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Published: April 21, 2011, 1:19 p.m.

Joined by Clover from our sibling cast "Scrolls", the dithering duo turn their gaze on the gender, sex and relationships in that double-headed genre hydra that is Fantasy and Fairy Tales. Along the dark paths far from those we know, we encounter:

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• Disney Princesses
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• Kehaars's younger, death-metal listening self
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• Are Soap Operas todays fairy tales?
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• Strong Characters vs Strong Characterisation
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• Game of Thrones, The Silmarrilion and Tolkien's Ladies, and women in Fantasy Cover Art
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• Same-sex relationships in fantasy and history.
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• Jarvis Cocker's attitude to pornography
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• And because it's been a\xa0 while....Roman attitudes to sex.
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Wikipedia's article on the Monomyth is far more erudite than Matt and can be found here;\xa0http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monomyth
More of Clover can be heard on Scrolls, here\xa0http://geeksyndicate.wordpress.com/category/gs-podcast-network/scrolls/

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\nKehaar\u2019s game related musings can be found here\xa0http://clarkythecruel.wordpress.com/\xa0and his current RPG campaign here\xa0http://alfiesantics.wordpress.com/\nMatt\u2019s literary reviews are on the Geek Syndicate site (http://www.geeksyndicate.co.uk/)\xa0under the Tolkien Gestures column.