Episodes
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.
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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.
Articles
The Hillary Fandom
Politics as fandom, and fandom as politics.
Episodes
Episode 32: Nerds For Her
Paul DeGeorge, half of the band Harry and the Potters, talks about the Nerds for Her campaign.
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Episode 31: Get Recced
Fandom journalist Gavia Baker-Whitelaw helps us break down the art of fic reccing.
Episodes
Episode 30: Games and Fandom
Writer Evan Narcisse talks about gaming vs media fandom, gatekeeping, and more.
Episodes
Episode 29: Shipping and Activism
Fan scholars Rukmini Pande and Lori Morimoto discuss the trouble with shipping-as-politics.
Explainers
To Ship or Not To Ship
An explainer about the words “ship” and “slash.”
Special Episodes
Special Episode 1: Harry Potter and the Curse of the Neverending Canon
Come for critiques of Cursed Child. Stay for complaints about...the rest of Harry Potter.
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