Show Notes:

Hosted by:

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

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

Mommy? Sorry. Mommy? Sorry.

Reading Recommendations:

Fiction:

• Role Playing by Cathy Yardley
• 10 Things I Want to Do Before I Turn 40 (manga and live action show)
• Hot Nights at the Hot Springs, Secret Trip No. 241 by Sonoo Michiru
• Tokyo Story, a film by Yasujiro Ozu
• Demigods of San Francisco series by KF Breene (21+)
• Leveling Up series by KF Breene (35+)
• Outlander series by Diana Gabaldon (25+)
• Argeneau series by Lynsay Sands (21+)
• Zorya Dark Ones series by Katie Macallister (35+)

Non-Fiction:

• Myths About Sexuality and Why Older Women Deserve Romance HEAs

Music: ⁠⁠HOLY MOLY⁠⁠ by Shane Ivers

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Hosted by:

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

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

Women don’t want billionaire boyfriends, they want 100% employer-covered health, vision, and dental and unlimited PTO.

Reading Recommendations:

Fiction:

• Excess by Colette Rhodes
• Cinder’s Wolf by Sylvia Frost
• Desire in His Blood by Zoey Draven
• Terms and Conditions by Lauren Asher
• Trade Me by Courtney Milan
• The Penthouse: War in Life (on Netflix and Viki)
• Positively Yours (on Viki in mid-January)
• Business Proposal (Netflix)
• The Boss by Jenny Trout

Music: ⁠⁠HOLY MOLY⁠⁠ by Shane Ivers

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hosted by:

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

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

Women don’t want billionaire boyfriends, they want 100% employer-covered health, vision, and dental and unlimited PTO.

Reading Recommendations will be in part II.

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)

Our gift to you is 2 hours of uncut yapping. Enjoy!

Music: ⁠⁠HOLY MOLY⁠⁠ by Shane Ivers

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hosted by:

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

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

Tradwifery is just kink with extra steps. Monster romance is kink with no steps. Pick your fighter.

Reading Recommendations:

Fiction:

• The Clecanian series by Victoria Aveline
• The Lady & the Orc by Finley Fenn
• Two for Tea by CM Nascosta
• Games with the Orc by Kathryn Moon
• Howl for the Gargoyle by Kathryn Moon
• The Gargoyle from General Management by Kate Prior
• Warts & Claws Inc. Series by Clio Evans
• The Mabon Feast by CM Nascosta
• Me and My Beast Boss by Shiroinu
• Why Don’t You Eat Me, My Dear Wolf by Ao Koishikawa

Non-Fiction:

• ‘I know I can’t live like this forever’: Meet the red-pilled men trying to quit the manosphere | Glamour
• The Manosphere Rewired | Equimundo
• Is Having a Boyfriend Embarrassing Now? | Vogue
• What the Response to “Are Boyfriends Embarrassing?" Says About the Current State of Heterosexual Dating | Vogue
• Monster Theory: Reading Culture by Jeffrey Jerome Cohen
• Of Giants: Sex, Monsters, & the Middle Ages by Jeffrey Jerome Cohen
• everyone HATES a negative review by mynameismarines
• Blumhouse Compendium of Horror
• Monsters in the Closet: Homosexuality and the Horror Film by Harry Benshoff

Music: ⁠⁠HOLY MOLY⁠⁠ by Shane Ivers

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Hosted by:

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

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

Every coven has has one witch whose real power is just emotional damage.

Reading Recommendations:

Fiction:

• Brooms by Jasmine Walls, illustrated by Teo DuVall
• This Poison Heart by Kaylnn Baron

Non-Fiction:

• Rachel True Looks Back on The Craft | Youtube
• The SAD Truth About Kat Graham & All the Racism She Experienced on “The Vampire Diaries” | Youtube
• A Black Women’s History of Hoodoo, Conjure, & Witchcraft | Youtube
• Mammy, Jezebel, Sapphire, and their Homegirls by Dr. Carolyn West
• The Evolution of Black Witches on Screen | Youtube
• Black Magic: White Hollywood and African American Culture by Krin Gabbard
• Urban Fantasy 101: Magical Negros in the Genre

Music: ⁠⁠HOLY MOLY⁠⁠ by Shane Ivers

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Hosted by:

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

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

No one is reading romantasy for the realism. They read it so 2 emotionally stunted idiots are legally obligated to kiss by page 312.

Reading Recommendations:

Fiction:

• Love is An Illusion by Fargo
• The Remarried Empress by alpha_tart, herelee
• Lore Olympus by Rachel Smythe
• Boyfriends by refrainbow
• Bride by Ali Hazelwood
• Rhapsodic by Laura Thalassa
• It Happened One Summer by Tessa Bailey

Non-Fiction:

• STOP TAGGING AUTHORS IN REVIEWS by Reads With Rachel
• The Hanya Yanagihara Principle by Andrea Long Chu

Music: ⁠⁠HOLY MOLY⁠⁠ by Shane Ivers

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hosted by:

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

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

Romance ARC reviewers will sprint through 462 pages of soul-shattering hand-holding, then calmly write “needs more tension,” like they weren’t just sobbing into a stuffy five minutes ago.

Reading Recommendations:

Fiction:

• The Sugar Baby trilogy (novellas) by Rebekah Weatherspoon
• Jockstraps & Newspapers by Lizzie Strong
• The Lizzie & Diesel series by Janet Evanovich
• The Prince Lestat trilogy by Anne Rice
• The Mercy Thompson series by Patricia Briggs
• The Dark Hunter series by Sherrilyn Kenyon

Music: ⁠⁠HOLY MOLY⁠⁠ by Shane Ivers

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