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EP. 004 — Crossing The Line

EP. 004 — Crossing The Line

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What happens when the least bookish person on the Lion team also has the spiciest TikTok?Not spicy like smut. Spicy like anti-smut.In this episode of Narrative Decay, Rebekah Edwards and Seth Cordle sit down with Hayla, who designs Lion Publishing's social posts and runs a personal TikTok full of hot takes that get her pushback from both sides. Her very first post was her testimony, and it got heat from the LGBT community and from Christians who insisted "Jesus made you this way." So we get into what it actually looks like to be bold online without just chasing clicks, and why it's so easy to say things on the internet you'd never say to someone's face.We talk about cross-in-the-bio Christians who bully people in comment sections, the difference between hot takes that are true and hot takes that are heresy, when the Holy Spirit says "don't respond" (which for Seth is about 9 times out of 10), and why Rebekah is done dancing around her faith and wearing rainbow glasses to blend in. Rebekah is also taking back "spicy." And the rainbow. Consider yourself warned.Then it gets into the book space: the "girls only want to read smut" argument and why that's insulting to women, why "non-consensual" being used as a selling point is not spicy, it's rape, why the pendulum swung from "don't reduce us to homemakers" all the way to "don't reduce us to anything except porn watchers," the "what did you expect from the romance section?" problem, and why there's no reason that stuff should be in the young adult section at all.PLUS: the pro-life post TikTok quietly capped, why the comments under happy motherhood videos have turned into "I'm sorry for your loss," and Hayla's beach book where the guy was dead the whole time.Big picture, we're not trying to make anyone stop reading what they read or do it in secret. We shouldn't govern what people read, but we can try to change what they're fed. We're starting something new and flooding the market with better options, and if what we make sucks, we'll fail. That's the beauty of capitalism. If we're right, we won't.In this episode:🎨 Meet Hayla, Lion's social media designer and resident hot-take machine 🔥 Spicy takes, not savory takes (and definitely not smut-spicy) 🙏 Bold online vs. bullying online, and where Christians get it wrong 📵 Why 9 times out of 10 the answer is "don't reply" 🌈 Rebekah takes back the rainbow (and the word "spicy") 👶 The pro-life post TikTok didn't want you to see 📚 "Girls only want to read smut" and why that's insulting to women 🚫 Non-consensual is not a selling point 👧 What's showing up in the YA and preteen sections 🦁 Flooding the market with better options instead of banning the bad ones 🍨 Love and Gelato, gallivanting, and the book where the guy was dead the whole time 📱 The Based Reader app, sponsored by Rebekah, for RebekahFollow Lion Publishing: Website: https://lionpublish.com/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@Lion-Publishing Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lionbookpublishing/ X: https://x.com/lion_publish TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@lionbookpublishing Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lionbookpublishing/Follow the hosts/authors: Rebekah: https://rebekahedwards.com/links/ Seth: https://linktr.ee/sethcordleauthorSupport the launch: BackerKit: COMING SOONLike, subscribe, and share as we push back against Narrative Decay — one good story at a time. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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