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Episode 106: The Neverending Franchise
What happens when your thing ends—in a world where no franchise truly ends?
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You Did the Thing
A conversation with Gretchen McCulloch about the language of fandom.
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Episode 105: Emily Nussbaum
How technology has shaped the way TV is made—and the way fans watch.
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Episode 104: The Fourth Wall Redux
Revisiting the ever-evolving divide between fans and creators.
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Episode 103: Slash: The Play
A conversation with the dark-haired one and the light-haired one.
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Episode 102: OOC
How do fans collectively construct characters?
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Episode 101: Stan Culture
We stan a legend. (Specifically, The Learned Fangirl’s Keidra Cheney.)
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Episode 100: The More You Know
What we’ve learned from our first 100 episodes.
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Shipping Survey: Methodology and Tools
Commas, smushed ship names, and one long-suffering data professional.
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Shippers on Shipping
What is shipping? Our survey’s 16,513 self-identified shippers...did not agree.
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Episode 99: The Shipping Answers
17,391 people took our shipping survey. We dig into the responses.
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Episode 98: The After Effect
What happens when different kinds of fans clash over their interpretations of a celebrity?