Filthy Fiction with Feelings Podcast

Last week we talked about Khalil Sinclair. The man who rebuilt Jade’s container after Devon shattered it, the third character in this whole thing, the one whose entire job in the story is to make himself unnecessary and make you love him for it. And I told you that the stillness Khalil walks into a room with isn’t decorative, it’s the container itself. That his dominance is a craft, a discipline h...

The Khalil Character Study: “The Tuning, Not the Music” Over the last two weeks, I walked you through Jade’s kink profile and Theo’s kink profile — who they are as a submissive and a Dominant, why every preference on their lists is wired to a wound, and how those wounds built the specific architecture of what they each want. And if you sat through both of those, you noticed there was a third perso...

AD SPOT: MIDNIGHT IN AUSTIN Hey, subbies… If you read Little Boxes, you already know all about Jade and Theo and their NYE ritual. One trip a year. Four days that belong to nobody but them. Four days where she doesn’t have to manage her face. This year he brings his wife. Midnight in Austin is the second book in my Before We Fell series , and it’s the slowest burn I’ve got. No cheating, no easy wa...

The submission isn't the starting point. The wound is. This week on Filthy Fiction With Feelings, we're running the wound-to-kink pipeline through a specific character — Jade Thompson, the submissive at the heart of A Soft Place to Land . Last week we talked theory. This week we show you what the theory produces. This is a character study, not a scene breakdown. No spoilers. We're going deep on wh...

So last time we were here, I was talking about the difference between a kinky story and a story with kink in it throw pillows versus load-bearing walls. And one of the things I kept coming back to in that episode was the idea that in a kinky story, the kink isn’t just what the characters do in bed. It’s how they see themselves. It’s how they see each other. It’s the lens through which the whole re...

I'm back from a month-long breaky-break, and I'm coming in with a declaration: from here on out, every romance I write is a kinky romance. Not a romance with kink in it. To kick off Season 2 of the podcast, I'm getting into the craft distinction that makes the difference — what I've been calling throw pillows versus load-bearing walls. I'm using S2EP01 "Cartography" and S2EP02 "Clean Slate" as my...

How does a single word become the most loaded thing in your entire manuscript? Not because you wrote it beautifully — but because you’ve been investing in it for years without knowing that’s what you were doing. In this episode, Tasha breaks down one of her favorite structural craft moves: relationship vocabulary as architecture. Using the word “bestie” in A Soft Place to Land as the primary examp...

This episode breaks down why the instinct to tend to what you’ve done is the first real evidence of care-based Dominance… … and what Episode 12 of A Soft Place to Land reveals about writing characters who arrive at power exchange through wiring rather than education. In this episode, we talk about: * What aftercare actually is — neurologically, not just as a kink community practice — and why most...

Jade Thompson had a plan. She knew the conversation had to happen. She was working up to it. She had a whole framework for how she was going to tell Theo about Khalil, about the lifestyle, about the seven years of a parallel life she’d been running alongside their friendship. She was ready. And then she forgot to close a file. That’s the moment Season 1’s finale arc pivots on — not a dramatic conf...

A Soft Place to Land | Season 1, Winter Act | Companion to Episode 10, "Ask for What I Want: Jade" In this episode, I'm breaking down the most structurally complex scene in the Winter Act — the phone call between Jade and Khalil the morning after the kiss. Why I chose a third-party confession over internal monologue. Why the person on the other end of that phone call matters more than most writers...

Craft & Commentary Podcast — A Soft Place to Land, Episode 9: "On the Other Side of the Wall" This week we're pulling apart the most psychologically revealing chapter in the Winter Act — and yes, it's the one where Theo Matthews is alone in the guest room with his hand on his dick. We talk about why romance has a male masturbation scene problem, how a solo fantasy can function as a character X-ray...

Filthy Fiction With Feelings, Episode 7: The Party, The Countdown, and The Kiss That Couldn't Wait This week I'm breaking down Episode 7 of A Soft Place to Land — "Start As You Mean to Go On" — the episode where Jade and Theo finally run out of places to hide. After six episodes of slow-burn tension, it takes an entire New Year's Eve party full of people who can see what they refuse to admit, plus...

Jade has been splitting herself into manageable pieces for seven years. Kink with Khalil. Vanilla romance that never satisfies. Theo in the friend box where he’s safe. This episode, we finally open one of those boxes—and meet the man who’s been holding it. Content Warning This episode discusses past intimate partner abuse, consent violations, harmful early kink experiences, and features on-page D/...

Ten years of brutal honesty. Twenty questions they know by heart. And one new question that changes everything. Jade asks Theo how he plans to seek pleasure this year. When they answer, they discover they’ve been describing each other all along. What I’m Talking About * The anatomy of a bomb question — what makes certain dialogue crack a story open * Setup as fuse-laying — why this question works...

No kiss. No confession. No sex. Just Jade waking up with Theo's full body weight on her, his hand under her shirt, his morning wood against her hip—and then they smoke weed, make breakfast, and go grocery shopping. That's it. That's the chapter. And it changed everything. What I'm Talking About Liminal intimacy — that charged middle space where they're not quite friends anymore but definitely not...

Filthy Fiction With Feelings — Episode 3 In this episode of Filthy Fiction With Feelings , I break down Chapter 3 of A Soft Place to Land , my serialized kinky romance about two best friends standing on the edge of something neither of them has language for yet. If you’re just finding this series, start with Episode 1 . New episodes drop Fridays at 3pm EST . Chapter 3 functions as Pinch Point 1 in...

Featured Story: A Soft Place to Land - Episodes 1 & 2 In This Episode Tasha opens up about two of her biggest writing challenges: hating the drafting process and never starting stories in the right place. But with A Soft Place to Land , she's asking different questions—not whether the beginning is "right," but whether it's doing the specific work that dual POV friends-to-lovers romance requires. W...

Cozy Kink: Where Shadow Work Meets Dominance In the inaugural episode of Filthy Fiction With Feelings , I’m laying the foundation for what this podcast (and my year-long serial romance experiment) is really about: erotic storytelling with emotional integrity. I introduce the concept of cozy kink —BDSM that centers safety, consent, communication, care, and character growth—and explain why my work i...

Welcome to Filthy Fiction With Feelings Episode 00: Welcome to Filthy Fiction With Feelings - Season One Introduction Episode Overview This is the introduction to Filthy Fiction With Feelings, a year-long narrative experiment exploring erotic storytelling, emotional truth, and the craft that holds it all together. I'm Tasha L. Harrison—romance author, developmental editor, and your guide through t...