Some fans are concerned about AI tools like ChatGPT and Lensa—but are they worth the worry?
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Featuring Lindsay Mixer, Soph, TallysGreatestFan, Lizard Socks, May Barros, Cora Maria, miscellanium, Bodge, Julia, Valerie Gristch, and Jessica
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Featuring Rebecca Milton, Dr. Paul D. C. Bones, buffer-overrun, Taylor, Joan Miller, Wheelchairidan, Hannah, and Sandy
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Real person fiction has been a complicated fandom topic for decades—but what does it look like in 2022?
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How a life in fandom led to running social media for some of the world’s biggest franchises
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It’s easy to make basic comparisons, but are fandom and religion really that similar?
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Listener mail on fandom conspiracy theories, AO3 collections, moving from lurking to participating, and more.
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If we can all see it, how could we possibly be wrong?
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The past year’s guests share observations about what’s changed in fandom, both broadly and personally
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We do, in fact, live in a society.
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A conversation with the author of Everything I Need I Get from You: How Fangirls Created the Internet as We Know It
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Is there actually any relationship between the quality of the source material and the size of a fandom?
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A conversation with a scholar of Chinese boys’ love fiction (aka danmei), on bodies, gender, ambivalence, and more
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Listener mail on author’s notes, crossovers vs. fusions, creating new fic archives, and more
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Was “affirmational” vs. “transformational” ever a useful distinction?
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Is the practice of writing fan meta in decline—or is it just evolving?
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Can we create fandom environments that allow us to truly protect ourselves?
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Fic writer, editor, and teacher Betts returns to talk about her latest project
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