Episodios

  • 2.2 | people pleasers, sex, and love, theoretically with Ali Hazelwood - Part 2

    2.2 | people pleasers, sex, and love, theoretically with Ali Hazelwood - Part 2
    May 26 2024
    Now we get into it! Dating a people pleaser, the wheel of consent, finding who you are, the value and pain of empathy, and parting thoughts. Watch on Youtube here. Watch Part 1 here. A deep dive analysis on the plot, characters and sexual ethics of Ali Hazelwood's Love, Theoretically. Featuring the sociocultural value of romance, the dangers of people pleasing, and a little bit of fiction as therapy. Buy Love, Theoretically here. Follow Ali Hazelwood on Instagram. All quotations ar...
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    1 h y 10 m
  • 2.1 | people pleasers, sex, and love, theoretically with Ali Hazelwood - Part 1

    2.1 | people pleasers, sex, and love, theoretically with Ali Hazelwood - Part 1
    May 26 2024
    I'm sorry my cynical phase kept me this fandom so long. Ali Hazelwood, I'm here for all the Steminist chats. Love, Theoretically is by far my fav. CONTAINS SPOILERS! A deep dive analysis on the plot, characters and sexual ethics of Ali Hazelwood's Love, Theoretically. Featuring the sociocultural value of romance, the dangers of people pleasing, and a little bit of fiction as therapy. Watch on Youtube. BTS on Instagram. Buy Love, Theoretically here. Follow Ali Hazelwood on Instagram. A...
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    1 h y 9 m
  • 1.7: Reparations, Romance, and Writer's Heart for Justice

    1.7: Reparations, Romance, and Writer's Heart for Justice
    Jul 6 2022
    Laura Bell (@littleLo) chats about her Ashwood series and revisits the writing of A Simple Deception—a historical romance that totally made me cry. If you listen close enough, you can hear my necklaces clank as I press my hand to my heart with all the feels. Literally clutching my pearls over here. :) Topics include the troubles of historical fiction. Slavery in the 1800s and today. Freedom. The vulnerability of writing. A romance writer’s high standards. Fighting against a whitewash...
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    1 h y 32 m
  • 1.6: Dragons, Destiny and a Writer Spinning Dreams into Ink - Part 2

    1.6: Dragons, Destiny and a Writer Spinning Dreams into Ink - Part 2
    Jun 8 2022
    Melissa Mitchell (Wattpad: @addicted2dragons) chats about her beloved Dragonwall series--one of my all-time Wattpad favs. Divided into two parts. Topics include: Wattpad success in real-time. Plotting vs pantsing. Dragons! Destiny. Productivity. Writer-life balance. Multiple POVs (11 in one book!?). And a few tears shed on why we read and, consequently, why we write. <3 Wattpad Reading Recommendations :D Whispers of Nowhere by @RebelDynasty and Lair of Beasts by @JeanineCroft If any...
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    49 m
  • 1.6: Dragons, Destiny and a Writer Spinning Dreams into Ink - Part 1

    1.6: Dragons, Destiny and a Writer Spinning Dreams into Ink - Part 1
    Jun 8 2022
    Melissa Mitchell (Wattpad: @addicted2dragons) chats about her beloved Dragonwall series--one of my all-time Wattpad favs. Divided into two episodes. Topics include: Wattpad success in real-time. Plotting vs pantsing. Dragons! Destiny. Productivity. Writer-life balance. Multiple POVs (11 in one book!?). And a few tears shed on why we read and, consequently, why we write. <3 Wattpad Reading Recommendations :D Whispers of Nowhere by @RebelDynasty and Lair of Beasts by @JeanineCroft If ...
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    1 h y 1 m
  • 1.5: Research, Revenge and a Writer’s Hope in Hopeless Futures

    1.5: Research, Revenge and a Writer’s Hope in Hopeless Futures
    May 25 2022
    Gina Anderson-Lopez (Wattpad: @Red_Harvey) shares her speculative fiction, cyberpunk novel Daughter of Zeus. Topics include: The purpose of sci-fi. Cyberpunk tech research. Violence and revenge. Moral ambiguity. Mixed character archs. Free-will and morality. Our hopeless (hopefully not so hopeless) future, explored through art. Power without empathy. And plenty of book recc swapping. hahaha Wattpad Reading Recommendations :D After the Fall by @LLSanders and The Water W...
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    1 h y 5 m
  • 1.4: Toxicity, Love Triangles and True Love - bonus episode with Brianna

    1.4: Toxicity, Love Triangles and True Love - bonus episode with Brianna
    May 12 2022
    This is a bonus episode! You can listen to the first half of my convo with Brianna here. Where we take a closer look again the characters of All Over Again, exploring what it really means to love someone, the difference between helping and fixing, different types of toxicity and how love helps us be more ourselves. It gets real psych-y. In the best possible way. ;) Give Brianna some love on her Wattpad and Instagram. Let her know how brilliant she is. Have any experience with toxic traits...
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    43 m
  • 1.4: Romance, Representation, and a Writer’s Letter to Herself

    1.4: Romance, Representation, and a Writer’s Letter to Herself
    May 4 2022
    Brianna (Wattpad: @XxBriannaMariexX) spills the tea on her contemporary, Afro-Indigenous romance All Over Again. Topics include: Memoir as processing. Romance with grey endings. Afro-Indigenous representation (or the lack thereof). The financial risk of writing. Concentric circles of minority. Grief and break-ups. And what childhood fanfics we hide in our Wattpad drafts. ;) Wattpad Reading Recommendations :D How (Not) To Date a Popstar by @letmelivetonight Constellations of You...
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    52 m