This week, we have a fascinating exploration of creativity in the world of The Hunger Games books. We discuss our favorite #softboy cake decorator, Game Makers, Victor talents, creativity in District 12, and so much more! Please tell a geeky friend about us and leave a review on your podcast app! And, if you really enjoy our content, consider becoming one of our amazing patrons and get even more of it for just $1 per month here: https://www.patreon.com/geekbetweenthelines . Every dollar helps ke...
Jan 11, 2022ā¢53 min
This week, we have a fun special episode discussing Season 1 - 2 of the The Umbrella Academy Netflix show! We look at the things we love (I mean Five in that school uniform š), the things that could be improved, and the things we hope for in Season 3. Please tell a geeky friend about us and leave a review on your podcast app! And, if you really enjoy our content, consider becoming one of our amazing patrons and get even more of it for just $1 per month here: https://www.patreon.com/geekbetweent...
Dec 21, 2021ā¢39 min
This week, we have a rich discussion on race within the world of Avatar and representation and appropriation in the making of the show. We take a look at Swamp Benders, Sand Benders, how Sokka engages with his own (as well as other people's) ethnic identities, and much more! We also spend some time discussing casting and representation for the animated and live action versions of ATLA. Please tell a geeky friend about us and leave a review on your podcast app! And, if you really enjoy our conten...
Dec 14, 2021ā¢47 min
This week, we have a great conversation on ideas of personhood within The Hunger Games and The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes . In a place like Panem, there's clearly a lot to talk about - from Tribute caricatures, to Avoxes, to Gale and Katniss' perspectives on killing. We even discuss Suzanne Collins' intentional writing and development of very small characters like Fox Face. Please tell a geeky friend about us and leave a review on your podcast app! And, if you really enjoy our content, consi...
Dec 07, 2021ā¢45 min
This week, we look at the theme of responsibility in Harry Potter. We of course talk a lot about Harry and Hermione, but also discuss the trio's dynamics, apologies, Dumbledore's competing responsibilities, and much more. Please tell a geeky friend about us and leave a review on your podcast app! And, if you really enjoy our content, consider becoming one of our amazing patrons and get even more of it for just $1 per month here: https://www.patreon.com/geekbetweenthelines . Every dollar helps ke...
Nov 30, 2021ā¢44 min
This week, we have a great discussion about how loss impacts characters in ATLA and LOK. We look at Iroh's journey, Katara and Zuko's relationship, Aang(/Rava?) responding with the Avatar State, Korra losing her connection to past lives, and so much more! Please tell a geeky friend about us and leave a review on your podcast app! And, if you really enjoy our content, consider becoming one of our amazing patrons and get even more of it for just $1 per month here: https://www.patreon.com/geekbetwe...
Nov 16, 2021ā¢39 min
We have a great conversation this week about characters exerting agency in The Hunger Games! We of course discuss Katniss a lot as she actively pushes the plot forward -- from volunteering to ending Coin, she constantly forges her own path in a society that gives her so few choices. We also explore not 'playing the game' in the Quarter Quell, Peeta painting Rue's burial, and characters like Pollux and Lucy Gray. Please tell a geeky friend about us and leave a review on your podcast app! And, if ...
Nov 09, 2021ā¢43 min
This week we talk about ideas of privilege in the Harry Potter Books. We explore races of magical peoples, social motivation to join the Death Eaters, and the intersectionalities of characters like Ron Weasley, Rubeus Hagrid, and Winky. Please tell a geeky friend about us and leave a review on your podcast app! And, if you really enjoy our content, consider becoming one of our amazing patrons and get even more of it for just $1 per month here: https://www.patreon.com/geekbetweenthelines . Every ...
Nov 02, 2021ā¢40 min
This week, we tackle the topic of justice in ATLA and LOK and start off with the Mayor Tong "just us" quote from the Avatar Day episode. We also discuss everything from Korra's character growth, to taking bending away, to Fire Nation reparations, and so much more. Please tell a geeky friend about us and leave a review on your podcast app! And, if you really enjoy our content, consider becoming one of our amazing patrons and get even more of it for just $1 per month here: https://www.patreon.com/...
Oct 26, 2021ā¢42 min
This week, we have a deep discussion about ability and disability in the world of the Hunger Games. We of course talk a lot about Katniss before, during, and after the Games, and also discuss Peeta's leg, Victor coping mechanisms, and characters like Mags, Annie, Reaper, Jessup, and the boy from District 10. Please tell a geeky friend about us and leave a review on your podcast app! And, if you really enjoy our content, consider becoming one of our amazing patrons and get even more of it for jus...
Oct 19, 2021ā¢36 min
This episode is the last of our Hunger Games Sorting Chats where we discuss what Hogwarts Houses we think Prim, Coin, Boggs, Cressida, and Plutarch would land in. And bonus: we also decide what tabletop games a couple of the characters would be! š Please tell a geeky friend about us and leave a review on your podcast app! And, if you really enjoy our content, consider becoming one of our amazing patrons and get even more of it for just $1 per month here: https://www.patreon.com/geekbetweentheli...
Oct 12, 2021ā¢12 min
In this episode we discuss education at Hogwarts and, as you could guess, there is a lot to talk about (especially with our own resident Professor Chris)! š
We have tons of questions and critiques -- from how magic complicates normal classroom settings, to ways this school (that we love and sigh at) could make changes for the better, to what's going on with Hogwarts professors. #snape #hagrid #binns #mcgonagall #trelawny We also spend time exploring how Harry engages with both learning and teac...
Oct 05, 2021ā¢49 min
This week, we look at the theme of trust in ATLA and LOK! We spend time discussing how crucial characters like Azula and Toph interact with trust. We also think about how trust (or lack of trust) in the Avatar influences leaders and ordinary people in both series, how Katara didn't trust Zuko, and so much more. Please tell a geeky friend about us and leave a review on your podcast app! And, if you really enjoy our content, consider becoming one of our amazing patrons and get even more of it for ...
Sep 28, 2021ā¢42 min
This week, we talk about the theme of responsibility in The Hunger Games and Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes books. We cover everything from Effie Trinket, to Mentors in the Games, to Katniss having so much responsibility forced on her at such a young age, to social responsibility in a place like Panem. Please tell a geeky friend about us and leave a review on your podcast app! And, if you really enjoy our content, consider becoming one of our amazing patrons and get even more of it for just $1 p...
Sep 21, 2021ā¢50 min
This week, we discuss the fascinating theme of order and chaos in the Harry Potter books! We of course have to spend some time with the queen of Educational Decrees, Dolores Umbridge, looking at her methods, aims, and results. We also explore the Room of Requirement, moving staircases, the Order of the Phoenix, and magic itself. We enjoy placing characters like Luna Lovegood as 'chaotic good' and Peter Petigrew as 'true neutral' in the D&D alignment system, too. Please tell a geeky friend ab...
Sep 14, 2021ā¢45 min
On this week's episode, Chris and Brittany discuss the theme of Play in Avatar: the Last Airbender and the Legend of Korra. Listen to us talk about the humor of characters like Bolin and Sokka, the ways that games like Pro Bending and Pai Sho help build the world, and the positive and negative outcomes of play in the series. Please tell a geeky friend about us and leave a review on your podcast app! And, if you really enjoy our content, consider becoming one of our amazing patrons and get even m...
Sep 07, 2021ā¢40 min
This week, Chris and Brittany talk about Class in the Hunger Games and the Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, featuring discussions on Coriolanus' and Sejanus' upbringings, how the tesserae reveal the classist implications of the Hunger Games, and the intersections between class and language, gender, and law in Panem. Please tell a geeky friend about us and leave a review on your podcast app! And, if you really enjoy our content, consider becoming one of our amazing patrons and get even more of it ...
Aug 31, 2021ā¢49 min
This week, Chris and Brittany explore the theme of Identity in Harry Potter, discussing how characters might hold different identities for themselves than those placed on them, the way that Harry is introduced to the magical world, and Snape's thematic place between Harry and Voldemort in navigating his half-blood identity. Please tell a geeky friend about us and leave a review on your podcast app! And, if you really enjoy our content, consider becoming one of our amazing patrons and get even mo...
Aug 24, 2021ā¢49 min
This week's episode covers Loneliness in Avatar: The Last Airbender and the Legend of Korra. We discuss how characters like Ty Lee and Katara can feel lonely even when part of a group, how being the Avatar brings community and isolation, how loneliness impacted Aang's and Korra's upbringing, and more. Please tell a geeky friend about us and leave a review on your podcast app! And, if you really enjoy our content, consider becoming one of our amazing patrons and get even more of it for just $1 pe...
Aug 17, 2021ā¢38 min
This week's episode features Chris' love of love (and Brittany's love of complications) as we discuss Love in the Hunger Games and the Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes. We look at connections between love and trust, some of the most striking acts of love in the series, and the parallels between Katniss and Peeta's romance and reality TV. Please tell a geeky friend about us and leave a review on your podcast app! And, if you really enjoy our content, consider becoming one of our amazing patrons and...
Aug 10, 2021ā¢43 min
Is there actually war in the Harry Potter books? We discuss it all -- the Book 6 Hogwarts "homefront", who the soldiers would be, Dumbledore's dubious decisions, and much more! Please tell a geeky friend about us and leave a review on your podcast app! And, if you really enjoy our content, consider becoming one of our amazing patrons and get even more of it for just $1 per month here: https://www.patreon.com/geekbetweenthelines . Every dollar helps keep the podcast sustainable! Please follow us ...
Aug 03, 2021ā¢42 min
We have a blast with this discussion of Tolkien's context for Sam and Frodo's romance (that is thoroughly textual). The discussion centers around Molly Ostertag's amazing Polygon article called "Queer Readings of The Lord of the Rings Are Not Accidents" and although we highly recommend reading it, you don't have to have read the article to listen to the episode. We hope you are as inspired as we are by her impressive (and entirely canonical) analysis and artwork! Find the artic...
Jul 27, 2021ā¢36 min
This week, we look at the theme of responsibility in ATLA and LOK! We have a great time talking about Tenzin and last airbender duties, the responsibilities of various Avatars, acts of social VS personal responsibility, and many more, as Chris called them, "insightful nuggets." If you want to read the amazing article we'll be discussing in next week's episode, go here: "Queer Readings of The Lord of the Rings are Not Accidents" by Molly Ostertag -- https://www.polygon.com/lord-...
Jul 20, 2021ā¢41 min
This week, we look at all kinds of courageous acts in The Hunger Games and The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes. We pay close attention to Finnick Odair, things in Panem that encourage or hinder bravery, and much more! Please tell a geeky friend about us and leave a review on your podcast app! And, if you really enjoy our content, consider becoming one of our amazing patrons and get even more of it for just $1 per month here: https://www.patreon.com/geekbetweenthelines . Every dollar helps keep th...
Jul 13, 2021ā¢36 min
This week, we tackle the theme of justice in the Harry Potter books! There is a lot to discuss--from Hermione's strengths and shortcomings, to Azkaban and basically all of Book 5, and much more. Please tell a geeky friend about us and leave a review on your podcast app! And, if you really enjoy our content, consider becoming one of our amazing patrons and get even more of it for just $1 per month here: https://www.patreon.com/geekbetweenthelines . Every dollar helps keep the podcast sustainable!...
Jul 06, 2021ā¢45 min
At the end of Pride Month, we wanted to have a special episode that looks at some of the ways queerness is explicit, tokenized, or queered in the geeky series we discuss each week. We talk about everything from the 1950's Comics Code Authority, to amazing fandom communities, to queering Remus Lupin, and more! Please tell a geeky friend about us and leave a review on your podcast app! And, if you really enjoy our content, consider becoming one of our amazing patrons and get even more of it for ju...
Jun 30, 2021ā¢42 min
This is our final Star Wars episode, (at least for now) and we wanted to send the property off on a nice note of love! We discuss the relationships of Leia + Han and Lando + L-3, and Luke's quick attachment tendancies, too. We also explore the opportunity for diverse loves and relationships that could exist in the Star Wars universe, and much more! Please tell a geeky friend about us and leave a review on your podcast app! And, if you really enjoy our content, consider becoming one of our amazin...
Jun 22, 2021ā¢44 min
This week we discuss the theme of Class in Avatar: The Last Airbender and the Legend of Korra. We analyze how Ba Sing Se's built environment makes claims on who is valued, different characters' experiences moving between classes, and where we see spiritual, military, and other hierarchies creating and intersecting with class in the Avatars' world. Please tell a geeky friend about us and leave a review on your podcast app! And, if you really enjoy our content, consider becoming one of our amazing...
Jun 15, 2021ā¢24 min
On this week's episode, we look at the Hunger Games and Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes through the theme of Play. We discuss how humor can be used as a coping mechanism, how nicknames reveal insight into characters' relationships, and the difference between the agency and sincerity of Lucy Gray's performance and the expectation and commodification of tributes' performances in Katniss' time. Also, Chris puts his graduate degree to work seeing the Hunger Games as a dystopian version of the Olympic...
Jun 08, 2021ā¢49 min
This week, we look at that classic theme of love in the Harry Potter books. We discuss Tom Riddle and Lily Potter's actions, Hermione obliviating her parents, the Madam Puddifoot's disaster, and so much more! Please tell a geeky friend about us and leave a review on your podcast app! And, if you really enjoy our content, consider becoming one of our amazing patrons and get even more of it for just $1 per month here: https://www.patreon.com/geekbetweenthelines . Every dollar helps keep the podcas...
May 25, 2021ā¢48 min
