Around the Long Fire

Apr 14 2025 95 ep. 176

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A weekly quest by Niamh to guide Em and the listeners through the Icelandic sagas fae loves so much, as we all sit in the dark and feel mortal and small.

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Around the Long Fire 95: Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980) part 8 "The Sun Warms the Skin, but Burns It Sometimes Too"

We have more announcements as the next season is finally revealed! It’s … very ambitious. Also, Autumn finished Persona 4, we talk about the silent protagonist, Niamh gets a very cool tattoo, and Em talks about some of the weirdness around meeting new people online. Question Bucket, Season 5 Revealed!, Persona 4, Silent Protagonists, Persona 5, Shenmue (briefly), Niamh gets a t

Around the Long Fire 94: Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980) part 7 "Remember — An Oath Can Be Amputated"

We’re worn out and trying to get the podcast in under two and a half hours from start to finish. We manage it, but barely! We yap a lot about vtubers, Atlus games, and of course good ol’ Franz Biberkopf. Also, we announce an upcoming special episode at the beginning! The main thing is the Metaphor game club comes to a close we both finished the game within a day of each other,

Around the Long Fire 93: Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980) Part 6 "Love Has Its Price"

Kind of split on this episode of Berlin Alexanderplatz, but we manage to have a good time anyway as Autumn and Niamh watch one of Em’s favorite movies and we have a big long chat about Agnes Varda! Also, Autumn is playing Persona 4 now, so we’re talking about the investigation team and how we approach RPGs.Things Discussed: Passenger (yahoo anime rules but here it is on youtube

Around the Long Fire 92: Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980) Part 5 "A Reaper with the Power of Our Lord"

We meet Reinhold and the homosexual quotient goes off the charts. For Berlin Alexanderplatz. Long Fire remains about as gay as usual (read: very). A great time with a fantastic episode this week.Things Discussed: NANA, vtuber corner including shipping thoughts, therapy talk, The Farthest Shore with broader Earthsea talk, Dune, Studio Ghibli, Cathode Ray Dude's telephone video, boom

Around the Long Fire 91: Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980) part 4 "A Reaper with the Power of Our Lord"

Slaughterhouse! We have a great time talking about Franz’ terrible time, and talk about a bunch else besides. Em undergoes SMT madness. Things Discussed: Good news to open the show, listen to And Then An Aeroplane, vtuber corner, Hotaru and Kamiyama's Pondering Pootan, GGP talk including Gundam the Origin Spoilers, Niamh does tai chi, getting mad at Elon on a podcast finally, no

Around the Long Fire 90: Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980) part 3, "A Hammer Blow to the Head Can Injure the Soul"

Berlin Alexanderplatz gets sad, Franz shops for flowers, Niamh and Em attack Autumn for bad game takes, and we all talk some gender. Also, more Metaphor and the end of How Do We Relationship!ALSO NOTE: Autumn’s audio is just going to have radiator hiss until winter breaks. It’s fine. Happy birthday Niamh and Em, Export Audio returns, grilling Autumn about their bad Export takes

Around the Long Fire 89: Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980), part 2, "How Is One to Live if One Doesn’t Want to Die?"

Berlin Alexanderplatz keeps cooking, we chat about a bunch of this and that as this episode it’s quite as full of Things We Finished as last week, and we get back to Metaphor: ReFantazio with a huge update as the plot really begins to pick up and Niamh makes a bunch of predictions that all instantly come true. We’ll talk about it next week.ALSO NOTE: Autumn’s audio is just go

Around the Long Fire 88: Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980), part 1, "The Punishment Begins"

We begin the enormous Fassbinder television miniseries adaptation of Berlin Alexanderplatz and immediately find it much more representative of our feelings about the book and its structures. Also, Fassbinder is just incredibly good at shooting some handsome if unpleasant television. Biberkopf might be suffering, but we are not. ALSO NOTE: Autumn’s audio is just going to have radi

Around the Long Fire 87: Berlin Alexanderplatz (1931)

We begin season 4 with a third host joining for the next few months and some surprising new announcements as we begin to cover the adaptations of classic novel Berlin Alexanderplatz, starting with a movie made only two years after the book was released. After that we get into our usuals, including tons of manga talk this episode! Please enjoy!Things discussed: Ornate Stairwells cor

Around the Long Fire 86: Egil's Saga, ch. 79-END

Egil’s Saga ends quiet and melancholy as we wrap up our season with a shorter episode due to illness. We did rank all the sagas, however, and talk about that, and also there’s a short manga segment to round things out. Sorry for the short one, hopefully things will be back at full energy next week! Things discussed: the ranking of sagas, Magic Knight Rayearth See the show sched