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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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01:43:22

Episode 159: Carmen Sandiego - Parthenogenesis

Retro Fanfic Retrospective ·

2023/08/14

Unreasonably-cool phantom thief Carmen Sandiego has disappeared off the face if the earth... one might even say nobody knows where she is! Turns out she's lying low while raising her daughter. Being raised by Carmen Sandiego is as educational and harrowing as you might expect. Link to the story: https://www.fanfiction.net/s/6974921/1/Parthenogenesis

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01:06:44

Episode 158: Jeeves & Wooster - Scream for Jeeves

Retro Fanfic Retrospective ·

2023/07/31

It's an explosion of initials as author P.H. Cannon crosses over H.P. Lovecraft and P.G. Wodehouse. There are all the expected Mythos references and jokes and Jeeves saving Bernie Wooster from his terrible fashion sense, but most importantly, Amado has an excuse to enthuse about Wodehouse.

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01:15:10

RFR Special Episode - Into the Omegaverse

Retro Fanfic Retrospective ·

2023/07/17

Tory and Della are joined by the Fanfic Maverick, who kindly explains the Omegaverse, a sort of conceptual spawn of the Supernatural fandom that originated around 2011 and is therefore almost retro. I would describe it as kind of a second layer of gender coding that can be applied over our traditional gender coding, and that's exactly why you should listen to the Fanfic Maverick talk about it instead of me.

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01:36:30

Episode 157: Inuyasha - Rebound

Retro Fanfic Retrospective ·

2023/07/03

After an extremely awkward breakup, an adult Kagome returns to the Sengoku era, that magical land of friendship, adventure, and distressingly crude medicine. There she reunites with Inuyasha, who is hounded by his tragic past but still doggedly making a living splitting bark. Will he follow her back through the well to retrieve 'er, or can you not teach an old dog new tricks? Link to the story: https://www.fanfiction.net/s/1009692/1/Rebound

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01:08:06

Episode 156: Spider-man/X-Men - The Mutant Problem

Retro Fanfic Retrospective ·

2023/06/19

New York Times photojournalist Peter Parker takes introduces us to a wide variety of mutants, the only marginalized social group to all look like attractive movie stars. Jean-Paul's favorite book is Atlas Shrugged. Peter kind of creeps out toward Monet. Even the photojournalist doesn't want to talk to Scott. Link to the story: http://www.madweasel.com/kattsaerie/MutantProblem/NYT_mutantproblem_index.html

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52:20

RFR Special Episode - Fanart Discussion

Retro Fanfic Retrospective ·

2023/06/05

One of us is an artist and all of us are fans of something, so that qualifies us to talk about fanart, right? It's kind of like fanfiction, except it's a picture. Sounds innocuous, but be careful - Della delivers a warning story about the deep rabbit hole of content consumption that a single piece of fanart can lead to.

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01:00:54

Episode 155: Yu-Gi-Oh! - Yu-Gi-Oh! the Abridged Series

Retro Fanfic Retrospective ·

2023/05/22

It's time to unleash the Swords of Revealing Light (of 2023) on the genre-setting parody fandub, Yu-Gi-Oh! the Abridged Series. We are completely unable to summarize the plot of Yu-Gi-Oh!, so we ignore it in favor of circling around the types of jokes - which work, which don't work, and which are quite casually hateful. Della might have some new phrases to work into her conversation. Link to the series: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLTagxffHmpfT765IfQj68dMmfFs3W7s1f

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01:23:12

Episode 154: XXXholic - The Woolen Monstrosity and...

Retro Fanfic Retrospective ·

2023/05/08

Della steps in to (spiritually) guide Amado and Tory through two short XXXholic fanfics from the late aughts. She needs to emphasize that the source material was NOT, in fact, all about the Watanuki/Doumeki romance. And that Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle was a different series. Link to The Woolen Monstrosity: https://m.fanfiction.net/s/4423737/1/The_Woollen_Monstrosity Link to Dream a Dream: https://doumekiwatanuki.livejournal.com/447846.html

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43:34

Episode 153: The Princess Bride - There Will Be No...

Retro Fanfic Retrospective ·

2023/05/01

Wesley attempts to induct Inigo into a new line of work, but there are a few moral (and logistical) problems to work out first. Link to the story: https://archiveofourown.org/works/1634336

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51:05

Episode 152: Narnia - Cry For Yesterday

Retro Fanfic Retrospective ·

2023/04/10

Because we were all so good back in 2007, Yuletide brings us a little gem of a story exploring with great precision how much it sucks to be the Pevensie children. (Adults? Re-children?) Especially Susan, obviously. Link to the story: https://archiveofourown.org/collections/yuletide2007/works/154341

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01:36:30

Episode 151: Mega Man - Day to Live

Retro Fanfic Retrospective ·

2023/03/27

We pick a story from fanfiction epic Mega Man: the Series, but rather than the eponymous Blue Bomber, this story focuses on his brother/housecat Break "Proto" Man. The author's commitment to their corpus is very impressive - almost as impressive as their ability to feel affection for Captain N: The Game Master, which Amado and Tory find mega-difficult. Link to the web site: http://mmhp.net/TheSeries/BookList.html

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47:31

RFR Special Episode - Fanfiction Hypotheticals

Retro Fanfic Retrospective ·

2023/03/13

If there's one thing we love more than actual fanfiction, it's navel-gazing about what does and does not count as fanfiction. If fanfiction is using other peoples' material without permission, who is allowed to give that permission? The author? The rights-holders? Your child self? The reincarnation of William Shakespeare? The fictional character Sephiroth, speaking to you from another dimension? Does it matter if I was raised on a fanfiction commune? One thing's for sure: our answers will be

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01:28:04

Episode 150: Godzilla - Godzilla vs Cthulhu

Retro Fanfic Retrospective ·

2023/02/27

Kai and Sergio of the So You Think You Can Fanon podcast join us for a battle of the oceanic titans, as written by professional author C.L. Werner. Japan has a Deep One cult problem, but don't worry, your tax dollars are at work in trying to fix it. Godzilla is ready to throw down with anyone who looks at him funny, up to and including a giant stone pillar. Cthulhu is a very sleepy space wizard. So You Think You Can Fanon:

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42:19

RFR Special Episode - Shipping Roundtable

Retro Fanfic Retrospective ·

2023/02/13

In honor of that day where you can buy heart-shaped chocolate, we discuss the concept and practice of shipping. Is it shipping if we don't actually like the characters involved? How about if we're so goddamn basic that our ships are canon? And how do shipping containers fit into all this? (They fit into a cargo ship very well.)

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40:49

Episode 149: Addams Family: The Last Rites of...

Retro Fanfic Retrospective ·

2023/01/30

Serena joins us on this Monday to talk about Wednesday, but not the Wednesday from Tim Burton's Wednesday, although you'd better believe we talk about that anyway. In the story, Wednesday must decide how to fulfill the honored traditions of her Nightshade ancestors... no, not the Nightshades from Wednesday... look, the important thing is that Pugsley got buff, okay? Link to the story: https://archiveofourown.org/works/68398

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01:16:14

RFR Special Episode - Therapy for Batman

Retro Fanfic Retrospective ·

2023/01/16

Gaelan returns to offer his expertise as an art therapist while we try to figure out how to provide therapy for "old Batman." We revisit "Only One Can Wear the Crown," a Batman Beyond fanfic, with Gaelan's new hot takes. Spoiler alert: he definitely thinks Bruce is gay for Dick--Dick Grayson, that is, what were you thinking? Tory fumbles a lot doing Amado's job and they didn't even have to find the fic! We all learn to appreciate Amado more and maybe, also, ourselves.

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01:44:25

Episode 148: The Sentinel - Unsung

Retro Fanfic Retrospective ·

2023/01/02

We welcome back ChaosBlue of the Fanfic Maverick podcast, a true Fanfiction First Responder ready to jump into action to help in any fandom emergency. A natural catastrophe pushes Jim's powers, and his relationship with Blair, into uncharted territory. Simon is our audience identification character in wanting those two to hook up. And the story puts forth the controversial thesis that people are pretty good, actually. Link to the Fanfic Maverick podcast:

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01:17:09

Episode 147: The Muppet Christmas Carol

Retro Fanfic Retrospective ·

2022/12/19

At what point does "movie adaption" become fanfiction? Possibly when you double the number of Marleys and add a talking rat. Or maybe not, but that's not going to stop us from talking about the Muppets' first big foray into classic literature. Gonzo has more range as a dramatic actor than Amado thought. The Christmas Ghosts are the best one-shot Muppets ever. The movie is available for viewing on Disney+, and probably on a VHS shoved into the back corner of your garage.

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01:18:06

Episode 146 - Dungeons & Dragons - The Gamers

Retro Fanfic Retrospective ·

2022/12/05

Tory, Amado, and Della (and don't forget Mark!) look back over their hastily-scribbled session notes about The Gamers, which might not be fan fiction but is definitely a fan project. And what they're fans of is goofing around with a bunch of your friends being low-key assholes to each other as your character fumble their way forward to an inevitable villain confrontation. The essence of roleplaying. Link to the film: http://deadgentlemen.com/projects/the-gamers-series/the-gamers/

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Episode 145: Godzilla - Godzilla vs. Jagereth

Retro Fanfic Retrospective ·

2022/11/21

Telepathic homeless orphan high-school student Miki Segusa finds herself psychically linked to the King of the Monsters himself. Will they be able to relate to each other? Will Godzilla defeat the Flying/Psychic-type kaiju, Jagereth? Will the real treasure be the friends we made along the way? And will G-Force do anything useful? (In order: yes, yes, yes, no.) Link to the story: https://www.fanfiction.net/s/2804025/1/Godzilla-Vs-Jagereth

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