Around the Long Fire

Em was out of town on a work trip and Niamh had some very big life events happen so we decided not to read this week but instead yap about what’s been going on. Em did spend 5 hours on a plane reading, however, so she has a lot of book to catch up on.

Things Discussed: Em in Texas, Nia’s big announcement, Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth-Century America, fancy meals, cocktail thoughts, Umamusume

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We read more Iliad and then talk a lot about the holiday both good and bad. Gay shit. Horses. Normal ALF stuff.

Things Discussed: weather and work woes, Thanksgiving depression, childhood energy levels, Home Alone, Naked Acts, good Thanksgiving stuff, Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth-Century America, Umamusume,

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We’re back with more saga, and some odds and ends chat on Thanksgiving eve. Em was definitely a little over-exhausted, so excuse the shorter episode and angst about it on behalf of (one of) the hosts.

Things Discussed: Saddlecreek records, recovery time, Mint redebut, Nerissa birthday, Cece birthday, health updates,

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Somehow this episode is in large part about Gundam? Very funny considering we didn’t even know that Niamh would be guesting on GGP this week, out on Wednesday at patreon.com/abnormalmapping for $1 a month! Also, usual saga/horse/manga/movies talk.

Things Discussed: vamping, The Man Who Wasn’t There, The Golden Compass, Lessons of Darkness, Nodame Cantabile, Turn A Gundam, GGP Talk at Large, Gundam Card Game, Umamusume,

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Totally normal episode of Around the Long Fire. Definitely not feeling weird about publishing this one.

Things Discussed: birth control, Gundam, card games, Vivienne Westwood X NANA, fashion, Umamusume updates, The Princess Diaries, life updates part 3, Pondering Pootan, Cecilia Immergreen

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We’re back to the Saga and chatting about that and the things we’ve been up to: horses, card games, and movies! Please enjoy the episode.

Things Discussed: Game Changer, Umamusume, Poker, Chicago ICE Update, ASMR Studio Visit, Hololive card game, Sonatine, Connor’s Japan Trip

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Em’s back from her trip and we talk a lot about Chicago, since we didn’t do a ton of other things. Next week we’ll return to the Iliad!

Things Discussed: Cecilia Immergreen, Em in Chicago, Galloping Ghost, Umamusume: Beginning of a New Era,  Umamusume the game, 

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It’s the week before vacation and everyone’s got senioritis. Thankfully the sagas are here being very enjoyable, and we chat a lot about reading and podcasting in this breezy edition of ALF.

Things Discussed: Em’s final podcast, IBO, Tehanu and Earthsea, NANA, Umamusume, Road to the Top, Gunpla, Hololive card game, podcast plans

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The sagas are pretty good this week, and we try not to let life get us down, so this all in all is a quiet, pleasant episode of chit chat. Please enjoy!

Things Discussed: mid-00s fantasy epics, Hunter X Hunter, NANA, anime takes, Divey vs GGP, gacha check in, Chicago news, health check in

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Sorry for the short episode again, health and mental health are pretty low right now. Hopefully things will pick up in a few weeks!

Things Discussed: Straight culture, Umamusume, vtuber stuff

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A shorter episode this week as we begin the Iliad and have a bunch of podcast work to do after we record, we manage a nice solid hour on both the book and other stuff. Mostly horse girls and food. Y’know, the basic needs.

Things Discussed: The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, Wuthering Heights, Umamusume, Vodka,  Green Yuri, Cooking Talk,

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We begin our largest book yet as we read the overly long introduction to The Iliad and talk a little bit about our time with this book before the podcast. Then, the usual yapping. Em has gotten increasingly horse-pilled. Niamh’s seen the heart of the cards.

Things Discussed: bookmark habits, day off activities, Gundam Build Fighters, movie recommendations, Pokemon cards, mental health, book update, new gaming horizons, Persona 5 The Phantom X, Umamusume (game and Beginning of a New Era), Arknights, Infinity Nikki (if you point out Em mixed this up with Yume Nikki she’s going to t...

A one and done for this small book of magic and esoterica, but we manage a pretty good discussion out of it anyway! This was a pleasant break of an episode before we climb the mountain for our final book this season.

Things Discussed: ritual and magic/spirituality, Hololive chess, scheduling, Gundam X, robots, K-Pop Demon Hunters, A Safe Girl to Love, trans stuff and feminism, Wuthering Heights, Garfield

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We finish the saga, reflect on some books, compare horses and mermaids, and much more on this action packed episode.

Things Discussed: Nodame Cantabile, Umamusume, A Safe Girl to Love, Guinea Pig 4: Mermaid in a Manhole, Do You Know Who Jackie Is?

Opening music for this book is Ferdia’s Song and Gae Bolga by Horslips

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Somehow our boy Cu has managed to turn a gay story even gayer this week, but we soldier on undeterred. We’re just cool and strong like that.

Things Discussed: What We Left Behind: Looking Back at Star Trek: Deep Space Nine; Poker Face season 2; ripping CDs; Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist; music scenes; Vive L’Amour; a trip to the zoo; Guinea Pig 3: He Never Dies; vtubers

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A surprise week off due to medical stuff but we’re back with more murder, lots of books, horse girls, and vtubers!

Things Discussed: Umamusume Pretty Derby: Road to the Top; Nodame Cantabile; Detransition, Baby; the ren faire; The Blue Fox, galloping ghost gaming, purses, card pack meta, Guinea Pig 2: Flower of Flesh and Blood, Alien Autopsy, All For One,

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A long episode mostly because Em has started watching movies again. But we have a good time chatting about all sorts of stuff, including the Táin!

Things Discussed: FFX metaphysics, DAPs (that’s MP3 players for normal people), Yo Gabba Gabba show, KPop Demon Hunters, The Double Life of Veronique, Red Rooms, Guinea Pig: Devil’s Experiment, Cece and Raora’s 3D debuts, manga corner, the circus!

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Em survived surgery so she’s getting back in front of a microphone again and talking about anime, vtubers, and other such ALF staples. Please enjoy this short but good episode. We’ll return with sagas next week!

Things Discussed: Em’s surgery update, the story of the get well present, hopes on the other side of all this, Niamh’s scheduling woes, Gigi Murin’s 3D Live, other vtuber stuff, IDW’s TMNT comic and other Turtles talk, It’s MyGo!!!!!, Lycoris Recoil, Stairwells reactions about Bound

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The final episode before our little break, we talk about Cú Chulainn, some books, and the vtuber news of the week.

Things Discussed: death and illness, Detransition, Baby, Tehanu, the Vshojo implosion, Nimi Nightmare is getting married!, Pootan 2 and 3

Opening music for this book is Ferdia’s Song and Gae Bolga by Horslips

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We pivot to Irish myth and legend this week as our hosts really struggle with exhaustion and life, but there’s st8ill plenty to talk about.

Things Discussed: health and reasons for exhaustion (the FMLA paperwork did get done!), the reading of this book aloud, Tehanu, Nodame Cantabile, Niamh plays a new video game, Persona 4 and 5, Freckled1der's Persona 4 LP, the question bucket, bumper stickers, Hokuto and Kamiyama's Pondering Pootan, Beyblade, Pondering Proctors

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We finish off La Vita Nuova, and have a general chat mostly about what we’ve been reading. Please enjoy!

Things Discussed: the weather, Seattle part 1, Niamh's got a throat thing, upcoming time off, what to do between Seattle parts, Seattle part 2, crab boils and Reubens, Dune Messiah, Gender Outlaw, Nodame Cantabile, The Sluts, Question Bucket x2, a very important Mario ranking

Opening music for this book is La vita nuova by Christine and the Queens

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We break format and put the Pootans in various places around the episode. You know, figured we’d get a little meta with it. Dante has a bad dream, but it’s fine. :)

Things Discussed: Blue Prince, Pokémon Sleep, Hokuto and Kamiyama's Pondering Pootan, Vinyl, Researching Purchases, The Lathe of Heaven, Nodame Cantabile, Clothing Disaster, Eureka Seven, Incredible Animation, Gender Outlaws, Fountain Pens, Relistening to Podcasts, Pondering Proctors, Superstition

Opening music for this book is La vita nuova by Christine and the Queens

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We begin season five of Around the Long Fire by going back to the classics that forged Em into the weirdo she is today, as we crack open Dante and talk about pining and eating hearts, among other things. Usual ALF fun follows, in classic fashion.

Things Discussed: Dante studies, Wotakoi, Nodame Cantabile, Hey Kids Watch This, The Beginning of the Slow Bucket Draining, Pokemon, Dagger: On Butch Women, Dear Brother, Piercings, Clothes Shopping, Hokuto and Kamiyama's Pondering Pootan, Pondering Proctors, GGP Backup Shows

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The mighty question bucket arrives and we manage to get through about 30% of the questions we got. We’ll hold onto these and chip away at them in the future, thank you to everyone who wrote in and also thank you to Autumn for showing up this season!

NOTE: Autumn’s audio is a little weird, hopefully they aren’t too quiet I did my best to adjust them. You’ll hear it on the pod. It was a mess.

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We watch a modern adaptation of BA reframing it as a story of the now. How does it do? Wellllllll, not great, turns out.

Things Discussed: scams, King of Fighters characters and other fighting games, Wotakoi, Autumn not finishing manga, Dune

Non-Autumn Zone: Faggots, armpits, haircuts, recording podcasts while sick, Switch 2, Hokuto and Kamiyama’s Pondering Pootan, Pondering Proctors

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A century of excellence comes to a close and we reach the end of the tale of Franz Biberkopf for the second time, but certainly not the last. We get reflective about our time adjacent to or within games culture on this episode, and then rotate some stupid Star Trek stuff for a bit.

Things Discussed: Animal Crossing, star ratings, Nerissa musical, Gigi Murin coming out as ace and demi, talking about demisexuality, Pride talk, Hokuto and Kamiya's Pondering Pootan: A Podcast within a Podcast, Pondering Proctors

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A century of excellence comes to a close and we reach the end of the tale of Franz Biberkopf for the second time, but certainly not the last. We get reflective about our time adjacent to or within games culture on this episode, and then rotate some stupid Star Trek stuff for a bit.

Things Discussed: Idle Thumbs, Giant Bomb, Star Gladiator, Rival Schools, indie games, media length, Wayside Stories from Wayside School, Star Trek, Hadestown, a welcome surprise

Non-Autumn Zone: Hokuto and Kamiya's Pondering Pootan: A Podcast within a Podcast, Pondering Proctors

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It feels in many ways like the entire season was building to this episode, though I’m sure we’ll feel the same way in two weeks. A harrowing show today, and then we enjoy talking about some manga and some books, before Em gets heated about Online and we reflect on the Autumn months (months with Autumn as co-host, not the months of fall).

Things Discussed: balancing act of doing stuff, Honey and Clover, currently running and long running manga, X/1999, Wotakoi, How Do We Relationship, Dune, Gundam Seed, some thoughts on the Andor BDS boycott and...

Things go bad on this episode of Berlin Alexanderplatz and they probably won’t go right again until we’re done, so please hang on for the next few weeks. We still have a good episode, even if the mood on the saga is melancholy.

Things Discussed: fursonas, Abnormal Mapping, Pondering Pootan, Honey and Clover, misremembering the plot of Forrest Gump, Dune, the Stairwells bracket predictions,

Non-Autumn Zone: new NANA art, Chobits manga (including tons of spoilers), Hokuto and Kamiya's Pondering Pootan: A Podcast within a Podcast, Pondering Proctors

The opening theme this seas...

We get to one of our favorite sections of the book we’d been eagerly seeing adapted, and then have Vtuber talk so long that it ends up taking up two whole segments. Also Em and Autumn get on a goddamn tear about the internet and how people spend their attention. It’s a bit of a gripe session, but hopefully people enjoy it.

Things Discussed: Vtubers, ADHD and scheduling, medical stuff and doctors appointments, self-destructive behavior and coping strategies, Gawr Gura, Vtuber chat 2, Jeff Gerstmann, Northernlion, the attention economy, recommending stuff, surprise Rick cameo, Eevee evolutions, Poké...

Berlin Alexanderplatz discovered a whole new gear of simmering homosexuality so we’re having a good time even before Franz decided to berate some anarchists and we hoot and holler about politics in this rowdy episode. Then the rest happens, as usual. It’s a great time. As usual.

Things Discussed: Gamer Supps (we know about the gamer supps thing but didn't as of recording, this is the last one I promise), Question Bucket!, regionalisms, vtuber corner, Cyberpunk 2077, Mission Hill (does anyone know where the good music version is?), everyone yells at Autumn, Beavis & Butthead, Daria, King of t...

We have more announcements as the next season is finally revealed! It’s … very ambitious. Also, Autumn finished Persona 4, we talk about the silent protagonist, Niamh gets a very cool tattoo, and Em talks about some of the weirdness around meeting new people online.

Question Bucket, Season 5 Revealed!, Persona 4, Silent Protagonists, Persona 5, Shenmue (briefly), Niamh gets a tattoo (go check out sun.doesnt.set on Instagram), making friends online when you're a very minor person of note, brief vtuber corner, brats and who is one

Non-Autumn Zone: Hokuto and Kamiyama's Pondering Pootan, Proctoring Pootan

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We’re worn out and trying to get the podcast in under two and a half hours from start to finish. We manage it, but barely! We yap a lot about vtubers, Atlus games, and of course good ol’ Franz Biberkopf. Also, we announce an upcoming special episode at the beginning! The main thing is the Metaphor game club comes to a close we both finished the game within a day of each other, and talk about the last bits of the story. Please enjoy!

Things Discussed: Upcoming Question Bucket, Gamer Supps, Vtuber Corner, RWBY, Passenger, Persona 4, Dune...

Kind of split on this episode of Berlin Alexanderplatz, but we manage to have a good time anyway as Autumn and Niamh watch one of Em’s favorite movies and we have a big long chat about Agnes Varda! Also, Autumn is playing Persona 4 now, so we’re talking about the investigation team and how we approach RPGs.

Things Discussed: Passenger (yahoo anime rules but here it is on youtube), One Sings, The Other Doesn't, Varda at Large, Mail Woes, Persona 4, Persona 4 spoilers talking about Rise and Adachi, the whys of RPGs, gender stuff, Gundam, Conan the Barb...

We meet Reinhold and the homosexual quotient goes off the charts. For Berlin Alexanderplatz. Long Fire remains about as gay as usual (read: very). A great time with a fantastic episode this week.

Things Discussed: NANA, vtuber corner including shipping thoughts, therapy talk, The Farthest Shore with broader Earthsea talk, Dune, Studio Ghibli, Cathode Ray Dude's telephone video, boomer shooters, cooking more and shopping habits

Non-Autumn Zone: Hokuto and Kamiyama's Pondering Pootan A Grueling and Serious Examination of Cromartie High School, Gundam talk

The opening theme this season is “Das lila Lied” sung by U...

Slaughterhouse! We have a great time talking about Franz’ terrible time, and talk about a bunch else besides. Em undergoes SMT madness.

Things Discussed: Good news to open the show, listen to And Then An Aeroplane, vtuber corner, Hotaru and Kamiyama's Pondering Pootan, GGP talk including Gundam the Origin Spoilers, Niamh does tai chi, getting mad at Elon on a podcast finally, no more Garf Read Aloud, X (the manga), Autumn should be nice to themselves, mental health, some nail painting and tattoo talk, I ban tabletop talk from the podcast (again)

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Berlin Alexanderplatz gets sad, Franz shops for flowers, Niamh and Em attack Autumn for bad game takes, and we all talk some gender. Also, more Metaphor and the end of How Do We Relationship!

ALSO NOTE: Autumn’s audio is just going to have radiator hiss until winter breaks. It’s fine.

Happy birthday Niamh and Em, Export Audio returns, grilling Autumn about their bad Export takes, is Em a member of the CIA?, The Pondering Pootan Period featuring a Call to Action about Episode 41, Bazaar patch into complaining about the normalization of horny on main...

Berlin Alexanderplatz keeps cooking, we chat about a bunch of this and that as this episode it’s quite as full of Things We Finished as last week, and we get back to Metaphor: ReFantazio with a huge update as the plot really begins to pick up and Niamh makes a bunch of predictions that all instantly come true. We’ll talk about it next week.

ALSO NOTE: Autumn’s audio is just going to have radiator hiss until winter breaks. It’s fine.

Things discussed: RS/OS Crossovers, Werner Herzog movies, Eureka Seven, Music Listenin...

We begin the enormous Fassbinder television miniseries adaptation of Berlin Alexanderplatz and immediately find it much more representative of our feelings about the book and its structures. Also, Fassbinder is just incredibly good at shooting some handsome if unpleasant television. Biberkopf might be suffering, but we are not.

ALSO NOTE: Autumn’s audio is just going to have radiator hiss until winter breaks. It’s fine.

Things discussed: Dog Man, smart watches, Groundhog Day, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Evangelion (manga), Honey and Clover, Clamp School Detectives, the state of digital books and comics, Cam Mars...

We begin season 4 with a third host joining for the next few months and some surprising new announcements as we begin to cover the adaptations of classic novel Berlin Alexanderplatz, starting with a movie made only two years after the book was released. After that we get into our usuals, including tons of manga talk this episode! Please enjoy!

Things discussed: Ornate Stairwells corrections, A new Abnormal Mapping podcast, segment 1s, our hopes for the Fassbinder adaptation of Berlin Alexanderplatz, spoiler talk, Letterbox reviews, Social Media Etiquette, Clampquest, Angelic Layer, Colleen's Manga Recs, Manga Suggestions, ParaKiss, William...

Egil’s Saga ends quiet and melancholy as we wrap up our season with a shorter episode due to illness. We did rank all the sagas, however, and talk about that, and also there’s a short manga segment to round things out. Sorry for the short one, hopefully things will be back at full energy next week!

Things discussed: the ranking of sagas, Magic Knight Rayearth

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We continue to enjoy Egil’s Saga even though he does the grossest possible thing this week. Then, we have a big chat about rereading Paradise Kiss (we’re only through chapter 14 or so), a little talk about the state of the world, and then the Metaphor game club returns as we both tackle an enormous new dungeon!

Things discussed: The Pondering Pootan Existential Crisis, Name Change Update, Sick Kid, Paradise Kiss, Yazawa Ai at large, NANA, Eureka Seven, early thoughts about the upcoming Chobits season of Ghost Divers, Saint Seiya and yaoi anime culture, Alt Pub Omah...

A shorter saga paradoxically means a longer saga chat as we cut our reading and increase our happiness. We spend the middle portion of this podcast mostly talking about each other’s podcasts, in the most self-indulgent fashion, but the last third of the podcast covers Em finishing the Evangelion manga and they had a lot of thoughts about it, their own feelings about The Soup, and much else besides. Please enjoy!

Things discussed: Miyamoto Musashi (briefly), Galloping Ghost, Pondering Pootan check-in, name change talk, podcast navel gazing (as usual), ALF season four expectations, GGP chat (different th...

Em’s back from vacation, but we’re both too tired for sagas this week so instead we mostly talk about some movies we watched. The main event, of course, is Adolescence of Utena, but on either side of that is a lot of other fun stuff I hope people enjoy!

Things discussed: FWMC new outfits, Em in Chicago!, Bluebeard's Castle, Evangelion manga, Pondering Pootan debrief, Nerissa's new outfit and vtuber fans at large, Adolescence of Utena (goes from 01:06:30 to 01:36:57), a bit about learning tarot cards at the end

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We’re tired and busy so this one is not us at our best and brightest, but we try to have a good pod anyway. Next week we’re actually taking off reading the saga, ignore what we say in this episode, we’ll mostly just talk about some movies we watched probably.

Things discussed: legal name changes, How Do We Relationship (through to chapter 127), scheduling, Evangelion manga, Eyes Wide Shut (spoilers for the ending, it's right at the end of the pod)

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We start our final saga of the season and whew it’s a long one! Egil doesn’t even show up in this reading! But we cover all the goings on leading up to his birth, the fickleness of kings, and then spend our time catching up on what we did over the holidays.

Things discussed: holidays, what we've been up to, Tokyo Godfathers, Revolutionary Girl Utena, Sonic 3 (the movie), Hack/Slash Back to School, Honey and Clover, Tombs of Atuan, ereaders, Cruising Utopia, Metaphor game club returns!

Utena discussion starts at 50:30 and goes until (1:05:04)!

We’re back for the end of this wild ass saga about elk men, bear men, bad men, and dead men! We had a great time with this one, to the point we finally suggest doing what I never thought we would: ranking the sagas, at the end of the season! Then, Em talks about their favorite episode of Utena so far watching it, and some of the things it brought up for them that they don’t feel other people would probably speak to.

This is our final episode for the year, as we’re taking next w...

We read the first half of the first new-to-Niamh saga this week, and have a great time with awful men, questionable gender politics, and high drama. Also, some violence is done to a bearman, don’t really like that but so it goes sometimes. Our chat about everything else continues as usual, as Niamh overtakes Em in Metaphor, we watch and read some stuff, and a conversation started last week gets finished as Em finally gets to their point about some stuff.

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We’re both a little run down and we just read the intro to a book, so very short saga this week as we just kind of have a small chat and take it easy. Some days are just harder than others. Hope you enjoy nonetheless. Things discussed this episode: Thanksgiving, Trivia Games, being a student, Look Back (the film), Multiple Maniacs, Even Though We're Adults, Nana, Ranma 1/2, Ravencroft news, Ceres Fauna graduating

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We talk about Ref, a man who is pretty chill until you call him gay so much his family begins asking questions. Then he’s going to end your whole bloodline. We have a good time with this relatively light saga, and then talk about our usual manga and vtuber spread, including some extra time with Nerissa for her birthday stream. Things in this episode include: Ref's Saga, Even Though We're Adults, Look Back (the manga), Ranma 1/2, Christmas Carol, Pokémon Cards, Nerissa birthday stream, vtuber merch, a little bit of Metaphor (not much)

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We finish Arrow-Odd’s Saga, and then Em has a few more Icelandic things to talk about that end up taking up a good portion of the episode. Things in this episode include: Arrow-Odd's Saga, Independent People, Godland, Even Though We're Adults, Holocure, Duklyon: Clamp School Defenders, Shirahimeshou: Snow Goddess Tales

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We begin Arrow-Odd’s saga, and talk about being back in the land of prose and strange Giantess fanfic on this week’s episode. Bonus talk includes: Independent People, I Am A Cat, Tokyo Babylon, But We’re Both Adults, and the usual Metaphor talk. I probably missed a few things, but I’m editing against a deadline today so that’ll have to do. Please enjoy!

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On this enormous episode of Around the Long Fire, we finally finish the Poetic Edda! It ends really well, but with a surprising difference between our two versions. The cartoon Em mentions is Zack Snyder's "Twilight of the Gods", for the record. After an extra long Saga segment, we briefly talk about the election (please read Em's friend Madiha's blog about waking up the day after carrying on as we always do), Em talks about the first third of the book Independent People, Em is reading Clamp manga Tokyo Babylon, Niamh talks...

We continue with Gudrun’s vengeance against her family, for better or worse, as we begin to wind down the Poetic Edda. On top of that, we have the usual vtuber corner, a big talk about How Do We Relationship?, a health update … and then decide to spill our next season an entire week early because we both finished some prep work we’d done for it!

Then, in our Metaphor Game Club, we wrap up the second major story dungeon, get our bat friend Heismay, and talk about how we’ve been spending our free time around t...

We have an absolutely jam packed episode this week as not only do we talk about the return of Gudrun and her sorrows, but we also talk a bit about vtubers, we both watch some movies (some classic, some not), Niamh continues to read How Do We Relationship?, and we continue to talk about Metaphor: ReFantazio through the next two hours or so of game (up until you get the 4th party member, which Niamh hadn’t done as of recording this week). Just so many things!

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We revisit some of the first stories we read on this podcast, this time in verse form! They’re pretty pleasant, even if they’re a bit disjointed. We take care of some odds and ends before getting into our main event: our Metaphor game club begins in earnest, which contains a few surprises including a new challenger, some mechanical decisions that surprise, and putting the Persona fandom on notice.

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The sagas finally begin to cook as we talk about tragic love and reincarnation and what exactly is a Valkyrie. Also, speaking of tragic love, Niamh watched Twilight movies and Labyrinth, so we have plenty of misplaced sexual angst to pick over. Finally, Em celebrates Kiara’s big day as she had her fourth anniversary live this past week.

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The sagas aren’t exactly setting our world aflame this week, so we instead talk a bunch about Licorice Pizza (building off of Ornate Stairwells), vtubers, and video games. In fact, some night say this is the beginning of our lengthy Metaphor game club, to be performed over the next 6-12 months!

See the show schedule here! This’ll tell you whis versions of books and which sections of those books we’re reading each week.

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Odin gets up to trouble, including being weirdly homophobic to his stupid son Thor, in this wild episode of poetry and would-be plays. After that, Em gets a little too real venting about their current medical situation, but then we recover as Niamh talks about vtubers and movies until everyone has a good time again. Thanks for listening, sorry for the emotional rollercoaster this week!

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Season 3 begins as we crack open the Poetic Edda and talk about dwarves, gods, and Odin’s magic. More vtuber chat this week, of course, but it’s also a sleepy week so a bit on the shorter side. Either way, please enjoy!

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This episode is a bit of a mess as we watch a movie that’s just okay, and also suffer through a weird recording setup (that continued into editing, excuse any scuff this week) as Em is forced to flee their recording room. A bit of a shorter episode as we’ve both been run ragged, but we do have some talk about The State of Social Media near the end.

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We finally watch the movie whose music we’ve been using since we started! Turns out it’s pretty good, though I don’t know if I’d go so far as to say the best film of Iceland (which some have claimed). Also, we talk a bunch about movies broadly, as Em preps for a Repertory Screenings that ended up not getting recorded (find out why next week).

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Arthur is morted and we are finished! We reach the end of the season as things end on a quiet note, and then talk at length about the Hololive English 2nd concert Breaking Dimensions. Other stuff too, but those are the two big ones! Next week we begin our mini-unit of Icelandic films between seasons!

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The penultimate episode of Morte Darthur shows Lancelot truly has learned nothing, Arthur is put in a difficult spot, and the glory of the kingdom falls apart in most dramatic fashion. Then we have some medical situation talk, and our usual chat about what we’ve been up to.

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We return to the sagas as the grail quest comes to a dramatic conclusion and we lose many of our best heroes. Then, we return to Lancelot, who comes home changed but for how long? On top of that, Niamh finished Chimera Ant in Hunter x Hunter, we talk a bit about movies, and the usual ALF extras.

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Hi, Em here. We recorded another freeform episode where we just talked about what we’ve been up to and how we’ve been feeling as I recovery from surgery. I watched Niamh’s favorite movie, and we talk about it. There’s some Hunter X Hunter talk, as usual. Spoilers in there through like halfway into Chimera Ant? Anyway, the good news is next week we’re returning to sagas, so please look forward to it!

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Em was finally released the hospital and immediately wanted to record a little with Niamh that very night. Niamh also had Dia on to talk about the 2006 film adaptation of Tristan and Isolde. Like those legendary lovers, this episodes is two halves that come together to form a single whole. Also there’s some fighting game talk and general catching up.

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NOTE: This episode is an extra week late because Em was in the hospital last week. They're okay now, sorry about that, normal schedule should hopefully resume now!

Niamh’s back and we’re cooking with grail quest! Lancelot is brought low, Galahad is raised up, and more! Also, we talk about Iceland, new vtubers, and much more!

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It’s the eve of Niamh’s trip to Iceland, and the sagas are finally getting good again to celebrate! We enjoy Palomides’ bullshit, discover the grail was under our nose the whole time, and more! Also, we talk about Tomie (the manga), a little bit of Hunter X Hunter, website building, and more! Please enjoy, we won’t be back for quite a while!

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We’re joined by our first guest Autumn Blake to talk about recent movie I Saw the TV Glow, which deeply affected all of us. We do a big deep dive on the movie and some of our thoughts about queerness and life in a long segment that lasts from 21:00 to about 1:07:00. Before that? Some saga chat! More jousting. After that? Talking about podcasting, other movies, vtubers, and the usual ALF standards. Please enjoy this podcast, it was great to finally record and kind of intense to go through.

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Niamh went to the arcade, Em watched all the Psycho sequels, and we of course talk a bit about the knights of the round table. Also, a vtubing miracle happens to Niamh (maybe), so really an eventful episode for everyone.

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Next episode: Sir Thomas Malory's Morte Darthur, a new...

After an impromptu week off we’ve returned having only barely remembered the reading to talk about Tristram, questing beasts, and oh so much jousting. These mfers love to joust SO MUCH. Also we chat about movies, including some Em watched based on feedback from last episode. It’s a big sprawling episode, so please enjoy!

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We talk about Tristram, Tramtrist, the two Isodes, the horn of cucking, and more in this huge episode of adventuring and wayward romance. Also, Em insults the shit out of Niamh’s kamioshi, a pen is lost and found, and we talk about the bad time movies that stuck with us for good and ill in our lives.

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We’re back as Lancelot continues to husband collect, and Beaumains-slash-Gareth proves his worth by fighting a whole messed up rainbow of knights to emerge as one of the greatest of the land. Also, we talk about vtubers, being busy, and of course video games. Like upcoming Atlus game Metaphor, and classic Sega arcade game Shinobi. No prize for guessing who brings up which.

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We almost skipped this week but Niamh decided we should record a little bit anyway. It’s very low energy, so I’m going to keep this summary proportionally low effort. See ya next week.

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Next episode: Sir Thomas Malory's Morte Darthur, a new Modern English translation based on the...

The battle rages but also plenty of strange things happen in this eventful Arthur reading. Also, after saga time, Em jumps on the grenade of ‘let’s not talk about work’ to instead overshare about podcast insecurity, among other things. Other things, of course, meaning vtubers. Please enjoy this episode!

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Episoooode Fifty! We honestly forget that it’s 50 but we have a good time talking about questing, both Merlin and Gawain being irrepressibly dumb men about women, Morgan le Fay’s flop villainy, and much more as Darthur keeps up its wild pace. Also, we talk about the usual odds and ends, video games and movies and vtubers. Y’know, the Long Fire Stuff.

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We fly forward several hundred years to the world of Christian Kings and true legend as we talk about one of the central works of Arthurian canon, Sir Thomas Malory’s Morte Darthur! Boys pull swords from stones, Merlin proves to be a real Kongming, and we already learn we are in a world where canon and linearity simply don’t matter. Also, we talk about movies and vtubers! But that’s hardly a surprise at this point.

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Beowulf ends in a truly awe-inspiring crescendo of anguish as we find ourselves taken with this final section of the reading. Then, Em goes on a tear about movies for a while to make up for a skipped Repertory Screenings, before the rest of the episode covers the usual gambit of RPGs, Gundam, vtubers, and more! A beefy episode to end this book!

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NOTE: internet trouble means there’s a little more cross talk on this episode than I’d like, so please know we aren’t actually talking over each other on purpose, it simply can’t be helped.

We talk about Beowulf diving deep and disrespecting moms and it somehow turns into us talking about movies because of course it does. Also, somehow, Final Fantasy 7 and a bit of early game FF7 Rebirth comes up. Because we simply cannot escape the gravity of it.

Also, Niamh opens fem’s birthday present from me live on air!

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Bro! We are back with one of The Classics, one of the all time greats, the kind of poem where people for a thousand years will say That Was A Good Poem. It’s god damn Beowulf! We’re delighted by this new translation, talk a lot about classics, and also wind down with some talk about Niamh in Florida, movie making, and of course podcasting.

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We’re back with the final sections of the book talking about the work itself, and also Niamh finished FF8! Funny how that worked out! Anyway we talk about the endings of both things, and look forward to the future!

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Next episode: Beowulf, a new translation by Maria Dahvana He...

We did it! We finished the Nibelungenlied, and it actually ended really good. Well, actually, it ended in utter woe for everyone involved. But we liked that woe! The woe was crunchy and delicious to us, if a little skewed towards Hagen a man nobody should stan.

We’re taking a week off, and then we’ll be back with the extra parts at the end of the book!

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Our saga begins to wrap up and we have a nice chat about it, before going on about the usual weeklies of movies and gaming and the rest. The back half of the pod gets real serious about the mental health and health segment, so we silo’d it off after the plugs. Content warning on that for medical and health talk, eating disorders and body image, discussions of trauma and therapy.

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We talk more about ASMR videos than we do the sagas this week, but sometimes that’s just how it goes. We also have a gaming check in and the other usuals.

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Next episode: The Nibelungenlied, ch. 34-36

The saga isn’t exactly on fire this week but that’s okay as we have some catchup on vtuber corner, Niamh gets a huge box, and more!

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Next episode: The Nibelungenlied, ch. 31-33

The energy levels are inverted this week as Niamh is ready to go three hours and Em has to pull the emergency eject lever. But before that, we talk a bit about the holidays, childhood toys, FF8, and of course our regular saga chat.

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Em had a coffee several hours before recording and became truly insufferable during the span of this podcast, dragging Niamh into a bunch of stupid discussions when the fox simply wanted to rest. That’s the holiday spirit at work.

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Next episode: The Nibelungenlied, ch. 25-27

Niamh’s sick but we soldier on anyway as we talk about our chapters and then have a bunch of movie talk based on a list of recommendations given to me by the listenership of VoIP Life after the last episode. You can find that list here!

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Truly it’s the end of the road for our buddy Siegfried on this killer set of reading this week. Also, Niamh manages to get us talking about movies and Em blows half their next Repertory Screenings slate talking about musicals and found footage horror. Also, some paintings!

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Em woke up five minutes before this podcast to a world where Kissinger was dead. That’s truly worth celebrating. Though we don’t actually do much of that, but instead read our book (which is good), talk about vtubers (which is good), catch up on things (always a delight), and new developments in our Mental Health Minute

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We’re back with one of the best chapters this podcast has ever read, and we talk a little about the end of the strike and returning to watching stuff. We’re taking next week off but will be back in two weeks!

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Next episode: The Nibelungenlied, ch. 13-15

Hi, Em here! This is a week late because I was sick and in the hospital for a few days several days after this recording. I’m doing okay now, but it means this didn’t get edited and now I don’t remember what the hell we talked about. Other than winning ladies through subterfuge. We definitely talk about that.

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Getting real on the pod this week as a tired episode turns into a bit of overshare. Also a bit of an ideological preview of the upcoming VoIP Life dropping on Friday.

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Next episode: The Nibelungenlied, ch. 7-9

We start a new book, about an old guy from before, and some really stupid shit he’s getting up to. Also, we talk at length about our wayward youths and our preferences for JRPG battle design!

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Next episode: The Nibelungenlied, ch. 4-6

We finally did it! We crash through the end of the Heimskringla (for now) with an annoying whimper, Em tries hard not to fall asleep on the podcast, Niamh refuses to let up talking about one of the most over-discussed games of all time, and we have a great time despite ourselves! That’s it, season one is over. Come back next week for the start of season 2!!!

Spoilers for: Persona 4, maybe Persona 3 idk

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Em’s still fighting off the post Covid malaise so it’s a bit of a short one today though we do talk a bit about Niamh getting a steam deck and our plans for our upcoming season 2!

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Next episode: Heimskringla: Ólafs saga Helga, ch. 215-251

We’re back! Some surprise sick days delayed this one a few weeks but we do talk at length about Chulip, games writing in the 2010s, growing up subjected to boyhood, and other things in this rambling pod. Also, some Saga talk, but less than you might think.

The Chulip LP Em Watched

Niamh’s piece on Chulip from 2015

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I’ll be real with you: the sagas are so mid this week Em was ready to pack it up in 20 minutes, and then Niamh started talking about the PS2 and we ended up with a whole hour of extra content. SO please enjoy a podcast about anything but the Norwegian kings, who are our enemies. We’ll be back in two weeks!

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We’re back with more Olafian misadventures, doing our best with some thin storytelling these days. Soon we will be back in myth and thriving, but first we must endure great hardship.

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Next episode: Heimskringla: Ólafs saga Helga, ch. 125-143