Episodes
Thursday Aug 03, 2023
Episode 3: Amelia Atwater-Rhodes: The Maeve’ra: Bloodtraitor
Thursday Aug 03, 2023
Thursday Aug 03, 2023
Backlist: It's over, it's finally over! On this joyous day, we gather to celebrate the momentus occasion of having finished this fuckin trilogy! It's all uphill from here, folks. We're reading BLOODTRAITOR by Amelia Atwater-Rhodes, published in April 2016. NGL it's SSDD BUT we did come equipped with some jokes this time, to make it a little more bearable for everyone. Now let's all hold hands and jump into this abyss together!
Chill: Cyna is drinking The Bitter End (whiskey + blood orange cocktail mix + lemon juice) and Ollie is drinking an Exactly What I Expected (St. George Absinthe Verte + ginger ale). Pics in the links!
Intro theme - "Let It In" by Josh Woodward.
Next time: It's finally over.
(2h 42m. Content Warning: Profanity, alcohol consumption, sexually explicit and generally extremely filthy language, extensive discussion of rape, trauma, physical, mental, and emotional abuse against children as well as adults, slavery, and torture.)
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Friday Jun 30, 2023
Episode 2: Amelia Atwater-Rhodes: The Maeve’ra: Bloodkin
Friday Jun 30, 2023
Friday Jun 30, 2023
Backlist: Only book two into this terrible endeavor of ours and already we're struggling for words to accurately describe the MALAISE this series has put us in. This time the """"book"""" in question is Bloodkin by Amelia Atwater-Rhodes, tragically published in April of 2015, and we gotta be honest with you folks: not a lot of nice things to say about it.
Chill: Cyna is drinking an ESH (amaretto + lemon juice + honey + lime Bubly) and Ollie is drinking an About What I Expected (St. George Absinthe Verte + black raspberry vodka + diet ginger ale). Pics in the links!
Intro theme - "Let It In" by Josh Woodward.
Next time: It's finally over.
(2h 22m. Content Warning: Profanity, alcohol consumption, sexually explicit and generally extremely filthy language, extensive discussion of rape, false rape accusations, trauma, physical, mental, and emotional abuse against children as well as adults, slavery, and torture.)
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Thursday Jun 01, 2023
Episode 1: Amelia Atwater-Rhodes: The Maeve’ra: Bloodwitch
Thursday Jun 01, 2023
Thursday Jun 01, 2023
Backlist: Hello, friends! We are back for unlucky season thirteen and this shit is just THE WORST. Today we're talking about Amelia Atwater-Rhodes' fuckin' terrible novel BLOODWITCH, published January 1, 2014. Strap in for some slave empire NUANCE, yall!
This was supposed to be the best one, but it is in fact still terrible, and things will only go downhill from here. Luckily, we were able to weather this one, at least, together in person! So please forgive any sort of wonky sound issues, this was very new to us XD
Chill: Cyna is drinking a Plaguebearer (amaretto + creme de cacao + oatmilk + grenadine) and Ollie is drinking a Bloodwitch (St. George Absinthe Verte + Bruce Cost Ginger Ale Pomegranite and Hibiscus) Pics of our drinks TOGETHER, GASP!
Intro theme - "Let It In" by Josh Woodward.
Next time: Fuckin' Bloodkin.
Stay safe, friends.
(2h 54m. Content Warning: Profanity, alcohol consumption, sexually explicit and generally extremely filthy language, extensive discussion of rape, trauma, physical, mental, and emotional abuse against children as well as adults, slavery, torture, and suicide.)
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Thursday Apr 27, 2023
Season Intro: The Maeve’ra
Thursday Apr 27, 2023
Thursday Apr 27, 2023
Amelia Atwater-Rhodes. For the last time. Let's go.
Intro theme - "Let It In" by Josh Woodward. See y'all next time (face 2 face!) for Episode 1: Bloodwitch.
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Saturday Jul 30, 2022
Season Intro: Dark Visions
Saturday Jul 30, 2022
Saturday Jul 30, 2022
We're alive! And so is LJ! We're back with an intro to Season 11: Dark Visions, which features our semi-annual State of the LJ and also a shocking amount of chat about Gen 13 for some reason? Listen, it's rough out here - Dark Visions is LJ's most obscure trilogy and not even SHE seems to remember that she wrote it. No worries though, she's definitely writing a sequel.
Intro theme - "Let It In" by Josh Woodward. See y'all next time (with booze!) for Episode 1: The Strange Power!
Thanks for sticking with us, folks, and stay safe! Come check in with us on twitter @BacklistPodcast!
Thursday Jun 30, 2022
Episode 4 - Amelia Atwater-Rhodes: Promises to Keep
Thursday Jun 30, 2022
Thursday Jun 30, 2022
Backlist: RAISE A GLASS, FRIENDS, because we have MADE IT to the end of the Return to Den of Shadows with PROMISES TO KEEP (published January 2013), and after all this, we're left with just one question: what editor looked at this premise and said "Yeah, no, this seems fine."
Chill: Cyna is drinking a Fuck This Book (just a whole bottle of Barefoot Bubbly Pink Moscato), and Ollie is drinking an 'Everyone Benefits From Slavery So You're All Complicit' is a Bad Theme (absinthe + ginger ale + crushed up candycane shards) Pics! Cyna - Ollie.
Intro theme - "Let It In" by Josh Woodward.
Next time: WHO CAN SAY????
Stay safe, friends.
(2h 35m. Content Warning: Profanity, alcohol consumption, sexually explicit and generally extremely filthy language, intense discussion of suicide, abuse, slavery, racism, and incest. )
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Tuesday May 31, 2022
Episode 3 - Amelia Atwater-Rhodes: Poison Tree
Tuesday May 31, 2022
Tuesday May 31, 2022
Wednesday May 04, 2022
Episode 2 - Amelia Atwater-Rhodes: Token of Darkness
Wednesday May 04, 2022
Wednesday May 04, 2022
Backlist: Ollie was asked to edit some text for ToD and couldn't remember the title Token of Darkness, and all they could get to was "Time of Death". And frankly, they're not wrong. TOKEN OF DARKNESS by Amelia Atwater-Rhodes (published February 9, 2010), a book that maybe existed. We're not sure.
Chill: Cyna is drinking a Liquified Ghost (coconut rum, crème de cacao, 2% milk, and green food coloring for streaks!) followed by... a bottle of wine lolol. Ollie is drinking a Hey There, Delilah (Cîroc Black Raspberry, Wollersheim Absinthe Blanche, pineapple juice, lemon juice, lime juice, and a sugar-dipped pineapple chunk) Pics! Cyna - Ollie.
Intro theme - "Let It In" by Josh Woodward.
Next time: POISON TREE.
Stay safe, friends.
(2h 30m. Content Warning: Profanity, alcohol consumption, sexually explicit and generally extremely filthy language from the hosts; discussions of death and ghosts, car accidents, witchcraft, girlhate, shaming of one teenage girl for basically existing, relationship zoning, shitty dudes, classism, hospitals, and weird questions about who gets to decide what happens to a body after your mind/soul is no longer home from the book.)
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Thursday Mar 31, 2022
Episode 1 - Amelia Atwater-Rhodes: Persistence of Memory
Thursday Mar 31, 2022
Thursday Mar 31, 2022
Friday Mar 18, 2022
Season Intro: Return to Den of Shadows
Friday Mar 18, 2022
Friday Mar 18, 2022
It's season ten, and what else could we return to but Amelia Atwater Rhodes' return to the world that they created almost ten years prior? Yes, it's time for the Return to Den of Shadows, and we're firing up the WayBack machine to answer our burning questions: why these stories? Why this order? And has it all really been building to this?
Intro theme - "Let It In" by Josh Woodward. No drinks this time, but fear not! Alcohol will return in Episode 1: Persistence of Memory!
Thanks for sticking with us, folks, and stay safe! Come check in with us on twitter @BacklistPodcast!