Episodes 229 and 230 of Lore Olympus are available this week (if you Fast-Pass episode 230) and WE ARE SO ANGRY. I mean, yes, episode 229 was kind of sweet and surprisingly instructional as Persephone gets much-needed information about fertility goddesses from Metis, who’s about as down-to-earth and helpful a Fertility Goddess as you’d want
We’re back home after all of our holiday and birthday travels, and on the latest episodes of Lore Olympus we…do NOT get the long-awaited reveal of what Apollo is up to and how his sister Artemis is handling it. But we do get a little bit of the origin story for Psyche. As a treat.
Whoops, sorry this is late everyone! Big milestone birthday this month, so I’ve been busy with a pretty wild celebration (said celebration involved exploring several miles of natural caverns, and reading in front of a fire every night. It’s how we roll.) I read at least a dozen excellent books from 2022, far too many
Happy New Year from the BSP team! We hope you all had a fantastic celebration (or a safe and relatively chill evening at home if that’s your jam.) It’s a quick Travel-Edition recording this week (we may not have been at home when we recorded this, but we’re definitely back home now, or if we’re
“We knew it was coming…” Aaa! Emily St. John Mandel (author of Station Eleven and The Glass Hotel) released another book months ago and I’m only just finding out about it now! Two days left to post a review before the end of 2022 so let’s do this really fast because omgyouguysthisbookisbeautiful. We start with
Happy Holidays from the Binary System Podcast team! This year one of our Christmas presents is some very welcome Lore Olympus backstory on Aphrodite (Ares is his own worst enemy, and for Aphrodite’s sake we hope the breakup takes). Elizabeth is also happy to report that the latest season of The Crown is well worth
We’ve got a few more days before the end of the year to fit in some 2022 books, and John Scalzi’s COVID-era adventure has been showing up on quite a few Best-Of lists The start of the pandemic in early 2020 was a difficult time to navigate: lockdowns pending, fear of contagion all around, businesses
Okay we’re gonna rocket through the recap of episodes 221 and 222 of Lore Olympus in record time, just over ten minutes, because there’s STILL NOTHING HAPPENING. I kid, I kid. EXCEPT NOT REALLY. We love this webcomic to bits, the artwork is top notch, and the relationship between Hades and Persephone is the most
This week’s Night Vale recap has a lot of fan art requests and T-shirt moments, but it’s also us just being flat out amazed that Cecil can get interrupted by his kid every five minutes and it’s always stress free. It’s not saccharine, it’s not annoying, it’s not even a little frustrating; Cecil Baldwin just