Hello and welcome to a very very special not a cast, a podcast, a podcast that usually goes

to the song of ice and fire one chapter a week, but not here. Oh no, not here. I'm your host

Emmett, better known as Poor Quentin. My co-host Jeff, better known as Brinton Beefish,

is taking a couple months off the podcast

for work-related reasons. Soon as he's back, we'll be presuming the regular weekly

podcast with a Storm of Swords, and we expect that to be in late July, early August.

Until then, I'll be putting out weekly episodes with rotating guest hosts on a variety

of topics, as well as audio and text posts of my own. And I'm very happy to welcome my guest for this episode.

Lo, thank you so much for coming on.

Thank you so much for having me.

Your podcast is one of the first ones I listened to when I started listening to Acewof

podcast.

So this is really, really fun for me.

Thank you.

Hello, everyone.

I'm Lo, some of you might know me as

loaded links on Twitter. My pronouns are day dem. I also have a blog, loaded links.org

WordPress.com. And if some of you are currently trying to figure out what the heck my accent is,

it's Swedish. I'm born, raised and live in

Sweden. So yeah, that's me. So what we wanted to talk about today is the issue of gender in

relation to a lot of the main characters in the Song of Ice and Fire. And this is something you've

always, I think, written and spoke really eloquently

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