Happy New Year, y'all! We continue our annual tradition of checking in about what pop-culture is "sparking joy” in January,  our favorites of 2023, and what we’re looking forward to in 2024.

(CW: discussion of parental and sibling death.)

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Show Notes:

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Lit Mentioned By Section:

• What's Sparking Joy: Lady Liar, Ms. Abbott and the Doctor, Link: Eat Love Kill


• Joy Sparked in 2023 - Rapid Fire: Lost You Forever, The Boy and the Heron, Kiss Bet, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem, Spider-man: Across the Spiderverse, The Story of Kunning Palace, American Fiction, The Marquis Who Musn't, Being Monsters, Till the End of the Moon, A Guest in the House


• Joy Sparked in 2023 - Deep Dive: Call it Love, Ancillary Justice, A Journey to Love, Frieren: Beyond Journey's End


• Future Joy Sparked in 2024: Lost You Forever: Part 2, The Prisoner of Beauty, All There Is (podcast), Jeong Nyeon, Baulders Gate 3


• Others: What If...?, The Marvels, Let's Get Divorced, Dr. Cha, Strangers Again

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SLL is a podcast relishing the romantic, the sexy, and the scandalous in pop-culture. English academics by day and podcasters by night, hosts Ayanni and Corinne take a semi-scholarly look at why the “sex-stuff” in media matters in the bedroom—and beyond.

Episode Chapters:

00:00 Introduction

00:58 Opening Bander

09:11 What's Sparking Joy

16:37 2023 Joy Sparked - Rapid Fire

36:06 2023 Joy Sparked - Deeper Dive

1:02:37 Looking Forward to 2024 Joy

1:14:24 Pop-Culture Predictions

1:22:28 Closing Out/Future SLL Episodes