Sawyer
@potboilersawyer.bsky.social
Writer & co-host of the Reformed Rakes podcast. theloosecravat.substack.com
I wrote about Warrior's Woman (1990), romantasy, and the culture war theloosecravat.substack.com/p/warriors-w...
Warrior’s Woman
Romantasy and the culture war
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when avon asked judy cuevas to take on a pen name midway through her career do you think they knew they'd be forever condemning her to be known as "Judith Ivory (Judy Cuevas)"
i interviewed former PEOPLE Magazine reporter Michael Small about the two weeks he spent with Fabio in 1993 reformedrakes.com/episodes/two...
Fabio in 1993: an interview with Michael Small — reformedrakes
Sawyer interviews Michael Small, former People Magazine reporter and host of the podcast I Couldn’t Throw It Out, about the two(ish) weeks he spent with Fabio in 1993.
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my first paid subscriber piece: a refutation on heteropessimist takes on romantasy theloosecravat.substack.com/p/mars-needs...
Mars Needs Women!
What does alien romance say about the modern heterosexual?
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a programming update from yr friend at The Loose Cravat theloosecravat.substack.com/p/biologic-c...
"Biologic Chains"
a programming update, and thoughts on genre fiction under surveillance
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No, what happened was the religious right in the US, after losing on Obergefell v. Hodges, immediately changed tactics. They held huge conferences outlining their plans to roll back LGBT rights as whole by targeting trans people. They didn't skip a beat. We aren't to blame for our own oppression.
Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉@scumbelievable.bsky.social · 4mo ago"They just shouldn't have participated in society" Fucking panel of cis gays discussing what trans people did to deserve genocide. Cool.
you haven’t lived until you’ve been mentioned by name in a one star Yelp review
A long, but really good, read, (particularly in the wake of the death of the Harlequin Historical line?—AKA one that allowed for unusual settings/characters/stories). I always enjoy Chels' essays. ❤️ #romance #romancelandia
Sawyer@potboilersawyer.bsky.social · 7mo agoi wrote about Americans writing Scotland (specifically in historical romance) theloosecravat.substack.com/p/sir-walter...
i wrote about Americans writing Scotland (specifically in historical romance) theloosecravat.substack.com/p/sir-walter...
Sir Walter Disease
Americans writing Scotland
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At the risk of sounding stupid this kind of thing is why I post about writing porn when I write porn. When they slam the Internet shut on porn it's sex and sexuality they're trying to stifle; they're foreclosing on the possibility of adults being free people, and it behooves antifascists to say so.
Mike Stabile@mikestabile.bsky.social · 10mo agoThe link between sexual repression and militarism is becoming clearer by the day. Galloway blames OnlyFans for loneliness, depression, small business closures, extremism, tyranny and *checks notes* impending societal extinction. His solution? Mandatory national service.
i love it when tiktokers/youtubers pretend they're doing a public service by reading a controversial popular book so they can make content about it. "i wasted my life reading 1,000 pages of alchemised!" yeah buddy that was your fault. not gonna waste any of mine with your video
PORN IS ART, PORN IS GOOD, PEOPLE MAKING PORN IS A SIGN OF A HEALTHY SOCIETY
Asher HELLbein@asherelbein.bsky.social · 11mo agoThere has been a noticeable reticence in left and liberal circles to voice full-throated support for pornography, even as it's become increasingly clear what the open end goals of the censorship movement are
being an Oscar Van Rhijn fan is so logical to me. He schemes! He slouches! He has quiet zingers!
go through some newspaper archives, they said. it'll be FUN, they said
hi! 😃 i couldn't help but notice that scrolling is sapping your will to live! may i offer u a video essay in these trying times? youtu.be/Bdj14_jdumI
be your own algorithm
YouTube video by pagemelt
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Me, a person who has publicly called Thomas Cromwell "babygirl": Ali Hazelwood is in trouble for WHAT
I did feel actively insane last year watching a lot of book creators say that a queer author is a sex pest over a PR box, so this breakdown of the situation... very cathartic to me www.tiktok.com/@_happy_dagg...
Quick, someone start a fight in the comments! #booktok #books #bookrecommendations #kindleunlimited #spicybooks
TikTok video by Jet
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looking up something on the french revolution which is how i found out some history blog used AI to yasssify Desmoulins
i watched no less than THREE fake trailers for Pillion before realizing that there is not actually a real trailer for Pillion yet.
i saw residual discourse about an author who is a man "pretending" to be a lesbian and man, y'all need to leave it alone. Gender and sexuality are fluid, if someone is posting that identity chances are they're interested in exploring. Not your job to be a cop about it
yes obviously you are allowed to critique popular books and social media creators but using"booktok girlies" as a pejorative is something you should rethink imoooooo
it's not REALLY a big deal but i get sad when i see reviewers say things like, "here are the best books I read in Q1" please exorcise corporate jargon from your hobbies! free yourself!!!
New episode! The Phoenix Bride is an achingly romantic book set in London, 1666 and unlike anything we've ever read. Siegel managed to make an under explored setting feel very lived and pulls off the kind of happily-ever-after we wish we saw more of in the genre.
MAKE GOOD MOVIES OR DIE! Cecil B. Demented, John Waters (2000)
Sanjana recently shared this old piece in her latest (excellent!) Substack and I'm excited folks are discovering it. It's about Christine Monson's infamous book STORMFIRE, a bodice ripper that a lot of people view as a gratuitous, immoral work theloosecravat.substack.com/p/a-history-...
A History of Violence
Stormfire, the scorpion, and the frog
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