Professor Naomi Clark joins merritt to talk growing up, tricking your brain, and going gold.

Cartoonist Mia Schwartz joins merritt to talk adult Pagemasters, real life fanfic, exciting garbage, teen secrets, and defying expectations.

Game designer Mike Sacco joins merritt to talk funemployment, showing your work, and keeping the secret of the moon guns.

Author and historian Morgan M Page joins merritt to talk historical gossip, slash fiction, and alpha bitches.

Artist, author and musician Vivek Shraya joins merritt to talk getting out of grad school, chasing legitimacy, and demystifying poetry.

Writer Charlotte Shane joins merritt to talk plastic surgery, the myth of the fun sex party, and reading women's writing.

Comedian and author Charlie Demers joins merritt to talk surviving precarity, feminist parenting, and taking care of each other as human beings.

Writer and editor J Bearhat rejoins merritt to talk sexy mascots, ironic brands, and writing messy queer characters.

Writer, composer, and game developer Matthew Burns joins merritt to talk the systems of storytelling, nondisclosure agreements, and judging art.

Videogame designer and teacher Kyle Reimergartin joins merritt to talk having skin in the game, doing it for the kids, and chasing eyeballs.

Diversity and inclusion manager at Riot Games Soha Kareem rejoins merritt to talk going offline, saying no, and the world’s deadliest skincare.

Writer and designer Mattie Brice joins merritt to talk surviving a winter wonderland, blanket chic, and breaking into the academy.

Producer, actor, and writer Jonathan Holmes joins merritt to talk wrangling piglets, raising a kid, and caring for your future self.

Designer and podcaster eva problems joins merritt to talk mainstreaming furries, the big business of terrible erotic videogames, and bad dragons.

Writer Chelsea G. Summers joins merritt to talk linguistic power, the history of casual encounters, and campaigns against sex robots.

Author Mattilda B Sycamore joins merritt to talk gentrification, public queerness, and ideal audiences.

Author Casey Plett joins merritt to talk finding joy in books, social media surveillance, and remembering to live.

Author K. Tait Jarboe joins merritt to talk writing the other, villain drag, and the trials of internet dating.

Event producer Sangita Rayasam joins merritt to talk DMX, smashing the Justin Long/John Hodgman binary, and living the office job dream.

Artist Isz Janeway rejoins merritt to talk artistic entitlement, problematic favs, and trying to uncomplicate porn.