iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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mel thomas @pagemelt.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

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

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be your own algorithm

YouTube video by pagemelt

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Beth @bethhaymond.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

My new love langue is people sending me edits of Robby and Collins

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Reformed Rakes @reformedrakes.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

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.

Cover of The Phoenix Bride by Natasha Siegel superimposed on a painting of the Great Fire of London. Text reads Reformed Rakes Presents:

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Reformed Rakes @reformedrakes.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Back with a new episode! Honeytrap is unlike any genre romance we’ve ever read—asking what can new settings, structures and even endings can look like in the genre, all while being romantic and delightful!

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Beth @bethhaymond.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Joan Wolf is the final boss of horse girls

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blithe spirit @emmkick.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

If you listened to the Reformed Rakes episode and want more in depth Balogh, I wrote this about how I see her vision of justice and forgiveness (a major condition for her version of an HEA) relating to the abolitionist imagination. open.substack.com/pub/restorat...

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forgiveness doesn't come with a debt

Mary Balogh's Romantic and Abolitionist Imagination

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Reformed Rakes @reformedrakes.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

We’re going to Bath! This week, Emma talks to Beth and Chels about her favorite author, Mary Balogh, and the history of “category” and “Regency” romances.

“reformed rakes presents: Mary Balogh and Category Romance. Pictured a white woman with short grey hair super imposed on a picture of the Royal Crescent in Bath, England”

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blithe spirit @emmkick.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

I'm re-releasing the most legal of my projects at Restorative Romance over the next few weeks, with new legal research and close readings. It's about the theory of marital rape exemptions influencing the popularity of bodice rippers and why I think that parallel is often oversimplified!

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correlation present, causation unclear

part 1: bodice retribution

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Reformed Rakes @reformedrakes.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

New episode! This week @bayleyreads.bsky.social joins us to talk about Katherine Arden’s The Warm Hands of Ghosts! A WWI magical mystery romance, this book is incredibly special and Bayley helps us figure how Arden pulls off this magic trick. Available on all podcast platforms!

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Beth @bethhaymond.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Friend of the podcast @haleystew.bsky.social has immaculate taste in books

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Sara they/them @scarr.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

“Milan doesn’t write girl gangs, she writes communities. She doesn’t write hot girl hobbies, she writes about labor.” such a good episode about one of the best historical romances ever written!

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Beth @bethhaymond.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

It's kind of shocking we haven't done a Courtney Milan book standalone episode yet

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mel thomas @pagemelt.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

evil is not an immutable quality, and thinking that it IS, and that YOU are so smart and special as to have seen through its facade all along… like, all that’s doing is telling me that you think victims are stupider than you. not exactly a progressive stance!

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