Curdled Ink
Welcome to Curdled Ink podcast, one woman’s tirade against poor writing and problematic romance. Literary criticism from a queer, kinky, sex positive perspective, starting with 50 Shades of Grey. Posts every other Tuesday!
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Episodes
Tuesday Mar 01, 2022
Tuesday Mar 01, 2022
Welcome to Curdled Ink, one woman's tirade against poor writing and problematic romance! This first episode introduces you to your host, Leigh, and breaks down her impressions of chapter one of Fifty Shades of Grey.
Content warnings for this episode: misogyny, toxic masculinity.
Find Leigh elsewhere online: allmylinks.com/leighcartist for her "vanilla" work, or allmylinks.com/candikitten for her adult work.
Find this podcast elsewhere, including Patreon where you can support the podcast in exchange for bonus content: allmylinks.com/thecurdledpod
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Tuesday Mar 15, 2022
Tuesday Mar 15, 2022
Welcome to Curdled Ink, one woman's tirade against poor writing and problematic romance! This episode takes you through the aftermath of Ana and Christian's meeting, in which Christian goes about pursuing the girl he's interested in in ALL the wrong ways.
Content warnings for this episode: stalking, inappropriate flirting, toxic masculinity, and general heteropatriarchy.
Find Leigh elsewhere online: allmylinks.com/leighcartist for her "vanilla" work, or allmylinks.com/candikitten for her adult work.
Find this podcast elsewhere, including Patreon where you can support the podcast monetarily in exchange for bonus content: allmylinks.com/thecurdledpod
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Tuesday Mar 29, 2022
Tuesday Mar 29, 2022
Welcome to Curdled Ink, one woman's tirade against poor writing and problematic romance! This episode chronicles Ana and Christian's first date, and it goes...exactly as well as you'd expect.
Content warnings for this episode: consent violation, heteronormativity, and Christian generally being a dick.
Find Leigh elsewhere online: allmylinks.com/leighcartist for her "vanilla" work, or allmylinks.com/candikitten for her adult work.
Find this podcast elsewhere, including Patreon where you can support the podcast monetarily in exchange for bonus content: allmylinks.com/thecurdledpod
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Tuesday Apr 12, 2022
Tuesday Apr 12, 2022
Welcome to Curdled Ink, one woman's tirade against poor writing and problematic romance! This episode is a wild ride, diving into Ana's self esteem issues, Christian's mind-blowing lack of boundaries, and EL James's inability to imagine a man who's not actually a douchebag.
Content warnings for this episode: self loathing, ableism mention, alcohol/intoxication, sexual assault, stalking, racism, vomit mention, and some truly terrible communication.
Find Leigh elsewhere online: allmylinks.com/leighcartist for her "vanilla" work, or allmylinks.com/candikitten for her adult work.
Find this podcast elsewhere, including Patreon where you can support the podcast monetarily in exchange for bonus content: allmylinks.com/thecurdledpod
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Tuesday Apr 26, 2022
Tuesday Apr 26, 2022
In this episode Ana wakes up in Christian's hotel room, and it's all downhill from there. We start to see Christian's disordered attitudes toward food, his deeply buried kinkshame, and it all culminates in one of the most distressing first-kiss sequences I've ever read. Have fun!
Content warnings for this episode: manipulation, truly awful dominant conduct, rape apologism, discussion of sexual assault, dangerously low self esteem, discussion of food/disordered attitudes toward food, abuse mention, kinkshame, trauma (responses to), and stereotypes/stigma around kink.
Find Leigh elsewhere online: allmylinks.com/leighcartist for her "vanilla" work, or allmylinks.com/candikitten for her adult work.
Find this podcast elsewhere: allmylinks.com/thecurdledpod
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Tuesday May 10, 2022
Tuesday May 10, 2022
Thank you for your patience with the late upload today! Life gets in the way sometimes. :)
This episode sets us up for Christian's "big reveal" of his deep, dark secret. He flies her out to his apartment, has her sign an NDA, and then escorts her into his dungeon...
Content warnings for this episode: stalking mention, and just a whole lot more of Christian being terrible at communicating and terrible at kink.
Find Leigh elsewhere online: allmylinks.com/leighcartist for her "vanilla" work, or allmylinks.com/candikitten for her adult work.
Find this podcast elsewhere: allmylinks.com/thecurdledpod
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Tuesday May 24, 2022
Tuesday May 24, 2022
Ah yes, finally the episode we've all been waiting for - when I get to talk explicitly and at length about kink! And how horribly it is misrepresented in this book. This definitely isn't an episode to listen to with young children around.
Content warnings for this episode: toxic "doms", grooming for abuse, kinkshame, inappropriate domming, disordered attitudes toward food, kinkshame, discussion of diet culture, pedophelia mention, bestiality mention, kinkshame, ableist language, and did I mention kinkshame?
Find Leigh elsewhere online: allmylinks.com/leighcartist for her "vanilla" work, or allmylinks.com/candikitten for her adult work.
Find this podcast elsewhere: allmylinks.com/thecurdledpod
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Tuesday Jun 07, 2022
Tuesday Jun 07, 2022
The first sex scene in this kink erotica trilogy is...not only extremely vanilla, but extremely unaware of how to make things comfortable for someone being penetrated for the first time. Let's cringe about it together, shall we?
Content warnings for this episode: shame/stigma around virginity, kinkshame (of course), more bad dominance, and a shockingly bad understanding of how sexual anatomy works.
Find Leigh elsewhere online: allmylinks.com/leighcartist for her "vanilla" work, or allmylinks.com/candikitten for her adult work.
Find this podcast elsewhere: allmylinks.com/thecurdledpod
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Wednesday Jun 22, 2022
Wednesday Jun 22, 2022
A little late, but hopefully worth the wait! In this episode I talk respecting boundaries, consent-getting best (and worst) practices, Ana's first (flawless) blowjob, and the genital shame that many vulva-havers are brought up with. Sounds like fun, right??
Content warnings for this episode: inappropriate domination, consent violation, disordered attitudes toward food, disrespecting boundaries, kinkshame, body/genital shame, and manipulation.
Find Leigh elsewhere online: allmylinks.com/leighcartist for her "vanilla" work, or allmylinks.com/candikitten for her adult work.
Find this podcast elsewhere: allmylinks.com/thecurdledpod
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Tuesday Jul 05, 2022
Tuesday Jul 05, 2022
This episode delves into the fantasy versus reality of D/s relationships, the problem of trying to come up with a "reason" why someone is kinky, and the importance of advocating for yourself and setting boundaries in any relationship, but especially a kinky one.
Content warnings for this episode: slut shaming, discussion of sexual assault, jealous/controlling behavior, toxic monogamy, patriarchy/rape culture, kinkshame, bad dominance, disordered attitudes toward food, sexual relations with a minor, stigma/stereotypes around kink.
Find Leigh elsewhere online: allmylinks.com/leighcartist for her "vanilla" work, or allmylinks.com/candikitten for her adult work.
Find this podcast elsewhere: allmylinks.com/thecurdledpod
Logo by Rhys Jones tearlessrainart.tumblr.com