Everything is Very Bad

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I hate asking for help.

That’s why I usually push it off until the last possible moment. Despite the fact that I support everyone else asking for help the second they need it and don’t think that they should feel bad for it, the idea of asking for help myself just doesn’t… work? I feel like a failure – something I’d never think of anyone else ever.

I got terminated from my day job – a local journalism thing – at the end of August. It truly was a case of mutual lack of “good fit” except I’m the only one suffering here. I was living paycheck to paycheck without savings because even with the lower cost of living where I live… I had health problems and food is expensive. After getting terminated, things got infinitely worse.

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A new episode of Pages & Prejudice is available – E20: (I Am Untethered) My Rage Knows No Bounds

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Show Notes:

 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:

Music: ⁠⁠HOLY MOLY⁠⁠ by Shane Ivers

Music Video Anatomy #11 – NG

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Title: NG

Artist: CHANMINA

Setting:

NG is primarily set in an office full of cubicles. The video opens with the camera panning along the bottom of a bathroom showing the different stalls and their occupants. At first, the stalls only have one person in them but as it pans we get a couple of stalls with two people. The last stall is the one with CHANMINA and then it swings to the very tightly packed office. You get different aspects of the office including the elevator – both inside it and directly outside. There’s also a bathhouse set that is just incredibly fun and what looks like a boardroom but could also be a classroom. Either way, very well-used sets.

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A new episode of Pages & Prejudice is available – E19: Guilty Pleasures

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https://ift.tt/ju06J9A https://ift.tt/DjQOWFZ August 18, 2024

Hosted by:

  • 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

Pages & Prejudice: Issue 1, Episode 18: Hold The Door

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 Adrie’s Hot Take: The Comstock Act & Clinch Covers

In the 1870s, Anthony Comstock got such a splintered stick up his rear end about even the most remote possibility of “obscenity” that he made it his life’s mission to stop everyone else from having fun. The Comstock Act, passed in 1873, made it illegal to mail “obscene” material including books, art, pharmaceuticals, and even medical information through the US Postal Service (USPS). What does obscene mean? No one knows, that’s the best part. Comstock didn’t have a real definition for obscenity, he just knew he didn’t like it.

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[Webtoon Wednesday] High Society

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Title: High Society

Author/Story: Gyeonwoo (original novel)

Artist: Surreuk Comics

Rating: R-15

Genre: Romantic fantasy

Hosted On: Manta Comics

Official Link(s): English

Official Summary:

Sell me! I’ll be the most expensive lady to obtain.

While scheming to get out of an arranged marriage, Cesare runs into Adele, a shoeshine girl from the slums. The two make a 3-month deal to help Cesare elude marriage. However, Adele is so different from the women he’s met before that he can’t help but be drawn to her.

My Thoughts:

High Society is a lot.

It begins with Adele, a shoeshine girl whose identity as a woman has just been revealed by thugs in the back alleys of the city’s slums. In her attempt to escape, she crosses paths with the handsome libertine Cesare Buonaparte. Despite not being related – not a single drop of blood connects them – they look like they could be brother and sister, and that’s exactly what Cesare needs to keep from being swept up into an unwanted and unprofitable match with Lucrezia Della Valle, a young woman who is absolutely obsessed with him.

This is a fake everything series. Cesare hires Adele to pretend to be his sister as they share the same golden eyes and dark hair, promising to make her into a perfect noble woman to be married off to Lucrezia’s older brother instead. Think Pygmalion with an incest angle.

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A new episode of Pages & Prejudice is available – E18: Hold the Door

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If you’d like to skip the gynaecological talk this week, we get to the actual episode at 10: 15.

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:

Music: ⁠⁠HOLY MOLY⁠⁠ by Shane Ivers

A new episode of Pages & Prejudice is available – E16: Get Out of My Room

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Hosted by:

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

The grass has never been more touchable.

Reading Recommendations:

Non-Fiction:

Music: ⁠⁠HOLY MOLY⁠⁠ by Shane Ivers

A new episode of Pages & Prejudice is available – E15: The Lost Art of the RomCom

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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:

Music: ⁠⁠HOLY MOLY⁠⁠ by Shane Ivers

Leave Black Women On The Internet Alone, Goddamn

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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.

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Shoujo Sundae and the Shoujo Anime Renaissance

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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.

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A new episode of Pages & Prejudice is available – E14: The Swirl Agenda

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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:

Music: ⁠⁠HOLY MOLY⁠⁠ by Shane Ivers

Episode 13 of Pages and Prejudice is up!

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(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!