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Talkin‘ Fanfic

34 episodes - English - Latest episode: 9 months ago -

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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Episodes

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

July 01, 2023 10:00 - 2 hours - 164 MB

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 topi...

Talkin’ Music with shineswithyou

April 11, 2023 09:00 - 2 hours - 115 MB

Summary: Sara takes (kind of sort of) a break from talking fanfic and bandfic to talk about a different form of storytelling– music, and writing about music! shineswithyou is a familiar face around Oasis and U2 tumblr, but what you might NOT know is that she has recently embarked on a writing journey of her own, with a substack blog about music and its place as the soundtrack of her own life. Sara and shines talk about her blog, and the difficulty of “writing words about sounds”; how music...

Interview with Jeevey

October 24, 2022 06:00 - 3 hours - 163 MB

Summary: Sara sits down with the amazing, sublime, talented Jeevey, a legend in the Oasis RPF and Gcest world. Jeevey talks about the challenges of finding time to express yourself amid real life responsibilities; telling the truth through amateur writing; the joys of RPF and her start in the U2 fandom; rejecting the shame of writing taboo topics, and why she likes writing about interesting, compelling characters versus ‘unproblematic’ more acceptable figures (BORING!) Jeevey is also a fan...

MAD FER IT: Oasis, RPF, and Gallaghercest

October 01, 2022 16:58 - 2 hours - 165 MB

Are ye mad fer it?! In episode 303 Sara and Laura crack open a lager and spend three hours indulging in their most problematic (or NOT) obsession yet– The Gallagher Brothers of Oasis! RPF, or ‘real person fiction’ is fanfiction based on the lives of real people. We figure, if you’re gonna get into RPF, you ‘might as well do the white line’ and in true rock’n’roll lifestyle Slide Away into the nitty gritty of one of the most complicated, fascinating, beautiful, ugly, loving, brutal, intense r...

Interview with phyn, aka RedHead

July 05, 2022 11:00 - 3 hours - 174 MB

Talkin’ Fanfic  Episode No. - 302 Episode Title - Interview with phyn, aka RedHead   Summary: Yet another incredible treat for the ColdFlash fans! On this episode of Talkin’ Fanfic, Sara sits down with phynali, better known in ColdFlash circles as (the one, the only!) RedHead. RedHead has authored two of the top five kudos’d works under the ColdFlash tag on Ao3, and their work is commonly counted as some of the most seminal in the fandom. Sara and phyn dig into three of RedHead’s works:...

Interview with Crimson1 aka professional author Amanda Meuwissen

May 23, 2022 11:00 - 3 hours - 169 MB

Talkin’ Fanfic  Episode No. - 301 Episode Title - Interview with Crimson1, professional author Amanda Meuwissen  In Talkin’ Fanfic’s third season opener, Sara sits down with professionally published author Amanda Meuwissen, who has openly and proudly published fanfiction on both ff.net and Ao3 for decades, as Crimson1 ! Sara and Amanda discuss how Amanda’s introduction to popular fiction (via, ironically, Anne Rice novels) almost immediately funneled her into the world of fanfiction readi...

Choose Not to Warn, and “The Operative Word” by road_rhythm

April 09, 2022 11:00 - 1 hour - 93.8 MB

A literal throw-back! Recorded in February 2022, Sara didn't get around to editing and posting until September 2022.  In this belated Season 2 closer, Sara and Laura discuss (after some updates on recent ColdFlash and Gallaghercest obsessions) a commonly forgotten or misunderstood Archive Warning: the "Choose Not to Warn" tag. They discuss the purpose of CNTW in context of and along with a phenomenally written story, "The Operative Word" by road_rhythm, in which Sam Winchester weighs the me...

Interview with elsi

March 22, 2022 11:00 - 2 hours - 91.4 MB

Talkin’ Fanfic  Episode No. - 209 Episode Title - Interview with elsi   Sara sits down to talk with elsi, aka Prince_of_Elsinore, an incredibly talented author who has spent many thousands of words exploring the heart of the relationship between the characters of Dean and Sam Winchester from Supernatural. Sara and elsi cover the show itself (that finale!) and discuss three of elsi’s works centered around Sam and Dean over the course of their lives together. elsi speaks in depth about th...

Interview with museaway

December 06, 2021 12:00 - 2 hours - 94.1 MB

Talkin’ Fanfic  Episode No. - 208 Episode Title - Interview with museaway Sara sits down with long-time multi-fandom author and community organizer MUSEAWAY, where they discuss three of muse’s works in Smallville, Supernatural, and the Alternate Original Series Star Trek fandoms. Topics include:  Their love of the edenic, the singular! old school Smallville fandom  The difference to an outsider, between what Supernatural looks like from tumblr gif sets vs what it looks like watching the...

Talkin‘ with Elise_51 - Catchup and Comics

November 15, 2021 17:10 - 1 hour - 52.7 MB

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 ...

Fanfiction History with The Fanfic Maverick Podcast!! PART ONE

August 03, 2021 13:00 - 2 hours - 114 MB

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 th...

Interview with provocative_envy aka Andrea Anderson PART DEUX

May 21, 2021 00:22 - 1 hour - 41.3 MB

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 ...

Interview with provocative_envy aka Andrea Anderson PART ONE

May 17, 2021 23:38 - 1 hour - 48.1 MB

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...

Interview with RivkaT

April 04, 2021 21:39 - 1 hour - 69.3 MB

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, incre...

Interview with Smallville fic author XParrot !!

March 22, 2021 17:26 - 2 hours - 78.8 MB

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 th...

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

March 01, 2021 00:48 - 28 minutes - 22.1 MB

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"    Episode References: MASTER POST - 2021 CK Fanfiction Awards (tumblr) The Fanfic Maverick Podcast (stream on Cast) The Fanfic Maverick Podcast (tumblr)  Fanfic Maverick (instagram)  Arabella tribute to thamiris, wit...

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

December 11, 2020 15:16 - 1 hour - 80.6 MB

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...

Interview - LibertinePast

September 27, 2020 23:46 - 2 hours - 106 MB

Sara interviews LibertinePast, author of “Foreigner”, “The Backyard Series”, “Misgivings”, and SO MANY others! As one of the OG writers in the quiver, she has contributed so much to the LawRusso community, and also was one of the first to write “Amoush”, the Amanda/Anoush pairing. Her writing is chock-a-block with pop-culture, tongue-in-cheek references, and humor-- but is always infused with heartache and melancholy, resulting in a powerful blended tone and style that is always entertaining...

The Tumblr Kerfuffle and Gardner's "The Art of Fiction"

September 13, 2020 01:53 - 56 minutes - 40.6 MB

A shorter solo episode! Sara looks at what's new on AO3, briefly (and politely, worry not!) discusses the recent kerfuffle on Tumblr over "ship hating", plugs supporting your local independent bookstore, and digs into the first couple of chapters of John Gardner's "The Art of Fiction".    Episode References "The Art of Fiction" by John Gardner - Goodreads Work - "Good for You" by A_LazyPanda Work - "#NotAllMen" by lostmagician    Contact and Credits: Music: Kyle Laurin “Young Hearts...

The Tumblr Kerfuffle and Gardner’s ”The Art of Fiction”

September 13, 2020 01:53 - 56 minutes - 40.6 MB

A shorter solo episode! Sara looks at what's new on AO3, briefly (and politely, worry not!) discusses the recent kerfuffle on Tumblr over "ship hating", plugs supporting your local independent bookstore, and digs into the first couple of chapters of John Gardner's "The Art of Fiction".    Episode References "The Art of Fiction" by John Gardner - Goodreads Work - "Good for You" by A_LazyPanda Work - "#NotAllMen" by lostmagician    Contact and Credits: Music: Kyle Laurin “Young Hearts...

Interview with author and vidder Switch842

September 07, 2020 23:04 - 2 hours - 98.1 MB

Switch842 is one of the best and most prolific vidders (a creator of fanvids) in the Cobra Kai fandom, and is also a familiar presence in the Cobra Kai Kompanion community. Kerri has written several one-shot and short pieces of fanfiction centering on the friendship and relationship between Daniel and Johnny, which are discussed in this episode. The gals also talk extensively about her vidding experience, and dig into how she chooses to tell a visual story vs. a visual showcase, or in many c...

Interview - Switch842

September 07, 2020 23:04 - 2 hours - 98.1 MB

Switch842 is one of the best and most prolific vidders (a creator of fanvids) in the Cobra Kai fandom, and is also a familiar presence in the Cobra Kai Kompanion community. Kerri has written several one-shot and short pieces of fanfiction centering on the friendship and relationship between Daniel and Johnny, which are discussed in this episode. The gals also talk extensively about her vidding experience, and dig into how she chooses to tell a visual story vs. a visual showcase, or in many c...

Workshop - ”Never Knew” by InvisibleObserver13

August 24, 2020 21:15 - 1 hour - 68.8 MB

Sara speaks with InvisibleObserver13 about her WIP "Never Knew," a family drama based around the premise-- What if Jimmy had a daughter? Themes of family, fatherhood, nature vs nurture, and sibling rivalry and jealousies abound. The gals also discuss Sean Kanan's "Mike Barnes boy band" hair; a TV episode Tony O'Dell did called "Rock 'n Roll Suicide" (BADASS, RIGHT??) ; Jimmy's unexplored 'artistic side' (Ok unexplored ALL sides); and the tragiclly cut "Jimmy's pussy car" deleted scene from ...

Workshop - "Never Knew" by InvisibleObserver13

August 24, 2020 21:15 - 1 hour - 68.8 MB

Sara speaks with InvisibleObserver13 about her WIP "Never Knew," a family drama based around the premise-- What if Jimmy had a daughter? Themes of family, fatherhood, nature vs nurture, and sibling rivalry and jealousies abound. The gals also discuss Sean Kanan's "Mike Barnes boy band" hair; a TV episode Tony O'Dell did called "Rock 'n Roll Suicide" (BADASS, RIGHT??) ; Jimmy's unexplored 'artistic side' (Ok unexplored ALL sides); and the tragiclly cut "Jimmy's pussy car" deleted scene from ...

Workshop - "The Bert Series" by suecsit

August 16, 2020 04:05 - 2 hours - 90.1 MB

Sara welcomes veteran writer suecsit to the show to discuss her 2018 work, "The Bert Series," serialized into 14 individual stories, and one of the first ever in the Cobra Kai fandom to fully explore the 'LawRusso' pairing. The series is incredibly well written, vivid in both voice and dialogue, the prose is lovely, and delves into the themes of choice, control, and connection. It's a truly beautiful work.  Sara and suecsit also discuss the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on her writing; su...

Workshop - ”The Bert Series” by suecsit

August 16, 2020 04:05 - 2 hours - 90.1 MB

Sara welcomes veteran writer suecsit to the show to discuss her 2018 work, "The Bert Series," serialized into 14 individual stories, and one of the first ever in the Cobra Kai fandom to fully explore the 'LawRusso' pairing. The series is incredibly well written, vivid in both voice and dialogue, the prose is lovely, and delves into the themes of choice, control, and connection. It's a truly beautiful work.  Sara and suecsit also discuss the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on her writing; su...

Workshop - "A Walk in the Woods" by Brihana25

August 07, 2020 18:11 - 2 hours - 126 MB

Sara sits down with Cobra Kai Kompanion co-host, fanfiction author, fanartist, vidder, and all around star fangirl Brihana25 to discuss her work-in-progress (WIP) "A Walk in the Woods." Other topics include: Bri's history in fandom and fanfiction, Daniel as a character and where he might go in Season 3, why Peter "is the best", and fanfiction's place in fandom as a whole (To Hide! Or Not to Hide! That is the Question!)  Also if you go on a camping trip in the woods... bring the biggest Firs...

Workshop - ”A Walk in the Woods” by Brihana25

August 07, 2020 18:11 - 2 hours - 126 MB

Sara sits down with Cobra Kai Kompanion co-host, fanfiction author, fanartist, vidder, and all around star fangirl Brihana25 to discuss her work-in-progress (WIP) "A Walk in the Woods." Other topics include: Bri's history in fandom and fanfiction, Daniel as a character and where he might go in Season 3, why Peter "is the best", and fanfiction's place in fandom as a whole (To Hide! Or Not to Hide! That is the Question!)  Also if you go on a camping trip in the woods... bring the biggest Firs...

Workshop - "(No) Mercy for the Midlife Crisis" by Storyshark2005 & Elise_51

July 15, 2020 22:36 - 1 hour - 63.4 MB

The twins try to stay on topic, talking about their fic "(No) Mercy for the Midlife Crisis." Off-topic subjects include: Sara forgetting her cocktail, the TV show "Hannibal", a brief "Paws" (hehe), Season 3 predictions, "how good is Madison Bumgarner of the San Francisco Giants", and also a brief mention of the theoretically forthcoming "High School Baseball AU."    Episode References: Work - "(No) Mercy for the Midlife Crisis" by Storyshark2005 & Elise_51 “Different Types of Fanfiction”...

Workshop - ”(No) Mercy for the Midlife Crisis” by Storyshark2005 & Elise_51

July 15, 2020 22:36 - 1 hour - 63.4 MB

The twins try to stay on topic, talking about their fic "(No) Mercy for the Midlife Crisis." Off-topic subjects include: Sara forgetting her cocktail, the TV show "Hannibal", a brief "Paws" (hehe), Season 3 predictions, "how good is Madison Bumgarner of the San Francisco Giants", and also a brief mention of the theoretically forthcoming "High School Baseball AU."    Episode References: Work - "(No) Mercy for the Midlife Crisis" by Storyshark2005 & Elise_51 “Different Types of Fanfiction”...

poetdameron react, Ego, and the "Citizen Writer"

July 11, 2020 19:52 - 30 minutes - 23.8 MB

Sara explains how blown away she was by poetdameron's "for the small weird loves." and realizes she's not nearly as good as she thought she was, and explains her shattered writer's ego resulting from this lovely work. She also talks about something she calls, "the Citizen Writer."  Episode References: Work - "for the small weird loves." by poetdameron https://archiveofourown.org/works/25177165 ----- Contact and Credits: Music: Kyle Laurin "Young Hearts Medley" (Twitter: @cobrakylemusic)...

poetdameron react, Ego, and the ”Citizen Writer”

July 11, 2020 19:52 - 30 minutes - 23.8 MB

Sara explains how blown away she was by poetdameron's "for the small weird loves." and realizes she's not nearly as good as she thought she was, and explains her shattered writer's ego resulting from this lovely work. She also talks about something she calls, "the Citizen Writer."  Episode References: Work - "for the small weird loves." by poetdameron https://archiveofourown.org/works/25177165 ----- Contact and Credits: Music: Kyle Laurin "Young Hearts Medley" (Twitter: @cobrakylemusic)...

Intro and "Defiantly Amateur"

July 06, 2020 19:00 - 32 minutes - 25.4 MB

Sara (aka Storyshark2005) gives the lay of the fandom land and talks about what it means to be "defiantly amateur" as a fanfiction author. She also waxes poetic over fellow podcast "Cobra Kai Kompanion" and advises you not to venture on Wattpad. ----- Episode References: "Unsilencing the Writing Workshop" - Lithub article by Beth Nguyen Google Books Result - "The Fanfiction Studies Reader" on defiant amateurism ----- Contact and Credits: Music: Kyle Laurin "Young Hearts Medley" (Twitt...

Intro and ”Defiantly Amateur”

July 06, 2020 19:00 - 32 minutes - 25.4 MB

Sara (aka Storyshark2005) gives the lay of the fandom land and talks about what it means to be "defiantly amateur" as a fanfiction author. She also waxes poetic over fellow podcast "Cobra Kai Kompanion" and advises you not to venture on Wattpad. ----- Episode References: "Unsilencing the Writing Workshop" - Lithub article by Beth Nguyen Google Books Result - "The Fanfiction Studies Reader" on defiant amateurism ----- Contact and Credits: Music: Kyle Laurin "Young Hearts Medley" (Twitt...

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