What in the Smut? Podcast

Welcome back WITS listeners! This week, Elle and Kay found their inner artists with Filthy Strokes by Laura Victoria. WITS Smut Scale: 🐙🐙 Elle stumbled upon some messy booksta-drama somewhere in the rabbit hole of Threads, and we discuss the difference between airing dirty laundry for your followers, and followers understanding when creatives deserve their privacy (spoiler: authors deserve to ha...

Welcome back WITS listeners! This week, join Elle and Kay as they discuss Gage by Imogen Knowed. WITS Smut Scale: 🐙🐙 We start off firmly in the camp that its ok to look up words while you're reading, in fact, we encourage it. We do not encourage authors to write at a lower reading level for those who do not wish to do so. In this week's book, we're faced with the question- curse or gift? Whichev...

Welcome back WITS listeners! This week, Elle and Kay were lucky enough to get an ARC of That One Time with the Lemon Drop by Alex LaBruyere. WITS Smut Scale: 🐙🐙🐙🐙 (non-con elements) A lot has changed in Elle's life in the past few weeks, she's a married lady now, she chopped off all of her hair, and she moved. She's not too busy to get mad about another article shit-talking romance books thoug...

Welcome back WITS listeners! 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...

Welcome back WITS listeners! 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 th...

Welcome back WITS listeners! 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 re...

Welcome back WITS listeners! 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...

Welcome back WITS listeners! 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 enf...

Welcome back WITS listeners! 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...

Welcome back WITS listeners! 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 whi...

Welcome back WITS listeners! 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...

Welcome back WITS listeners! 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 ch...

Welcome back WITS listeners!! 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...

Welcome back WITS listeners! 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 goin...

Welcome back WITS listeners! 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 che...

Welcome back WITS listeners! 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,...

Welcome back WITS listeners!! 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 shocke...

Welcome back WITS listeners! 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 str...

Welcome back WITS Listeners!! Can you believe this is EPISODE FIFTY?!?! 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 ho...

Welcome back WITS listeners! 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 esc...

Welcome back WITS listeners! 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 st...

Welcome back WITS listeners! 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 s...

Welcome back WITS Listeners! 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 th...

Welcome back WITS listeners! Join us this week as we discuss Phil and the File Cabinet by Katy Ipock. WITS Smut Scale: Could be 🐙, but truly could also be 🐙🐙🐙🐙🐙 because there are still so many questions. We start this week's episode with another discussion on AI, and Elle brings our attention to the facts behind the AI water usage with the video linked here . For the first time in close to a...

Welcome back WITS listeners! This week, join Elle and Kay as they discuss Ducked by Rebecca Massey and Adelyne Graves. WITS Smut Scale: 🐙🐙🐙🐙 We start off this week's episode with a love letter to Heated Rivalry, which Kay has since watched and loved. Kay shares her thoughts on gentle parenting vs very underpaid retail workers. Both Elle and Kay fully hated the FMC's ex-husband, which we suppos...