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Welcome to Open Tabs! Today's episode starts with the new batch of 2025 AO3 ship statistics from community darling, centreoftheselights. We talk about the good and the bad and then Sydney does (a few) rants she's been wanting to get off her chest for a while - and splash around in the shallow end of data science and stat analysis. Its not nearly as scary as it sounds!

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This podcast and this episode cover adult themes and discuss explicit content: listener discretion is advised.

Welcome to Open Tabs! We've got an episode we recorded awhile ago and stashed away for a rainy day - and since half of Tappy's town almost got rained out with record flooding, it seems like exactly the time.

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Welcome to Open Tabs! On today's episode we discuss our favorite website's occasional boughts of down time. We all need it, but does AO3 go down sometimes? More specifically, why did it go down THIS time? Also the KPOP Demon Hunters episode because we weren't going to tell Princess she couldn't talk about it - what the hell else is a podcast for?

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Welcome to Open Tabs! On today's episode we discuss some of the movie adaptations of written works that were originally (maybe allegedly) adapted from fanfictions. The beautiful Balkan nation of Albania features heavily. There's a reasonable segue we promise. Also Sydney finally has a mic that doesn't predate the fall of Rome!

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Welcome to Open Tabs! We had to talk about the black mold in the castle one day: We're covering Harry Potter Fanfiction and the she-who-should-be-ignored who wrote it and uses its continued, metastasized presence in fan culture spaces to justify her bigotry. BUT we've got a bright side to this episode's shit-stain of a topic: We brought Bugs back to help us talk through it!

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Welcome to Open Tabs! AO3 got scraped for AI training: What happened, why is this bad,  what can we do about it and will hammers be involved? We're bringing on one of our favorite silly little guys from the internet to join Sydney and Amy as we discuss some of our LEAST favorite stupid little guys from the internet and their even dumber ideas.

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Welcome to Open Tabs! Today we're tackling censorship as it relates to fandom and how it is and has affected internet spaces throughout our tormented millennial tenure in cyberspace. We just wanna enjoy our weirdo shit in piece. We're tired, are you tired? So for some well deserved dopamine we open up the podcast mailbag and discuss your lovely comments and questions from our first 10 episodes!

We also have a very exciting announcement to make: You can now support the podcast on Patreon and help us grow our little community including... drumroll please our very own cool fanfiction discord!

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This podcast and this episode cover adult themes and discuss explicit content: listener discretion is advised.

Welcome to Open Tabs! We've got another episode from the cache for you this week - we're talking about purity culture and how this strange backslide is affecting fandom spaces. What's up with the this shift in the way folks interact with liscened and fan media and each other? We don't have all the answers but we certainly have some loud opinions (and less some very important opinions about the philosophy and fine craft of good chicken wings.)

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Welcome to Open Tabs! This weeks episode is another from the archived recordings. The crew sets out to discuss the epilogue of My Hero Academia and proceeds to rate of all of shounen anime to filth - except for Yu Yu Hakusho - that one's almost perfect.

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Welcome to Open Tabs! We've got our first special guest of the podcast: Sydney's long-term (long-suffering) bestie SKS-Ninja. She's here to talk about all things podfics, Legend of Zelda and a whole lot of the kind of lore drops you only get from a friendship that involves lots of fucked up, shared fandom history.

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Welcome to Open Tabs!

On today's episode we talk writing challenges: from NaNoWriMo to Kinktober, then get promptly side-tracked and dig into the history of the Hoover Dam. Y'know, the usual stuff!

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Welcome to Open Tabs! On today's episode we discuss the ban (and near-immediate unban) of Tiktok in January 2025 - along with all the ways the young and old are interacting with fanfiction and fandom on this strange, short-form space.

HEADS UP! Because of the context surrounding the ban/unban of Tiktok this episode delves more into recent American politcs than normal. If that's something you can't or don't want to handle right now, we absolutely understand. If you're as angry as we are and looking to spend your bandwidth on something construction, I (Sydney) recommend contacting your local branch of the DSA or checking out the resource guide over here by Individsible Action as a starting point for more good trouble you can get into.

This podcast and this episode cover adult themes and discuss explicit content: listener discretion is advised.

Welcome to Open Tabs! Today our intrepid hosts set out to discuss how and where to find fanfiction. From the old stomping grounds at fanfiction.net to the promised land of AO3, to kinkmemes and gated discord communities (with all the usual millennial yapping in between).

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Welcome to Open Tabs! We're welcoming in 2025 by discussing the Jan-Dec AO3 ship stats from... 2023. We may have recorded this episode before the 2024 ship stats were out, what are you going to do about it? Better late than (M) pregnant! More importantly, huge thanks and infinite kudos to AO3 user centreoftheselights for the amazing data work they do for the community year after year!

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Welcome to Open Tabs! The crew is back and we're getting personal: This episode we cover our own personal introductions to the world of fanfiction and reflect on how much has changed since we were all wandering around blindly asking Jeeves to show us two characters kissing. It's good, it's bad, and it's definitely ugly but at least Sesshomaru features prominently.

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Welcome to Open Tabs! On this very special inaugural episode the crew makes sure to define the terms of some of the most common fanfiction tropes and then proceeds to judge them all. We're off to a great start!

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Open Tabs is the brain(rot) child of Tappy Toe Claws, Amy the Amazonian and Princess Weekes. All of whom love fanfiction too much to have waited this long to make a podcast where they scream at each other about it. This production does cover adult themes and dicsuss explicit content: listener discretion is advised.