Episode 238: Girls Good Go Bad For...

The Exquisite Torment of Loving Your Enemy chapters 13-15 This week we discuss the natural law of forum community drama before learning way too much about Osric's anatomy. Not like, size, or shape, or anything like that; more just like what it's up to, how it feels in different kinds of fabric, that sort of thing. It's a truly baffling chapter this week, including a frankly alarming plot thread where... Fairhim maybe forgets what they did? And Osric notices that? And doesn't say anything? There's really no getting around the weird vibe the story gives off here, but we do our best to meet it where it's at and imagine what it might've been trying to do and what a more interesting version might look like. There's also some stuff about zombie soldiers! Finally, we take a trip to Orlando and learn all about the Booktok-inspired "scare zone" that features guys doing awesome kneepad slide tricks on the sidewalk and one (1) fog machine. Content note: there's a decent chunk of episode devoted to picking apart this book's depiction of consent. We keep it light, but if you'd rather not hear any of that skip from the end of the chapter summary to 34:10, where we start talking about the Dreor plot instead