Gourd Lore

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In honor of one year with Fic Clique's gourd lore, I compiled audio of all the times in that year that the hosts have said the word gourd. Here it is!

I also compiled some statistics to accompany this. I'd suggest listening first so as to avoid spoilers (such as they are).

Gourd stats

103 uses of the word "gourd" (including variations: gourds, gourdless, etc.)

Fun Fact: 20 of those are in Episode 40 (from Nicole in the Fic Clique discord server at the time: "please anticipate what i am going to lovingly refer to as the lost gourd tirade in tomorrow's ep")

19 mentions of gourds in the discussion of living in my memory/living in my mouth, 17 in the discussion of careful fear and dead devotion, 11 in the discussions for wander the wild whereby

7 gourd mentions about the canon of Gideon the Ninth

Fun Fact: Episode 47 features 9 gourd mentions, 8 of which are about canons being discussed rather than fics (Gideon the Ninth and Critical Role)

instances of gourd loss per host (not mentions of the word gourd but times a host described themself as out of their gourd/having lost their gourd/gourdless/etc.):

Reid - 23
Brenna - 7
Nicole - 6

6 references to Episode 37 - I'm Out of My Gourd

9 extended gourd metaphors (includes instances of gourds that were not lost and also counts runs of gourd metaphors all at once as 1 metaphor)

ways gourds have been lost:

• Ended up in another galaxy
• Went missing and host refused to put up posters for its return
• Smashed into a million little pieces
• Sold out at the market
• Stolen by a thief
• Ended up in space
• Shot by laser beams
• Ended up on a racetrack
• Thrown out the window of a moving vehicle
• Lanched into space (along with host) and shattered cinematically
• Lined up in a row on dry grass and then torched with a flamethrower

2.5 spoilers without context that reference gourds:

From Episode 40:

From Episode 48:

Rejected spoiler from Episode 45: