[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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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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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!

Pages and Prejudice has made it to Episode #10!!

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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:

And don’t forget to listen to the previous two episodes: Into the Omegaverse and Cringe to Classic

Endeavor Fans Annoy Me

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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”.

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Pages and Prejudice Ep 4: It’s All Greek To Me

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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

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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

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Why does no one know what a knot is anymore?

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.