Analysis Roulette

Welcome, friends and enemies, to season two of Analysis Roulette! Your creative work is: the Periodic Table of the Elements Your school of analysis is: Commercial Your hosts are Dia and Duck, and you can contact us at analysisroulette@gmail.com.

Your creative work is: Doctor Who Christmas (and sometimes New Year) SpecialsYour school of analysis is: discursive reviewYour hosts are Dia and Duck, and you can contact us at analysisroulette@gmail.com.

Your creative work is: Nightbane, by Alex Aster, the second installment in the Lightlark corpus. Your school of analysis is: tell me all about itYour hosts are Dia and Duck, and you can contact us at analysisroulette@gmail.com.

We took a break and watched the film Death of a Unicorn, and then we talked about it. No schools of analysis, just thoughts and reactions! Your hosts are Dia and Duck, and you can contact us at analysisroulette@gmail.com, or by commenting here, or by speaking your desires into the mind of your friendliest local unicorn.

Content warnings in this episode for harm to children, including gruesome murder, suicide of a child, scientific abuse, kidnapping, and childhood addiction. We also spend a good bit of time discussing trauma and grief. Your creative works are: The musical Dear Evan Hansen;And the video game for Nintendo DS, Zero Escape: Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors. Your school of analysis is: Compare &amp...

Your creative work is: the video game Dwarf Fortress, by Tarn AdamsYour school of analysis is: close reading, kind ofYour hosts are Dia and Duck, and you can contact us at analysisroulette@gmail.com. If you want to buy Dia a copy of Dwarf Fortress, you should email that address.

alternatively: Mary Champagne's Blorbo. This episode deals with topics of sexual assault and coercion against both men and women, in the contexts of medieval society and erotic fantasy. It isn't graphic, but it is a focus of our conversation. Your creative work is: Lancelot, the Knight of the Cart, commissioned by Marie de Champagne, written by Chrétien de Troyes, and completed by Godefroi...

Your creative work is: The Chalet School, by Elinor Brent-Dyer Your school of analysis is: Retrosynthetic Your hosts are Dia and Duck, and you can contact us at analysisroulette@gmail.com.

Your creative work is: Warrior Cats, by various authors, attributed to Erin Hunter Your school of analysis is: Medical Examination Your hosts are Dia and Duck, and you can contact us at analysisroulette@gmail.com.

Your creative work is: Neuralink Your school of analysis is: Reader response Your hosts are Dia and Duck and you can contact us at analysisroulette@gmail.com Duck's pronouns have not changed and are still he/they, it's just that Duck forgot.

Your creative work is: Elementary, a TV adaptation of Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories, starring Jonny Lee Miller as Sherlock Holmes and Lucy Liu as Dr. Joan Watson. Your school of analysis is: moral parable. Your hosts are Dia and Duck, and you can contact us at analysisroulette@gmail.com.

Your creative work is: us, talking about how we would love the Evermore Park in our heads to exist, and exactly what we'd put in it, if we had the capital. Your mode of analysis is: missing, as nowadays is Evermore Park. RIP to Evermore Park. We enjoyed knowing about you. Your hosts are Dia and Duck, and you can email us at analysisroulette@gmail.com. If you'd like to give us large sums of money t...

Your creative work is: The Lord of the Rings, by J. R. R. Tolkien. Your school of analysis is: Redemptive reading. Your hosts are Dia and Duck, and you can contact us at analysisroulette@gmail.com. The reason the phrase "poetic model" keeps coming up is that Duck had recently read A Desolation Called Peace, by Arkady Martine. It's good.

Your creative work is: Pride and Prejudice, the novel by Jane Austen Your school of analysis is: Needless nitpicking Your hosts are Dia and Duck, and you can contact us at analysisroulette@gmail.com. For transcripts, see https://analysisroulette.neocities.org/. There's usually a bit of a delay on transcripts for new episodes but if you check back later we'll get there.

Your creative work is: the sadly closed Utah theme park "Evermore" Your school of analysis is: Feminist Your hosts are Dia and Duck, and you can contact us at analysisroulette@gmail.com.

Your creative work is: the Addams Family (yes, all of it). Your school of analysis is: Conspiratorial. Your hosts are Dia and Duck, and you can contact us at analysisroulette@gmail.com.

Your creative work is: Empire in Black and Gold (Shadows of the Apt, Book 1), by Adrian Tchaikovsky, whom Duck has now been introduced to by a mutual friend at a convention. Your school of analysis is: Freudian Your hosts are Dia and Duck, and you can contact us at analysisroulette@gmail.com.

Your creative work is Our Flag Means Death Your school of analysis is: Post-colonial Your hosts are Dia and Duck, and you can contact us at analysisroulette@gmail.com.

Your creative work is: The School for Good and Evil (we read the first book and watched the Netflix film). Your school of analysis is: TV Tropes Your hosts are Dia and Duck and you can contact us at analysisroulette@gmail.com.

Your creative work is: The Land Before Time, and its thirteen sequels. Your school of analysis is: Commercial. Your hosts are Dia and Duck, and you can contact us at analysisroulette@gmail.com.

Your creative work is: the poems of Marie de France Your school of analysis is: Biographical Your hosts are Dia and Duck, and you can contact us at analysisroulette@gmail.com. We are getting a lot less hate mail from the Flat Earth people than we expected. They have been very polite.

Your creative work is: Lightlark Your school of analysis is: Feelings and Opinions Your hosts are Dia and Duck and you can contact us at analysisroulette@gmail.com. Transcript: https://analysisroulette.neocities.org/lightlark_bonus

Your creative work is: Food Wars! Shokugeki no Soma Your school of analysis is: Archaeological (except Duck didn't know what that was, so it's not, but we called it that anyway) Your hosts are Dia and Duck and you can contact us at analysisroulette@gmail.com. Please do not cancel us. We are aware of Japan. Transcript: https://analysisroulette.neocities.org/foodwars

Your creative work is: Lightlark, by Alex Aster. Your school of analysis is: Psychoanalytical, according to the teachings of Sigmund Freud. Your hosts are Dia and Duck and you can contact us at analysisroulette@gmail.com

Your creative work is: My Hero Academia / Boku no Hīrō Akademia Your school of analysis is: Post-modernism Your hosts are Dia and Duck, and you can contact us at analysisroulette@gmail.com