ILL REPUTE! with Sovereign Syre

Sovereign Syre and Joshua Anderson

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Writer and comedian Sovereign Syre chronicles the lives of difficult and dangerous women throughout history as well as diving into issues related to women and womanhood in all it's forms. Trans-inclusive. Not Safe For Work. We here at ILL REPUTE! support women's rights, but more importantly we support women's wrongs.

11/23/2025

No Women's Lit: A response to Hilary Layne's video about the current state of popular fiction being sold to women

This weeks episode is in Response to Hilary Layne's recent video about women's literature (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffvRhsViyIQ&t=157s) Jaz and Josh disagree with most of her takes, but feel like she had a lot of interesting things to say. While Hilary seems to feel strongly that a lot of contemporary pop fiction is essentially porn marketed and designed to take advantage of the female mind. Jas wants to challenge those notions, partially from her own experience working in adult, but also that women are finally having a voice in what media they want to consume. It's a fun one! Buy Jasmine's debut novel, Above Snakes https://www.amazon.com/Above-Snakes-Jasmine-Lee-Keith/dp/B0FL3667BZ

1h 9m
11/08/2025

Alchemized: The future of Pop Lit?

We continue our discussion about the publishing journey of what Manacled turned into: Alchemized. One of the hottest book releases of the year, the film rights were quickly bought, further legitimizing converted fanfiction and the audiences insatiable appetite for it. We also discuss wether it stands on its own without references to HP, if the tone and setting are given enough substance, and the double edged sword for writing for an audience.

1h 21m
10/31/2025

DraMione: The new era of 'pull to publish' fan fiction

This weeks episode continues our series on self publishing, fan fiction, romantasy, and booktok as we delve in the controversy around the sale and marketing of pull to publish fan fiction. First with a brief introduction to the history of fan fiction and its culture, followed with a discussion of the extreme popularity of Harry Potter slash fiction, with die hard fans particular obsession of the non canon pairing of Draco and Hermione A.K.A DraMione. Buy Jasmine's first novel, Above Snakes https://www.amazon.com/Above-Snakes-Jasmine-Lee-Keith-ebook/dp/B0FL1J2JYK https://www.sovereignsyre.net/

1h 35m
10/24/2025

Audra Winter and The Crucible of Booktok

In this episode Jasmine discusses the recent controversy around up and coming author Audra Winter, and her years long marketing campaign for her debut novel The Age or Scorpius, it's diasterous release, the ensuing fallout, and the way Tiktok has changed how commercial fiction is marketed and sold. Jasmine also explains her personal writing process a llittle bit. We also discuss ABOVE SNAKES her debut novel, a dark western historical romance AVAILABLE NOW on Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/Above-Snakes-Jasmine-Lee-Keith/dp/B0FL3667BZ/) and https://www.sovereignsyre.net/books

39 min
08/16/2025

Monster Romance: Adventures in dark fantasy romance fiction

WELCOME BACK EVERYONE, MY GOD WE'VE MISSED YOU SO UNBELIEVABLY MUCH!!! And WOW!! What a crazy episode this turned out to be. We just get straight to it, Sov has a lot of changes to announce, including the upcoming release of her first book, Which we are all incredibly excited about. This weeks episode is VERY SPICY! BE FOREWARNED, DO NOT LISTEN TO THIS AROUND YOUR KIDS OR PARENTS OR ANYWHERE IN PUBLIC. We talk very explicitly about history of erotic fiction, as it pertains to depictions of monsters inflagrante delecto (AKA doing sex.) From ancient Greek mythology, all the way up to World of Warcraft. ANNND, As a special treat, if you stay to the end, you can hear Josh read the first chapter from Sov's upcoming novel, Above Snakes!

1h 19m
01/24/2025

Little Repute Minisode: Trump's 2nd Inauguration, the Tiktok "ban"

Welp... looks like were in the prologue of a YA dystopian novel. Hope our protag has the pluck and gumption to tackle this one, cuz we're running out of ideas!

40 min
01/15/2025

Lil Repute Minisode: LA wildfires, Disaster Economics, The end of social media

Hope you and your loved ones are safe and well! We talk about the LA wildires and its potential impact of the future of LA, delve into a little bit about how disaster's can drive policy, and touch on the (maybe) the final days of Tiktok. Donation link for the victims of the LA wildfires: https://lacity.gov/LAstrong

34 min
01/06/2025

Little Repute Minisode: Predictions 2025

Look at us! Just a couple of Nostradamus's over here. Sov and Josh ponder the kind of inaguration you could throw for 5Million. We also brace for impact with our mouths full of sour grapes. Who's know for sure, but we can all agree this year is going to be a wild one!

31 min

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Always worth a listen

10/14/2024

wgajr1

Big fan of these women. Smart, intelligent, often funny, and always irreverent. What more could you want from a podcast?
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08/07/2025

Her242

This is the most unprofessional podcast I’ve ever heard. The hosts use foul language non-stop, talk about their personal biases and feelings instead of the subject matter, and most of all, the sound quality is abysmal. They sound drunk, and like they are in a bathroom, recording on old cellphones.
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07/03/2024

A.I.M.

These amazing women have taught me so much and I have to give credit to their style - they give so much context and teach you about the surrounding issues regarding the subject of the episode, which in turn leads to that much more insight and education! I absolutely CONSUME their work and tell everyone I know to give it a listen. I am learning something new every time I turn it on and I just adore them as both teachers and commentators. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Great listening

04/30/2024

Nightshiftzombie RN

I found these lovely via tik tok by them talking about the most beautiful suicide. Amazing story telling of history. Found a new favorite podcast

Writer and comedian Sovereign Syre chronicles the lives of difficult and dangerous women throughout history as well as diving into issues related to women and womanhood in all it's forms. Trans-inclusive. Not Safe For Work. We here at ILL REPUTE! support women's rights, but more importantly we support women's wrongs.