https://ift.tt/chPmqtF https://ift.tt/oRNOnem November 9, 2025

Hosted by:

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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https://ift.tt/qyLBaJx https://ift.tt/QgqmkJo November 2, 2025

Hosted by:

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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https://ift.tt/e8arcWM https://ift.tt/AP93DRB October 12, 2025

Show Notes:

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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https://ift.tt/e8arcWM https://ift.tt/cJDPZjr October 12, 2025

Show Notes:

Hosted by:

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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https://ift.tt/fmt6XV1 https://ift.tt/E4FZ1i2 August 31, 2025

Hosted by:

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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https://ift.tt/UMY6DKw https://ift.tt/lKEFu1g August 25, 2025

Hosted by:

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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https://ift.tt/oQmq45A https://ift.tt/ZvYBxrI August 17, 2025

Hosted by:

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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https://ift.tt/VQC5Oeg https://ift.tt/tbEDB8M August 11, 2025

Hosted by:

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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https://ift.tt/kohDzwt https://ift.tt/tmBiNhl August 4, 2025

Hosted by:

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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https://ift.tt/j4hNYzt https://ift.tt/DZOj5vP July 21, 2025

Show Notes:

Hosted by:

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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https://ift.tt/tIX184j https://ift.tt/Z3bU8mA June 29, 2025

Show Notes:

Hosted by:

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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https://ift.tt/4GW6YhS https://ift.tt/XSCr7NO April 27, 2025

Hosted by:

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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https://ift.tt/eylKBs0 https://ift.tt/swUyvk7 April 21, 2025

Hosted by:

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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https://ift.tt/E8qVkan https://ift.tt/VLDFvTk April 13, 2025

Hosted by:

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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https://ift.tt/YCTKX1F https://ift.tt/PvxsQU2 April 6, 2025

Hosted by:

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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