Romantasy as a social phenomenon, academics get me hot, and more
Mar. 27th, 2026 03:43 amWelcome to another monthly newsletter post, which I’m mirroring here because not everyone is either signed up to my email newsletter list or my Patreon.

Thinky Thoughts: Academics Turn Me On
I’m such a nerd. I just finished taking a 10-week long college class about Romance and it was great.
It all started when I saw my on social media that Dr. Sam Hirst was offering an online class via University of Liverpool: “Falling in Love with Love: A History of Popular Romance.” She had posted that the class needed some more signups to be a go, and I jumped right in without really thinking about whether I truly had the time for it.
In fact, I somehow messed up up the time zone conversion and so I couldn’t even attend the live portion of the class for the first few weeks! But the online lectures, the reading material, and the films kept me quite busy.
( Read the rest of this entry » )Mirrored from Cecilia Tan.