023
Chapter 63 waits darkly in your podcatcher. Do you know what that means? We don't. Please enlighten us, we're so confused. Join Sophie, Sam, and Hannah as they (we) discuss the birdkid digestive systems, comparative flight speeds, and the genetics of being an edgelord.
Tuesday Jan 17, 2023
Tuesday Jan 17, 2023
Chapter 61 descends from the sky like a spider to kidnap you and shove you headfirst into a sack! Join Sophie, Sam, and Hannah as they discuss head injuries in fiction, what the term "GMO" really means, and complain about the experimental design of child abuse, because that's the real issue, obviously.
Tuesday Jan 03, 2023
Tuesday Jan 03, 2023
Spread your wings and take flight with Chapter 60! Join Sophie, Sam, and Hannah as they discuss wing flying posture and their aspirational mad scientist experiments, and Hannah accidentally assigns herself a horrifying nickname.
Tuesday Dec 20, 2022
Tuesday Dec 20, 2022
On this foggy Christmas Eve, Santa will come to say -- hey, you should listen to Midlight Christmas! Buckle up for our annual departure from YA fiction as we bring you CHRISTMISFITS, the high fantasy Christmas rom-com nobody knew they were missing! Join Sophie, Sam, and Hannah as they rewrite a holiday favourite to include shape-shifting druids, parallel love stories, and an unnecessary amount of teeth content.
Tuesday Dec 06, 2022
Tuesday Dec 06, 2022
Chapter 60 opens book three of this podcast, because everyone knows good fantasy comes in threes, right? Join Sophie, Sam, and Hannah as they discover their avian superpowers, have their fourth wall broken, and share all the hottest James Patterson gossip.
Welcome to Midlight Crisis reads: MAXIMUM RIDE: THE ANGEL EXPERIMENT!
Tuesday Nov 22, 2022
Tuesday Nov 22, 2022
We've done it, folks! We read Eragon cover to cover and biologized all over it, and the time has come to bring all of those ideas together. What is a dragon egg actually made of? Does Saphira have radioactive bones? How plausible are d*cklegs, really? Join Sophie, Sam, and Hannah as they discuss their theories from the past 30 Chapters, grumble about hexapods, and draw their final conclusions.
Welcome to The Eragon Dragon, Explained!
Tuesday Nov 08, 2022
Tuesday Nov 08, 2022
Read Chapter 57 and then brisingr that book goodbye because we are DONE WITH ERAGON! Join Sophie, Sam, and Hannah as they realize that Saphira can breathe fire, spoil the rest of the series, and share their feeeeelings about the book.
Tuesday Oct 25, 2022
Tuesday Oct 25, 2022
Chapter 56 finally reaches its climax, in like, the last chapter of the book. Which is fine, I guess. Better late than never, right? Anyway, join Sophie, Sam, and Hannah as they discuss dwarvish foresight (or lack thereof), an actual definitive (ish) Saphira size, and the Shade's fleshy exosuit.
Tuesday Oct 11, 2022
Tuesday Oct 11, 2022
Chapter 55 is in the middle of a super sexy swordfight, or an exceedingly uncomfortable one, depending on which podcast host you are! Join Sophie, Sam, and Hannah as they discuss the cultural history of Alagaesia, magic tests, and the (im)proper way to end a book.
Tuesday Sep 27, 2022
Tuesday Sep 27, 2022
Chapter 54 has its own internal weather, how fun! Join extremely famous jellyfish podcaster Sophie and her lowly cohosts Sam and Hannah as they discuss dwarf slides, blessings, and fantasy age gaps.
Listen to Sophie's guest spot on "Just The Zoo of Us" at: https://maximumfun.org/episodes/just-the-zoo-of-us/159-moon-jellyfish-w-sophie-wolvin/
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