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

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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

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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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https://ift.tt/8ZzPyKk https://ift.tt/jywETKm March 30, 2025

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

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

Whenever feasible, one should always try to eat the rude.

Reading Recommendations:

Fiction:

• Fangs – Billy Balibally 
• MADK – Ryo Suzuri
• The Tiger Won’t Eat the Dragon Yet – Hachi Inaba
• Eat – Nagabe
• A Sinner of the Deep Sea – Akihito Tomo
• M41TO on BSKY

Non-Fiction:

• Neo-Victorian Cannibalism: A Theory of Contemporary Adaptations – Tammy Lai-Ming Ho
• How to Serve Man: On Cannibalism, Sex, Sacrifice, & the Nature of Eating – Gary Allen
• Cannibalism: A Perfectly Natural History – Bill Schutt
• “Hannibal and the Cannibal: Tracking Colonial Imaginaries” in Becoming: Genre, Queerness, and Transformation in NBC’s Hannibal – article by Samira Nadkarni and Rukmini Pande, collection edited by Kavita Mudan Finn and EJ Nielsen
• “The Gruesome History of Eating Corpses as Medicine” – Maria Dolan

Song

• Ludo – Horror of Our Love

Music: ⁠⁠HOLY MOLY⁠⁠ by Shane Ivers

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https://ift.tt/Bl4wrzM https://ift.tt/H50oFis March 23, 2025

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

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

WARNING: Explicit descriptions of graphic (and bad) sex and mild vore in this episode.

The horrors persist and so do I.

WARNING: Time stamps for potentially upsetting and/or disturbing material are below.

20:55 – 23:01 Descriptions of an*l and vag*nal sex without proper hygiene.

44:50 – 46:04 Descriptions of oral and period sex.

1:08:58 – 1:13:03 Descriptions of vore.

Music: ⁠⁠HOLY MOLY⁠⁠ by Shane Ivers

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https://ift.tt/7WnaoMY https://ift.tt/qo6uVwP March 16, 2025

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

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

A playwright by any other name would be not Shakespeare.

Reading Recommendations:

Fiction:

• By Any Other Name by Jodi Picoult
• The Queen's Realm

Non-Fiction:

• Shakespeare Wrote Insightfully About Women. That Doesn’t Mean He Was One. by James Shapiro (The Atlantic)
• The Shakespeare Oxford Newsletter, Vol. 59, No. 3 pp. 1, 18-19 by Jonathan Bate
• Shakespeare Was Shakespeare by Isaac Butler (Slate)
• What if Shakespeare was Shakespeare? by Noah Millman (The Week)
• Cinzia DuBois’ (Lady of the Library) review of Shakespeare Was a Woman and Other Heresies (Goodreads)
• Who’s Afraid of A Black Blaise Zabini? Everyone in 2005 Harry Potter Fandom… Apparently.

Music: ⁠⁠HOLY MOLY⁠⁠ by Shane Ivers

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https://ift.tt/EfYX8pV https://ift.tt/Qp4LkdS March 9, 2025

Hosted by:

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

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

Man cannot survive on loathing alone.

Reading Recommendations:

Fiction:

• The Mating of Elves
• Eyelet
• The Bondservant
• Lady & Maid
• Cold Blooded Beast (Full Version)
• Silver Foxed by Kayla Grosse
• Guarded by the Snake by Layla Fae
• Gotten By the Gator by Lizzie Strong
• My Orc (Fake) Boyfriend Next Door by Veronika Kane

Music: ⁠⁠HOLY MOLY⁠⁠ by Shane Ivers

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https://ift.tt/VH67N83 https://ift.tt/o7sf2EH March 2, 2025

Hosted by:

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

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

Guest Host:

Deepa (no pronouns) is a long time fandom aficionado, climate policy worker, and cohost of Don't Forget the Chickpeas, a Pretty Little Liars rewatch podcast.

So you don't like toxic lesbian romance? God forbid a woman have hobbies.

Reading Recommendations:

Fiction:

• Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch from Mercury
• Five Seconds Before a Witch Falls in Love 
• Donuts Under Crescent Moon
• I'm in Love with the Villainess 
• Murciélago
• She Loves to Cook and She Loves to Eat 
• Straight Girl Trap 
• Sora and Hiena 
• Couple of Mirrors
• To Embers We Return
• Female General, Eldest Princess 
• Clear and Muddy Loss of Love 
• Purely by Accident
• Moonlight Fills the Western Tower

Non-Fiction:

•  By Your Side: The First 100 Years of Yuri Anime and Manga by Erika Friedman

Music: ⁠⁠HOLY MOLY⁠⁠ by Shane Ivers

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https://ift.tt/PbC27Zg https://ift.tt/SaCKQZx February 16, 2025

Hosted by:

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

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

Guest Host:

Saeed Jones is a poet and cultural critic. His most recent book, ALIVE AT THE END OF THE WORLD, won the 2023 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Poetry. He co-hosts VIBE CHECK with Zach Stafford and Sam Sanders. 

In Acrimony… how did she get on the boat????

Reading Recommendations:

Fiction:

• Black in Blues by Imani Perry
• Fall in Love You False Angels by Coco Uzuki
• Cackle by Rachel Harrison

Non-Fiction:

• Humiliation by Wayne Kostenbaum

Music: ⁠⁠HOLY MOLY⁠⁠ by Shane Ivers

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https://ift.tt/H6m5f3L https://ift.tt/ZUdJeLt February 9, 2025

Hosted by:

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

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

You’re telling me a beast built this library?

Reading Recommendations:

Fiction:

• The Deliciously Dark Fairytales series by K.F. Breene
• The Wicked Villain series by Katee Robert
• Of Roses and Rituals by S.L. Prater
• The Taming of Sleeping Beauty by Anne Rice writing as A. N. Roquelaure
• A Wicked Tale of Cinderella's Stepmom by Sunset , Kiarne
• Ever After (film)
• Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine

Non-Fiction:

• Little Red Riding Hood Uncloaked: Sex, Morality, And The Evolution Of A Fairy Tale by Catherine Orenstein

Music: ⁠⁠HOLY MOLY⁠⁠ by Shane Ivers

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https://ift.tt/tn8SasV https://ift.tt/ZyMuSYU February 2, 2025

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

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

What, exactly, is a female presenting nipple and why can’t I find it on a shelf?

Reading Recommendations:

Fiction:

• Spell of the Highlander by Karen Marie Moning
• The Midnight Breed series by Lara Adrian
• To Ravish a Rogue by CM Nascosta
• How to Win My Husband Over by spice&kitty
• The Glamorous Life of the Fake Mistress by BerrySoda, LeeZen, KimPpopi, and hemo
• I Failed to Oust the Villain! By JAEUNHYANG

Non-Fiction:

• https://bookriot.com/clinch-covers-on-romance-novels/
• https://hazlitt.net/feature/brief-history-clinch
• https://mariadeblassie.com/bruja-professor-blog/2021/9/21/the-history-of-clinch-cover-art-with-the-art-of-the-clinch

Music: ⁠⁠HOLY MOLY⁠⁠ by Shane Ivers

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