Analysis Roulette

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Analysis Roulette

One hundred (and one) works, twenty-four schools of analysis, one random number generator. You can read too much into anything if you try.

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    Christmas Special: Doctor Who Christmas Specials

    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 [email protected].

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    Bonus: Nightbane

    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 [email protected].

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    Bonus: Death of a Unicorn

    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 [email protected], or by commenting here, or by speaking your desires into the mind of your friendliest local unicorn.

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    Gaslight, Gatekeep, Gameboy: Dear Evan Hansen vs Zero Escape 999

    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 & Contrast.Your hosts are Dia and Duck, and you can contact us at [email protected] love you very much.

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    Dwarf Fortress: Create, Or Perish

    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 [email protected]. If you want to buy Dia a copy of Dwarf Fortress, you should email that address.

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    Lancelot Lives in a Society

    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 de Leigni.Your school of analysis is: New Historicist.Your hosts are Dia and Duck, and you can contact us at [email protected].

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    The Chalet School: Flour + Butter + Sugar + WW2

    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 [email protected].

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    Warrior Cats: Fireheart Was Dead To Begin With

    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 [email protected].

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    Neuralink: Brains, Souls and Basilisks

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

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    Elementary: Genius, Arrogance and Alan Turing

    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 [email protected].

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    Evermore Bonus: We Could Do Better

    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 [email protected]. If you'd like to give us large sums of money to run a theme park, that's the best way to get in touch. This is a bonus episode, because we talked about Elementary for two and a half hours and the edits aren't finished.

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    The Lord of the Rings: Is It Really That Bad?

    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 [email protected]. 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.

  13. 20

    Pride and Prejudice: The Wickham Defence Squad

    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 [email protected]. 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.

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    Evermore Park: Great Men, No Women

    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 [email protected].

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    The Addams Family: It's All Propaganda (Almost)

    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 [email protected].

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    Empire in Black and Gold: The Sword Is My Oedipus

    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 [email protected].

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    Our Flag Means Death: Atrocity Sitcom

    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 [email protected].

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    The School for Good and Evil: Story Construction Set

    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 [email protected].

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    The Land Before Time: Where's The T-Rex?

    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 [email protected].

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    Marie de France: Chivalric Gay Werewolves

    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 [email protected]. We are getting a lot less hate mail from the Flat Earth people than we expected. They have been very polite.

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    Lightlark: Bonus

    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 [email protected]. Transcript: https://analysisroulette.neocities.org/lightlark_bonus

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    Food Wars: The Only Surviving Evidence of Japan

    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 [email protected]. Please do not cancel us. We are aware of Japan. Transcript: https://analysisroulette.neocities.org/foodwars

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    Lightlark: These Old Men Need Therapy

    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 [email protected]

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    My Hero Academia: The Spiderman Revolution

    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 [email protected]

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    Yu-Gi-Oh: Self-Actualisation through the Other

    Your creative work is: Yu-Gi-Oh Season Zero. Your school of analysis is: Jungian. Your host are Dia and Duck. You can contact us at [email protected].

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    Elder Scrolls: The Gospel According To Uriel Septim

    Your creative work is: the Elder Scrolls series of video games. Your mode of analysis is: religious allegory. Your hosts are Dia and Duck, and you can contact us at [email protected].

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    Hamlet: The Possibility of Gay Stuff

    Your creative work is: Hamlet, by William Shakespeare Your school of analysis is: Queer Reading. Your hosts are Dia (they/them) and Duck (he/they). Email us at [email protected]. Transcript: https://analysisroulette.neocities.org/hamlet We welcome our Hamlet-related cancellation.

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    Dragonriders of Pern: Society by Design

    Your creative work is: the Dragonriders of Pern series, by Anne McCaffrey. Your school of analysis is: Marxist. Your hosts are Dia (they/them) and Duck (he/they). Email us at [email protected]. Transcript: https://analysisroulette.neocities.org/pern

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    Flat Earth: A Field of Human Endeavour

    Your creative work is: the collective writings of the Flat Earth theorists. Your school of analysis is: ideological. Your hosts are Dia (they/them) and Duck (he/they). Email us at [email protected]. Please do not send us hate mail. Transcript: https://analysisroulette.neocities.org/flatearth Sources: LEVEL - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXU10zS1zFk Zetetic Astronomy: https://ia802606.us.archive.org/7/items/zeteticastronom00rowbgoog/zeteticastronom00rowbgoog.pdf Eric Dubay: Why Is Flat Earth Important? - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjV02VwfTwA Eric Dubay: The Secret Society Network - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llhuUFTEQJ4 The Flat Earth Society wiki: https://wiki.tfes.org/The_Flat_Earth_Wiki in particular, The Conspiracy: https://wiki.tfes.org/The_Conspiracy and The Three-Body Problem: https://wiki.tfes.org/Three_Body_Problem

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    Shazam: Evil Is An Option

    Your creative work is: Shazam. Your school of analysis is: the Innocent/Abuser Paradigm. Your hosts are Dia (they/them) and Duck (he/they). Email us at [email protected]. Transcript: https://analysisroulette.neocities.org/shazam

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    Howl's Moving Castle: Dream Logic

    Your creative work is: Howl's Moving Castle. Your school of analysis is: Post-structural. Your hosts are Dia (they/them) and Duck (he/they). Email us at [email protected]. Transcript: https://analysisroulette.neocities.org/howl

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    Analysis Roulette: The First Rolls

    Welcome to Analysis Roulette, a podcast applying a randomly selected mode of analysis to a randomly selected creative work, just to see what happens. Your hosts are Dia (they/them) and Duck (he/they). Email us at [email protected]. Transcript: https://analysisroulette.neocities.org/first

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One hundred (and one) works, twenty-four schools of analysis, one random number generator. You can read too much into anything if you try.

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