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  • Introduction to Fun Things We Like

    Introduction to Fun Things We Like
    Dec 11 2025
    Let’s talk about something pleasant. Emily and Amelia discuss the books, videos and what have you that are making them happy this year. It’s time to get ventral.Links:Libby app (borrow library books and audiobooks)Brandon SandersonTHE STORMLIGHT ARCHIVEThursday Murder Club seriesAlexis Hall10 Things That Never HappenedBoyfriend MaterialParis Daillencourt Is About To CrumbleThe Affair of the Mysterious LetterNicholas Boulton (the world's best audiobook narrator)Come As You Are: Revised and Updated (audiobook)This is the one Nicholas Boulton is inLaura KinsaleFlowers from the StormAudiobook narrated by Nicholas BoultonAlexis HallA Lady for a DukeKJ CharlesWill Darling AdventuresThe Charm of Magpies seriesGreat audiobook narrators:Steven CrossleyJulia Whelan (also an author!)Mary Jane WellsAbby JiminezYours TrulyKimberly LemmingThat Time I Got Drunk and Yeeted a Love Potion at a WerewolfMisha PoppPies Before Guys Mystery SeriesHelena GreerSeasons of LoveAlyssa ColeReluctant Royals seriesCourtney MilanThe Turner SeriesThe Duke Who Didn’tThe Devil Comes CourtingCat SebastianNon-romance books:Maggie O’Farrell I Am, I Am, I AmRebecca HardimanGood EggsEmily St. JamesWoodworkingSarah Rees BrennanLong Live EvilAli WongDear GirlsYahtzee CroshawThings That Aren’t BooksDrGluon (Youtube)Jessica Kellgren-FozardThe Dogs Were Good (Again) PodcastDropoutGame ChangerDimension 20 (A Starstruck Odyssey)Critical RoleCampaign IVDropoutDimension 20 (Escape From the Bloodkeep)BritboxSister Boniface MysteriesAnd back to books for a moment:Alexis HallGlitterlandJohn ScalziBen AaronovitchRivers of London
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    1 h et 9 min
  • Navigating Holiday Gatherings With Family

    Navigating Holiday Gatherings With Family
    Nov 13 2025

    The holidays are coming. What do you do if you have family whose politics you abhor? Turns out it depends. Stick around to the end for Amelia’s highly specific take on The Grinch.


    Links:


    Knitting Cult Lady:

    Youtube

    Instagram

    Uncultured (book)

    The Culting of America (pre-order!)


    Thought-terminating cliché


    Green Dot program bystander interventions:

    • Direct

    • Delegate

    • Distract


    Lindsay Ellis: The Unforgivable Sin of Ms Rachel (Youtube)


    Kaelynn Partlow (Youtube)


    FSP S01 E08: The Monitor

    Podcast

    Youtube


    Charlemagne (Holy Roman Emperor)
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    1 h et 2 min
  • Exploring Shadows and Vulnerability

    Exploring Shadows and Vulnerability
    Oct 30 2025

    Turns out Emily actually does have a Shadow. And she’s a half-orc wizard.


    Links:


    The Science of Saving Your Sex Life

    To Maximize Your Potential, Maximize Pleasure


    Sign up for Emily’s mailing list


    How AIDS Remained an Unspoken—But Deadly—Epidemic for Years


    Brennan Lee Mulligan


    Aabria Iyengar


    Emily & Amelia Nagoski, Burnout - XOXO Festival (2019)


    Vivian Gussin Paley


    This American Life - Dolls
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    1 h et 1 min
  • The Bubble of Love and Connection

    The Bubble of Love and Connection
    Oct 9 2025

    Do you have a bubble of love? Do you know how to build one? Emily and Amelia discuss how they managed to do it, and how Frozen is more than just a kiddie movie.


    Links:


    Burnout


    FSP 2020 episode 11: The Bubble of Love


    The Burnout Workbook, by Amelia


    Do You Want to Build a Snowman? (Youtube)


    FSP 2020 S2 E27: Diving into the Shadow: An Introduction
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    47 min
  • Cozy Fall Vibes

    Cozy Fall Vibes
    Sep 25 2025

    The days are getting shorter. It’s going to be colder soon. It’s time to get cozy. It’s time to get… hygge. Candles and pumpkins and cheese, oh my!


    Links:


    Books by Tricia Hersey:

    Rest Is Resistance

    We Will Rest!


    Nothing Much Happens podcast


    Neuroma


    Vermont Creamery Cremont


    Tasting History on real eggnog (Youtube)
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    1 h et 25 min
  • Amelia and the Very, Very Expensive Month (A No-Buy Update)

    Amelia and the Very, Very Expensive Month (A No-Buy Update)
    Sep 10 2025

    Amelia had a painfully costly month. Emily bought Crocs that look like Big Bird’s feet. But in the end, they find the true meaning of No Buy / Low Buy.


    Links:


    Danger zone (food safety)


    Innocence (Opera composed by Kaija Saariaho)


    Dyslexie Font


    The Big Short (film)
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    58 min
  • Diving into the Shadow: An Introduction

    Diving into the Shadow: An Introduction
    Aug 27 2025

    For every personality trait, there is a shadow. Emily and Amelia discuss Shadow Work and do just a touch of dream analysis.


    Links:


    Carl Jung


    Jungian archetypes


    Mapping Your Emotional Floor Plan:

    A comic by Erika Moen based on Come Together


    Jaak Panksepp 7 Primary Process Emotions⁠ (interview)


    Monica's Secret Closet | Friends


    FSP Season 2, Episode 22: The Magic Trick of Transcendence


    Locus of control


    Stepmomming Made Easy (preorder)


    No Bad Parts by Richard Schwartz


    WeRateDogs


    Rebecca Dupas - HOW TO SLAY A DRAGON (youtube)

    (this is the poem at the end of the episode.)
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    59 min
  • Hair Transformations and an Intro to Hidradenitis Suppurativa

    Hair Transformations and an Intro to Hidradenitis Suppurativa
    Aug 14 2025

    Emily confesses to a migraine induced mullet. Amelia discusses Hidradenitis Suppurativa and effective strategies for going to a medical provider with a hypothesis and being taken seriously.


    (Much like the dizziness episode, we’d love to hear from you if learning about HS helps you understand something that is affecting you)


    Links:


    Hidradenitis suppurativa


    Mast cell activation syndrome


    Bringing HS (Hidradenitis Suppurativa) Out Of The Dark | Jackson Gillies | TEDxSantaBarbara


    FSP Season 2, Episode 14: Introduction to Food and Body Awareness


    FSP Season 2, Episode 18: Introduction to Food (and Body Acceptance)


    Season 2, Episode 20: Food Again. This Time, It’s Personal?


    Hidradenitis SuppuraDIVAS - Podcast (Apple Podcasts)


    FSP Season 1, Episode 18: The New Hotness


    Twins (1988 film)


    FSP Season 2, Episode 4: Polyvagal 101


    Piloerection
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    42 min
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