Hello, and welcome to the Nauticast podcast, the one true chapter-by-chapter podcast going through a song of ice and fire.

I'm one of your hosts Emmett, also known as Port Quentin.

And I'm your other host, Manu, also known as Nuclear Bomb.

And welcome to the 204th episode of the Nauticast titled Ghost Stories, an analysis

of a Storm of Swords, Brand 4, in which team Brann arrives at the night fort to find that all

the stories about this place are true. Well, not really. Kind of. It's confusing. It's all lies,

but they're entertaining lies. And in the end, isn't that the real

truth? The answer is no. I guess our work is done here. And we're very excited to have on our

special guest for this episode. I've had them on for a previous episode, a solo episode on our own.

But first time on the main cast, please welcome Lowe, aka Lodilinks.

Thanks for coming on.

Hi, thank you for having me.

So for those who don't know me, I'm Lowe, and my pronouns are day them.

Some of you might know me as Lodilings from various social media sites or fandom slacks or Discord.

I also have a blog at loadlinks.workpress.com where I post analysis of Aswaffe and other

media, focusing on social structures and norms, mainly surrounding gender, sexuality, class, race,

and disability.

I'm also starting a new podcast called Ragmans Harbor with my friend Vigini, who some of you might know from

different A-Swath spaces. We're going to talk A-Swaff and parallels to real-world history and culture,

but from the perspective of people who don't come from English-speaking countries.

And we're also hoping to have on various guests from different parts of the world to uplift

different perspectives in the world to uplift different

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