Whoa!mance: Romance, Feminism, and Ourselves Podcast
1) 201.1: Harry Potter x Handmaid's Tale - "Alchemised" by SenLinYu [Part 1]
Is that a wand base metal in your pocket, or are you just happy to see us again? This episode yr grlz begin their conversation about ALCHEMISED by SENLINYU.You're probably wondering how Helena ended u...Show More
2) 200. The Time War is Foreplay--"This is How You Lose the Time War" by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone
We dive into the exquisite love-letter architecture of This Is How You Lose the Time War and ask what happens when desire is literally written into existence. We linger on what it means to love with (...Show More
3) 199: Forty Shades of Green - "The Ground She Walks Upon" by Meagan McKinney
And now we arrive in Ireland. Finally. To discuss THE GROUND SHE WALKS UPON by MEAGAN MCKINNEY (1994).Ravenna is a social outcast who is also magically bound via geish to the Lord of her home, County ...Show More
4) Whoa!nus 2025 Year In Review
What was 2025, really? What did we say we were going to do—and did we do it?In this Year-in-Review episode, we take stock of the year with clear eyes. We revisit the wins, the misses, and the pacing p...Show More
5) 198: The Reason for the Peenin' - The Earl's Christmas Pearl by Megan Frampton
Man the canons, yr Colonels in the War on Christmas are attacking THE EARL'S CHRISTMAS PEARL by MEGAN FRAMPTON.The titular Earl meets the titular Pearl after her family abandons her in London over Chr...Show More
198: The Reason for the Peenin' - The Earl's Christmas Pearl by Megan Frampton
33:59 | Dec 14th, 2025
6) 197.2: Return to SpookyU: Nocticadia by Keri Lake
In part two of our discussion of NOCTICADIA by KERI LAKE yr grls dive into chapters 39 - epilogue. Does the ambiguity of an HEA in horror make it impossible (if already strange) bedfelllows with roman...Show More
7) 197: Gothy McGotherson: Nocticadia by Keri Lake
Stop twitching, that isn't the fluttering of dusty moth wings in your ear - its yr grls discussing NOCTICADIA by KERI LAKE.Lilia Vespertine is a destitute but extraordinarily hot smart orphan in evil...Show More
8) 196: NOThic: The Ruin of Evangeline Jones by Julia Bennet
Don't be scared! That is just the loud cracking of our ankles over a totally normally recording of Whoa!mance's discussion of THE RUIN OF EVANGELINE JONES by JULIA BENNET.The titular Evie is a psychic...Show More
9) The Final Four: Who's Your Shadow Daddy?
Welcome to the Shadow Daddy Bracket: Final Four, where our pleasures are interrogated and pitted against one another. Our contenders? Rochester brooding in his attic-bound domestic gothic, Rhysand a f...Show More
10) The Shadow Daddy Bracket
Shadow Daddy's abound. But how do you pick the best one? what would the best even mean? How do you quantify or categorize the shadows and the daddies?Morgan and Isabeau developed a tournament style br...Show More