Unwise Girls

The Tyrant's Tomb, ch. 26 to 31 This week on Unwise Girls, we ask the question: how can you go from A to Z when you're already starting at X? That's right, folks, it's yet another week where we're starting to question the basic execution of this series' premise! But we also talk about funny adult babies, the best things to do on your phone, our weirdly high amount of remaining feelings about the K...

The Tyrant's Tomb, ch. 20 to 25 This week on Unwise Girls, we're touching plenty of grass and breathing in the seeds of our discontent and whatever else Shakespeare said. We discuss a delicious amount of Riordan Content:tm:, including our conflicting opinions on where Lavinia is headed as a character, Reyna doing the world's most obvious pining, an itemized list of ways that Camp Jupiter could mak...

The Tyrant's Tomb, ch. 14 to 19 This week on Angry Girls, we get real grumpy and pissed off. We talk all about STUFF WE NOTICED that we think SUCKS!!! Like, you ever think about how a lot of these books in the same children's franchise have a lot of similarities? Or how a lot of these characters are kinda surface level?? And there's not like, blood and guts and stuff all the time??? Ugh!!!!!!!! Wh...

The Tyrant's Tomb, ch. 8 to 13 This week on Unwise Girls... eh? Who are you? Sorry, but I don't remember petty things like names or faces... it's all about vibes for me. This week, the vibe is pretty frickin' positive on the book - partially because we've been reading even better books at the same time. We discuss cyclops flesh, lesbian stereotypes, shitty kids who you just gotta love, predatory g...

The Tyrant's Tomb, ch. 1 to 7 Crack open a cold one, girlies, it's time for the penultimate book in Apollo's The Trials of! This week we're starting off our discussion of the novel with one long, continuous corpse party, several pushbacks on pushbacks, some reevaluating of Hazel Levesque and Frank Zhang, the world's most disastrous romance to look forward to, Titus Andronicus foreshadowing, Meg's...

The Burning Maze, ch. 42 to 47 This week on Unwise Girls, The Burning Maze dies and we're finally allowed to grieve. We discuss what Rick is doing with mortality and how Jason's death - and the more we hope to come - are actually making it mean something, what this convoluted acrostic is telling us about future books, wildfires continuing to stretch the timeline, darksided Piper, science-fiction a...

The Burning Maze, ch. 36 to 41 This week on Unwise Girls, we keep it short and sweet as we... uh... seven letters, starts with D.... you get it, right? We're stuck in a word vortex! Puzzles abound as we talk about that god who is known for music, poetry, and charioteering the sun and his goofy little adventures with Rogrev and Gem. Ah, this is all a bit difficult to get across. Did you know someti...

The Burning Maze, ch. 29 to 35 This week on Unwise Girls, we discuss... huh. Well, who could have seen that one coming? We talk about pretty much one thing in this episode, y'all, and it's one of the best choices Rick has made in writing these books in a long time. For maybe the first time, Apollo has to deal with consequences as the promise of an ever-so-slightly more mature and harrowing tale is...

The Burning Maze, ch. 22 to 28 This week on Unwise Girls, oops! Maybe we spoke too soon on finally liking the book. We discuss Jane's quirky neuroses, the weak mysteries of love and the heart, broing out, waiting for that damn Styx curse, total Leo memoryholes, Apollo's strange taste in partners across history, Black Dynamite, Rick's heavy reliance on obscure music references to support character...

Revolutionary Girl Utena, ep. 1-3 (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 miserabl...

The Burning Maze, ch. 15 to 21 This week on Unwise Girls, we're putting the past behind us as we finally decide we like one of these books! We discuss a really good fight, unstable emperors ready to tear each others throats out, villains made entirely via flashback, mad dog shit, the finer points of mecha fiction, Rick's insecurity about possibly doing a racism, whether trying is better than not t...

The Burning Maze, ch. 8 to 14 This week on Unwise Girls, we've been released from our cryostasis chambers to return to a world of... uh... raging wildfires. Hm. Well, this week, we'll discuss Rick Riordan's so-far tasteless and toothless incorporation of real life tragedy into the works of his fictional magic men, a satisfying turn in Piper and Jason relationships as our faaavorite...? Heroes of O...

The Burning Maze, ch. 1 to 7 No. I refuse to share this episode of my podcast. It was the lowest, most awful content in my nearly-four-years of podcasting. Disaster. Heartbreak. I will not let you listen to it. ... Hey, why are you still here? Go away! But alas, I suppose I have no choice. Doubtless, Moonshot expects us to tell you the story of Apollo's punishment. It's not enough that we had to d...

The Dark Prophecy, ch. 38 to 42 We've done it! After what felt like years (despite being, like, basically the amount of time we spend on any book) we've completed The Dark Prophecy! How'd we like it? Let's see! This week on Unwise Girls we discuss the power of seething hatred, writing to the formula, one of the sicker uses so far of Apollo's temporary god magic, sonnets embodied and historical, Py...

The Dark Prophecy, ch. 32 to 37 The Unwise Girls have scratched and clawed their way back from the hellish depths of illness and pain for one reason and one reason only: to continue reading a sort of mediocre book. Woe to ye who listen! as we discuss the strange diffusion of conservationism across the pantheon and beyond, putting yourself in the way of redemption, women as mothers and dads as noth...

The Dark Prophecy, ch. 26 to 31 This week on Unwise Girls we discuss fanciful circus ringmasters and Rick's affinity for them, the continuation of the Jimmy/Jamie naming saga, Lityerses' rushed restoration and how it might rhyme with our main character, Thalia and Apollo's super super weird history, #resist, bandying about the idea of enslavement pretty wildly, and Meg's special aurasight. Come ba...

The Dark Prophecy, ch. 22 to 25 This week on Unwise Girls we talk about when Rick Riordan does and doesn't use characters' powers to underscore their arcs, when monsters become people, Jimmy and Jamie, a series of increasingly unfunny bits in prison, the immense gulf between Leo and Apollo, vindication for one of Jane's old theories, and Apollo's shaky ability to trust while he's vulnerable. Come...

Read Riordan Quizzes - plus, Ground Control! This week on Unwise Girls we take a bunch of quizzes after talking about Ground Control. Come back this weekend for Ground Control on moonshot.mov at 12pm est! Come back next week for The Dark Prophecy, ch. 22 to 25! Check out our Patreon! ( https://www.patreon.com/unwisegirls ) Follow the show ( https://twitter.com/unwisegirls ) Join our Discord! ( htt...

The Dark Prophecy, ch. 18 to 21 This week on Unwise Girls we talk about the circumstances when it's okay to make fun of someone's trauma, the continued adventures of gender dysphoric Apollo, dead boyfriend guilt, Narcissus and historical recontextualization, how power desensitizes you to the people around you, how the immortal anchor their sense of self to relationships with specific individuals,...

The Dark Prophecy ch. 14 to 17 This week on Unwise Girls we discuss when a change in characterization is necessary and when it can cut the impact of an arc off at the pass, the return of our new favorite dynamic, good ol' boys and country folk, the situational danger of swordfighters, and the impossibility of centering the Camp Half-Blood Chronicles in the real world while refusing to grapple with...

The Dark Prophecy ch. 10 to 13 This week on Unwise Girls we discuss Jane's unwise opinions on cauliflower, Meg's sick new fast travel power, magic 8 ball predictions, the funny new trend in characters that Rick Riordan doesn't want you to notice, more Horrible Histories talk, super brutal dreams, and the return of a beloved(?) Heroes of Olympus character. Come back next week for The Dark Prophecy,...

The Dark Prophecy ch. 6 to 9 He finally did it, everyone. This week on Unwise Girls, Rick Riordan has confirmed that lesbians aren't real. May god have mercy on our souls as we discuss the logistics of pantheon absorption, true-to-life relationship struggles, the return of Voldemorting, Jojo for some reason, and... oh, look, he left a few lesbians in the Waystation! Oh, they seem to be forming a f...

Tres Navarre, Book 2: The Widower's Two-Step (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 u...

The Dark Prophecy ch. 1 to 5 A new adventure this week! So let's see off Camp Half-Blood and... eh? Wait, what do you mean it's months and months later and they're already in Indiana?! Grumble grumble... okay, this week on Unwise Girls, we talk about the power of a timeskip, how Rick Riordan might try and reach the heights of Le Guin, pure hatred for Hoosiers and Hessians, Leo finally saying ACAB,...

The Hidden Oracle, ch. 35 to 39 This week on Unwise Girls, we close out The Hidden Oracle by talking about uncapitalized-on moments of angst, actually thematically relevant climaxes, MMO poison aura, an unexpectedly horny crossover, the surprising return of an old theory of Jane's, Rick's pachinko fixation, good people, carefully eliding relationship cleanup, the happy return of Hunkmuffin and com...