This week on Unwise Girls, we're beginning the end as we discuss the resolution of The Chalice of the Gods' antagonist, our favorite narrative moves in a long time, smart characterization, fun interaction between good friends, the games we hate, the jokes we love to make ourselves laugh at, and so much more!

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This week on Unwise Girls, we discuss boycotting Spotify (https://bdsmovement.net/boycott-spotify) and how we will no longer be publishing episodes on there. I'm not sure anything else we do in this episode really qualifies as..... "discussion," but I still hope that you enjoy.

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Get wet or get even! This week on Unwise Girls we discuss the little details that Riordan can explore now that he isn't tying himself to the railroad tracks of road trip adventure stories, your boss's nepo baby cringeteen, Percy's complete failure to do anything but protect the status quo, the post-2020 doldrums, fun new parent-child dynamics, and Jane's favorite ever television show.

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The Senior Year Adventures stay strong as we enter full nostalgia mode in the Chuck E. Cheese from hell. This week on Unwise Girls we discuss nostalgia trips, sliding timescales but like very literally, healing Sally Jackson's character, child safety locks, the Boomer debacle, and... implied framing devices? In my Percy Jackson book?

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Maybe it isn't so over. Maybe we really can be so fucking back. This week on Unwise Girls, we let optimism back in the room and embrace her as we finally kick back into Percy Jackson mode with The Senior Year Adventures. What will Percy, Annabeth and Grover get up to this time? We'll discuss that and more, so listen on!!!

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Boy, is that a mouthful! And we've got more than a mouthful of stories for you this week, folks. Here at Unwise Girls Inc., we've decided to really clean up our act and cover all the miscellaneous little stories we've left in the cracks along the way. That's right, we're covering about a decade's worth of short stories, choose-your-own-adventures, allegedly ghostwritten projects, and Italian treats! Buon Natale.

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The Court of the Dead is over. Nico di Angelo and his ridiculous little adventures have drawn to a close (for now). So what are we left with in the wake of that? Who will remain? How will we recover? This week on Unwise Girls, we discuss all of the threads that have been left unpulled, every strange character decision, each time Rick Riordan and Mark Oshiro retreat into rote nonsense, and just how perfectly and safely boring this whole thing has been. Sorry! I'm sorry! It's just true!!!!

Come back next week for ... something?

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This week on Unwise Girls we discuss the problem with holding your cacodemon in public, total world-shattering changes to the status quo (and the best way to reverse them within 5 chapters!), Nico dabbling with plurality, short-lived judges, twins of a certain quality, and more!

Come back next week for The Court of the Dead, ch. 37 to 41!

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This week on Unwise Girls we discuss the matter of minions, uncomplicated teenage sexuality, justice for thee but not for me, mothers from the mom factory, the line that won't be crossed within the Riordanverse, some pretty good bits, and how the gods have always been really good and supportive parents who are just trying their best.

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This week on Unwise Girls we discuss conditionally granted acceptance, characters dissolving into ooze, the mist dissolving into ooze, metaphors dissolving into ooze, themes actively working against each other, royal history lessons from Professor Janey, why it's okay when the protagonists do it, and another failed source of nutrition for Tantalus.

Come back next year for The Court of the Dead, ch. 27 to 31!

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This week on Unwise Girls we discuss court-approved courts, mythic-approved mythics, women equipped with big rods and sacks, demons and their special little travel methods, metaphors as broadly useful as rusty multi-tools, lawyersonas, and more!

Come back next year for The Court of the Dead, ch. 22 to 26!

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Ehhh? Unwise Girls? Why, that podcast hasn't released an episode since last year...! But wait, speak up, I can't hear you! Because of my aging ears! Because we've reached five whole years of Unwise Girls and that's just enough time for my ears to have aged!!!! In our glorious 2026 return we discuss the double trap of respectability as a theme, upgrading communication methods, bigotry retracted too early, golden retriever nothings, wholesome polycule assumptions, Italian Christmas witches, and Ranked Competitive Breast Growth. Happy new year!!!

Come back next year for The Court of the Dead, ch. 17 to 22!

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This week on Unwise Girls we discuss the redemption of Lavinia, Mythic panic, how totally funny farts are, the continuous microwaving of Mr. D., an attempted CinemaSins, Survivor, becoming a productive member of normal society, and

Come back next year for The Court of the Dead, ch. 12 to 16!

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So, we're now the most current we've ever been with the Rick Riordan books. Crazy! This week, we have a very measured discussion about The Court of the Dead. You may have noticed a recent trend of us "yelling" or "getting steaming mad" about these fun little novels - but no longer. Now, we are fair. We are impartial. We do not "blow our tops" when our favorite character gets flattened into a fluff pancake. We do not "punch the wall" when Riordan and Oshiro make a clumsy foray into racism metaphor. We have learned to just sit back and observe. Not everything needs a reaction.

Come back next week for The Court of the Dead, ch. 7 to 11

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So, we're nearing the end of The Sun and the Star. How about that? The book has had its ups and its downs, but at the end of the day, we're all just here to have fun, folks. Even if those lows are.... low. Really low. And it pisses us off a lot and we get mad and say swear words. Still! Fun fun fun.

Come back next week for The Sun and the Star, ch. 47 to 51!

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People have been saying it couldn't be done, but we did it: we did a podcast wrong.

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hi everyone! with Jacqueline at Ground Control this weekend (which you should totally watch at https://www.twitch.tv/moonshotnetwork)!, and with us coming up the final three episodes of Revolutionary Girl Utena, we thought we'd put the first episode of our coverage out publicly so everyone can get a taste of the sweet sweet nectar you could be sipping if you joined our patreon perhaps......... hope you enjoy!

(cw: discussion of domestic violence and racism) the bonus show is back! and this time, we've decided to cover a piece of media that isn't about the bleak worlds left in the wake of the miserable failure of leftist revolutionary movements, which is ironic because this is also the only thing we've covered with "revolution" in the name. it's Revolutionary Girl Utena! join us as we discuss this hugely influential show's impact on animation, some banging music and a thick, dreamlike atmosphere, and also some of the worst and weirdest creepy anime boys every committed to the screen! our theme is "Open Galaxy" by Sir_NutS on OCRemix! https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR03963

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Happy Halloween - it's an Unwise Girls treat! In an episode that totally wasn't recorded over the course of two days, we discuss Gorgyra's final message, trying hard in your relationships and that meaning you're doing it wrong, making out with your opposite, manias, pining for Piper, the slipperiest timeline of all, and the strange contradictions that come up when you have to express all your characters' relationships through combat.

Come back next week for The Sun and the Star, ch. 35 to 40!

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This week on Unwise Girls, we have to reckon with what might be the fundamental question of this whole book: what balance can the authors find between the typical fantasy road trip of a Riordanverse novel and the YA supernatural romance that lies at the heart of the story? It's something we'll have to contend with alongside superhero moments, lack of consequence, rivers that suck, and many other important topics of that sort of nature.

Come back next week for The Sun and the Star, ch. 29 to 34!

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This week on Unwise Girls, we are truly red and steaming! We touch on the ways Riordan and Oshiro try and have it both ways with the Trogs, the sort of reverse-Guess Who's Coming To Dinner scenarios they've set up, strangely direct allegories for homophobia and transphobia, in-universe queer icons, fujoing out so hard you give away a boat, bisexuality, and the future streamers of the world.

Come back next week for The Sun and the Star, ch. 23 to 28!

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This week on Unwise Girls, we discuss assuming pronouns, Tartarus troubles, lost chapters being recovered, Nemeses, the haunting of the narrative by Gaea, Care Bears, the civilized Trog, and more!

Come back next week for The Sun and the Star, ch. 17 to 22!

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Look behind you - a new episode of Unwise Girls is out! Now you can continue on your journey and... wait a second, where's the episode? When I looked forward, it just disappeared, but I could've sworn it was in my podcatcher... did you see it, listener? No? You've never even heard of Unwise Girls? No, don't tell me... nobody's ever even listened to this show... and our analysis isn't successfully insightful?! It can't be true! No! We're totally insightful - this week we even discuss the ways Mark Oshiro's contributions have totally shifted both how dialogue functions in Riordan's works and how perspective is used chapter-to-chapter! Is that not good enough for you...? What about Subway Surfers? Oh, that caught your attention. Huh. Well, just watch the slime video, play Subway Surfers, and zone out with the episode, then.

Come back next week for The Sun and the Star, ch. 11 to 16!

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Welcome back to Unwise Girls - and welcome for the first time to The Nico di Angelo Adventures! That's right, we've read every single series that had published before Unwise Girls itself started. Now, all that's left is a bunch of stuff that happened after... including this book, co-written by Rick Riordan and Mark Oshiro! In this episode we discuss the pain of being outed, time limit alleviation, Star Wars boyfriends, centaur boyfriends, problematic Titan behavior, and just how grateful we are to not be reading another copy-and-paste Riordan story.

Come back next week for The Sun and the Star, ch. 6 to 10!

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She's back, she's back, and most importantly, HE'S back!!! That's right, folks, the Rick Riordan content you've been gagging for is BACK and better than ever. So get right up close and cozy this week as we discuss the beginning of The Tower of Nero, how Rick is using this book's plot as a course-correction to the rest of the series, sexual self-inserts, Apollo's character growth (less racist), and the classic game of "Who's That Person From A Group Devastated By The Romans?"

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This week on Unwise Girls, we are... back to Rick Riordan? Wait, isn't it a week early? Ah, wait, no, I see - it's Rick Riordan Presents! We decided to try out a little sampler platter of what the Riordan-led book imprint featuring various authors telling stories of the mythologies of their own culture has to offer, and we found out that it's a lot... a lot! We discuss successful genre departures, annoying dialogue, the difficulties of bringing stories from preexisting novels into the short story format, Gum Baby, and... what's this... a new exciting work by Rick Riordan? No, no, that can't be right.

Come back next week for The Tower of Nero, ch. 1 to 5!

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One! Two! ... One! Two! ... One! ... One! Two! Three!!! Wahoo, yippee, Unwise Girls got the pin! And now that we've won podcasting gold, we're ready to talk about a little bit of professional wrestling. In this sort of rambly and off-kilter episode of Unwise Girls, we discuss our experiences going to indie wrestling shows, as well as talking about the recent Grand Slam Mexico event produced by All Elite Wrestling and Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre. We get into our histories with wrestling, how it can be alienating to a new viewer, and our opinions on if the skinny guy or the big guy should win.

Come back next week for The Cursed Carnival and Other Calamities: New Stories About Mythic Heroes.

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Lord, forgive us, for we are podcasters. This week, Jane and Jacqueline don their tunics, veils, wimples, scapulars and habits in order to properly talk about the first chapter of Xeecee's instant-classic visual novel Misericorde. We try and cover at least some of the breadth of what this massively impressive game gives us in its first part, and in doing we discuss historical bishops, ahistorical card games, freaks full of black bile, women who are just autistic, Laura Palmers, put-upon prioresses, gay people, and Mabel. Thanks, God!

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Wham! Bam! Kapow! This week on Unwise Girls, we've donned our masks, capes, and skintight bodysuits in order to discuss Tom Taylor and Bruno Redondo et al.'s acclaimed run on Nightwing. What does a boy with the most perfect and pure heart on all of Prime Earth do when all of the money in the world lands in his hands? We'll have to see! Listen to us discuss our preferred configuration of Bat-relationships, epic doggos and therapyspeak, nature-versus-nurture-but-specifically-when-it-comes-to-dudes-who-willingly-call-themselves-Heartless, and much more! It's a lengthy series, so we aren't able to cover everything, but... please enjoy!!!!

Come back next week for Misericorde: Volume One!

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Another journey of unwise girls Planned, sketched, set out into the forest Of platformed pines that drop pods as spring continues. What, then? What path do we clear for empire? How lives interpretation in the legacy of footfall? And for how long will the winter ice's final vestige remain? Eventually, it ceases to matter - Our audio quality too will shatter.

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It feels just like yesterday that we were talking about a Rick Riordan book and celebrating our 100th episode. Now, we're not talking about a Rick Riordan book and not celebrating our 100th episode! Things change so quickly! This week, we decided to bravely not discuss an interesting media property and instead share a little - and I do mean a little - about ourselves. Ever curious what inspired us to make Unwise Girls? What we do in our free time? Social security number? Our favorite pizza toppings? Other podcasts we enjoy? Never-recorded podcast ideas? Well, listen on, and thank you so much for supporting us this whole way.

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This week on Unwise Girls, we begin our Spring Tolerance Break with a story that's completely different than anything we've done before! This time, we check out a hit work by an author who's taking mythical stories of the past and reinterpreting them through a more modern lens in order to speak to the questions of the day and - ah, fuck, we fucked it up immediately didn't we.

Come back next week for a special introduction!

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(sorry y'all no new episode this week! please enjoy the beginning of our coverage of utena instead! if you like it and want to hear more, go to patreon.com/unwisegirls !!)

(cw: discussion of domestic violence and racism)

the bonus show is back! and this time, we've decided to cover a piece of media that isn't about the bleak worlds left in the wake of the miserable failure of leftist revolutionary movements, which is ironic because this is also the only thing we've covered with "revolution" in the name. it's Revolutionary Girl Utena! join us as we discuss this hugely influential show's impact on animation, some banging music and a thick, dreamlike atmosphere, and also some of the worst and weirdest creepy anime boys every committed to the screen!

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(as we wrap up another jane vacation era, we bring back the grand ol one-time tradition of bringing our tres navarre episodes onto the main feed! subscribe to the patreon at the 3 dollar tier or above to hear our thoughts on more - currently up to book 4 - as well as a ton of other stuff! okay here's jane's episode description:)

it's a big episode for us! Nectar of the Pods hits triple digits, and we dig into the second book in Rick Riordan's Tres Navarre detective series! we dig into yet more of the surprising amount of DNA these gritty PI novels share with Rick's kid-friendly fantasy books, some absolutely insane depictions of women, the usual low-level hum of Riordan brand racism, and a whole lot more! that's all pretty intense though, so why don't we unwind a little first? settle in for a bedtime story... >:3

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It's funny, isn't it? For a book series we enjoyed so much to close on such a bittersweet note. From high beginnings to tragically low endings, Magnus Chase was a hell of a ride... so let's talk about it! We give out awards to our favorite (and least favorite) bits of the series, discuss how our predictions for the series panned up (and re-up the ones we made for Trials of Apollo), rank the books (it isn't hard!), and really let all of our pent up feelings out! Wait... no... chaos is overtaking our equipment! The show is collapsing into Ginnungagap! Oh nooo!!! [dies..]

Come back next week for The Hidden Oracle, ch. 1 to 6!

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This week on Unwise Girls, we read the worst thing we've ever read.

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This week on Unwise Girls, Magnus Chase comes to a close(?) as we finish the last(?) book in the series and discuss why it's actually bad that Magnus likes his friends, why we're mad at him for building a shelter, unfiltered levels of Seething About The Election as have rarely been seen in a Riordan book previous, repeating the mistakes of The Heroes of Olympus, forgoing character development in favor of the surface level, toothless Asgardians, gay chicken, and also actual gay kissing. Yay!

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This week on Unwise Girls, we start off strong with a lot of enthusia - wait, Jane, no, take your hand off the steering wheel! You're driving us straight off a cliff!! Instead of mindless gushing, we have to face questions about if Magnus's character really holds up in time for the climax, Avatar finale problems, purposefully dorky description, the state of Halfborn's virginity, mythical castles and the boring giants that live in them, the God crystal, a new age of Algnus, a couple of good bits, and what found family ACTUALLY gets you. Also, *only if you do a couple bad things a few thousand years ago.

Come back next week for The Ship of the Dead, ch. 43 to 48!

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This week on Unwise Girls, the brainworms that drive us toward toxic yuri have infected us; unfortunately, they also make us go on incredibly long tangents about characters we wish were in the book instead of the hallmates. We also discuss breaking Irish stereotypes, whittling characters down to the most base possible gender archetypes, moms who know best, the sweet spot of Jack's comedy, Riordan stepping once more into writing about slavery weirdly, and what might lie inside his secret hard drive.

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This week on Unwise Girls we talk about the unfortunately platonic-seeming relationship between Hearthstone and Blitzen, the confusing trajectory of gay(?) anti-Irish(?) misogynist (that one's not in question) Halfborn Gunderson, pawns of prophecy, the best things to do while pissing, the emotion of inheritance, and the apparently inherent evil of helping people for the wrong reasons.

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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.

Come back next week for The Ship of the Dead, ch. 25 to 30!

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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 and everything would be like it was?

well you're... mostly right. it's still two dumbasses with dubious critical faculties talking about Things We Noticed, but this time it's for a whole-ass book! specifically, Big Red Tequila, Rick Riordan's debut novel from 1997, a noir-style PI story that shares a surprising amount of DNA with the Percy Jackson books. marvel as we talk about Rick Riordan's vivid descriptions of his hometown of San Antonio! groan in tandem with us as we address the weird racist shit in this book! cheer as we come out the other end thinking that despite some flaws, this is pretty good!

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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 prejudice, expanding your worldviews, and transphobicparents.mp4.

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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.

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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 to become characters, Jane's life converging with the book, cisphobia, the disappearance of the valkyries, and a return of our least favorite Cover Corner special feature: Oops, There's Whitewashing!

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(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 characters have ended up on, the decreased relevance of homelessness to the overall story and its themes, an actually awesome new god, awkwardsauce, and the genuine surprise and excitement we're feeling as we look forward to the next book while also looking ahead to the series that ran simultaneous to this - The Trials of Apollo! How will all of this come together in the final book of Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard? If you'd like to find out with us, just make sure that you...

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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 for being in eternal torture prison, old guy references occur with a bit too much aplomb, and Thor - as always - farts... but this time on film!

Come back next week for The Hammer of Thor, ch. 51 to 57!

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(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 hobbies, the equilibrium of Rick Riordan swinging between mild transphobia and mild allyship, The Who, Jane's favorite celebrity, how we would incorporate Tres Navarre into the Camp Half-Blood Chronicles, pseudo-Sapphic HOA meetings in Asgard, and how Kronos can still return.

Come back next week for The Hammer of Thor, ch. 46 to 50!

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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 and get involved in your life.

Come back next week for The Hammer of Thor, ch. 41 to 45!

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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 back next week for The Hammer of Thor, ch. 36 to 40!

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I feel I should clarify up front that this is not, in fact, our first ever live episode. The title might be confusing. However, it is our first episode on these five chapters from the second Magnus Chase book! We finish up our slow and steady trek through Alfheim with some discussion on the richest crustpunk, a tentative pause to Hearth and Blitz's story, the rhetorical Annabeth, the respect of the wilds, and just how useful it is to try and speedrun your fiance's brainmelting.

Come back next week for The Hammer of Thor, ch. 31 to 35!

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Time to shred some wicked pipe! This week on Unwise Girls, we're bringing a brand new energy in as we enter the brand new world of Alfheim. We discuss elf physics, language across the World Tree, the possibility of Riordan's view on cops shifting over the years, the inescapable trap of being considered a second-class citizen, well-pissing and stone-playing, what the fuck an alderman is, Magnus's new sleeping regimen, solid gender punishments, and the real meaning of Thor the thunderer.

Come back next week for The Hammer of Thor, ch. 26 to 30!

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This week on Unwise Girls, we've found the cure for Rick Riordan's Second Book Sucks Ass Syndrome! Let's turn up the heat as we talk about making concessions to combat, (not) giving family a chance, Hearth getting to be a character with complex emotions, Kylo Ren, self-censorship, bottom-of-the-shelf miracles, why Loki as a cackling villain is actually starting to really work for us, the nature of faith and divinity, and the essential comedy of the mortal perspective.

Come back next week for The Hammer of Thor, ch. 21 to 25!

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listen to the first episode of our iron blooded orphans coverage instead! if you like it, you can find the full season 1 on patreon RIGHT NOW!!! here's the old episode description:

cw: even by Gundam standards, Iron-Blooded Orphans is pretty grim! we're going to be discussing child soldiers, war crimes, dehumanisation, fascism, colonialism, suicide, and PTSD)

it's a new era for Nectar of the Pods, as today we start our coverage of Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans by watching the first three episodes! we talk about our new draft of horribly traumatised child soldiers, draw some interesting parallels between this show and the 1979 anime, attempt to graft this divisive and financially middling show onto the side of the much more successful Witch From Mercury, talk about wow cool robot, how war is bad, and some bizarre dubbing decisions!

we also chat shit about baking, Food Wars, and shitty One Piece crossovers!

This week on Unwise Girls, we discuss some serious historical gender diagrams, tie up some loose ends from the first book, weirdly true-to-life transphobia, reconciling religion in the reality of Rick Riordan, totalizing Jack exhaustion, the great funnel of history, and a confirmation of the world's greatest love story.

Come back next week for The Hammer of Thor, ch. 16 to 20!

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This week on Unwise Girls, we're kind of stumped. Rick Riordan... provided us with free material for the Not Cishet segment? Well, let's not look a gift horse in the mouth! This week we discuss the introduction of our new favorite character Alex Fierro, a new set of celebrity einherji, Magnus's clunky writing style, what happens behind Loki and Randolph's closed door, the hubris of giving your kid a rune, and an extended bit about Chiron that Jacqueline questionably decided to leave in.

Come back next week for The Hammer of Thor, ch. 11 to 15!

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We're finally back to books, hooray! And it's good!! This week on Unwise Girls we discuss returning to the edge, low-level superhero shenanigans, sword characterization, goat-killer theories, a total reframing of how we think about this book (and, surprisingly, Kane Chronicles?), discomfort with re-entering a society that previously abandoned you, mourning a guy that never existed, Valhalla's doctoral programs, giving the fingers, some sort of cheetah with gender, and the glorious return of the Cover Comparison Corner - will we finally judge one of the original American covers as Not Up To Snuff?? Tune in to find out!

Come back next week for The Hammer of Thor, ch. 6 to 10!

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Ask not what Disney can do for you, but what you can do for Disney. This week on Unwise Girls, Audrey joins us once again as we finally finish the Percy Jackson TV show's first season. We talk about the good, the bad, and the profoundly unsatisfying as we go over action that rules versus action that sucks, good sets lost in a sea of visual nothingness, a couple of genuinely incredible adaptation choices that we'd have even liked to have seen in the book itself, and the smooth, shiny feeling of Consuming Product. Play us off, Mr. Stephens...

Come back next week for The Hammer of Thor, ch. 1 to 5!

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This week on Unwise Girls, we're a bit lost in this here hotel and casino... in fact, I can't even remember why we came into this darn place! Oh well, I guess while we're here we can indulge in some sick VR titles such as "Edging Ares," "Parking Garage Simulator," "Chair of Hephaestus," and world-famous "The Satyr That Got Old." We can also check out the table where Lin-Manuel Miranda sits all day! I hear if you sit there long enough he'll bite his lip to get you to go away. Plus, there's a corner you can sit in to discuss adaptational decisions and structural writing choices if that's what tickles your fancy, I guess. Hopefully we can find our way out before next week's finale!

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This week on Unwise Girls, we're joined by our very special guest for this run of the TV show - Moonshot's own Audrey! Episodes 3 and 4 are full of highs and lows as we grapple with a slew of incredibly compelling themes being presented in highly compelling monologues... that seem to be undercut by the very fact of the show's Percy Jackson-ness. How far away from Riordan's original work will the show really be willing to go, and will that be far enough to really bring these ideas home? Plus, what's up with that slightly smaller clone of Walker Scobell who the strange woman is trying to drown?? All this and more as we continue to explore these depths! #KeepJaneSneezin

Come back next week for Percy Jackson and the Olympians, S1E5 to S1E6!

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Three years ago, the Unwise Girls began their journey through The Lightning Thief. This week, we go back to the very beginning as we start our month-long coverage of the brand new first season of Percy Jackson and the Olympians. After a brief discussion on Riordan's lackluster statement on the continued colonization and genocide of Palestinians by Israel, we discuss what changes are necessary for adapting a book into a TV show, our initial impressions of the cast, the Disneyfication of all media, and about a bajillion other ridiculous little things too - it's a long one, folks, so sit back and earn some kleos!

Come back next week for Percy Jackson and the Olympians, S1E3 to S1E4!

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This week on Unwise Girls, we're officially putting a bow on The Sword of Summer! We discuss our first ever epilogue and how it seems to be setting up the next book's major players (while kicking a bit of sand in the face of our hopes for a really complex Asgardian pantheon), evil homoerotic thralls and masters, the dawning of the Trump era, some major confusion in the final hour about how basic urban fantasy settings work, looking forward to what's ahead and reflecting on where we came from, tying together the themes of all the Camp Half-Blood universe, corny signoffs, and making something really unique out of some of the most recognizable characters and stories in the world.

Come back after a week break in the new year for the beginning of the Percy Jackson and the Olympians TV series!

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This week on Unwise Girls, we must make peace with the fact that sometimes things that are good... are worse. After revealing our plans for covering the Percy Jackson TV show, we discuss overly-meta chapter titles, Magnus coming into his own as a healer just in time to embrace a new understanding of his own family, death beyond ideology, success coming in threes, our Frey fancast, Odin's manipulations - and the creeping sense of worldbuilding we enjoy getting backed away from upon his arrival.

Come back next week for The Sword of Summer, ch. 71 to Epilogue!

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This week on Unwise Girls, we're nearing the end!!! What's gonna happen? Well, before we find out, we've gotta start our final battle with Bad Big Fridging Wolf himself. This week we talk about Sam as Spider-Man, timeskip upgrades, how well done Sword of Summer is as "just another good version of The Lightning Thief," our creeping sense that this book's quality can't last forever, invisible friends, and why so many of our good young sailing men seem to be struck by unnatural urges.

Come back next week for The Sword of Summer, ch. 65 to 70!

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As one glorious, awful battle does not a victory secure in the grand tapestry of war, so too does this glorious, awful episode of our podcast not secure our place in the world of podcasts. And yet, we persist! This week on Unwise Girls we talk about Sam's need to prove herself to a system that hates her, Gunilla's racism backstory, Jackass stunts, the pace of this ending, fairy tale rules lawyering, how systems of law are designed to exploit and kill with a veneer of politeness and security, Jane's incredibly intricate understanding of the relationship between Loki and Thor, ahistorical catch phrases, taking a critical eye toward warfare, and the inescapable insignificance of heroism.

Come back next week for The Sword of Summer, ch. 59 to 64!

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This week on Unwise Girls ... are you ready to try and fit themes in a goat? How many can YOU fit in there? My record is seven. We talk about the subdued charm and cruelty of Thor, the illusion of Doctor Who, Arrow lore, Giant piss drafts, toeing the line on exploitation, getting hollowed out, Ahmad ibn Fadlan, how Sam tries to excel within traditional societal structures, the lowering (yay!) stakes of Ragnarok, how the Norse Gods' predestined linear history contrasts with repeating cycles, and distinguishing the systems we call 'magic'.

Come back next week for The Sword of Summer, ch. 53 to 58!

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Oops, Extra Life hit hard! Still and despite everything, this week on Unwise Girls we talk about comedic old guys and weirdly young guys, getting handed everything on a silver platter, some confusion around biological parentage, an incredible series of interferences and the hilarious event that contains them, paradox ingredients, our new old companion Jack, the swear force, and Loki's incredibly genuine appeal.

Come back next week for The Sword of Summer, ch. 47 to 52!

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This week on Unwise Girls we talk about Rick Riordan's lush locations, the differing ways one can be pushed into homelessness, connections to Percy Jackson that work and those that don't, the real emotional stakes Magnus attaches to family, the struggle of Utgard-Loki, ducklings, making an XD random squirrel properly scary, the contradictory characterization of Natalie Chase, living in your own deathbed, one of Rick's rare forays into writing about sexuality, need, and the world's yuckiest mug.

Come back next week for The Sword of Summer, ch. 41 to 46!

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(cw: discussion of incest)

After our sick week, we've returned with the first real portion of this book's main adventure! This week on Unwise Girls we talk about Magnus filtering the Norse pantheon through his own worldview, how one copes with existential knowledge, the solidarity of the food court, exploring both the real world and the fantastical, the American ideal, Valkyrie's double lives, The Sniler, how easy it is to become a pilot, Jacqueline's greatest mid-point pivot yet, the violence of a promise, getting filled with a great emotion, filling voids with punches, and a Not Cishet segment that can only be described as the equivalent of two Olympic runners sprinting to the end of the track and then tripping and falling over their own asses at the very tail end of the race.

Come back next week for The Sword of Summer, ch. 35 to 40!

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Hey, isn't this a bit like YuYu Hakusho? Like, with Yusuke, and seeing his own dead body and stuff... Well, here's hoping Magnus gets the Spirit Gun! This week on Unwise Girls, we discuss hallmates who immediately become ride or die for each other, Alf Sign Language and the surprisingly well-realized worldbuilding of Alfheim, what never having a moment away from battle does to your brain, Great Fire lore, the right way to do a cameo, character trait morality math, pantheons that do fuck-all, the increasing number of dimensions involved in the mist, and a clearer idea of where exactly Sam's story is headed.

Come back next week for The Sword of Summer, ch. 29 to 34!

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This week on Unwise Girls, we're a bit lower energy but no less enthusiastic for this book than we have been! This week we discuss our surprisingly optimistic hopes for what's seeming to be a pretty traditional Riordan adventure, one-to-one parallels with Lightning Thief, embracing battle royale ridiculousness, Sun Tzu's advice for Ragnarok, Magnus's critical position toward militarism, gaps in video game culture, Loki's motivations and proclivities, the grey areas of prophecy, the mystery of Gunilla, Dark Elfs in fantasy, rogue einherjar, and the funny IKEA shark.

Come back next week for The Sword of Summer, ch. 23 to 28!

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(cw for discussion of suicide and sexual assault)

This week on Unwise Girls, we take a deeper look into the life and troubles of a Valkyrie, our general hopes for Loki, how Magnus's perspective on Norse myth is limited, Valhalla as prison, the specter of alcohol, how Rick Riordan characterizes people and places through food, sustainable vegan beasts, the rabbit hole of U.S. mythology, Christofascism, a special surprise guest for our prophecy prediction corner, scary muscle puberty, a surprising use for Sumarbrander, and predestination that's set up to be subverted - unless it's the destiny of a land to be colonized, of course! Then it's fine.

Come back next week for The Sword of Summer, ch. 19 to 22!

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This week on Unwise Girls, we discuss a new proposal for Rick Riordan ghostwriter theory, how Magnus's narrative voice really distinguishes him from past protagonists (and where we think that comes from in the character's history), nerve damage, organ damage, asthma damage, damage to the historical preservation of religious practices and beliefs due to Christianization, 2010s Tumblr nerdiness, free-spirited bisexual moms in your area, The Gospel of Loki, Hotel Valhalla, locked doors, Thomas Jefferson, Jr., and double lives. Then Jane and Jacqueline died. The end.

Come back next week for The Sword of Summer, ch. 13 to 18!

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Set your longships ablaze, we're going a-viking! This week we're starting The Sword of Summer, the first book in Rick Riordan's Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard trilogy. After reading some concurrent blog posts where we discover Rick's musical proclivities (and a quick questioning of this book's dedication) we jump right into this new series with a spring in our step. We discuss how death hangs over the opening of this novel, Riordan pivoting to a more nuanced view on homelessness, expert Annabeth cameos, Magnus's quirky dead mom and mystery Norse dad and vampire ninja dad and anime mom dad, Massholes, immersive sim brownstones, Protestant conspiracy thinking, mortals finding themselves in the crossfire, our predictions for how the arc of this story will progress based on these opening chapters, and MCU mentions. Also, a giant-sized cover corner!

Come back next week for The Sword of Summer, ch. 7 to 12!

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After over a year of flying along with these funny kids on their silly dragon boat, Jane and Jacqueline have finally come to the end of their journey with the Heroes of Olympus! In this retrospective, in what may be our longest episode yet, we hand out a whole slew of awards, really tear into the themes, and try to figure out exactly why we've come away from this series with the impression we did of its quality. Along the way we also rank every book in the series, finally actually talk about our own end-of-season beads, and peer far into the future of the Riordan family line. We also take a very special look at The Blood of Olympus's alternate ending, which seemingly hasn't been discussed anywhere else at all!

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Prophecy has long foretold that when the Earth falls and fire explodes in the sky... basically nothing will change and all the teens will get to smooch? Man, those Fates sure don't write 'em like they used to. On this truly adequate ending of both The Blood of Olympus and the series as a whole, we discuss all the deferring to Trials of Apollo that Rick is doing, Nico's drive-by coming out, rejection traditions, Octavian's funny flight, the cabin decoration squad, the dissolution of Gaia as a character, entire relationships being hastily packed into one conversation, supposedly new first kisses, the precariously hanging icicle of revenge, and earning your exit.

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In the penultimate episode of our coverage of The Blood of Olympus, we find ourselves at odds once again. Passivity versus activity! Appeasement versus justice! Protecting the world against climate change versus... well, I guess climate change! This week, we talk about Zeus and Jason's relationship, Jacqueline's cry counter, post-battle friskiness, conflicts being born and then promptly tossed in the dumpster out back, the recurring abused villainess, stakes that were raised and then set at that level forever, Hazel getting fully ghosted by the book, confusing prophecy mechanics, demigod language magic, existential threats to humanity gaining a health bar, sub-orbital spikes, and phalanx. Good ol' phalanx...

Come back next week for The Blood of Olympus, ch. 53 to 58!

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The Unwise Girls have finally reached Camp Half-Blood, only to find that it's surrounded by... fantasy racism? Well, that's not great, but with the power of one special boy with one specially completed character arc, we should be able to cut through to a peaceful conclusion! This week, we talk about Will Solace (who we've always known and didn't just get unlocked), early stage handholding, viewing isolation from an outside perspective, Riordan's favorite relationship dynamic, a slightly better Metal Gear level, a lack of legacies, onager drone strikes, lions led by donkeys, Camp Jupiter riot squads, the problem with trying to make monsters both an underclass and also totally inhuman evil, and action scenes getting interrupted before they can inevitably disappoint us.

Come back next week for The Blood of Olympus, ch. 49 to 52!

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Now that Jacqueline's trapped in a dank, dark basement, she's had plenty of time to read the chapters and contend with one simple idea: it may just be the mold and the chill, but is The Blood of Olympus ... not so good? This week, we talk about the reduced impact of multiple title drops, Piper doing Solid Snake stuff, the glue that holds together Percy and Annabeth, the Chase family Thanksgiving, knock-on effects of not spending enough time at camp, total destruction ideology, worse Prometheus, scary pagan rituals, and zombees.

Come back next week for The Blood of Olympus, ch. 45 to 48!

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(cw for descriptions of animal injury and a brief mention of sexual assault)

Wow, it's Unwise Girls, after all this time! Remember how we're really into Reyna as a character now? Well, that's still true, but you have to wonder just how much the book itself cares about devoting the time for her to have a character arc that can actually end satisfyingly. Besides that, we also discuss mysterious Nico level-ups, dubious horse friendships, our real main character Blackjack, keeping the educational element in mind, domesticated centaurs, a brief detour into pigeons, baseball bat origins, the long shadow of Son of Neptune that still hangs over us, the proverbial ticking clock becoming not-so-proverbial, tattoo teens, the loose and uncertain theming of the series so far, and a potential comedy duo for the next series!

Come back next week for The Blood of Olympus, ch. 41 to 44!

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This week on Unwise Girls, we immediately solve the greatest mystery in the whole of Heroes of Olympus! Then we discuss sad twin islands, the duel between Leo and Jason about who gets to die tragically at the end, a welcome return to substantial inter-god power plays, rare sincerity, psychological statue torture, leech facts, Chiron's secret collection, and all of our cast's favorite video games.

Come back next week for The Blood of Olympus, ch. 37 to 40!

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This week on Unwise Girls, we talk about the different degrees of deadly, pontifex progression, a whole slew of death flags we might have forgotten about, a big title drop, the scariest boy you've ever seen, self-sabotage, the bad mental illnesses, a surprising connection between Frank and Reyna, the secret origins of Nico's crush, the world's easiest prophecy prediction corner, dads who at least fucking try, and the wild success of the series' most unlikely trio.

Come back next week for The Blood of Olympus, ch. 33 to 36!

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Hey hey hey, it's Unwise Girls proper once more! This week, we start off with some mic teasing before discussing Percy's chronic dislike of the Graces, myths that aren't true, what it means when gods are put in the same position as demigods, Hades bias, fedora giants, Riordan problematizing his previous characterization work, the ghosts of trauma's past, and matching tattoos.

Come back next week for The Blood of Olympus, ch. 27 to 32!

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Oops, we started the episode by talking about pictures of Rick Riordan for a while. Well, there's other podcasts out there I suppose! But if you wanna stick with this one, this week we discuss Nico the Rock, the Platonic gender binary, D-list all stars, the real reason Coach Hedge is like that, ocean-hopping, subversions of typical hero-villain dynamics around destiny, giant titty armor, character arcs resolving through anticlimax, good bulk, cow hatred, and one of the coolest foes this series has offered yet.

Come back next week for The Blood of Olympus, ch. 21 to 26!

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This week on Unwise Girls, we talk about how often the gods are reduced to jokes instead of threats, favorite Doctors, the difference between how Percy and Leo use humor as a defense mechanism, realistic lingering feelings, Clarisse being the smartest one in the room, Octavian's surprise ally, jealousy and possessiveness, brochure business, constellation battles, our alpha male pivot, Nico's sense of self, and Hades getting to have the first actual godly character development!

Come back next week for The Blood of Olympus, ch. 15 to 20!

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Ough. This week on Unwise Girls, our brains are... a bit fuzzy, but we're still trying to keep the faith up. We discuss Reyna's first showing as a perspective character being pretty disappointing, a glimpse into the TV show's writer's room, the everlasting fawn racism, the biggest threat to Camp Jupiter yet, how the format chafes against introducing new main characters at this point in the series, the lack of #SiblingMoments between Nico and Hazel, women moms, and some important questions for us to keep in mind about the morality of these books going forward.

Come back next week for The Blood of Olympus, ch. 9 to 14!

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(sorry for microphone quality again folks. podcasting machine broke)

Eh? I can't hear you, sonny, speak up! This week on Unwise Girls, we've finally advanced in age enough to talk about The Blood of Olympus, the final book in the Heroes of Olympus series. We discuss How I Met Your Mother, the looming threat of death, fucking beds, old man smell, fawnfights, a bunch of weirdness around Annabeth and Piper, crazy moms, reframing Jason's character arc, and our earliest memories.

Come back next week for The Blood of Olympus, ch. 5 to 8!

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Through the darkness of the House of Hades and Tartarus far below we finally emerge, and we're faced with the light at the end of the tunnel! As we finally shut this book for good, we talk about the lack of resolution for Nico's story and his troubled relationship with Percy, friendship hyperfixation, gem railguns, Clytius serving a Worf role against the crew, triple deities, the difficulties of working with a misogynistic mythology, Hecate's surprisingly minimal appearances, an abundance of swords, reunion brohugs, the sad fate of Scipio the pegasus, the nuclear option, parallel quests, and the wisdom of janitors. We also serve up a round of predictions for The Blood of Olympus (as well as a few bonus ones for Magnus Chase)!

Come back next week for The Blood of Olympus, ch. 1 to 4!

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(cw: discussions of abuse, sexual assault and bestiality)

It's a major week for Unwise Girls as Rick Riordan pays off not just character arcs that are years in the making, but setups for jokes you completely forgot about, too. We talk about gaining strength by embracing your own identity, kicking your dad's ass, the killing dying curse, big friendly giants, Annabeth and Percy's opposite responsibilities, the dysfunctional duo of Hazel and Leo, Bes and Bast parallels, stink trails, the kind of statue you can never love, wronged women who are also totally evil, and the abuse labyrinth.

Come back next week for The House of Hades, ch. 75 to 78!

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This week on Unwise Girls, we talk about emotional edging, Tartarus (the guy), the return of just three rooms, Coach Hedge tearjerkers, Clarisse bonus lore, swinging around Europe, eternal damnation elevators, the similar family dynamics of the Titans and the Olympians, a new special perk that comes with being a patron, Jacqueline's pitch perfect Roy Mustang rap, Frank finally becoming the leader he was meant to be, Lord of the Rings influence, and how hard it is to remember details between books.

Come back next week for The House of Hades, ch. 69 to 74!

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Wow! Right as Rick Riordan releases the much-anticipated The Sun and the Star, the Unwise Girls finally arrive at the home stretch of House of Hades. This week, we talk about the Riordans' trip to Ireland, our stunningly accurate read on Jason, hypermythological king gods, a portrait of a lonely gay boy, curing doomerism by getting heterosexual married and having a nuclear family, Percy sincerely connecting with Bob, lads being lads, the worst possible ending for House of Hades, and the return of the tender dudebro.

Come back next week for The House of Hades, ch. 63 to 68!

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This week on Unwise Girls, we talk about Goofy Nyx, tourists, the river that makes you feel bad, Titan speedrun strats, when a mortal becomes a monster, the optimal Tartarus crew, an unstoppable tsundere meeting an immovable tsundere, the pairing off of the seven, chucking small objects at big problems, classic scumbag moves, a return to Leo world, and who we want to see land on Ogygia next.

Come back next week for The House of Hades, ch. 57 to 62!

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This week on Unwise Girls, we talk about darksided beans, the ones who walk away from Akhlys, ugly woman shields, why we're going to the Doors of Death again, putting the god in demigod, how Riordan's different series anthropomorphize deities differently, Leo's doohickey, Looney Tunes entrances, adding some dimensionality to Calypso, and maximizing women's suffering.

Come back next week for The House of Hades, ch. 51 to 56!

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Zoo wee mama, I suppose it's time for us to talk about the House of Hades again, huh? Well, if you can believe it, it's just getting better! And of course, our brave hosts have come to these incredibly quality chapters with all of their wits about them an- oh, hold on, I'm getting a report that actually they were "eepy" and "a bit silly with it" this episode. Apologies, listeners at home. This week, the Unwise Girls discuss clip shows, improvement via animefication, the Riordan vault, some interesting ties to the upcoming Nico book, trading in one fate for another, who we want to see live and die in the battle against Gaea, everybody being some kind of Luke or another, pickup artists, the stench of girl magic, Leo deletion, and castle doctrine.

Come back next week for The House of Hades, ch. 45 to 50!

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It's a monumental episode of Unwise Girls! This week, Rick Riordan becomes the world's greatest ally, we really investigate how Jason has grown and developed because of remaining a passive character, and we talk all about the return of Grover, Reyna's reticence to just fucking kill Octavian, the confusing value of the Athena Parthenos, the magic of adrenaline, the fascist in Nico's head, how cool it is to make characters queer, the pain and danger of true love, Tartarus's hole, the most homophobic monster, Argo II bumper stickers, and why this probably isn't an Iceman situation.

Come back next week for The House of Hades, ch. 39 to 44!

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It's a bit of a weird one this week on Unwise Girls! We talk about the sad passing of Lance Reddick, our plans for once we've finished all the books, stinky wiggly piggies, mixtures of old and old, the easiest way to defeat expert snipers, how Hazel's perspective on Jason intersects with Jason's self-image, shonen bullshit, how living through abuse connects to usage of the mist, too many stakes in the kitchen, twisting the knife, writing from experience, emergency Lethe dunks, and bootblacking.

Come back next week for The House of Hades, ch. 33 to 38!

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This week on Unwise Girls, we spend a lot of time with our buddy Bob as the journey through Tartarus continues. We talk about the Dark Souls of the Riordanverse, big scary boys watching over your shoulder, Percy's (ambiguously) fucked up moment, skeletal toxoplasmosis, the spectre of Luke, writing habits, Warhammer demographics, huge turtles, stand and deliver-ing, in-depth Hedge theories, and even more pitches for PJO video games for some reason.

Come back next week for The House of Hades, ch. 27 to 32!

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Who's that voice in the back of your mind... singing Confederate anthems? Yikes! This week on Unwise Girls, we talk about the power of a good retcon, the complicated dynamics of bullying within friendships, sleeping like a dog, the worst things to do in Venice, reaching dad acknowledgement through violence, the horror of irrevocable changes to your body, and whether or not Italians are white.

Come back next week for The House of Hades, ch. 21 to 26!

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Intro/outro: "Super Mariocean" by spacepony (https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR01147)

What the hell? It's a new Unwise Girls! This week we talk about developing a brand new concept for a Greek mythology-themed video game, the increasing necessity of reading the supplementary material, icky membranes, Percy taking a radical anti-torture stance, the yuri of Tartarus, Rick Riordan's upcoming WhatPumpkin collaboration, good ol' brawls, a grand resurrection conspiracy, the underworld's number one janitor, and our dream teamup.

Come back next week for The House of Hades, ch. 17 to 20!

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The long, dark trek through The House of Hades has barely even begun. Need a little bit of easy listening to get you through it? This week, the Unwise Girls talk about headphone woes, the true price of fortune cookies, Jason leading (but only in Ls), dual readings on Frank's character progression, Leo's firm stance against the military-industrial complex, Rick Riordan's tactical usage of nuclear imagery, white woman moments, crack ships, and Hercules getting less cool each book.

Come back next week for The House of Hades, ch. 13 to 16!

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After our wacky detour to a Camp Half-Blood filled with creeps and ghouls, we return for a brand new book! This week, the Unwise Girls begin the penultimate entry in the Heroes of Olympus by talking about Hazel finally getting to take the spotlight again, the fact that this book is somehow 20 chapters longer than the last and yet the same number of pages, Darth Hekate the Wise, magical bloodlines finally getting a bit of sand kicked in their face, the hole Annabeth left behind, Nico's genuine concern for Percy, secret villains, and how to arrange your party comps for maximum character development (hint: put them on a boat).

Come back next week for The House of Hades, ch. 7 to 12!

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Come back next week for The House of Hades, ch. 1 to 6!

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Come back next episode as we continue and conclude Sleepaway.

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It's not just the end of a book - it's the end of an era as we close out the first two years and one hundred episodes of Unwise Girls! Join us in our chapter discussions as we talk about rational self interest, the differences between Percy and Annabeth's views of the gods, grounding yourself in the status quo, goofy ass villains, friendship guy, Coach Hedge getting hit with the dodgeball of Apollo, a very merry Festus Sweep, and our overall thoughts on the Mark of Athena. After that, we have a very special Q&A corner where we answer a ton of your questions, talking about things like our favorite aspects of Rick Riordan's writing and our conception of the Camp Half-Blood Chronicles as a mecha anime! Finally, we take some time to reflect on the show itself. Thanks, everyone.

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Make way, citizens of Rome, for the procession towards the Colosseum! This week, the Unwise Girls are talking about Rick Riordan's evolved understanding of how to write a fight scene, absolutely humiliating scenes to read, [redacted] bread, ADHD gaming, Dionysus' role in demonstrating the morality of the gods, the Percy/Jason shipping scene explodes, a boy of all time, moments of genuine friendship, Nico's Bizarre Adventure, the yawning horror of prisons and recidivism in the Percy Jackson universe, solidarity among gladiators, Nico and Hazel's loss, and the demicide squad.

Come back next week for The Mark of Athena, ch. 49 to 52 - and a very special episode 100!

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There was a story your dad told you, once. It's sort of hazy after all of these years, sure, but doesn't it still live in you? In your bones? Well, this isn't that story, but it is Unwise Girls! We're continuing through The Mark of Athena's climax and talking this week about a major mistake in the casting announcements, how not breaking up with your boyfriend does not a super interesting story arc make, grabbing the narrative bull by the horns, vision checklists, water god mythology resonance, chapterlets, a salve for doomerism, Pipson, scary ass wells, the biggest victim of bullying on the Argo II, and little things that just haven't been set up in exchange for the long game.

Come back next week for The Mark of Athena, ch. 45 to 48!

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This week, our favourite Hero of Olympus has his final, glorious moment in the spotlight for this book, and he spends it... arsing around Rome and being kind of a dick to his friends. And we love him for it! Join us as we discuss how Leo thinks he's very cool despite being a little dork, Frank horse fantasies (and not from the person you'd expect), Archimdes' shiny balls, the tactical crossover between Set and Gaia, Rick Riordan's goons, Apollo voiding his sponsorship deal with Apple, Hitler's BFF, and Christmas crackers (real)!

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Oh no, that horrible crawling thing with eight legs, could it be...? That's right, it's Unwise Girls! We're back in the mines this week to talk about excruciatingly relatable moments of pain, how the Mark of Athena is just a beginner dungeon crawl, big mothers, male living spaces, a rare Jane-presented mythology corner, what it means for a god in a pantheon to be called 'foreign', Roman Holiday, the god in the Amazon package, the economy of villains, and how it's really convenient how little time these characters have to interrogate the history around them.

Come back next week for The Mark of Athena, ch. 37 to 40!

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Mama mia, it's-a Italy! This week, the Unwise Girls are here - some crunchier than others - to talk about GF POV, Rick's Italian bias, what functions the second book in a series can serve (aka why we'll never escape Sea of Monsters), Chrysaor's second appearance, dumping six million dollars into your favorite god's Patreon, and a major overload in Janey's spaceship capacities.

Come back next week for The Mark of Athena, ch. 33 to 36!

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Intro/outro: "Super Mariocean" by spacepony (https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR01147)

Is that the Rock of Gibraltar I see? Ah, no, it's this week's episode of Unwise Girls! As our heroes finally reach the Mediterranean, we the audience finally get to meet possibly the most iconic figure of Greek myth. We talk about all the different kinds of ships you can find on a ship, Piper's story being treated as lesser (and how that's different from what's going on with Hazel), Jason the reactionary, cosmic hierarchy, why Percy and Hercules didn't need to meet, sneaky pronunciation guides, Richard Siken, Ocean Man, and Jason's himbo streak.

Come back next week for The Mark of Athena, ch. 29 to 32!

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Glub glub, we're fishin' for the big one this week on Unwise Girls! As our group of intrepid New Neo Civil War collaborators finally head off into the Atlantic, we end up covering a bunch of major, earth-shattering revelations... including the fact that Jane totally ruined our cover art! Apart from that, we talk about these chapters being suspiciously light for how much they offhandedly add to the world, dating sometimes being very different than just being nerd best friends, injury pissing contests, Gaea the liar, a potential Tres Navarre crossover, and big boys baking brownies at Camp Fish-Blood.

Come back next week for The Mark of Athena, ch. 25 to 28!

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Intro/outro: "Super Mariocean" by spacepony (https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR01147)

Okay... so, this week on Unwise Girls, I guess we talk about who the Leo of the podcast is, the return of Buford, seaweed brain moments, the entire ship doomscrolling to cope, Rick communicating hardship through stereotype, the normalization of dismissing kids' thoughts and fears, mythological hotness standards, and... and... oh god okay no I can't hold it back anymore. We mostly just talk about the Civil War stuff. There's a lot of Civil War stuff. Strap in.

Come back next week for The Mark of Athena, ch. 21 to 24!

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Uh oh, the Unwise Girls are back with another episode! After a bit of self-reflection on what makes this podcast special, we talk all about Percy's homophobia, how your fear affects your abilities, middle school brainspace, Nico's enrichment jar, the most important Demigod Diaries story, Frank's vibes aging like milk, fake love triangles, the big guy wars, 1940's values, Coach Hedge being reduced to a chain email, our new beloved terrorwoman, Episcopalians, and the best way to share Unwise Girls with others.

Come back next week for The Mark of Athena, ch. 17 to 20!

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Intro/outro: "Super Mariocean" by spacepony (https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR01147)

Time to pay the Piper! This week on Unwise Girls's consistently impressed adventure through Mark of Athena, we talk about Jane being way too easily hornswoggled, Piper's self-doubt manifesting in the form of civil war, a son of Neptune definitely still being able to drown if we have anything to say about it, dudebro competitions, head injury counts, the Argogan Trail video game, Leo skydiving down our character rankings, Mr. D's job qualifications, horse measuring contests, names not actually having power, why it's fucked up to love someone romantically, and the state of our relationship in the wake of this recording.

Come back next week for The Mark of Athena, ch. 13 to 16!

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Intro/outro: "Super Mariocean" by spacepony (https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR01147)

Well, it's the second set of chapters, which - based on the past five or so books we've read - means it's time for us to start being disappointed with the book! Hmmm... but wait, it's still good? So good that it inspired Jane to form a complete and unified theory of the Riordanverse? Cool! This week, we discuss refreshing boys, love triangles that we don't hate, the war Octavian should've started, the Batman v. Superman of stakes, the vacuum that is Coach Hedge, sub and domme antagonists, gigachads, and what is and isn't too political for Rick Riordan to touch.

Come back next week for The Mark of Athena, ch. 9 to 12!

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Intro/outro: "Super Mariocean" by spacepony (https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR01147)

Ahoy and good tidings, listeners! This week the Unwise Girls begin our third reading of the Sea of Monst- uh, sorry, no, I've gotten my cards mixed up... it's Mark of Athena time, babey!!! After getting our spirits lifted by The Demigod Diaries, we're in pretty high spirits for this one, and so we take this opportunity to appreciate Annabeth finally getting to be the main character, when being good at analysis is actually just having an anxiety disorder, the rotating Octavian praetor-bully position, fistbumps with bros, spite engineering, yandere mode, Jason and Percy's comparative kill counts, and a weirdly excellent prophecy prediction corner (including a peek behind the prophecy prediction curtain)!

Come back next week for The Mark of Athena, ch. 5 to 8!

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Intro/outro: "Super Mariocean" by spacepony (https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR01147)

In maybe the longest yet recorded episode of Unwise Girls, we take a break before starting on our next big novel to instead cover a supplementary book with stories ranging from years before the events of PJO to ones that take place mere months before The Son of Neptune. It absolutely rocks! We talk about how Luke did nothing wrong (except for all of the many things he did wrong), all gods TRULY are bastards, heaving goat udders, the horror of dehumanization, the differing significance of the gods to you depending on how much of a main character you are, the best giant in the series, Taco Claus, cucknets, eht sveen flablohods fo rphopcey, the long-lasting legacy of Charles Beckendorf, cosmic parasite mobsters, and Christian gods.

Come back next week for The Mark of Athena, ch. 1 to 4!

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Intro/outro: "Super Mariocean" by spacepony (https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR01147)

Despite our high hopes for this book coming off of The Lost Hero, The Son of Neptune has come to a sputtering end and even its biggest supporter is grabbing a knife to put it in the ground. Focusing mostly on a huge battle where none of the conflict ultimately affects the plot, we can't even find respite in Rick Riordan's usual specialty of compelling characters. Instead, we finally close this door-stopper and let ourselves go into full autopsy mode. We talk about the world's holiest bludgeon, Mars having shooters all over, bad Giant specs, parallels between Gaea and Juno, Camp Jupiter's quantum racism box that only gets opened up when Frank proves himself to them, epic debate boy comebacks, big plays we wanted to see from Octavian, and whether or not we're satisfied with the button this book puts on everyone's arcs.

Come back next week for The Demigod Diaries!

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Intro/outro: "Super Mariocean" by spacepony (https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR01147)

Just like Frank's firewood, we're not feeling too hot about these chapters, and we're not going especially long either! This week on Unwise Girls, Hazel's character arc gets shot to hell, a lack of stakes makes Frank's character feel ultimately irrelevant, gods and demigods working together can basically mean whatever I guess, Alcyoneus is entirely devoid of internal life, Gaea doesn't know how geography works, Thanatos points out the Doors of Me, bears have type advantage against giants, we dig deep into Rick Riordan's geopolitical opinions, and ultimately we have to ask the question: Throne of Fire had to die for this?

Come back next week for The Son of Neptune, ch. 49 to 52!

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Intro/outro: "Super Mariocean" by spacepony (https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR01147)

hey folks!!! jacqueline here, i got really sick this week and my voice died so we couldn't record - so here's a bonus episode we technically promised we'd put out uhhh (checks notes) over a year ago? that can't be right! anyway, we talk about the movie HERCULES in it!!!! if you like hearing us do that, find more of that over on the patreon!

in this episode, to quote the original description, "we speculate wildly about which Egyptian God Cards will appear in the Kane Chronicles, talk about the progress of Samus Metroid's HRT treatments, and finally dive into one of Jacqueline's favourite Disney movies."

Come back next week FOR REAL for The Son of Neptune, ch. 45 to 48!

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Intro/outro: Windswept by Kevin MacLeod

This week on Unwise Girls, we talk about Hazel's final POV chapters, our theories on if the Mark of Athena will start a new pace for the series, how Alaska is filtered through different character's perspectives, British edition jumpscares, Perzy and Hacel, Rick Riordan turning out to be a pretty good writer, our surprising Luke stand-in for this book, the horror of drowning in mud, horses that say fuck, Thanatos the godly prettyboy, Hades as a hellish real-world analogue, Hazel's house of horrors, behind the scenes mail scams, and our Percy Jackson: What Ifs?

Come back next week for The Son of Neptune, ch. 45 to 48!

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Intro/outro: "Super Mariocean" by spacepony (https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR01147)

(sorry for the audio troubles this week, folks! jane's using a new laptop and due to this-and-that some of her words end up getting cut off throughout)

This week on Unwise Girls, we talk about Rick's GMing mistakes, public transportation woes, big boys with big dogs, Octavian doing classic Roman stuff and Percy doing classic Greek stuff, Lightning Thief-level descriptiveness, the mythological layer beyond our world, Jane declaring war on Alaska, ecofascism basically making sense as the villain of the series, Hazel's minecraft world, and the alternate universe where this is a murder mystery.

Come back next week for The Son of Neptune, ch. 41 to 44!

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Intro/outro: "Super Mariocean" by spacepony (https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR01147)

It's basically all Frank Zhang for the Unwise Girls this week, folks! After a quick detour to the land of new releases to give our thoughts on The Sun and the Star, we talk about Rick Riordan making theories sound like facts, a pretty full dissection of Frank's character so far, Jane bringing out her STEM skill to understand family trees, a double Prophecy Prediction Corner, the way siblings can have different relationships with their parents and how that's reflected through the aspects of the gods, our first ever normal adult demigod, and how this world kind of just operates on Codename: Kids Next Door rules.

Come back next week for The Son of Neptune, ch. 37 to 40!

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Intro/outro: "Super Mariocean" by spacepony (https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR01147)

This week on Unwise Girls, we talk about the road trip format wearing thin, femdom Amazon, Jane's special tips for dictators, Jacqueline's brain and audio crackling (sorry!), how abuse can complicate forgiveness as a concept, the literal horse, a long-needed sexyman return, the weird shit Neptune is into offscreen, competing Riordanverses, and how lacking we are of a Luke.

Come back next week for The Son of Neptune, ch. 33 to 36!

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Intro/outro: "Super Mariocean" by spacepony (https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR01147)

On this week's episode of Unwise Girls, we talk teaser trailers, Frank's first step into entering the pickup artist community, the differences between Percy and Jason's amnesia, blind jokes, CGI strawberries, Jojo type scenes, anti-food truck propaganda, what situations make it okay to just kill a normal guy, the saddest way this book could end, and the tragic loss of an old friend of the podcast.

Come back next week for The Son of Neptune, ch. 29 to 32!

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Intro/outro: "Super Mariocean" by spacepony (https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR01147)

(cw: we tell detailed stories about wasp encounters in this one)

This week's episode of Unwise Girls is very special - it's Jane's birthday!!!! Yayyy!!!!! To celebrate, we talk all about the knowledge contained in silly little beverages, Frank going through entirely silent character arcs along with really obvious gender dysphoria, probably the least interesting god encounter yet, Li-Jien, the three most doomed kids in the world, and why this book may be shaping up to be the Throne of Fire of Heroes of Olympuses.

Come back next week for The Son of Neptune, ch. 25 to 28!

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Intro/outro: "Super Mariocean" by spacepony (https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR01147)

On this week's Unwise Girls, we cover one of the most chilling chapters yet... heh, well... see, okay, so it's Alaska, right? So it's cold. But also, Rick Riordan's really dealing in horror elements, so it's like a bit of a pun. You get it? You get it! Anyway, we talk about how it's easier for children's authors to go hard in flashbacks, metaphors always having to also be Something, unexpected localizations, all of Frank's plans coming to naught, which character we want PJO to be rewritten from the perspective of, our hopes for the party ponies, schist, and Hazel's pure, dead heart.

Come back next week for The Son of Neptune, ch. 21 to 24!

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Intro/outro: "Super Mariocean" by spacepony (https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR01147)

This week on Unwise Girls, we talk about the lore behind our cover art, cringefail Carthage, Grover entering his down-and-out era, who Percy's best friend is nowadays, the second coming of Sea of Monsters, Rick's video game habit, long-awaited camp intrigue, Octavi Anpora, Zeus getting his groove back, Nico being able to stare at ghosts and Percy being able to stare at the LA gangs, the Camp Half-Blood Chronicles' shaky footing in the urban fantasy genre, and the politics of normalizing border patrol.

Come back next week for The Son of Neptune, ch. 17 to 20!

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This week, on a very special episode of Unwise Girls, we have an in-depth conversation about those who died to protect our (checks notes) profit motive? Huh! Well, we also talk about the Byzantine Empire, Furious Frank Zhang and his fleeting little life, Rick's foray into Italian studies, proxy wars, one of our favorite gods coming out of retirement, suburban Juno, and one of the most befuddling prophecies we've ever gotten.

Come back next week for The Son of Neptune, ch. 13 to 16!

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Intro/outro: "Super Mariocean" by spacepony (https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR01147)

So like, this week on Unwise Girls we definitely do try our best to talk about Hazel Levesque - who we do genuinely totally dig as a character! But it's so hard. It's so hard. Anyway, this week we discuss what's in the Kool-Aid, Camp Jupiter seeming weirdly good for Nico, how strange and exciting it is to finally see Percy from someone else's perspective, poor little meow meows and bumbling boys, a flashback so powerful it changes how the podcast works, the wildest swing Rick could've taken from Roman history, GroverWatch, the implications of legacy demigods, and just... everything going on with Pluto.

Come back next week for The Son of Neptune, ch. 9 to 12!

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Intro/outro: "Super Mariocean" by spacepony (https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR01147)

...to get more stupider!!!! This week, all roads lead to New Rome, and the Unwise Girls dive through these opening chapters chronologically to really key in on what works and what doesn't. We discuss how comfortably Percy's voice is returned to, the real problem with hippies, a variety of comedy men, the Kane Chronicles crossover we actually want to happen, the famous Fallout epic gaming franchise, why the movies fell through (hint: they were bad), the problems that come with being like "Hey, wasn't Rome cool? Let's keep Rome going!", and a character who we might be even happier to see return than the Son of Neptune himself.

Come back next week for The Son of Neptune, ch. 5 to 8!

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Intro/outro: "Super Mariocean" by spacepony (https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR01147)

This week, on the long anticipated finale of The Lost Hero, Jane gets musical, Piper finally self-actualizes, the episodic nature of podcasting changes our reading experience, our grand quest for the series is outlined, Jason fully falls into his role as JRPG protagonist, Leo gets a tier of his own, and... oh, it.. okay. Fine. We might as well have to go through another round of "Rick writes a detail that makes us have to reconsider thousands of years of human history." Sure. Let's talk about every single civil war and revolution of the past 1500 years.

Come back next week for The Son of Neptune, ch. 1 to 4!

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Intro/outro: "Super Mariocean" by spacepony (https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR01147)

This week on Unwise Girls, our three part Lost Hero Finale Bonanza continues with a special five chapter episode as we get real into the weeds on what the worst power a demigod could get would be, poisoning yourself against a book, Jason remembering (and not just that he can fly!), what we learn when we talk about Clovis, bigger and cooler giants, the racist authors we read in middle school, and Rick Riordan's favorite writing methods.

Come back next week for The Lost Hero, ch. 52 to 56!

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Intro/outro: "Super Mariocean" by spacepony (https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR01147)

This week on Unwise Girls, we begin our Lost Hero Three Part Finale Bonanza with a special six chapter episode where we discuss Jason apparently not being able to fly and somehow still getting W's over Percy, get annoyed at twists for ten year olds, rationalize the mist's rationalization powers, microexpress powerfully, attempt to stave off the creeping Kane Chronicles itching in the back of our brains, consider being half Godzilla on your father's side, find our conspiracy theory for the book, and also have a Random Cú Chulainn Encounter.

Come back next week for The Lost Hero, ch. 47 to 51!

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Intro/outro: "Super Mariocean" by spacepony (https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR01147)

This week on Unwise Girls, Jacqueline and Jane have a pretty good time as Aeolus realizes the suffering is, in fact, never ending, the final puzzle piece is finally put into place, Jason somehow turns into a good, rounded character just through us talking about him enough, the Rick Riordan and John Green crossover grows ever closer, Aphrodite breaks down both prophecies and body image issues, the ethics of revealing yourself as a god are questioned, and something happens in the ocean that... well, we dare not say.

Come back next week for The Lost Hero, ch. 41 to 44!

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Intro/outro: "Super Mariocean" by spacepony (https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR01147)

On this most special of weeks, the Unwise Girls talk about Leo getting all hot and bothered, Piper getting cold and unburdened, and Jason getting sistered at sort of a neutral temperature. We also talk about how you can translate the awfulness of Zeus into a children's book, recycling plot beats, retcons that make various degrees of sense, and Chiron's secret archenemy.

Come back next week for The Lost Hero, ch. 37 to 40!

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Intro/outro: "Super Mariocean" by spacepony (https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR01147)

Bzzt... Bzzt... Have we tuned into the right station? This is Unwise Girls, and we're trying to deliver an unbiased message to anyone still surviving in the long days of The Lost Hero. Will you listen? If so, find out how Leo's brain is fucked (and we love him for it), the best ways to not technically murder people, the sad fate of Festus, which shady organization Hephaestus is part of, why we keep comparing this book to The Kane Chronicles, how brilliant every narrative decision in Piper's slow and painful betrayal is, and we even take the time to talk about the themes. Cultures! They change. Now, before we lose signal, it's very important that you kn-

Come back next week for The Lost Hero, ch. 33 to 36!

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Intro/outro: "Super Mariocean" by spacepony (https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR01147)

This week the Unwise Girls talk about a nicely done do-over, the logistics of vegan tacos, how scary it is to be seen, Jane's gender, Jason's greatest mortal enemy, Jupiter's bad dadditude, probably other things that start with J, anti-union action, bodega etymologies, and Rick Riordan bravely averting doing feminist reanalysis of classical literature.

Come back next week for The Lost Hero, ch. 29 to 32!

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Intro/outro: "Super Mariocean" by spacepony (https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR01147)

This episode is mainly just about a really cool fight and everything else is pretty much tangential, but I'll give you the rundown anyway. This week, the Unwise Girls talk about Leo rising to the call of main charactership, Cyclops cladistics, relatable Piper feet moments, the Sea of Monsters returning with a vengeance, Jason faking friendship til he makes it, what the books would be like if they only had Jason's POV, whoever the hell the seventh demigod of prophecy is, and the dangers of carrying breast milk in your tool belt.

Come back next week for The Lost Hero, ch. 25 to 28!

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Intro/outro: "Super Mariocean" by spacepony (https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR01147)

This week on Unwise Girls - cough, cough... sorry, someone's a bit sick in the studio today! Regardless, this week the Unwise Girls pick over the bones of some pretty threadbare chapters to talk about the best pickup lines, a poor recreation of a PJO hit scene, the Kane Chronicles again somehow, Chiron's youtube channel also again somehow, Popeye Piper, the charisma vacuum known mononymically as Jason, and possibly the strangest pronunciation event yet.

Come back next week for The Lost Hero, ch. 21 to 24!

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Intro/outro: "Super Mariocean" by spacepony (https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR01147)

The Lost Hero, ch. 13 to 16

This week the newly networked Unwise Girls suffer from the Curse of Hypnos as we - a Jacqueline fresh off a week of sleep deprivation and nonstop driving and a Jane in the midst of a 2AM fugue state - try the best we damn well can to speak coherently on some pretty good chapters of The Lost Hero. We talk about Rome lore, the settler-colonial mindset and how it produces a liberal idealist imaginary, sexy posters, Drew's bigotries and Aphrodite's proclivities. Yayyy!

Come back next week for The Lost Hero, ch. 17 to 20!

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Intro/outro: "Super Mariocean" by spacepony (https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR01147)

On this week's episode of Unwise Girls, we start off by discussing the racist backlash to Leah Jeffries being cast as Annabeth and Rick Riordan's responses. Afterwards, we talk about the world's most intriguing dad, everything fake about Piper McLean, predictable satyr bits, the world's most evil aunts, Camp Half-Blood's relationship to war, and a spicy Kane Chronicles callback. Jane also gets owned multiple times, but by the end, will she truly be the one to fall? Come back next week for The Lost Hero, ch. 13 to 16!

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