We’re joined by Autumn from Ornate Stairwells to talk about our top ten first watches of 2025 which somehow became eleven movies for each of us. We were going to do this on the most recent Ornate Stairwells (covering AI: Artificial Intelligence!) but we didn’t get around to it despite four hours of podcasting! After that, Em and Niamh do our usual check ins about what we’ve been up to over New Years holiday.

Things Discussed: Autumn guests, Top 11 First Watches of 2025 (Niamh’s list, Em’s list, Autumn’s list), Niamh’s Yule, Hololive card game, Be Pretty and Shut up!, tiktok, Trans/Rad/Fem, moving thoughts, Lick My Wounds, Decades Old

See the show schedule here! This’ll tell you which versions of books and which sections of those books we’re reading each week.

Niamh podcasts on Export Audio with Ghost Divers and Ornate Stairwells. Fae posts on bluesky at foxmomnia.exportaud.io

Em hosts Abnormal Mapping and Repertory Screenings on abnormalmapping.com and also is the Pokemon Master of Ceremonies on The Great Gundam Project. She posts on bluesky at shirokumahi.me

Next episode: The Iliad, book 13, from The Iliad, Homer, trans. Emily Wilson (W. W. Norton & Company)