https://ift.tt/v3bpR7u https://ift.tt/v1Tg5E9 December 1, 2024

Hosted by:

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

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

Do not cite the “bad smut” to me, witch. I was on Ao3 when it was written.

Reading Recommendations:

Fiction:

• Total Eclipse of the Heart by Dani Galliaro
• The Prince’s Dearest Guards by Beau van Dalen
• The Princess in the Henhouse by mieun-lee, Samyeon, DOHA
• The Plated Prisoner series by Raven Kennedy
• The Of Flesh and Bone series by Harper L. Woods

Games

• Khywae’s Reader-Insert games on Itch

Music: ⁠⁠HOLY MOLY⁠⁠ by Shane Ivers

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https://ift.tt/Kiw7fNY https://ift.tt/psySqJU November 24, 2024

Hosted by:

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

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

Guest Host:

Naomi Lucas is an indie author who’s been writing sexy romance since 2016. She loves being creative whether it’s with painting, writing, or making little jingles about her dogs, Barracuda and Mahi Mahi. A mother since 2020, a wife since 2013, her son and husband are her world. The Lucas pack lives near Portland, seeking their happily ever after. Ever a video gamer, ever a reader, she is a weirdo through and through.

“You write women of colour as the FMCs in your romance novels?”

What, like it’s hard?

Reading Recommendations:

Fiction:

• The Naga Brides series by Naomi Lucas
• The Silver Dragon series by Katie MacAlister
• The Mead Mishap series by Kimberly Lemming
• Lord of Population by Elizabeth Stephens (read the trigger warnings!)
• Prime Mating Agency series by Regine Abel
• The Priest Dreaming Of A Dragon by Yezhao and Liubeili
• Mr. Wolf Is Violently Smothering Me with Love by Abuku
• BUDDHIST PRIEST & A SPIDER by Haji
• Nian Monsters & Their Partners 
• Monster and the Beast by Renji
• Finley Fenn
• Ruby Dixon
• Lillian Lark
• Tiffany Roberts

Non-Fiction:

• “Looking for” thread on Reddit
• Writing with Color on tumblr
• Monster Culture (Seven Theses) by Jeffrey Cohen

Music: ⁠⁠HOLY MOLY⁠⁠ by Shane Ivers

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https://ift.tt/80uQqyo https://ift.tt/t3Zp9Fs November 17, 2024

Hosted by:

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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Show Notes:

 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:

•  May I Ask for One Final Thing? by Soora Hoonoki and Nana Otori
• An Observation Log Of My Wife: A Self-Proclaimed Villainess by Hatsumi Natsume 

• In the Doghouse 

• The Dark Olympus series by Katee Robert

• The Brides of the Kylorr series by Zoey Draven 

• Whoever You Are Honey by Olivia Gatwood

• Luster by Raven Leilani

Music: ⁠⁠HOLY MOLY⁠⁠ by Shane Ivers

https://ift.tt/ju06J9A https://ift.tt/DjQOWFZ August 18, 2024

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

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:

• Closed-Door Romance: What’s the Point? by Mimi Matthews

• Bonnet Rippers: The Rise of the Amish Romance Novel by Valerie Weaver-Zercher

• Uh-Oh, Are Amish Bonnet Rippers Red-Pilling Me by Molly Longman

Music: ⁠⁠HOLY MOLY⁠⁠ by Shane Ivers

Hosted by:

Adrie Rose (bluesky, twitter, instagram) | Stitch (bluesky, instagram)


Guest Host: Kit (twitter | A03)


[fandom] after [doing bad thing] because [something vaguely related to the aforementioned fandom].


Music: ⁠⁠HOLY MOLY⁠⁠ by Shane Ivers

 

Hosted by:

Adrie Rose (bluesky, twitter, instagram) | Stitch (bluesky, instagram)

The grass has never been more touchable.

Reading Recommendations:

Non-Fiction:

• authors in reviewer spaces. let’s discuss. (reads with rachel on YT)
• i am a goodreads bully (reads with rachel on YT)
• authors behaving badly (playlist by reads with rachel on YT)
• Talking About Authors and Reviewer Spaces (A Critical Dragon on YT)
• S51E02 of Writing Roots: Being an Author in Reader Spaces
• The Difference Between Reader Space and Author Space (hashtagiwrotethis)
• Why Authors Should Stay Out of Fan Spaces by Moriah Richard
• IMO: Authors in Reader Spaces (Weekend Reader)
• Something is very wrong with us, and it’s not bad reviews (Dear Author)

Music: ⁠⁠HOLY MOLY⁠⁠ by Shane Ivers

https://ift.tt/qQz6Z0y https://ift.tt/eMn1gwy July 22, 2024

Hosted by:

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:

• Beware the Villainess 

• Fake Around and Find Out by S.M. Shade

• Ogami-san Can’t Keep It In by Yu Yoshidamaru

• Miss Night and Day (Netflix)

• Shrill (Hulu)

Music: ⁠⁠HOLY MOLY⁠⁠ by Shane Ivers

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:

• Gender in Black and White: Examining Interracial Relationships in ShondaLand by Caitlin V. Downing
• Shonda Rhimes Representation Problem (Ada on Demand on YouTube)
• Race and Romance: Coloring the Past
• Black Love Matters edited by Jessica P. Pryde
• Slavery and the Culture of Taste by Simon Gikandi

Music: ⁠⁠HOLY MOLY⁠⁠ by Shane Ivers