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

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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 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

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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

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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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Hosted by:

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

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

Why do you act like that? Like that…the way that you act.

Reading Recommendations:

Fiction:

• The Psy Changeling series by Nalini Singh
• The Boss by Jenny Trout

Non-Fiction:

• The Three Laws of Fandom 
• The Internet of Beefs
• Fansplaining 208: What Fans Owe Each Other
• (Things I Wish Weren’t) Applied To Fandom: The Three Rules/Laws of Fandom

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 & tiktok)

Adrie and Stitch talk about CM Nascosta, Cambric Creek, and race in monster stories.

Reading Recommendations:

The Cambric Creek Universe, in order:

1. Girls Weekend
2. The Minoan Bride (after dark)
3. Morning Glory Milking Farm
4. A Blue Ribbon Romance (MGMF from Rourke's perspective)
5. The Mabon Feast
6. Parties
7. A Holly Jolly Mess (short stories)
8. Sweet Berries
9. Run, Run Rabbit (after dark)
10. Moon Blooded Breeding Clinic
11. The Filled Vessel (after dark)
12. Hexennacht
13. Two for Tea
14. Shadows and Light (after dark)
15. Invitations
16. He Loves Me Not

(After dark) denotes titles with themes that may be considered triggering or controversial. Check trigger warnings before reading.

Music: ⁠⁠HOLY MOLY⁠⁠ by Shane Ivers

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