Category: Book Talk

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!

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Fiction:

Music: ⁠⁠HOLY MOLY⁠⁠ by Shane Ivers

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

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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

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.

Stitch Reads Smolder (Anita Blake #29) – Chapters 25-28

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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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[Tropes To Talk About] Whoops, I Made My Brother A Siscon

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Trope: Suddenly, My Brother Is A Siscon

Trope Symptoms: obsessive brothers in the way of romance, clueless sisters/sister figures, a reincarnator or transmigrator step or adoptive sister changes the story a bit too much, frequently set in a BL novel transmigration series, boundaries pushed but not crossed,

Genre/Sub-genre: Boys Love (sort of), romantic fantasy

As Seen In: Touch My Brother and You Die (Webtoon), Brother Knows Best, The Villainess is a Marionette,  Villainess Is Changing Her Role to a Brocon, Here Comes the Silver Spoon, My Next Life As A Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom, Lady Rose Just Wants to Be A Commoner, The Viridescent Tiara, Taming My Villainous Little Brother

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Stitch Reads Smolder (Anita Blake #29) – Chapters 22-24

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I think my biggest question as I started this segment of Smolder is “are Graham and Anita gonna smash?”.

As we covered last time, the Anitaverse is not kind to characters of color and their characters get assassinated in a way that white male characters usually don’t… unless they (allegedly) represent one of Hamilton’s former loves. Graham is one of those characters that has never felt like he was respected in the narrative. He was a character who was mildly annoying and almost instantly removed from the running for a shot at being one of Anita’s sweeties… and it was frustrating because Graham is not good enough to be a boo but serial rapist and murderer Olaf might be? It’s infuriating.

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[Let’s Talk Tropes] Breaking The Genre Rules in BL

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Trope: Breaking BL Series

Trope Symptoms: bisexuals don’t exist, binaries abound, gay dudes in canon are now heterosexual in the transmigrator’s real life, tragic backstory as a reason for being gay, female transmigrator, stolen capture targets, a series so homophobic and gay at the same time,

Genre/Sub-genre: Boys Love (sort of), romantic fantasy

As Seen In: I Ran Away From the Hunter, I’m Engaged to an Obsessive Male Lead, Taming My Villainous Brother, Surviving As A Maid, Touch My Brother and You Die, The Princess of Convenient Plot Devices, Let’s Hide My Little Brother, I Became the Younger Sister of the Regretful Obsessive Male Lead, I Became The Servant Who Received The Crown Prince’s Obsession, This BL Novel Is Ruined Now

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We Need To Talk About Get Schooled

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#greenscreen i am so disapointed in this manhwa i really wouldnt have thought THIS one would go THAT far 🧍🏽‍♀️ #fypシ #manhwa #getschooled #webtoon #getschooledwebtoon #hwajinna #viral #webtoonrecommendation

♬ original sound – rin☆

If you’re an avid webtoon reader, you may have caught the images from and responses to Get Schooled chapter 125.

The chapter utilizes racial slurs, a Black character being racist against Koreans, drawn along the lines of racist caricature, and subject to antiblack racism.

The chapter started going viral on TikTok and Tumblr and, about 24 hours ago, was pulled from the English version of Webtoon. (It is of course still up on the Korean version and there’s next to no chance that it will be pulled there.)

Here’s the thing about Get Schooled: if you know anything about modern South Korean conservatism, this won’t be a surprise to you. If you’ve actually been paying attention to this webtoon – which has used a radfem (but not… technically in the way online leftist US-ians use it to stand in for “terf”) elementary school teacher as a creepy bad guy in one arc – Get Schooled kind of… highlights a lot of concerns of the modern day conservative (male) youth especially in Korea.

Obviously.

It is a Korean webtoon.

I stopped reading the series during the arc with the “radfem” teacher because, as someone who’s friends with several Korean feminists and who keeps an eye on the news/feminist thought, theory, and practice there… I was able to recognize the absolutely unsubtle dogwhistles and bullhorns at play in that arc.

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Manga Monday: The Foxy Mouse’s Romance

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Creator: Hanasawa Namio

Demographic: BL/Boys Love

Themes: Omegaverse, Romantic Comedy, Workplace Romance, Editor/Author, Predator/Play, Fear Play , Hybrids/Beastmen

Status: Ongoing (with English Simulpub) 

Published By: Brite Publishing via Renta

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Official Summary:

Sachio Kurumizawa is an omega mouse manga artist, and Ukano, the alpha fox, is his editor… but Sachio can’t help but feel uncomfortable around Ukano.

He always seems to look at Sachio with predatory eyes.

One night, Sachio goes into heat at an omega-only bar, and Ukano saves him.

Unfortunately, Sachio has no idea how long he’ll stay in heat… and then, Ukano offers to help him stop it.

Will Sachio say yes to getting between the sheets with Ukano despite his terror of being devoured…!?

Thinky Thoughts

Omegaverse is obviously a majorly important thing in my life. I am always reading it, thinking about it, and writing it. I only haven’t put out some horrifying Mahito/Junpei omegaverse yet because there are so many other, worse AUs that I’ve been busy with.

Anyway, I got into The Foxy Mouse’s Romance because… I saw a TikTok about it. For a site that punishes you for basically wiggling a toe out of step, the social media platform sure has become the main first site/sight for me when it comes to spicy webtoons and manga.

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