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• Give a big, warm welcome to our friend Danielle, who we’re so excited to have on the show for the first time!
• Did you see that we’re getting Percy Jackson Funkos!?
• Perhaps even more surprising—we’re getting a Percy Jackson cookbook, too!
• Oh, hey, Luke Arnold from Black Sails would make for an excellent addition to Percy Jackson and the Olympians.
• We pick Danielle’s brain about Percy Jackson season 1 considering she’s never read the books!
• What improvements would she like to see in season 2?

• If you’re not mentally prepared for this discussion, please take care of yourself and either skip it or come back later!
• How familiar were we with Medusa’s story and/or Indian mythology?
• What were our overall thoughts on A Drop of Venom?
• Let’s talk about Manisha and what a nagin is.
• And we can’t forget about Noni!
• Then there’s Pratyush, who’s a slayer because, well, his father was a slayer.
• We liked that Sajni didn’t ignore the struggles men also have thanks to societal norms and pressures.
• But did anyone else think he was a little sus in the beginning?
• We talk explicitly about Manisha’s rape and how it was depicted on the page.
• There are no words for how angry Sita’s betrayal made us.
• The victim blaming in this book is, unfortunately, a reflection of real life.
• It’s important not to use passive language when talking about violence against marginalized groups.
• Was the General just Hera in disguise!?
• He really should’ve made sure Manisha was dead.
• This was not the only sexual assault in the book.
• It’s important for men to stand up against other men when they are participating in rape culture.
• We loved Dev, but he was pretty intense!?
• Girls have to stick together!
• Menstruation is totally normal and we should talk about it more.
• Did you figure out who the three elders represented?
• We LOVED that this book talked about the subjectivity of monstrosity, just like Percy Jackson and the Olympians season 1.
• Is Pratyush as much of a “monster” as Manisha?
• Embrace your darkness!
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  The spoiler section begins at 1:20:12.
• Did the general suffer enough?
• How did we feel about the “love story” between Manisha and Pratyush?
• Thank GOODNESS Noni is still alive.
• We have a couple guesses as to what the next book will be about, and even what the title might be!

• Steph agrees that Aryan Simhadri IS Grover Underwood.
• Reilly also agrees that the video we posted in our IG stories needed to have a wedding dress for Grover.