Show Notes:
My man, my man, my man… is trying to kill me.
Adrie and Stitch are joined by pop culture critic and video essayist Princess Weekes to dig into the enemies-to-lovers trope across anime, fanfic, and romance publishing. They trace their earliest ships (Sailor Moon, Cardcaptor Sakura, Dramione, SwanQueen), argue about what modern romance gets wrong when it "mismarkets" itself as enemies to lovers, and debate what actually makes the trope work — narrative overlap, ideological reconciliation, and real stakes, not just banter.
Topics: enemies to lovers, rivals to lovers, fandom shipping wars, fanfiction, omegaverse, dark romance, erotica vs. romance, historical romance, second chance romance, anti-hero tropes, Dramione, Avatar: The Last Airbender, Zutara, Kataang, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Spuffy, Fuffy, fandom discourse, cancel culture, thought crimes, ASOIAF
Reading Recommendations:
Fiction:
- Broken Flames by MK Ahearn
- The Irresistible Urge to Fall for Your Enemy by Brigitte Knightley
- XXX Buddy/Perfect Buddy by lash and daki
- Game On by Navessa Allen
- The Death Made Prince by Lisette Marshall
- The Nightborn Duet by Carissa Broadbent
- The Sweet Pea Mysteries series by Kathryn Moon
- The Poppy War by R.F. Kuang
Non-Fiction:
Previous Episodes:
- E69: Leave Room for My God Complex - Kink Panic and the New Puriteens
- E62: Ship War of Theseus
- E51: Fandom Etiquette
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adrie rose (@adrierising on bsky, twitter, instagram, & tiktok)
Stitch (@stitch on bsky, @stitchmediamix on instagram)
Guests: Princess Weekes is an Assistant Editor at the Geek Girl Pop Culture Site, The Mary Sue and the co-host/co-writer of the PBS Digital Series, It's Lit. She got her Master's Degree at Brooklyn College in Literary Theory where she wrote about colorism in fairy tales and became inspired to write, The Johnson Bay Witches. A born and raised Brooklynite, when she isn't busy writing, she's busy contemplating cult-classic television shows that ended decades ago. The Johnson Bay Witches is her first novel.
Music: HOLY MOLY by Shane Ivers
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