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Recapping Romantasy Recapping Romantasy
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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. Spoilers found within!
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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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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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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. -
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.
EPISODE INCLUDES SPOILERS
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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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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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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