#The Harrowing of Minerva Damson

[glassfullofsass]

Do you like Tamora Pierce? Do you like horror?

I've convinced Leverage watchers to listen to TSCoSI (and vice versa), now let's see if I can convince my Tortall babes to listen to The Harrowing of Minerva Damson.

Prepare for: Lady knights! Magic! Powerful cat-shaped creatures! Monsters!

Did you read In the Hand of the Goddess and think "but what if it was only the bits where they fight the Tusaines over the River Dell? What if the monsters were here already? What if Roger was only a shape in the mist but still as evil and powerful?" Did you get to Lady Knight and say "Yes, more death. More unkillable creatures. More terror."?

Listen to S1, The Knight of the Unquiet Dead. Trench warfare. Vampires. Sorcerers. Ghouls. A magical cat. Made up magical spells that work by the power of friendship and sheer necessity. A Lady Knight (Minerva) who Is The Authority Here, Thank You, and also is So Tired (TM). Alanna's personality facing Kel's war.

Not quite ready to commit, but horror is your flavor?

Try the first inter-season arc, Chevalier, which features the same setting but different characters. One necromancer, two Lady Knights, three magical horses, four (?) vampires (and some nauseating gore), and healing from your grief by learning to survive. Still a lot of those Alanna and Kel vibes, but also giving Bekka Cooper: gritty, dark, bare-knuckled and bloody. Cat not included.

Missing the cat?

It's back in S2, Black as Knight. It's smug, dangerous, and clever, but so is our returning heroine Minerva. Also my TMA girlies will feel right at home in the cave episodes (Buried babes can I get an amen?). A friendly (and dilf-able) werewolf garwalf, binding terms and conditions, gargoyles tearing the absolute shit out of some soldiers. Again, giving Alanna in her Rides era, but put that attitude in the plot of Rampant. Also giving Kel's willingness to sacrifice just about anything to save people.

Need a different pace?

Inter-season arc 2, Goliad Gabby is all Verlidaine (just Daine) Sarrasri. The plot is literally country bumpkin sharpshooter slays the big bad monster with help from her trusty animal companions. There's even a real rom-com shaped happily-ever-after for this one! (for real though. The gore? a little icky. The Big Romantic Speech? I couldn't make it through.) Gabriella Gabby is just your average Texas Trickshot, until the Order of Joan recruits her personally to put her skills to use. Also reminded of Bekka's grit here too. No isn't really an answer when there's work to be done.

Now, I have read Circle, but I don't have those stories soaked into my bones well enough to pull comparisons out as readily... I will say the very grim and horrific realities of war that Pierce digs her pen into in Melting Stones and Battle Magic are very present throughout the podcast. It's labeled horror for a reason. Check the CWs and take care of yourselves <3

Also, did I mention, the premise of the universe is based on Joan of Arc inspiring a cloister of nuns to become knights and fight monsters?

The production team has more projects in the works, and hopefully the third Minerva season will be released in the next few months (early 2024). They have a website, patreon, instagram, a rather defunct tumblr (@the-joaniverse), and all the usual podcast platforms.

[saintfu]

From the website:

It is March, 1915 in France, and just behind the front lines a woman is running for her life. She does not run from enemy soldiers or falling mortars; a far more sinister creature stalks her, one created by bloodshed and black magic. This is the newest threat in a war growing uglier by the day, and it won't be the last. Or the worst.

But this woman is not a civilian. As a knight of the Order of Joan, she is only one of a legion of women with a long history of monster hunting. So when she runs, she does not do so blindly; it's all part of the larger plan.

[boombox-fuckboy]

any podcast recommendations for guys Going Through It. im a sucker for whump and i’ve already listened to TMA and Malevolent sooo

Fiction Podcasts: Characters Going Through It / Experiencing the Horrors

Gore warning for most, here's 15 to get you started:

I am in Eskew: (Horror) David Ward is arguably the Guy Going Through It. Stories from a man living in something that very much wants to be a city, and a private investigator who was, in her words, "hired to kill a ghost". Calmly recounted stories set to Eskew's own gentle, persistent rain. The audio quality's a bit naff but the writing is spectacular. If you like the writing, also check out The Silt Verses, which is a brilliant show by the same creators.

VAST Horizon: (Sci-Fi, Horror, Thriller/Suspense Elements) And Dr. Nolira Ek is arguably the Gal Going Through it. An agronomist wakes from cryo to discover the ship she's on is dead in the water, far from their destination, and seemingly empty, barring the ship's malfunctioning AI, and an unclear reading on the monitors. I think you'll like this one. Great sound design, amazing acting, neat worldbuilding, and plenty of awful situations.

Dining in the Void: (Horror, Sci-Fi) So, the initial pacing on this one is a little weird, but stick with it. A collection of notable people are invited to a dinner aboard a space station, and find not only are they trapped there, but they're on a timer until total station destruction: unless they can figure out who's responsible. And there's someone else aboard to run a few games, just to make things more interesting. The games are frequently torturous. If that wasn't clear.

The White Vault: (Horror) By the same creators as VAST Horizon, this one follows a group sent to a remote arctic research base to diagnose and repair a problem. Trapped inside by persistant snow and wind, they discover something very interesting below their feet. Really well made show. The going through it is more spread out but there's a lot of it happening.

Archive 81: (Horror, Weird Fiction, Mystery and Urban Fantasy Elements) A young archivist is commissioned to digitize a series of tapes containing strange housing records from the 1990s. He has an increasingly bad time. Each season is connected but a bit different, so if S1 (relatively short) doesn't catch your ear, hang in for S2. You've got isolation, degredation of relationships, dehumanisation, and a fair amount of gore. And body horror on a sympathetic character is so underdone.

The Harrowing of Minerva Damson: (Fantasy, Horror) In an alternate version of our own world with supernatural monsters and basic magic, an order of women knights dedicated to managing such problems has survived all the way to the world wars, and one of them is doing her best with what she's got in the middle of it all.

SAYER: (Horror, Sci-Fi) How would you like to be the guy going through it? A series of sophisticated AI guide you soothingly through an array of mundane and horrible tasks.

WOE.BEGONE: (Sci-Fi) I don't keep up with this one any more, but I think Mike Walters goes through enough to qualify it. Even if it's frequently his own fault. A guy gets immediately in over his head when he begins to play an augmented reality game of entirely different sort. Or, the time-travel murder game.

Janus Descending: (Sci-Fi, Horror, Tragedy) A xenobiologist and a xenoanthropologist visit a dead city on a distant world, and find something awful. You hear her logs first-to-last, and his last-to-first, which is interesting framing but also makes the whole thing more painful. The audio equivalent of having your heart pulled out and ditched at the nearest wall. Listen to the supercut.

The Blood Crow Stories: (Horror) A different story every season. S1 is aboard a doomed cruise ship set during WWII, S2 is a horror western, S3 is cyberpunk with demons, and S4 is golden age cinema with a ghostly influence.

Mabel: (Supernatural, Horror, Fantasy Elements) The caretaker of a dying woman attempts to contact her granddaughter, leaving a series of increasingly unhinged voicemails. Supernatural history transitioning to poetic fae lesbian body horror.

Jar of Rebuke: (Supernatural) An amnesiac researcher with difficulties staying dead investigates strange creatures, eats tasty food, and even makes a few friends while exploring the town they live in. A character who doesn't stay dead creates a lot of scenarios for dying in interesting ways

The Waystation: (Sci-Fi, Horror) A space station picks up an odd piece of space junk which begins to have a bizzare effect on some of the crew. The rest of it? Doesn't react so well to this spreading strangeness. Some great nailgun-related noises.

Station Blue: (Psychological Horror) A drifting man takes a job as a repair technician and maintenance guy for an antarctic research base, ahead of the staff's arrival. He recounts how he got there, as his time in the base and some bizzare details about it begin to get to him. People tend to either quite like this one or don't really get the point of it, but I found it a fascinating listen.

The Hotel: (Horror) Stories from a "Hotel" which kills people, and the strange entities that make it happen. It's better than I'm making it sound, well-made with creative deaths, great sound work, and a strange staff which suffer as much as the guests. Worth checking out.

[boombox-fuckboy]

This is a very solid list. If I may add:

The Antique Shop: (Supernatural, Urban Fantasy) University student Maya takes a job at an antique shop run by the enigmatic Madame Norna. Every item in the shop is strange in its own way, but often it takes someone buying it to find out what.

Counterbalance: (Fantasy, Adventure) Three individuals go on a quest to fix a hole in the very fabric of magic itself. A well-detailed world, interesting magic and magitech, and a refreshing array of accents.

Desperado: (Urban Fantasy, Supernatural, Adventure, Action, Horror Elements) Three young people, all under the patronage of death gods, end up travelling together for different reasons: For safety, for revenge, and to kill The Old Man in The Sky. Interesting worldbuilding, great fight scenes, and exceptional banter.

The Harrowing of Minerva Damson: (Horror, Historical, Fantasy, Action, Supernatural) Set in alternate past during the first world war, where an order of monster-hunting lady knights has persisted for centuries. Featuring undead, headless horseman, unicorns, werewolves, and more, this one does not hold back on visceral violence.

Inn Between: (Fantasy, Adventure) Every wondered what your tabletop characters get up to at the tavern between adventures? With the main story told in "previously on" and "next time on" segments, Inn Between follows 5 adventurers on a grand quest, as they grow as people, and as a family. Not a tabletop.

Sidequesting: (Fantasy, Adventure, All-Ages) Rion is an adventurer like no other: they only do side quests. So long as it doesn't involve that evil wizard they keep hearing about, they're willing to give a hand to anyone who needs it, and find themself in some interesting scenarios as a result. This one is wholesome and good for the heart.

Skyjacks: Courier's Call: (Fantasy, Adventure, Comedy, Tabletop, All-Ages) Three lively young teens set out on an exciting adventure as apprentice posties on a skyship. Featuring giant birds, sky pirates, strange magic, and original worldbuilding. This is a spinoff of Campaign: Skyjacks, which is also very good.

Starfall: (Fantasy, Adventure, Slice of Life Elements) Leona, mysterious swordswoman fleeing an unkind past life, joins up with an acting troupe. Stagehand Fel, escaping a past of his own, takes a shine to her and helps introduce the (both literal and metaphorical) magic of theatre.

The Stonesinger Chronicles: (Fantasy) A brilliantly talented travelling mage takes on two unconventional young students and finds her hands full for every unexpected reason. Especially given what she's already dealing with. This one is a told story with an interesting magic system and an original world.

Stories From Ylelmore: (Slice of Life, Urban Fantasy, All-ages) The everyday adventures (and misadventures) of three kids in an interesting town. Or, a witch, a werewolf, and a curse-bearer try not to get into trouble while solving supernatural mysteries! It's very sweet and does a good job at blurring the borders of mundanity and magic, in both directions.

any good fantasy podcasts out there that aren't Alba Salix?

[the-joaniverse]

Welcome to the Order of Joan Headquarters.

Grab your Order weapon, kit, and an extra pair of socks, you’re shipping out tomorrow!

Remember, your Order weapon is not just forged of silvered steel; it’s as much magic as it is metal. Guard it with your life, and for God’s sake, don’t lose it!

We don’t have enough swords for everyone—what with steel rationing and all—but you will be assigned one of the following, based upon your aptitudes:

-Recurve bow and twelve arrows

-Spear

-Halberd

-Single or Double Sided Axe

-Club

-Morningstar

-Flail

-Scythe

Godspeed, brave knight, and remember to sleep with one eye open. There are monsters in the dark, and it’s your job to kill them.

[exhaustedwerewolf]

I’m badly craving a new fantasy podcast (not actual play), so with the caveat that I have listened to a lot of fantasy podcasts, does anyone have any recommendations? I’d prefer high fantasy, but urban fantasy is also welcome. A list of what I’ve heard is under the cut, but feel free to suggest without reading it!

Hello from the Hallowoods

Welcome to Nightvale

The Two Princes

Desperado

Back Again, Back Again

The Attic Monologues

Howl

Care and Feeding of Werewolves

BLOODRAGEMODE

The Second Citadel

Brimstone Valley Mall

The Wanderer

The Virdian Wild

Electromancy

Starfall

The Harrowing of Minerva Damson

The Midnight Symphony

City of Ghosts

Francis Forever

The Magnus Archives

The Once and Future Nerd

Unseen

Goddess

Mabel

...Inevitably there’ll be some I’m forgetting but this is all the fantasy ones I’m already aware of!

[boombox-fuckboy]

Hello! I have come for the recommendations!

My favourite podcasts are in no particular order: The Silt Verses, Tma(specifically the more fleshy parts), SCP: find us alive, Archive 81 (loved the deer sounds), WOE.BEGONE (I really like the time travel system), and Not Quite Dead (there's something really genuine about it)

Many thanks in advance

Hm. I think you should try The Harrowing of Minerva Damson, The Blood Crow Stories, The Waystation, Desperado, The Department of Variance of Somewhere Ohio, and if you'd just like some gore, Darkest Night.

[boombox-fuckboy]

List of stuff I've listened to so far (Audio Drama A-Q)

Accurate as of: 2025-05-27

Listened: 2 times, 3-5 times, 6+ times.

For audio drama R-Z click here

For TTRPG pods click here

101.7 OUROBOROS

10ver.exe

The 12:37

13 Minutes Or Less

90 Degrees South

A Ninth World Journal (to finish)

A Scottish Podcast

A Timeless Flight

A Voice From Darkness

The Abberant Report

Absolutely No Adventures

Achewillow (listening)

Aced it! (Non-fiction)

Additional Postage Required

The Administration

Afflicted

Aftershocks

Alba Salix, Royal Physician

The Alexandria Archives

Alice Isn't Dead

All in my Head

All The Wrong Magic

The Alnerwick Files

The AM Archives

The Amelia Project

Among the Stars and Bones

Anamnesis

And 195

The Angel of Vine

The Antiquarium of Sinister Happenings

The Antique Shop

Antonyms

Apocalypse Songs

Arca-45672

Arcadia, CA (to catch up)

Archive 81

Arden

Ark City

ars PARADOXICA

The Attic Monologues

The Author’s Anathema

Aurora Everlasting (to catch up)

Autumn

Average Folks

Back Again, Back Again

Badlands Cola

Bastard Fur (Certain Scenes Excluded)

BE NOT AFRAID

The Beacon

The Beef and Dairy Network (to finish)

Before The Tone

The Behemoth

Believer: A Paranormal Mystery

Between the Devil

Between Heartbeats

The Big Loop

Blackwood

Black Box (The Haunt Collaboration)

Black Box (REVERB) -> Gave up E6

The Black Tapes

The Blood Crow Stories (Season: 1 2 3 4)

Blood Culture (to finish)

Bodies in Space

Borrasca -> Gave up S1

Boston Harbor Horror

The Box

Breathing Space

The Bridge

The Bright Sessions

Brimstone Valley Mall

Burgess Springs

The Burned Photo

Burst

Caledonian Gothic

The Call of the Void

Camlann

Camp Here & There

The Candyman

Cape Lock

Caravan (Certain Scenes Excluded)

Catharsis

The Cellar Letters

Chain of Being

The Children of Room 56 (to catch up)

Children of the Stones

Cicatrix: Scars of Parchment

CIRCLES

City of Ghosts (to catch up?)

Clinical Space

Clockwork Bird

Community Cat News

The Conservatory

Constants

Counterbalance

Crash of the Mellifera

Cryptid

The Cryptonaturalist

Dark Ages

Darkest Night

The Darkroom

Dart

Dash (to finish?)

Dead by Snow

The Dead Letter Office of Somewhere, Ohio

Dead Man's Notes

DEADHOUSE

Dear Bastard!

Death By Dying (to finish)

Deathless

The Deca Tapes

Deep Blue Stars

The Deep Vault

The Department of Midnight

The Department of Variance of Somewhere, Ohio

Desert Skies

Desperado

Deviser

The Diary of Aliza Schultz

Diary of a Space Archivist

Dining in the Void

Directive

Dirt - An Audio Drama (to catch up)

Discovery Park

Dispatches From The Multiverse (to finish)

The Domestic Life of Anthony Todd (to finish)

Don't Mind: Cruxmont

Doorways

Dos: After You

The D.O.U.G. Project

Down

The Dragon's Rest

Dragon Shanty

Dreambound (to catch up)

The Dreamwalker's Diary

The Dungeon Economic Model

Duggan Hill

Echobox

Echoes (In) Between

either

Elaine's Cooking for the Soul (to catch up)

Electromancy

Elevator Pitch

Elixir

The Elmwood Strain

The Elysium Project

The Endless Ocean

Englewood After Dark

Erraticus

Escaping Denver (to catch up)

Ethics Town

Experiment 31E

The Eye

Faerie (to finish?)

The Far Meridian

Fathom (Listening)

Fawx & Stallion

Finding Atlas [To Have & To Hold]

Finding Pattersby

Finding Penny

The Fiona Potts Interview

Forest 404

Forgive Me!

For The Record

Fortune

Fracture

Friendly Creatures

Gabriela & The Inn Between

The Gaia Miracles

Gaslight

Gastronaut

The Ghost Catchers

Ghost Hunt Pacific

Ghost InSpectors

The Ghosts on This Road (Listening)

Ghost Tape

Ghost Wax

Girl In Space

Give Me Away

Glasgow Ghost Stories

Glass Letters

The Gloom

The Goblet Wire

Goddess: An Audio Drama

The Godfrey Audio Guide

The Godshead Incidental

The Gods We Belong To (gave up after s1)

Golden Ash

Good Morning Evildoers

The Gorgon Show

The Gospel of Haven

Gospels of the Flood

Greater Boston

The Green Horizon

The Grotto

Guidance Through The Dreamscape

The Hades Project

Halfmoon Chronicles

Hallway to Nowhere

The Harrowing of Minerva Damson

The Haunted Hour

Haunted House Flippers

Have Monster, Will Travel

The Heart of Ether

The Heart Pyre (Listening)

Hello From The Hallowoods

The Heron

The Heresies of Radulf Burntwine

Hi Nay

The Hidden Almanac (listening)

Hit Replay

Hollow

The Hotel

Hotel Daydream

Hovering

How I Died (to catch up)

How it Ends (to finish)

Hubris: A 24-Hour Podcast Project (to catch up)

Hughs and Mincks: Ghost Detectives

Hulm (to finish)

The Hyacinth Disaster

I Am In Eskew

I Have Seen Niagara (Undecided on Finishing)

The Imperfection

In Another Room

In Transit (to finish)

Inc: The Podcast

InCo

Incident Report Number 31

InkWyrm

Inn Between

Interference (listening)

Into the Depths

ISS Icarus

It Makes A Sound

Janus Decending

Jar of Rebuke

Jisko Archival Records

Joy To The World

Jump Leads

Jupiter's Ghost

Kalila Stormfire's Economical Magick Services (to finish)

Kane and Feels

Khôra Podcast

King Falls AM

The Kingmaker Histories

Knifepoint Horror

Knight Falls, CA

Kowabana (unfinished)

Lake Clarity

Lakeview

Larkspur Underground

Last Call at Bluebell Café

The Last Movie

Lavender Evening Fog

Leaving Corvat

The Left Right Game

Less is Morgue

Leylines (to finish?)

Liars & Leeches

Liberty (to finish)

LifeAfter/The Message

Life With Althaar

Light Hearts

Light House

The Lightning Bottler

Limetown

Liminal Criminals

The Liminal Lands (listening)

Little Town of Rainbow

Live From Averno

Live From Epsilon Base

The London Necropolis Railway

Long Night In Egypt

Lone Stranger

The Lost Cat Podcast

Lost Shaman

Lost Terminal

Love and Luck

Mabel (to catch up)

Magic King Dom (to finish?)

The Magnus Archives

The Magpie Catalogue

Malevolent (to catch up)

Mantelreef

Maps of the Lost

Margaret's Garden

Mars' Best Brisket

MarsCorp

Marsfall

Mayfair Watcher's Society

McGillicuddy and Murder’s Pawn Shop (to finish)

The McIlwraith Statements

Meteor City

Middle:Below

Midnight Burger

Midnight Radio

Midst

Mil-Liminal

The Milkman of St. Gaff’s

Mina's Story

Mirrors

The Mistholme Museum of Mystery, Morbidity and Mortality

Mnemosyne

Modem Prometheus

Modes of Thought in Anterran Literature

Mona's Isle

MonkeyTales

Monstrous Agonies

The Moon Crown

Moonbase Theta, Out

Moonpocks

Mount Olympus University

Murder on Michigan Avenue

Murray Mysteries

Museum of the Missing

My Parallel Life

Neighbourly (to catch up)

The New Dawn Diary

Night Life (The Lightning Bottler)

The Night Post

Night Shift: An Urban Fantasy Audio Drama

NORA

North West Footwear Database

Not Quite Dead

Nothing is Wrong

Novitero

Nowhere, On Air (to finish)

Null/Void (to finish)

Nym's Nebulous Notions

Oblivity

The Occurence in Riveroaks

October's Children

Old Gods Of Appalachia

Olive Hill

Omen

On Asphalt Bones

On the Threshold

The One Stars

Ophiuchus Radio (to catch up)

Oracle of Dusk (to finish)

The Ordinary Epic

The Orphans

The Other Path

Out of Place

The Outside Tapes

Oz 9 (to finish?)

Paddleboat

Paired

The Pale

Palimpsest

Para.docx

Paranatural Support Services Team

Parkdale Haunt

The Pasithea Powder

Passenger List

The Path Down

Patient 33

The Patron Saint of Suicides (to catch up)

The Penumbra Podcast -> Gave up 4.08

The People Outside

The Petrol Station

The Phenomenon

The Phone Booth

The Phosphene Catalogue

The Piper

POD115

Point Mystic

The Polybius Conspiracy

Primordial Deep

Project: Daydream

Project Nova (to catch up)

Punishment Island

Quid Pro Euro

[the-joaniverse]

Minerva Damson’s harrowing tale continues tomorrow 😈 Catch up on the first two episodes, available on all major podcast platforms, and join the Order here on Tumblr!

Episode Three: Trench Run🩸Don’t look down and don’t look back🩸 Just keep moving! 💀

[the-joaniverse]

Welcome, Squires, to the Order of Joan

and congratulations on passing your exams. Each of you has proven you have the right stuff to become a Knight of the Order. But you should be warned: your training only intensifies from here. Your physical training will continue with increased focus on mastery of the sword and good marksmanship. As for your education, you will be granted access to the Archives and tested on your knowledge of history, magic theory, reagent types and classes, and Order jurisdiction.

So, what are you waiting for? It’s time to get to work.

***

The Archives have opened. What do you want to learn today?

The Archives are a tier benefit on our Patreon offered to Squires and any rank above them. Every week, a new document is released for your edification to further your training and to give you a broader view of the alternate world in which the Order of Joan exists, the Ordinal Timeline.

Here’s a sneak peek at what’s been released so far:

There’s plenty more where that came from, and plenty more to come. Enlist today!

Good luck, young Squires, and fair travels, brave Knights.

[merrywizardmercantile]

Wizards! Check this shit out!

I was really excited to see someone else shout out this podcast.

Magic.

Vampires.

Asshole magical cats.

Were-dilfs.

Ladies. With. Swords.

Do you like Tamora Pierce? Do you like horror?

I've convinced Leverage watchers to listen to TSCoSI (and vice versa), now let's see if I can convince my Tortall babes to listen to The Harrowing of Minerva Damson.

Prepare for: Lady knights! Magic! Powerful cat-shaped creatures! Monsters!

Did you read In the Hand of the Goddess and think "but what if it was only the bits where they fight the Tusaines over the River Dell? What if the monsters were here already? What if Roger was only a shape in the mist but still as evil and powerful?" Did you get to Lady Knight and say "Yes, more death. More unkillable creatures. More terror."?

Listen to S1, The Knight of the Unquiet Dead. Trench warfare. Vampires. Sorcerers. Ghouls. A magical cat. Made up magical spells that work by the power of friendship and sheer necessity. A Lady Knight (Minerva) who Is The Authority Here, Thank You, and also is So Tired (TM). Alanna's personality facing Kel's war.

Not quite ready to commit, but horror is your flavor?

Try the first inter-season arc, Chevalier, which features the same setting but different characters. One necromancer, two Lady Knights, three magical horses, four (?) vampires (and some nauseating gore), and healing from your grief by learning to survive. Still a lot of those Alanna and Kel vibes, but also giving Bekka Cooper: gritty, dark, bare-knuckled and bloody. Cat not included.

Missing the cat?

It's back in S2, Black as Knight. It's smug, dangerous, and clever, but so is our returning heroine Minerva. Also my TMA girlies will feel right at home in the cave episodes (Buried babes can I get an amen?). A friendly (and dilf-able) werewolf garwalf, binding terms and conditions, gargoyles tearing the absolute shit out of some soldiers. Again, giving Alanna in her Rides era, but put that attitude in the plot of Rampant. Also giving Kel's willingness to sacrifice just about anything to save people.

Need a different pace?

Inter-season arc 2, Goliad Gabby is all Verlidaine (just Daine) Sarrasri. The plot is literally country bumpkin sharpshooter slays the big bad monster with help from her trusty animal companions. There's even a real rom-com shaped happily-ever-after for this one! (for real though. The gore? a little icky. The Big Romantic Speech? I couldn't make it through.) Gabriella Gabby is just your average Texas Trickshot, until the Order of Joan recruits her personally to put her skills to use. Also reminded of Bekka's grit here too. No isn't really an answer when there's work to be done.

Now, I have read Circle, but I don't have those stories soaked into my bones well enough to pull comparisons out as readily... I will say the very grim and horrific realities of war that Pierce digs her pen into in Melting Stones and Battle Magic are very present throughout the podcast. It's labeled horror for a reason. Check the CWs and take care of yourselves <3

Also, did I mention, the premise of the universe is based on Joan of Arc inspiring a cloister of nuns to become knights and fight monsters?

The production team has more projects in the works, and hopefully the third Minerva season will be released in the next few months (early 2024). They have a website, patreon, instagram, a rather defunct tumblr (@the-joaniverse), and all the usual podcast platforms.