Pages and Prejudice

Adrie Rose, Stitch
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Join two lifelong romance enthusiasts, and professional haters, as we dive deep into the world of trending romances. From swoon-worthy moments to cringe-worthy clichés, we dissect the tropes, tea, and taboos of Romancelandia, BookTok, and beyond. No trope is off-limits as we explore why we love, hate, and love to hate the stories that captivate us. Tune in for all the tea on love, lust, and everything in between! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  1. 4d ago

    E68: Graphic Romance - Hot Girls Read Webtoons Too

    Show Notes: Follow us on Instagram. Send inquiries to pagesandprejudicepod@gmail.com.  Buy merch on Threadless or become a Patron to support the show! Hosted by: Adrie Rose (@adrierising on bsky, twitter, instagram, & tiktok) Stitch (@stitch on bsky, @stitchmediamix on instagram) And what if I said erotica is a social good? From ukiyo-e erotica and Tijuana Bibles to webtoons and Kickstarter comics, Stitch and Adrie trace the surprisingly rich history of graphic romance. They cover the rise and fall of 1950s romance comics, the Comics Code's self-inflicted wounds, the erasure of Black and queer stories, and how manga, indie publishers, and the internet finally gave readers the romantic and erotic comics they actually wanted. Topics: romance comics history, Comics Code Authority, Fredric Wertham, manga and shojo, graphic novels, webtoons, queer comics, Jackie Ormes, Women in Refrigerators, Kickstarter adult comics Reading Recommendations: Fiction: IDW’s Weird Love Romance Comic Anthologies from 2014Break Protocols by SarybombArtificial Love by Maria LlovetThe Mafia NannyLore Olympus by Rachel SmytheSmut Peddler Presents: My Monster BoyfriendSunstone by Stjepan Šejić Starfighter by hamletmachineLucifer’s Garden by hamletmachineSuper Fun Sexy Times by Meredith McClarenVampire Knight by Matsuri HinoOuran High School Host Club by Bisco Hatori Non-Fiction: Comic Book Women: Characters, Creators, and Culture in the Golden Age by Peyton Brunet and Blair Davis with an introduction by Trina RobbinsLove on the Racks: A History of American Romance Comics by Michelle NolanSequential CrushRace and Romance from Love Between the Covers Podcasts: Service95 Book Club hosted by Dua LipaThe Great Comic Book Scare | History This Week Music: ⁠⁠HOLY MOLY⁠⁠ by Shane Ivers Now you can grab some show merch, or become a show patron, support the hosts, and start some extremely awkward conversations in mixed company! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    1h 16m
  2. E67: Kill Your Alpha Holes - The Rise of the Dark Romance Antihero

    Jun 14

    E67: Kill Your Alpha Holes - The Rise of the Dark Romance Antihero

    Show Notes: Follow us on Instagram. Send inquiries to pagesandprejudicepod@gmail.com.  Buy merch on Threadless or become a Patron to support the show! Hosted by: Adrie Rose (@adrierising on bsky, twitter, instagram, & tiktok) Stitch (@stitch on bsky, @stitchmediamix on instagram) Guests: Ella Dawson (@brosandprose on bsky and instagram) is an NYC-based sex and culture critic and the author of But How Are You, Really, a romance novel about college reunions and millennial angst. She is also the host of the Rebel Ever After podcast about progressive romance novels. If I’m going to suffer at the hands of a man, I would at least like a little narrative consistency. Hosts Adrie and Stitch explore the history of the romance hero — from bodice-ripping pirates to soft cinnamon rolls — and why the sociopath anti-hero is making a loud, alarming comeback. Then they sit down with Ella Dawson (Rebel Ever After podcast, But How Are You Really?) to talk about why readers are drawn to these narratives, what the rise of dark romance says about hetero pessimism and the modern dating landscape, the genre collapse between erotica and romance, and why asking "why do you like what you like?" shouldn't be a threat. Topics: dark romance, alpha heroes, romance tropes, genre criticism, consent in fiction, BookTok, feminist theory Reading Recommendations: Fiction: The Songs of Submission series by CD ReissThe Right to Bear Arms by Vivienne SavageTo Conquer a Highlander by Mary WineThe Fever series by Karen Marie MoningDevoured: The Serpent and the Pomegranate by Eunren and GamjajeonOne Night Only by seowooLove is an Illusion: the Queen by FargoSteel Under Silk by snobThe Devil in Winter by Lisa KleypasPot Shot by Laura Piper LeeWilling Prey by Allie OleanderBack for Seconds by Betty Corello Music: ⁠⁠HOLY MOLY⁠⁠ by Shane Ivers Now you can grab some show merch, or become a show patron, support the hosts, and start some extremely awkward conversations in mixed company! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    1h 44m

  3. Jun 7

    E66: Make Me Want You

    Show Notes: Follow us on Instagram. Send inquiries to pagesandprejudicepod@gmail.com.  Buy merch on Threadless to support the show! Hosted by: Adrie Rose (@adrierising on bsky, twitter, instagram, & tiktok) Stitch (@stitch on bsky, @stitchmediamix on instagram) Unfortunately, romance wouldn’t sell as well if the FMCs blocked the MMC every time he was annoying. Reading Recommendations: Fiction: Sensual Stress Relief by PochitaroThe Villainess is being Pleasure Interrogated by a Steely Knight Tell Me When You're Full! By pokerouI Got Isekai'd as a Succubus and Became the Familiar of a Super Sadistic Magician!Faeling by SE Wendel Hunger in His Blood by Zoey DravenOmega’s Gambit by Flora QuincyThe Georgina Kincaid series by Richelle Mead Non-Fiction: The Great Big Anita Blake Reread: Approaching the Ardeur (An Explainer) Music: ⁠⁠HOLY MOLY⁠⁠ by Shane Ivers Now you can grab some show merch, or become a show patron, support the hosts, and start some extremely awkward conversations in mixed company! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    1h 18m

  4. May 31

    E65: That's My Emotional Support Cinnamon Roll

    Show Notes: Follow us on Instagram. Send inquiries to pagesandprejudicepod@gmail.com.  Buy merch on Threadless to support the show! Hosted by: Adrie Rose (@adrierising on bsky, twitter, instagram, & tiktok) Stitch (@stitch on bsky, @stitchmediamix on instagram) The pandemic emotionally dysregulated me and all I got was this cozy romance novel. Reading Recommendations: Fiction: The Brown Sisters trilogy by Talia HibbertNecking by Chris SalvatoreTusked at Midnight by Sylvie StrayThe Claws & Cubicle series by Kate PriorAdults’ Picture Book by Kei ItoiHawk & March by Charlie AmenBless by Yukino Sonoyama Music: ⁠⁠HOLY MOLY⁠⁠ by Shane Ivers Now you can grab some show merch, or become a show patron, support the hosts, and start some extremely awkward conversations in mixed company! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    1h 37m

  5. May 24

    E64: What's Your Y/N?

    Show Notes: Follow us on Instagram. Send inquiries to pagesandprejudicepod@gmail.com.  Hosted by: Adrie Rose (@adrierising on bsky, twitter, instagram, & tiktok) Stitch (@stitch on bsky, @stitchmediamix on instagram) I accidentally made eye contact with Y/N and now HR is asking me to clean out my desk. Reading Recommendations: Fiction: Love and Deepspace (yes, the entire mobile game) Non-Fiction:  Fanlore’s page on the Mary Sue Music: ⁠⁠HOLY MOLY⁠⁠ by Shane Ivers Now you can grab some show merch, or become a show patron, support the hosts, and start some extremely awkward conversations in mixed company! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    1h 21m

  6. May 17

    E63: I Got a Pocket Full of Cheap Books

    Show Notes: Follow us on Instagram. Send inquiries to pagesandprejudicepod@gmail.com.  Hosted by: Adrie Rose (@adrierising on bsky, twitter, instagram, & tiktok) Stitch (@stitch on bsky, @stitchmediamix on instagram) Quit tellin' everyone I"m dead! Reading Recommendations: Fiction: The Highlander series by Karen Marie MoningThe Love at Stake series by Kerrelyn SparksThe Parasol Protectorate series by Gail CarrigerThe Fallen Angels series by JR WardThe Argeneau Vampires series by Lynsay SandsThe Psy/Changeling series by Nalini SinghThe Guildhunters series by Nalini SinghFlowers in the Attic by V.C. AndrewsThe Dark Hunter series by Sherrilyn KenyonSweet Valley High by Francine Pascal Non-Fiction: Mass Market Romance is Still Important, Ya’ll by Jessica Pryde | Book RiotPrint Book Sales Saw a Small Sales Increase in 2024 | Publisher’s WeeklyMass Market Paperbacks are Dead by Daniel Greene | YoutubeHow Mass-Market Paperbacks Rewrote Reading Culture by Retha Tep | HistoryDon’t Call Them Trash by Sophie Gilbert | The AtlanticSo Long to Cheap Books You Could Fit in Your Pockets by Elizabeth A. Harris | NYT Music: ⁠⁠HOLY MOLY⁠⁠ by Shane Ivers Now you can grab some show merch, or become a show patron, support the hosts, and start some extremely awkward conversations in mixed company! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    1h 9m

  7. May 10

    E62: Ship War of Theseus

    Show Notes: Follow us on Instagram. Send inquiries to pagesandprejudicepod@gmail.com.  Hosted by: Adrie Rose (@adrierising on bsky, twitter, instagram, & tiktok) Stitch (@stitch on bsky, @stitchmediamix on instagram) It is these damn phones. Music: ⁠⁠HOLY MOLY⁠⁠ by Shane Ivers Now you can grab some show merch, or become a show patron, support the hosts, and start some extremely awkward conversations in mixed company! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    1h 10m

  8. May 3

    E61: Monsters on My Mind

    Show Notes: Follow us on Instagram. Send inquiries to pagesandprejudicepod@gmail.com. Hosted by: Adrie Rose (@adrierising on bsky, twitter, instagram, & tiktok) Stitch (@stitch on bsky, @stitchmediamix on instagram) Guests: Jeffrey Jerome Cohen is Dean of Humanities at Arizona State University and former co-president of the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment, the largest professional organization in the environmental humanities. His research examines strange and beautiful things that challenge the imagination, phenomena that are alien and intimate at once. So, this is what it's like to have all your dreams come true. Reading Recommendations: Fiction: Why Don’t You Eat Me, My Dear Wolf by Ao KoshikawaEat by NagabeThe Great Snake’s Bride by FushiashikumoThe Monsters in Like series by 0nlyamemory, VagabondsAndConventGirls (fan fiction)The Summer Hikaru Died by mokumokurenBoys of the Dead by Douji TomitaMonster and Beast by RenjiDemon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba by Koyoharu Gotouge Non-Fiction: Monster Theory: Reading Culture by Jeffrey Jerome CohenOf Giants: Sex, Monsters, & the Middle Ages by Jeffrey Jerome CohenWhy Dragons Dominated the Landscape of Medieval MonstersMonsters in the Closet: Homosexuality and the Horror Film by Harry BenshoffBecoming the Monster: Queer Monstrosity and the Reclamation of the Werewolf in Slash Fandom by Jacquelin ElliotK-Pop Fandom Performing Deokhu from the 1990s to Today By Areum Jeong Music: ⁠⁠HOLY MOLY⁠⁠ by Shane Ivers Now you can grab some show merch, or become a show patron, support the hosts, and start some extremely awkward conversations in mixed company! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Join two lifelong romance enthusiasts, and professional haters, as we dive deep into the world of trending romances. From swoon-worthy moments to cringe-worthy clichés, we dissect the tropes, tea, and taboos of Romancelandia, BookTok, and beyond. No trope is off-limits as we explore why we love, hate, and love to hate the stories that captivate us. Tune in for all the tea on love, lust, and everything in between! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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  • Creator
    Adrie Rose, Stitch
  • Years Active
    2024 - 2026
  • Episodes
    68
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © Adrie Rose, Stitch
  • Show Website
    Pages and Prejudice

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