Hosted by:

Adrie Rose (@adrierising on bsky, twitter, instagram, & tiktok)

Stitch (@stitch on bsky, @stitchmediamix on instagram)

Head empty, just complaints.

Reading Recommendations:

Read whatever you want. Godspeed.

Music: ⁠⁠HOLY MOLY⁠⁠ by Shane Ivers

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Adrie Rose (@adrierising on bsky, twitter, instagram, & tiktok)

Stitch (@stitch on bsky, @stitchmediamix on instagram)

Mommy? Sorry. Mommy? Sorry.

Reading Recommendations:

Fiction:

• Role Playing by Cathy Yardley
• 10 Things I Want to Do Before I Turn 40 (manga and live action show)
• Hot Nights at the Hot Springs, Secret Trip No. 241 by Sonoo Michiru
• Tokyo Story, a film by Yasujiro Ozu
• Demigods of San Francisco series by KF Breene (21+)
• Leveling Up series by KF Breene (35+)
• Outlander series by Diana Gabaldon (25+)
• Argeneau series by Lynsay Sands (21+)
• Zorya Dark Ones series by Katie Macallister (35+)

Non-Fiction:

• Myths About Sexuality and Why Older Women Deserve Romance HEAs

Music: ⁠⁠HOLY MOLY⁠⁠ by Shane Ivers

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Adrie Rose (@adrierising on bsky, twitter, instagram, & tiktok)

Stitch (@stitch on bsky, @stitchmediamix on instagram)

Women don’t want billionaire boyfriends, they want 100% employer-covered health, vision, and dental and unlimited PTO.

Reading Recommendations:

Fiction:

• Excess by Colette Rhodes
• Cinder’s Wolf by Sylvia Frost
• Desire in His Blood by Zoey Draven
• Terms and Conditions by Lauren Asher
• Trade Me by Courtney Milan
• The Penthouse: War in Life (on Netflix and Viki)
• Positively Yours (on Viki in mid-January)
• Business Proposal (Netflix)
• The Boss by Jenny Trout

Music: ⁠⁠HOLY MOLY⁠⁠ by Shane Ivers

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Adrie Rose (@adrierising on bsky, twitter, instagram, & tiktok)

Stitch (@stitch on bsky, @stitchmediamix on instagram)

Women don’t want billionaire boyfriends, they want 100% employer-covered health, vision, and dental and unlimited PTO.

Reading Recommendations will be in part II.

Music: ⁠⁠HOLY MOLY⁠⁠ by Shane Ivers

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Adrie Rose (@adrierising on bsky, twitter, instagram, & tiktok)

Stitch (@stitch on bsky, @stitchmediamix on instagram)

Our gift to you is 2 hours of uncut yapping. Enjoy!

Music: ⁠⁠HOLY MOLY⁠⁠ by Shane Ivers

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Adrie Rose (@adrierising on bsky, twitter, instagram, & tiktok)

Stitch (@stitch on bsky, @stitchmediamix on instagram)

Tradwifery is just kink with extra steps. Monster romance is kink with no steps. Pick your fighter.

Reading Recommendations:

Fiction:

• The Clecanian series by Victoria Aveline
• The Lady & the Orc by Finley Fenn
• Two for Tea by CM Nascosta
• Games with the Orc by Kathryn Moon
• Howl for the Gargoyle by Kathryn Moon
• The Gargoyle from General Management by Kate Prior
• Warts & Claws Inc. Series by Clio Evans
• The Mabon Feast by CM Nascosta
• Me and My Beast Boss by Shiroinu
• Why Don’t You Eat Me, My Dear Wolf by Ao Koishikawa

Non-Fiction:

• ‘I know I can’t live like this forever’: Meet the red-pilled men trying to quit the manosphere | Glamour
• The Manosphere Rewired | Equimundo
• Is Having a Boyfriend Embarrassing Now? | Vogue
• What the Response to “Are Boyfriends Embarrassing?" Says About the Current State of Heterosexual Dating | Vogue
• Monster Theory: Reading Culture by Jeffrey Jerome Cohen
• Of Giants: Sex, Monsters, & the Middle Ages by Jeffrey Jerome Cohen
• everyone HATES a negative review by mynameismarines
• Blumhouse Compendium of Horror
• Monsters in the Closet: Homosexuality and the Horror Film by Harry Benshoff

Music: ⁠⁠HOLY MOLY⁠⁠ by Shane Ivers

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Adrie Rose (@adrierising on bsky, twitter, instagram, & tiktok)

Stitch (@stitch on bsky, @stitchmediamix on instagram)

Every coven has has one witch whose real power is just emotional damage.

Reading Recommendations:

Fiction:

• Brooms by Jasmine Walls, illustrated by Teo DuVall
• This Poison Heart by Kaylnn Baron

Non-Fiction:

• Rachel True Looks Back on The Craft | Youtube
• The SAD Truth About Kat Graham & All the Racism She Experienced on “The Vampire Diaries” | Youtube
• A Black Women’s History of Hoodoo, Conjure, & Witchcraft | Youtube
• Mammy, Jezebel, Sapphire, and their Homegirls by Dr. Carolyn West
• The Evolution of Black Witches on Screen | Youtube
• Black Magic: White Hollywood and African American Culture by Krin Gabbard
• Urban Fantasy 101: Magical Negros in the Genre

Music: ⁠⁠HOLY MOLY⁠⁠ by Shane Ivers

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Adrie Rose (@adrierising on bsky, twitter, instagram, & tiktok)

Stitch (@stitch on bsky, @stitchmediamix on instagram)

No one is reading romantasy for the realism. They read it so 2 emotionally stunted idiots are legally obligated to kiss by page 312.

Reading Recommendations:

Fiction:

• Love is An Illusion by Fargo
• The Remarried Empress by alpha_tart, herelee
• Lore Olympus by Rachel Smythe
• Boyfriends by refrainbow
• Bride by Ali Hazelwood
• Rhapsodic by Laura Thalassa
• It Happened One Summer by Tessa Bailey 

Non-Fiction:

• STOP TAGGING AUTHORS IN REVIEWS by Reads With Rachel
• The Hanya Yanagihara Principle by Andrea Long Chu

Music: ⁠⁠HOLY MOLY⁠⁠ by Shane Ivers

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Adrie Rose (@adrierising on bsky, twitter, instagram, & tiktok)

Stitch (@stitch on bsky, @stitchmediamix on instagram)

Romance ARC reviewers will sprint through 462 pages of soul-shattering hand-holding, then calmly write “needs more tension,” like they weren’t just sobbing into a stuffy five minutes ago.

Reading Recommendations:

Fiction:

• The Sugar Baby trilogy (novellas) by Rebekah Weatherspoon
• Jockstraps & Newspapers by Lizzie Strong
• The Lizzie & Diesel series by Janet Evanovich
• The Prince Lestat trilogy by Anne Rice 
• The Mercy Thompson series by Patricia Briggs
• The Dark Hunter series by Sherrilyn Kenyon

Music: ⁠⁠HOLY MOLY⁠⁠ by Shane Ivers

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Adrie Rose (@adrierising on bsky, twitter, instagram, & tiktok)

Stitch (@stitch on bsky, @stitchmediamix on instagram)

Why do you act like that? Like that…the way that you act.

Reading Recommendations:

Fiction:

• The Psy Changeling series by Nalini Singh
• The Boss by Jenny Trout

Non-Fiction:

• The Three Laws of Fandom 
• The Internet of Beefs
• Fansplaining 208: What Fans Owe Each Other
• (Things I Wish Weren’t) Applied To Fandom: The Three Rules/Laws of Fandom

Music: ⁠⁠HOLY MOLY⁠⁠ by Shane Ivers

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Adrie Rose (@adrierising on bsky, twitter, instagram, & tiktok)

Stitch (@stitch on bsky, @stitchmediamix on instagram & tiktok)

Adrie and Stitch talk about CM Nascosta, Cambric Creek, and race in monster stories.

Reading Recommendations:

The Cambric Creek Universe, in order:

1. Girls Weekend
2. The Minoan Bride (after dark)
3. Morning Glory Milking Farm
4. A Blue Ribbon Romance (MGMF from Rourke's perspective)
5. The Mabon Feast
6. Parties
7. A Holly Jolly Mess (short stories)
8. Sweet Berries
9. Run, Run Rabbit (after dark)
10. Moon Blooded Breeding Clinic
11. The Filled Vessel (after dark)
12. Hexennacht
13. Two for Tea
14. Shadows and Light (after dark)
15. Invitations
16. He Loves Me Not

(After dark) denotes titles with themes that may be considered triggering or controversial. Check trigger warnings before reading.

Music: ⁠⁠HOLY MOLY⁠⁠ by Shane Ivers

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Hosted by:

Adrie Rose (@adrierising on bsky, twitter, instagram, & tiktok)

Stitch (@stitch on bsky, @stitchmediamix on instagram & tiktok)

Stitch and Adrie talk about Kinktober, fandom, and A03.

Music: ⁠⁠HOLY MOLY⁠⁠ by Shane Ivers

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Adrie Rose (@adrierising on bsky, twitter, instagram, & tiktok)

Stitch (@stitch on bsky, @stitchmediamix on instagram & tiktok)

Adrie and Stitch talk about heteropessimism, Sabrina Carpenter as a convenient scapegoat, and kink panic.

Fiction:

• The Fifty Shades of Grey trilogy by EL James
• The Crossfire series by Sylvia Day
• Placebo by Cuke Soap
• Cliterary Book Club by van and gold bozi
• In the Doghouse by Jusang

Non-Fiction:

• On Heteropessimism by Asa Seresin (The New Inquiry)
• Intercourse by Andrea Dworkin
• Pornography and Civil Rights by Catharine MacKinnon
• Thinking Sex by Gayle Rubin
• Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good by adrienne maree brown

Music: ⁠⁠HOLY MOLY⁠⁠ by Shane Ivers

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Adrie Rose (@adrierising on bsky, twitter, instagram, & tiktok)

Stitch (@stitch on bsky, @stitchmediamix on instagram)

Adrie and Stitch talk about slavefic, romcoms as a response to feminism, and the attitudes of women in American culture throughout post-industrial history.

Reading Recommendations:

Fiction:

• The Brown Sisters trilogy by Talia Hibbert
• Necking by Chris Salvatore
• The Jade Calhoun series by Deanna Chase
• The Demon Slayer series by Angie Fox
• True Beauty (manhwa on Webtoon, live action on Viki)
• Business Proposal (manhwa on Tapas, live action on Netflix)

Non-Fiction:

• Black Gotham: A Family History of African Americans in Nineteenth-Century New York City
• Edward W. Said - Culture and imperialism

Music: ⁠⁠HOLY MOLY⁠⁠ by Shane Ivers

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Adrie Rose (@adrierising on bsky, twitter, instagram, & tiktok)

Stitch (@stitch on bsky, @stitchmediamix on instagram)

Stitch and Adrie talk about kinktober, dark romance, Sinners and Stardust, and the nature off consent.

Reading Recommendations:

Fiction:

• Steel Under Silk
• Sadistic Beauty
• In These Words
• Eat
• The Princess of Gryffindor by Aurette (SSHG fanfic)

Non-Fiction:

•  censorship is coming for you next (& you're cheering it on)

Music: ⁠⁠HOLY MOLY⁠⁠ by Shane Ivers

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Adrie Rose (@adrierising on bsky, twitter, instagram, & tiktok)

Stitch (@stitch on bsky, @stitchmediamix on instagram)

Saving the species, one human at a time.

Reading Recommendations:

Fiction:

• Brides of the Kylorr series by Zoey Draven
• The Clecanian series by Victoria Aveline
• Claimed Among the Stars anthology
• The Fireblood Dragons series by Ruby Dixon (but not the 10th one)
• Mates of Planet 25XA series by Merry Ravenell
• Mass Effect Andromeda 
• Star-Crossed (CW TV Series)
• Superman (2025)
• The Jekh Saga by H. E. Trent
• Thrawn by Timothy Zahn

Non-Fiction:

• Difference Engine: Aliens, Robots, and Other Racial Matters in the History of Science Fiction by De Witt Douglas Kilgore
• Monster Theory (specifically chapter 1, Monster Culture) by Jeffrey Jerome Cohen

Music: ⁠⁠HOLY MOLY⁠⁠ by Shane Ivers

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Adrie Rose (@adrierising on bsky, twitter, instagram, & tiktok)

Stitch (@stitch on bsky, @stitchmediamix on instagram)

Do you carry a lunchbox?

Reading Recommendations:

Fiction:

• The Princess Diaries series by Meg Cabot
• Sailor Moon by Naoko Takeuchi 
• Gravitation by Maki Murakami
• Fantasy Lover by Sherrilyn Kenyon
• the Highlander series by Karen Marie Moning
• A Great and Terrible Beauty trilogy by Libba Bray
• the Vampire Kisses series by Ellen Schreiber

Non-Fiction:

•  AO3 Ship Stats 2025

Music: ⁠⁠HOLY MOLY⁠⁠ by Shane Ivers

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Adrie Rose (@adrierising on bsky, twitter, instagram, & tiktok)

Stitch (@stitch on bsky, @stitchmediamix on instagram)

It’s a choice.

Reading Recommendations:

Fiction:

• Meet Me at the Anvil by Kate Prior
• My Orc Roommate by Veronika Kane
• Sweetling by SE Wendel
• Magical Midlife Madness by KF Breene
• Impromptu Match (Goliaths of Wrestling) by Lily Mayne
• All Superheroes Need PR (Supers in the City) by Elizabeth Stephens
• One Last Job by Anise Starre

Alternatives to Kindle Unlimited

• Libby (via OverDrive) & Hoopla (free with a participating library card)
• Scribd / Everand ($11.99/month + 30 day trial)
• Kobo Plus & Kobo Plus Listen ($7.99/month for a Plus or Listen plan, $9.99/month for both)
• Apple Books (free to access + cost of books)
• Google Play Books (free to access + cost of books)

Music: ⁠⁠HOLY MOLY⁠⁠ by Shane Ivers

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Adrie Rose (@adrierising on bsky, twitter, instagram, & tiktok)

Stitch (@stitch on bsky, @stitchmediamix on instagram)

Well, I don’t say that you have to enjoy it!

Reading Recommendations:

Fiction:

• The Dragons books by Katie MacAlister
• Gotten by the Gator by Lizzie Strong
• Daughter of No Worlds by Carissa Broadbent
• The Fae Isles series by Lisette Marshall
• The Boss by Jenny Trout
• Evensong’s Heir by L.S. Baird
• Smoke and Ashes by Alexis Hall
• Love and Deepspace - the mobile game

Music: ⁠⁠HOLY MOLY⁠⁠ by Shane Ivers

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Adrie Rose (@adrierising on bsky, twitter, instagram, & tiktok)

Stitch (@stitch on bsky, @stitchmediamix on instagram)

I invited you into my home and now you’re mad about the curtains?

Reading Recommendations:

Fiction:

• The Midnight Breed series by Lara Adrian
• Maybe the first 10-11 books in the The Black Dagger Brotherhood series by JR Ward
• Necking by Chris Salvatore 
• The Highlander series by Karen Marie Moning
• The Jade Calhoun series by Deanna Chase
• The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big Round Things by Carolyn Mackler
• The first… six books of the Cassie Palmer series by Karen Chance
• The Lotus Palace by Jeannie Lin

Music: ⁠⁠HOLY MOLY⁠⁠ by Shane Ivers

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Adrie Rose (@adrierising on bsky, twitter, instagram, & tiktok)

Stitch (@stitch on bsky, @stitchmediamix on instagram)

This is not what Joseph Smith had in mind.

Reading Recommendations:

Fiction:

• Blue Bloods series by Melissa de la Cruz 
• Mediator series by Meg Cabot
• Lana Harvey, Reapers Inc. by Angela Roquet
• Immortal Dark by Tigest Girma
• Bride by Ali Hazelwood
• Midnight Sun by Stephanie Meyer
• Carmilla by Sheridan Le Fanu
• Hungerstone by Kat Dunn
• Fledgling by Octavia Butler 
• First Kill on Netflix

Non-Fiction:

• Why We Love and Hate Twilight by Sarah Elizabeth Gallagher
• Bitten by Twilight by Melissa A. Click, Jennifer Stevens Aubrey, and Elizabeth Behm-Morawitz
• Seduced by Twilight by Natalie Wilson
• Fanpires: Audience Consumption of the Modern Vampire by Gareth Scott and Kirstine Moffat
• Vampires and Vampirism: A Cultural Study by Dudley Wright and Tarl Warwick (original version from 1918)
• Celluloid Vampires: Life After Death in the Modern World by Stacey Abbott
• Race in the Vampire Narrative edited by U. Melisssa Anyiwo
• Too White Bread for This Shit: Race and Racism in Laurell K Hamilton’s Urban Fantasy Series

Music: ⁠⁠HOLY MOLY⁠⁠ by Shane Ivers

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Adrie Rose (@adrierising on bsky, twitter, instagram, & tiktok)

Stitch (@stitch on bsky, @stitchmediamix on instagram)

Please clear my internet search history when I’m gone.

Reading Recommendations:

Games

• Mass Effect
• Silent Hill

Non-Fiction:

• Snape: A Definitive Reading by Lorrie Kim

Music: ⁠⁠HOLY MOLY⁠⁠ by Shane Ivers

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Adrie Rose (@adrierising on bsky, twitter, instagram, & tiktok)

Stitch (@stitch on bsky, @stitchmediamix on instagram)

It’s pretty obvious that money was just a suggestion for the Halliwell sisters.

Reading Recommendations:

Fiction:

• Delicious in Dungeon by Ryoko Kui
• Cherry Magic! Thirty Years of Virginity Can Make You a Wizard by Yuu Toyota
• The Virgin Witch by Face Park
• The Sweet Pea Mysteries series by Kathryn Moon
• The Witches of the Midwest series by Amanda M. Lee
• The Devil Made Me Brew It by Sarah Piper
• The Wheel of the Year series by CM Nascosta

Music: ⁠⁠HOLY MOLY⁠⁠ by Shane Ivers

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Adrie Rose (@adrierising on bsky, twitter, instagram, & tiktok)

Stitch (@stitch on bsky, @stitchmediamix on instagram)

And they were [Confederate] soldiers.

Reading Recommendations:

Fiction:

• The Love at Stake series by Kerrelyn Sparks
• The Southern Vampire Mystery series by Charlaine Harris
• The Crowns of Nyaxia series by Carissa Broadbent
• The Vampire Academy series by Richelle Mead
• The Ghostwalker series by Christine Feehan
• A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness
• Dread Nation/Deathless Divide by Justina Ireland

Non-Fiction:

• Video: The State of NaNoWriMo
• “On “Twilight” and Fiction’s History of Confederate Vampires”

Music: ⁠⁠HOLY MOLY⁠⁠ by Shane Ivers

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Adrie Rose (@adrierising on bsky, twitter, instagram, & tiktok)

Stitch (@stitch on bsky, @stitchmediamix on instagram)

Whenever feasible, one should always try to eat the rude.

Reading Recommendations:

Fiction:

• Fangs - Billy Balibally 
• MADK - Ryo Suzuri
• The Tiger Won’t Eat the Dragon Yet - Hachi Inaba
• Eat - Nagabe
• A Sinner of the Deep Sea - Akihito Tomo
• M41TO on BSKY

Non-Fiction:

• Neo-Victorian Cannibalism: A Theory of Contemporary Adaptations - Tammy Lai-Ming Ho
• How to Serve Man: On Cannibalism, Sex, Sacrifice, & the Nature of Eating - Gary Allen
• Cannibalism: A Perfectly Natural History - Bill Schutt
• “Hannibal and the Cannibal: Tracking Colonial Imaginaries” in Becoming: Genre, Queerness, and Transformation in NBC’s Hannibal - article by Samira Nadkarni and Rukmini Pande, collection edited by Kavita Mudan Finn and EJ Nielsen
• “The Gruesome History of Eating Corpses as Medicine” - Maria Dolan

Song

• Ludo - Horror of Our Love

Music: ⁠⁠HOLY MOLY⁠⁠ by Shane Ivers

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Adrie Rose (@adrierising on bsky, twitter, instagram, & tiktok)

Stitch (@stitch on bsky, @stitchmediamix on instagram)

WARNING: Explicit descriptions of graphic (and bad) sex and mild vore in this episode.

The horrors persist and so do I.

WARNING: Time stamps for potentially upsetting and/or disturbing material are below.

20:55 - 23:01 Descriptions of an*l and vag*nal sex without proper hygiene.

44:50 - 46:04 Descriptions of oral and period sex.

1:08:58 - 1:13:03 Descriptions of vore.

Music: ⁠⁠HOLY MOLY⁠⁠ by Shane Ivers

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Adrie Rose (@adrierising on bsky, twitter, instagram, & tiktok)

Stitch (@stitch on bsky, @stitchmediamix on instagram)

A playwright by any other name would be not Shakespeare.

Reading Recommendations:

Fiction:

• By Any Other Name by Jodi Picoult
• The Queen's Realm

Non-Fiction:

• Shakespeare Wrote Insightfully About Women. That Doesn’t Mean He Was One. by James Shapiro (The Atlantic)
• The Shakespeare Oxford Newsletter, Vol. 59, No. 3 pp. 1, 18-19 by Jonathan Bate
• Shakespeare Was Shakespeare by Isaac Butler (Slate)
• What if Shakespeare was Shakespeare? by Noah Millman (The Week)
• Cinzia DuBois’ (Lady of the Library) review of Shakespeare Was a Woman and Other Heresies (Goodreads)
• Who’s Afraid of A Black Blaise Zabini? Everyone in 2005 Harry Potter Fandom… Apparently.

Music: ⁠⁠HOLY MOLY⁠⁠ by Shane Ivers

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Adrie Rose (@adrierising on bsky, twitter, instagram, & tiktok)

Stitch (@stitch on bsky, @stitchmediamix on instagram)

Man cannot survive on loathing alone.

Reading Recommendations:

Fiction:

• The Mating of Elves
• Eyelet
• The Bondservant
• Lady & Maid
• Cold Blooded Beast (Full Version)
• Silver Foxed by Kayla Grosse
• Guarded by the Snake by Layla Fae
• Gotten By the Gator by Lizzie Strong
• My Orc (Fake) Boyfriend Next Door by Veronika Kane

Music: ⁠⁠HOLY MOLY⁠⁠ by Shane Ivers

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Adrie Rose (@adrierising on bsky, twitter, instagram, & tiktok)

Stitch (@stitch on bsky, @stitchmediamix on instagram)

Guest Host:

Our guest this week is Deepa (no pronouns), who has been in fandom since age 13 and interested in sapphic media and femslash just as long! Deepa co-hosts a Pretty Little Liars podcast with Deepa’s friend Cameron called “Don’t Forget the Chickpeas”. Deepa is barely on socials these days, but is technically on bluesky @deepasivarajan and instagram @deepa_sivarajan.

So you don't like toxic lesbian romance? God forbid a woman have hobbies.

Reading Recommendations:

Fiction:

• Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch From Mercury
• 5 Seconds Before a Witch Falls in Love
• Doughnuts Under a Crescent Moon
• I’m In Love With the Villainess
• Murcielago
• She Loves to Cook and She Loves to Eat
• Straight Girl Trap
• Sora and Haena
• Couple of Mirrors
• To Embers We Return
• Female General, Eldest Princess
• Purely By Accident
• Moonlight Fills The Western Tower

Non-Fiction:

•  By Your Side: The First 100 Years of Yuri Anime and Manga by Erica Friedman
• "Queer Media from the Global South: The Emerging Girls Love (GL) Media Industry of Southeast Asia", Eva Cheuk-Yin Li & Ka-Wei Pang

Music: ⁠⁠HOLY MOLY⁠⁠ by Shane Ivers

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Adrie Rose (@adrierising on bsky, twitter, instagram, & tiktok)

Stitch (@stitch on bsky, @stitchmediamix on instagram)

Guest Host:

Saeed Jones is a poet and cultural critic. His most recent book, ALIVE AT THE END OF THE WORLD, won the 2023 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Poetry. He co-hosts VIBE CHECK with Zach Stafford and Sam Sanders. 

In Acrimony… how did she get on the boat????

Reading Recommendations:

Fiction:

• Black in Blues by Imani Perry
• Fall in Love You False Angels by Coco Uzuki
• Cackle by Rachel Harrison

Non-Fiction:

• Humiliation by Wayne Kostenbaum

Music: ⁠⁠HOLY MOLY⁠⁠ by Shane Ivers

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Adrie Rose (@adrierising on bsky, twitter, instagram, & tiktok)

Stitch (@stitch on bsky, @stitchmediamix on instagram)

You’re telling me a beast built this library?

Reading Recommendations:

Fiction:

• The Deliciously Dark Fairytales series by K.F. Breene
• The Wicked Villain series by Katee Robert
• Of Roses and Rituals by S.L. Prater
• The Taming of Sleeping Beauty by Anne Rice writing as A. N. Roquelaure
• A Wicked Tale of Cinderella's Stepmom by Sunset , Kiarne
• Ever After (film)
• Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine

Non-Fiction:

• Little Red Riding Hood Uncloaked: Sex, Morality, And The Evolution Of A Fairy Tale by Catherine Orenstein

Music: ⁠⁠HOLY MOLY⁠⁠ by Shane Ivers

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Adrie Rose (@adrierising on bsky, twitter, instagram, & tiktok)

Stitch (@stitch on bsky, @stitchmediamix on instagram)

What, exactly, is a female presenting nipple and why can’t I find it on a shelf?

Reading Recommendations:

Fiction:

• Spell of the Highlander by Karen Marie Moning
• The Midnight Breed series by Lara Adrian
• To Ravish a Rogue by CM Nascosta
• How to Win My Husband Over by spice&kitty
• The Glamorous Life of the Fake Mistress by BerrySoda, LeeZen, KimPpopi, and hemo
• I Failed to Oust the Villain! By JAEUNHYANG

Non-Fiction:

• https://bookriot.com/clinch-covers-on-romance-novels/
• https://hazlitt.net/feature/brief-history-clinch
• https://mariadeblassie.com/bruja-professor-blog/2021/9/21/the-history-of-clinch-cover-art-with-the-art-of-the-clinch

Music: ⁠⁠HOLY MOLY⁠⁠ by Shane Ivers

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Adrie Rose (@adrierising on bsky, twitter, instagram, & tiktok)

Stitch (@stitch on bsky, @stitchmediamix on instagram)

You can excuse racism?

Reading Recommendations: 

Fiction:

• Haru Wo Daiteita/Embracing Love by Youka Nitta
• Touch My Little Brother and You're Dead (webtoon) by Cheolmujangmi and Toonga, original novel by Morpho
• The Maid by Nita Prose
• The Crazy Rich Asians series by Kevin Kwan

Non-Fiction:

• The Use Value of D. A. F. de Sade by Georges Bataille 
• Bad Writing Takes on Twitter/X
• @razorbladecactus on ACOTAR, pt. 1
• @razorbladecactus on ACOTAR, pt. 2

Music: ⁠⁠HOLY MOLY⁠⁠ by Shane Ivers

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Adrie Rose (@adrierising on bsky, twitter, instagram, & tiktok)

Stitch (@stitch on bsky, @stitchmediamix on instagram)

Guest Host:

Jeanne, aka Fangirljeanne, is a media critic, author, and geriatic fangirl who has been pissing people off on the internet for decades. She’s on almost every social media plaflorm (@Fangirljeanne), but since the untimely death of Twitter she spends most days doomscrooling on Tiktok.

“Think of the messiest person you know. It's a man isn't it?"

Reading Recommendations:

Fiction:

• The Illiad (Audible Edition narrated by Audra McDonald)
• Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao
• Salt & Scale by mzladybird
• Free to Fly by apckrfan

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Adrie Rose (@adrierising on bsky, twitter, instagram, & tiktok)

Stitch (@stitch on bsky, @stitchmediamix on instagram)

Since when is “breeder” a slur?

Reading Recommendations:

Fiction:

• Moon Blooded Breeding Clinic by CM Nascosta
• Warriors of Luxiria series by Zoey Draven
• Alpha Horde series by Milana Jacks
• As Morning Falls by Teddy Radiator
• The Gilded Cage by ApollinaV
• Low Tide in Twilight by euja
• Smyrna and Capri by Brothers without a tomorrow
• Tiger’s Den by huung and Dam-rain
• Sweat and Soap - Baby Making Book by Yamada kintetsu
• The Cold Hearted Prince May Yet Fall Madly in Love by Haikey and Ninako 275

Non-Fiction:

• What is a Breeding Kink?

Music: ⁠⁠HOLY MOLY⁠⁠ by Shane Ivers

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Adrie Rose (@adrierising on bsky, twitter, instagram, & tiktok)

Stitch (@stitch on bsky, @stitchmediamix on instagram)

Guest Host:

Jeanne, aka Fangirljeanne, is a media critic, author, and geriatic fangirl who has been pissing people off on the internet for decades. She’s on almost every social media plaflorm (@Fangirljeanne), but since the untimely death of Twitter she spends most days doomscrooling on Tiktok.

“Mama, I fear I may be in love with a criminal.”

Reading Recommendations:

Fiction:

• Queenie and the Krakens by Aleera Anaya Ceres
• Finder by Ayano Yamane
• Yakuza Lover by Nozomi Mino
• LOVE MURDER BASKETBALL by Kurutta Hito, illustrated by Tsunderuuu
• In These Words by TogaQ and KichikuNeko
• Lovers of Mezzanotte by Golden-ringed dragonfly Shop
• Brutal by KOGA Kei, art by IZAWA Ryou
• The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
• Katee Robert’s O’Malley series
• Kit Rocha’s Beyond series
• The Highwayman by Kerrigan Byrne
• Wicked and the Wallflower by Sarah Maclean
• JJ McAvoy’s Children of Vice and Ruthless People series
• Iron Rose by Molly Briar

Non-Fiction:

• Savage Appetites by Rachel Monroe
• Dead Girls by Alice Bolin

Music: ⁠⁠HOLY MOLY⁠⁠ by Shane Ivers

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Adrie Rose (@adrierising on bsky, twitter, instagram, & tiktok)

Stitch (@stitch on bsky, @stitchmediamix on instagram)

OPEN THE SCHOOLS!

Reading Recommendations:

Fiction:

• Like a Butterfly by suu Morishita 
• A Villainess for the Tyrant by Yoo Iran
• The Sicilian’s Stolen Son (manga edition) by Lynne Graham and Shion Hanyu
• Scheme by Colette Rhodes (part of the On the Shelf series)
• Penelope & Prince Charming by Jennifer Ashley
• Romeo, Romeo by Robin Kaye

Music: ⁠⁠HOLY MOLY⁠⁠ by Shane Ivers

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Adrie Rose (@adrierising on bsky, instagram, & tiktok)

Stitch (@stitch on bsky, @stitchmediamix on instagram)

Do not cite the “bad smut” to me, witch. I was on Ao3 when it was written.

Reading Recommendations:

Fiction:

• Total Eclipse of the Heart by Dani Galliaro
• The Prince’s Dearest Guards by Beau van Dalen
• The Princess in the Henhouse by mieun-lee, Samyeon, DOHA
• The Plated Prisoner series by Raven Kennedy
• The Of Flesh and Bone series by Harper L. Woods

Games

• Khywae’s Reader-Insert games on Itch

Music: ⁠⁠HOLY MOLY⁠⁠ by Shane Ivers

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Adrie Rose (@adrierising on bsky, twitter, instagram, & tiktok)

Stitch (@stitch on bsky, @stitchmediamix on instagram)

Guest Host:

Naomi Lucas is an indie author who’s been writing sexy romance since 2016. She loves being creative whether it’s with painting, writing, or making little jingles about her dogs, Barracuda and Mahi Mahi. A mother since 2020, a wife since 2013, her son and husband are her world. The Lucas pack lives near Portland, seeking their happily ever after. Ever a video gamer, ever a reader, she is a weirdo through and through.

“You write women of colour as the FMCs in your romance novels?”

What, like it’s hard?

Reading Recommendations:

Fiction:

• The Naga Brides series by Naomi Lucas
• The Silver Dragon series by Katie MacAlister
• The Mead Mishap series by Kimberly Lemming
• Lord of Population by Elizabeth Stephens (read the trigger warnings!)
• Prime Mating Agency series by Regine Abel
• The Priest Dreaming Of A Dragon by Yezhao and Liubeili
• Mr. Wolf Is Violently Smothering Me with Love by Abuku
• BUDDHIST PRIEST & A SPIDER by Haji
• Nian Monsters & Their Partners 
• Monster and the Beast by Renji
• Finley Fenn
• Ruby Dixon
• Lillian Lark
• Tiffany Roberts

Non-Fiction:

• “Looking for” thread on Reddit
• Writing with Color on tumblr
• Monster Culture (Seven Theses) by Jeffrey Cohen

Music: ⁠⁠HOLY MOLY⁠⁠ by Shane Ivers

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Adrie Rose (@adrierising on bsky, instagram, & tiktok)

Stitch (@stitch on bsky, @stitchmediamix on instagram)

Watch out boys, we got us a real intellectual here.

Reading Recommendations:

Fiction:

• Necking by Chris Salvatore
• The Claws & Cubicle series by Kate Prior
• Perfect Buddy by Daki
• Kiss Me at the Stroke of Midnight by Rin Mikimoto

Music: ⁠⁠HOLY MOLY⁠⁠ by Shane Ivers

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Hosted by:

Adrie Rose (@adrierising on bsky, twitter, instagram, & tiktok)

Stitch (@stitch on bsky, @stitchmediamix on instagram)

Guest Host:

Hanna Phifer (@writtenbyhanna on instagram, thought daughter)

One time, my therapist told me to ask myself, “Do you know why you’re angry, or do you just think that you should be.” And I took that personally.

Reading Recommendations:

Fiction:

• May I Ask for One Final Thing? by Soora Hoonoki and Nana Otori

• An Observation Log Of My Wife: A Self-Proclaimed Villainess by Hatsumi Natsume

• In the Doghouse

• The Dark Olympus series by Katee Robert

• The Brides of the Kylorr series by Zoey Draven 

• Whoever You Are Honey by Olivia Gatwood

• Luster by Raven Leilani

Music: ⁠⁠HOLY MOLY⁠⁠ by Shane Ivers

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• Adrie Rose (@adrierising on bsky, twitter, instagram, & tiktok)

• Stitch (@stitch on bsky, @stitchmediamix on instagram)

Guest:

Sanj (@baskinsuns on twitter, instagram, and tiktok, scratch paper on substack)

Sanj (she/her) is a PhD student and bookish content creator living in New York. She studies health, sex, gender, intimacy, and bodies, sometimes in the real world and sometimes in romance novels, depending on her mood.

Shame ain’t worth as much as you think, let it go.

[The Wire]

Reading Recommendations:

Fiction:

• The Hades x Persephone series by Scarlett St. Clair

• The Vampire Academy series by Richelle Mead 

• The Witching Hour by Anne Rice

• In the Doghouse by Jusang

• Cold Sweat by Vera Valentine

• Sovereign by Raya Morris Edwards 

Music: ⁠⁠HOLY MOLY⁠⁠ by Shane Ivers

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Hosted by:

Adrie Rose (bluesky, twitter, instagram) | Stitch (bluesky, instagram)

You do know that you can read something else, right?

Reading Recommendations:

Fiction:

• Morning Glory Milking Farm by CM Nascosta

• A Blue Ribbon Romance by CM Nascosta

• The Tempting Monsters series by Kathryn Moon

• The Smash Agency series by Kathryn Moon

• The Fae-ted Kings series by Milana Jacks

• The Clecanian series by Victoria Aveline

• The Shades of Sin series by Colette Rhodes

• The Hartwell Sisters series by Flora Quincy

• The 100 series by Lara Adrian

• Spy x Family by Tatsuya Endo 

• Me and my Beast Boss by Shiroino

• The fragrant flower blooms with dignity by Mikami Saka

• The Lady’s Erotic Hobbies by Chae Rangbi and R.Su (on Kakao) 

• The Psy Changeling series by Nalini Singh

Non-Fiction:

• Closed-Door Romance: What’s the Point? by Mimi Matthews

• Bonnet Rippers: The Rise of the Amish Romance Novel by Valerie Weaver-Zercher

• Uh-Oh, Are Amish Bonnet Rippers Red-Pilling Me by Molly Longman

Music: ⁠⁠HOLY MOLY⁠⁠ by Shane Ivers

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Adrie Rose (bluesky, twitter, instagram) | Stitch (bluesky, instagram)


Guest Host: Kit (twitter | A03)


[fandom] after [doing bad thing] because [something vaguely related to the aforementioned fandom].


Music: ⁠⁠HOLY MOLY⁠⁠ by Shane Ivers

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Adrie Rose (bluesky, twitter, instagram) | Stitch (bluesky, instagram)

The grass has never been more touchable.

Reading Recommendations:

Non-Fiction:

• authors in reviewer spaces. let’s discuss. (reads with rachel on YT)

• i am a goodreads bully (reads with rachel on YT)

• authors behaving badly (playlist by reads with rachel on YT)

• Talking About Authors and Reviewer Spaces (A Critical Dragon on YT)

• S51E02 of Writing Roots: Being an Author in Reader Spaces

• The Difference Between Reader Space and Author Space (hashtagiwrotethis)

• Why Authors Should Stay Out of Fan Spaces by Moriah Richard

• IMO: Authors in Reader Spaces (Weekend Reader)

• Something is very wrong with us, and it’s not bad reviews (Dear Author)

Music: ⁠⁠HOLY MOLY⁠⁠ by Shane Ivers

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Adrie Rose (bluesky, twitter, instagram) | Stitch (bluesky, instagram)

You have to do whatever I say, because I'm all you got! And I want... a BIGGER ROOM! I want a closet like Big made for Carrie in Sex and the City, I want a Labradoodle, and a nice camera to take PICTURES OF US!

Reading Recommendations:

Fiction:

• Beware the Villainess 

• Fake Around and Find Out by S.M. Shade

• Ogami-san Can’t Keep It In by Yu Yoshidamaru

• Miss Night and Day (Netflix)

• Shrill (Hulu)

Music: ⁠⁠HOLY MOLY⁠⁠ by Shane Ivers

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Hosted by:

Adrie Rose (bluesky, twitter, instagram) | Stitch (bluesky, instagram)

Loving v. Virginia has done irreparable harm to our society.

- Hanna Phifer

Reading Recommendations:

Fiction:

• Courtney Milan’s Cyclone Series

• If You’ll Have Me by Eunnie

• My Dear Agent by Ebino Bisque

• First Kill (Netflix)

• Interview With the Vampire (AMC+)

• A Prince on Paper by Alyssa Cole

• Rebekah Weatherspoon’s FIT Trilogy

• Josh & Hazel’s Guide to Not Dating by Christina Lauren

• Nalini Singh’s Psy-Changeling/Trinity series

• Gail Carriger’s Finishing School series

• Last Tang Standing by Lauren Ho

• Twisted Lies by Ana Huang

Non-Fiction:

• Gender in Black and White: Examining Interracial Relationships in ShondaLand by Caitlin V. Downing

• Shonda Rhimes Representation Problem (Ada on Demand on YouTube)

• Race and Romance: Coloring the Past

• Black Love Matters edited by Jessica P. Pryde

• Slavery and the Culture of Taste by Simon Gikandi

Music: ⁠⁠HOLY MOLY⁠⁠ by Shane Ivers

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Adrie Rose (bluesky, twitter, instagram) | Stitch (bluesky, instagram)

I don’t want to fix him, I want to make him worse.

Reading Recommendations:

Fiction:

• Literally anything Loki Reynard writes, I fear

• Shade’s Embrace by Olivia Riley

• The Serpent and the Wings of Night by Carissa Broadbent

• The Ashes and the Star-Cursed King by Carissa Broadbent

• The Sins Series by Eve Silver

• Lord of Population by Elizabeth Stephens

• Sing Me to Sleep by RM Virtues

• Minotaur Blooded by Naomi Lucas

• The Bargainer Series by Laura Thalassa

• The Vampire Chronicles series by Anne Rice

• The Mates of the 25XA series by Merry Ravenell

• High Society -  The original story is by Gyeonu and the team at Manta Comics

• Placebo by CukeSoap

• Betrayal of Dignity

Non-Fiction:

• Why Does He Do That? by Lundy Bancroft

• Abuse in Fandom by iceofwaterflock (deviantart)

Music: ⁠⁠HOLY MOLY⁠⁠ by Shane Ivers

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Adrie Rose (bluesky, twitter, instagram) | Stitch (bluesky, instagram)

Since when is shipping the worst thing a fandom can do?

Music: ⁠⁠HOLY MOLY⁠⁠ by Shane Ivers

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Adrie Rose (bluesky, twitter, instagram) | Stitch (bluesky, instagram)

“Since we all live in the universe, it is well worth remembering that underneath the outer dressing of ethnicity, color and gender, we are all the same. Showered with the gift of stars.”

 – Vivian Stephens

Reading Recommendations:

Non-Fiction:

Inside the Spectacular Implosion at the Romance Writers of America (Jezebel)

The Romance Writers of America Convention is just super. (New York Press)

Queen of romance (Prospect Magazine)

Embraced by Romance (Publishers Weekly)

Suzanne Brockman’s acceptance speech

Suzanne Brockman’s RWA acceptance speech (RA for All)

My POV on RWA (Nora Roberts blog)

Fifty Shades of White (The Guardian)

How Do You Solve a Problem Like the RITAs? (Kirkus Reviews)

Romance Writers of American Suspends Novelist Courtney Milan for Calling Rival’s Work “Racist Mess” (The Wrap)

Bad Romance (Vox)

Vivian Stephens Helped Turn Romance Writing into a Billion-Dollar Industry. Then She Got Pushed Out. (Texas Monthly)

As racism scandal escalates, Romance Writers of America board president resigns (Chron.)

Romance Writers Group Goes Bankrupt After Diversity Fight Decimates Ranks (Bloomberg)

RWA has Filed for Bankruptcy, And You’ll Never Guess “Why” (Smart Bitches, Trashy Books)

Music: ⁠⁠HOLY MOLY⁠⁠ by Shane Ivers

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Hosted by:

Adrie Rose (bluesky, twitter, instagram) | Stitch (bluesky, instagram)

Stealing is very bad and also illegal.

Reading Recommendations:

Fiction:

Cinder’s Wolf by Sylvia Frost

Sprinkled in the Stars by Violet Morley

If the Boot Fits by Rebekah Weatherspoon

While We Were Dating by Jasmine Guillory

Daytime Star

I didn’t Mean To Seduce the Male Lead

Seoulmates

Once Upon a K-Prom

Muse on Fame

My Love From Another Star

Beauty Inside

Touch Your Heart

Love To Hate You

So I Married The Anti-Fan

Doona!

Crash Course in Romance

Run On

Spoiler Alert

The Stand-In

Slate City Omegaverse 

Soft Hours Are Starting

In Public, The Private

Non-Fiction:

How Alex Wennberg’s family got caught up in a social media nightmare

Music: ⁠⁠HOLY MOLY⁠⁠ by Shane Ivers

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Adrie Rose (bluesky, twitter, instagram) | Stitch (bluesky, instagram)

I don’t know what you expected.

Reading Recommendations:

Fiction:

The Princess Diaries series by Meg Cabot

Dune by Frank Herbert

The Lunar Chronicles by Marissa Meyer

Carry On by Rainbow Rowell

The Mortal Instruments by Cassandra Clare

Assistant to the Villain by Hannah Nicole Maehrer

Alchemised by SenLinYu

Legacy of Orisha series by Tomi Adeyemi

Non-Fiction:

NASA/TREK: Popular Science and Sex in America by Constance Penley

The Fan Fiction Reader: Folk Tales For the Digital Age by Francesca Coppa

The Fan Fiction Studies Reader: Edited by Karen Hellekson and Kristina Busse

The Dark Fantastic: Race and the Imagination from Harry Potter to the Hunger Games by Dr. Ebony Elizabeth Thomas

Who’s Afraid of A Black Blaise Zabini? Everyone in 2005 Harry Potter Fandom… Apparently.

Music: ⁠⁠HOLY MOLY⁠⁠ by Shane Ivers

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Hosted by:

Adrie Rose (bluesky, twitter, instagram) | Stitch (bluesky, instagram)

Guest Host: Rogue (twitter, A03)

May I offer you a Plan B in these trying times?

Reading Recommendations:

Fiction:

Tadaima, Okaeri by ICHIKAWA Ichi

Surge Towards You by Cheongyeon (Lezhin)

Love is an Illusion by @13.fargo on IG (Lehzin)

The Sweetverse series by Kathryn Moon and Lana Cole

I've Become an Omega Today by Sachi Maiki

The Florida Omegaverse Extended Universe by Stitch

The Catboy Omegaverse series by Tsutako Tsurusawa

Low Tide in Twilight by Euja

Smyrna and Capri by Brothers Without a Tomorrow

Minmotion Syndrom by Niji

Be My Beta by Shin Yuri (proceed with caution!)

Fanfiction:

my hand reaching out to you (is my chosen destiny) by evocates

Once Upon a Time in Busan by 0nlyamemory, greyeyesandprettylies

teeth on my waist (i come undone) by martyrsdaughter

get a little bit, come a little close by verseau

Non-Fiction:

Dubcon by Milena Popova

Reimagining (Aspects of) The Omegaverse: Purity Culture

Reimagining (Aspects of) The Omegaverse: Reproductive Healthcare

Music: ⁠⁠HOLY MOLY⁠⁠ by Shane Ivers

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Adrie Rose (bluesky, twitter, instagram) | Stitch (bluesky, instagram)

This one will get us cancelled, for sure.

Reading Recommendations:

Fiction:

Inheritance by Devin Grayson

Dracula: Norton Critical Editions

The Midnight Breed series by Lara Adrian

The Love at Stake series by Kerrelyn Sparks

The Mead Mishaps series by Kimberly Lemming

Once again, literally anything by Milana Jacks

CM Nascosta’s entire back catalogue

Sing Me to Sleep by RM Virtues

The Planet of Kings series by Lee Savino and Tabitha Black

Most things by Loki Renard

Unsatisfying_wedding_nights

https://www.reddit.com/r/RomanceBooks/comments/11woxkf/bad_sex/

Non-Fiction:

2K to 10K by Rachel Aaron

Story Genius by Lisa Cron

Writing Erotica by Edo von Belkom

Edo Von Belkom - Writing Erotica

Music: ⁠⁠HOLY MOLY⁠⁠ by Shane Ivers

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Adrie Rose (bluesky, twitter, instagram) | Stitch (bluesky, instagram)

When you look at someone through rose-colored glasses, all the red flags just look like flags.

Reading Recommendations:

Fiction:

• Twisted Series by Ana Huang

• Naga Brides Series by Naomi Lucas

• Hoarded by the Dragon by Lillian Lark

• There Arose Such a Clatter by CM Nascosta

• Sweet Pea Mysteries Series by Kathryn Moon

• Literally anything by Milana Jacks

• Queens & Monster Series by JT Geissinger

• Deliciously Dark Fairytales series by KF Breene

• By the Book by Jasmine Guillory

• Legacy of Magic series by Lindsay Buroker

• How to survive as a maid in a horror game by SINCERE & SUCH & KimYomYum

• The Crimson Lady by Cha Seojin, Taegong, and White Rain

• The Villainess Tames the beast by singasong, NDduck, Seol Young, HI

• Your Ultimate Love Rival by Sol Leesu, Matte, and Sajeok

• A Girl and Her Guard Dog by Hatsuharu

• Steel under Silk by snob

• Placebo by Cuke Soap

• Jinx by Minghwa

• Tentacle Recipe by DOTGAVI

• I Failed To Oust the Villain by Jaeunhyang, ASSAM, and Syunnyun 

Music: ⁠⁠HOLY MOLY⁠⁠ by Shane Ivers

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Adrie Rose (bluesky, twitter, instagram) | Stitch (bluesky, instagram)

I do not dream of labor, but if I did, it would be written better than this.

Reading Recommendations:

Fiction:

A Lady of Rooksgrave Manor by Kathryn Moon

A Little Kissing Between Friends by Chencia C. Higgins

Sugar Daddies by Jade West

Money Shot by Tim Seeley

Asumi-chan is Interested in Lesbian Brothels! By Kuro Itsuki

Duchess Debauchery by GOYO/Jusang

The Condemned Villainess Goes Back in Time and Aims to Become the Ultimate Villain by Ebisushi and Bakufu Narayama

Non-fiction:

My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness by Kabi Nagata

Music: ⁠⁠HOLY MOLY⁠⁠ by Shane Ivers

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Recommended Reading:

Neon Gods by Katee Robert

Electric Idol by Katee Robert

Wicked Beauty by Katee Robert

Circe by Madeline Miller (not romance)

The Rose by Tiffany Reisz

Gods Behaving Badly by Marie Phillips (not romance)

Out of Practice Aphrodite by SE Babin

A Touch of Greek by Tina Folsom

Demigods of San Francisco (Sins) series by KF Breene

Lore Olympus by Rachel Smythe

Persephone: Hades’ Torment by Allison Shaw

Lord Hades’s Ruthless Marriage by Ueji Yuho, Tomo Kimura

Hades (Video Game) on macOS, Switch, Window, PS4/5, Xbox One/X/S, iOS

D’Aulaires Book of Greek Myths

Mythology by Edith Hamilton

Mary Renault (Historical Fiction and Non-fiction)

Music: ⁠HOLY MOLY⁠ by Shane Ivers

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I love the way it feels to be a hater

Something so sweet about thinking that I'm better

Just to wake up every morning

Lay in bed and somehow never, ever rise to the occasion

Or even hold up under pressure

But we all know that it doesn't even matter

If I waste away and no one thinks I'm clever

Just as long I've got my ego

And it tells me I'm superior

I could probably go a lifetime

Being barely mediocre

I'd still convince myself every time that I'm better

Recommended Reading:

Urban Fantasy:

• Lana Harvey, Reapers Inc. series by Angela Roquet

• Georgina Kincaid series by Richelle Mead

• Sin series by KF Breene

• Guild Hunter Series by Nalini Singh

Paranormal Fantasy:

• Sweet Pea series by Kathryn Moon

• Sins series by Eve Silver

• Beast Mate series by Milana Jacks

• Midnight Breed series by Lara Adrian

• The entire Dragons universe by Katie MacAlister

Contemporary Romance:

• The Brown Sisters series by Talia Hibbert

• Skip and Loafer by Misaki Takamatsu

• If You’ll Have Me by Eunnie

• Gap Papa by Utakata

• Yakuza Fiance Asuka Konishi

• She Loves to Cook, She Loves to Eat by Sakaomi Yuzaki

Highlander/Historical Romance:

• Nvengaria series by Jennifer Ashley

• The Spellmaker duology by Charlie N Holmberg

• The Finishing School, Delightfully Deadly, Parasol Protectorate, and Custard Protocol series by Gail Carriger

• The Husky and His White Cat Shizun by Meatbun

• Though I Am Inept Villainess by Satuki Nakamura

Sci-Fi/Fantasy Romance:

• The Other World’s Books Depend on the Bean Counter by Yatsuki Wakatsu

• The Prince’s Dearest Guards by Beau Van Dalen

• Pass the Monster Meat, Milady by Chika Mizube

• Ten Ways to Get Dumped by a Tyrant by Gwijo Seo

Non-Fiction:

• Bonnet Rippers: The Rise of the Amish Romance Novel by Valerie Weaver-Zercher

• Issued: JR Ward by Elia’s Diamonds

• Meet Officer Friendly by Jessica Pryde

• Fanfic Followup by Kate_Nepveu

Music: HOLY MOLY by Shane Ivers

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Reading Recs:

Fiction:

• Harley Takes the House

• Villain Duke's Precious One

• The Newbie Princess Doesn't Want a Game Over! Survive Through the Power of Simping

• Post-Possession Damage Control

• A Stepmother’s Marchen

• Angel Sanctuary

• The Viridescent Tiara

• Vassalord

• From Superfan to Stepsister

Non-Fiction:

• Gothic Incest: Gender, Sexuality, and Transgression | Jenny Diplacidi

• Experimentally-induced "sexual fetishism": Replication and development. | Rachman, S., & Hodgson, R. J.

• Incest in the Gothic Novel | Wyatt Holliday

• Exotic Becomes Erotic: A Developmental Theory of Sexual Orientation | Daryl J. Bem

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Hosts:

Adrie Rose (bsky & ig) & Stitch (bsky)

Recommended Reading from the Episode:

The Monster Theory Reader by Jeffery Weinstock

Monsters in the Closet by Harry Benshoff 

Little Red Riding Hood Uncloaked: Sex, Morality, and the Evolution of a Fairy Tale by Catherine Orenstein

CM Nascosta

Heather Guerre

Kathryn Moon

Milana Jacks

Regine Abel

Naomi Lucas

Kate Prior

Colette Rhodes

Kimberly Lemming

Ryo Suzuri

• MADK
• Our Torsos Align

Smut Peddler Presents: Monster Boyfriend/Girlfriend

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