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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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01:00:58

Episode 144: Batman Beyond - Two Short Fanfics

Retro Fanfic Retrospective ·

2022/11/07

We plunge into the DCAU ass-backwards with two short Batman Beyond stories. In "Only One Can Wear the Crown," Bat "Bruce Wayne" Man reminiscences about how goddamn good Dick Grayson was at acrobatics. (Spoiler: very good.) In "Hope Is The Thing With Leather," Max finds herself drawn increasingly deeper into the bat-lifestyle, which is a great idea that nobody ever regrets. Links to the

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01:26:10

RFR Special Episode - Anime Music Videos

Retro Fanfic Retrospective ·

2022/10/24

Anime Music Videos: the carefully-crafted works of transformative media that we watched in our youth, largely because downloading full episodes of anime off the internet was nigh impossible. Tory, Della, and Amado each pick a few AMVs to discuss, and somehow we don't hit any Evanescence songs. (We've got U2 and Linkin Park covered, though.) Amado tries to force his arbitrary categorization dichotomy on the others to limited success. Links to the AMVs: Jinnai and the Bugrom Live (El-Hazard):

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01:43:31

Episode 143: Captain Planet - Alternate Destination

Retro Fanfic Retrospective ·

2022/10/10

Soviet and/or Eastern European Planeteer Linka is transported to an alternate (?) future where she died five years ago, but her troubles don't end there - she'll need to survive a cruise ship full of villains, environmental devastation, Central Park, and maybe a Balrog if we're lucky. Also, romancing sad future Wheeler. Link to the story: https://www.fanfiction.net/s/2819108/4/Alternate-Destination

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01:19:52

Episode 142: Various - Daicon III and IV Opening...

Retro Fanfic Retrospective ·

2022/09/26

We continue to stretch the ambit of our podcast by discussing proto-Gainax's fan animations for the Nihon SF Taikai science fiction conventions. It's a kind of fanfiction, although the narrative that emerges is mostly "what if all of early-1980s sci-fi crashed into each other and exploded?" In the time it took you to read this, a woman dressed as a playboy bunny could already have beaten up Godzilla, Darth Vader, and a Xenomorph. Daicon III and IV:

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01:48:33

Episode 141: Star Wars - Father’s Heart

Retro Fanfic Retrospective ·

2022/09/12

In the wake of the Obi-Wan Kenobi TV series, we return to Fernwithy's take on young Leia, the Alderaanean princess who is also a senator who is also the bio-kid of a fascist supervillain who used to be a child slave. Could it be that underneath Vader's cold shell is a deeply wounded man desperately seeking personal connection? Probably. Is any relationship with him going to end in horrible betrayal? Oh, definitely. Link to the story: http://fanfic.theforce.net/fanfic.asp?action=view&ID=368

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01:28:41

RFR Special Episode - Stefan Gagne Interview

Retro Fanfic Retrospective ·

2022/08/29

Erstwhile fanfiction author and Arcade Spirits co-writer Stefan "Twoflower" Gagne joins us to talk through his background in anime fanfiction. There are plenty of digressions along the way, as we talk old anime fan culture, the utilization of nostalgia in fiction, and Stefan's one degree of separation from Bryan Lee O'Malley. Link to the author's webfiction: stefangagne.com Link to the Arcade Spirits site: https://www.arcadespirits.com

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01:33:42

Episode 140: The Beatles - The First Year

Retro Fanfic Retrospective ·

2022/08/15

Sara B. rejoins us with a strong recommendation to the world of music RPF. In Liverpool circa 1958, John Lennon is a charismatic asshole, while Paul McCartney is less charismatic but also less of an asshole. Together, they make music and have outrageous chemistry together. Stuart Sutcliffe is also there. Everyone needs to be a lot nicer to poor George Harrison. Link to the story: https://archiveofourown.org/works/188089 Link to Sara's AO3: https://archiveofourown.org/users/Storyshark2005

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01:08:53

Episode 139: Sherlock Holmes - The Adventure of the...

Retro Fanfic Retrospective ·

2022/08/01

It's time to investigate a 100 year-old fanfic zine, with Vincent Starett's The Adventure of the Unique Hamlet (no, not like a small town). The author writes what he knows, and what he knows is bibliophiles. The more Sherlock moves like some kind of dog or spider, the happier we are. We expect more of Watson. Link to the story: http://www.bestofsherlock.com/story/unique-hamlet-text.htm

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01:25:39

Episode 138: Anime/Fighting Game Crossover - MTCFF...

Retro Fanfic Retrospective ·

2022/07/18

Taran joins us, ready for a moderate amount of Ultraviolence, as we chat about the beginnings of the classic Improfanfic headliner, MTCFF Ultra. It's a wrestling-style gonzo megacrossover where Gambit, Dan Hibiki, Lina Inverse, and Shinji fight under the sponsorship of God Herself, Kasumi Tendo. But the real struggle is for each author to keep their predecessor's plot threads going. Link to the story: mtcffultra.com

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01:45:08

Episode 137: Buffy - Moving On

Retro Fanfic Retrospective ·

2022/07/04

Actual fanfiction writers OutHereNow and EveHypo555 of the Canon Divergent podcast join us to talk Buffy. Spike commandeers a company jet to deal with a crisis from his past in Italy. Italy is also where Buffy is half-heartedly sleeping with the hottest supernatural being on the continent. Could these two crazy kids get back together? Maybe it would be a good start if someone got around to telling Buffy that he was still alive? Link to the story:

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01:07:37

Episode 136: Buffy - Next

Retro Fanfic Retrospective ·

2022/06/20

Post-series Buffy needs a vacation, and what better way to relax than to spend some quality time with your erstwhile enemy who totally stole your body at one point? Well, beggars can't be choosers. Link to the story: https://archiveofourown.org/works/35958

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RFR Special Episode: About Crossovers

Retro Fanfic Retrospective ·

2022/06/06

We continue our ongoing series discussing the fundamentals of fanfiction. This week we discuss crossovers, what we ourselves look for in a good crossover and elements we found in some not so good crossovers.

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01:29:48

Episode 135: Rurouni Kenshin - Fever Dreams

Retro Fanfic Retrospective ·

2022/05/23

Taran, also known as the deadly Podcaster X, joins us to talk Rurouni Kenshin. The guys fall in a freezing lake and it's up to Kaoru to nurse them back to health. Sano is about as good a patient as you'd expect. Kenshin/Battousai overcomes his psychological trauma through fever-induced therapeutic roleplaying with edged weapons. Link to the story: http://www.sekiharatae.com/Akabeko/fanfic/fever/index.html

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RFR Special Episode: What Is Fanfiction?

Retro Fanfic Retrospective ·

2022/05/09

As a break from our usual routine, we sit down to hash out what the definition of fanfiction is, once and for all. Della's community-based theory sounds like too much work for Amado. On the other hand, Amado accidentally talks himself into categorizing Disney's Snow White as fanfic. RPF continues to stress us out.

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01:15:37

Episode 134: Animaniacs/Akira - Akatie

Retro Fanfic Retrospective ·

2022/04/25

Taran joins us to do the same thing we do every night: read an old fanfic and talk about it. Classic anime movie Akira is smashed together with Animaniacs... and long story short, Akira wins. Brain's friendship with Pinky is front-and-center, while Pinky's friendship with Crow T. Robot is sadly secondary. Wayback Machine link to the first chapter: bit.ly/rfrakatie

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01:21:22

Episode 133: Quantum Leap - The Last Measure of Devotion

Retro Fanfic Retrospective ·

2022/04/11

Annie of the Fangirls Library and Audio Fanfic Podcasts leaps temporarily into our recording room to discuss a post-series-ish Quantum Leap story. Ziggy is breaking down and Sam is losing his self-identity, so Al is willing to do whatever it takes to bring him back home ASAP... and the best way to do that is definitely lying to him about them being in a long-term sexual-romantic relationship. It's possible that people might be acting a wee bit out of character? The Fangirls Library podcast:

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01:03:47

Episode 132: Monkey Island - Curse of Monkey Island...

Retro Fanfic Retrospective ·

2022/03/28

We set a course for pirate shenanigans with this collegiate radio adaptation of LucasArts' classic adventure game, The Curse of Monkey Island. They've got one banger of a script to wrestle down to size, and a limited number of thespians to cover the roles. You work with what you have, even if what you have is a rubber chicken with a pulley through the middle. Link to the audio files: bit.ly/comiradio

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01:42:10

Episode 131: Hikaru no Go - A Resolution of Territory

Retro Fanfic Retrospective ·

2022/03/14

Pop culture chronicler Aja Romano introduces us to a story about two kids who really love Go... and each other. Hikaru has the most wholesome sexual awakening a queer himbo could ask for. Waya has to put up with a lot, but not as much as Hikaru's mom does. Sai's absence haunts the story. (See what I did there?) Aja Romano's website: https://www.ajaromano.com/ Link to the story: https://archiveofourown.org/works/20460

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01:58:38

Episode 130: Utena / Anime Crossover - Symphony of...

Retro Fanfic Retrospective ·

2022/02/28

We summon Chris from across the dimensional void to help us tackle one small corner of the expansive Undocumented Features universe. Exiled from her home world of Cephiro, post-series Utena Tenjou needs to make a new life in the 25th Century. Luckily, she'll have the support of author-avatar-offspring roommate Kaitlyn Hutchins, Kaitlyn's friends and family, and a steady trickle of familiar Ohtori faces. Really, there's a whole lot of support going around in every direction - it's all very wholesome

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01:11:03

Episode 129: Dark Angel - All the King’s Horses and...

Retro Fanfic Retrospective ·

2022/02/14

Special guest Brihana joins us on a trip to the future Seattle of the Dark Angel TV series. It's dark, but probably not as dark as our actual present. When Alec's tryptophan run goes south, he's forced to take refuge at Logan's place, and we've all read enough fanfiction to know where this is headed. (Towards some thoughtful characterization, obviously.) Link to the story: https://archiveofourown.org/works/46739?view_full_work=true Link to the podfic:

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