Recapping Romantasy

By Recapping Romantasy

Join Tabitha, Emma, and Maura as they journey through dragon schools and fairy kingdoms, breaking down your favorite romantasy books with unhinged tangents, ever-reliable hot takes, and absolute class... more

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July 17, 2024 A Court of Mist and Fury - Part 2: Stew Crew
Emma, Maura, and Tabitha tackle the much anticipated sequel to A Court of Thorns and Roses.
Part two of book two of the series, we bring you A Court of Mist and Fury. Everyone still has PTSD, a war is still brewing, and we get more descriptions of food than you would think for such drama.

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⁠Content warnings for ACOMAF⁠

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1h 36min
June 26, 2024 A Court of Mist and Fury - Part 1: Love and Chunder
Emma, Maura, and Tabitha tackle the much anticipated sequel to A Court of Thorns and Roses.
We pick back up with all of our PTSD riddled characters after the events Under the Mountain, and see what new hell comes for them. Feyre learns to navigate her new life as a fae being and sort out which hunky beau she wants. Meanwhile, a war is brewing!
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Fan art mentioned in this episode:
The Reluctant Bride of the Spring Court by: Jenna Lee Ahlman at ALemonLeafArt
The High Lady of the Night Court by: Jenna Lee Ahlman at ALemonLeafArt (The sexy version as mentioned in this episode)

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1h 27min
June 16, 2024 Trope Talk: Hurt/Comfort
Emma, Tabitha, and Maura discuss one of our favorite tropes: hurt/comfort!
Tabitha leads us through a deep dive of hurt/comfort as we discuss whumping, woobies, magical healing body parts, and examples of hurt/comfort in published and unpublished fiction.
Content warnings: explicit language, discussion of sexual content, and mentions of injury, harm, emotional distress, and angst

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43min
June 05, 2024 Throne of Glass: More ballgowns than you’d expect
Emma, Tabitha, and Maura talk about Sarah J. Maas’s first novel, Throne of Glass.
We ask: what is this book, even? A lengthy prologue? A Cinderella retelling? How did it launch an empire? Come with us as we go back in time to 2012 and the YA literature landscape that changed the world.
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1h 16min
May 15, 2024 Iron Flame: aka Fifth Wing
Emma, Tabitha, and Maura rant and rave about Iron Flame by Rebecca Yarros!
We talk about wet leather, PDA, miscommunication, luminaries, ward stones, and dragon-sized plot holes.
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Content warnings:
Sexual content, physical torture, imprisonment, brutal injuries, perilous situations, blood, dismemberment, burning, murder, death, alcohol, and animal death

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1h 49min
April 26, 2024 Ice Planet Barbarians: Big Blue Cooties
Emma, Tabitha, and Maura talk about one of the OG booktok title, Ice Planet Barbarians! We talk about 7ft tall blue alien simps who will do anything for these women as long as these girls eat a little worm.
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Content warnings for IPB and episode:
Abduction, dubious consent, murder, rape, sexism, violence, swearing.
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1h 6min
April 17, 2024 Minisode: The TikTokification of Fanfiction
Emma, Tabitha, and Maura chat about two of their favorite things: TikTok and fanfiction.
New to fanfic? Or maybe you’re an AO3 pro. Either way, welcome! We’re getting into the academic weeds with the history of fanfiction: what it is, what it’s become, and where it’s going. Also learn about our obsession with Supernatural and Dramione. There might also be a shout out to Dark Angel if you squint.
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Citations:
Lincoln Geraghty, Bertha Chin, Lori Morimoto, Bethan Jones, Kristina Busse, Francesca Coppa, Kristine Michelle “Khursten” Santos, and Louisa Ellen Stein. “Roundtable: The Past, Present and Future of Fan Fiction.” Humanities 11, no. 5 (September 1, 2022): 120. doi:10.3390/h11050120.
Minkel, Elizabeth. “Lots of People Make Money on Fanfic. Just Not the Authors.” Wired. www.wired.com, https://www.wired.com/story/pull-to-publish-fanfic-senlinyu-manacled-fanbinding/. Accessed 12 Apr. 2024.
Phelan, Peggy. Unmarked : The Politics of Performance. Routledge, 1993.
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April 05, 2024 Bride: Hazelwood, you’ve done it again
Emma, Tabitha, and Maura talk about their favorite book of the year so far—Bride by Ali Hazelwood.
It’s no secret. We love Ali Hazelwood. Bride has everything you’ll ever want: enemies-to-lovers, Underworld if it was a romcom, and omegaverse?! Truly, a better book has not been written.
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Transcript at: bit.ly/recapping_romantasy_bride
Content warnings:
Mention of death, blood, kidnapping, violence, poisoning, attempted murder, explicit and graphic sexual content, knotting, explicit language.
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1h 36min
March 27, 2024 A Court of Thorns and Roses: The OG Fairy Smut
Emma, Tabitha, and Maura enter Prythian to explore A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas on this week’s episode of Recapping Romantasy!
It’s a story old as time: a girl transforms a man into husband material, only this time he’s an immortal fairy and she’s an illiterate mortal with IBS. Tangents include underwear, Coneheads, and the universal disappointment in Disney’s Beauty and the Beast reveal.
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Transcript at bit.ly/recapping_romantasy_acotar
Content Warnings: abduction, animal death, blood, claustrophobia, confinement, death, drugging, gore, emotional abuse, explicit language, extreme poverty, intentional amnesia, manipulation, murder, physical abuse, sex, sexual assault, slavery (mentions of), starvation, torture, and violence.
Links to things we talked about:
ACOTAR Ambiance Playlist
Emma's Anime Rhysand example
The Alaskan Bull Worm from SpongeBob
Coneheads Fighting the Garthok

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1h 29min
March 15, 2024 Trope Talk: Enemies to Lovers
Emma, Tabitha, and Maura introduce Trope Talk!
Enemies-to-Lovers is all the rage, but what makes it impossible to resist? Today we explore why this trope calls to us, the books that do it remarkably well, and those that could have had it all, but fell short. Expect Pride and Prejudice fangirling, Dramione, and Reylo.
Spoilers for Pride and Prejudice, Iron Flame, ACOTAR and From Blood and Ash.
Transcript at: bit.ly/trope_talk_enemies_to_lovers
Content warnings: explicit language.
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35min

FAQs about Recapping Romantasy:

How many episodes does Recapping Romantasy have?

The podcast currently has 33 episodes available.