Special Episodes
Special Episode 24: WandaVision
What is the MCU, if not a franchise persevering?
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Special Episodes
Special Episode 23: Tropefest: Hurt/Comfort
Only one special person can rescue him from the warehouse.
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Episode 144: Writing Women
A conversation with fic and meta writer breathedout about f/f fanfiction and female characters.
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Episode 143: Ask Fansplaining Anything: Part 9
Listener mail on fanfics of fanfics, exclusion in fan spaces, and more.
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Episode 142: Copyright Brainworms
The legal limits of imagination.
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Episode 141: The Year In Fandom 2020
The biggest fandom stories from a very strange year: transnational media, fan expectations, and, of course, the pandemic.
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Episode 140: Miranda Ruth Larsen
The fan studies scholar talks K-pop in 2020—the artists, the media, and the fans.
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Episode 139: The “Q” is for “Queerbaiting”
Shipping, subtext, teasing, representation, and “going canon”.
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Episode 138: 2020 By the Numbers
Some stats you may actually enjoy looking at in this cursed year.
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Episode 137: . . . And There Was Only One Trope
Do you want exactly what it says on the tin?
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Episode 136: Political Fictions
Politics as fandom, and fandom as politics.
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Episode 135B: Race and Fandom Revisited: Part 2
Featuring Stitch, Anisa Khalifa, Effy, Amanda-Rae Prescott, Sam, Phoebe Sinclair, and Dr. JSA Lowe.