On this week's episode, Macey is forcing us to put on our hiking shoes and dragging us out into the forest to look at some "really nice moss." The tentpoles we’re discussing are Princess Mononoke, Silver in the Wood by Emily Tesh, and Ursula K. Le Guin’s story ‘Vaster Than Empires and More Slow.’

What We’re Into Lately

‘a kind of dwell and welcome’ by leupagus
Reputation by Lex Croucher
Seven Days in June by Tia Williams
orange_crushed ‘s Untamed fics (esp Pentimento.)
And What Can We Offer You Tonight by Premee Mohamed
The Necessity of Stars by E. Catherine Tobler
Victoria Goddard’s books:
Greenwing & Dart series (esp Love-in-a-Mist)
Ask A Mortician Youtube Channel

Other Stuff We Mentioned

Ted Lasso
Gundam Wing
Ponyo
Robin Hood legends
Hannibal
The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones
The Jungle Book by Ruyard Kipling
The Secret Life of the Forest by Richard M. Ketchum
The Hidden Life of Trees by by Peter Wohlleben
Pando
QI
Semiosis by Sue Burke
Brain coral
Green Man motif
For the Wolf by Hannah Whitten
Hild by Nicola Griffith
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling
Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik
Into the Woods
Sorrowland by Rivers Solomon
Black Sails
Vikings
Magician by Raymond E. Feist
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
Westworld
Stargate: Atlantis
Star Wars: Return of the Jedi
Black Spot TV show
Avatar
Avatar: The Last Airbender
Pocahontas
Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer
BTS Episode 16: A Bump In the Night, and Not the Sexy Kind
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures by Merlin Sheldrake
Merlin Sheldrake’s YouTube video showing him eating book fungus
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus by Charles C. Mann
Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter by Ben Goldfarb
The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate – Discoveries from a Secret World by Peter Wohlleben
Around the World In 80 Trees by Jonathan Drori
‘Colors of the Wind’ from Pochahontas
The Biggest Estate On Earth: How Aborigines Made Australia by Bill Gammage
Tomorrow, When the War Began by John Marsden

For Next Time

The Jasmine Throne by Tasha Suri

Content Warnings
Racism (in ‘Vaster Than Empires and More Slow’)
Problematic portrayal of an autistic character (in ‘Vaster Than Empires and More Slow’)

Transcription

The transcript for this episode is available here! Thanks to our team of scribes for their great work!