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This Week In Fandom History

V. Arrow & Emily Jaye | Fanfiction Aficionados & Fandom Historians

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Frequency: 1 episode/7d. Total Eps: 184

A podcast about why fandom matters. Co-hosted by V. Arrow and Emily Jaye, This Week In Fandom History celebrates fandom culture's highest highs and weirdest lows. With which short-lived vampire cop drama was the very first X-Files fanfiction crossed over? Who is Tara Gilesbie? How recently did the Starsky & Hutch Lending Library rent out its last zine? What were Strikethrough, Racefail, LGBTFansDeserveBetter, and Conchobar, anyway? V and Emily trade off some deep-internet research each week to learn and laugh (and sometimes rage) their way through the annals of fandom history. Come join us!

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September 1, 2017: The Handbook for (My) Immortals: Or, Two Literary Frauds!

Season 2 · Episode 87

Sunday, September 8, 2024 • Duration 01:10:47

Fukkin' preps. This week, V and Emily have their brains melted by not ONE incredibly stupid and obvious literary fraud, but TWO incredibly stupid and obvious literary frauds! Yes! In one week! And both involving the most infamous fanfic of all time, everyone's favorite: My Immortal. Dust off your fishnets and stretch out your middle fingers, it's time to get goffik.

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The Hollywood Reporter

EW Books

V's Handbook for Mortals tag on Tumblr

jewishkeith on Tumblr

This Week In Fandom History is a fandom-centric podcast that tells you… what happened this week in fandom history!

Follow This Week in Fandom History on Tumblr at @thisweekinfandomhistory
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Summer 2000-2003: Harry Potter Fandom and the Three-Year Summer

Season 2 · Episode 86

Sunday, September 1, 2024 • Duration 01:18:26

Icicle?! This week, Emily and V hold a sort of jazz funeral for a fandom event that shaped both of them as human people, and that cannot and should not ever happen again. The Three-Year Summer was a pivotal stretch of time for fandom culture as a whole because a) every fucking person alive was in this fandom, b) the whole point was that there was no canon and the world was wide open for the taking, and c) the Internet was young enough that you could claim ANYTHING on that shit. And we all did! And we all believed each other about it! It was amazing! It was fresh and new! And it has been tainted forever!

We completely understand if you do not want to listen to an episode about Harry Potter. We get it. We'll see you next week. <3

We denounce JK Rowling and her bigotry with every fiber of our beings. Her views, words, and actions are utterly abhorrent and antithetical to everything that we value. She 100% must be deplatformed.

This Week In Fandom History is a fandom-centric podcast that tells you… what happened this week in fandom history!

Follow This Week in Fandom History on Tumblr at @thisweekinfandomhistory
You can support the show via our Patreon at http://www.patreon.com/thisweekinfandomhistory.
If you have a fannish company, event, or service and would like to sponsor or partner with TWIFH, please contact us via the Tumblr link above.
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June 10, 2016: Voltron: Legendary Defender Premieres & June 10, 2017: #shoegate

Season 2 · Episode 75

Sunday, June 16, 2024 • Duration 01:01:43

See ya later, pala-dudes! This week, V and Emily hit a double-header in the Voltron: Legendary Defender fandom (thanks to two requesters and V's VLD primer pal, Fran!). First, V attempts to explain what the show is about and why it launched on Netflix with a built-in fandom. And then... oh, boy. You know how our ending stinger is "well-behaved fandoms rarely make history"? Well, this fandom is VERY POORLY BEHAVED and therefore, have made history. That's for sure...

Not really a TW, but just be aware that this episode is heavy on discussions of purity culture, particularly with regard to shipping age gaps.

This Week In Fandom History is a fandom-centric podcast that tells you… what happened this week in fandom history!

Follow This Week in Fandom History on Tumblr at @thisweekinfandomhistory
You can support the show via our Patreon at http://www.patreon.com/thisweekinfandomhistory.
If you have a fannish company, event, or service and would like to sponsor or partner with TWIFH, please contact us via the Tumblr link above.
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June 5-6, 1832—Present: Barricade Day Makes Les Amies de Les Mis Fandom Cry

Season 2 · Episode 74

Sunday, June 9, 2024 • Duration 52:09

And I can hear them now! This week, Emily and V pre-emptively apologize for their French accents and inability to pronounce "Enjolras" as we look at the Les Mis fandom holiday of Barricade Day. While the real event was an unmitigated tragedy, and it was also an unmitigated tragedy in the book, musical, and movie adaptations, Barricade Day is a wholesome fandom holiday for Les Mis fans to gather and write, draw, sing, and hope for a happier ending for their beloved Amis de l'ABCs. We love it.

This is also a very silly and loosey-goosey episode to make up for the total bummer of last week. It is not... misérable, one might say.

This Week In Fandom History is a fandom-centric podcast that tells you… what happened this week in fandom history!

Follow This Week in Fandom History on Tumblr at @thisweekinfandomhistory
You can support the show via our Patreon at http://www.patreon.com/thisweekinfandomhistory.
If you have a fannish company, event, or service and would like to sponsor or partner with TWIFH, please contact us via the Tumblr link above.
Please remember to rate the show 5 stars on your listening platform of choice!

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June 1, 2015: The Marion Zimmer Bradley & Walter Breen Episode (TW: CSA, Rape, Incest, Total Institutional Failure)

Season 2 · Episode 73

Monday, June 3, 2024 • Duration 01:02:46

No quippy exclamation this week, because V and Emily delve into probably the worst, most shameful, most infuriating, just awful pair of people ever to be associated with fandom history: scifi authors and fucking monsters Marion Zimmer Bradley and Walter Breen. This is not a lighthearted episode in any way. Please heed the trigger warnings and take care of yourself if you choose to listen. History is not always fun and celebratory and silly Star Trek holidays. Sometimes it's going, "This horrible, ugly thing is part of our architectural foundation. Now what?"

TW: CSA, rape, incest, total institutional failure to safeguard minors.

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Marion Zimmer Bradley's Child Abuse

MZB Gave Us New Perspectives, All Right

Timeline of Events

MZB on Fanlore

Joanna Russ on Fanlore

1960s Fan History Outline, Chapter 8

Vonda N. McIntyre: Darkover Landfall Reviewed (1974)

The Guardian comments section (2014)

This Week In Fandom History is a fandom-centric podcast that tells you… what happened this week in fandom history!

May 23, 2001: Die, Seven, Die! + What Was Usenet?

Season 2 · Episode 71

Sunday, May 26, 2024 • Duration 51:37

NET.SPACE! This week, Emily and V surf their way to the earliest days of being able to connect with other human beings in cyberspace, and also, once again bow to the king of fandoms that takes place in actual space. First, Emily explains the pure haterade that was the Die, Seven, Die! Challenge after the series finale of Star Trek: Voyager. (Also, we looked up how to pronounce "Chakotay.") Then, to give some context for this unconstrained summer hatefest of fun, we look into what, exactly, Usenet was, and why Alice was the fucking best. Did you Usenet? Were you a September nuisance?

This Week In Fandom History is a fandom-centric podcast that tells you… what happened this week in fandom history!

Follow This Week in Fandom History on Tumblr at @thisweekinfandomhistory
You can support the show via our Patreon at http://www.patreon.com/thisweekinfandomhistory.
If you have a fannish company, event, or service and would like to sponsor or partner with TWIFH, please contact us via the Tumblr link above.
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May 19, 2009: Glee Premieres on FOX

Season 2 · Episode 70

Sunday, May 19, 2024 • Duration 49:45

Don't stop believin'! This week, V and Emily go back to a very different world. A pre-Glee world. And it kind of isn't pretty. While V loved Glee at first, its legacy is... not super chill and great? Outside of a few key ships that will get their own episodes later on this year and/or early next year? So this episode is about Glee as a whole, which... listen. The songs slapped. They did. However. There are so many "howevers." Also, V had a life-paradigm-shifting experience on YouTube vis-a-vis show choir while researching this episode, so there's that.

Also, you may be looking at this episode thinking, "Last week, you said the next episode would be about May the 4th." Since we are WELL past that week in fandom history, we're instead jumping ahead to get back on schedule and will be releasing the May the 4th Holiday Special on Patreon for all donors.

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Does Glee Hate Its Women? by Robert George

Dear Writers of Glee by @delladilly

Glee is not progressive. by @feministglee

This Week In Fandom History is a fandom-centric podcast that tells you… what happened this week in fandom history!

Follow This Week in Fandom History on Tumblr at @thisweekinfandomhistory
You can support the show via our Patreon at http://www.patreon.com/thisweekinfandomhistory.
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Please remember to rate the show 5 stars on your listening platform of choice!

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May 3, 2021: Dracula Daily Delivers the First Message From Our Friend Jonathan

Season 2 · Episode 69

Monday, May 13, 2024 • Duration 01:03:39

Paprika! This week, Emily and V head back to 2021 -- but mostly 2022, carte blanche -- to look at the phenomenon of Dracula Daily and its explosion of popularity on Tumblr. We also head to 1992 to look at the worst movie of all time, Bram Stoker's Dracula, starring extremely beautiful people who were all in extremely different movies all at once. And then we traipse to 1897 to look at the original novel of Dracula and its extremely weird creation by a very strange l'il guy, Bram Stoker. Plus, bats! Bats everywhere! Also, Jack the Ripper!

Also, you may note that this is actually a date from last week (in fandom history). And um. So is... so is the next episode. V messed up the spreadsheet a little bit and we didn't notice until we'd recorded three episodes in a row that happened on either May 3 or May 4. ...It won't happen again, probably.

Follow This Week in Fandom History on Tumblr at @thisweekinfandomhistory
You can support the show via our Patreon at http://www.patreon.com/thisweekinfandomhistory.
If you have a fannish company, event, or service and would like to sponsor or partner with TWIFH, please contact us via the Tumblr link above.
Please remember to rate the show 5 stars on your listening platform of choice!

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May 3, 1991: Dallas Closes Out Its Final Season

Season 2 · Episode 68

Sunday, May 5, 2024 • Duration 01:00:51

Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer! This week, Emily and V head West to Texas and back in time to the 1980s to visit with the most melodramatic family in television history: the Ewings. As a cultural phenomenon that helped define the decade, Dallas... has surprisingly few (surviving?) fanworks. But thanks to one teenage fan nigh twenty years after the Ewings bid South Fork adieu, Emily and V get to learn about the JR/Sue Ellen ship (and reminisce about Web 1.0 fansites). Plus... who shot JR?

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Dallas Online Forever

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April 15, 1912: The RMS Titanic Sinks (And 85 Years Later There's a Huge Fandom About It)

Season 2 · Episode 67

Sunday, April 21, 2024 • Duration 01:08:10

Iceberg right ahead! This week, V and Emily plumb the depths of the entire world's massive Titanic fandom and its accompanying "Leomania." James Cameron's Titanic was impossible to ignore in 1998 -- from the cinema to some weird video store in Utah, from middle school dances to the Oval Office, from the pages of Vanity Fair to the wilderness of GeoCities, Jack Dawson and Rose DeWitt-Bukater were inescapable. So grab your Jewel of the Sea knockoff necklace, polish off your Céline Dion CD, and rewind VHS1 of your two-tape box set. Are you ready to go back to Titanic?

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