Unwise Girls

The Ship of the Dead, ch. 19 to 24 This week on Unwise Girls we talk about Jane's big travel mistake, a pretty dead-on depiction of York, the psychology of TJ, the troubles with assuming someone's gender, also just The Troubles, triage, Seinfeld, things you probably can't actually blame on Loki, Riordan's signature childhood animal trauma, and highly conspicuous Tolkien references.

Tres Navarre, Book 1: Big Red Tequila while the janes are away (on vacation), the jacquelines will play (by putting up the first episode of our coverage of rick riordan's ORIGINAL series, tres navarre, on the main feed!!!!). please enjoy! here's the original description: well well well. this has been a long time coming. you thought you could just roll on back into the Patreon feed

The Ship of the Dead, ch. 13 to 18 Remember feet? We used to laugh about feet. Nowadays, when feet come up, all we can do is sigh and shake our heads. This week on Unwise Girls we talk about how Jane has sold out, Loki's greatest trick yet, gawping at toes, what place honor and goodness have in worldbuilding, workplace psychopathy, Alex's favorite anime, internalized anti-Irish pre

The Ship of the Dead, ch. 7 to 12 This week on Unwise Girls we pull into the very first stretch of our final adventure and discuss the very first Orange Man Bad moment of Rick's writing career, comforting yourself with structure, pots of mead and/or honey, unfunny hipsters, green-haired Flanderization, TFW, effective safeguards against alcoholism, and super sexy foot stuff. Come ba

The Ship of the Dead, ch. 1 to 6 If you haven't trimmed your toenails yet, this book may yet be your reminder. We've entered the final book of Magnus Chase! This week we discuss our general enthusiasm which is partially propelled by a perfunctory and performative but still pretty pleasant Percy appearance, a trip into Randolph's dirty laundry, the hallmates finally (maybe?) getting

The Hammer of Thor, ch. 51 to 57 (cw for mentions of suicide throughout the episode) And so we've reached the end of The Hammer of Thor! It's been a journey of high highs and medium lows, so how does the book end up in our estimation? This week we talk about the incredible power of pandering, Riordan's patented Big Action Set Piece formula, the different suicide missions our charac

The Hammer of Thor, ch. 46 to 50 This week on Unwise Girls, Jane and Jacqueline are... a bit disgruntled as they discuss Hammer of Thor has swerved away from Son of Neptune and straight into The Lost Hero as character arcs fail to add up to an interesting finale, Rick's prejudices continue to show through in how the villains are presented, Loki deserves an ambiguous amount of pity

The Hammer of Thor, ch. 41 to 45 (content warning: this week we talk about the book's questionable inclusion of a looming threat of sexual violence against a teenage girl, and that's from about 31:50 to 34:30) This week, Jane, Jay, Marn and Andrew return for another episode of Unwise Girls as they talk about these chapters super normal-style, including such topics as incredibly new

The Hammer of Thor, ch. 36 to 40 The Moonshot Patreon carolers have come a-calling once again, and Unwise Girls carries on! This week we discuss chapter dimishment syndrome, Maggie, drastic appearance changes, crass British traditions, Blade III, health and bodily autonomy, future challenges, purposeful wolf obliviousness, and what it really feels like for your godly parent to try

The Hammer of Thor, ch. 31 to 35 This week on Unwise Girls we talk about what's churning around down there Spider-Man style for Heimdall, the great Sam and Alex mixup, when names do and don't have power, a little sitdown with one Mr. Freud, Rick Riordan's new and original joke where a big guy is called Tiny - plus, some frankly wild claims about our fellow Moonshot podcasts! Come b