Links: Outlander, Mythology, Bingo, & More!

Happy Hump Day! I don’t know about you, but this week feels like it’s crawling by. But hopefully these links will help you kill some time!

Sarah is over at the Withings blog to talk about her relationship with fitness and romance:

While Wendell works out to improve health and mood, she points out that in the female-centric world of romance, in which characters of all shapes and sizes explore and enjoy love and sex, weight is a feminist issue. “So long as women are repeatedly told that they must conform to a very narrow – literally and figuratively – and often physically impossible standard, any deviation from that standard is a feminist act. It is, to borrow sex therapist and author Emily Nagoski’s turn of phrase, ‘rebellious and radical’ to depict the reality of women, including what women, all women, actually look like when they are healthy.”

It’s a great and very personal interview, and I thank her for being awesome and sharing!

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If you’re a mythology nerd, like myself, or are in the midst of mythology research for reasons (writing, projects, etc) here are some helpful family trees for keeping track of Norse, Egyptian, and Greek gods. But they come with a warning:

Take these illustrations with a grain of salt, though: Mythological stories often have many different versions as a result of their oral nature. For example, Greek goddess Aphrodite is often said to rise from sea foam, but Homer depicts her as the daughter of Zeus and Dione.

And they’re even available as posters! How cool is that?

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Big thanks to MsBookJunkie for this treat to our ears!

So via @msbookjunkie I learned that Joe Manganiello narrated some of Patricia Briggs' audiobooks. https://t.co/9K9DWCJbsk !0_0!

— Smart Bitches (@SmartBitches) May 18, 2016

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Shoutout to Reader Ann N. for this next link. If you’re keeping up with this season of Outlander and you love the costumes, bloggers Tom & Lorenzo do a style rundown of each episode:

When we’re so inclined, we like to do a deep dive on examining the ways in which the costumes of a show or movie have meaning that exists both in service to the story and outside of it and that such meaning can sometimes be derived independent of the costume designer’s stated intentions.

They also do non-clothing related recaps of the show!

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Reader Janice sent us this image for a Regency/Jane Austen bingo card!

Thanks to Nettle for letting us know the text originally comes from Mallory Ortberg at The Toast!

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Don’t forget to share what super cool things you’ve seen, read, or listened to this week! And if you have anything you think we’d like to post on a future Wednesday Links, send it my way!