Fake Geek Girls - A Critical Look at Pop Culture

By Fake Geek Girls

A podcast looking a nerdy pop culture from both a fan and critical perspective, encouraging the things we love to do better.... more

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September 29, 2026 WWBUT 119 – He Has So Few Redeeming Qualities and I Desire Him Carnally
Another WWBUT as Missy has remained extremely busy! We’ve got romance novels. We’ve got The Locked Tomb. We’ve got WorldCon and PAX West. Join us!
What Missy’s Been Up To:
Reading
It Happened One Summer by Tessa Bailey
Pot Shot by Laura Piper Lee
Mr. Impossible by Loretta Chase
The Pairing by Casey McQuiston
Watching
Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma
Shadow of a Doubt
Dead Like Me
What Merri’s Been Up To:
Reading
Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
Legacy of Gods series by Rina Kent
The Eyes Are the Best Part by Monika Kim
Watching
I Am Frankhelda
House of Stasi
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1h 53min
September 08, 2026 WWBUT 118 – Aspirational Circus Freaks
This episode SHOULD have come out two entire weeks ago, but Missy remains the busiest person on earth and… forgot. Sorry. Here’s what we WERE up to, anyway!
What Missy’s Been Up To:
Reading
The Love Hypothesis by Ali Hazelwood
Briefly, a Delicious Life by Nell Stevens
Take a Hint, Dani Brown by Talia Hibbert
Watching
Doctor Sleep
The Haunting of Hill House
The Invite
The Odyssey
Spider Man: Brand New Day
What Merri’s Been Up To:
Reading
Legacy of Gods by Rina Kent
The Naked Truth by Ana Kirk Shaw
Dom Com by Adriana Anders
The Everlasting by Alix E. Harrow
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2h 9min
August 11, 2026 Episode 214 – Alien Franchise – Part Two
All of those notes we had about ecofeminism and capitalism came in handy, because it’s time for part two (the last part) of our episodes on the Alien franchise! Join us as we tackle Prometheus, Alien: Covenant, Alien: Romulus, and Alien: New Earth.
Some Sources You Might Find Interesting:
“Alien, The Thing” and the Principles of Terror by Douglas Fowler
Between A Rock And A Hard Place by Vivian Sobchack
“Prometheus” in Excavating the Future: Archaeology and Geopolitics in Contemporary North American Science Fiction Film and Television by Shawn Malley
Fractal Patterns Out of Chaos in Ridley Scott’s Alien, Prometheus, and Covenant by Carrie Lynn Evans
‘We Were So Wrong’: The Perversion of Male Creation. Motherhood, Fatherhood and Birth in Recent Incarnations of the Alien Series by Amanda Digioia
On the ‘Alien: Earth’ Set, Everyone Can See You Sweat by Mike Hale
‘Alien: Earth’ Review: FX’s Sci-Fi Prequel Is an Intriguingly Ambitious, Eventually Thrilling Journey Into the Semi-Known by Angie Han
The uses of immortality: Barbie and popular culture by John Hartley
Speaking the Monster: Ecofeminism in “Alien” and “Aliens” by Eleanor Johnson
Prometheusby Thomas Doherty
“The Future Is Female: Bateson, Benjamin and How Women Learn in Ridley Scott’s Prometheus” by Cynthia Kraman
‘Mothers and Others’ by Ginette Carpenter in Women and the Gothic: An Edinburgh Companion edited by Avril Horner and Sue Zlosnik
Reproductive Fear: Ideological Horrors and Final Girls in Alien and Alien: Romulus by Rhiannon Celeste Lewis
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1h 51min
July 14, 2026 WWBUT 117 – I’ve Been to Notre Dame and the Gargoyles Weren’t That Big
We’re back to tell you what we’ve been up to! And, as is our wont, to have a little rant about something.
What Missy’s Been Up To:
Watching
28 Years Later: The Bone Temple
I Saw the TV Glow
Together
Off Campus
Reading
Emily Wilde’s Compendium of Lost Tales by Heather Fawcett
Copper Script by KJ Charles
What Merri’s Been Up To:
Watching
Voicemails to Isabelle
Toy Story 5
Reading
The Emperor and The Finisher by Runyx
The Gargoyle from General Management by Kate Prior
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1h 31min
June 30, 2026 Episode 213 – A Wind in the Door
If A Wrinkle in Time encouraged us to expand our minds to the size of the universe, A Wind in the Door asks us to make them very, very small… and then expand them just a bit further than we did the first time around. Join us as we discuss identity, growing up, and the ever-important theme of faith (and what faith can mean, beyond the obvious), in the second book of the Time Quartet!
Some Sources You Might Find Interesting:
Symbiogenesis, Selfhood, and Science Fiction by Laurel Bollinger
Spiritual practices children understand: an analysis of Madeleine L’Engle’s fantasy, A Wind in the Door by Trudelle H. Thomas
Seraphim, Cherubim, and Virtual Unicorns: Order and Being in Madeline L’Engle’s Time Quartet by Wayne G. Hammond
The Time Quartet as Madeleine L’Engle’s Theology by Marek Oziewicz
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1h 47min
June 09, 2026WWBUT 116 – Have These People Not Read Animorphs?
Someday we will catch up to time and not be doing these super-sized WWBUTs, but that day is not today! So: here’s what we’ve been up to.
What Missy’s Been Up To:
Watching
The Drama
Reading
Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins
The Dream Hotel by Laila Lalami
Scotch on the Rocks by Elliot Fletcher
Kiss Me, Judas by Will Christopher Baer
The Bewitching by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Godzilla Rivals: Jet Jaguar versus Megalon by Nola Pfau and Megan Huang
Swamp Thing by Alan Moore, Stephen Bissette, and John Totleben
This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladdstone
Hellblazer: Dead in America by Simon Spurrier, Aditya Bidikar, Aaron Campbell, and Jordie Bellaire
Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by VE Schwab
What Merri’s Been Up To:
Watching
Off Campus
Scream 7
Reading
Alchemised by Senlinyu
The Predator and the Reaper by Runyx
Emily Wilde’s Encyclopedia of Faeries and Map of the Otherlands by Heather Fawcett
Filthy Rich Fae and Filthy Rich Fae Fallen Court by Geneva Lee
Hot for Hostage by Maggie Evans
Love Me Stalk Me by Laura Bishop
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2h 9min
May 26, 2026Episode 212 – Alien Franchise – Part One
Abjection? The Monstrous-Feminine? Motherhood? What else could we be talking about other than the Alien franchise? Join us as we examine the first four films in the Alien series—Alien, Aliens, Alien 3, and Alien: Resurrection—to trace how this franchise has evolved, shifted, and taken on grotesque new forms over time.
Some Sources You Might Find Interesting:
Powers of Horror by Julia Kristeva
Alien and The Monstrous-Feminine by Barbara Creed
What’s the Story, Mother?: The Mourning of the Alien by Stephen Scobie
Monstrous Mothers: Medusa, Grendel, and Now Alien by Lynda K. Bundtzen
“Alien” Within, “Aliens” Without: The Primal Scene and the Return to the Repressed by Ilsa J. Bick
“Alien” as an Abortion Parable by John L. Cobbs
MASOCHISM AND REPRESENTATION IN MODERN HORROR: THE CASE OF “ALIEN 3” by Celestino Deleyto Alcalá
Beautiful Monsters: The Unofficial and Unauthorized Guide to the Alien and Predator Films by David A. McIntee
“Alien, The Thing” and the Principles of Terror by Douglas Fowler
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2h 11min
May 12, 2026 WWBUT 115 – Emerald City Comic Con + Ren Strapp and Becca Farrow Interviews
Join us in our belated discussion about this year’s Emerald City Comic Con, including what’s working (artist alley), what isn’t (panels), and what we hope to see in the future (a scrap of curation on the convention’s part).
But even better, we got to chat with Ren Strapp (The Shepherd’s Sword, Amira the Van Life Cunt, How Could You?) and Becca Farrow (First Test, Ladycastle, Seventh Circle)! We’re so grateful to both of them for their time and for entertaining our questions about things like bodies and erotica and adaptation. You’re really, really, going to want to give both of these interviews a listen and check out their work—you won’t be disappointed.
Timestamps: The Ren Strapp interview begins at 39:27 and the interview with Becca Farrow begins at 58:05.
Mistake (?): Missy misremembered where she heard about Webtoon’s presence at ECCC—it was in fact in Ren Strapp’s blog post, not during the interview.
A Link You Might Find Interesting:
ECCC 2026 Recap by Ren Strapp
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1h 30min
April 28, 2026 WWBUT 114 – The Animorphs of Bravo Shows
We’re still going through it, which means we’re releasing another WWBUT! And it’s a doozy, because we saw Wuthering Heights and we have some (unpopular) opinions about it, about the critical response to it, and more.
What Missy’s Been Up To:
Watching
Wuthering Heights
A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms
Dear David
Marty Supreme
Train Dreams
Frankenstein
The Secret Agent
Project Hail Mary
Billy the Kid and the Green Baize Vampire
Reading
Babel by R. F. Kuang
What Merri’s Been Up To:
Watching
Wuthering Heights
Southern Hospitality
The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives
Bridgerton
Reading
Caught Up by Navessa Allen
Butcher and Blackbird / Leather and Lark by Brynn Weaver
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2h 7min
March 17, 2026 WWBUT 113 – Stalker With Manners
It’s time for OPINIONS as we get into what we’ve been up to! Missy begins this year’s Oscar journey and Merri has thoughts on reality TV and stalker romance.
Notes: The sound on this one is a little rougher than usual because a piece of our usual recording equipment went out and we weren’t able to monitor the sound the way we normally do. We should have this under control for our next episode!
What Missy’s Been Up To:
Watching
Wake Up, Dead Man
Dust Bunny
Sinners
Bugonia
One Battle After Another
The Moment
Send Help
Dogma
Until Dawn
Heated Rivalry
Reading
Don’t Want You Like a Best Friend by Emma R. Alban
What Merri’s Been Up To:
Watching
Predator: Badlands
Heated Rivalry
The Traitors Season 3
Toy Story 1 – 4
Summer House
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1h 39min

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