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A weekly podcast where hosts Meghan Griffin and Marilag Angway discuss the origins of a fairy tale, fable, or myth, and then dives further into some of their modern retellings!
Apologies for the EXTREME delay in this episode: Meghan's audio was definitely a mess. Hopefully you enjoyed this book as much as we did, an...
With the holidays, we definitely got delayed! But we hope you had a good one, as we did. We are continuing with Persephone by discussing the...
This episode is a first in a lot of ways: our first Persephone retelling, our first Greek mythology retelling, and our first time doing a se...
Happy Thanksgiving! If you need a break from family, come dive into SEASON 8! We talk a few Greek underworld mythos, particularly Persephone...
Mari and Meg headed to NYCC, so everything is late ahhh! But that's okay: due to peer pressure, we switched movies to John Wick! Which leads...
Mari and Meg are back with a slightly disappointing Baba Yaga story this week. Dreaming Anastasia by Joy Preble is pitched as an Anastasia R...
Mari and Meg are back and talking about Vassilissa the Beautiful retellings! We have two for you in one episode, so get ready. We discuss "F...
This week Mari and Meg watch the 1973 Italian film Baba Yaga ! Unfortunately, we caught it on Amazon Prime right before it left. Based on a...
Season 7 continues (a day late because holidays confuse Meghan) with a look at Orson Scott Card's 1999 novel Enchantment ! There is a lot to...
Mari and Meg are back to talk about one of the most badass witches of all time! Without an origin story though, it's a bit hard to talk abou...
Mari and Meg discuss 4 other fairy tales that we would love to see turned into modern retellings! These stories come from different cultures...
This week Marilag and Meghan take a break from Cinderella retellings to discuss Toads and Diamonds ! They discuss the differences they see i...
Meghan and Mari are back for their anniversary episode! (We don't actually address that in the episode, but Fableulous has officially been g...
Marilag and Meghan couldn't get their hands on a book (library hold a little longer than expected!) So instead they watched Ever After after...
Continuing with our Step-Sisters theme, Mari and Meg talk about Ella Enchanted , both the book and the movie. We discuss how this is a great...
Marilag and Meghan are back and ready to tackle step-sisters!....both of which they are?? This season is a bit different format, so please l...
Meghan and Mari finally catch up for their last episode of the Bluebeard season! We discuss the 1980s Vonnegut book, which is a strange adap...
Mari and Meg get a bit silly this episode, as they take some time from their busy lives to discuss the 2017 Korean film: Bluebeard. Is this...
This week we tackle another movie adaptation of Bluebeard! We are joined by Gena Radcliffe of Kill by Kill Podcast! We discuss Crimson Peak...
This week Mari and Meg discuss their first Bluebeard movie: Ex Machina! Is it Oscar Isaac's amazing beard that makes it a retelling? (Did yo...
This week Mari and Meghan are back to talk about "The Bloody Chamber" by Angela Carter! This story was a blast. Meghan tries to justify Blue...
Fableulous Retellings is back for season 5! We read and discuss "Bluebeard," specifically focusing on what the heck the moral is supposed to...
Mari and Meg watch another episode of Faerie Tale Theatre! Meg tries to convince Mari that it's star-studded, but maybe she just likes weird...
This week Mari and Meg read Speak Easy , a novella placing 12 Dancing Princesses in 1920s NYC with some main characters that you might actua...
Somehow, Marilag and Meghan found a way to talk about the 2006 Barbie movie. It might be mostly chatter of how awful the animation is, or pe...
Mari and Meg return with their first "12 Dancing Princesses" adaptation, an Australian YA novel Wildwood Dancing . This book adapts and expa...
Mari and Meg are back for a new season in the new year! The listeners chose 12 Dancing Princesses for this season, so we did our first Broth...
To round out the first year of the podcast, Meghan and Mari put together a list of their favorite books read in 2017! We didn't discuss our...
Marilag and Meghan round out their third season with a Fables video game: Wolf Among Us ! This is less of an adaptation but more of "what ha...
Mari and Meg watch one of the most bonker movies they have ever seen — Peau d'Âne , the French 1970 Donkeyskin adaptation! This movie is SUR...
Meghan and Mari finally have a lost episode, so this episode they try to recall what happened in Unnatural Issue by Mercedes Lackey. Which w...
Mari and Meg watch Jim Henson's The Storyteller episode of Donkeyskin , where at least the dad kind of looks like he doesn't want to marry h...
Meg and Mari tackle one of the most difficult books they've ever read, content wise, on today's episode. Their first adaptation of Donkeyski...
Marilag and Meghan are back to discuss a disturbing and almost nauseating French fairy tale: Donkeyskin by Charles Perrault. Mari discusses...
Marilag and Meghan round out season 2 of 1001 Nights with a stand alone volume/prequel to Vertigo's Fables series: 1001 Nights of Snowfall !...
Mari and Meg discuss this 1990s Hanna-Barbera cartoon special! Scooby Doo and Shaggy head off to the Middle East thinking they've landed a j...
Mari and Meg are back with a new middle school grade book, The Storyteller's Daughter by Cameron Dokey. We discuss how we like that the main...
Mari and Meg are back this week discussing Arabian Nights , an American/British (Hallmark/BBC?) miniseries from 2000. Meg realizes she canno...
Mari and Meg discuss their first 1001 Nights adaptation! This YA book is great, despite Meg being slightly exhausted from YA tropes. Thank y...
Meg and Mari are back a little sooner than you would expect! They have started up season 2 and didn't take it easy as they tackled the origi...
For the season finale of Beauty and the Beast , Mari and Meg try to double team an interactive storyline of what turns out to be a very dark...
This week Mari and Meg discuss 1997 Beautician and the Beast staring Fran Drescher and Timothy Dalton! We can't believe this movie was actua...
Mari and Meg discuss a not so modern retelling, but one that is still very important to the Beauty and the Beast circle — Robin McKinley's B...
This week Mari and Meg discuss The Beauty and the Beast episode of Faerie Tale Theatre! Mostly we just giggle a lot at the obviously 80s of...
Mari and Meg discuss one of the first modern Beauty and the Beast retellings! As mentioned last week, Belle is the original Young Adult Hero...
Meg and Mari open their first season by discussing the classic original fairy tale, Beauty and the Beast! They focus on the original and fir...