Author: Stitch

Stitch writes about what needs to be written.

A new episode of Pages & Prejudice is available – E40: Twilight’s New Dawn

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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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A new episode of Pages & Prejudice is available – E39: Hear Me Out

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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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A new episode of Pages & Prejudice is available – E38: Small Town Witches

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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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A new episode of Pages & Prejudice is available – E37: Yankee Doodle Went to War

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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:

Music: ⁠⁠HOLY MOLY⁠⁠ by Shane Ivers

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A new episode of Pages & Prejudice is available – E36: I’ll Eat You Up

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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

Music: ⁠⁠HOLY MOLY⁠⁠ by Shane Ivers

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Uh… It’s a Ten Year Anniversary Post

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Stitch’s Media Mix is ten years old!

Gross! I hate it!

I’d waffled about posting anything for this since I’ve basically stopped updating the site across the past few years. But actually… my site is still here, and I guess that counts for something.

I originally put this site together because I wanted to write for Book Riot and, at the time, they wanted more presence than social media for their authors. I feel like, somewhere in the depths of my inbox, is a very polite rejection that explicitly says they wanted writers with a website and that Tumblr didn’t count. Hilariously, even after all of that effort, I never wound up writing for them. I kind of… forgot that I had ever wanted to write for them in the process of building my own site and trying to figure out exactly what I wanted to say.

In the past decade, I have said a lot. I have done a lot. I may not have written for Book Riot, but I’ve written for a lot of different publications until burning out and (basically) staying that way after my dad died in late 2022. I’ve been in fandom studies publications, on podcasts that I was not running, and have spoken to several of my favorite celebrities. (And maybe a few of yours!) In the past decade, I built decent relationships with so many brilliant people and learned as much as I tried to teach.

Did you know that there were people who were in middle or high school when they started reading my posts on Tumblr and who now are in college or working in publishing or communications where they try to make a difference? I feel so old when someone messages me and is like “I used to read your site when I was in high school” and now they’re like in their late 20s.

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A new episode of Pages & Prejudice is available – E35: The Elusive O

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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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A new episode of Pages & Prejudice is available – E34: That MF is NOT Real

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A playwright by any other name would be not Shakespeare.

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Music: ⁠⁠HOLY MOLY⁠⁠ by Shane Ivers

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A new episode of Pages & Prejudice is available – E33: In Defense of Smut

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Man cannot survive on loathing alone.

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Music: ⁠⁠HOLY MOLY⁠⁠ by Shane Ivers

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A new episode of Pages & Prejudice is available – E32: My Girl’s Got a Girlfriend

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Guest Host:

Deepa (no pronouns) is a long time fandom aficionado, climate policy worker, and cohost of Don't Forget the Chickpeas, a Pretty Little Liars rewatch podcast.

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

Reading Recommendations:

Fiction:

  • Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch from Mercury
  • Five Seconds Before a Witch Falls in Love 
  • Donuts Under Crescent Moon
  • I'm in Love with the Villainess 
  • Murciélago
  • She Loves to Cook and She Loves to Eat 
  • Straight Girl Trap 
  • Sora and Hiena 
  • Couple of Mirrors
  • To Embers We Return
  • Female General, Eldest Princess 
  • Clear and Muddy Loss of Love 
  • Purely by Accident
  • Moonlight Fills the Western Tower

Non-Fiction:

  •  By Your Side: The First 100 Years of Yuri Anime and Manga by Erika Friedman

Music: ⁠⁠HOLY MOLY⁠⁠ by Shane Ivers

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A new episode of Pages & Prejudice is available – E31: How Did She Get on the Boat

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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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A new episode of Pages & Prejudice is available – E30: I Blame the Mouse

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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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A new episode of Pages & Prejudice is available – E29: Heaving Bosoms

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

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Music: ⁠⁠HOLY MOLY⁠⁠ by Shane Ivers

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Fandom Math

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A tag wrangling decision that coddles racists in fandom and emboldens racists to be condescending and antiblack in response to Black fans speaking about it is a racist tag wrangling decision. An archive practice that protects racists’ feelings is a racist archive practice.

Full stop.

This is a decision that was made in order to coddle racists still mad about Sam Wilson being the new Captain America. This was a decision, made just over two weeks from Brave New World‘s release, to prioritize the One True Captain America, center whiteness in fandom, and remind Black fans that we don’t get to have anything at all in fandom.

These films are not different franchises and it’s not a new continuity. There is no need to separate them at the franchise level in the tags. And had Bucky become Captain America instead of Sam, they would not have made this decision. It’s a decision made to insulate them from the reminder that this change has happened and that Captain America is now (and has been for a couple of years) a Black man.

And everyone in the comments and tags condescending to or mocking Black fans as if the ones talking about how bad a look this is are too unintelligent to understand how archives work or what racism looks like? The ones alternating between calling Black fans armchair activists and saying that we should tackle the “real racism” on the archive first – something I’m certain they’d get in the way of discussing too because these people literally will not let Black fans speak on what we see?

Those antiblack assholes can go straight to hell too alongside every single person responsible for that tag wrangling decision.

A new episode of Pages & Prejudice is available – 28: Why Do You Act Like That?

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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:

Music: ⁠⁠HOLY MOLY⁠⁠ by Shane Ivers

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