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Talkin‘ Fanfic

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Frequency: 1 episode/56d. Total Eps: 27

Fanfiction taken seriously. Seriously! We interview authors, talk at length and in-depth about fics, we discuss characters and ships and tropes. This is a place for fanfiction community-- and cocktails!

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🇨🇦 Canada - drama
14/11/2024
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Interview with HeyJulien, Football RPF and Carraville writer

Season 3 · Episode 7

Tuesday, July 9, 2024 • Duration 03:49:30

Summary:

Like a bicycle kick goal at minute 95, Sara finally completes editing on a much overdue interview with fellow Carraville author HeyJulien !

Sara and Julien talk about the world of football RPF (as in soccer, for all you Yankees); specifically the delightfully odd-couple rivals-to-lovers ship of English football pundits Gary Neville and Jamie Carragher. Other talking points scattered across the pitch include: football as war, derby days and football rivalry; the joys of local non-league football, the Bundesliga and fußballkultur; to switch POV, or not to switch POV; the annoying beauty of David Beckham; and of course, we discuss the tragically under-utilized in fic friendship of Paul Scholes and Gary Neville (or, Scholesy as the Kermit to Gary Neville’s Miss Piggy).

Join us, if you like! Correction - at 03:27:40 we incorrectly refer to our wonderful fellow Carraville author as ‘player1604’-- their handle is player1064, which is a reference to Gary Neville’s England legacy number. Gary was the 1,064th player to play for England’s National Team.

Contact and Credits:

Intro Theme: Kyle Laurin "Oasis Supersonic Theme" (Twitter: @cobrakylemusic)
Tumblr: talkinfanfic.tumblr.com
Instagram: @talkinfanfic
Email: talkinfanfic@gmail.com

Time caps:

00:10:39 - Chelsea v Liverpool result in the Carabao Cup Final AND “Football and Butts”
00:13:17 minutes - Picking an English team as an outside fan, local rivalry in sport, and the mechanisms of tribalism
00:21:10 - Football pride as a substitute for national pride in Germany
00:22:57 - League structure in european football, the purity of the local club, financial doping, and German “fußballkultur”
00:32:57 - A late introduction to HeyJulien ! Julien’s earliest reading and writing memories.
00:36:36 - First encounter with fanfiction and Youtuber RPF
00:42:11 - Path into Sports RPF
00:45:28 - The specific allure of Hockey RPF
00:53:54 - Getting into Football RPF and Carraville
01:11:07 - Carraville fic, start of “Zombies” discussion, and Julien’s real-life plot inspiration
01:20:04 - Excerpt 1, from “Zombies”
01:39:12 - Strategy and instinct of switching POV’s
01:59:50 - “The Victorian Era”
02:06:13 - Excerpt 2, from “The Victorian Era” (apologies from Sara for the botched English accents)
02:23:17 - Cat cameo by Daniel Pickles - and the theme of power in “The Victorian Era”, Gary and Victoria’s friendship, and writing moments that “show” instead of “tell”.
02:32:27 - The fun of writing about “bad people”, and recurring themes popping up in our works; AND the specific joys of fanfiction enriching “real life”
02:40:36 - “Tasting Syrup On My Tongue”
02:50:45 - The joy of Stevie G and Scholsey in Carraville fics
03:00:46 - Sara’s childhood soccer experience
03:02:49- Rapid Fire Questions!!!
03:17:21 - Michael Owen Quotes
03:31:00 - Coffee Shop Scenario
03:37:32 - Julien’s fic recs
03:43:11 - Final question- “What do you think it is about sport that lends itself to fiction and fanfiction?”

Episode References

FIC - ‘These zombies in the park, they're looking for my heart’ by HeyJulien
FIC - 'The Victorian Era' by HeyJulien
FIC - ‘Tasting Syrup On My Tongue’ by HeyJulien
https://www.fanfiktion.de/ - Julien’s first fanfic site!
CBS Champions League Today "Best Of" - Youtube video, example of CBS crew compilation, ft. Jamie Carragher, Micah Richards, Thierry Henry, and Kate Abdo
"Gary Neville & Jamie Carragher's BEST moments! 👀🍿" - Youtube video that Julien sent Sara to kick off the Carraville spiral
Gary Neville’s interview with Jamie Carragher on The Overlap - Youtube
"Neville and Carra - the perfect TV double act make their Monday Night Football debut" - Daily Mail article from August 2013, describing Jamie’s MNF debut alongside Gary.
And another 2013 article, this one from Stretty News on the Carraville punditry duo, described as “a dream pair”.
‘Tasting Syrup’ reference - Footage of John Terry head injury in the 2007 League Cup Final, Chelsea v Arsenal - Youtube
‘Tasting Syrup’ reference - Footage of Jamie Carragher head injury in a match against Arsenal in April 2011
Fanart - Man United v Liverpool lineup as envisioned by the genius k-ky - tumblr link
Article - "Bastian Schweinsteiger dragged the modern Germany to ultimate glory with blood, sweat and tears" - on Schweinsteiger’s heroic and gritty performance in the 2014 World Cup Final (October 2019)
Some more (unverified but highly entertaining)

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Talkin’ U2, Bono, and Bedge with Tory from the Retro Fanfic Retrospective Podcast!

Season 3 · Episode 6

Saturday, July 1, 2023 • Duration 02:53:35

Sara welcomes the great and wonderful Tory, best known for their reliably insightful analysis of fanfiction on the Retro Fanfic Retrospective podcast (found wherever you get your podcasts!) Tory shares their lifelong love affair with the legendary band U2, and their knowledge of the band’s history and music. Tory also digs into the amazing feat of how the band’s joyful, sublime chemistry seeps into the very music they produce, sustaining fruitful artistry for nearly fifty years.

Other topics include: Irish history, and the Christianity of U2, along with comparisons with Oasis. We also talk Bedge and RPF! And we dig into a mini-RFR discussion of likeamadonna’s Bono/Edge fanfiction within a fanfiction, “Fictitious Characters”.

Contact and Credits:

Intro Theme: Kyle Laurin "Oasis Supersonic Theme" (Twitter: @cobrakylemusic)
Clip used - Noel Gallagher on The Late Late Show | RTÉ One
Outro clip - “Beautiful Day” by U2, from the album ‘All That You Can't Leave Behind’ - pulled from Youtube licensed via UMG (on behalf of Universal-Island Records Ltd. ℗ An Island Records recording; ℗ 2000 Island Records Limited
Tumblr: talkinfanfic.tumblr.com
Instagram: @talkinfanfic
Email: talkinfanfic@gmail.com

Time caps:

00:00 - Introduction
06:03 - Start of episode
16:02 - Tory’s music background
24:25 - U2 in bloom right now!
35:06 - A little Irish history
45:19 - The Troubles, a climate for the formation of U2
56:03 - U2’s Bigness, America, and ‘What is Bono??’
01:02:45 - Bono’s useful celebrity, vs individualism of Oasis. Or, “do-gooders” vs “do-badders”

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Talkin‘ with Elise_51 - Catchup and Comics

Season 2 · Episode 7

Monday, November 15, 2021 • Duration 01:14:19

Sara and Laura catch up and talk about what they’ve been reading (angsty ‘Toy Story’ teen romance! Wincest in the world of ‘Tremors’ ! fake-marriage-scifi! Jason Todd/Dick Grayson!) ; what they’ve been writing (Batfamily! Green Lantern GuyKyle space husbands!) ; and Laura talks about her recent adventures in DC Comics land, where among other things, Guy Gardner of Space Sector 2814 gets KO’d by Batman, and tries to take his prospective girlfriend to a porno. And also why you should love Guy Gardner.

Contact and Credits:

Tumblr: talkinfanfic.tumblr.com
Instagram: @talkinfanfic
Email: talkinfanfic@gmail.com
Intro/Outro Music: Kyle Laurin "In the Air Tonight" (Twitter: @cobrakylemusic)
Background music for reading excerpt: "White Horses on the Beach" by NaturesEye (Pixabay)

Episode References

"A Moonlight Sonata" by DarlingJenny (Schroeder/Lucy)
"The Elko County Adventure" by Candle_beck (Sam/Dam, SPN&Tremors Crossover)
"Under the Table and Dreaming" by hollycomb (Andy/Sid, Toy Story)
“Theories About Nuclear Winter” by hollycomb (Calvin/Susie, Calvin and Hobbes)
"underneath your skin (let me in)" by Sandrine Shaw (Sandrine) Captain Cold/The Flash, CW’s ‘The Flash’ )

Fanfiction History with The Fanfic Maverick Podcast!! PART ONE

Season 2 · Episode 6

Tuesday, August 3, 2021 • Duration 02:40:18

A-TEAM, ASSEMBLE!! Sara joins forces with Beth from The Fanfic Maverick Podcast to take a DEEP DIVE into the history of fanfiction as we know it. From Ancient Greece to Ao3, we try and cover it all.

How are fanfic authors protected by US Copyright Law? (Fair Use!)
If George Lucas gets squicked out by your Luke/Han lemon, can his team of lawyers punt your PWP? (Not if you’re non-commercial, young padawan!)
How much do you know about the speakeasy of fanfiction, that seedy backroom of the internet obscurely known as WWOMB? (Beth will regale you!)
How many items on astolat's original Ao3 wishlist came true (ALL OF THEM! pretty much!)

AFTER LISTENING, subscribe to the Fanfic Maverick Podcast on Apple, Spotify, or whatever-- and stay tuned for PART 2: The exciting panel-style conclusion, where Sara and Beth round up a couple of fandom OGs who will tell you how is was-- and is!

Contact and Credits:

Music: Kyle Laurin "In the Air Tonight" (Twitter: @cobrakylemusic)
Tumblr: talkinfanfic.tumblr.com
Instagram: @talkinfanfic
Email: talkinfanfic@gmail.com

Biblio/Articles to Read

The Fanfic Maverick Podcast: SUBSCRIBE on your podcast platform, or find next week's episode HERE! https://www.fanficmaverickpodcast.com/
The Fanfiction Studies Reader (Univ of Iowa Press-- you can purchase direct from here, or please contact your local independent bookstore!)

Interview with provocative_envy aka Andrea Anderson PART DEUX

Season 2 · Episode 5

Friday, May 21, 2021 • Duration 01:13:52

PART TWO!! Sara and Andrea continue their discussion, this time with the aid of White Claw and more beer. Topics include: motherhood and writing, the challenges of being a short-form/flash fiction writer in a novelist’s world, finding motivation for wanting to do the “professional writing thing”, and the “silliness of the sequel.” We talk more about “Light as a Feather”, how ‘Kentucky South’ is a little different than the rest of the South (a very specific preoccupation with corrected Sonic slushies), AND Biscuit lets us know that the FedEx man is here!

Also, Sara gets pretty tipsy trying to read her “Rapid Fire” questions, and we giggle over ugly “SAD” ultraviolet mood-lifting lights. Where do you put them??

DON’T FORGET TO VOTE!: “RARE PAIR SUMMER SLAM 2k21: LIKE A VIRGIN” starts May 29th!!

Episode References

Ao3 Profile - provocative_envy
Andrea Anderson - Professional Website
Work - Over/Under (ao3) [Scabior/Draco summer camp, sort of??]
Work - Time Go (ao3) [the Pansy/Harry hockey escort fic!]
Tumblr Ask - provocative_envy's Top 3
Light as a Feather (read here for the price of cheap coffee!)
"RARE PAIR SUMMER SLAM 2k21: LIKE A VIRGIN”
Andrea is reading “The Serpent and the Pearl” by Kate Quinn

Interview with provocative_envy aka Andrea Anderson PART ONE

Season 2 · Episode 4

Monday, May 17, 2021 • Duration 01:23:30

IT'S A TWO-FER!

Sara sits down with professional author Andrea Anderson, who also writes fanfiction under the pen name provocative_envy. In Part One, Andrea talks about early writing (total and complete creative freedom! Wearing black! Missing the subtext in Sylvia Plath!), her work in fanfiction digging into the least explored characters in the Harry Potter universe, and how that bridged her into writing her own original fiction.

We discuss her published novel, “Light as a Feather” which you can purchase here (I did, it’s the perfect summer read!) And dig into the nitty gritty of outlining, structure, pacing, and how to “write like you’re going somewhere.”

We also compare chubby indoor cats with poor jumping skills, to “unambitious Slytherins.” Also we may have had a drink or two.

DON’T FORGET TO VOTE!: “RARE PAIR SUMMER SLAM 2k21: LIKE A VIRGIN” starts May 29th!! (Want to see Pavarti “Sephora checkout girl” Patil and OrganizedCrimeLord!Tom Riddle get together?? OR Percy Weasley as a LinkedIn Influencer??!! OR Farmer!Dudley and petty/vindictive/comically overfunded filmmaker!Draco ??!! EXERCISE YOUR RIGHT!)

PART TWO coming later this week!!

Episode References

Ao3 Profile - provocative_envy
Andrea Anderson - Professional Website
Work - Over/Under (ao3) [Scabior/Draco summer camp, sort of??]
Work - Time Go (ao3) [the Pansy/Harry hockey escort fic!]

Interview with RivkaT

Season 2 · Episode 3

Sunday, April 4, 2021 • Duration 01:38:34

Talkin’ Fanfic

Episode No. - 203

Episode Title - Interview with RivkaT

RivkaT has written 53 stories in the Smallville fandom, and many, many stories in other fandoms such as Supernatural, The X-Files, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and Fringe. Sara notes that nearly every time she sits down to read a RivkaT story, she learns something-- new vocabulary, a joke she hadn’t picked up on the first time, a new way of looking through a character’s eyes-- her writing is immersive, intelligent, incredibly thoughtful-- and fun! And even when utilizing overtly silly or overused tropes and clichés, nothing is cheaply handled. She is one of the best of the very best, not just in the Smallville fandom, but in the pantheon of authors held in highest regard. Sara was honored to sit down with her and talk about her work, including Sara’s favorite, “Useful Arts.”

Episode References

Work - "Useful Arts" by rivkat - Ao3
Work - “Ceremony of Innocence” - Ao3 (THE CORRUPTION ONE ;)
Work - “Repent at Leisure” - Ao3
Work - “Locked Room Mystery” - Ao3
Sime~Gen Universe, by by Jacqueline Lichtenberg (Wikipedia)
Fanlore article on RivkaT
Fanlore article on X-Files fandom writing partner MustangSally (this article also links to a Writer’s Block interview with Sally
"D'Aulaires Book of Greek Myths" (Penguin Random House, children's nonfiction)

Interview with Smallville fic author XParrot !!

Season 2 · Episode 2

Monday, March 22, 2021 • Duration 02:16:02

Sara sits down with XParrot, whose writing in the Smallville fandom she finds inspiring and incandescent! They talk about getting into the fascinating and flawed mind of Lex Luthor, and his philosophical preoccupation with the unsolvable problem of an imperfect being wielding unimaginable power; they dip into the Yu-Gi-Oh fandom to look at another troubled genius, Seto Kaiba; they discuss dramatic irony, and how canon allows fanfiction authors to anchor a story to certain points, and from there climb to heights unreachable by typical and traditional methods of fiction writing; aaaaand also what Michael Rosenbaum’s famous ad-lib “I love you like a brother” really should mean in the context of a CW show. Also we mention The CoCK. Heh.

Episode References

"String Theory at 1 a.m." by XParrot - AO3
"Exchange Student" by XParrot - AO3
"The Right of Truth" by XParrot - AO3
“This Mortal Coil” by XParrot - AO3
"Contingencies" by XParrot - AO3
Star Trek “The New Voyages” (Article on Memory Alpha)
Recc - The Identical Series by Lanning - AO3
Recc - "The Butterfly Effect" by The Spike (spike21) - AO3
Meta Analysis - The Lex-nalysis (XParrot Dreamwidth Entries)
“The Great Brain Robbery” - YT Clip (Clancy Brown voicing the Flash in Lex Luthor’s Body)
"Lex Luthor: Man of Steel" Azzarello/Bermejo - DC Comics

Intro to Season 2, AWARDS, and Fanfic Maverick!!

Season 2 · Episode 1

Monday, March 1, 2021 • Duration 28:55

A quick and dirty on what's coming in 2021! BONUS BADASS NEW THEME BY COBRA KYLE!! You've been waiting for this podcast, for all your life, oh Law-awd!! AWARDS, nominations close March 3rd!! PLUS listen to my buddy ChaosBlue's badass podcast "The Fanfic Maverick Podcast"

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Contact and Credits:

Music: Kyle Laurin "In the Air Tonight" (Twitter: @cobrakylemusic)
Tumblr: talkinfanfic.tumblr.com

“Who Is Like God?” by A_LazyPanda (BONUS Batfam/Superman chat at the end)

Season 1 · Episode 10

Friday, December 11, 2020 • Duration 01:55:59

This week Sara and Laura discuss “Who Is Like God?” a work in progress (WIP) written by A_LazyPanda (some of you may know her as Gia467). Centering on the character of Miguel, this work is a type of hero’s journey story that straddles the metaphysical line between the Valley as we know it, and something far more mysterious, magical, dark, and dangerous. It’s a story about the gray areas-- between right and wrong, between the ‘real’ and the fantastic, and between free will and fate. The story is also enhanced with a carefully chosen soundtrack (see Youtube playlist below) and some truly lovely fanart.

Perfect for readers looking for a refreshing departure from typical fanfiction plots and tropes and the typical romance-centered story, dive into this WIP now and be ready for the conclusion!

READ the full interview and show notes HERE on AO3

(ALSO: Laura and Sara end the episode at 1h14m ; from there till the end they talk recent engagement with the DC Comics Batman and Superman fandoms. Stick around for that if you want to geek out with us!)

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