First Cup of Coffee - The Comet in Romantasy Genre 10/14/25

Romatasy is booming and reader expectations are changing. Responding to a DM review of Never the Roses, offering book recs for fantasy with romantic elements, and reflecting on Meta platforms. And also Wood is a banger - pun intended.

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Transcript

If Sarah J Maas is Romantasy, then everything labeled Romatasy is going to read like Sarah J.

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Maas

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The threads algorithm is probably being very deliberately manipulated and disrupted.

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The song that's stuck in my head all of the time now, right now, is Wood.

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This is Jeffe Kennedy

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Also writing is Jennifer K Lambert, author of Epic Fantasy Romance.

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Good morning everyone.

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I'm here with my first cup of coffee.

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I had to think about it.

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It's Tuesday, October 14th and it's a a dark and stormy morning.

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Why is it always a dark and stormy night and never a dark and stormy morning?

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This is supposed to be the premise of our country.

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I think what's really important to remember is that they are deliberately targeting people with massive platforms like Taylor Swift, who is a avowedly liberal.

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So right now they've got 2 prongs going where they're trying to convince people the the left that she's a Nazi and the right that she is a trad wife.

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What I want to emphasize is, is I think that we are more powerful than that if we remember our humanness.

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Don't give this stuff oxygen.

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I mean, we need to stop quoting, reposting, sharing, even responding to it.

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And I'm, I'm, I'm here, I'm responding to it, but I'm gonna stop especially sharing anything stupid.

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Like, you know, like you don't have to go to very subtle signals to try to guess that someone's a Nazi when we have actual little people out there doing the sig heil at a public at a government function.

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We have people with the little swastika tattooed on their bodies in the government.

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We have people trying to put out narratives that maybe slavery isn't so bad and could be good for the economy.

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We don't have to look for subtle hints.

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The Nazis are out there.

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Let's target the real Nazis, right?

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Yeah.

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Don't respond to stuff that you know, is absurd.

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Respond to a joy.

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And so let's all talk about, Yeah, how much we enjoy Taylor Swift's new album.

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I'm loving seeing all the TikTok dances for Fate of Ophelia.

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The song that's stuck in my head all of the time now.

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Right now is Wood.

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Thank you.

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Says a lot about me.

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I also love Honey and I love life of the showgirl.

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And you know what it's it's a massive platform because Swifties are the best people in the entire world.

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And I'm going to remind everyone, and I will remind you again on Friday, if you are in the US, that Saturday is the No Kings protest.

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It's going to be a massive protest.

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Everybody get out in your hometowns.

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Be smart about it.

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There's lots of information on how to protest safely and take care of yourself.

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If you're a marginalized person, don't feel the obligation.

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Don't put yourself at risk.

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But if you are like me, full of tasty white privilege, then yeah, let's let's get out there because this is this is absurd.

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And we knew it was going to be bad.

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I frankly thought it was going to be worse by now than this.

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But it's it's bad enough.

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So let's let's fix this.

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OK, Let's get out there.

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On that note, I'm going to get to work.

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I hope you all find a way to spread some joy today.

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You all take care.

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Bye.

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Bye.

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I need to get my thoughts together.

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I don't know why I'm feeling scared this morning.

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I was going to breathe.

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A lot of us are space debris.

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Frankly, especially at this point, my backlist is space debris.

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Not really.

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Upon consideration, I'm thinking that I might be thinking of like a a Star Trek episode of some sort where they like, are Guardians of the Galaxy.

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I'm, I'm really going off on attention.

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I'm sorry.

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My brain's all over the place this morning.