Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchOctober 1912: Edgar Rice Burroughs Publishes Tarzan of the Apes, Invents the Franchise
Season 2 Episode 92
*insert Tarzan yell here* This week, Emily and V explore a totally new-to-them fandom thanks to requester pandaimitator: Tarzan of the Apes. And fran…
1 year, 8 months ago
October 2-16, 2010: WAR Thirteen, In Memory of Susan M. Garrett
Season 2 Episode 91
Get out your tissues, listeners! (Seriously.) This week, V and Emily split the episode in two parts: first, the very silly attempt to understand how …
1 year, 9 months ago
September 25 - October 5, 2023: Voter Fraud Upsets the AO3 Top Ships Bracket Tumblr Poll
Season 2 Episode 90
What?! This week, Emily and V travel all the way back one year to look at... the dumbest thing we've ever had to cover for this show, possibly. You a…
1 year, 9 months ago
September 16, 2012: The Bullshit Tweet
Season 2 Episode 89
#*@%$(*! This week, V and Emily head back to the event that caused the Great Schism Of One Direction Fandom: The Bullshit Tweet. V has an epiphany ab…
1 year, 9 months ago
September 14-15, 1974: The First Fest for Beatles Fans
Season 2 Episode 88
Come together, right now! This week, Emily and V head back to the extremely seventies 1970s to look at a fandom currently having a resurgence on Tumb…
1 year, 9 months ago
September 1, 2017: The Handbook for (My) Immortals: Or, Two Literary Frauds!
Season 2 Episode 87
Fukkin' preps. This week, V and Emily have their brains melted by not ONE incredibly stupid and obvious literary fraud, but TWO incredibly stupid and…
1 year, 10 months ago
Summer 2000-2003: Harry Potter Fandom and the Three-Year Summer
Season 2 Episode 86
Icicle?! This week, Emily and V hold a sort of jazz funeral for a fandom event that shaped both of them as human people, and that cannot and should n…
1 year, 10 months ago
August 1994: Green Lantern's Girlfriend Is Fridged
Season 2 Episode 83
::General rage noises:: This week, V and Emily discuss the trope-namer for "fridging," or the killing off of female characters purely to cause manpai…
1 year, 10 months ago
July 20 - August 2, 2016: Cipher Hunt!
Season 2 Episode 82
Buy gold...! This week, Emily and V look at one of the coolest fan experiences that they've ever heard about: Gravity Falls fandom's Cipher Hunt. To …
1 year, 11 months ago
July 22-23, 2017: The Supergirl Musical Homophobia Scandal
Season 2 Episode 81
Up, up, and... oh no. This week, V and Emily look at yet another fandom whose femslash juggernaut OTP got dealt an unfair hand by TPTB, in looking at…
1 year, 11 months ago