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Where we get psych nerdy about queer book tropes!
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Sunday Nov 23, 2025
Sunday Nov 23, 2025
In this 17th episode of Trope-ology, Vesper Doom joins to celebrate the cover reveal of their newest book Metropolis Down! The book releases in 100 days, and to celebrate, we get down and nerdy with Space Horror! Enjoy also tangents into Alien and Star Trek lore, writing processes, and what monsters we enjoy thinking about in the dark!
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Music: Nick Valerson on Pixalbay
Monday Nov 17, 2025
Monday Nov 17, 2025
In this 16th episode of Trope-ology, Anne Shade joins the show to discuss Black girl magic, her newest release The Blessed, and all things fantasy! Along the way we discuss the racial divide in book cons, the importance of representation, and how mermaids just are inherently Black!
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Music: Nick Valerson on Pixalbay
Friday Oct 31, 2025
Friday Oct 31, 2025
In this inaugural episode of the show within a show And Another Thing, hosts Chris and Lou explore the trope of when ghosts represent something more through the lens of bl dramas, books, and more! It’s Halloween and we go to all the haunted places (at least all the gay ones)! Along the way we get distracted by other favorite shows, which characters we want to adopt, and Chris’s ongoing hate of the movie LongLegs
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Music: Nick Valerson on Pixalbay
Wednesday Oct 08, 2025
Wednesday Oct 08, 2025
In this 15th episode of Trope-ology, author Brent Lambert joins the show to discuss Welcome to Forever by Nathan Tavares. Along the way we discuss joyful queer resistance, the importance of queer elders, the struggles of the youth in 2025, and how important it is to write about lube.
Bonus Brent holds space (joke fully intended) for me to be vocally so over the Taylor Swift Life of a Showgirl discourse.
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Music: Nick Valerson on Pixalbay
Sunday Sep 14, 2025
Sunday Sep 14, 2025
In this 14th episode of Trope-ology, author Trip Galey, we discuss the goblin market trope while taking a whimsical journey from classic poetics to the class that is the Disney channel original movie, Halloweentown
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Music: Nick Valerson on Pixalbay
Sunday Sep 07, 2025
Sunday Sep 07, 2025
In this 13th episode of Trope-ology, author Arden Coutts joins the show to discuss the grumpy/sunshine trope with a side of body guard trope. Along the way we discuss BL tv shows, the movies of our youths, and the fun that can be had when tropes are reversed!
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Music: Nick Valerson on Pixalbay
Wednesday Sep 03, 2025
Wednesday Sep 03, 2025
In this 12th episode of Trope-ology, author AA Fairview joins the show to discuss bisexual awakenings, along the way we discuss late in life discoveries and why hockey romances is so very bi!
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Monday Aug 18, 2025
Monday Aug 18, 2025
On this 11th episode of Trope-ology, author SE Smyth joins the show to Discuss Our Wives Under the Sea while getting into why the sea is a terrifying lesbian and how sometimes we just want to be sad gays!
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Music: Nick Valerson on Pixalbay