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Sinopse
Comedian and amateur historian Sovereign Syre teams up with activist and journalist Siouxsie Q. James, to chronicle the lives of women of ill repute throughout history.
Episódios
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No Women's Lit: A response to Hilary Layne's video about the current state of popular fiction being sold to women
23/11/2025 Duração: 01h08minThis weeks episode is in Response to Hilary Layne's recent video about women's literature (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffvRhsViyIQ&t=157s) Jaz and Josh disagree with most of her takes, but feel like she had a lot of interesting things to say. While Hilary seems to feel strongly that a lot of contemporary pop fiction is essentially porn marketed and designed to take advantage of the female mind. Jas wants to challenge those notions, partially from her own experience working in adult, but also that women are finally having a voice in what media they want to consume. It's a fun one! Buy Jasmine's debut novel, Above Snakes https://www.amazon.com/Above-Snakes-Jasmine-Lee-Keith/dp/B0FL3667BZ
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Alchemized: The future of Pop Lit?
08/11/2025 Duração: 01h21minWe continue our discussion about the publishing journey of what Manacled turned into: Alchemized. One of the hottest book releases of the year, the film rights were quickly bought, further legitimizing converted fanfiction and the audiences insatiable appetite for it. We also discuss wether it stands on its own without references to HP, if the tone and setting are given enough substance, and the double edged sword for writing for an audience.
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DraMione: The new era of 'pull to publish' fan fiction
31/10/2025 Duração: 01h34minThis weeks episode continues our series on self publishing, fan fiction, romantasy, and booktok as we delve in the controversy around the sale and marketing of pull to publish fan fiction. First with a brief introduction to the history of fan fiction and its culture, followed with a discussion of the extreme popularity of Harry Potter slash fiction, with die hard fans particular obsession of the non canon pairing of Draco and Hermione A.K.A DraMione. Buy Jasmine's first novel, Above Snakes https://www.amazon.com/Above-Snakes-Jasmine-Lee-Keith-ebook/dp/B0FL1J2JYK https://www.sovereignsyre.net/
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Audra Winter and The Crucible of Booktok
24/10/2025 Duração: 38minIn this episode Jasmine discusses the recent controversy around up and coming author Audra Winter, and her years long marketing campaign for her debut novel The Age or Scorpius, it's diasterous release, the ensuing fallout, and the way Tiktok has changed how commercial fiction is marketed and sold. Jasmine also explains her personal writing process a llittle bit. We also discuss ABOVE SNAKES her debut novel, a dark western historical romance AVAILABLE NOW on Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/Above-Snakes-Jasmine-Lee-Keith/dp/B0FL3667BZ/) and https://www.sovereignsyre.net/books
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Monster Romance: Adventures in dark fantasy romance fiction
16/08/2025 Duração: 01h19minWELCOME BACK EVERYONE, MY GOD WE'VE MISSED YOU SO UNBELIEVABLY MUCH!!! And WOW!! What a crazy episode this turned out to be. We just get straight to it, Sov has a lot of changes to announce, including the upcoming release of her first book, Which we are all incredibly excited about. This weeks episode is VERY SPICY! BE FOREWARNED, DO NOT LISTEN TO THIS AROUND YOUR KIDS OR PARENTS OR ANYWHERE IN PUBLIC. We talk very explicitly about history of erotic fiction, as it pertains to depictions of monsters inflagrante delecto (AKA doing sex.) From ancient Greek mythology, all the way up to World of Warcraft. ANNND, As a special treat, if you stay to the end, you can hear Josh read the first chapter from Sov's upcoming novel, Above Snakes!
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Little Repute Minisode: Trump's 2nd Inauguration, the Tiktok "ban"
24/01/2025 Duração: 39minWelp... looks like were in the prologue of a YA dystopian novel. Hope our protag has the pluck and gumption to tackle this one, cuz we're running out of ideas!
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Lil Repute Minisode: LA wildfires, Disaster Economics, The end of social media
15/01/2025 Duração: 34minHope you and your loved ones are safe and well! We talk about the LA wildires and its potential impact of the future of LA, delve into a little bit about how disaster's can drive policy, and touch on the (maybe) the final days of Tiktok. Donation link for the victims of the LA wildfires: https://lacity.gov/LAstrong
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Little Repute Minisode: Predictions 2025
06/01/2025 Duração: 30minLook at us! Just a couple of Nostradamus's over here. Sov and Josh ponder the kind of inaguration you could throw for 5Million. We also brace for impact with our mouths full of sour grapes. Who's know for sure, but we can all agree this year is going to be a wild one!
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Little Repute Minisode: Last Episode of 2024
31/12/2024 Duração: 24minSo long 2024, don't let the door hit ya where the good lord split ya! As we say good bye to 2024, we can't help but drag the upcoming administration one last time. If 2024 is any indication, 2025 is gonna be a wild one! Love you guys and thank you so much for sticking around through our first full year, it's been really great connecting with those of you who generously spend your time with us. Great things are coming, SEE YOU NEXT YEAR!
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Lil Repute Minisode: Merry X Mas!
26/12/2024 Duração: 36minHappy Holidays! We do a little year in review, nothing too heavy ;) Love you guys, thanks for sticking with us!
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Lil Repute: Polarization
20/12/2024 Duração: 48minThis week we give some pipin' hot takes (or lets face it, mostly just pretty lukewarm ones) Other than that this ones pretty chill, actually. We also talk about what the heck is going on the podcast for the next few months. illreputepodcast.com
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Lil Repute Minisode: Sov's works through some new stand up material, Josh has some questions, and some stuff about class warfare
14/12/2024 Duração: 20minThis week: Sovereign shares some of her new bits that she's working on, Josh has some questions about vaginas, and then it sort of devolves into speculating about the upcoming class war. BOOK US FOR YOUR NEXT PARTY!
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Wonder Woman!
11/12/2024 Duração: 48minThis week Sov and Becky talk about the origins of Wonder Woman. Support Us: http://patreon.com/illrepute About Us: http://illreputepodcast.com Credits: Hosted by Sovereign Syre and Becky Poole Compiled by Sovereign Syre Produced by Joshua Anderson Works Cited: Daniels, Les. Wonder Woman: The Complete History. Chronicle Books, 2000. A comprehensive history of Wonder Woman, exploring her creation, evolution, and cultural impact. Lepore, Jill. The Secret History of Wonder Woman. Alfred A. Knopf, 2014. A detailed biography of Wonder Woman's creator, William Moulton Marston, and the feminist roots of the character. Marston, William Moulton. "Why 100,000,000 Americans Read Comics." The American Scholar, vol. 13, no. 1, 1943, pp. 35-44. Marston’s own essay on the psychological appeal of comics and the creation of Wonder Woman. All Star Comics #8. DC Comics, 1941. Wonder Woman’s debut issue, written by William Moulton Marston and illustrated by Harry G. Peter. Sensation Comics
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Lil Repute Minisode: Free Hunter, Destiny's leaked sextape, RIP Hard Rock Nick
05/12/2024 Duração: 36minThis weeks Itty Bitty Repute Committee: Joe Biden: Great President, terrible Father or is it the other way around? The left's addiction to moralizing all interpersonal conflict, and we lament the passing of Hard Rock Nick
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Jemima Wilkinson: Publick Universal Friend
02/12/2024 Duração: 59minJemima was born on November 29, 1752, in Cumberland, Rhode Island, She was the eighth of twelve children in a big, devout Quaker family. Her dad, Jeremiah Wilkinson, was super active in their local meeting house. Her mom, Amy's presence in Jemima’s life was cut tragically short—she died in 1764 when Jemima was about 12 or 13. According to accounts, Jemima was always a pretty girl, but after her mother passed away, she became lazy and combative. She would find anyway she could to get out of working, she would feign illnesses, argue and so on. She was just generally considered pretty but kind of mean and very entitled. Then at some point in 1776, she starts acting sick, she stays in her room and won’t talk to anyone. Her family calls the doctor, who says she’s not physically ill, but clearly has mental issues. This goes on for months, until she confines herself to her bed. While later accounts say she had typhus, contemporary accounts say there was never a physical illness. But one day she emerged from her bed
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Lil Repute Minisode: Happy Thanksgiving!
28/11/2024 Duração: 29minThis week we are talking turkey about turkeyday, or tofurkey depending on your preference. Sov and Josh reveal how they are connected, discuss some strange Thanksgiving facts, speculate that Thanksgiving and Halloween as we know it now, may have actually started out as one thing, and also discuss how grateful we are to have all of you amazing listeners! HAPPY THANKSGIVING EVERYONE!! Hosted by Sovereign Syre and Josh Anderson Produced by Josh Anderson support us: illreputepodcast.com NPR Article "When Thanksgiving was weird" https://www.npr.org/sections/theprotojournalist/2014/11/19/365195079/when-thanksgiving-was-weird
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Susan Powter: STOP THE INSANITY!
26/11/2024 Duração: 49minThis week Sovereign Syre and Becky Poole talk about the most controversial fitness influencer of her time...Susan Powter! Support Us: http://patreong.com/illrepute More Info: http://illreputepodcast.com Sources: Books: Powter, Susan. "Stop the Insanity!" Simon & Schuster, 1993 Powter, Susan. "The Politics of Stupid: The Cure for Obesity." Simon & Schuster, 2002 Articles: Powell, Meghan. "90s Fitness Icon Susan Powter Disappeared From Public Life After Mortifying Hollywood Experience." Fox News, 2024 Smith, Dinitia. "Susan Powter: It's Not All About Losing Weight." The New York Times, 1994 "Jamie Lee Curtis to Produce Documentary on Susan Powter's Life and Legacy." Entertainment Weekly, 2024 Poole, Sheila. "Susan Powter: The Fitness Guru's Journey from Fame to Advocacy." Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 2007 Liverampup Staff. "Susan Powter's Life After Coming Out as Lesbian." Liverampup.com, 2024 Video Sources: "Stop the Insanity!" Infomercial, 1992 "The Susan
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Lil Repute Minisode: The golden toilet, Is nihilism contagious? Working through the 2nd stage of grief
23/11/2024 Duração: 22minOn a very serious Little Repute this week: Sov refuses to speak on America's Voldemort, Josh violently ponder's wtf if anything the current administration actually cares about, other than sitting THE THRONE. They both go a little hard on Elon (but we're sure he'll be just fine.) Sovereign makes a despereate plea for some exposure therapy in the hopes of overcoming her fear of the CyberTruck
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53% of White Women
19/11/2024 Duração: 01h14minThis week we have a new friend joining us to cohost, Becky Poole. Originally from Minnesota, Becky is a very funny and talented, comedianne, improv actor, musician, and podcaster in her own right, as well as being just overall rad! She joins Sov as they profile and discuss the much maligned voting block of white american women who can't seem to let go of their narcissist billionaire boyfriend fantasy. They have a lot of ground to cover, and being white women themselves, do tiny bit soul searching to figure out what the heck is going ladies?! support us: illreputepodcast.com Hosted by: Sovereign Syre and Becky Poole script by: Sovereign Syre Produced and Edited by: Josh Anderson Works Cited Baldwin, James. Blues for Mister Charlie. 1964. A play exploring racial injustice, drawing on the term "Mister Charlie" as a representation of systemic oppression. Reynolds, Malvina. It Isn’t Nice. 1967. A protest song highlighting social justice themes, including references to "Mister Charlie." Hurston, Zora
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Lil Repute Minisode: The left's "Joe Rogan", Blueanon, Trump and Elon
14/11/2024 Duração: 40minThis weeks minisode: More armchair quarterbacking of the 2024 election; the left collectively moving into our mothers' basements, putting on our tinfoil hats, and embracing our inner delusional conspiracist; finally, how long will the bromance between these two dashing, billionaire, good time party bois last?