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Whoa!mance: Romance and Ourselves

Isabeau and Morgan

Whoa!mance is a weekly podcast interrogating the Romance genre; we do deep dives on Romance"s heroines and heroes, it"s sexiest bits, and the weirdest parts--we cover it all from meet cute to HEA.

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51:32

Whoa!nus - A Court Of Fans And Theories

Whoa!mance: Romance and Ourselves ·

2024/02/09

The soil of A Court of Thorns and Roses is rich, and from it bountiful fan theories bloom. At the dusk of reading the most recent installment, A Court of Silver Flames, for the podcast, and at the dawn of Cresecent City 3's release, yr erstwhile grls met to inhale the fragrance of and admire the colorful bloom from just such flowers. Moonbeams, owls, and that Ilyiad musical on TikTok all blossom in this conversation. Morgan even sprouts her own fan theory about the author. Spoilers abound, so make

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92:08

166: You Could Be My Silver Flames - A Court of...

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2024/02/01

SARAH J. MAAS may have tried with A COURT OF SILVER FLAMES, but hasn't written one too long for us yet! Political wunderkind and human-turned-fae-by-mystical-creation-myth-cauldron Nesta is running from her problems in self-destructive ways. So her sister, her sister's mate, and her sister's mate's B-Fri's seclude her a mountain mansion until she can turn that frown upside down. The B-Fri in charge is Cassian, a bat-hunk who knows a thing or two about regret as well as tai chi as well as battle

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18:51

Public Access Read-A-Long "Pride and Prejudice"...

Whoa!mance: Romance and Ourselves ·

2024/01/26

You know that feeling when your crush shows up and you want everything to go just right, and you want everyone in the room to think you're smart and funny? But you can't stop worrying that you're gonna put you're foot in your mouth so you spend the whole time like a ball of anxiety saying not that much at all and feeling really hot and bothered but not in a good way? Yeah no us neither. And not the dauntless Lizzie Bennet either....Are we all just a little bit Mrs. Bennet?

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44:07

Public Access Read-A-Long "Pride and Prejudice"...

Whoa!mance: Romance and Ourselves ·

2024/01/19

We did it y'all. Lizzie and Darcy meet back up at his place. It's so embarrassing. It was an accident. He was sweaty. She was nervous. His housekeeper is really into giving him compliments. Big feels. Big fiz.

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62:23

Whoa!nus: Deeper Cuts, Thicker Bindings, 2024 - The...

Whoa!mance: Romance and Ourselves ·

2024/01/11

We're adjusting a rearview to take in a (disappointing) spreadsheet and share our objective data and subjective views on the texts and discussions from the Whoa!mance feed in 2023. What are our In/Outs and Resos for the year ahead? How did we live up to our own hopes for 2023? Glenn Howell????

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27:21

Public Access Read-A-Long "Pride and Prejudice"...

Whoa!mance: Romance and Ourselves ·

2024/01/04

In this chapter Lydia is gone, relative calm returns to Longbourne house and the narrator gets contemplative on the conjugal felicity of Mr and Mrs Bennet or rather the horrific lack apparently. IS this a romance or a buildings roman? You decide, dear reader.

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32:45

Public Access Read-A-Long "Pride and Prejudice"...

Whoa!mance: Romance and Ourselves ·

2023/12/28

In this chapter Lizzie confronts her dad about Lydia's reckless flirtations and too frivolous behavior. She really tries to get dear ole dadio not to let Lydia go to Brighton. But Pops does not see it Lizzie's way and Lizzie refuses to be more honest about her fears and concerns.

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67:58

165: It's a Wonderful Strife: "A Court of Frost and...

Whoa!mance: Romance and Ourselves ·

2023/12/21

Over the hills and through the woods, to Velaris we go! Feyre and Rhysand are getting ready for their first C̶h̶r̶i̶s̶t̶m̶a̶s̶ WINTER SOLSTICE together. All while reconciling the recent trauma of the War (see episodes 157, 158). What makes a Holiday Special special? How has the messaging around the true meaning of Christmas morphed in our current therapy-speak moment? Do you feel like you've been sufficiently fan serviced today? Join us as we weave the threads of The Star Wars Christmas Special,

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34:58

"Christmas Masquerade: A Pride & Prejudice Intimate...

Whoa!mance: Romance and Ourselves ·

2023/12/14

Ho! ho! ho no. This eppy, yr grls go whatever the opposite of carolling is about - Christmas Masquerade: A Pride & Prejudice Intimate Variation by Vivien Norville Lizzie and Darcy (who you know...) are spending their first Christmas together and Darcy is BLOWING it. Or wait, Lizzie is blowing it? Honestly, no one is getting blown. When did the public opinion pendulum swing from sweet to spicy? Is self-publishing the field from which we must harvest the bitter oats sown by celebrating ROI and

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21:20

Public Access Read-A-Long "Pride and Prejudice"...

Whoa!mance: Romance and Ourselves ·

2023/12/07

Jane and Lizzie finally get a chance alone to go over everything that has happened. Namely 1) Mr Darcy proposed like and ass but maybe isn't one? and 2) Wickham is the worst person on planet earth. Jane tries to have it both ways and Lizzie has none of it. And is Mrs Bennet a secret proto feminist?

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19:41

Public Access Read-A-Long "Pride and Prejudice"...

Whoa!mance: Romance and Ourselves ·

2023/11/30

In this stunner of a chapter we again find ourselves in a carriage, but this time it's with the sisters fully reunited and on their way to Longborne. There's a hat box, a question of who paid for lunch and a lot of charm oozing from that youngest and potentially worst/best Bennet sister: Lydia.

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21:45

Public Access Read-A-Long "Pride and Prejudice"...

Whoa!mance: Romance and Ourselves ·

2023/11/25

Full of the unsought advice of relatives? Ready to be at home with your actual favs and your comfy pants? Lizzie Bennet is too, y'all. Join this female main character on one more annoying carriage ride as she escapes her cousin Mr. Collins' tender and slightly belligerent farewells. Ready to hear us dish on writers and commenters--desperate goobers full of anxiety or blindly confident weirdos? We're serving hot takes only with this post holiday bonus! Get home safe

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17:04

Public Access Read-A-Long "Pride and Prejudice"...

Whoa!mance: Romance and Ourselves ·

2023/11/23

You traveling this holiday? Lizzie Bennet too. Got relatives telling you which highways and byways and coaching inns are best? Yr girl Liz is in the same spot. Turns out time is a flat circle, and some chickens come home to roost sooner than others. Or in this case blindspots about dads. Enjoy your holidays!

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50:29

Whoa!nus ft. Shelf Love: Shame Shame We Know Your...

Whoa!mance: Romance and Ourselves ·

2023/11/16

In the thrilling conclusion to our Western Civ I, we tackle shame. Shameless or shameful, shame has a utility. Is it worth examining in the context of romance? You betcha buckaroo. Saddle up while we unpack this particular pair of chaps.

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63:37

Whoa!nus ft. Shelf Love: Western Civ I - "Lady of the...

Whoa!mance: Romance and Ourselves ·

2023/11/09

Why, it's Andrea Martucci of Shelf Love stopping by the Whoa!mance desk to talk about darling of her childhood, weird uncle of her adulthood - A LADY OF THE WEST by LINDA HOWARD. Victoria leaves Reconstruction behind for The American West, and, its representative, The Major (with her kid sister and cool cousin in tow). The Major got his ranch the old fashioned way. By murdering his boss's enitre family - or so he thinks - and loosing a testicle in the process. His employee, Jake, also wants to get

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17:17

Public Access Read-A-Long "Pride and Prejudice"...

Whoa!mance: Romance and Ourselves ·

2023/11/02

Join us for the what lies the wake of Darcy's thrilling bombshells. While Jane Austen doesn't invent headhopping she does a bang up job of walking us through Lizzie's reaction to Darcy's screed of a letter. Is this what growing up feels like? Who can say? Us. Us can say.

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163: You've Got Empathy - "Hart And Mercy" by Megan...

Whoa!mance: Romance and Ourselves ·

2023/10/26

Saddle up the Equimare and/or gas up the Autoduck - this week yr grls pass through the veil of HART AND MERCY by MEGAN BANNEN. Marshall Hart sends a letter looking for a friend into the aether (which is not the strangest thing to do in the strange land of this book) and it lands on the desk of his nemesis - Undertaker Mercy. She also needs an anonymous friend, turns out. Does reading fantasy romance juice your empathy or is it just so much more escapism? What makes a retelling worthwhile? When was

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44:09

Public Access Read-A-Long "Pride and Prejudice"...

Whoa!mance: Romance and Ourselves ·

2023/10/19

Wherein Darcy unburdens himself in an epistle to the girl who won't have him. He's fine--thanks for asking! It's only 8am and he's only been lurking in the park waiting for Lizzie to chance by for a little over an hour. He's fine! What makes a manic pixie dream girl? How did Jane Austen know about them? And what makes declaring yourself punk rock? If anything?

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51:26

162: The Federalism of Sex Scenes - "Jinxed" By Torri...

Whoa!mance: Romance and Ourselves ·

2023/10/12

That a creaky stair or a creaky bed? Only one way to find out! Time to bust open the doors on "Jinxed" by Torri Heat. Savannah thinks she's gotten the deal of a lifetime when she buys an abandoned house to open a thrift store. And, indeed, she gets far more than knick-knacks. She gets three hunky...well, not ghosts. But like, frozen-in-time-via-a-curse fellas? I guess you would say? Can these three radically different dudes from different historic eras put their differences aside so they can gang

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22:01

Public Access Read-A-Long "Pride and Prejudice"...

Whoa!mance: Romance and Ourselves ·

2023/10/05

And here it is friends--the moment you've been waiting for--THE PROPOSAL! Darcy unburdens his heart, and offers it trembling and vulnerable with 10,000 a year. He also insults the ever living daylights out of our gal Liz, and she is having none of it. No heart, not money, no ego NO THANK YOU. Mr. Darcy did totally f.ck this up--but did Ms Austen leave him room to wiggle off his own hoisted petard? Listen and find out

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