Episodes
Episode 41: Fandom Trumps Hate
Two organizers from the “Fandom Trumps Hate” fanworks charity auction on harnessing fandom for good.
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Episode 40: Axanar [Lawsuit Intensifies]
A conversation with Rob Burnett, the director of the planned Axanar fan film, on Paramount v. Axanar.
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Episode 39: Fansplaining!!! On Ice
Anime journalist Lauren Orsini joins us to discuss the form through the lens of Yuri!!! On Ice.
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Episode 38: The Year In Fandom 2016
Social media, fan/creator interaction, and mangling the term “fanfiction”: our annual year in review.
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Episode 37: Queer YA and Beyond
Scholar Emily Roach talks about queer YA literature and how it connects—and doesn’t connect—with fandom.
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Episode 36: There’s No Place Like Home
Can you return to a fandom you’ve outgrown—or one whose problematic elements overshadow the good?
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Episode 35: No Escape
Recorded in the days following the 2016 U.S. presidential election, we are...sad.
Criticism
Trumped is the New Jossed
In this year’s political fanfiction, it’s hard to keep up with reality.
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Episode 34: Five Tropes Fanfic Readers Love (And One They Hate)
Breaking down the results of our fanfiction tropes survey, which was taken by more than 7,500 people.
Special Episodes
Special Episode 2: Primary Colors
On the 1998 film Primary Colors, about a lightly fictional Bill and Hillary Clinton.
Surveys
Five Tropes Fanfic Readers Love (And One They Hate)
More than 7,500 fanfiction readers filled out the Fansplaining Fic Preferences Survey. What can we learn from the results?
Episodes
Episode 33: A Hundred Thousand Worlds
Bob Proehl discusses his novel about comics and conventions, A Hundred Thousand Worlds.