Join our Pride Month discussion as we explore the true meaning of pride and why many refer to this season as a gay Christmas.In this episode of the Scintillae Podcast we discuss Russel T Davies new gay centered Tv series for Channel 4 "tip toe" with Alan Cumming and David Morrissey and the issues with it from the point of view of two queer scholars.

Video essay mentioned is "We Have Always Existed | 2000 Years of Trans History" https://youtu.be/TtuHJ9DpZ6Y

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On the importance of Music in our formation years, Alisha's previous life in the music industry where she kidnapped musicians to ask them about Life, Death and Supermarkets.We talked specifically about how Alisha was involved with The Cranberries, how Dolores O'Riordan changed her life, The Libertines and being neighbours with Carl Barat, the importance of ethics and care in documenting and sharing about the life of artists she had been given access to, the prejudice against bands like Black veil Brides and Raven's love for the new female metal/hard rock artists such as Delilah Bon and @HailHarpy

You can check our previous life in music at @GinInTeacupsUK

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We discuss Estro Junkies, the novelisation of the serial "Ranked Competitive Breast growth" by Beth Leigh-Ann and Talia Bhatt.

Ranked Competitive Breast Growth follows the lives of competitors in the hottest new e-Sport in which cisgender men take estrogen in an attempt to grow the biggest breasts for a grand prize of $1 million. Trans women are strictly forbidden due to their biological advantage, but will that stop our heroes Nichole and Katherine from slipping under the radar and hiding the truth from the world and each other? Can a blonde femboy get the desi hunk of his dreams? And can Rupali save the world from the evils of the local Gay Straight Alliance?

Estro Junkies takes the characters we all know and love from the serial and puts them through the narrative gauntlet. Higher stakes, new relationships, and most importantly, devastating heart breaks that will make you feel sorry for Magic The Gathering players of all people.Get Estro Junkies at https://taliabhatt.itch.io/estro-junkiesJoin us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scintillaepodFind us on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@ScintillaePodFollow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/scintillaepod/

Scintillae Season Two begins with an exchange of myths between us: Raven as a devoted reader of Maria Ying’s Hades Calculus, Alisha sharing about reading Lore Olympus by Rachel Smythe in 36 hours straight, and the only Netflix project worth watching in the last decade which was therefore cancelled: KAOS! featuring Cardiffian actor Rakie Ayola in the role of Persephone.

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Our first guest is none other than a politician! Tessa Marshall is the Welsh Green Party candidate for Caedydd Penarth at the Senedd Elections of 7th May 2026 and a personal friend. In this episode we ask her everything we always wanted to ask a politician but never had the chance before! And she delivers!

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The Welsh Green Party : wales.greenparty.org.uk

If you heard of Zack Polanski, the leader of the UK Green party (some say he’s the British Zohran Mamdani) this is his podcast boldpoliticswithzack.com

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The romanticisation of abuse in dark romantasy. From Beauty and the Beast to Joss Whedon's Spike in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and the reinterpretation of the trope by white women since the 2000s with Stephenie Meyer's Twilight, Sarah J. Maas's A Court of Thorns and Roses, Deborah Harkness' A Discovery of Witches and yes, Tom Hiddleston's Loki to Astarion pipeline.

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CONTENT WARNING: DISCUSSIONS OF Suic!dE and Suic!dal Intrusive Thoughts. In this emergency episode we discuss the beginning of 2026 with the US attack of Venezuela, kidnapping its president and immediately casting their imperialistic eye onto Greenland, what that would mean for world diplomacy and the problematic possibility of it triggering World War 3 with some of the international intricacies explained

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00:59 How to "end" oneself

02:18 Religion and the right to end one's life

08:14 Venezuela to Greenland

14:25 Diplomacy and Democracy

20:23 the Birth of Propaganda

24:32 We are in a Plutarchy

29:02 capitalism patriarchy and r*pe culture

33:29 how can world war iii start now?

40:44 do the US want to go to war with Europe?

49:07 Bif Tannen and Donald Trump

50:28 The Rules

54:33 Nuclear Deterrents

56:53 build the skills to become partisans

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Philosophy Tube - Suic!de and Ment@l He@lth | Philosophy Tube ★https://youtube.com/watch?v=eQNw2FBdpyE

Devon Price Ph.D. - Laziness Does Not Exist

US https://bookshop.org/a/115825/9781982140113

UK https://uk.bookshop.org/a/15020/9781982140113

Annie Jacobsen - Nuclear War: A Scenario

US https://uk.bookshop.org/a/15020/9781804996003

UK https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/nuclear-war-a-scenario-annie-jacobsen/7598736?ean=9781804996003&next=t

Sheffield University - The Invisible Government: Edward Bernays, Public Relations and Propaganda

https://newhistories.sites.sheffield.ac.uk/volumes/2013-14/volume-5/issue-1-media/the-invisible-government-edward-bernays-public-relations-and-propaganda

@adamcurtisdocumentaries Hypernormalisation | Full Documentary | Adam Curtis

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gr7T07WfIhM