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A new episode of Pages & Prejudice is available – E21: You’re Not as Smart as You Think You Are

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Adrie Rose (@adrierising on bsky, instagram, & tiktok)

Stitch (@stitch on bsky, @stitchmediamix on instagram)

Watch out boys, we got us a real intellectual here.

Reading Recommendations:

Fiction:

  • Necking by Chris Salvatore
  • The Claws & Cubicle series by Kate Prior
  • Perfect Buddy by Daki
  • Kiss Me at the Stroke of Midnight by Rin Mikimoto

Music: ⁠⁠HOLY MOLY⁠⁠ by Shane Ivers

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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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 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

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

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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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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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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

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

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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

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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