Sex. Love. Literature. - A Pop Culture Podcast

Get ready for some hot takes from your SLL girlies! In the first of two episodes, we’re joined by the host of the Tea and Soju Podcast and friend of the show, Liliana, to talk all things transmigration and isekai. Don’t know what that means? We’ve got you covered! We start out by identifying the defining features of these culturally specific genres and name drop some of our favorite examples. We also debate the difference–if there is one–between isekai and portal fantasy, in which Ayanni defini

The final installment of our deep dive into R. F. Kuang’s Katabasis is finally here!! Even three episodes in, we somehow still have more to say about this dark academic journey to hell. Corinne flexes her academic muscles in a conversation about consent in fantasy (and academic reality). Then we wrap up by turning to the book’s ending and our feelings about Alice and Peter's relationship. As a bit of a content warning, Katabasis deals with abuse and suicidal ideation. Because these themes are

Episode two of our Katabasis deep dive is finally here! For some reason, we start the first of our spoiler-filled episodes with a sports metaphor before grumbling about Alice and Peter as academic types with whom we are quite familiar (and spoiler alert, we don’t like them). We also consider Kuang’s construction of hell as a university–but with the pretty clear argument that salvation is definitely not a dissertation. As a bit of a content warning, Katabasis deals with abuse and suicidal ideat