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Retro Fanfic Retrospective

Friends read old fanfiction that they think might be good. Sometimes they are right. Sometimes they are not. Send us emails at RetroFanficRetrospective@gmail.com See our tweets and episode previews at https://twitter.com/RetroFanfic Visit us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/RetroFanficRetrospective/

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02:00:55

Episode 60: Final Fantasy VII - The Red Fist

Retro Fanfic Retrospective ·

2019/11/04

We just can’t stop talking about Final Fantasy VII, as special guest Chris returns to help us discuss the second story in Frank Verderosa’s FFVII Internet Series. The Turks join forces with AVALANCHE, and nobody is happy about it. Zargan is the source of all martial arts knowledge on the Planet. We discuss the merits of skinning Cait Sith. Link to the story: bit.ly/rfrseries Three friends read old fanfiction that they think might be good. Sometimes they are right. Sometimes they are not. Check out

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01:34:06

Episode 59: Final Fantasy VII - The Search for Aeris

Retro Fanfic Retrospective ·

2019/10/28

Special guest Chris joins us for the start of Frank Verderosa's FFVII Internet Series. Fetch-quests abound as the AVALANCHE crew gets back together to undo the game’s most infamous plot development. Yuffie is the best, which is to say the worst. Reeve spends all his time remote-controlling a moogle and nobody thinks that’s weird. Link to the story: bit.ly/rfrseries Three friends read old fanfiction that they think might be good. Sometimes they are right. Sometimes they are not. Check out our

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01:20:02

Episode 58: CSI/Charlie and the Chocolate Factory -...

Retro Fanfic Retrospective ·

2019/10/21

Special guest CJ fills in for Dom as we watch the CSI crew try to solve the murder of the luckiest kid in the world. They are not paid enough to deal with a crowd of indistinguishable singing witnesses, physics-defying candy, and taffy people. Willy Wonka is a wizard, like seriously. We become offended on behalf of Augustus Gloop. Three friends read old fanfiction that they think might be good. Sometimes they are right. Sometimes they are not. Check out our website at

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01:01:44

Episode 57: Horror Crossover - A Night in the...

Retro Fanfic Retrospective ·

2019/10/14

Sci-fi legend Roger Zelazny pens a mega-crossover involving Universal Monsters, Sherlock Holmes, the Cthulhu Mythos, and several pop-culture historical figures, and somehow avoids making it overly complicated. The fate of the world is decided by math, gossip, scavenger hunts, and murder. Sherlock Holmes has to have a serious conversation with a dog. Three friends read old fanfiction that they think might be good. Sometimes they are right. Sometimes they are not. Check out our website at

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01:17:22

RFR Special Episode: Utena - Miracles Never Cease...

Retro Fanfic Retrospective ·

2019/10/07

Caught off-guard by a sick Dom, Amado’s best idea is to make Tory play a fan-made Utena text adventure game where you play a new transfer student hell-bent on making out with Juri. We don’t get too far, but Amado does convince Tory to SEDUCE SAIONJI, so there’s that. Link to the game: bit.ly/rfrmnc Three friends read old fanfiction that they think might be good. Sometimes they are right. Sometimes they are not. Check out our website at https://bit.ly/retrofanfic Send us emails at

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01:05:52

Episode 56: Sailor Moon - Distant

Retro Fanfic Retrospective ·

2019/09/30

Haruka is a queer teen who inspires queer teens, as we tackle Greenbeans’s “Distant” alongside the zine “Queer Sailor Moon Fanfiction Saved My Life.” The author peels back the curtain into Haruka’s childhood, which is full of baked goods and crushing parental disapproval. Guess she’ll just have to become a lucratively successful professional racecar driver at age fifteen! Oh yeah, and there’s some kind of magical destiny or whatever. Not that important. You can purchase a copy of the zine here:

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01:11:41

Episode 55: Lois and Clark - Love Beyond All Measure

Retro Fanfic Retrospective ·

2019/09/23

Can you measure this love? No, and neither we nor the fanfic even attempt to do so. Instead, Clark hangs out with his mom and pop, Lois is a badass investigative reporter but only off-screen, and there’s a lengthy, stressful hostage situation featuring a rather one-dimensional villain. Link to the story: bit.ly/rfrharry Three friends read old fanfiction that they think might be good. Sometimes they are right. Sometimes they are not. Check out our website at https://bit.ly/retrofanfic Send us

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01:42:29

Episode 54: Harry Potter - Stealing Harry

Retro Fanfic Retrospective ·

2019/09/16

We lure Remus Lupin fan Emily back onto the show with Stealing Harry, an alternate Harry Potter timeline with less child abuse and more gay sex. Lupin makes an unforgivable book recommendation. Turning into a dog is surprisingly useful in daily life. Snape is much more likable when he’s not bullying children. Link to the story: bit.ly/rfrharry Three friends read old fanfiction that they think might be good. Sometimes they are right. Sometimes they are not. Check out our website at

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01:05:07

Episode 53: Spider-Man 2 - Just a Face on a Train

Retro Fanfic Retrospective ·

2019/09/09

We want FANFICS! Fanfics about SPIDER-MAN! But because we’re retro only, it’s a fanfic about the 2004 movie “Spider-Man 2.” No, not the one where Tobey Maguire dances, and not the one with the upside-down kiss. The one with the train scene. This is a fanfic about that. That scene specifically. Link to the story: bit.ly/rfrtrain Three friends read old fanfiction that they think might be good. Sometimes they are right. Sometimes they are not. Check out our website at

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01:20:06

Episode 52: Angel - Blood and Water

Retro Fanfic Retrospective ·

2019/09/02

Enjoy a fever-ridden flashback to the distant past... of Angel, Season One. A plague hits the vampires of L.A., and nobody has a problem with that. However, when it incapacitates Angel, it’s up to a motley group of other characters to save the day. Most importantly, Dennis the Ghost. Link to the story: bit.ly/rfrblood Three friends read old fanfiction that they think might be good. Sometimes they are right. Sometimes they are not. Check out our website at https://bit.ly/retrofanfic Send us

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Episode 51: Hamlet - Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are...

Retro Fanfic Retrospective ·

2019/08/26

For our one-year anniversary, we indulge our theater-loving, literature nerd selves and dive into absurdism. Could Tom Stoppard’s renowned play actually be… fanfiction? Yes, obviously it is, but we discuss all the angles of that question before meandering through the text of the play in search of direction or meaning. It is an acceptable diversion on the road to our inevitable, incomprehensible deaths. The story is not available for free under copyright law, but check your local library! Three

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01:24:33

Episode 50: Labyrinth/Narnia - Something in the Eyes

Retro Fanfic Retrospective ·

2019/08/19

Susan Pensevie and Sarah Williams become friends in a fanfic that has difficulty living up to the awesomeness of its premise. Sarah decides she’s in love with some creepy dude who hit on her back when she was fifteen. As your personal savior, Aslan will definitely set you up on dates. Susan regains her faith through the power of mansplaining. Link to the story: bit.ly/rfreyes Three friends read old fanfiction that they think might be good. Sometimes they are right. Sometimes they are

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56:06

Episode 49: X-Files - Haunting Melody

Retro Fanfic Retrospective ·

2019/08/12

Our first Fan-Q Award winner, from fandom stalwart Deb Walsh. Could it be that Fox Mulder’s sister… was abducted by aliens, exactly as it appeared that she was? The only way to be sure is to return to Mulder’s home island of Martha’s Vinyard, eat chicken pot pie, and forensically analyse an extremely grody old pillowcase. Link to the story: bit.ly/rfrmelody Three friends read old fanfiction that they think might be good. Sometimes they are right. Sometimes they are not. Check out our website

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01:24:35

Episode 48: Smurfs - Brainy’s Glasses

Retro Fanfic Retrospective ·

2019/08/05

A glasses switcheroo leads into a time-travelling adventure that aims to explain various oddities of the Smurfs setting. We go off on tangents musing about Smurf spores and whether the entire population of Smurf village are Squibs. The author wins a bet against their sibling, thus averting the Great Smurf Wars. Link to the story: bit.ly/rfrglasses Three friends read old fanfiction that they think might be good. Sometimes they are right. Sometimes they are not. Check out our website at

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01:28:50

Episode 47: Urusei Yatsura - Just a Dream?

Retro Fanfic Retrospective ·

2019/07/29

Urusei Yatsura turns into deadly serious political intrigue in this novel from the dawn of the internet age. Tory is surprised to learn that the source material does not address Lum’s culpability as an imperialist, enslaving warmonger. Everyone gets a heterosexual romantic partner, up to and including Megane. The answer to the question of the title is “no.” Link to the story: bit.ly/rfrdream Three friends read old fanfiction that they think might be good. Sometimes they are right. Sometimes they

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01:11:32

Episode 46: Sailor Moon - Romeo and Minako

Retro Fanfic Retrospective ·

2019/07/22

We return to Sailor Moon with a fanfic based on Sailor Stars, the most high school shenanigan-y season of the show. Minako and Yaten are a miracle romance, as in it’s a miracle that Yaten puts up with the company of any other sentient being. Shakespeare is quoted liberally. Usagi and Seiya explain to their friends what a donut is. Link to the story: bit.ly/rfrminako Three friends read old fanfiction that they think might be good. Sometimes they are right. Sometimes they are not. Check out our

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Episode 45: MST3K - The Eye of Argon

Retro Fanfic Retrospective ·

2019/07/15

Despite harrowing technical difficulties, MSTing archivist Yesmar joins us to discuss Adam Cadre’s treatment of Jim Theis’s infamously blundering Conan pastiche. “Crimson droplets of escaping life fluid” flow freely. Wenches are an excellent source of exposition. The riffer’s major challenge is choosing what NOT to make fun of. Link to the story: bit.ly/rfrargon Don't forget to check out The MSTing Canon: http://www.mstingcanon.com/Home.html Next episode: Sailor Moon - Romeo and

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01:21:28

Episode 44: Kingdom Hearts - Synonymy

Retro Fanfic Retrospective ·

2019/07/08

Special guest Rosie helps us illuminate the darkness of the early 2000s Kingdom Hearts fandom. Riku is really into Sora, I mean seriously. Cid is British… ish. A cute moogle helps counterbalance the moody teenage angst. . Link to the story: bit.ly/rfrhearts Next episode: MSK - The Eye of Argon bitly/rfrargon Three friends read old fanfiction that they think might be good. Sometimes they are right. Sometimes they are not. Check out our website at bit.ly/retrofanfic Send us emails at

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Episode 43: Star Wars - Rancor Delivery

Retro Fanfic Retrospective ·

2019/07/01

A zany space adventure featuring Han Solo and his best bud/co-pilot… no, not Chewie, I obviously mean the irrepressible Herlivon Xalnodest. In trying to carry a rancor to Tatooine, which will become more wasted: the interior of the Millenium Falcon, or our protagonists, from all the space booze they're drinking? Link to the story: bit.ly/rfrrancor Three friends read old fanfiction that they think might be good. Sometimes they are right. Sometimes they are not. Check out our website at

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Episode 42: Sherlock Holmes - Sherlock Holmes Arrives...

Retro Fanfic Retrospective ·

2019/06/24

Early 20th-century author Maurice Leblanc breaks several rules of good taste by putting his own character Arsène Lupin up against another author’s cash cow. Who will win? Who will lose? Whose name will be forced to change for proprietary reasons? Link to the story: bit.ly/rfrholmes Check out our website at bit.ly/retrofanfic Send us emails at RetroFanficRetrospective@gmail.com Visit us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/RetroFanficRetrospective/ Witness our tweets at

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