Hi Smooches! This episode we were thrilled to welcome back Shantel to the podcast! Chantel won the bidding for the second year in a row to be a guest on this pod in the Romance for Reproductive Justice Auction. It's a damn shame that we need such an auction, but we're grateful to Meet Cute Romance Bookshop for creating the fundraising opportunity, which raised in the neighborhood of $15,000. Shantel came to us with a great idea for this episode, which was to hash out what exactly makes a character swoonworthy, and just how those swoons feel. "Sometimes swoon defies explanation." Stay tuned!

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Stuff we mentioned:

The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches, by Sangu Mandanna

The Witcher series on Netflix

One Last Stop, by Casey McQuiston

Highly Suspicious and Unfairly Cute, by Talia Hibbert

The Mummy (1999)

Blast from the Past (1999)

Flowers from the Storm, Laura Kinsale

10 Things I Hate About You (1999)

When Harry Met Sally (1989)

All the Feels, by Olivia Dade

The Proposal, by Jasmine Guillory

Fleabag (2016-2019)

The Lady's Guide to Celestial Mechanics, by Olivia Waite

Jungle Cruise (2021)

Wrong to Need You, by Alisha Rai

A Court of Thorns and Roses, by Sarah J. Maas

Get a Life, Chloe Brown, by Talia Hibbert

Devil's Daughter, by Lisa Kleypas

Barbarian Lover, by Ruby Dixon

Supernatural 

Attachments, by Rainbow Rowell

Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine, by Gail Honeyman

Barbarian's Prize, by Ruby Dixon

Dirty, by Megan Hart

Silver Nitrate, by Silvia Moreno Garcia

Red Rising series, by Pierce Brown

Kiss the Girl, by Zoraida Córdova