Come hang out with the SSTTL cast and crew as we answer fan questions and chat! Episode includes writers Aysha U Farah and E Jade Lomax, actors Ishani Kanetkar, Jorin Baas, and Matthew Zahnzinger, and director/editor Rachel Kellum. Want to see more of the stories we create? Come find us on twitter (E Jade @ejadelomax, Aysha @ayshaufarah, Ishani @is…

The End. Read the transcript here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1dXWXBl_HdRf83n-tzxVRtvEPVX5f9L69/view?usp=sharing Sound credits: "beep pager.wav" by AGFX https://freesound.org/s/20440/ "birdie" by Metzik https://freesound.org/s/387540/ "Rocket Launch" by primeval_polypod https://freesound.org/s/158894/ "Tui, Cicadas, Quarry (1)" by Mings https:…

A settlement officer arrives on Euphoria Station. Guest starring Aysha Farah and Jonny Sims. Read the transcript here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1gMsbStdfOu1gzAMloSxYuso_RpwlIuMj/view?usp=sharing Sound Credits: Cold Breeze Ambience.wav by SiyaMahlobo https://freesound.org/s/492807/ Desert at Night by kangaroovindaloo https://freesound.org/s/1…

A conference call. Special guest stars: Matthew Zahnzinger, Jonny Sims, Aysha Farah Read the transcript here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HTToLDhJvuv0bMpif59MK-aq2uxw_vUz/view?usp=sharing credits: "birdie" by Metzik https://freesound.org/s/387540/ "door" by tlwmdbt https://freesound.org/s/165862/ "Tui, Cicadas, Quarry, 3" by mings https://free…

Gwen and Bell consider the aftermath. Read the transcript here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1nG608rlezd3JT8Q_42134olXHrhpUA_a/view?usp=sharing Sound credits: "birdie" by Metzik https://freesound.org/s/387540/ "Bobcat moving pallets etc Part 1 080320.wav" by Boiling Sand https://freesound.org/s/50662/ "Lying on bed" by avakas https://freesound.o…

Gwen and Bell struggle to keep Gwen safe when wildfires strike near her home base. Transcript: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1AM0U8QyCZZu7DJAaiuo7KBDsDUrixkqb/view?usp=sharing sound credits "Bobcat moving pallets etc Part 1 080320.wav" by Boiling Sand https://freesound.org/s/50662/ "Metal Shaking" by qubodup https://freesound.org/s/216745/ "Rare …

Gwen listens to some recordings and comes to some conclusions. Read the transcript here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/11mrWjo0O4OY_KoKq9P8wq0JKtxU83T1G39eD38OGRHM/edit?usp=sharing Content warning for off-screen death from respiratory-related issue. Additional Sound Credits: "birdie" by Metzik https://freesound.org/people/Metzik/sounds/387540/…

Bell hears from Mikail. Read the transcript here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/16jKOJK9qIB76f4QGRgXsN2h1qFx8jSdY/view?usp=sharing Additional sound effects: "200250-erick-bloem-sd100-office-chair" by erickbloem-200250 https://freesound.org/people/ErickBloem_200250/sounds/542791/ "Ambience - Cosmic Rain - 01.wav" by GregorQuendel https://freesound…

While Gwen takes a routine mapping and surveying journey toward the edge of the liveable zone on her planet, Bell deals with problems on their space station and some concerning news--or lack of news--from Mikail. Transcript: https://drive.google.com/file/d/13fKSFppLCool8s0Wa3saQHMbtoQW2CqN/view?usp=sharing Sound Design Credits: "20200127_little.tow…

As Gwen and Boots get used to their new planet (and their new scout-minder, Bell) they receive news from Gwen's scouting school cohort. TRANSCRIPT: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1EM_50VYwsWtqk6x8fSxBA0tVfzLC2Saf/view?usp=sharing Sound credits: "River Flute" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licens…

After a long space voyage, Scout-Explorer Gwendolyn Hartley lands on planet Delta-Gamma-One-Four-Six-Two, ready to begin her five-year solitary mission to map and prepare the planet for settlement, but she’s got slightly more company than she expected... Read transcript here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1kb_xFQZgGIaISdcayFkENlNaAb4lm5HB/view?us…

Missing the things she’s lost or left behind, planetary scout-explorer Gwen is determined to love and protect her new home. Cautious and stubborn, her scout-minder Bell is determined to get all their scouts through this alive. They didn’t intend to fall for a place-- or a face-- that they’ve never seen.…

A brief excerpt of Second Star to the Left Episode One, featuring ISHANI KANETKAR as GWEN HARTLEY and JORIN BAAS as BELL SUMMERS. Launching FEBRUARY 20 2021! "As scout-explorer Gwen settles down on the uninhabited planet that is her five year mission, she finds herself less alone than she expected..." Created by Aysha Farah and E. Jade Lomax. Direc…

We sort Gideon the Ninth and Harrow the Ninth, the first two installments of Tamsyn Muir's trilogy about some lesbian space nun necromancers stuck in puzzle-box murder mysteries. We're eagerly awaiting book three, which will prove all our sortings wrong, probably. These books are stories of puns, of gay gazes, of insidious horror, of direct, gore-s…

Let's chat about Bow & Glimmer's similarities in their sortings, and why it leads to such a disastrous break between them in the penultimate season; about why Catra has a hard time understanding Adora's decisions and loyalties in a new context; about how Adora puts her faith in powers external to her (her battle plans, her sword) when the real She-…

This episode includes: Zuko and Katara as narrative foils -- similar characters with similar motivations and methods who start out on opposite sides of the same war; Toph, Aang, and Azula as characters with the same slippery, easy-breezy, adaptively powerful Secondary; Sokka as a rare Ravenclaw & how his and Katara's sortings & models interact with…

Trans rights are human rights. Just FYI. This episode, with guest Jules Lomax, we sort tv drama The Untamed, with some nods to its source novel. A world of swords, necromancy, love, and betrayal, it's also a world with a hell of a lot of Slytherins. Read the details of our sorting system or take our interactive quiz at sortinghatchats.wordpress.com…

What does it mean to give your heart to a falling star? Is Sophie building a community or attracting an army? Why is Howl so much more unhappy in the movie? We discuss and sort the characters of Howl's Moving Castle-- both Diana Wynne Jones's book and Miyazaki's animated film. Read the details of our sorting system or take our interactive quiz at s…

We sort philosophical sitcom The Good Place and discover that the four "cockroaches" make a rainbow of Houses. Find out more about our Sorting Hat Chats system (and take our Sorting quiz!) at https://sortinghatchats.wordpress.com.By Sorting Hat Chats

We sort Geralt of Rivia, Yennefer, Ciri, and Jaskier/Dandelion.By Sorting Hat Chats

We introduce the Sorting Hat Chats system, and sort The Hunger Games, a canon heavy with intense Gryffindors and Slytherins. Transcript available at sortinghatchats.wordpress.comBy Sorting Hat Chats