Welcome back to Wednesday Links, everybody!

I love hearing about all of your yummy fall foods. I do have to make a point to pick up some candy corn soon. I am an unabashed candy corn and candy pumpkin lover. How do you feel about Halloween candy? Any distinct favorites?

For me, fall means lots of dips and soups. I love a soup or a molten lava hot dip with a crunchy little chip. Ugh, so good! And now I’m hungry.

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Tara: Kris and I teamed up with Laura Green from the Sapphic Book Review podcast to talk about the implications of Project 2025 on access to LGBTQ fiction, state-level challenges, and we include steps that anyone can take, even if they don’t live in the US.

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Sarah: SO many people on Twitter, BluSky, and elsewhere have been talking about how much they enjoyed the chemistry and the potent visual nostalgia of Veronica Mars and Seth Cohen in a rom com series – especially Cohen, I mean, Adam Brody as the lead. I was extremely excited to make this list of romances that should fulfill any additional yearning for cross-cultural or interfaith romances for the NYT. (And if you watched Nobody Wants This I’d love to hear what you thought!)

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Lauren sent us this link for trope yarn and knitting kits.

Lauren: I found these knitting kits based on romance novels! You can pick your colorway based on your…theme? Trope? I immediately thought of the rest of the Smart Bitches when I saw it.

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Romancing the Vote was featured on a list of Democracy Heroes! Sometimes I see or read things that remind me of how great this community is.

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Don’t forget to share what cool or interesting things you’ve seen, read, or listened to this week! And if you have anything you think we’d like to post on a future Wednesday Links, send it my way!