12 And the dragons danced (HotD season 2 discussion w/Bidonica)

In this episode we discuss season 2 of House of the Dragon with a special guest, Bidonica! Together we talk about art in ASOIAF/HotD compared to the history of art in our world, (trans)gender politics in HotD and our world, language and power, class politics, and more! 

And also why Italian fan artists draw Sansa with dark hair... 

 

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Where to find Bidonica:

https://x.com/bidonica1

https://bidonicart.tumblr.com/

https://bidonica.tumblr.com/

 

Art in HotD tag: https://bidonica.tumblr.com/tagged/art%20in%20hotd

Art in Westeros: https://bidonica.tumblr.com/tagged/art%20in%20westeros 

 

Bidonica's references:

Umberto Eco, Il nome della rosa, Bompiani 1980 

Pentiment (videogame) 

Proserpine (artwork by Dante Gabriel Rossetti)

Ellen Terry as Lady MacBeth (artwork by John Singer Sargent)

Dance (artwork by Henri Matisse)

Erotic revelry - Athenian Red Figure column krater

 

Lo's references:

“Missbrukad kvinnokraft” - Ellen Key

“Fenixelden: Drottning Kristina som alkemist” by Susanna Åkerman

”A brief trans history” - Lo

“Writing migration through the body” by Emma Bond

“The Queerly Departed: Narratives of Veneration in the Burials of Late Iron Age Scandinavia” by Lee Colwil 

“Magic, Genderfluidity, and queer Vikings ca. 750-1050” by Jacob Bell

“Fa'afafine, fakaleitī, fakafifine — understanding the Pacific's alternative gender expressions” by Alan Weedon

“What does “Two-Spirit” Mean?” - by Geo Neptune

 

Virginie's references:

Leitis in Waiting (documentary)

Kumo Hina (documentary). And a shorter clip from the documentary, explaining what māhū is.

Ragman's Harbour episode 2 "Of Scandals and bastards" (references for all discussions about bastards can be found there!)

 

Thank you LittleWolfBird for the sound engineering, and thank you to Matt Graham for the theme music with sounds from zapsplat.com!