Topic Browser
- 1890s
- 1910s
- 1920s
- 1930s
- 1960s
- 1970s
- 1980s
- 1990s
- 2000s
- 2010s
- 2020s
- A Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
- As the World Turns
- Batman
- Book Fandom
- Boy Bands
- Captain America
- Celebrity Fandoms
- Character Deaths
- Character Introductions
- Commercialization of Fandom
- Con Disasters
- Conspiracy Theories
- Content Purges
- Cosplay
- Cults of Personality
- DC Comics
- Doctor Who
- Fan Campaigns
- Fan Clubs
- Fan Communities
- Fan Conventions
- Fandom Competitions & Awards
- Fandom Holidays
- Fandom Memes
- Fandom Migration
- Fandom Platforms
- Fandom Polls
- Fandom Racism
- Fanfiction
- Fanfiction Tropes
- Fanworks Challenges
- Femslash
- Filing Off the Serial Numbers
- Forever Knight
- Frauds Lies & Schemes
- Glee
- Green Lantern
- Hannibal
- Hanson
- Harry Potter
- Highlander
- In Memoriam
- Joss Whedon
- Kpop
- Legality of Fanfiction
- Legendary Wanks
- LiveJournal
- Mainstream Perceptions of Fandom
- Marvel
- MCYT
- Musicals
- NSFW
- OMG Check Please!
- One Direction
- Organization for Transformative Works
- Our Flag Means Death
- Platform Migration
- Podfics & Fanvids
- Purity Culture
- Rocky Horror Picture Show
- RPF
- Sherlock Holmes
- Ship Wars
- Show Cancellations
- Show Premieres
- Slash
- Soap Operas
- Social Justice
- Star Trek
- Star Wars
- Stranger Things
- Superman
- Supernatural
- Tarzan of the Apes
- Terry Pratchett
- The 100
- The Avengers
- The Hunger Games
- The Untamed
- The X Files
- Thor (and Loki)
- Tumblr
- Twilight
- Usenet
- Video & Computer Gaming
- Voltron: Legendary Defender
- X-Men
- YouTubers
- Zines
April 4, 2024: BiBuck on The Weewoo Show
Weewoo! Has anyone in your OTP ever officially come out after being introduced as ostensibly straight? Do you even want them to?
March 23, 2025: JonasCon Is Burnin' Up
SOS! Were you a Jonas Brothers fan? Did you, like V, have only one possession to your name in 2009 and that possession was a Jonas Brothers poster?
March 18, 1975: M*A*S*H Says "Abyssinia Henry" with @dearmash1975project
Attention! This week, a very special guest joins V and Emily to help tackle one of the biggest shows ever on American TV and, further, one of the biggest shock character deaths of all time.
March 12, 2006: The Yunjae Yaoi Inferno
There's compulsory military service. There's rival fansites at war. There's a tramp stamp. There's a meet-cute-via-street-fight. There's exploitative contracts and industry blacklisting. This story has all the things.
March 2, 2017: "All the Young Dudes" Debuts on AO3
Wotcher! What the fuck is FicTok and why is it so influential??
February 11, 2017: The Soulmate Goose of Enforcement Trope Is Introduced
It is a soulmate AU, and you are a horrible goose! What is it? It's what it sounds like. …Why is it?
February 13, 2026: TWIFH Live @ TGIF/F! With Fan Girl Film Club!
The last 40 minutes are shares from TGIF/F attendees about what the con has meant to them over the years, and they are truly not to be missed. So special, so vulnerable, so queer, so fandom. If nothing else, listen to these -- and start saving to come to TGIF/F in 2027. It's a place like none other.
February 10, 2003: "Flesh Mechanic" Changes The Fic Game And We're Obsessed
God must have spent a little more time on Flesh Mechanic! (Actually, Kel and Lise did.) What fanfiction absolutely BLEW YOUR FUCKING FACE OFF?
January 21, 2002: The First Time Someone Posted A Five Times Fic
+1! Which 5+1 fics have devastated you beyond comprehension? Have you ever written one?
December 17-18, 2014: Makorra Bottles Never Popped, Korrasami Changes Cartoons
Well, this happened. Buckle in, bend some water(?), and join us in feeling conflicted about avatars!
December 14, 2001: Save Daniel Jackson, And Other Fan Campaigns
Gate those stars! This week, Emily and V take a look at fannish campaigns to save beloved TV shows and beloved characters, focusing on one in particular: the campaign to bring Daniel Jackson back to Stargate SG-1.
December 5, 2023: #reylogate AKA #reviewgate AKA This Again
This is the MsScribe story but with a 2024 twist! So many sockpuppets! So many hashtags! So much villainfucking! And SO MUCH MONEY! Get aghast with us as we imagine having consequences of these proportions rained down upon us and yet LEARNING NOTHING from them.
November 24, 2015: Lexa Buys (a) Fish.
#relationshipgoals! This week, Emily and V look at a Incorrect Quotes post from The 100 fandom that broke containment in a big way.
November 23, 1963: 11/23/63
No, not THAT historical event from November 1963! We're talking about how Doctor Who, the juggernaut fandom that's been on the air for over 50 years, almost never became a thing just because someone (not named Bucky Barnes...) assassinated JFK a mere 12 hours before the first episode debuted. Rude.
November 3, 2017: Thor: Ragnarok Divides the MCU Fandom
And he was like, BLEGHGH! IT'S ME! How did different perspectives inform the ways that audiences enjoyed -- or didn't enjoy -- Thor: Ragnarok?
September 20, 2020: Heat Waves, Or: We Try to Understand MCYT
This week, V and Emily stumble along in the dark as they try desperately to fulfill a request for the MCYT.
July 1997: Highlander [WAR!] II
They're on a boat! We're venturing back to the wonderful, weird world wide web of the late '90s to see a mailing list [WAR!] -- a round-robin, not-technically-roleplaying-but-it-kinda-is, fanfiction extravaganza.
November 5, 2020: November 5! With Special Guest, SPN Writer Meghan Fitzmartin
Happy November 5! This week, V and Emily are joined by special guest, Supernatural writer Meghan Fitzmartin, who gives us the skinny on what it was like from the other side of the curtain.
July 19, 2019: Veronica Mars Kills Off LoVe... And Its Entire Fandom
KABOOM! This week, V and Emily discuss a fandom that V was very much in, and is very much no longer in. Because no one is.
July 11, 2016: Voltron Fandom Airs Its "Dirty Laundry"
Not again... This week, Emily and V look at yet another time that a fandom cannibalized one of its own because of popularity: "Dirty Laundry" by gibslythe.