I'm a Fan of That!

Today, both Vivian and 'Olly are a bit tired and have been apart for some time, so we're just going to have a friend catch up chat and want you to come and join us. It's slowly crawling toward autumn here in the UK, so we're both feeling a little nostalgic and cosy, so today is all about cosy games, nostalgic reads and music, and just trying to enjoy life.

Topics We Mentioned

Daisy Granade

Wind in the Willows

The Magician's Nephew - Greta Gerwig's images

Little Witch in the Woods

Sovereign Tower

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We're talking about a big topic in pop culture these days: paraosciality. And yes, Vivian will be talking about her work into Swifties and Taylor Swift a bit, but mostly we chat about what it actually means to be parasocial, and even if such a thing actually does exist?

Vivian's Research Material

Individual celebration of pop music icons: A study of music fans relationships with their object of fandom and associated practices

Check out Vivian's survey for Swifties

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Warning: This episode contains two people trying their best to have a nuanced conversation about something complicated, personal, and sensative.

That's right, we're chatting about trigger warnings today, those pesky lists of things that a social media post, a blog post, a video essay, or something else online have at the beginning. The point was to try and keep people who may have trauma induced responses to certain contant from having a physical and emotional reaction. But is that actually whats happening now? Does "trigger" even mean this anymore? And what do the academics have to say about it?

Vivian's Research Material

A Meta-Analysis of the Efficacy of Trigger Warnings, Content Warnings, and Content Notes

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Music for this episode was Nowhere Land by Kevin MacLead Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0

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It's another fandom of Vivian's that she's bringing to the table. Our lovely pop anthropologist grew up watching the goofy pseudo-kinda-police-procedural Psych on the USA network (or at least that's where it was in the US). And this week, she made 'Olly watch an episode. Turns out, they liked it so much, they watched two!

Topics include: police procedurals, the difference in TV from the 2000s, nostalgia not always necessarily tied to your own shows, and how wonderful small fandoms are.

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Music for this episode was Nowhere Land by Kevin MacLead Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0

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We're finally tackling the big important fandom practice and question: the collector. Is the collector a fan? Are fans just naturally collectors? Today, 'Olly and Vivian answer some questions we have on the nature of collecting.

Topics include: what makes a collector, different types of collecting, the monetisation of collecting, what we each collect, and, of course, Swifties.

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Music for this episode was Nowhere Land by Kevin MacLead Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0

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Vivian and 'Olly are coming to you from the middle of the second (or is it third?) UK heatwave of the year, but we're able to put that to the side to talk about Real Life Shipping. That's right! The idea and practice of actively shipping, writing, drawing, and speculating, on two real human people's relationship status.

Topics include: The Summer I Turned Pretty, Dan and Phil, Sherlock, and Taylor Swift and the Gaylors.

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Music for this episode was Nowhere Land by Kevin MacLead Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0

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It's a Vivian episode, which means she's taking us away from the traditional nerdy and to the other kind of nerds. And today, it's to the Houewives fans. We need to center this conversation on a particular episode, and so Vivian had 'Olly watch the season finale of The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City season 4.

Topics include: the anthropology of reality television, the connection between Queer Eye for the Straight Guy and Housewives, the gendered performance of these women, how campiness works, and how reality television is not reality while being reality.

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Music for this episode was Nowhere Land by Kevin MacLead Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0

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We've been dancing around the topic for ages, and its now time to give it its full due. That's right, we're finally dedicating a full episode to the Rian Johnson film franchise that is Knives Out. Though don't know if that series title will stick, as he's said he doesn't like it. So maybe its best to say we're focusing on Benoit Blanc. This one comes with a bonus drinking game! Take a drink every time Vivian mentions her video essays!

Topics include: the structure of the whodunnit, the difference between detective fiction and crime fiction, the wonder of Agatha Christie, the connections Rian Johnson makes with nostalgia, and how much we would love to look at Rian Johnson's bookshelves.

Vivian's Video Essays

Mythology and Belief in Wake Up Dead Man

Anthropology of Grace in Wake Up Dead Man

Rian Johnson's Nostalgia in Knives Out

Knives Out and the Structure of the Whodunnit

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Music for this episode was Nowhere Land by Kevin MacLead Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0

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VIvian and Olly decide to get a little nostalgic today by talking about an sitcom from our adolescents that we both watched far after we were children. That's right, it's the classic Zooey Deschanel New Girl.

Topics include: Manic Pixie Dream Girls? Whether Schmidt is problematic. The difference between plot and story. Why are sitcoms so dang appealing? Balancing the light with the dark. And the complicated nature of binge watching.

VIvian's Episode on New Girl's Injured

Shows Referenced

New Girl

Brooklyn 99

Friends

Scrubs

Parks and Recreation

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Fan Of That is now on Patreon!

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Music for this episode was Nowhere Land by Kevin MacLead Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0

Logo by Moira Daykin, @mecha_moira on instagram

This episode was produced by Vivian Asimos and Holly Swinyard

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We decided to kick of season four with an overview of the things 'Olly and Vivian have been enjoying and faning out over in the break. We also give you a little bit of a media watch/read/explore list of topics and case studies that may be coming up next.

Topics We Stan Right Now

Noah Kahan - The Great Divide

Paddington: the Musical

Project Hail Mary

Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood

Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafón

The Silver Bone - Andrey Kurkov

Gab Smoulders

Media Watchlist

Psych

Good Omens - the book

The Summer I Turned Pretty - the show

Deep Pocket Monster - Youtuber

Some Refs

Incidental Mythology - Vivian's video essay channel

Video on Nostalgia and Rian Johnson

Video on Grace and Wake Up Dead Man

Substack Post: Science Fiction vs Magic vs Religion

Our Socials

Vivian's Instagram

Holly's Instagram

The Pod's Instagram

Buy Our Books!

Buy Holly's Book!

Buy Vivian's Book!

Fan Of That is now on Patreon!

Go support us over there!

Music for this episode was Nowhere Land by Kevin MacLead Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0

Logo by Moira Daykin, @mecha_moira on instagram

This episode was produced by Vivian Asimos and Holly Swinyard

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