Trash & Treasures

Special thanks to Jester for commissioning this episode! You can find out more about commissions on our Patreon. Hmm, a 2000s-era supernatural love triangle YA novel by a Utah-raised author with a lot of extremely unfortunate implications baked into the lore....this all sounds familiar, but we can't put our finger on it. Maybe it's just Pike specifically name-dropping Stephanie Meyer all over the place. If only this protagonist had as much going on internally as Bella Swan. CONTENT WARNING: Discussion of disordered eating and fatphobia, ableism, racism, anti-vax rhetoric/alternate medicine, eugenics, body horror, sexual harassment, and misogyny Alex's YA Recs: https://theafictionado.wordpress.com/tag/book-recs/ 0:30 Commission! 2:00 Content Warnings 5:00 Drink Recipe 8:00 Stealth Mormonism 11:00 Our Stunning Perfect Heroine 18:00 Mmm, Gender Politics 23:00 Missing Body Horror 27:00 The Bad Boy One 32:00 Fairy Biology and Cosmology 41:00 Holy Eugenics Batman 47:00 A Climax Allegedly Ensues 56:00 The Shad