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We've gained a lot of followers in the last month since we, uh, started our Instagram for real, so here's a fresh Get To Know Us post! You can find This Week In Fandom History on all of your favorite podcatchers (except YT). What's your favorite fandom right now??

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Get to know us, your friendly fandom historians from This Week In Fandom History! We realized that we never posted an introduction over here, because we’ve been doing the show for four years and posting on T*mblr for even longer, so it didn’t even occur to us that there might be people over here meeting us for the first time.

Hello! We’re V. Arrow and Emily Jaye, and we co-host This Week In Fandom History, the podcast where we tell you what happened this week… in fandom history. It’s a show about fandom’s highest highs, weirdest lows, and all of the important moments in between, and why they still matter today. Fandom has changed pop culture. That’s a fact. And pop culture shapes the world. That’s a fact, too. We believe that fandom matters, and it’s also fun! We love it!

V’s fandom history started with the Full House Fan Club in 1989, and has followed many fandoms big and small through the years including (most notably) Dream Street, Robert Pattinson/Kristen Stewart RPF, The Hunger Games, One Direction, Star Wars, and now the MCU, especially Stucky. She misses L1veJ0urnal, and she loves to write drabbles… which are exactly 100 words long, period.

Emily came up writing fanfiction in a Mead Composition Book long before she discovered that other people were also writing about their movie faves kissing! She bonded over Newsies with her mom, wallpapered her room with the Backstreet Boys, spent 10 years in the Darcyland MCU mines writing for Darcy Lewis/Steve Rogers AKA Shieldshock, and has recently re-entered the MCU space after a detour into Stranger Things, Hellcheer, and Joseph Quinn RPF.

What fandoms do you share with us? What fandoms should we check out? Let us know! by @thisweekinfandomhistory

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This week, Emily and V look into another bummer event. In late October 2015, a 19‑year‑old fan artist from Arizona named Paige Paz, known online as Zamii070, posted a video from a hospital room after surviving a suicide attempt. For months, she had been the target of escalating harassment from corners of the Steven Universe fandom — a community built around a show that preached empathy, communication, and radical kindness. Her hospitalization forced the internet to confront an uncomfortable truth: how did one of the most progressive fandom spaces of the mid‑2010s become a breeding ground for mobbing, purity tests, and moral vigilantism? Please read the TWs in the episode title and take care of yourself before choosing to listen; there is nothing graphic and no details are disclosed, but be cautious if concerned.

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It's Emily's foreverboy getting a soundtrack of his own today! Christian Bale really peaked in Newsies, huh?

[fanfiction fandom disney newsies musicals jack kelly fanmix playlist] by @thisweekinfandomhistory

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That *NOT DEAD* witch sure did a number on me...

[fandom fanfiction marvel MCU scarlet witch wanda maximoff fanmix playlist visionquest wandavision] by @thisweekinfandomhistory

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All of Emily's favorite things are reporting for duty!

[fandom fanfiction bookstagram recs] by @thisweekinfandomhistory

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Not V recommending 3 totally escapist pieces and one about gendered violence on campus... Womp womp

[fandom fanfiction bookstagram recs] by @thisweekinfandomhistory

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Roll for initiative! A few months ago, V and Emily got to play their first-ever TTRPGs on the fabulous show, Party Of One, hosted by GM Jeff. We had such a good time that he gathered us together to play our first-ever group TTRPG... all about fandom! Listen in as we learn how to play the game and create a fannish franchise from the ground up... through many reboots, remakes, and inevitable queer awakenings. It was so much fun; thank you, Jeff!

Dis/Continuity -- Welcome to our anti/canon! Take part the creation, development, reinvention, and possible bastardization of a story idea. Step into the various worlds -- in-story and metafictional -- that have been built around it. Start from its origins in the 20th century media industry, up to its present status as the subject of a dedicated fandom (be it cult or "mainstream"). Along the way, you'll uncover the related stories of all the lives it has affected. CONFORM to the biases of Western pop media storytelling? or IMAGINE a more inclusive alternate history of the global culture industry? Concept, text, and visual design by Paolo Jose Cruz

Party of One -- One part creative interview, and one part improv storytelling through games. A podcast about getting to know artists and entertainers through the shared, universal act of play. Each episode, host Jeff Stormer sits down with a guest one-on-one to play a game, tell a story, and have the kinds of experiences that can only occur when creative processes are allowed to run wild. There’s laughs, surprises, occasionally a few tears… it’s a good time. by @thisweekinfandomhistory

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Have you listened to our Therapeutic Benefits of Fanfic episode yet? I really enjoyed speaking with the hosts of @thisweekinfandomhistory about how healing both reading and writing fanfic can be. Make sure to check out the full episode wherever you listen podcasts.
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#fanfic #fanfiction #fandom #podcast by @thisweekinfandomhistory

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Want to emulate the Thunderbolts in a Coffee Shop AU (or imagine what their Erewhon smoothie recipes would entail)? What would your favorite antihero drink for breakfast?? by @thisweekinfandomhistory

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Our newest episode has inspired some THOUGHTS (and very kind words) from our Patreon pals! Listen on your favorite podcatcher today (l1nk 1n b10)! by @thisweekinfandomhistory

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An introspective newsletter this week about how the nature of being a fan can shape our perspective on things we love (and events that happen to us/them). S1gn-up L1nk 1n b10! by @thisweekinfandomhistory

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