Fox & Sparrow started off as many podcasts do – a passion project made in our various basements and spare rooms with staticky mics, overeager historical tangents, and awkwardness as we navigated recorded conversation. While you are welcome to start listening at any point, the production value of our earlier episodes is noticeably different and we have launched our new 2022 episodes with a cleaner process! Our podcast is an indie project with zero outsourcing as we are committed to taking on everything! What is a “fun” hobby without learning how to do everything from scratch?
Fox has a background in global English literature, as well as history and politics! She loves learning about the niche details in tales and their significance. From a young age, Fox loved everything about folklore and would escape to the world of retellings, world-building and fantasy! You can always count on her to fall into rabbit holes of her favourite TV shows and books! Check out Footnotes with Fox for more bookish love!
Favourite Tropes: Enemies to Lovers, anti-hero, carnivores are actually vegetarian
Least Favourite Tropes: Suddenly already knew that, Misunderstandings and not talking to each other, ‘But daddy, I love him.”
Sparrow is our resident tech guru, modern media expert, and Dungeon Master! When she is not playing through her latest video game obsession, you can find her pouring over the lore and history of the fantasy worlds she visits in books, movies and TV shows! When it comes to pointing out the weirdness of certain stories, Sparrow is here to give us reality checks and point out all the relevant tropes!
Favourite Tropes: Power of friendship, Five-Man Band, Badass and Child Duo, Turtle Island, I Know Your True Name.
Least Favourite Tropes: Deus ex Machina, Technobabble, All Just a Dream, Cell Phones are Useless
When did the Podcast start?
May 2021 was when our first three episodes were published but we started work on the podcast the December prior! There is a secret ‘first’ episode that we recorded, edited, and ultimately scrapped for being 2 hours long!
Who does all the background work on the podcast?
Our podcast is an indie project, meaning we run and do everything ourselves! From scriptwriting, research, recording, editing, making cover art, and releasing the episodes to the background stuff like running our social media, website, blog, etc! If it’s linked to our podcast, we run it!
Do you ever have guests on the podcast?
We always welcome collaborations, interviews, general chit-chat, and lots more! If there is a folklore/fantasy/fairy-tale topic you are interested in, please don’t hesitate! To reach out for more information, contact us: talesfromtheenchantedforest@gmail.com
Who did the music for the podcast?
The intro and transition music was done by the wonderful Jonathan Ng!
Who did the logo art for the podcast?
The original logo art was by Irene Jafri. Our latest logo is by Melody. Click below to see her work:
Twitter: Mello | @UgoatP
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To see more personal content and hear from us frequently, be sure to follow us on Twitter! We spend a lot of time on themed hashtags such as:
- Mythology Monday
- Fairytale Friday
- Wyrd Wednesday
- BookChatWeekly
- FaustianFriday
- SuperstitionSaturday
- Swamp Sunday
We are also part of the Folklore Network which seeks to make folklore accessible to all!
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