Ep 8: Sans Killed the Pope???? - Toby Fox and the Power of Contrast
In this episode, Grace and Alex discuss the importance of writing with intentionality, Deltarune Chapt 5, and a little gay boy on a journey.
In this episode:
Heated Rivalry
Deltarune Chapt 5
The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack
Miracle Mile
Go For it Nakamura
The Dispossessed
The Everlasting
16 Jul 2026
Ep 7: Consuming and Being Consumed - What We Wanted the Backrooms to Be
This week, Grace and Alex yap about the missed opportunities they saw in The Backrooms movie, as well what they've been reading lately.
Discussed in this episode:
The Buffalo Hunter Hunter
When We Were Real
Death of the Author
Sour Cherry
Book Lovers
Beach Read
American Fiction
Obsession
The Backrooms
13 Apr 2026
Ep 6: A Medium of Pure Transmission - In Conversation with Kit Anderson
Alex talks AI, nature, and comics with Kit Anderson, cartoonist behind Nebula-finalist graphic novel SECOND SHIFT.
Check out SECOND SHIFT here (https://www.amazon.com/Second-Shift-Kit-Anderson/dp/1917355203).
Read Alex's review of SECOND SHIFT here (medium.com/interstellar-flight-press/is-anybody-out-there-a08a96ade610).
22 Dec 2025
Ep 5: Toxic Yaoi and Triumphant Yuri (on Ice!)
Alex and Grace talk about their current brain worms. Featured in this episode:
Heated Rivalry
I Love Lucy
The Legend of Korra
The Long Walk
Alien: Earth
The New Breed
An Immense World
Annihilation (again)
Eat the Ones You Love
The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
Why Don't We Just Kill the Kid in the Omelas Pit?
Semiosis
CW: discussion of death, illness/bodily functions
24 Nov 2025
Ep 4: The Zombification of The Movies
In this episode, Grace and Alex discuss a recent trip to the theater and reflect on the way medium influence media experience.
Topics discussed in this episode include:
Wicked: For Good
Alvin and the Chipmunks
Rango
Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio
Lilo & Stitch
The Cut
Radiohead's Kid A Mnesia
10 Nov 2025
Ep 3: Vampires, Frankenstein, and Pearl Harbor 2
Grace and Alex share what's been on their mind recently, including:
The Pairing by Casey McQuiston
The Entanglement of Rival Wizards by Sarah Raasch
The Princesse de Cleves
The Rise of the Novel
Hawaii Part 2 by Miracle Musical
Interview with the Vampire
Pantheon (based on stories by Ken Liu)
Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein
28 Oct 2025
Ep 2: Haunting the Narrative
Alex & Grace start by discussing the video games they’ve been playing lately, but they end up discussing women who haunt the narrative and disability in fiction.
Cover art by J.R. Steele.
Topics include:
Baldur’s Gate 3
Deltarune
Avatar the Last Airbender
Empress of Dust
The Stormlight Archive
Six of Crows
Empson’s Some Versions of Pastoral
13 Oct 2025
Ep 1: Whales, Work, and Weird Fiction
Alex & Grace start with a retrospective on The Stench of Adventure, but the conversation veers to topics like meaningful labor, community, plus-size representation, robots, and what happens if you inhale spores that awaken a brightness inside of you.
Cover art by J.R. Steele.
Topics include:
The Invisible Life of Addie Larue
The Southern Reach series (Annihilation)
Kermode’s The Sense of an Ending
Talia Hibert
Emily Henry
Casey McQuiston
My Dark Vanessa
Fanfiction Tropes
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