EP09: Wild Critters

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07/08/18 • -1 min

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This week we welcome poet and shark-lover Wren to discuss critters, creatures, and creepy-crawly moms of all kinds. You can find Wren on Twitter @suitofscales and be sure to check out his work at wrenhanks.com. Sabrina also joins again to discuss the wonders and horrors of the natural world and its multitude of mothers.

Topics Touched:

sharks, the intensity of mantis shrimp mothers, the philandering of mantis shrimp fathers, New Orleans, the fact that baby sharks are adorably called pups, warm feelings for sharks, the heart-warming fact that baby lemon sharks form childhood friendships, the social mores of great white sharks and their love of big ladies, beautiful and mysterious goblin sharks, majestic emoji-faced whale sharks, alligator gar and their poisonous eggs, snails colonizing Wren’s toilet, living in trash swamps, wild hogs, mama gators, alligator sex and nest temperature, rats, hawk drama (the male hawk in question is not Pale Male), Pale Male, living side by side with critters

Works Cited:

BBC One – Shark

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Topics Touched:

Works Cited:

BBC One – Shark

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Previous Episode

EP08: Gigantic Mythic Spiders

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Trans writer, gamer, and resident eldritch abomination Sabrina Boynton joins us this week to discuss a sensitive topic very near and dear to everyone’s heart: giant fucking spider moms.

Topics Touched:

abject horror, Sonic Dreams, Charlotte’s Web, maternal industriousness, James and the Giant Peach, arachnophobia, The Red Spot, the devouring mother, the castrating mother, love bombing, J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings, the void, Ungoliant, unlight, Shelob, deadlights, Dungeons and Dragons, Lolth, matriarchy, The Drow, racism, anti-blackness, the politics of genre fiction, C. S. Lewis, H. P. Lovecraft, The Black Goat of the Woods With A Thousand Young, post-coital cannibalism, sometimes a man is a snack, ovipositors, doubling and doubles, Ceto and Echidna, vore

Works Cited:

Louise Bourgeois – Maman
Dungeons and Dragons Player’s Handbook 5th Edition
Michael Moorcock – Starship Stormtroopers
Barbara Creed

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EP09.5: Duncan and Sweet Sweet (Bonus Content)

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Wren describes his home life with cats Duncan, a massively kingly whiner, and Sweet Sweet, a deadly assassin, who would probably for that very reason make a great mom.