This bonus episode features Delia Gallegos of Black Girls Create, with whom I discuss what it’s like to read and write fanfic, including past shame regarding the practice and how to embrace its legitimacy. Woven within our praise of AUs, we hope to set listeners up for a better understanding of fanfiction before taking a deeper dive into the archives. A transcript for this episode can be found at https://intothearchivespod.com/2021/04/bonus-episode-1-5-transcript/. 

The fics mentioned in this episode are World Ain't Ready by idiopathicsmile and The Barista, the Burglar, and the Sofa by SeasOfTrees. We also reference the Podfic version of The Barista, the Burglar, and the Sofa by xinasvoice for SeasOfTrees. All of these can be found on Ao3. 

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