Happy one year of TWIFH! To celebrate the end of our first year and to give you a huge chunk o' podcast to get through New Year's Eve, this week V and Emily are holding their breaths and taking a deep dive into the strange, insidious, bananapants crazytown world of Andrew Blake AKA Jordan Wood AKA Amy Player AKA Victoria Bitter AKA VoyagerBabe AKA strwriter AKA thanfiction and his many, many crimes in the fandomspace (and outside of the fandomspace, too). Because this story deals with many heavy topics and is incredibly long and harrowing, we have split this episode into two parts. PART I covers the first ten years of Andy thanfiction's cult of personality and Munchausen by Internet, and deals with the following sensitive topics: gaslighting, intimate partner abuse, emotional abuse, suicide attempts, fraud, mental illness, Munchausen by Internet, financial abuse, and brainwashing tactics. PART II covers the second ten years of Andy thanfiction's cult of personality and downward spiral, and deals with the following sensitive topics: gaslighting, emotional abuse, Munchausen by Internet, suicide, murder (gun violence), gendered violence, intimate partner violence, unhealthy weight loss, mental illness, disassociation, financial abuse, and fraud. Sources: Andy Blake: A Timeline by @theteablogger Abbey Stone's Wordpress blog

This Week In Fandom History is a fandom-centric podcast that tells you… what happened this week in fandom history!

That's right!! The Fic List is going to New York Comic Con!!!! 😱🤯🥳

Come see us and the unparalleled @icaruspendragon aka Berklie co-host "An Abridged (Unhinged) History of Fan-Fiction" on Thursday, October 12 at 7:15 PM! Expect goofiness, shenanigans, and the occasional history lesson 😉

Visit NYCC's official page for more information about our panel and the con! Hope to see you there!

Watch the American Climate Leadership Awards 2024 now: https://youtu.be/bWiW4Rp8vF0?feature=shared

The American Climate Leadership Awards 2024 broadcast recording is now available on ecoAmerica's YouTube channel for viewers to be inspired by active climate leaders. Watch to find out which finalist received the $50,000 grand prize! Hosted by Vanessa Hauc and featuring Bill McKibben and Katharine Hayhoe!

Episode 139: 10th Anniversary

It's Sherlock's birthday, but it's also the 10 YEAR anniversary of @threepatchpodcast! We're celebrating with an old-school 4+ hour episode full of reminiscing and drunken shenanigans.

Featuring:

A celebration of a decade of Sherlock fanworks with @emmagrant01, @merindab, @bluebellofbakerstreet, Iwantthatcoat, @themrsscience, and @songlin

A look back at the Setlock era with @penns-woods, Geny, and @foxestacado

Drunk history of TPP with @emmagrant01, @sundayduck, @kelly-mads, and @suspup

Our favorite ever top tens with @themrsscience, @hpswl-cumbercookie, and @suspup

Plus more staff memories and behind-the-scenes stories from the last 10 years of podcasting!

Stream or download on our website or wherever you catch your pods!

Art by @foxestacado

Reblog to help us celebrate a literal DECADE of monthly podcast episodes about fandom!

finally getting to this (TY to @billsfangearring for the rec) and thinking that the entire thing should be mandatory listening for anyone and everyone who wants to participate in fandom. I learned so much about fannish history, zines, fandom on the internet, the creation of FFN — also hell yeah to whoever of the podcasters is a snarry/ tomarry shipper — but mostly seconding this very hard

maybe i’m especially in my fandom history feels thanks to femslash february & @lumosatnight’s HP femslash history thing, but — this basically yall, i’m so emotional. (timestamp approx. 2h15m in).

fanlore article: An Archive Of One's Own (post by astolat), a proposal that astolat posted to her LiveJournal in May 2007.

First, why fanfic is not illegal and why YOU should stop saying that it is even if you don't agree, by cesperanza. Please read it. That said, the people behind fanlib (talked about many places, see astridv here) don't actually care about fanfic, the fanfic community, or anything except making money off content created entirely by other people and getting media attention. They don't have a single fanfic reader or writer on their board; they don't even have a single woman on their board. They're creating a lawsuit-bait site while being bad potential defendants, and they deserve to be chased out being pelted with rocks. But even if they were, which I doubt is going to happen, because hey, they have people and money, we're still left with this problem: we are sitting quietly by the fireside, creating piles and piles of content around us, and other people are going to look at that and see an opportunity. And they are going to end up creating the front doors that new fanfic writers walk through, unless we stand up and build our OWN front door.

every time i think i cannot love ao3 more i find even more to love and respect about it & everyone who contributed to creating it. what an empowering story this is, you all, about taking OWNERSHIP and mobilizing the community and building the places, MAKING the spaces you want to have. being the change you want to see.

and this list of desired features —

- allowing ANYTHING -- het, slash, RPF, chan, kink, highly adult - giving explicit credit to the original creators while clearly disclaiming any official status - making it easy for people to download stories - options for people to post [recursively transformative works inspired by] the original story, all of which would automatically be linked back so you could see the kind of interconnecting 'web' of how our work is interrelated - automatic rec lists (just click on a story to add it to your rec list) - mentoring: collect up writing advice, fannish history, acafandom, and create a simple FAQ (integrate a wiki?)

!!! these values!! HISTORY and COMMUNITY fucking HISTORY and COMMUNITY.

what we’re doing is LEGITIMATE, it has VALUE and it is REAL.

it is alright if not everyone cares about everything or indeed the same things, it is alright if no two people see things the same way or perfectly align in fandom interests and preferences and headcanons, but there is so much to celebrate and uplift about each other. we have so much in common. so much.

also happiness has meaning and catharsis has meaning and exploration has meaning, art has meaning and creativity and individual expression is meaningful, for the creator if no one else , and is worthy of celebration and love if only because life and living is fucking hard, yall.

ahhh i am so sad and angry (that this was our fandom history! that it was such a struggle! that even now there is so much infighting! that some things i love are not as popular and widely loved compared to other things (that i also love!)) — but i’m also so touched and SO grateful that this is our fandom history because wow is it one of triumph and empowerment and community collaboration. it was dreamt and then proposed and then built, from scratch, and we’re adding to it every day.

and then the timeline stuff (the post was made may 17th, 2007! the domain names were registered may 30th! the first donations came in september 2007 and the site was operational as we know it in 2009!) holy shit!

ahhh i love fandom and all this gift economy and joy.

p.s. there’s also a part 2 with olderthannetfic(’s fandom backstory lmao). which i’ve only just started listening to so expect a similarly in my feels post about that in uhhhhhhh two months

So, I guess you're wondering why we've gathered you all here today...

Well, good thing you're here now, because today is the release of the first episode of our podcast, Non-Canon Club!

Join us as we talk about fandom, in all it's intricacies and our experiences within the various spaces, along with adorable anecdotes about our own relationships with fandom!

The podcast is available on Spotify through this link, and feel free to follow our podcast there and here on Tumblr to be aware of any future updates and episodes.

Btw please do suggest topics via asks! (Especially DPS-related ones). If anyone listening wants to hear about a particular topic, I’d be so happy to talk about it :)

Listen to August make this argument despite some questionable writing choices as the team discusses this week’s episode, Good God Y’all! Available wherever you get your podcasts.

Friends, it has begun! @nutowhopod podcast is here!

In this show, Justin, Eileen and I will give our thoughts on Doctor Who episode by episode. Are we funny? Maybe. Find out for yourself on Nu To Who!

If you like our content, follow us here as well as on Youtube, Instagram, and TikTok at @nutowhopod

He's darkness! He's vengeance! This week, V and Emily look at the uniquely nerdy StarKid fandom and their superhero parody musical, HOLY MUSICAL B@MAN! (That's "B@man," not "Batman," in case Warner Brothers asks.) They look at the way StarKid musicals feel like your Tumblr dashboard, how Sean Astin will do basically anything you ask him to do apparently, and how absolutely insufferable your hosts were as high school theatre kids. (Yes, theatre, not theater. That's how insufferable.) Musical references abound! And, amazingly, we understand a joke in the show BECAUSE OF A PREVIOUS EPISODE OF TWIFH!

This Week In Fandom History is a fandom-centric podcast that tells you… what happened this week in fandom history!

We stan hobbit/dwarven idiots in love. Also, did you know if you say the word “Bilbo” a bunch of times in a row, it starts to sound like something else…? 😬😅 Link to the full episode below!

Episode 142: All Along the Watchalong

In which a ragtag group of fans discuss watchalongs (and Spn specifically) and a new femlock stage play. Show notes and direct download information are available HERE at three-patch.com. Or subscribe via RSS or iTunes. 

Featuring:

@iamjohnlocked4life and @mistyzeo review the modern femlock stage play, Ms. Holmes and Ms. Watson, Apt. 2B

@avawatson @fffinnagain @iamjohnlocked4life @kelly-mads @sundayduck and @zaffrefic discuss the ups and downs of watching fifteen seasons of Supernatural over the last three years and what makes good watchalong material

And find us on social media: Twitter, Instagram, Facebook.

[Art by @foxestacado]

15.26: the history of fandom wank in zines, into 16.00 discussions on the definition of fandom wank. “it’s a measured and totally reasonable level of fannish investment in something on which i am correct and you are not!”

NBNC EP OUT NOW

On the Rocks Cinematic Universe Update: Fandom on the Rocks

Hello, pals. We've got a lengthy and exciting update for you. We're super excited to announce that Glee on the Rocks (and Supernatural on the Rocks) will be undertaking a rebranding. Welcome now to Fandom on the Rocks. This will become your one stop shop for our expanding podcast network about all of the things we love. Why are we doing this? Because it's hard to maintain multiple social media accounts and we just don't have time for that. Updates for our current and upcoming (!!) projects will be consolidated here on this feed, where we will roll out new branding.

So What's Next?

We're going to be rolling this out across our social channels and figuring out how best to switch the branding over. Given the limitations, we're likely to be changing the name of our Glee on the Rocks channels to Fandom on the Rocks and posting all updates to that one source.

For instance, if you listen to us on Spotify, Glee on the Rocks will become Fandom on the Rocks, and both Glee and SPN on the Rocks will be posted to that one feed.  Each show will have it's own podcast cover art to help distinguish them and maintain their unique appeal. (At least this is what we want to know - there are RSS issues at hand...)

Apple Podcasts has thankfully read our minds and rolled out Podcast Channels for us (and, you know, everyone else).  You can find the Fandom of the Rocks Channel here, featuring GotR and SPNotR already. This is what we hope other podcast streamers will do; it's so much more convenient for everyone.

Thank you to you, our community.  Please let us know if you have comments or suggestions for how we can make this transition easier, any questions we can answer, or just anything in general.

- Emily, Bee, and Mandy

Do you ever think about how media can save us from loneliness, provide an escape from our own thoughts, and maybe even give us a little bit of hope?

On You Are What You Love, we talk about the most influential piece of media each guest has experienced. @icaruspendragon joined the show to talk about Supernatural. We talked about her experience with fan fiction, her mission to make everyone feel at home in fandom, and how Supernatural and the community of fandom saved her from grief after extreme loss. Tangents included: handmade lists of fan fiction links, November 5th, being a band kid in alabama, and becoming Misha Collins’ arch nemesis.

We also talked about the Before and the After in terms of grief and defining life moments, and how television, especially a show as enduring as Supernatural, can provide us a connection to the Before as we try to navigate the harsh reality of the After and now.

I hope you enjoy the episode as much as we enjoyed the conversation!

Honorable Mention Episode 5 is published!