The Left Page & Here Be Media

Hello everyone!!It's been a little while, but we're back with another Concept episode! This time trying to thing about what makes an RPG!In this new series we intend to understand a few of the several messy questions that surround this genre, including trying to define what is an RPG. In this first episode we tackle that initial question, with Leon putting forth a framework that might be the most useful way to understand not just the genre, but how games and their connection to us, can be broached.Enjoy!If you can and are interested in early episodes and the Here Be Extras, check our Patreon!https://www.patreon.com/leftpage Also! If you're not there already, feel free to join our Discord, as we have been more talkative than usual, and plan to do so more and more!https://discord.gg/J2wgG3yrPNIntro Music: Home, by Karl Casey @ White Bat AudioOutro Music: Leve Palestina, Spartacus

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Hello everyone!!In another collab with our good friend Jay, we finally decided to talk about Opera, in particular, Don Giovani!!Come along with us as we dissect this odd portrayal of the "Don Juan" image, his terrible deeds and punishment, and continually this articulation of sound, story and music that opera can create. While never forgetting several matters of class within opera, the notions of performance and lots more!Enjoy!And check out Jay's stuff elsewhere!Library PunkAnd if able, please support Library Punk's Fundraiser!If you can and are interested in early episodes and the Here Be Extras, check our Patreon!https://www.patreon.com/leftpage Also! If you're not there already, feel free to join our Discord, as we have been more talkative than usual, and plan to do so more and more!https://discord.gg/J2wgG3yrPNIntro Music: Home, by Karl Casey @ White Bat AudioOutro Music: Leve Palestina, Spartacus

Hello everyone!!Kicking off March, we're talking about religion, and the Catholic Church! With the Oscar-winning Conclave!As we finally dive deeper into how we engage with spirituality, organised religion, and the dreadful dynamics of power of the Catholic Church, we find an interesting film! Even if it does get beholden by its own liberal politics.A more personal episode than usual, perhaps, but no less engaging and rigorous!Enjoy!If you can and are interested in early episodes and the Here Be Extras, check our Patreon!https://www.patreon.com/leftpage Also! If you're not there already, feel free to join our Discord, as we have been more talkative than usual, and plan to do so more and more!https://discord.gg/J2wgG3yrPNIntro Music: Home, by Karl Casey @ White Bat AudioOutro Music: Leve Palestina, Spartacus

Hello everyone!!As our episode celebration of 6 years of The Left Page we go back to the 19th century with our very first Jules Verne: 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea!For this very fun episode we not only reminisce a bit about the show and we feel about it after all this time, but also think over these elements that were at the dawn of science fiction as we know it! Elaborate scientific explanations, a tough narrative, a compelling mystery, and the ocean as wondrous and unknowable as space! It's got it all!So join us for this celebration and excellent episode in its own right, as we plumb this genre dear to us, and how it came to be, bit by bit!Enjoy!If you can and are interested in early episodes and the Here Be Extras, check our Patreon!https://www.patreon.com/leftpage Also! If you're not there already, feel free to join our Discord, as we have been more talkative than usual, and plan to do so more and more!https://discord.gg/J2wgG3yrPNIntro Credits: Ultralounge, Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Outro Credits: Leve Palestina, Spartacus

Hello everyone!As we make our way through February we bring yet another collab with our friend André, and on another very liberal piece of media, the League of Legends based show: Arcane!There was potential (some) to this show, as we elaborate on it, and yet, a rushed production, a terrible political perspective, and more, turn this into yet another, although worse, liberal and alienating show - reminds us of the previous time we had André on, for X-Men '97, what a shame!And yet, although we are frustrated, we managed to make the most of it, with a better weighter episode than we expected, and no less fierce criticism, as it demanded of us.Enjoy!Check out André's stuff, in Portuguese (if able) and English!https://revistazelota.com/https://spectrummagazine.org/author/andre-kanasiro/If you can and are interested in early episodes and the Here Be Extras, check our Patreon!https://www.patreon.com/leftpage Also! If you're not there already, feel free to join our Discord, as we have been more talkative than usual, and plan to do so more and more!https://discord.gg/J2wgG3yrPNIntro Credits: Home, by Karl Casey @ White Bat AudioOutro Credits: Alternative Silence, Le Trio Jourban; Poetry & Voice, Mahmoud Darwish

Hello everyone!!We start February in style, with Emma's return as she's got a new book out! The excellent The Quick and the Dead! Alchemy, romance, power, religion, and more!As such we talk a bit about how these elements constitute historical representation, how to depict them and queerness in the Elizabethan era, and dive into matters of religion, State power, and belief!Check it out and read the book!https://bedfordsquarepublishers.co.uk/book/the-quick-and-the-dead/If you can and are interested in early episodes and the Here Be Extras, check our Patreon!https://www.patreon.com/leftpage Also! If you're not there already, feel free to join our Discord, as we have been more talkative than usual, and plan to do so more and more!https://discord.gg/J2wgG3yrPNIntro Music: Ultralounge, Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Outro Music: Leve Palestina, Spartacus

Hello everyone!!Kicking off 2025 with the Left Page we bring a very special series of books, the First Law trilogy, by Joe Abercrombie!A series dear to Leon and, now to the pod itself. We dive into how these books actually achieve goals of engaging the psychological, the social and the political, while also making compelling literature, imagine that!As such, we explore the building of this world, and how it depicts History, war, power, and even its own sense of mythology. A very strong recommendation from us, and a wonderful time for sure.Enjoy!If you can and are interested in early episodes and the Here Be Extras, check our Patreon!https://www.patreon.com/leftpage Also! If you're not there already, feel free to join our Discord, as we have been more talkative than usual, and plan to do so more and more!https://discord.gg/J2wgG3yrPNIntro Music: Ultralounge, Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Outro Music: Leve Palestina, Spartacus

Hello everyone!!For our first HBM of 2025 we offer something quite strange, at first glance something all about military propaganda and nothing quite our podcast range, Ace Combat 7!But, as we are joined by our friend Sid of, among other things, The Bad Game Hall of Fame, we dive deeper!And yeah... there's a lot of propaganda, but still, attempts at telling a story and even being anti-war, but we shall see.Happy new year and here's to plenty of HBM in 2025! Enjoy!Check out Sid's stuff!https://linktr.ee/beamsplashxIf you can and are interested in early episodes and the Here Be Extras, check our Patreon!https://www.patreon.com/leftpage Also! If you're not there already, feel free to join our Discord, as we have been more talkative than usual, and plan to do so more and more!https://discord.gg/J2wgG3yrPNIntro Music: Home, by Karl Casey @ White Bat AudioOutro Music: Leve Palestina, Spartacus