V Arrow 11/5/26 V Arrow 11/5/26

November 4, 2024: AO3 Creators Choose Whether To Warn (TW Mentions of CSAM, Censorship, Murder/Death)

This week, Emily and V take a deep dive into AO3's updates to its TOS in 2024, and specifically, the culture divide between newer fans and Fandom Olds that was exposed when, for the first time, the OTW solicited user feedback on the TOS.

V Arrow 10/26/26 V Arrow 10/26/26

October 27, 1997: SOS Saves The Sentinel... Kind Of

What gives, CBS?! We wanna slash the thing! We want to participate in all of the fanfiction this fandom produced! SOS!

V Arrow 10/18/26 V Arrow 10/18/26

October 15, 2015: The Zamii070 Incident (TW Suicide, Cyberbullying)

In late October 2015, a 19‑year‑old fan artist from Arizona named Paige Paz, known online as Zamii070, posted a video from a hospital room after surviving a suicide attempt. For months, she had been the target of escalating harassment from corners of the Steven Universe fandom — a community built around a show that preached empathy, communication, and radical kindness.

V Arrow 10/11/26 V Arrow 10/11/26

October 14-16, 1988: The Blake's 7 Slash Wars Build Fandom's Fourth Wall (with Lena Barkin)

Down and... safe? This week, V and Emily are joined by fandom scholar Lena Barkin (The Fanthropologist) to discuss an event that should, really, be as notorious in fanfiction culture as the Anne Rice debacle or Cassandra Clare kerfuffle: the Blake's 7 Slash Wars.

V Arrow 9/27/26 V Arrow 9/27/26

October 3: Mean Girls Day with Allegra from STAN Podcast

She doesn't even go here! This week, V and Emily are joined by a friend who, indeed, does not normally go here. Allegra Ponti from STAN Podcast is here to join our cafeteria clique as we discuss the 2004 movie phenomenon Mean Girls.

V Arrow 9/20/26 V Arrow 9/20/26

September 24, 2014: In Which We Got Jossed By Dan & Phil

This week’s episode is a little different. This week, Emily and V finally release an episode that has been sitting in our vault for over a year — not because it wasn’t good, but because the universe pulled off one of the most chaotic, timeline‑breaking acts of accidental fandom trolling we’ve ever witnessed.

V Arrow 9/13/26 V Arrow 9/13/26

September 13, 2005: Supernatural Premieres, Lightning Bottled, with Heidi Tandy (at SDCC!)

V and Emily are joined by friend-of-the-pod Heidi Tandy, who calls in from San Diego Comic-Con 2026 to discuss the fandom that spells SDCC for her, and thousands of others in the fannish community: Supernatural.

V Arrow 9/6/26 V Arrow 9/6/26

September 4, 1995: Xena Reinvents Fandom

The Xenites weren’t just early adopters of online fandom. They were architects of it.

V Arrow 8/30/26 V Arrow 8/30/26

September 1, 1850: Lindmania Shapes the American Middle Class

Did you know that the fangirls of 1850 were Just Like Us? They sobbed, they squeed, they schemed to meet their faves, and they spent way, WAY too much on concert tickets. Come wait outside the stage doors with us for a glimpse at the Swedish Nightingale.

V Arrow 8/23/26 V Arrow 8/23/26

August 27, 2014: #Gamergate Coined

While #Gamergate easily warrants an entire long-form investigative podcast all on its own, Emily did a fantastic job condensing it down to one infuriating hour for V.

V Arrow 8/16/26 V Arrow 8/16/26

August 16, 2021: Shang-Chi Rises to the Top of the MCU

Listen as we make a case for everyone to hop on board the Shang-Chi train and start including Shang-Chi, Katy, and Xialing in their fanworks before Doomsday comes to doom us all. Plus, critiques of the handling of the "Multiverse Saga" (or lack thereof) and our case for Kevin Feige to guest on TWIFH.

V Arrow 8/9/26 V Arrow 8/9/26

August 2 - August 18, 2020: BTS ARMY Wages War on AO3

When fans take it upon themselves to become de facto employees for their blorbos, are they still acting out of fandom or does it become purely parasocial? Is there a difference? What is the line between self-interested fandom and selfish fandom?

V Arrow 8/2/26 V Arrow 8/2/26

July 1998: The STIFfie Awards Have “Nothing to Hide”

It’s a triple-shot of '90s slash goodness: the multifandom zine "Nothing to Hide," the STIFfie Awards of 1998, and STIFfie founder Mary Urhausen.

V Arrow 7/26/26 V Arrow 7/26/26

July 21, 2012: The Ballad of Derpy Hooves

This week, Emily and V are... surprisingly heartwarmed? Pleasantly shocked? Tentatively on board with a fandom they were very nervous to cover? We're talking about Bronies this week.

V Arrow 7/19/26 V Arrow 7/19/26

July 1982: "July" Delights Harry/Johnny Fans (And Us)

Do ya feel lucky? Punk! (We do, because we’ve discovered the Harry/Johnny fandom of the 1980s and we love it so, so, so much.)

V Arrow 7/12/26 V Arrow 7/12/26

July 9, 2009: Ianto Jones Breaks Fandom’s Heart For Eternity

This week, Emily and V look at a fandom event that was listed on our research spreadsheet as, simply, "A HUGE FUCKING DEAL."

V Arrow 7/8/26 V Arrow 7/8/26

BONUS! The Multiverse of Emily-and-V Madness with Mind the Tags!

You have two nickels! This week, Emily and V joined forces with... Emily and Vee! You requested it in our May listener survey: it's a wild conversation with fellow fandom podcast, Mind the Tags.