RE!Mance Episode 44: The OG (JANEuary #5) - Persuasion by Jane Austen
RE!Mance Episode 44: The OG (JANEuary #5) - Persuasion by Jane Austen

Romancelandia’s own Gathering of the Juggalos - Jane Austen Fetival - wrapped up this last week in Louisville! PlusJASNA’s Annual General Meeting will be hosted in our home of Chicago this year. Not to mention TWO imminent film adaptations of Persuasion? To celebrate all this and more we’re re-releasing our episode on Persuasion by Jane Austen.

We did it y’all; we’ve been through the now, the then, the if only, and the as if; it’s been a month dedicated to yr grrl Jane; a celebration of her influence, and an inquiry into the resonance of her scope. But we would be remiss not to guide it all towards the inevitable confluence of meeting the indelible force herself; the matron of Romancelandia; the true essence of all things that send your heart and situation aflutter: it’s Persuasion by Jane Austen. For you, by you; thank you now and always.

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Episode 112: Almost Paradise — Bachelor in Paradise by Shai August
Episode 112: Almost Paradise — Bachelor in Paradise by Shai August

The Bachelor but with a Phoenix and a Thunderbird catching feels in the South China Sea? This could actually be the most dramatic season yet.

Mythical creature shifter and Regional-alpha Xi Sing is so immediately smitten with The Shifter Bachelor lovetestant Monday, he threatens to make bad TV. Little does the viewing audience know she's running from a witch-hunter right onto their screens.

This week, yr girls are knockin' on Heaven's Door discussing "Bachelor in Paradise" by Shai August. Along the way, they reflect on the history of Bachelor Nation by looking at a multicultural shifter-take with plenty of political intrigue, character studies, and loose ends

Is reality television just another repository for our collective id? Are bouillon-stealing gargoyles worse than a guy selecting a Neil Lane engagement ring for the wrong reasons? Can the sum of parts be greater than the whole?

One thing is for sure - Chris Harrison could never.

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Episode 111: The Category is….An Aunt Is An Ocean — The Prodigal Spinster by Joan Overfieled
Episode 111: The Category is….An Aunt Is An Ocean — The Prodigal Spinster by Joan Overfieled

Category Is: Kissing Cousins Pygmalion Cotillion

Answer: “The Prodigal Spinster” by Joan Overfieled

Question: What is relations wanting to make relations after a “makeover” (actually just proper nutrition) thanks to a Puppet Master/Aunt who makes them think it was the work of their Cool Jock Friend and their Bumbling Too-Masc-To-Live Pal?

This week, Morgan and Isabeau don their most fabulous orange formalwear for the exciting conclusion of the first round of their “Category Is” series, discussing a motherf*#!ing Golden Heart Winner from 1988.

Are Pygmalions for the boyzzzz? Can a family member be a liminal space? If you walk down the stairs and not a single Adam’s apple bobs, does it even count?

Kiss me beneath the milky twilight, this episode is about to lead you out on the moonlit floor.

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Episode 110: The Category is....Easy Riders, Golden Songbirds — The Golden Songbird by Sheila Walsh
Episode 110: The Category is....Easy Riders, Golden Songbirds — The Golden Songbird by Sheila Walsh

Category Is: Regency in shades of avocado, mulberry and ochre

Answer: “The Golden Songbird” by Sheila Walsh

Question: What is the wager calling everyone’s bluff until she ends up a Marchioness after some gun play, a cock fight, and a really bad trip?

This week, Morgan and Isabeau are joined by a Dark Passenger for their “Category Is” series, discussing a not-plagiarizing-Georgette-Heyer Regency from 1975.

Are the seventies the True Sixties? Was Woodiwiss even a radical? Are disco balls just big mirrors?

Cards on the table, we’re all in.

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Episode 109: The Category is....Thatcher? I Hardly Know Her! — Tangled Threads by Susanne McCarthy
Episode 109: The Category is....Thatcher? I Hardly Know Her! — Tangled Threads by Susanne McCarthy

Category Is: English Rose seeks personified Daddy Issue

Answer: “Tangled Threads” by Susanne McCarthy

Question: What is pretending to be the wife of the brother who raised you and ending up deflowered by the father of your brother’s child bride and everyone looks the same and all the villains are immigrants?

This week, Morgan and Isabeau follow their “Category Is” series down the recently expanded British motorway system of 1991.

Can a contemporary romance be a “bodice ripper”? Has anyone traced the Thatcher Feminism to Boris Johnson Misogynist pipeline? What’s a Tory? And can anyone stop the urban sprawl of the West Midlands?

Heat up the pan, this is the Full English, innit?

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Episode 108: Problematizing Romance w/Shelf Love
Episode 108: Problematizing Romance w/Shelf Love

Back at it again with the Shelf Love co-release! Isabeau and Morgan had a great time chatting with Andrea Martucci about what it means to problematize and what it means to fetishize. Especially when it comes to (what else?) Romance! Psyched to share this eppy of Shelf Love in our feed. Don’t forget your copy of Das Kapital—or the whips and giant cartoon fox head for that matter. This conversation is a hot commodity.

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