Wizards Vs. Lesbians

It's a real meat'n'potatoes wizards vs lesbians - a gay orphan is content being raised by a bad mom in a colonized fantasy nation with a caste system (sumptuary laws!) before an alluring butch arrive…

This is a book about a trans runaway who is a survival sex worker and a violin prodigy and the demons and aliens she encounters in suburban LA but it is mostly about eating really amazing meals in re…

What if you took a standard romance novel setup - girl abducted and made to serve in the harem of the handsome prince - and really leaned into how awful that would be in real life?   You'd get this, …

We've been doing this for a year!  Unbelievably!  To celebrate, it's time for one of my favorite podcast tropes: the silly award show, in which we discuss who the best lesbian is, who the best wizard…

There's a girl trapped in a tower, a handsome prince comes to save her, and then everything goes wrong.  Thankfully there's a lesbian moth demon there to help. 

I mean, what is there to say?

It's our 25th episode, and so we're going to discuss an anime that is very important to us, and which is absolutely a foundational text in the wizards vs lesbians idiom. We could fill up multiple pod…

It's another retro episode!  This one to takes us back to gay London in the 1990s, where a queer cab driver named Rainbow is being haunted not only by her variously-kosher gaggle of aunts but by an a…

It's an accidental holiday episode!  The Raven and the Reindeer is a retelling of Hans Christian Andersen's The Snow Queen by T Kingfisher, AKA Ursula Vernon, furry webcomic artist of the old school.…

The rare modern contemporary wizards vs lesbians novel, set here and now.  It's about a young woman of Malaysian Chinese descent who returns to Penang under difficult circumstances and has to deal, a…

It's Foundryside!  This is a book that we think might have been better as an anime, or an action movie, or a miniseries, or a comic - pretty much anything but a very long novel that seems to care mos…

In a slight departure for us we are discussing a romance novel - a romance novella, in fact - a romance novella starring a werebear who works at Vogue.  It's self-identified "chick lit" but it's also…

So, what if the founder of the Ming Dynasty was a lesbian?  That is the question this book dares to ask, and it does a really good job answering it.  A rollicking, morally complex historical fantasy …

A mainline wizards vs lesbians empire narrative, this one, set in fantasy South Asia.  It's a long old read but the characters are good - particularly the colonial governor's wife, a hall of fame emi…

It's our first ever bonus episode!  This series was initially disqualified due to lack of lesbians but our guest, the author P.H. Lee, argues that the lesbianism is subtextual.  Whether that's true o…

Retro episode!  In this one we tackle a forgotten classic of 90s cyberpunk, recommended by a listener.  It's insane and we had a tremendous amount of fun with it.   (Thanks to Isaac's internet son Ol…

This one's a hoot.  A fast, funny, nasty book about interdimensional colonialism and structural inequality which manages to fold all manner of economic, racial and gender dynamics into a story which …

We journey to Fantasy Algeria for today's episode, where the Princess of Fantasy France has arrived to review her colony, only to have her life saved and (in due course) her heart stolen by a captain…

A strange book, this - tremendously awful things happen in it but one leaves with the impression that everything might turn out all right if we all just listen to each other. Comfortable, well-writte…