Queers of Time Podcast

This episode only contains general lore spoilers for the books, mostly related to the White Tower. Today, James, Kat, and Matt discuss the fourth Wheel of Time short: Origins, "Saidin, Saidar, and Stone". They haven't really found out where the Stone was, though. Send us your hate mail! Or your fan mail, if you really insist... Support the show Check out our Bluesky , Instagram , Ti...

This episode contains spoilers for all the Wheel of Time books. Here at The Queers of Time, we have no sense of self-preservation, so of course we invited Kevin Angus ( @GradeKangusBeef ) to the podcast to talk about Shadowspawn. Send us your hate mail! Or your fan mail, if you really insist... Support the show Check out our Bluesky , Instagram , TikTok , Tumblr , and Patreon . Intro and outro mus...

This episode only contains spoilers for The Wheel of Time TV Show. Today, James, Kat, and Matt discuss the third Wheel of Time short: Origins, "The Greatest Warder". Or, as Matt so eloquently says, "It's just a bunch of fuckbois". Send us your hate mail! Or your fan mail, if you really insist... Support the show Check out our Bluesky , Instagram , TikTok , Tumblr , and Pat...

This episode contains spoilers for the Wheel of Time books up to The Shadow Rising and for the Wheel of Time TV show. Today we're joined again by Travis to talk about the second episode of the Wheel of Time shorts: Origins, "The Fall of Manetheren". Camille got to piss off James and express their love for cows. Also, Matt was missed. A little. Send us your hate mail! Or your fan mai...

This episode contains some generally vague spoilers about all the Wheel of Time books, specifically concerning the whereabouts of some Forsaken. This is the first episode of a mini-series in which we discuss the animated shorts The Wheel of Time: Origins. We have a very special guest with us, Travis , as we return to the Breaking of the World, and Camille is happy to prove James wrong. Send us you...

This episode contains spoilers for all the books, including Origins of the Wheel of Time . James and Matt have a chat with our friend Chad, or @queerentaveren on Twitter, who has been organizing a queer re-read of The Wheel of Time on Discord. They also talked a bit about Origins of the Wheel of Time . Send us your hate mail! Or your fan mail, if you really insist... Support the show Check out our...

This episode contains spoilers for The Wheel of Time books, including the newly released Origins of The Wheel of Time . Origins of The Wheel of Time: The Legends and Mythologies that inspired Robert Jordan is a new non-fiction book by Michael Livingston, that came out earlier this month. James told their co-hosts not to read it yet so that this episode could have the live reactions of Camille, Kat...

This episode contains some small very vague out-of-context spoilers for the books up to Lord of Chaos, and spoilers for the TV show. We talked about incidental queerness, issue-of-the-week queerness, what we mean by that, and how overall The Wheel of Time TV show handled queerness in its first season. Ah, also there's a musical. And generational trauma. Send us your hate mail! Or your fan mai...

This episode contains spoilers for all the Wheel of Time books. Do we ship it or skip it? In which we talked about some of the popular ships in the Wheel of Time, especially queer ships, and whether we enjoy them or would rather forget about them... Send us your hate mail! Or your fan mail, if you really insist... Support the show Check out our Bluesky , Instagram , TikTok , Tumblr , and Patreon ....

This episode contains spoilers for all the Wheel of Time books. The Queer Horrors of Time, a Halloween Special just for the spooky season. Some in the queer community call Halloween the October Pride, so we had to celebrate by talking about our favorite creepy moments from The Wheel of Time books and the TV show. Stick until the end to get Matt's gay horror book recommendations! Send us your...

This episode contains spoilers for all the Wheel of Time books. We're joined by Wil al'Seen to discuss poly relationships and non-monogamy in both The Wheel of Time books and TV show. Non-monogamy isn't widely seen in popular fiction, and The Wheel of Time was a lot of people's first exposure to poly relationships in fantasy. The books had a very specific view of poly relations...

This episode contains spoilers for the second season of the Wheel of Time TV show and up to Book 4, The Shadow Rising. A special, post-NY Comic Con episode! We had a lot to savor from the Wheel of Time panel that we just had to talk about it and release this discussion for you all as soon as possible! Send us your hate mail! Or your fan mail, if you really insist... Support the show Check out our...

This episode contains spoilers for the full book series. In previous episodes, we've spent a lot of time talking about queering heroes of the Wheel of Time. We've also had discussions and games in which we shipped those heroes with some of the Forsaken. But our favorite baddies don't need a romance with our heroes to be queer. Today, we'll be queering two of the Forsaken: the O...

This episode contains spoilers significant spoilers up to Book 4, and light spoilers for the whole book series. In which we deep dive into our hopes and dreams for the second season of the Wheel of Time TV show. How gay do we want it to be? The answer is very! Send us your hate mail! Or your fan mail, if you really insist... Support the show Check out our Bluesky , Instagram , TikTok , Tumblr , an...

This episode contains spoilers up to ACoS. And we're back with Ali Shields , from the Wheel Takes Podcast , to continue our discussion about tropes. How is the Wheel of Time TV Show handling tropes? What was done well, and what could be improved? What will they need to be careful about in future seasons? Send us your hate mail! Or your fan mail, if you really insist... Support the show Check...

The main discussion of this episode does not contain spoilers past the Wheel of Time TV show. The game at the end contains very light spoilers up to ACoS. Ali Shields , from the Wheel Takes Podcast , joined us to discuss tropes and writer's rooms. How does a writer's room function? What is a trope? What role do tropes play in the entertainment industry? Send us your hate mail! Or your fa...

This episode contains spoilers for all of the Wheel of Time books. Plenty can be said about how Robert Jordan uses gender in his books. In this episode, we focus on Saidar and Saidin, the two halves of the One Power, and the gender dynamics (and stereotypes) they often involve. We also talk about what the TV show has done so far, and how this magical system could be a bit less... binary. Send us y...

Spoilers for all the books of the Wheel of Time. In which we dive into the queer men of The Wheel of Time, from the examples and themes present in the books to what the TV show has given us so far and could expand on in later seasons. Also, Camille gets bullied. A normal episode, overall. Send us your hate mail! Or your fan mail, if you really insist... Support the show Check out our Bluesky , Ins...

Spoilers for the first season of The Wheel of Time TV show on Amazon Prime. Cover your ears, kids, because in this episode? We’re going to be talking about sex. And not just any kind of sex, but queer sex. And not just queer sex, but queer sex in season one of The Wheel of Time. Okay, so there’s also some straight sex in there, but also lesbian wizard sex. Today we're joined by Bree Bridges,...

Spoilers for all the books of The Wheel of Time. There are countless turnings of the Wheel of Time. But in this age, called by some the Rainbow Age, the threads spin a rather colorful pattern in which four major characters are…gay as hell. Today we’ll be talking about Nynaeve, Cadsuane, Rand, and Perrin, and how their stories and the overall threads of the pattern might change this new weaving. Se...

Spoilers for the first season of The Wheel of Time TV show on Amazon Prime. Our first show-focused episode! The first season of The Wheel of Time TV show was gayer than many expected. Our Queers of Time hosts took a look at the queerest moments from this season... and ranked them. No game this time, because we went overtime and then just... forgot. Ah. Send us your hate mail! Or your fan mail, if...

Minor spoilers for side relationships showing up in ACoS and AMoL. Discussing Pillow Friends, Part Three: In which we talk about queer tropes connected to pillow-friendships in the books, how we would like for the show to handle this, and queerness in Fantasy before The Wheel of Time came out. Professor Matt drops knowledge on us, and we love it! Send us your hate mail! Or your fan mail, if you re...

Spoilers for all the books of The Wheel of Time. Discussing Pillow Friends, Part Two: In which we take a look at the examples of pillow-friendships in the book series and, well... We had a lot to comment on. Send us your hate mail! Or your fan mail, if you really insist... Support the show Check out our Bluesky , Instagram , TikTok , Tumblr , and Patreon . Intro and outro music by Julius H .

Minor spoilers up to ACoS up to the game, then spoilers for all the books of The Wheel of Time. Discussing Pillow Friends, Part One: What exactly did Robert Jordan say about same-sex relationships in The Wheel of Time ? We're going through what's in the books, what Jordan said at interviews, as well as some very interesting remarks in his Aes Sedai notes—did you know that Galina is &quot...

The obligatory introduction episode! The hosts will be talking about how they first got introduced to The Wheel of Time , what it means to them as queer readers, and why they wanted to make this podcast. This discussion contains some SPOILERS for the Wheel of Time books up to book 5: The Fires of Heaven.   They also play the game "Crack Ships: Jur Grady & Ila". This part contains SPO...