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Episode 215: The Broken Contract
Streaming has utterly obliterated traditional television models. Where does that leave fans?
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Episode 214: Ask Fansplaining Anything: Part 18
Listener mail on fic tagging norms, AI and fanworks, and more.
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Episode 213: The Year in Fandom 2023
Assessing some of fan culture’s biggest stories and trends in 2023.
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Episode 212: Fandom Truthiness
We watched the four-hour YouTube plagiarism video so you don’t have to. (But you really should!)
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Episode 211: The Copyright Conundrum
EarlGreyTea68 returns to the podcast to talk about her article on fan creators and U.S. copyright law.
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How U.S. Copyright Law Fails Fan Creators
Fans know that creativity isn’t a finite resource that needs to be kept behind lock and key.
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Episode 210: The RPF Tipping Point
Zan Romanoff, co-host of On the Bleachers, returns to the podcast to talk Taylor Swift/Travis Kelce.
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Episode 209: Ask Fansplaining Anything: Part 17
Listener letters on communal vs solitary fandom, BNF translators, and asexual characters in fic.
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Episode 208: What Fans Owe Each Other
Is there any way to make online fandom conversations better?
Special Episodes
Special Episode 31: Tropefest: Friends to ?
On the many varied depictions of friendship in fic, and how shipping culture influences (and overshadows) them.
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Episode 207: Paul Cornell
The writer discusses the fan-to-pro journey, from lifelong Doctor Who fandom to working on the show.
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Episode 206: Bad Fans Revisited
Yes, he *has* committed many fictional crimes. Is that a problem?