I Met You On LJ

Grab your backstage pass! This week, V and Maggie recount their Best Fandom Days Ever: two different but totally unforgettable person-to-person experiences they had with their favorite artists. V tells the story of interviewing Dream Street's Greg Raposo backstage at the House of Blues when she was 17, and Maggie talks about meeting one of her personal heroes, musician and drug counselor Bob Forrest at a tiny solo show in 2015. Plus, a very special celebrity's lunch makes an appearance.

Roll call! This week, Maggie and V interview Dr. Anne Jamison​, who teaches classes on fanfiction at the University of Utah and Princeton University. They discuss fandom friendships, grammar, diversity in fandom, the lost thread of Star Wars, why people love #johnlock, and the golden age of Twific.

This week, Maggie and V chat about their first impressions of The Old Guard, Pacific Rim, Venom, and Jupiter Ascending, and the ways in which fandom uses those worlds to create character growth. These movies have everything--immortal fighters, immortal aliens, loser aliens that eat people, monster aliens getting killed by robots, wolf-splice alien men with barking guns, and best of all, emotions. Also, V leaves a review on Enola Holmes, and Maggie waxes poetic about The Matrix.

They're not real twins! This week, Maggie gives a run-down of The Social Network fandom (including one Armie Hammer), and V discusses The Parent Traps from 1961, 1986, and 1989 (each including one Hayley Mills), as well as, and perhaps and most importantly 1998 (including one Lindsay Lohan). Get Maggie's review of The Devil All The Time, a few MarkWardo fic recs, and V's distant personal connection to Tie-Dye Girl.

Join Maggie and V as they sing, rant, and cry their way through the full spectrum of human emotion! Maggie and V talk about loving, and losing, the idols that helped shape them: actor River Phoenix and Dream Street's Chris Trousdale. After emoting their way through the 2020 election results and what they could mean for the healthcare system, they also discuss Chadwick Boseman. Just because you're mourning as a fan doesn't mean the grief isn't real.

Dust off your toolbelt and get ready to go to Lowe's! In a highly anticipated episode, V and Maggie are joined by Grace and Claire of Fine Pairings Podcast to puzzle out an answer to the eternal question: what in the world do women see in Severus Snape, Kylo Ren, and Loki? Along the way, they discuss Prince Zuko, Edward Cullen, and -- of course -- which fictional men have the emotional maturity and upper-body strength to complete a home renovation project. Catch the other half of the IMYOLJ/FPP collab this week on Fine Pairings Podcast!

Let's talk about smut! In their tenth episode, Maggie and V talk all things Rated E on AO3. Things get silly and surprisingly deep as they break down the citrus scale, sex education in the United States, generational changes in explicit fic, and real weird dicks. Plus, some word association that scarred V for life.

Get ready to scream like a banshee and roll over in your grave, it's the I Met You On LJ Halloween special episode! Halloween-obsessed V and chocolate fiend Maggie take a midnight prowl through their trick-or-treating pasts before setting up the seance candles to connect with horror movie classics like Poltergeist, The Sixth Sense, and The Blair Witch Project, as well as the much tamer Halloween-themed TV episodes they inspired in homage. Get yourself a treat, prepare for some tricks, and open the door for IMYOLJ's spooooooky holiday feast!

Are you ready to go back to Titanic? This week, Maggie and V wax poetic about Jack Dawson's hair, Rose DeWitt Bukater's boobs, special effects, steerage dance parties, and learning history from film. It's been 23 years, and they can still recite every line by heart. Sink deep into '90s nostalgia and the global phenomenon bigger than the Mauretania.

On the 20th of every month, V is going to humiliate herself for the entertainment of Patreon donors (and Maggie) by reading aloud from the fanfiction she wrote at age fourteen. And then sent to the boy band that it was about. Experience baby V's idea of narrative drama firsthand and see if you can survive the cliffhangers...

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