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Another WWBUT as Missy has remained extremely busy! We’ve got romance novels. We’ve got The Locked Tomb. We’ve got WorldCon and PAX West. Join us! What Missy’s Been Up To: Reading It Happened One Summer by Tessa BaileyPot Shot by Laura Piper LeeMr. Impossible by Loretta ChaseThe Pairing by Casey McQuiston Watching Teenage Sex and Death at Camp MiasmaShadow of a DoubtDead Like Me What Merri’s Been Up To: Reading Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn MuirLegacy of Gods series by Rina KentThe Eyes Are the Best Part by Monika Kim Watching I Am FrankheldaHouse of Stasi Website | Facebook | Bluesky | Instagram | Threads | Patreon | Merch | Episode Transcripts The post WWBUT 119 – He Has So Few Redeeming Qualities and I Desire Him Carnally appeared first on FAKE GEEK GIRLS.

This episode SHOULD have come out two entire weeks ago, but Missy remains the busiest person on earth and… forgot. Sorry. Here’s what we WERE up to, anyway! What Missy’s Been Up To: Reading The Love Hypothesis by Ali HazelwoodBriefly, a Delicious Life by Nell StevensTake a Hint, Dani Brown by Talia Hibbert Watching Doctor SleepThe Haunting of Hill HouseThe InviteThe OdysseySpider Man: Brand New Day What Merri’s Been Up To: Reading Legacy of Gods by Rina KentThe Naked Truth by Ana Kirk ShawDom Com by Adriana AndersThe Everlasting by Alix E. Harrow Website | Facebook | Bluesky | Instagram | Threads | Patreon | Merch | Episode Transcripts The post WWBUT 118 – Aspirational Circus Freaks appeared first on FAKE GEEK GIRLS.

All of those notes we had about ecofeminism and capitalism came in handy, because it’s time for part two (the last part) of our episodes on the Alien franchise! Join us as we tackle Prometheus, Alien: Covenant, Alien: Romulus, and Alien: New Earth. Some Sources You Might Find Interesting: “Alien, The Thing” and the Principles of Terror by Douglas Fowler Between A Rock And A Hard Place by Vivian Sobchack “Prometheus” in Excavating the Future: Archaeology and Geopolitics in Contemporary North American Science Fiction Film and Television by Shawn Malley Fractal Patterns Out of Chaos in Ridley Scott’s Alien, Prometheus, and Covenant by Carrie Lynn Evans ‘We Were So Wrong’: The Perversion of Male Creation. Motherhood, Fatherhood and Birth in Recent Incarnations of the Alien Series by Amanda Digioia On the ‘Alien: Earth’ Set, Everyone Can See You Sweat by Mike Hale ‘Alien: Earth’ Review: FX’s Sci-Fi Prequel Is an Intriguingly Ambitious, Eventually Thrilling Journey Into the Semi-Known by Angie Han The uses of immortality: Barbie and popular culture by John Hartley Speaking the Monster: Ecofeminism in “Alien” and “Aliens” by Eleanor Johnson Prometheusby Thomas Doherty “The Future Is Female: Bateson, Benjamin and How Women Learn in Ridley Scott’s Prometheus” by Cynthia Kraman ‘Mothers and Others’ by Ginette Carpenter in Women and the Gothic: An Edinburgh Companion edited by Avril Horner and Sue Zlosnik Reproductive Fear: Ideological Horrors and Final Girls in Alien and Alien: Romulus by Rhiannon Celeste Lewis Website | Facebook | Bluesky | Instagram | Threads | Patreon | Merch | Episode Transcripts The post Episode 214 – Alien Franchise – Part Two appeared first on FAKE GEEK GIRLS.

We’re back to tell you what we’ve been up to! And, as is our wont, to have a little rant about something. What Missy’s Been Up To: Watching 28 Years Later: The Bone TempleI Saw the TV GlowTogetherOff Campus Reading Emily Wilde’s Compendium of Lost Tales by Heather FawcettCopper Script by KJ Charles What Merri’s Been Up To: Watching Voicemails to IsabelleToy Story 5 Reading The Emperor and The Finisher by RunyxThe Gargoyle from General Management by Kate Prior Website | Facebook | Bluesky | Instagram | Threads | Patreon | Merch | Episode Transcripts The post WWBUT 117 – I’ve Been to Notre Dame and the Gargoyles Weren’t That Big appeared first on FAKE GEEK GIRLS.

If A Wrinkle in Time encouraged us to expand our minds to the size of the universe, A Wind in the Door asks us to make them very, very small… and then expand them just a bit further than we did the first time around. Join us as we discuss identity, growing up, and the ever-important theme of faith (and what faith can mean, beyond the obvious), in the second book of the Time Quartet! Some Sources You Might Find Interesting: Symbiogenesis, Selfhood, and Science Fiction by Laurel Bollinger Spiritual practices children understand: an analysis of Madeleine L’Engle’s fantasy, A Wind in the Door by Trudelle H. Thomas Seraphim, Cherubim, and Virtual Unicorns: Order and Being in Madeline L’Engle’s Time Quartet by Wayne G. Hammond The Time Quartet as Madeleine L’Engle’s Theology by Marek Oziewicz Website | Facebook | Bluesky | Instagram | Threads | Patreon | Merch | Episode Transcripts The post Episode 213 – A Wind in the Door appeared first on FAKE GEEK GIRLS.

Someday we will catch up to time and not be doing these super-sized WWBUTs, but that day is not today! So: here’s what we’ve been up to. What Missy’s Been Up To: Watching The Drama Reading Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins The Dream Hotel by Laila Lalami Scotch on the Rocks by Elliot Fletcher Kiss Me, Judas by Will Christopher Baer The Bewitching by Silvia Moreno-Garcia Godzilla Rivals: Jet Jaguar versus Megalon by Nola Pfau and Megan Huang Swamp Thing by Alan Moore, Stephen Bissette, and John Totleben This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladdstone Hellblazer: Dead in America by Simon Spurrier, Aditya Bidikar, Aaron Campbell, and Jordie Bellaire  Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by VE Schwab  What Merri’s Been Up To: Watching Off Campus Scream 7 Reading Alchemised by Senlinyu The Predator and the Reaper by Runyx  Emily Wilde’s Encyclopedia of Faeries and Map of the Otherlands by Heather Fawcett Filthy Rich Fae and Filthy Rich Fae Fallen Court by Geneva Lee Hot for Hostage by Maggie Evans Love Me Stalk Me by Laura Bishop  Website | Facebook | Bluesky | Instagram | Threads | Patreon | Merch | Episode Transcripts The post WWBUT 116 – Have These People Not Read Animorphs? appeared first on FAKE GEEK GIRLS.

Abjection? The Monstrous-Feminine? Motherhood? What else could we be talking about other than the Alien franchise? Join us as we examine the first four films in the Alien series—Alien, Aliens, Alien 3, and Alien: Resurrection—to trace how this franchise has evolved, shifted, and taken on grotesque new forms over time. Some Sources You Might Find Interesting: Powers of Horror by Julia Kristeva Alien and The Monstrous-Feminine by Barbara Creed What’s the Story, Mother?: The Mourning of the Alien by Stephen Scobie Monstrous Mothers: Medusa, Grendel, and Now Alien by Lynda K. Bundtzen  “Alien” Within, “Aliens” Without: The Primal Scene and the Return to the Repressed by Ilsa J. Bick “Alien” as an Abortion Parable by John L. Cobbs  MASOCHISM AND REPRESENTATION IN MODERN HORROR: THE CASE OF “ALIEN 3” by Celestino Deleyto Alcalá Beautiful Monsters: The Unofficial and Unauthorized Guide to the Alien and Predator Films by David A. McIntee “Alien, The Thing” and the Principles of Terror by Douglas Fowler Website | Facebook | Bluesky | Instagram | Threads | Patreon | Merch | Episode Transcripts The post Episode 212 – Alien Franchise – Part One appeared first on FAKE GEEK GIRLS.

Join us in our belated discussion about this year’s Emerald City Comic Con, including what’s working (artist alley), what isn’t (panels), and what we hope to see in the future (a scrap of curation on the convention’s part). But even better, we got to chat with Ren Strapp (The Shepherd’s Sword, Amira the Van Life C**t, How Could You?) and Becca Farrow (First Test, Ladycastle, Seventh Circle)! We’re so grateful to both of them for their time and for entertaining our questions about things like bodies and erotica and adaptation. You’re really, really, going to want to give both of these interviews a listen and check out their work—you won’t be disappointed. Timestamps: The Ren Strapp interview begins at 39:27 and the interview with Becca Farrow begins at 58:05. Mistake (?): Missy misremembered where she heard about Webtoon’s presence at ECCC—it was in fact in Ren Strapp’s blog post, not during the interview. A Link You Might Find Interesting: ECCC 2026 Recap by Ren Strapp Website | Facebook | Bluesky | Instagram | Threads | Patreon | Merch | Episode Transcripts The post WWBUT 115 – Emerald City Comic Con + Ren Strapp and Becca Farrow Interviews appeared first on FAKE GEEK GIRLS.

We’re still going through it, which means we’re releasing another WWBUT! And it’s a doozy, because we saw Wuthering Heights and we have some (unpopular) opinions about it, about the critical response to it, and more. What Missy’s Been Up To: Watching Wuthering HeightsA Knight of the Seven KingdomsDear DavidMarty SupremeTrain DreamsFrankensteinThe Secret AgentProject Hail MaryBilly the Kid and the Green Baize Vampire Reading Babel by R. F. Kuang What Merri’s Been Up To: Watching Wuthering HeightsSouthern HospitalityThe Secret Lives of Mormon WivesBridgerton Reading Caught Up by Navessa AllenButcher and Blackbird / Leather and Lark by Brynn Weaver Website | Facebook | Bluesky | Instagram | Threads | Patreon | Merch | Episode Transcripts The post WWBUT 114 – The Animorphs of Bravo Shows appeared first on FAKE GEEK GIRLS.

It’s time for OPINIONS as we get into what we’ve been up to! Missy begins this year’s Oscar journey and Merri has thoughts on reality TV and stalker romance. Notes: The sound on this one is a little rougher than usual because a piece of our usual recording equipment went out and we weren’t able to monitor the sound the way we normally do. We should have this under control for our next episode! What Missy’s Been Up To: Watching Wake Up, Dead ManDust BunnySinnersBugoniaOne Battle After AnotherThe MomentSend HelpDogmaUntil DawnHeated Rivalry Reading Don’t Want You Like a Best Friend by Emma R. Alban What Merri’s Been Up To: Watching Predator: BadlandsHeated RivalryThe Traitors Season 3Toy Story 1 – 4Summer House Website | Facebook | Bluesky | Instagram | Threads | Patreon | Merch | Episode Transcripts The post WWBUT 113 – Stalker With Manners appeared first on FAKE GEEK GIRLS.

Let's get into personal history, religion, the power of love, and sado-masochism (the clinical kind, let's not get too excited) as we discuss Madeleine L'Engle's A Wrinkle in Time! The post Episode 211 – A Wrinkle in Time appeared first on FAKE GEEK GIRLS.

Oh, what a month we've had. We're back with a belated WWBUT, covering everything we did while our brains turned to mush. The post WWBUT 112 – Paddington’s Brother Eddington appeared first on FAKE GEEK GIRLS.

Join us as we journey into history, depravity, and hypocrisy as we take a closer look at Danny McBride's The Righteous Gemstones! Can people this bad be redeemed? Isn't that what the whole Christ story is about? And how close to reality is this, anyway? Let's find out. The post Episode 210 – The Righteous Gemstones appeared first on FAKE GEEK GIRLS.

What have we been up to? A lot! Join us as we discuss whether Nicholas Hoult's face has any trace of the uncanny, why it pays to be perpetually behind, and the eternal wisdom of the Real Housewives. Also: a bit about this year's PAX West, including our experience with the game Ten Candles. The post WWBUT 111 – Deep Dive Into Nicholas Hoult’s Face appeared first on FAKE GEEK GIRLS.

Our 2024 Oscar nominee double-feature (we're only talking about two because we are chasing our bliss) continues with Anora, Sean Baker's ode to class and sex work and the American dream. Where do we stand on that ending? Do we feel it's respectful? Let's find out. The post Episode 209 – Anora appeared first on FAKE GEEK GIRLS.