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Hello and welcome to the official Tumblr for Never the Twins Shall Meet, a pop culture podcast hosted by twin sisters separated by distance, but united by nerdiness. If you like sibling banter, fantasy fiction, mythology, or superhero comics, you’ve come to the right podcast!
If you’d like to learn more about the hosts or podcast, you can visit our website or follow us on Twitter.
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Happy New Year! We’re starting 2025 off with our longest episode yet, discussing the two Hollywood blockbuster behemoths of fall 2024: Wicke
Happy New Year! We’re starting 2025 off with our longest episode yet, discussing the two Hollywood blockbuster behemoths of fall 2024: Wicked: Part 1 and Gladiator II. Topics of discussion include stage-to-screen adaptations, lesbian subtext, costume design, the perils of sequels, and a significant amount of complaining about historical inaccuracies. Spoilers abound for both movies, as well as the entirety of Wicked the musical and, randomly, Stranger Things season four.
Content Warnings: discussions of slavery, death, violence, homophobia, ableism, colonialism, and fascism.
Happy holidays! Today we’re returning with a seasonally inappropriate episode on Halloween. In the month of October, we challenged ourselves
Happy holidays! Today we’re returning with a seasonally inappropriate episode on Halloween. In the month of October, we challenged ourselves to have a spooky good time and watch some horror movies. Topics include vampires (so many vampires), the joys and terrors of watching scary movies, and the beautiful but terrifyingly haunted nation of Ireland. (Despite the over-eager opening of this episode, we did not get around to discussing horror literature. Stay tuned!)
This week, we return from our lengthy and unplanned hiatus with the world’s! nichest! episode! That’s right, we’re talking about Among Other
This week, we return from our lengthy and unplanned hiatus with the world’s! nichest! episode! That’s right, we’re talking about Among Others by Jo Walton, Ballad by Maggie Stiefvater, and Tam Lin by Pamela Dean, three fantasy novels set on school campuses that blend faerie folklore and coming-of-age stories. Topics of discussion include how each book puts their own spin on the supernatural and the folkloric, tragically canceled book series, reproductive rights, and where on a college campus you’re most likely to run into a faerie. (And yes, this episode was meant to be released several months ago, as our discussion at the beginning indicates. Oops.)
Content warnings: discussions of sibling death, parental abuse, a car crash, pregnancy and abortion, suicide, and dubious sexual consent
This week is all about the spooky ancestral homes as we talk about And Don’t Look Back by Rebecca Barrow and All the Dead Lie Down by Kyrie
New episode alert!
This week is all about the spooky ancestral homes as we talk about And Don’t Look Back by Rebecca Barrow and All the Dead Lie Down by Kyrie McCauley, two young adult novels about family homes and the dark secrets they hide. Topics include what constitutes a haunted house (does there have to be a literal ghost?), twisty mysteries, and the inherent queerness of the gothic genre.
(Also, as you may have guessed, we did NOT release this episode before traveling internationally despite our optimism about doing so in this recording.)
Content Warnings: Discussions of parental death, animal death, domestic abuse, murder, drowning
reminder that we have a website which has a full list of our episodes and links to several places you can listen!
This week, we’re taking a trip to 1950s Italy as we discuss Patricia Highsmith’s classic thriller The Talented Mr. Ripley and its acclaimed
New episode out now! This week, we’re taking a trip to 1950s Italy as we discuss Patricia Highsmith’s classic thriller The Talented Mr. Ripley and its acclaimed 1999 adaptation directed by Anthony Minghella. Topics of discussion include the novel’s iconic con artist protagonist, the twisty plot, homoerotic subtext, and how Minghella put his own spin on the themes and characters.
Content Warnings: discussions of antisemitism, racism, murder, violence, homophobia, gaslighting, suicide, and classism.
We’re back this week to talk about the latest Hunger Games movie, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes. Topics include our relationship with t
Did you watch The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes and think to yourself "Wow, I really wish I could listen to a two-hour analysis of the film vs. the book that includes a lengthy discussion of Enlightenment philosophy and also for some reason a passionate defense of Chino from West Side Story (2021)?" Then boy do I have the podcast episode for you!
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We’re back this week to talk about the latest Hunger Games movie, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes. Topics include our relationship with t
Did you watch The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes and think to yourself "Wow, I really wish I could listen to a two-hour analysis of the film vs. the book that includes a lengthy discussion of Enlightenment philosophy and also for some reason a passionate defense of Chino from West Side Story (2021)?" Then boy do I have the podcast episode for you!
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our next episode will be on the ballad of songbirds and snakes, so here's a little sneak peek of what's in store
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Happy belated New Year! We return fashionably late with a behemoth of an episode to discuss each of our top 10 books of 2023, a few extra su
Happy belated New Year! We return fashionably late with a behemoth of an episode to discuss each of our top 10 books of 2023, a few extra superlatives (scariest book, anyone?), and some reading goals for 2024. Tune in for fantasy fiction, gothic literature, romance novels, unexpected favorites, and only a little bit of human sacrifice.
Our podcast is back, and we’re in our hater era! In this episode, we tackle the infamously divisive 2023 film Saltburn, a psychological thri
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We’re back for our first episode of the summer! In this one, we take a trip to post-Rome Britain to explore our fascination with a time peri
We’re back for our first episode of the summer! In this one, we take a trip to post-Rome Britain to explore our fascination with a time period that is more myth than history. Going full history nerd, we take a look at three books set in Britain after the withdrawal of Roman imperial powers: Dark Earth by Rebecca Stott, Here Lies Arthur by Philip Reeve, and Sistersong by Lucy Holland. We discuss the possible origin of the King Arthur myth, queer medieval narratives, and the cultural diversity of Britain at this time–as well as wizards, warlords, and murder ballads.
Content Warnings: discussions of war, death, and body horror
#QueerYourYear prompt 15: An essay collection
The Groom Will Keep His Name: And Other Vows I’ve Made About Race, Resistance, and Romance by Matt Ortile is a witty, insightful collection of essays by a gay Filipino immigrant about race, sex, power. I honestly don’t remember how this essay collection ended up on my radar, but I’m glad that it did because I really enjoyed it and found it to be a smart, politically engaged, and entertaining collection.
Born in the Philippines, Matt Ortile moved from Manila to Las Vegas at a young age and immediately found himself an outsider. While Ortile realized he was gay pretty early on, it was his identity as a Filipino immigrant that he spent more time grappling with. Throughout the collection, he unpacks his experiences with assimilation, tokenization, and fetishization that he’s faced as a gay, Asian American man.
What Ortile really excels at in this essay collection is understanding and examining his life within broader world and history. This book really encapsulates “the personal is political” as Ortile explores personal experiences such as dual citizenship or attending a prestigious but predominantly white college, but also manages to examine broader issues like colonization in the Philippines and the model minority myth and explore how his life has been shaped by them.
I tend to read memoirs pretty fast, but I found that reading this collection essay by essay instead of blowing straight through at my usual quick speed was a good change of pace. Ortile’s essays aren’t dense–they’re actually quite conversational and entertaining–but I found that my reading experience was improved by giving myself time to really think over and digest each essay. Ortile is now definitely on my radar as an author to watch and I’ll be keeping an eye out for any of his future works!