A writing podcast where we take random lists of words, use them as writing prompts, and try to make sense out of the nonsense Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/what-the-fic/support
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Co-hosted by V @aimmyarrowshigh (I Met You On LJ) and Emily @idontgettechnology (I Ship It) and edited by Laz @lazaefair, This Week In Fandom History celebrates fandom culture's highest highs and weirdest lows. With which short-lived vampire cop drama was the very first X-Files fic crossed over? Who is Tara Gilesbie? How recently did the Starsky & Hutch Lending Library rent out its last zine? What were Strikethrough, Racefail, LGBTFansDeserveBetter, and Conchobar, anyway? V and Emily trade o ...
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A very good podcast about real life crime and fictitious villains. Help us figure out what makes the ultimate bad guy.
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We have turned the ever-lovely Waffles’ Portal fanfiction into an audiofic. Full-blown audiobook stuff and everything. We currently have a full cast, three co-producers/directors, a coder, a sound effects team and several people with musical experience on board. We will be really glad to take your thoughts and advice. This would be nothing without the fanbase of this fic, of course, and your opinion means the world to us. Follow us on Tumblr for more exclusive content and updates!
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When Kate “ACunningPlan” Cunningham sparks up an online friendship with a fellow fanfiction writer it seems like the perfect distraction from a summer stuck in her hometown of Kamloops, B.C., not to mention the coming terrors of her final year of university and the Real Adult Future beyond. (Seriously, please don’t mention them.) After all, Hella--Enchanted is funny, smart and writes canon-divergent werewolf fic like no one else. She’s everything a fandom could ask for. But... what if she’s ...
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Fic Fix is a conversation podcast where we, Kiana and Rychele, discuss and debate what we love and don’t about book recommendations we give each other. We invite you to join us to hear our take on the amazing and crazy world that is young adult fiction, and fangirl/boy/person along. Come back every week to join the conversation. Thanks for listening!
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Superheroes. Space marines. Magical children. Fictional characters! We love them! What would happen if they fought? Who would win? These are the hard hitting questions that host Josiah Robinson will answer biweekly with help from rotating guests. Special thanks to Clare Austen-Smith for the Superfights artwork and to Casey and Janae Kreines for the Superfights theme music.
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Hi cats — oh and possibly humans too! I’m Meadowfern and I’m Willowstripe and we are the hosts of Warrior Chats. We love warrior cats and we are so excited to be sharing what we love with the world! Please email us at our personal podcast email, warriorchatspodcast@gmail.com and — yeah, that’s about it! We hope you enjoy and please remember we upload bi-weekly! P.S. Thanks for 100 downloads, we really appreciate your dedication!!!
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Travel with us as we read through the best, worst and weirdest fanfiction from the golden age of the Internet. Every week Lucy reads infamous fanfics to Zac, who has never read fanfiction before, in an ill-advised attempt to convince him of the literary importance of transformative fiction. Buckle up baby, we've got vampires, we've got love triangles, we've got goffiks galore! MCR ROX!!!1! STOP FLAMING PREPZ!!!!11!! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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The nonfiction bookclub that’s all about learning new things and challenging our perspectives. In each episode I meet with an author and discuss their book with them. Subscribe so you don't miss an episode!
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Hi! Sorry I haven't been doing descriptions for a while, it's so good to be back! Anyways - have a good time listening to this, we loved making it and sadly Lionclaw and Badgerfang couldn't make it. Peace cats (oh and humans too,) Meadowfernتوسط Meadowfern and Willowstripe
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Scullay!!! This week, Emily and V head back to a happy happenstance in 1994 as the birth of Gillian Anderson's real-life baby changes the fictional life of Dana Scully forever, in more ways than one. By changing the scope of Scully's life, the lore of The X-Files grew and expanded into something network TV had never seen before. Plus, we love how m…
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Hi people! How's life? This episode we'll be discussing the oh so brave martyr/snitch. It has been a request from Emerald the weird cat with human feet. I hope you people enjoy this episode! Sending good vibes your way, Willowstripe P.S No hate people and err catsتوسط Meadowfern and Willowstripe
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October 18-19, 2019: The First Ineffable Con, Plus We Talk About Neil Gaiman (TW Sexual Assault [Not Detailed])
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Apocalypse now? This week, V and Emily start out the episode by talking about the super-cool annual convention that Good Omens fans created and host as part of The Ineffable Society: the Ineffable Con, going strong since 2019. Then, we have to delve into the allegations against Good Omens co-author and showrunner Neil Gaiman, former Tumblr everyman…
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Hi cats! Thank you so so much for this milestone! Sorry that we haven't posted in a little while, but we have reached 100 downloads with your help. We'll be reading chapters 3 and 4 this episode. We will also be doing Bristlefrost next episode, a request from Emerald the weird the cat with human feet. Thank again! Best, Willowstripe P.S sorry I sou…
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*insert Tarzan yell here* This week, Emily and V explore a totally new-to-them fandom thanks to requester pandaimitator: Tarzan of the Apes. And frankly, it's crazy that we haven't heard about everything this old-timey fandom created that we still use and do today. Fan clubs! Conventions! Fan campaigns! Fanfiction! The Pizza Hut Book-It model of co…
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Get out your tissues, listeners! (Seriously.) This week, V and Emily split the episode in two parts: first, the very silly attempt to understand how the Forever Knight fandom went to WAR! for the thirteenth time in 2010. Second, a look into the fannish life and ongoing impact of Forever Knight BNF Susan M. Garrett, who seems like she was a complete…
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September 25 - October 5, 2023: Voter Fraud Upsets the AO3 Top Ships Bracket Tumblr Poll
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What?! This week, Emily and V travel all the way back one year to look at... the dumbest thing we've ever had to cover for this show, possibly. You all remember this one: @ao3topshipsbracket pitted Steve Rogers/Bucky Barnes against Edward Teach/Stede Bonnet, and things got insanely, unnecessarily, WEIRDLY nuts. We're baffled. We're a little bitter.…
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Hi cats - anything big happening? Not here. It's mostly the usual - Meadowfern being the annoy cat she is. Anyways, sorry we didn't do a more interesting cat. Blame Meadowfern, she was taking charge and thought she was so cool. And yes, I will blame her for everything. Just me being a stereotypical best friend. But anyways we will be uploading a fa…
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I'm making a new show! If you loved Me and AU's gay chaos but wished we'd had more actual monster hunting (and less internet?), No Normal Life is for you. It's a sapphic road-trip audio drama featuring two monster hunters whose overlapping destinies bring them together, all set in 1991. If you want to hear more, our crowdfund for a full 10-episode …
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September 16, 2012: The Bullshit Tweet
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#*@%$(*! This week, V and Emily head back to the event that caused the Great Schism Of One Direction Fandom: The Bullshit Tweet. V has an epiphany about her longest-ever fic and one of her big OTPs of the early 2010s, and Emily feels a lot of empathy for both Harry Styles and Louis Tomlinson in the face of all the, well, bullshit thrown at them for…
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Come together, right now! This week, Emily and V head back to the extremely seventies 1970s to look at a fandom currently having a resurgence on Tumblr: The Beatles. V has actually been to "The Fest," as groovy kids call it, and wrote a paper on Beatlemania that got published a zillion years ago to boot, so she chimes in about what this fandom is l…
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Hey, wassup, does anyone read these? Anyways - I hope you enjoy dis episode and remember that if you email us and ask us for a cat to episode about, you can get a shoutout! Sorry for Tigerstar(claw)'s nickname. P.S. Also, sorry for the singing, it's a bit weird... also please don't sue us for using an Encanto song! - Meadowfern…
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September 1, 2017: The Handbook for (My) Immortals: Or, Two Literary Frauds!
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Fukkin' preps. This week, V and Emily have their brains melted by not ONE incredibly stupid and obvious literary fraud, but TWO incredibly stupid and obvious literary frauds! Yes! In one week! And both involving the most infamous fanfic of all time, everyone's favorite: My Immortal. Dust off your fishnets and stretch out your middle fingers, it's t…
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Hi cats - how's life? I'm so sorry that we didn't have the allegiance episode before the fanfic one (it was Meadowfern's idea - blame her.) Also, sorry some of us sound kinda brain dead. Anyways, hope you enjoy! Sending good vibes your way :) - Willowstripeتوسط Meadowfern and Willowstripe
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Summer 2000-2003: Harry Potter Fandom and the Three-Year Summer
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Icicle?! This week, Emily and V hold a sort of jazz funeral for a fandom event that shaped both of them as human people, and that cannot and should not ever happen again. The Three-Year Summer was a pivotal stretch of time for fandom culture as a whole because a) every fucking person alive was in this fandom, b) the whole point was that there was n…
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Hi guys, so happy for this milestone, keep up the good work and we hope you have a great day or night or whatever! P.S. We will be posting the allegiances on Sunday, September 1st. - Meadowfern and Willowstripeتوسط Meadowfern and Willowstripe
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::General rage noises:: This week, V and Emily discuss the trope-namer for "fridging," or the killing off of female characters purely to cause manpain and advance male characters' stories. It's rage-inducing. Plus, the Hawkeye Initiative brings attention to undue sexualization of female comics characters, and Dead Men Defrosting debunk the myth tha…
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Hi everybody, we are back from vacation and we will be trying to post more consistently, get together and work more often and we sincerely hope you enjoy this episode. P.S. We are basically at 25 downloads, and we are posting the Fan Fic very soon! P.P.S. We will post the Fan Fic on Sunday August 25 - I mean - I think so... :D…
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Buy gold...! This week, Emily and V look at one of the coolest fan experiences that they've ever heard about: Gravity Falls fandom's Cipher Hunt. To both celebrate and mourn the end of the series, writer Alex Hirsch created an international scavenger hunt for the fandom, and OUR LOVELY PATRON HOLLY played a pivotal role in connecting fans across th…
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Hai y'all! We are so excited to announce that we are finally posting our first official episode of Warrior Chats. We're still on vacation but we love to do this in our free time, we hope you enjoy this as much as we enjoyed making it! Have a great day or night! Peace cats - oh and humans too! Email us at warriorchatspodcast@gmail.com and see you in…
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Hi guys, we are on vacation together when we filmed this so - yeah! We are so excited for this and we hope you enjoy this creation and have a good one. Peace cats - oh and humans too! Email us at warriorchatspodcast@gmail.com and see you in the next episode!توسط Meadowfern and Willowstripe
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Up, up, and... oh no. This week, V and Emily look at yet another fandom whose femslash juggernaut OTP got dealt an unfair hand by TPTB, in looking at the fallout of the Supergirl Season 2 Musical Recap from San Diego ComicCon 2017. So much rage. So much disappointment. So much annoyance. Why can't femslashers have nice things?! This Week In Fandom …
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July 16, 2010: Inception Incepts Fandom with Arthur/Eames
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Dream a little bigger, darlings. This week, Emily and V go deeper and deeper into the mindscape of fandom in 2010, when Inception became an unlikely juggernaut fandom-that-ate-fandom because of two minor (as in tertiary) characters played by internet boyfriends Tom Hardy and Joseph Gordon Levitt. They talk that iconic ending, reasons this weird mov…
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ATTACK! This week, V tells Emily about the 2023 DDoS attacks against the OTW, particularly AO3, and how amazing the SysAdmin volunteers defended the servers and got the sites back online. Plus, how fandom reacted to A Very Bad 24 Hours In Fandom History -- because there was ANOTHER dumb/bad event happening over on Tumblr, too! -- and perhaps the gr…
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July 4: Merry Stevemas!
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We can do this all day! This week, Emily surprises V with an episode all about her blorbo, Steve Rogers (Captain America). It's a loosey-goosey chat about their baby blorbo boy, from his origin as the creation of two Jewish men who wanted a golem to punch Hitler in the face to their own origin stories as Steve fangirls. Plus, a rundown on AO3's top…
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Bubble, bubble, bubble pop! This week, V and Emily explore the highs of fandom and lows of the kpop trainee system as they look at one of the coolest fanworks ever made, possibly: the guerilla zine Bubble Pop! Spearheaded by one Washington D.C. kpop fan who wanted to know who the other kpop fans of her city were, Bubble Pop! was the coolest (and mo…
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Beam us up! This week, Emily and V were expecting a disaster of epic proportions and bad feelings all around, but instead we got a surprisingly delightful and warm story of fandom community spirit saving a very bad situation. We both cry in this episode. It's fine. It's just Star Trek fans being great, okay?! Have you ever met a new friend at a con…
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June 10, 2016: Voltron: Legendary Defender Premieres & June 10, 2017: #shoegate
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See ya later, pala-dudes! This week, V and Emily hit a double-header in the Voltron: Legendary Defender fandom (thanks to two requesters and V's VLD primer pal, Fran!). First, V attempts to explain what the show is about and why it launched on Netflix with a built-in fandom. And then... oh, boy. You know how our ending stinger is "well-behaved fand…
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And I can hear them now! This week, Emily and V pre-emptively apologize for their French accents and inability to pronounce "Enjolras" as we look at the Les Mis fandom holiday of Barricade Day. While the real event was an unmitigated tragedy, and it was also an unmitigated tragedy in the book, musical, and movie adaptations, Barricade Day is a whol…
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June 1, 2015: The Marion Zimmer Bradley & Walter Breen Episode (TW: CSA, Rape, Incest, Total Institutional Failure)
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No quippy exclamation this week, because V and Emily delve into probably the worst, most shameful, most infuriating, just awful pair of people ever to be associated with fandom history: scifi authors and fucking monsters Marion Zimmer Bradley and Walter Breen. This is not a lighthearted episode in any way. Please heed the trigger warnings and take …
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NET.SPACE! This week, Emily and V surf their way to the earliest days of being able to connect with other human beings in cyberspace, and also, once again bow to the king of fandoms that takes place in actual space. First, Emily explains the pure haterade that was the Die, Seven, Die! Challenge after the series finale of Star Trek: Voyager. (Also, …
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Don't stop believin'! This week, V and Emily go back to a very different world. A pre-Glee world. And it kind of isn't pretty. While V loved Glee at first, its legacy is... not super chill and great? Outside of a few key ships that will get their own episodes later on this year and/or early next year? So this episode is about Glee as a whole, which…
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May 3, 2021: Dracula Daily Delivers the First Message From Our Friend Jonathan
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Paprika! This week, Emily and V head back to 2021 -- but mostly 2022, carte blanche -- to look at the phenomenon of Dracula Daily and its explosion of popularity on Tumblr. We also head to 1992 to look at the worst movie of all time, Bram Stoker's Dracula, starring extremely beautiful people who were all in extremely different movies all at once. A…
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May 3, 1991: Dallas Closes Out Its Final Season
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Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer! This week, Emily and V head West to Texas and back in time to the 1980s to visit with the most melodramatic family in television history: the Ewings. As a cultural phenomenon that helped define the decade, Dallas... has surprisingly few (surviving?) fanworks. But thanks to one teenage fan nigh twent…
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April 15, 1912: The RMS Titanic Sinks (And 85 Years Later There's a Huge Fandom About It)
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Iceberg right ahead! This week, V and Emily plumb the depths of the entire world's massive Titanic fandom and its accompanying "Leomania." James Cameron's Titanic was impossible to ignore in 1998 -- from the cinema to some weird video store in Utah, from middle school dances to the Oval Office, from the pages of Vanity Fair to the wilderness of Geo…
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April 3, 1999: What Would They Think?
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What would they think? This week, Emily and V -- okay. This episode was supposed to be about the April 2000 Slate Magazine article, "Luke Skywalker Is Gay?" And it does start out that way. But thanks to Emily's personal fannish history and a tiny footnote in the article, this episode goes... somewhere else. And oh my god. Links Follow This Week in …
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It wasn't me... it was... my evil twin brother! This week, V and Emily look at a somewhat different kind of fandom by delving into the long, long history of As The World Turns, a daytime soap opera that ran for over 50 years. ATWT made television history in 2007 when they featured the first M/M kiss, and first positively-portrayed M/M relationship,…
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Fantastic! This week, Emily and V finally get to talk about one of their shared favorite fandoms: Doctor Who (New Who). With a focus on the emotional, oft-overlooked Ninth Doctor as played by Christopher Eccleston, they discuss the best and worst aspects of the show, how it makes them cry, and some timely (pun intended) elements brought specificall…
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He's darkness! He's vengeance! This week, V and Emily look at the uniquely nerdy StarKid fandom and their superhero parody musical, HOLY MUSICAL B@MAN! (That's "B@man," not "Batman," in case Warner Brothers asks.) They look at the way StarKid musicals feel like your Tumblr dashboard, how Sean Astin will do basically anything you ask him to do appar…
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Do you want to know how he got these scars? This week, Emily and V take a trip to Gotham City to look back at Alan Moore's Batman magnum opus, The Killing Joke. While it garnered tons of accolades for its darkness, grittiness, violence, and portrayal of The Joker's semi-definitive backstory, The Killing Joke has also received a lot of (totally warr…
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March 7, 2002: The Snapefic Liberation Front Forms (PLUS: The Snapewife Saga)
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There's no need to call him 'sir,' professor! This week, V and Emily really, really try very, very hard to be generous and understanding about people loving Severus Snape even though it is extremely difficult for them because he is the worst. In their personal opinions. Which are not facts, just opinions, and do not mean that you cannot love Severu…
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February-March 2009: Racefail '09 Continues, with Guest bossymarmalade
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No pithy exclamation this week, folks, we're jumping right into the actual episode description: This week, V and Emily are joined by Maggie @bossymarmalade, who was one of the key meta-writers during this unfortunate fandom (and wider writing world) event. "Racefail '09" is the moniker for a lengthy discussion on LiveJournal in 2009 about the role …
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February 2009: Twilight Fandom Stays Wide Awake
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Badwards and cookies and unicorns, oh my! This week, V and Emily head to Forks and dive off the cliff into the world of Twihards, Twank, and one very special gazebo as they look at the first Twilight superfic and, arguably, the one with the biggest impact on the fandom: Wide Awake by angstgoddess003. Is this fic the reason that 50 Shades of Grey ex…
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The Author would like to tell you all to suck it! This week, V and Emily scroll way, way, way back to 2021, when every single fucking page of AO3 was blighted by the tagslist on the one, the only: Sexy Times With WangXian. You know it. You hate it. And it led to archive-wide changes in tag limits and a discussion about tagging etiquette (and those …
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February 10, 2021: Charisma Carpenter Calls Out Joss Whedon
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CUT! This week, Emily and V go back in time for a retrospective of truly despicable actions and quotes by a truly despicable man, Joss Whedon, whom fandom-at-large gave far too many passes for far too long. From killing off Cordelia Chase to punish Charisma Carpenter to outright racism against Ray Fisher, Joss Whedon's career is as full of people t…
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PEPPERONI! This week, V and Emily go completely off the rails as they join in on the annual Star Trek holiday of Threshold Day. This is the silliest episode we have ever done and likely will ever do. Get ready for salamanders! Polls! Crabs! Daddy issues! If you've never celebrated Threshold Day, just... get ready. With thanks to @hollie47, @vanilka…
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Helloooooo, internet land! This week, Emily and V were treated to a primer on the OMG Check Please! fandom by listener and friend-of-the-pod korechthonia, and Emily explains the divide between the pro-Parse and anti-Parse sides of the otherwise sweet and peaceful fandom. Plus, she tells V about growing up on a boys' hockey team herself and losing a…
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Hey kids, you want some recs? This week, V and Emily go back to LiveJournal to explore a mainstay of 2000s-era fandom: the rec blog, The Crack Van. They discuss the problems with convergence culture, changing multifandom and multishipping norms, and the eternal question -- where are the rec blogs of today?…
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