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28 ┊ she/her ┊ black ┊ pink, podcasts, & pop culture ♡ journalist-type chick ┊ writing found on cakeradio.tumblr.com ┊podtalking@gmail.com for inquiries and review commissions
i feel like something broken inside me healed when i looked at this @jellybox.bsky.social
April 22, 2025 at 8:24 PM
my upcoming review in early may will be for the audio drama collective live show series, "the never rad miscellany".

still got some work to do when it comes to the review itself but i'm kinda proud of this graphic i cooked up. it's cute, isn't it?
April 18, 2025 at 9:33 PM
these covers are driving me insane
February 2, 2025 at 2:41 AM
new review this sunday
January 15, 2025 at 11:27 PM
♡ introduce yourself with four books
December 3, 2024 at 1:19 AM
finally another book to satiate my appetite for insane women in theater after i absolutely fell in love with mona awad's "all's well". i already know im going to like this one
November 28, 2024 at 2:28 AM
♡ stop me if you've heard this one by kristen arnett | march 18, 2025

a professional clown trying to balance her chaotic family and work life gets into a lesbian relationship with an attractive older magician who seems to have all the life and career advice she's looking for
November 28, 2024 at 12:48 AM
♡ she’s a lamb! by meredith hambrock | april 8, 2025

a woman who feels she's destined for stardom and that a big debut as maria in her local theater's "the sound of music" could be her big break is thoroughly convinced not getting the role is all a calculated plot conducted by her director
November 28, 2024 at 12:48 AM
♡ katabasis by r.f. kuang | august 28, 2025

from the same author of "yellowface" comes a fantastical dark academia novel about two academic rivals who must set aside their differences if it means saving the soul of their advisor that is currently trapped in hell
November 26, 2024 at 12:48 AM
♡ friends of the museum by heather mcgowan | april 15, 2025

occurring over the course of a single day, a museum director who has been working tirelessly to ensure the new york city museum's annual gala goes off without a hitch is burdened by the biggest inconvenience of all: a murder
November 26, 2024 at 12:48 AM
♡ the hounding by xenobe purvis | august 5, 2025

in yet another connotation with femineity and canines as seen in books like "nightbitch" and "organ meats" is "the hounding", a harrowing story about five sisters in 18th century england shrouded by a rumor that they can turn into dogs
November 26, 2024 at 12:48 AM
♡ eat the ones you love by sarah maria griffin | april 22, 2025

a young woman in need of a fresh start applies to work at a flower shop and is quickly smitten by its beautiful owner, only to realize that the shop harbors a massive and monstrous plant with an insatiable appetitive for human flesh
November 26, 2024 at 12:48 AM
♡ voice like a hyacinth by mallory pearson | february 1, 2025

from the author of "we ate the dark" is a sapphic story of witchcraft and the harrowing process of creativity where a group of close friends turn to the occult to unlock their true potential as artists...at a price
November 26, 2024 at 12:48 AM
♡ immaculate conception by ling ling huang | may 13, 2025

from the same author of "natural beauty" comes another high concept sci-fi horror, this time dealing with a dysfunctional pair of art school friends who explore a piece of technology that allows the user to absorb someone else's trauma
November 26, 2024 at 12:48 AM
♡ blob: a love story by maggie su | january 28, 2025

a young woman who has always felt ostracized by her peers finds and befriends a mysterious blob creature in the alleyway of a drag show and decides to shape it into her ideal boyfriend (think "flubber" meets "how to build a better boy")
November 26, 2024 at 12:48 AM
oh okay so no one was gonna tell me a new one dropped?
November 25, 2024 at 10:32 PM
♡ mood swings by frankie barnet | may 21, 2024

taking place in a society where humanity's relationship with animals has dramatically changed, a young instagram poet is given access to a time machine via a california billionaire. with it, she might get the chance to fix their fractured present
November 25, 2024 at 9:26 PM
♡ fruit of the dead by rachel lyon | march 5, 2024

a modern retelling of the myth of persephone and demeter where in the eighteen-year-old cory growing distant from her mother finds solace with a wealthy older man who offers her a life of luxury
November 25, 2024 at 9:26 PM
♡ in tongues by thomas grattan | may 21, 2024

a young gay man moves to from his hometown of minnesota to new york city where he gets a job as a dog walker. soon enough he gets wrapped up in the personal life of two wealthy elites who welcome him into their riveting and glamorous inner circle
November 25, 2024 at 7:38 PM
♡ a good happy girl by marissa higgins | april 2, 2024

a deeply traumatized young woman named helen distracts herself from her inner problems by hooking up with lesbian couples. she soon enough runs into the intense and intimate catherine and katrina who might be just what she's looking for
November 25, 2024 at 5:10 AM
♡ piglet by lottie hazel | january 25, 2024

a cookbook editor dubbed the name piglet by her friends is ready to embark on what should be the shiny new chapter of her life now that she's due to get married, but a dark secret revealed by her fiancé racks her with an insatiable appetite
November 25, 2024 at 5:10 AM
♡ a scarab where the heart should be by marieke bigg
| september 12, 2024

from the same author behind "waiting for ted" comes a story about a woman who simply craves sense, order, and organization in everything she pursues, all the while oblivious to how deeply depraved she truly is
November 25, 2024 at 5:10 AM
♡ worry by alexandra tanner | march 26, 2024

in 2019, two deeply dysfunctional sisters become roommates and inevitably get swept into the unpredictability of the world around them as well as the difficulties of their complicated childhoods that made the adults they are today
November 25, 2024 at 5:10 AM
♡ i'm f*cking amazing by anoushaka warden | march 21, 2024

a woman is hit with the realization that sex is no longer pleasurable for her despite being with her best boyfriend yet. in a quest to figure out what might be wrong with her body, our protagonist must deduce if something else is broken
November 25, 2024 at 5:10 AM
♡ kittentits by holly wilson | may 21, 2024

one of the weirder coming-of-age novels out there, molly wilson's "kittentits" details the life of the rambunctious ten-year-old molly who befriends a twenty-three-year-old, dirt bike riding ex-con who seems to be someone finally on molly's level
November 25, 2024 at 5:10 AM