Fan Fic Elevator Pitches In this episode we totally rip off the Protagonist Podcast and do an Elevator Pitch episode, but we’ve justified it away by inviting Todd Mack one of their hosts on to the episode.  The premise for this competition is that we have have picked three common Fanfic tropes that we need to build an elevator pitch for a story from a fandom.  The tropes are Age Shifting Alternate Universe (AU) where the characters are made either...

Gilmore Girls … Really This week we are talking about the Gilmore Girls revival that has recently come out on Netflix.  If you never plan on watching an episode of Gilmore Girls, I would recommend not skipping this podcast. We talk about Gilmore Girls from a very basic perspective and so the next time you need some random Gilmore Girls discussion points you will be prepared.  Branden has never watched an Episode before. Nik has a Love Hate relationship with...

The Movie Box office has split itself into two seasons.  The First being the Winter Movie box office that ranges from October to March and the Summer Box office that ranges from April to September. Traditionally the bigger blockbusters and tent pole films come out in the Summer, but this winter we talk about the nerdy movies that we are excited to see. And just in case you were wondering, no Fifty Shades Darker did not make that list. Here is...

Today in the United States is Thanksgiving, and a lot of the podcasts that I listen to have taken the week off to spend time with extended family, and well that’s great, but if you’re anything like me then you might be able to use a little bit of a break from your extended family and in laws, or maybe by listening to this before you see your family you can be prepared to change the topic when your Crazy...

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them! This last weekend Fantastic Beasts and where to find them opened at $75 million dollars. Don’t worry we will give you warnings before spoilers.  This is the first movie that exists in Harry Potter’s Wizarding World that did not exist as a book first which makes it unique in and of itself but there were a few other things about this film that we wanted to talk about including a diverse audience, how young...

With the Election Cycle in the US and a few bouts with being sick we understand that sometimes living in the real world sucks, but luckily for us we live in an age with unprecedented access to other worlds that we can escape into.  These worlds come in the form of Fandoms and tonight we are going to share with you what we do when we want to numb or block out the outside world.  Is it running away?  Probably,...

What is Fanfic?  Well Fanfic is shorthand for Fan Fiction and this week we bring on friend of the show and Fanfic author Sara Linn to talk to us about what it is, how to find it, and what some of the terminology means.  If you’ve ever been curious about what an AU, a shipwar or a an archive is then you need to listen to this episode. Common Places to find fanfic (in chronological order) fanzines, mailing lists &...

Time Travel in Fandom We’ve reached episode 88 this week and to pay tribute to Back to the Future we talk about different fandoms that utilize time travel, and the unique ways that they all explain or use Paradoxes. After our discussion about some ways that time travel is used in Fandom we talk about why time travel is used so often in pop culture. Random Fandom – Super Powereds Since we haven’t heard from you in a while about the...

My Family! Join us this week for a shorter episode where I get to talk with my favorite people in the world about our trip to Disneyland.  Sara spent most of the time taking care of Violet and so she didn’t say much, but maybe this will be the first one of these that she listens to. Disneyland Disneyland is a fandom all of its own. even though I have been several times since I was a child I was...