Fanonball

Seeing a new episode of Fanonball has finally been uploaded... it fills you with determination. Today we're joined by Mel to talk about the 2015 indie RPG Undertale! We talk about its connection to Homestuck, shipping discourse, and how it's possible to ship Sans with himself.

 Sources and relevant links for this episode: 

• Undertale, Underfell, Sans/Frisk on fanlore
• The Undertale Drama by Chloe Spencer for Kotaku
• Flowerfell on the (now abandoned?) Undertale AU wiki
• Sans on the Tumblr Sexymen wiki
• What happened to the Undertale fandom? on Quora
• What happened to the Undertale fandom? on r/outoftheloop
• The Tumblr Needle Cookie Story

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If you have read basically any fanfiction in your life, you have benefited from the existence of a 90s supernatural (?) cop drama. Today Dana Parker joins us to talk about The Sentinel, a fandom that has impacted all of fandom space as we know it today. We discuss the countless AUs and tropes the show spawned, the ways the fandom pioneered saving shows, and how Archive of Our Own would not exist without The Sentinel. 

Sources and relevant links for this episode:

• The Sentinel, Jim/Blair, Sentinel AU on Fanlore
• Basic guide to Sentinel fic and tropes by infiniteeight8 on Tumblr
• The Sentinel, Sentinel/Guide Bonding and AU - Sentinels and Guides tags on AO3
• AO3 Ship Stats list 
• Neilsen ratings for 1996-97 and 1997-98

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Beth: Twitter, Instagram, Twitch
Max: Twitter, Instagram
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Gun to your head, what would you guess is the fandom for the top fic on AO3? Supernatural? Harry Potter? Boku no Hero Academia? You fool. You absolute rube. Of course it's Minecraft Youtuber RPF, how could you ever think otherwise. On today's episode Chy joins us to talk about Dream/GeorgeNotFound fic Heat Waves, the most popular fic on Archive of Our Own, and what it means for fandom and pop culture at large. 

Sources and relevant links for this episode:

• Heat Waves and Helium on AO3
• Heat Waves, Dream SMP and Dream on Fanlore
• DreamNotFound on the Shipping Wiki, making its first appearance on the show, remarkably
• Fanfiction about real people is flourishing by Jay Castello on Polygon
• People are reading so much fanfiction it’s crashing the biggest fanfiction website by Gita Jackson on VICE
• The most read fic on AO3 has now been dethroned, a thread on Reddit
• Glass Animals’ Hottest 100 win: ‘Heat Waves’ and the power of online fandom by Al Newstead on TripleJ

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Have you ever awoken in the dead of night in a cold sweat and thought, "What if England and France fucked?" Well, we have some great news for you: You are not alone, and you are so not alone that an entire fandom agrees with you. Today Nat joins us to talk about the nation gijinka webcomic and anime series Hetalia! We talk about globalism with respect to the premise, how the fandom handled problematic situations, and the different ways the fans responded to racism and misogyny. 

Sources and relevant links for this episode:

• Pyrrhiccomedy's fic directory
• Wizzard890's fic directory
• Puella_nerdii's Hetalia LJ posts
• Mithrigil's fics
• Hetalia's Dreamwidth
• SaMelodii's Bahamas OC
• HetArchive
• Hetalia on Fanlore
• Anime Boston incident (TW: antisemitism, Holocaust)

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THIS EPISODE CONTAINS EXPLICIT SPOILERS FOR DANGANRONPA 1, 2 AND 3! DO NOT LISTEN IF YOU DON'T WANT TO BE SPOILED!

Welcome to the Ultimate Podcast! Today we're talking about the Danganronpa fandom and BOY is it a doozy. We discuss kinning, dancing on literal graves, and how the fans on the Something Awful boards were key to getting the series localized in the West.

Sources and relevant links for this episode:

• Danganronpa Fanlore
• Danganronpa Discourse blog
• Danganronpa fanfiction discourse blog
• Fandom Files ep on Danganronpa
• Thread on DR/SomethingAwful/orenroren
• Orenroren let’s play archive of DR1, and his translation of SDR2

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Listener, don't be a sockpuppet for a Harry Potter fanboard user. Instead, listen to this episode where we talk about the USA (characters welcome) show Psych! We discuss how anti-Black racism affects the biggest ships in the fandom, why it's so small, and the ways the network encouraged fan activity.


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Is it still us that makes you sweat? Are we who you think about in bed? Probably not, but a podcast can dream, right? Anyway, we're BACK and we're wrapping up our series on bandom with an episode about Panic! at the Disco, joined by Nicole Fenton. We talk about celebrities breaking the fandom fourth wall, shipping theories and... dairy products.

Sources and relevant links for this episode:

• P!atD, Ryden, Brencer, Dallon Weekes, Divorce!fic on fanlore
• Panic primer on LJ
• Panic origin story on tumblr
• Another Panic primer on LJ
• Panic primer on dreamwidth
• Slashatthedisco
• Lots of Ryden masterposts
• Brencer manifesto
• Catfishing incident masterpost

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We ARE okay, thank you for asking. In the second episode of our series on bandom, Meredith Gillies joins us as we cover My Chemical Romance. We talk about why they're the biggest band in bandom to this day, how their creativity inspires fans' creativity, and how they will Save Your Life.

Sources and relevant links for this episode:

• MCR, Frerard, Waycest on Fanlore
• A weirdly involved fandom primer on Quora, of all things
• Another fandom primer on LJ
• Part 1 of a 4 part Frerard primer
• The Used primer

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Our Lawyers Made Us Change The Name Of This Podcast So We Wouldn't Get Sued (not really our network doesn't have a legal department). Anna Clay, once and future scene kid and creator of Fall Out Boy site drop-a-heart.com, joins us to talk about, you guessed it, Fall Out Boy. We discuss the draw of bands for fandoms, 2005's importance for the FOB fandom and Pete Wentz's various rumored entanglements. We also thank them fr th mmrs. 

Sources and relevant links for this episode:

• Fall Out Boy, Cultverse, Damnyouwentz and Summer of Like Fanlore pages
• Sixteen Candlesverse 
• Fall Out Boy primer
• Mikey Way/Pete Wentz manifesto
• Mikey Way/Pete Wentz manifesto but a different one 
• Pete Wentz/Patrick Stump manifesto
• Pete Wentz/Patrick Stump manifesto but a different one 

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We talk about a lot of things in this episode, okay, we go over a lot of history and backstory and drama – but the most, THE MOST important thing to take away is that Zexion and Demyx were originally shipped because their Organization numbers were 6 and 9. Thank you.

Sources and relevant links for this episode:

• Kingdom Hearts Fanlore page
• This VERY GOOD reddit thread of people in the fandom
• Kindom Hearts III, Re:Mind, Yozora and Fan Expression
• ANOTHER great reddit thread about flame wars/Xion
• Akuroku Fanlore page

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