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Big Houses and Little People

Posted on January 21, 2026 by Nathan

SPOILERS for all three of the movies we watched this past weekend. Martha Marcy May Marlene – This is a movie Beth put on our to-watch list several years ago, and we only just got around to seeing. Elizabeth Olsen plays a … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Celtic, Cults, Dreams, Drugs, Health, Holidays, Humor, Magic, Monsters, Mythology, Prejudice, Relationships, Religion, VoVat Goes to the Movies | Tagged anatomy of a fall, cats, dogs, elizabeth olsen, fairies, law, leprechaun, leprechaun 2, leprechauns, martha marcy may marlene, murder, rape, warwick davis | Leave a comment

Sow What?

Posted on January 19, 2026 by Nathan

One myth I heard about recently on an episode of the Let’s Talk About Myths, Baby podcast from last year wasn’t Greek, but Sumerian. It involves the god Enki, a trickster who is in charge of fresh water. He meets … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Christianity, Food, Judaism, Language, Mythology, Names, Religion, Sumerian | Tagged abu, adam and eve, azimua, bible, creation, dilmun, enki, enlil, ensag, foxes, garden of eden, genesis, incest, isimud, let's talk about myths baby, nanshe, ningiriutud, ninhursag, ninkurra, ninmah, ninsaki, ninsar, ninsikili, rape, uttu | Leave a comment

Another Day Older and Deeper in Debt

Posted on January 15, 2026 by Nathan

Clockwork Boys, by T. Kingfisher – This is the first book the author wrote in what became known as the World of the White Rat. Part of her goal in writing it was to counteract how paladins often appear in … Continue reading →

Posted in Authors, Book Reviews, Capitalism, Celtic, Corporations, Economics, Food, Magic, Mythology, Names, october daye, Politics, Prejudice, Religion, seanan mcguire, Socialism, ursula vernon, William Shakespeare | Tagged anuket city, clocktaur war, clockwork boys, demons, exorcism, fairies, glastig, gnoles, grimehug, immigration, industry, jurgis rudkus, learned edmund, merrows, mike scully, misogyny, paladins, rape, rats, satyrs, seas and shores, silver and lead, t. kingfisher, the jungle, titania, unions, upton sinclair | 1 Comment

Too Many Books

Posted on November 26, 2025 by Nathan

I seem to be finishing a lot of books as of late, which means this post is going to be pretty long, even if the individual reviews aren’t. Bear with me, I guess. The Way Home, by Peter S. Beagle … Continue reading →

Posted in Animal Crossing, Animals, Art, Authors, barsoom, Book Reviews, Brentford Trilogy, Comics, Crusades, edgar rice burroughs, elvis presley, Fairy Tales, Food, Greek Mythology, History, Humor, Judaism, Magic, Mario, Middle East, Monsters, Music, Mythology, Names, Percy Jackson, Relationships, Religion, Rick Riordan, Robert Rankin, Roman, Video Games | Tagged a fate worse than dragons, abraham, adam and eve, alexander the great, amazons, animal crossing new horizons, babylon, barry the time sprout, bible, blathers, boos, caleb cook, camp jupiter, cats, daniel, dejah thoris, demons, deserted island diary, dionysus, django wexler, dogs, dragons, esther, fairies, frogs, genesis, geoffrey de bouillon, gertrude landa, ghosts, giants, griffins, gulliver, how to become the dark lord and die trying, idols, jerusalem, jewish fairy tales and legends, john carter, john moore, king alexander's adventures, king david, king for three days, king hiram of tyre, kokonasu rumba, laverna, manga, mark oshiro, mars, minotaur, moses, nico di angelo, nimrod, noah, noah's ark, normanghast, og of bashan, orcs, paradise, peter s. beagle, phobos, pirithous, queen mary tudor, rape, rashi, sambation river, schmendrick, semele, sinbad of the talmud, sinbad the sailor, sol aronson, sooz, super mario adventures, swords of mars, talmud, tantalus, the court of the dead, the fairy frog, the giant of the flood, the higgedly-piggedly palace, the last unicorn, the paradise in the sea, the princess bride, the quarrel of the cat and dog, the sleep of one hundred years, the star-child, the story of bostanai, the water-babe, the way home, theseus, time loops, timmy and tommy nookling, tom nook, two hearts, underworld, will solace, wisp, ziz | 1 Comment

There’s Always a Place for the Angry Young Man

Posted on August 19, 2025 by Nathan

SPOILER WARNING! Switchblade Sisters – Beth remembered watching this 1975 exploitation film about a teenage girl gang when she was a kid, and she talks about it sometimes, so I figured I should watch it as well. It’s amusing, although … Continue reading →

Posted in Authors, Families, Humor, Magic, Music, Television, VoVat Goes to the Movies, William Shakespeare | Tagged an innocent man, and so it goes, billy joel, glass houses, iago, kitty bruce, leatherface, mystery, othello, patton oswalt, quentin tarantino, rape, switchblade sisters, the texas chain saw massacre, weapons, witchcraft, witches | 1 Comment

Identifying Impurities

Posted on July 8, 2025 by Nathan

I was thinking recently about how bizarre the view on sex is in some religious communities. When I saw John Waters, he made a joke about how asexuals are just Catholics. It was funny, but from what I’ve gathered, asexuals … Continue reading →

Posted in Catholicism, Christianity, Drugs, Language, Relationships, Religion, Sexuality | Tagged abstinence, addiction, bible, deuteronomy, john waters, just say no, law, marriage, nancy reagan, pornography, purity culture, radio, rape, sex, temptation | Leave a comment

Curse, Chorus, Curse

Posted on February 17, 2025 by Nathan

I’ve finally finished watching Once Upon a Time, which I actually started when it was still being made, but stopped for a few years. And it’s taken me a while to get through all of it. I enjoyed it, although … Continue reading →

Posted in Arthurian Legend, Authors, British, Characters, Fairy Tales, Focus on the Foes, Greek Mythology, jules verne, Lewis Carroll, Magic, Mythology, Names, Once Upon a Time, Oz, Relationships, Television | Tagged 101 dalmatians, 20000 leagues under the sea, aladdin, alcmene, alice in wonderland, anna of arendelle, beauty and the beast, belle, bill willingham, captain james hook, captain nemo, cinderella, cruella de vil, disney's aladdin, dorothy gale, dr. jekyll and mr. hyde, elsa of arendelle, fables, frankenstein, frozen, hades, hans christian andersen, hercules, into the woods, james barrie, king arthur, maid marian, peter pan, rape, robin hood, rumplestiltskin, snow white, snow white and the seven dwarfs, the count of monte cristo, the snow queen, wicked witch of the west, witches, zeus | 4 Comments

Are Ewoks Too Woke?

Posted on May 9, 2024 by Nathan

This time, we have one movie, one television show, and one made-for-TV movie, all with SPOILERS. The Mist – Based on a Stephen King story, this has a pretty claustrophobic premise. After a severe storm, many of the residents in … Continue reading →

Posted in Magic, Monsters, Relationships, Religion, Star Wars, Television, VoVat Goes to the Movies | Tagged abuse, aliens, baby reindeer, caravan of courage an ewok adventure, endor, ewoks, ewoks battle for endor, noa briqualon, rape, richard gadd, sexuality, stephen king, the mist, Wilford Brimley | Leave a comment

Exhausted from Oversleep

Posted on January 5, 2024 by Nathan

Beth has given me a few eBooks from Amelia Carruthers’ Origins of Fairy Tales from Around the World series as gifts, although I don’t think I’ve written about any of them yet. They each contain multiple versions of a well-known fairy … Continue reading →

Posted in African, Animals, Arabian, Art, Book Reviews, Christianity, Egyptian, Fairy Tales, Magic, Monsters, Music, Mythology, Norse, Religion | Tagged adam and eve, amelia carruthers, andrew lang, bluebeard, brunhilda, charles perrault, dragons, dwarves, liz phair, matakin, medea, nellie mckay, odin, ogres, origins of fairy tales from around the world, prunella, rakshasas, rape, rapunzel, rapunzel and other fair maidens in very tall towers, rudabeh and zal, seven-league boots, siegfried, sigurd, sleeping beauty, sleeping beauty and other tales of slumbering princesses, st. barbara, sun moon and talia, valkyries, vasilisa the fair, volsunga saga | Leave a comment

The Seas with Nemo and Friends

Posted on July 6, 2023 by Nathan

Five Portraits, by Piers Anthony – I was up to date on the Xanth series for a little while, but then I fell behind again. This one is from 2013, and doesn’t particularly deviate from the formula, although it does … Continue reading →

Posted in Authors, Book Reviews, Humor, Magic, Names, october daye, Piers Anthony, Relationships, seanan mcguire, Xanth | Tagged a killing frost, a thousand recipes for revenge, basilisk, beth cato, captain nemo, demons, fairies, five portraits, jules verne, nautilus, oberon, puns, rape, shine in pearl, south pole, twenty thousand leagues under the sea | Leave a comment

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Sow What?

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Too Many Books

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