Hosted by:
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
Author: Stitch
Stitch writes about what needs to be written.
A new episode of Pages & Prejudice is available – E16: Get Out of My Room
Hosted by:
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
Watching People Watch and Reshare Black Death is Exhausting
Why do people need to watch videos of Black death to believe what happens to us?
I’ve been wondering about this for several years now.
Why is it that when a Black person is murdered – whether that is as a result of a cop’s itchy trigger finger or due to a wannabe cop shooting first and asking questions never – one of the first things people do is watch and share the video?
Read More »A new episode of Pages & Prejudice is available – E15: The Lost Art of the RomCom
https://ift.tt/qQz6Z0y https://ift.tt/eMn1gwy July 22, 2024
Hosted by:
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:
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Fake Around and Find Out by S.M. Shade
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Ogami-san Can’t Keep It In by Yu Yoshidamaru
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Miss Night and Day (Netflix)
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Shrill (Hulu)
Music: HOLY MOLY by Shane Ivers
Leave Black Women On The Internet Alone, Goddamn
The original headline for this piece was supposed to be “people are so weird about Black women on the internet,” but that didn’t do enough. It doesn’t say enough.
It’s not just that people are some unspecified but supposedly harmless form of “weird” when they see a Black woman (or queer or femme) online speak on anything with any seriousness.
It’s that they’re racist.
People aren’t weird about Black women online.
They’re racist to them.
Read More »Shoujo Sundae and the Shoujo Anime Renaissance
We’re currently in what feels like a shoujo series renaissance. Kimi Ni Todoke is about to get its third season, A Condition Called Love showed that not all red flag male leads are actually terrible, and A Sign of Affection had everybody talking about the most gorgeous white-haired guy since Jujutsu Kaisen’s Gojo Satoru.
There are so many shoujo and josei series – the latter geared towards more mature audiences via series like the upcoming anime adaptation of Yakuza Fiancé: Raise wa Tanin ga Ii – that have either gotten picked up for anime adaptations or have gained new fans thanks to the rise of passionate fans online.
One set of amazing fans are the lovely hosts of the shoujo anime podcast Shoujo Sundae. I sat down with hosts Giana Luna and Chika Supreme to talk about what got them into the podcast arena, their favorite series, what they’ve learned about themselves while working on this podcast together, and the future of their team-up.
Read More »A new episode of Pages & Prejudice is available – E14: The Swirl Agenda
Show Notes:
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
Episode 13 of Pages and Prejudice is up!
(It’s actually been up but I forgot about it! This week, however, I’ll be laying my hopes on an automation to crosspost in a timely fashion.)
Anyway, this week on the podcast we talk about dark romance, chat about The Acolyte, and Adrie actually manages to find a series that truly gives me the ick.
Happy listening!
Pages and Prejudice has made it to Episode #10!!
Praise us for this milestone!
It’s also the first time in three episodes that we haven’t had to have a trigger warning for bestiality!
In this episode, Adrie and I talk about celebrity romances, our views on celebrity culture and stans, parasocial relationships, and so much more. You will learn lore about both of us and a little bit of lore about my late dad!
Here are my recs this week:
- 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
- The Stand-In
- Slate City Omegaverse
- Soft Hours Are Starting
- In Public, The Private
And don’t forget to listen to the previous two episodes: Into the Omegaverse and Cringe to Classic
Endeavor Fans Annoy Me
Rather than writing another Sad Dad ™ Essay since it’s Missing My Dad Day and I have time before I do errands, I wanted to write about a Bad Dad ™.
I think Endeavor fans – fans of Enji Todoroki from My Hero Academia – are probably in my top five “most embarrassing subclass of internet weenie”.
Read More »Pages and Prejudice Ep 4: It’s All Greek To Me
Last week, Adrie and I released a two hour long episode that was peak hater behavior… until the Kendrick/Drake beef escalated beyond all reasonable belief.
This week, we’re talking about Greek mythology in romance! On top of our regularly scheduled introspection about pop culture – I’m always here to digress and distract we do some lore drops and chat about some interesting aspects of Greek mythology adaptations. Most interesting, I feel? The conversation about how Demeter gets rewritten from a reasonably over protective mother grieving her (temporary) loss to… an abusive narcissist who wants to control Persephone and gets framed as a villain.
You can listen to our podcast wherever you get your podcasts!
Please rate, review, and compliment us!
Pages and Prejudice Episode 2: Kissing Kin
Episode two of our podcast is up!
This week, Adrie lets me take the wheel on an expansive episode all about why we (broadly, but not entirely) like incest in romance and see it as a site not just for taboos but for a deep intimacy. I use my literature degree real hard here, finally figuring out what the abject is just in time to make a case for it in eroticizing incest.
Check out our podcast wherever you get podcasts and please, because I don’t have a social media presence, share with folks who like this stuff! (And even with the ones who hate it because they’ll learn some shit, I swear!)
We’ve done made a podcast
Adrie Rose and I have made a podcast for all things romance (and beyond – we’re going to talk about romance and eroticism IN pop culture, not just romance novels and erotic works)! This has been in the works for months and I’m so happy to do this with Adrie, one of the coolest and funniest people I know!
Pages and Prejudice
By Adrie Rose & Stitch
Join two lifelong romance enthusiasts, and professional haters, as we dive deep into the world of trending romances. From swoon-worthy moments to cringe-worthy clichés, we dissect the tropes, tea, and taboos of Romancelandia, BookTok, and beyond. No trope is off-limits as we explore why we love, hate, and love to hate the stories that captivate us. Tune in for all the tea on love, lust, and everything in between!
Our first episode, on monster smashing, is out now. and you can listen to it everywhere you listen to your podcasts! Please listen, laugh, rate, subscribe, and share — especially because social media is THROTTLING our reach on Instagram and TikTok when we try to get people listening.
Black Fans Get Run Out of Fandom All The Time
Near the 21st, tumblr user ororomunroedontpullout (re)posted about how annoying it was to see (primarily white) fans use “ACAB” to talk about people they consider “fancops” – which can and often does explicitly include people of color talking about racism in fandom. (This is something I also find particularly infuriating, as you know.)
One of the fandom-brained responses they got? Phoenix-kin-home sending them the following message:
Genuinely, if you can’t understand how being driven out of online spaces where one finds community and friends, especially if they struggle to irl, can be harmful to people, then I don’t know how to convince you. I hope you have a nice week, and realize why you’re wrong.
Ororomunroedontpullout handled it well. She pointed out both that what that user describes isn’t police brutality and, once the user came back to moan about “the actual issue”, that the real issue that they’re talking about is that people harassing you on the internet is not the same as police brutality.
Anyway, that user’s comment made me think about something. They mention that “being driven out of online spaces where one finds community and friends […] can be harmful to people”.
But Black people are consistently alienated in and forced out of fandom, and no one gives a shit.
Read More »Stitch Reads Smolder (Anita Blake #29) – Chapters 25-28
How do I convince Laurell K Hamilton that it’s okay to use “naughty” language that’s also direct?
I know I keep complaining about this for ages, but how can I refrain when the first part of Chapter 25 has Anita noting that in heels, she’s tall enough that she and Richard’s hips are pressed against each other and “the soft mound of his body lay warm and solid against [her].”
Again, that’s his dick, he’s got the beginnings of an erection, and everyone – writer and characters alike – is too old to resort to blurry vagueness around genitals that should be colliding momentarily.
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