Fanpals

Fanpals Lauren, Liz, and Mel host their very first guest that isn't a personal friend: Emma Grant! Emma has years of podcasting and porning experience, and her insight into fandom sparked several excellent conversations, and gave us ideas for future episodes. Don't miss our talk about Johnlock conspiracy theories, panel kerfuffles, and the beautiful discovery of fic.

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Fanpals Lauren, Liz, and Mel talk to guest Erin about her fandom history, her love of voice actors, and her cosplay. There's also a Geocities shoutout! Love those free sites from the early aughties.

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Liz got to have two great conversations with women who are doing amazing things in geeky spaces. First up is Julia Baritz, the founder of Pillowfort, a new social media platform currently in beta. Learn how the site is marrying LiveJournal and tumblr to provide users with more control over their feeds.

Then listen as Liz chats with the ladies behind Hex Comix, a rad comics publisher with an awesome start-up story. Check out their current title, Hex11, and follow them for witchiness and great art!

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This week your fanpals welcome Mel's bestie Steph as a guest, and talk about all the fictional stuff that makes them cry. Because it's totally normal to be attached to people and things that aren't real. <.<

We wouldn't have it any other way, tbh.

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Your fanpals Lauren and Liz (and eventually Mel!) host Lauren's NRLP Renee for a chat about fic diving, crafting a convention for 90s boybands, and not waiting an appropriate amount of time before meeting internet friends in person.

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Fanpals Liz and Mel are LIVE from San Diego Comic-Con. Well, they were live when they were recording. You get the idea. We recorded while we were at the convention - hence some of the wonky audio - and then did a post-con chat with guest Renee, Liz's SDCC roommate and writer for Black Nerd Problems.

Hear all about our line shenanigans, press room interviews, and the joy of Supernatural.

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Fanpals Lauren and Liz host their first guest, Meg! They talk about how to drag your friends into new fandoms, and why fandom = friendship.

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Your Fanpals Mel (who has very hard lines when it comes to the media she consumes), Liz (who barely has any lines when it comes to the media she consumes), and Lauren (who doesn't really consume much media at all) talk about the tropes and character dynamics that suck them into a fandom. There are digressions into "nopes," and some teases for future episodes.

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Welcome back to Fanpals! In episode two, you can hear Liz's utter dismay over Lauren and Mel not knowing who is who from One Direction, a story about Mel reading scat fic, and Lauren's new theme song. We also talk about starting a fandom for audiobook narrators, and how hot Dylan O'Brien was at LA Pride.

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Fandom would be nothing without the pals we make along the way. In the first episode of this new podcast from Keysmash meet Lauren, Liz, and Mel, the Fanpals. They talk about their fandom histories (Liz is an old, and skipped the Twilight fandom), how they currently participate in fandom (Lauren reads all the fic but doesn't watch any of the shows), and share some anecdotes from their real lives (Mel's story about a banana hammock is particularly funny).

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