ACOFAE: A Collection of Fandoms and Exploration.

ACOFAE Podcast Presents: Mockingjay Part 2: "Pop, pop, POP!"

ACOFAE is closing it's circles and finishing the last movie in the OG Hunger Games franchise, Mockingjay Pt 2. The epic(?) conclusion finds Katniss in and out and in and out of the medical bay, Gale talking about bombs, and Peeta struggling with what is and isn't real in the worst places possible. Filled with Gale saying dumb things, characters dying, and Katniss realizi...

ACOFAE Podcast Presents: SPECIAL EPISODE 29 : Our new friend, Geneve Lee!

ACOFAE welcomes to the podcast New York Times Bestselling author, Geneva Lee, to discuss her UPCOMING release Harbinger. Discovering that Laura Marie, Jessica Marie, and Geneva Lee can talk about just about anything fandom related, this spoiler free episode covers Geneva's writing process, writing hole, organization, and inspiration. It also covers William R...

ACOFAE Podcast Presents: "Sugar Candy Mountain, Charlie."

2026 is the year that ACOFAE is covering the classics apparently, because they mentioned Animal Farm in the beginning of the year and here we all are now covering this Orwell classic. Published in 1945, and with the subtitle "a fairy story" in the UK, Animal Farm is a short book that covers the Russian Revolution of 1917 using a farm as the setting and animals as the charac...

ACOFAE Podcast Presents: Daughters of the Moon #6- The Lost One: "Everyone's lost."

ACOFAE is back in the 2000's with Daughters of the Moon #6! Six! Can you believe it?! This book starts off with a cold open on top of a cold open, and then we the reader get an outside perspective on our favorite LA goddesses. Turns out after losing their friend Catty, they got weird? Maybe they're witches? But they totally most definitely killed h...

ACOFAE Podcast Presents: Blood Over Bright Haven: "All. Mages."

Have you seen Rogue One? Excellent. That's the tone of Blood Over Bright Haven, a standalone that has kept ACOFAE thinking and feeling all the emotions. Ugh, so many emotions. Frustration, disbelief, and sheer audacity are some of the ones that come to mind. Sciona Freynan is determined to the the first female high mage in history and she's been single minded about th...

ACOFAE Podcast Presents: Blood like Fate: "Not all men, ALWAYS a man."

ACOFAE is back with the sequel to an earlier 2026 read, making it twice so far this year Laura Marie and Jessica Marie just needed to know what happened! Blood like Fate, the sequel to Blood like Magic, picks up 6 months after the first book ended. Voya is the matriarch and is hitting roadblocks from all angles. Her family does support her, the "community" does...

ACOFAE Podcast Presents: Shadowhunters: The TV Show: Christmas in July.

Long time listeners will know that ACOFAE had to cover the show at some point. Yep, Laura Marie and Jessica Marie are revisiting the FreeForm pilot episode of ShadowHunters: The Mortal Instruments. It's a lot of things, and accurate is not one of them, but it is entertaining and ACOFAE will take what they can get at this point. Jessica Marie has actually seen...

ACOFAE Podcast Presents: SPECIAL EPISODE 28: Our new friend, Lindsey Olsson!

ACOFAE welcomes DEBUT author Lindsey Olsson to the podcast to discuss (SPOILER FREE) all things To Drown A Witch! Laura Marie and Jessica Marie are delighted to report that while writing and organizing To Drown A Witch Lindsey used a "murder board'! Longtime listeners will know how exciting this is. Join ACOFAE and Lindsey as they dive into the entire pro...

ACOFAE Podcast Presents: This Wicked Fate: "Mer-Hoes."

In a rare instance of, oh my gosh we need to immediately read book 2, Laura Marie and Jessica Marie are doing just that and continuing on with poison plants in This Wicked Fate! Briseis is having a little family reunion, her auntie Circe has come back from the dead? and has a plan to reunite the Heart. Mo is depressed and catching strays, and the entire family is struggling wi...

ACOFAE Podcast Presents: Curse of the Golden Flower: “What I do not give, you must never take by force.”

If you have never heard of this movie, please go watch it now. If it's been a while since you've seen this movie, go rewatch it. If this genre is new to you, welcome you are in for a treat. Laura Marie shamelessly campaigned for this movie to make the pod and here we all are, ready to be immersed in a colorful and p...

ACOFAE Podcast Presents: This Posion Heart: "Unconditional love."

A girl from Brooklyn has a secret. A family from Rhinebeck, New York might have some answers. Briseis is 16 and plants love her. Really love her. So much so that it's distracting from school, friends, and internships. She just needs some room to stretch, so when a lawyer tells her she's inherited an estate in upper New York with 40 acres, Briseis and her moms go to ...

ACOFAE Podcast Presents: Atmosphere: Jessica's Choice!

It's Jessica Marie's half birthday and here on ACOFAE that means that she gets to choose a piece of media to cover that maybe ACOFAE wouldn't normally cover. Her choice this year is "Atmosphere: A Love Story" by Taylor Jenkins Reid. A story about space, about women, about relationships, and about what happens when you finally accept all the parts of yourself that you've discov...

ACOFAE Podcast Presents: SPECIAL EPISODE 27: Our new friend, Meghan Le Fay!

Always and forever ready and willing to discuss dragons, ACOFAE welcomes to the podcast a very special guest and our new friend, Meghan Le Fay, to discuss her new release Wings of Life! This is a SPOILER FREE EPISODE so dive into the world of dragons, hygiene, language, and red hair as ACOFAE and Megan discuss everything from initial inspiration to craftin...

ACOFAE Podcast Presents: A Forbidden Fate: "Loopholes! Scuba gear? Garden gloves?!"

How do you get around a curse that can't be broken, has horrible consequences for the entire world, and is like, super inconvenient day to day? You look for loopholes if you are ACOFAE Laura and Jessica, or you travel though the woods with a band of merry people and old crush to your current fiancé's kingdom. The woods being full of horrifying crea...

ACOFAE Podcast presents: Heated Rivalry: "All romance feels like fantasy at this point."

Shane Hollander. Ilya Rosenov. You know the names. You’ve probably seen the show, and the books are more than likely on your radar. It’s Pride so let’s let the boys have some fun as ACOFAE discusses book 2 in the Game Changer series by Rachel Reid, Heated Rivalry. A first for Laura Marie, (a sports romance!) Takes readers on ...

ACOFAE Podcast Presents: Dracula: "Dracula is so girly pop!"

How does ACOFAE get Jessica Marie to watch a horror film? Tell her that is has Gary Oldman and Keanu Reeves in it will do the trick! ACOFAE is covering Dracula a couple different ways: Francis Ford Coppola's 1992 classic film AND the 1897 novel itself. Did you know Dracula begins in May? Jonathan Harker is on his way to Transylvania and his life is about to change in une...

ACOFAE Podcast Presents: Stormbreaker:"'The Wastes' are just Brooklyn."

You know how Jessica Marie loves a New York setting and how Laura Marie loves purple? Put those things together and add in some storms and some trauma and you've got Storm Breaker, and you've got ACOFAE'S attention. Poet Graves is 19, engaged, and ready to rebel at college, even if she doesn't know it yet. Poet has a secret and keeping it under wraps from new ...

ACOFAE Podcast Presents: Women and Media Vol. 1.

Since February 2026 in particular, Jessica Marie has been fired up to talk about the treatment of women in media and ACOFAE has not had the right moment for this discussion. The time is now. Laura Marie and Jessica Marie are discussing the relationship between women and media using the 2026 movie adaptation "Wuthering Heights" as a framework. The art of film is discussed as well as...

ACOFAE Podcast Presents: The Mummy Returns: "They’re all so hot. It’s problematic.”

The Mummy Returns, better known as The Mummy 2 or The cast that launched a thousands of kids onto the path of bisexuality. ACOFAE promised they would cover this movie and here they are lamenting at how how these actors are, how smart the kid is, and how fun history and the movies is and can be. The Mummy Returns is a movie that ev...