139. Sword Catcher: "She's scheming, he's scheming."

ACOFAE Podcast Presents: Female Friendships: "Its been a long time coming but..." There are a few consistencies on ACOFAE and one of them from the very beginning has been the love of female friendships. All friendship is important and has its place, but there's something special about female friendships that make an impact different than all others. Join ACOFAE as they reflect on their own friendships, their favorite book friendships, and their favorite friendships in media at large. Touching on the fragility of girlhood and the intimacy of the bedroom hangout, ACOFAE focuses on those little subjects that can be often overlooked in media. What does it mean to be a best friend? Are you the BFF/BSF to your BFF/BSF or does your BFF/BSF consider someone else theirs? Is that ok?! Do we have to know ever detail about our friends? If we don't, are we bad friends? Are we!? Light. It. Up. TW / CW: none to our awareness For additional TW/CW information for your future reads, head to this site for more: https://triggerwarningdatabase.com/ Spoilers: Throne of Glass, Crescent City (House of Earth and Blood / HOEAB, House of Sky and Breath / HOSAB , House of Flame and Shadow / HOFAS ), Sex and the City, A Court of Silver Flames (ACOSF), Sex Education, Jennifer's Body, Pretty Little Liars, Shadowhunters Mentions: Jem and the Holograms. Phantom of the Opera, Now and Then, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Clueless, Harley Quinn and Poison Ivy, Romy and Michelle, Parks and Recreation, Grey's Anatomy, The Craft, My So-Called Life, The Hunger Games Links mentions: https://womensbrainhealth.org/think-tank/think-twice/ucla-study-on-friendship-among-women https://www.college.ucla.edu/2022/08/10/susan-perry-female-capuchin-monkeys-social-study *Thank you for listening to us! Please subscribe and leave a 5 star review and follow us on Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/acofaepodcast/) at @ACOFAEpodcast and on our TikToks! TikTok: ACOFAELaura : Laura Marie (https://www.tiktok.com/@acofaelaura?) ( https://www.tiktok.com/@acofaelaura) ACOFAEJessica : Jessica Marie (https://www.tiktok.com/@acofaejessica?) (https://www.tiktok.com/@acofaejessica) Instagram: @ACOFAEpodcast (https://www.instagram.com/acofaepodcast/) https://www.instagram.com/acofaepodcast/ @ACOFAELaura (https://www.instagram.com/acofaelaura/) https://www.instagram.com/acofaelaura/

ACOFAE Podcast Presents: MST 3000: "It's not so serious all the time." Let's set the scene: You're two weeks into a book-hangover. You're DNF-ing everything and AO3 isn't getting you where you need to be. What is a reader to do?! Where do you go?! Sometimes taking a step back and changing up the format can do wonders. Enter MST 3000. Enter Spaceballs. Exit the funk that has kept the slump alive. Parody and Satire can keep you in the genre you want to be, the headspace you want to be, but allow you to laugh at yourself, at the content, and at the world in general. Join Laura Marie and Jessica Marie as they reset and have a good laugh. Everything doesn't have to be the be all end all ALL the time. Sometimes you just need to laugh until you cry and then cry until you laugh again. "Star Wars, this isn't Star Warrrrrrrrrs" TW / CW: none to our awareness For additional TW/CW information for your future reads, head to this site for more: https://triggerwarningdatabase.com/ Spoilers: Spaceballs Mentions: Draco Malfoy and the Mortifying Ordeal of Being in Love, Star Wars, House of Flame and Shadow (HOFAS0, Third Eye, Austin Powers, Star Trek, Jaws, Dune, Looney Tunes, The Lion King, Manacled, The Love Hypothesis, Starship Troopers, Twilight, 50 Shades of Grey, Mystery Science Theater *Thank you for listening to us! Please subscribe and leave a 5 star review and follow us on Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/acofaepodcast/) at @ACOFAEpodcast and on our TikToks! TikTok: ACOFAELaura : Laura Marie (https://www.tiktok.com/@acofaelaura?) ( https://www.tiktok.com/@acofaelaura) ACOFAEJessica : Jessica Marie (https://www.tiktok.com/@acofaejessica?) (https://www.tiktok.com/@acofaejessica) Instagram: @ACOFAEpodcast (https://www.instagram.com/acofaepodcast/) https://www.instagram.com/acofaepodcast/ @ACOFAELaura (https://www.instagram.com/acofaelaura/) https://www.instagram.com/acofaelaura/

ACOFAE Podcast Presents: Bookhangovers: "Write the good write." ACOFAE is in a book slump. You know that feeling when nothing it hitting, you're DNF-ing everything after a few chapters, and the ick is insurmountable? Where does one go when that feeling threatens to overtake you? Fanfiction. Fanfiction will pick you up when all you've been doing is putting things down, and ACOFAE needs a little pick-me-up. What's a deeper comfort than ACOMAF and getting a little insight through Rhy's POV by IllyrianTremors. Laura Marie and Jessica Marie discuss the joys of comfy fics, the conversations about book-hangover, and what happens when all you want is to stay in a time and a place. When the story moves on are you still at the restaurant or do you follow chasing the high? Get comfy with ACOFAE and let them know your fanfic thoughts! TW / CW: none to our awareness For additional TW/CW information for your future reads, head to this site for more: https://triggerwarningdatabase.com/ Spoilers: For the entire SJM Universe Mentions: SJM Universe *Thank you for listening to us! Please subscribe and leave a 5 star review and follow us on Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/acofaepodcast/) at @ACOFAEpodcast and on our TikToks! TikTok: ACOFAELaura : Laura Marie (https://www.tiktok.com/@acofaelaura?) ( https://www.tiktok.com/@acofaelaura) ACOFAEJessica : Jessica Marie (https://www.tiktok.com/@acofaejessica?) (https://www.tiktok.com/@acofaejessica) Instagram: @ACOFAEpodcast (https://www.instagram.com/acofaepodcast/) https://www.instagram.com/acofaepodcast/ @ACOFAELaura (https://www.instagram.com/acofaelaura/) https://www.instagram.com/acofaelaura/

ACOFAE Podcast Presents: House of Flame and Shadow (HOFAS) Initial Reactions: "MEANWHILE..." Hype. There was a lot of it surrounding HOFAS. Feelings. There were many different kinds when that last bonus chapter was read (or was there?!). Conversations. That's what ACOFAE is having in HOFAS Initial Reactions. Surprises that's what's in store when Laura Marie and Jessica Marie dig into CC3: HOFAS and what they loved, what they didn't, and what they felt neutral about. Bryce has gone to a place that the readers know but she doesn't and wow does she make some choices there. Hunt and the boys are all tied up, and Tharion and the other boys are getting into all sorts of trouble. World shattering lore drops abound as history is pieced together and origins are discovered in this world and others. CC3: HOFAS takes the reader on an adventure that closes the story of Bryce and Hunt and opens the possibilities of so many more. Release the Snyder cut. TW / CW: none to our awareness For additional TW/CW information for your future reads, head to this site for more: https://triggerwarningdatabase.com/ Spoilers: For the entire SJM Universe Mentions: SJM Universe, Star Wars, Doctor Who, The Cruel Prince, The Wicked King, Queen of Nothing *Thank you for listening to us! Please subscribe and leave a 5 star review and follow us on Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/acofaepodcast/) at @ACOFAEpodcast and on our TikToks! TikTok: ACOFAELaura : Laura Marie (https://www.tiktok.com/@acofaelaura?) ( https://www.tiktok.com/@acofaelaura) ACOFAEJessica : Jessica Marie (https://www.tiktok.com/@acofaejessica?) (https://www.tiktok.com/@acofaejessica) Instagram: @ACOFAEpodcast (https://www.instagram.com/acofaepodcast/) https://www.instagram.com/acofaepodcast/ @ACOFAELaura (https://www.instagram.com/acofaelaura/) https://www.instagram.com/acofaelaura/

ACOFAE Podcast Presents: Third Eye: An Ode to Fandom Culture. ..And now for something completely different.. ACOFAE loves a lot of things: consistency, audio formats, and original stories just to name a few. Add in a stellar cast and excellent production value and you have Third Eye - a story about what happens when the chosen one fails. That's right, fails. Laurel was supposed to save the world but she botched it, and now 15 years later is trying to live a normal life as public enemy number 1. But when the tropes start troping and a new savior shows up, it's up to Laurel and her friends to solve the mystery. How can there be two chosen ones? Maybe destiny was wrong? It's not Laurel's fault? Join ACOFAE as they gush about the story, the cast, and how you should always always always meet your idols. Spoilers: Third Eye Mentions: Supernatural, Dr. Horrible, Buffy, House, Eureka, The Magicians, The Vampire Diaries, American Gods, The Guild, Legendborn, ACOTAR Author's TW/CW for the books are listed here and on the sites below: For additional TW/CW information for your future reads, head to this site for more: https://triggerwarningdatabase.com/ *Thank you for listening to us! Please subscribe and leave a 5 star review and follow us on Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/acofaepodcast/) at @ACOFAEpodcast and on our TikToks! TikTok: ACOFAELaura : Laura Marie (https://www.tiktok.com/@acofaelaura?) ( https://www.tiktok.com/@acofaelaura) ACOFAEJessica : Jessica Marie (https://www.tiktok.com/@acofaejessica?) (https://www.tiktok.com/@acofaejessica) Instagram: @ACOFAEpodcast (https://www.instagram.com/acofaepodcast/) https://www.instagram.com/acofaepodcast/ @ACOFAELaura (https://www.instagram.com/acofaelaura/) https://www.instagram.com/acofaelaura/

ACOFAE Podcast Presents: Midnight Ruin: "We're Endgame baby." ACOFAE is back with the latest Dark Olympus installment and let's just say Laura Marie and Jessica Marie are in this one for the plot. Eurydice wants. She wants to be useful, independent, sensual, and free from the memory of Orpheus. Charon is in charge of Eurydice and wants her. Orpheus is sad and sorry and wants...direction. Enter the plot of Midnight Ruin -- the barrier is failing, people are dying, and the big bad is finally revealed! We have a name, a reason, and kind of a plan. Enter Orpheus groveling and Charon dropping lines. Exit Laura Marie's ability to keep a straight face. Join ACOFAE as they put the pieces together and determine that you know what? That man needs to beg some more. A lot more. Good boy. Spoilers: The Dark Olympus series Mentions: The Dark Olympus series Author's TW/CW for the books are listed here and on the sites below: explicit sex, violence, murder, blood, guns, pregnancy (not the heroine), abortion (not the heroine) https://www.kateerobert.com/ https://www.kateerobert.com/book5 For additional TW/CW information for your future reads, head to this site for more: https://triggerwarningdatabase.com/ *Thank you for listening to us! Please subscribe and leave a 5 star review and follow us on Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/acofaepodcast/) at @ACOFAEpodcast and on our TikToks! TikTok: ACOFAELaura : Laura Marie (https://www.tiktok.com/@acofaelaura?) ( https://www.tiktok.com/@acofaelaura) ACOFAEJessica : Jessica Marie (https://www.tiktok.com/@acofaejessica?) (https://www.tiktok.com/@acofaejessica) Instagram: @ACOFAEpodcast (https://www.instagram.com/acofaepodcast/) https://www.instagram.com/acofaepodcast/ @ACOFAELaura (https://www.instagram.com/acofaelaura/) https://www.instagram.com/acofaelaura/

ACOFAE Podcast Presents: House of Sky and Breath (HOSAB): Revisited: “You can be a whole person by yourself." Absence makes the heart grow fonder right? Sometimes a little distance is exactly what you need to figure out your feelings. That was absolutely the case for Laura Marie and Jessica Marie who had some intense initial reactions and saw those reactions a bit tempered this reread of HOSAB! Bryce and Hunt are into each other, a war is brewing, Thunderbirds are a foot, and the Asteri are scary. Danika's secrets have been discovered again and Bryce is frustrated. Did she even know her best friend? Ruhn, Ithan, and the rest of the boys have their own issues...And Tharion just wants to be a part of your world. Really that's all he wants. Join ACOFAE as they dive back into the book that frustrated and shocked them. And yes, the ending. Whew. TW / CW: none to our awareness For additional TW/CW information for your future reads, head to this site for more: https://triggerwarningdatabase.com/ Spoilers: For the entire SJM Universe Mentions: SJM Universe, Shadowhunters, Pacific Rim, Center Stage, Batman Forever *Thank you for listening to us! Please subscribe and leave a 5 star review and follow us on Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/acofaepodcast/) at @ACOFAEpodcast and on our TikToks! TikTok: ACOFAELaura : Laura Marie (https://www.tiktok.com/@acofaelaura?) ( https://www.tiktok.com/@acofaelaura) ACOFAEJessica : Jessica Marie (https://www.tiktok.com/@acofaejessica?) (https://www.tiktok.com/@acofaejessica) Instagram: @ACOFAEpodcast (https://www.instagram.com/acofaepodcast/) https://www.instagram.com/acofaepodcast/ @ACOFAELaura (https://www.instagram.com/acofaelaura/) https://www.instagram.com/acofaelaura/

ACOFAE Podcast Presents: SPECIAL EPISODE 013: Our new friend, Aurora! ACOFAE welcomes paranormal and fantasy romance author Aurora Ascher to the podcast to discuss her new release Sanctuary of the Shadow! Join ACOFAE and Aurora as they discuss the writing process, the jump from indie to traditional publishing, and how wonderful it is to be part of the book community! Laura Marie, Jessica Marie, and Aurora also discuss found family, sisterhood, and how the circus is a wild and wonderful place both in real life and in the book. Spice, romance, morally grey characters, and a trope that took ACOFAE by surprise?! Say less. Grey is our favorite color. TW / CW: none to our awareness For additional TW/CW information for your future reads, head to this site for more: https://triggerwarningdatabase.com/ Spoilers: Discussions surrounding Sanctuary of a Shadow, including spoiler ending Mentions: Barbie (movie) Follow Aurora Ascher! Instagram: @aurora.ascher.author (https://www.instagram.com/aurora.ascher.author/) https://www.instagram.com/aurora.ascher.author/ Order Sanctuary of a Shadow at all major retailers and check out your local bookstores! *Thank you for listening to us! Please subscribe and leave a 5-star review and follow us on Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/acofaepodcast/) at @ACOFAEpodcast and on our TikToks! TikTok: ACOFAELaura : Laura Marie (https://www.tiktok.com/@acofaelaura?) ( https://www.tiktok.com/@acofaelaura) ACOFAEJessica : Jessica Marie (https://www.tiktok.com/@acofaejessica?) (https://www.tiktok.com/@acofaejessica) Instagram: @ACOFAEpodcast (https://www.instagram.com/acofaepodcast/) https://www.instagram.com/acofaepodcast/ @ACOFAELaura (https://www.instagram.com/acofaelaura/) https://www.instagram.com/acofaelaura/

ACOFAE Podcast Presents: Rise of a Dark Throne: "Here before, here now, here after." A magical and unexplained plague is not a theme that ACOFAE has a lot of experience with. However fated mates, close proximity and secret keeping are themes that Laura Marie and Jessica Marie have extensive experience with! Dive into Rise of a Dark Throne with ACOFAE as Laura Marie and Jessica Marie discover differences between the audio and KU editions and how that wildly changed the story! Consistency is key at ACOFAE and Laura Marie is once again asking if she is a cranky B and Jessica Marie is loving the story of female friendship loyalty. "'You should smile more'- OH you're the villain." TW / CW: Per the author's note -- this book contains classism, death/dying, drinking, discrimination, forced captivity, graphic sex, grief and loss, murder, racism, serious injury, slurs, swearing, violence, warfare, weapons For additional TW/CW information for your future reads, head to this site for more: https://triggerwarningdatabase.com/ Spoilers: Rise of a Dark Throne, Iron Flame Mentions: Our Flag Means Death, Euphoria, ACOSF, Harry Potter (fanfics), Kingdom of the Feared *Thank you for listening to us! Please subscribe and leave a 5 star review and follow us on Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/acofaepodcast/) at @ACOFAEpodcast and on our TikToks! TikTok: ACOFAELaura : Laura Marie (https://www.tiktok.com/@acofaelaura?) ( https://www.tiktok.com/@acofaelaura) ACOFAEJessica : Jessica Marie (https://www.tiktok.com/@acofaejessica?) (https://www.tiktok.com/@acofaejessica) Instagram: @ACOFAEpodcast (https://www.instagram.com/acofaepodcast/) https://www.instagram.com/acofaepodcast/ @ACOFAELaura (https://www.instagram.com/acofaelaura/) https://www.instagram.com/acofaelaura/

ACOFAE Podcast Presents: ACOSF Revisited: "I respect her." What's that saying? Distance makes the heart grow fonder? That certainly is the case here as ACOFAE revisits A Court of Silver Flames with a fresh perspective, new connections, and a Pattern to apply! Nesta is depressed and making it everyone's problem, Cassian is trying to help and making it worse, and Azriel is the worst chaperone in Prythian. The lore drops here are magnificent as we refocus our read to the prison, the dread trove, and Ramiel and all the fun little things that could or could not have an impact on future books. ACOFAE Laura has a little realization on why the read was so hard the first go through and Jessica Marie comes out with a deeper respect for Nesta than she realized. The love for Rhys and Cassian remain as strong as ever as does the love for Azzy, our favorite bonus chapter bat boy with problems. "Maybe you'll become interesting at last, Elain.” ACOFAE couldn't agree more. TW / CW: grief, trauma, death of a parent For additional TW/CW information for your future reads, head to this site for more: https://triggerwarningdatabase.com/ Spoilers: For the entire SJM Universe Mentions: SJM Universe *Thank you for listening to us! Please subscribe and leave a 5 star review and follow us on Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/acofaepodcast/) at @ACOFAEpodcast and on our TikToks! TikTok: ACOFAELaura : Laura Marie (https://www.tiktok.com/@acofaelaura?) ( https://www.tiktok.com/@acofaelaura) ACOFAEJessica : Jessica Marie (https://www.tiktok.com/@acofaejessica?) (https://www.tiktok.com/@acofaejessica) Instagram: @ACOFAEpodcast (https://www.instagram.com/acofaepodcast/) https://www.instagram.com/acofaepodcast/ @ACOFAELaura (https://www.instagram.com/acofaelaura/) https://www.instagram.com/acofaelaura/