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.
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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
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
The concept of “family” in the Fast and Furious series is one of the best things about the series – if not the best thing. Dominic Toretto views family the way that fandom and fantasy heroes view family. He collects people who are deeply loyal to him and go along with his wild ideas, even though they can confront him and call him out at times. It doesn’t hurt that half of the members of la familia are people who Dom has had some kind of antagonistic relationship with at first… starting from day one with Brian O’Conner (literally) being on his case in the first film before becoming an integral part of his life.
I’ve been sitting on this for a couple of weeks as I planned, and now I think I’m ready to share a preview of something I’ve been working on and planning for almost all of June: Stitch Talks Tropes (Or, possibly, Talking Tropes) will be a half-hour long, monthly podcast-y series where I talk about tropes in the media we love.
I’m planning on talking tropes in romance novels, urban fantasy, science fiction, and fandom spaces. Some of these tropes will be ones we love and always will. Others will be tropes that are problematic and need a little subversion. And at the end of every episode, there’ll be a recommendation for at least one work (published fiction or fanwork) that displays a trope I think is positive or subverts a problematic trope.
So here’s what you need to know about Stitch Talks Tropes/Talking Tropes:
Will be Patreon-exclusive at the $5 Tier (with articles being written and posted on my website once 6 or more episodes are completed, providing a likely six-month delay between what Patreons get and what my website readers get).
Won’t have transcripts until I can afford to pay for transcription services, but hopefully that will be soon.
The first three episodes are already planned out
All of the episodes will have a header image because those are cute
Each episode will likely be about 25-30 minutes of audio
And at least one recommendation related to the trope will be provided at the end of every episode
I’ll hold polls and ask for feedback for future episodes.
The first episode will release sometime during the second week of July
If you’re interested in hearing me analyze the tropes we love or loathe (and really want to support an unemployed writer of color), please consider signing up to be a patron at the $5 Tier today!
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