We read the The Gathering Storm, Book 12 of The Wheel of Time. This was a lot, and we apologize for the delay. Happy Thanksgiving folks.

Next month we'll be reading all of The Way of Kings, Episode Airs: December 24th, Christmas Eve.

Content warnings for this episode: ableism, addiction, age gap, amputation, betrayal, bleeding, body horror, body modification, broken bone, classism, colonization, death, domestic violence, fetishization, gaslighting, gender roles, hallucinations, insanity, J.K. Rowling, kink, knives, maiming, misogyny, murder, mutilation, rape, real world violence, religious extremism, self harm, sexual content, sexual violence, slavery, stabbing, strangulation, suicide/suicidal ideation, terminal illness, transphobia, trauma, undeath, Vietnam War, wounds and infection

Correction: Robert Jordan’s Assistants were Alan Romanczuk and Maria Simons

Correction: Jordan’s Claim that he wouldn’t let anyone else finish the series, I say weeks in the episode but it is much more likely that Jordan changed his mind during the last year of his life, so months before his death not weeks.

However, Sanderson makes this weeks claim here and is obviously much more qualified than I am.

Michael Livingston Origins of the Wheel of Time

The Gunslinger by Stephen King

Real-world references Wheel of Time

Ask Ann Landers

Women Want Me Fish Fear Me Moraine:

The Aiel as Cheyenne

Dune Frank Herbert & David Lynch’s Dune

The Boundless Light of Islam Tweet

The Fifth Season NK Jemisin

51 Books You Could Read Instead of The Wheel of Time

The Once and Future King by T.H. White

Le Morte d'Arthur by Thomas Mallory (the translation by Simon Armitage is very good)

Mercedes Lackey

Ursula LeGuin

Daggerspell by Katherine Kerr

Fullmetal Alchemist by Hiromu Arakawa

Dragonball by Akira Toriyama

The Power by Naomi Alderman

Generic Entertainment Wheel of Time

The Green Bone Saga

Daughter of No Worlds by Carissa Broadbent

The Expanse by James SA Corey

Kitty and the Midnight Hour by Carrie Vaughn

Bannerless by Carrie Vaughn

Naomi Novik

This show is created by Graham Gillman, Taylor Lane, and Jack McLaughlan.

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We read the interesting yet undersauced Alcatraz vs The Knights of Crystallia!

Next month we'll be reading The Gathering Storm by Robert Jordan & Brandon Sanderson. Episode airs, November 12th.

James Acaster's Repertoire is available from Netflix.

References

Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrel by Susanna Clarke

Content warnings for this episode: abandonment, ableism, addiction, betrayal, bleeding, bullying, censorship, child abuse, child endangerment, classism, colonialism, conspiracies, cults, death, existentialism, fame, fatphobia, foster homes, Harry Potter, human sacrifice, imprisonment, insanity, J.K. Rowling, lying, mental illness, mind control, murder, neglect, oligarchy, prisons, racism, royalty, self harm, self hatred, settler colonialism, stabbing, suicide/suicidal ideation, transphobia, trials, undeath, wounds

Sorry for the late upload y'all, I ended up doing the last third of this episode behind the bar at work.

This show is created by Graham Gillman, Taylor Lane, and Jack McLaughlan.

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We discuss the broader Cosmere, as well as some of the finer points of the ending of Warbreaker.

Come back next week for Alcatraz vs The Knights of Crystalia.

This conversation is less professional, we can only hope it's entertaining.

Content warnings for this episode: colonization, death, discussion of sexuality, settler colonialism

This show is created by Graham Gillman, Taylor Lane, and Jack McLaughlan.

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