What in the Smut? Podcast
Ever accidentally stumble upon a novel where the main character falls in love with a sentient object? Heard about a romance book online that you want to know all about? Join Elle and Kay as they discuss novels that make us all ask "What in the smut?"
Episodes
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This week, join Elle and Kay as they discuss Bedding the Bedding by Annara Layne.
WITS Smut Scale: 🐙🐙
This week in the smutverse we discuss how Chat GPT is getting more use than many nonfiction books. Our book this week, definitely not nonfiction, leaves the sentient object in its object form. Elle thinks it's a love letter to single women, Kay still wishes it would turn into a person. The main character...
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This week, Kay and Elle discuss Cirrus About You by Latrexa Nova.
WITS Smut Scale: 🐙
This week we start off with, much to Kay's dismay, more not-so-good news from the smut verse. Specifically, how AI is continuing to be a thorn in the side for authors and readers alike, and is now being used as a method of getting authors cancelled. For our book this week, we loved the non-binary and demisexual repres...
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Join Elle and Kay this week as we discuss My Date with Bubble Tea by Sylvia Morrow
WITS Smut Scale: 🐙🐙
Elle finally has some good news from the Smutverse, and Kay is thrilled (she's been asking for some good news for weeks now)! The book this week had us asking what size Boba Tea cup would be appropriate- surely the size of a full grown man would be too big, but a regular cup is too small for that... ne...
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This week, Kay and Elle discuss Fully Charged by Nicole Parker and Unfortunate Reads
WITS Smut Scale:
Kay is desperate for some good news in the smut verse, and today comes with a bad review that seems to give us some good reading potential. As promised, the link to Strange Familiars can be found here. Kay has already downloaded it, and added it to her TBR. We discuss if Elle is still in the stone age usin...
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Join Elle and Kay this week as we discuss Knotted by the Beast by Siena Stone
WITS Smut Scale: 🐙🐙🐙🐙
Elle thinks that the bookish community needs to take a deep breath and maybe take a break to go outside for a timeout based on the smutverse news. We discuss how the Beast's first mistake in this book was letting Belle's father leave, when he really has no way of enforcing his punishment for stealing the...
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This week, join Elle and Kay as we discuss Romancing the Rat by G.M. Fairy.
WITS Smut Scale: 🐙🐙🐙🐙
We're back after a much needed week long break! Smutverse news has us upset that people can't just scroll on (whether on the internet or in real life) and leave authors alone with their bad opinions. In this week's book, we get into a bit of a back and forth about our smut scale, but decide that the fact ...
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This week, join Elle and Kay as we discuss Pounded In The Butt By My Handsome Sentient Library Card Who Seems Otherworldly But In Reality Is Just A Natural Part Of The Priceless Resources Our Library System Provides by Chuck Tingle. (Yes, thats the full title)
WITS Smut Scale: 🐙🐙
We start off this week with a reminder that we must hold on to both our rage and our whimsy in the wake of the current hellsca...
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Join Elle and Kay this week as we celebrate Earth Day this week with Earthed by Holly Wilde.
WITS Smut Scale: 🐙🐙
This week, the ladies swoon over everything Artemis II, which is the perfect lead in to an out of this world book. Kay learned a little about dark matter (maybe), and Holly Wilde has us questioning if the Earth is, in fact, phallic in shape. Take that flat-Earthers. Everyone in the Wilde world...
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Join Elle and Kay this week as they discuss My Date with Caps Lock by one of the Queen's of Sentient Object Romance, Thea Masen. Stick around to the end of the episode for an interview with the author herself!
WITS Smut Scale: 🐙🐙🐙🐙🐙
In a dark world these days, this book was an incredibly fun, light read! It also read like an ode to writers everywhere, with each chapter leading off with one of the rule...
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Join Elle and Kay this week as they discuss Taken by the Haunted HDMI Cable by Sinn Lee. This was mentioned by the one and only Stephen Colbert when discussing the use of AI- we're also sometimes surprised that human minds come up with things like this week's book.
WITS Smut Scale: 🐙/🐙🐙🐙🐙 (the HDMI cable never turns into a person, but theres some dub con elements)
This week, Elle primarily takes iss...
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This week, Elle and Kay bring you an Easter themed book, Mating with Mallows by Nora Noodle.
WITS Smut Scale:
Join the ladies as they discuss how this book had far too much childhood trauma for 20-something pages (and we think that however unintentionally, the trauma makes for a bit of an icky-sticky back story). We knew that the incorporation of sugar was already going to be a hard no for Elle, but we di...
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Elle and Kay had some spicy (personally we think hilarious) commentary this week on With Tongue by Adrian Blue.
WITS Smut Scale: 🐙
Elle may be getting over bronchitis, but that didn't stop us from having an incredibly candid conversation about this book. Both Elle and Kay think that there was a missed opportunity by keeping with the biology of an actual frog (fact checked in real time). Kay is a bit trig...
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This week was a doozy! In the spirit of St. Patrick's Day this week, Elle and Kay discuss Over a Barrel and Down a Peg by Vera Valentine.
WITS Smut Scale: 🐙🐙🐙🐙
Kay and Elle start off this week by reminiscing that Kay read this book last year and was certainly not far enough along in her own journey to be able to have the conversation that we can easily have today, one year later. We discuss how one o...
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Join Elle and Kay this week as we discuss Fill My Divot by Lavender Bleu.
WITS Smut Scale: 🐙🐙
This week, Elle and Kay were pleased to get a sentient object that does, in fact, turn into a real man (unlike last week's can). Kay wishes that she lived in a place where golf wasn't seasonal, because it sounds like being a cart girl is a lucrative business. Elle is shocked to hear that Kay doesn't ever remov...
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This week, join Elle and Kay while they discuss My Energy Drink Sparks My Kitty by Kaysie Reads.
WITS Smut Scale: 🐙
In this episode, we are firmly back on our sentient object BS. Kay poses the question of energy drink or coke- you have to choose one. We appreciate that the can did actually become people-sized rather than staying the size of a can, but we still are struggling with his "canhood." The FMC s...
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Join Elle and Kay as they discuss a brand new release A Gold Medal in Love by friend of the pod, Alex La Bruyere. Stick around for an interview with Alex where we get all the good details at the end of the episode!
WITS Smut Scale: 🐙🐙🐙
Elle has finally watched Heated Rivalry and now fully understands the hype. We discuss how the main theme of an eating disorder...
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This week, Kay and Elle discuss Surrender by Rilzy Adams.
WITS Smut Scale: 🐙🐙🐙
In this episode, Kay and Elle talk about the importance of diverse reading and perspectives, as well as exploring the different power dynamics at play with the characters of this steamy second chance erotic novella.
Overall, both Elle and Kay gave this 4 ⭐⭐⭐⭐ and loved the idea of escaping to St. Thomas
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This week, Kay and Elle discuss Valentines Slay by Navessa Allen.
WITS Smut Scale: 🐙
We've decided that rather than call these collections of books by the rightful name of collections, or Kay's favorite, a group project... Elle has decided they're more of a pot-luck. This book got the spiciest rating for the potluck, but the smut in our opinion was pretty sweet and straightforward. Kay graces us with som...
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We are joined yet again by the one and only Nik the Forge Bear to discuss Willing Prey by Allie Oleander.
WITS Smut Scale: 🐙🐙🐙🐙 (there's CNC in the triggers, but we discuss whether or not it was obvious on the page)
Buckle up everybody, because this is a long one (and honestly, could have been 2 hours longer... its what happens when you get 3 yappers and a smutty story in the same conversation). When K...
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We may be currently buried under mountains of snow, but we couldn't wait to talk about Fake It Til You Mate It by Sarah Spade.
WITS Smut Scale: 🐙
In lieu of smutverse news this week, Elle reminds us that though the world is dark right now, we must hold on to our whimsy, even though we are and should be angry. Take care of yourselves, and take care of each other. In this week's book, Elle is displeased ...
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