This Week In Fandom History is the weekly podcast where we tell you what happened… this week in fandom history.
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Start Here: A Fandom History 101 Primer
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January 1967: The First Star Trek Zine Is Distributed
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BONUS! Trans Fans Have Always Been Here
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December 1973: The World Meets Mary Sue
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August 1975: The August Party Becomes the First Fan Con
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October 1976: The First Slash Fic Is Released and We All Benefit
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April 1979: "Bunkies" Introduces Everyone's Favorite Trope
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February 1983: Groundhog Day Stories Published, Helping Create Slash As We Know It
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August-November 1988: "A Death in the Family" Divides Batman Fandom
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August 1994: Green Lantern's Girlfriend Is Fridged
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April 7, 2000: Anne Rice's Anti-Fanfiction Screed
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June 2001: Cassandra Claire Sends Shockwaves Through Harry Potter Fandom
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January 21, 2002: The First Time Someone Posted A Five Times Story
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November 2003: The First Yuletide Exchange Opens
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August 2005: The First-Ever Big Bang Explodes the Fanfiction Universe
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February 19, 2007: Tumblr Founded
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May 29, 2007: Strikethrough
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September 5, 2007: The Organization for Transformative Works is Filed as a Nonprofit
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February-March 2009: Racefail '09 Continues, with Guest @bossymarmalade
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November 8, 2010: The Omegaverse Is Born
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September 16, 2012: The Bullshit Tweet
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January 7, 2014: The JohnLock Conspiracy Begins
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July 11-13, 2014: DashCon, with Special Guest Lauren Shippen
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September 1, 2017: The Handbook For (My) Immortals: Or, Two Literary Frauds!
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December 30-31, 2019: John Boyega Is Attacked by Reylos (Again)
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November 5, 2020: November 5! With Special Guest, SPN Writer Meghan Fitzmartin
Meet Your Hosts
When V and Emily met, they each had a Fandom Acid Test question for the other that would determine whether they would just be “podcast friends” or real friends.
Emily asked V her opinion on Steve Rogers’ ending in Avengers: Endgame.
V asked Emily her thoughts on Star Wars’ Kylo Ren.
Needless to say, as they both have excellent opinions on everything, they ran the gauntlet (not Thanos’ gauntlet) successfully. Now they do a weekly deep-dive into fannish history…