Welcome back to Game of Thrones 2, Electric Blue Galu, I'm yours Anthony.

I can't tell you how excited I am about today's podcast.

I get to talk about Arya, she's my favorite and and I found the person, the only person

the world that loves Arya more than I do.

That's Elisa Wolfwork.

You'll remember her because she was one of my first electric blue guests.

She is a professor of English literature at University of Virginia, she specializes

in African American literature.

She loves Game of Thrones and we're getting on a couple writing projects, one relates to

Lovecraft Country.

I'm a huge fan of that show so I'm looking forward to see what she writes about that.

When she's done I'm hoping to maybe put a link to her essay in the show notes.

That'll probably be a few months from now before she's actually done.

So Elisa and I indulge in our conversation about our favorite character Arya Stark.

Steven and I talk about walk of punishment, you will remember this episode very well for

how it ends.

I won't say more about it now.

And then I thought the Q&A with Jana Matthews this week worked really well as a bird's

eye view.

So I've included that question for Jana at the very end in lieu of a bird's eye view.

Here is Professor Lisa Wolforc.

I don't know about you but whenever I flip the page and I see Arya's name at the top

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