Not About The Weather

Yes, San Diego Comic-Con was in July. Yes, it is now December. But hey, Open Registration just happened, so celebrate your wins or mourn your losses with our very special Comic-Con Clip Show!

During the convention, we spoke to lots and lots of awesome people who all play a specific role as part of what makes SDCC magical - from the artists to the logisticians, fellow journalists to creators of iconic fandoms, we shared stories about our experiences at this year's cons and memories of cons in the past.

This live-recorded episode dives right into our first interview and finishes up with a sleepy post-event deconstruction with Karen and Natalie.

(Genuine apologies for our unintentional hiatus - there was a technical reason for this, but we are back in business.)

#ANA - Ask NATW Anything: "What's your most vivid memory from a past convention?"

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This episode’s hosts are: Karen Rought and Natalie Fisher.

Our special guests are: Charlie Capen, Karen Hallion, Michael Dante DiMartino, Kerry Dixon, Lord Mesa and Jessica Mason.

Resources/Recommendations:

GISHWHES @ SDCC 2017

How To Be A Dad

The Misha Collins "Experience Dominatrix" Thing

Charlie Capen's White House Gender Discussion Panel

Karen Hallion's Portfolio and Store

Karen Hallion Hypable Interview

Hank Green's Wizard School Card Game

Rebel Genius by Michael Dante DiMartino

Avatar: The Legend of Korra Comics

Mike's Korrasami Statement

Bryan's Korrasami Statement

Big Block SingSong

San Diego Comic-Con Unofficial Blog

Parks and Cons

An Englishman in San Diego

Wynonna Earp at SDCC 2017 - The Mary Sue

Louden Swain Saturday Night Special on Spotify

Supernatural's Full Screen Hall H Introduction, feat. Kansas

Jason Momoa's Aquaman Full Screen Hall H Crowd Entrance

Atomic Blonde Director David Leitch Hypable Interview

Sideshow Collectibles 

"Confessions of an anxious introvert: I thrive at fandom conventions"

Live from New York, it's... Sunday afternoon, TBH. For our first ever live-in-person recording, Natalie and Brittany are joined by old friends Mara, of Atlantic Records and the Brooklyn Theatre Club; and Leo, of yelling through the door at home during Natalie's podcasting sessions. Vaguely themed around New York itself, this episode touches on the highs and lows of summer in the city: food and tipping, industrial history, subway urban legends... and, naturally, Broadway. Mara has some unique anecdotes to share about going backstage at Hamilton, as well as her own theatre company antics; Natalie is grieving over missing the greatest birthday party in the history of time; and Brittany has a really unfortunate new crush. 

#ANA - Ask NATW Anything: "What's the weirdest local tradition (a la Groundhog Day) that you've ever witnessed?"

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This episode’s hosts are: Brittany Lovely, Natalie Fisher, and Leonie Bunch.

Our special guest is: Mara Frankel.

Resources/Recommendations:

Trash Royalty

Brooklyn Theatre Club

The Hamilton Mixtapes: Immigrants (We Get The Job Done)

Vince Staples Sprite Commercial

Panic! At The Disco's Brendon Urie in Kinky Boots

Turnstile Tours

Brooklyn Army Terminal

Dead Horse Bay

The Mole People

The Ripon Hornblower

Yamba Cane Toad Muster

Our Lady of Mount Carmel Feast

Spider-Man: Homecoming was a Stark-fest, and we're in love on this almost-live episode recorded during Indy PopCon. Heckling Matt Ryan was the best thing ever - and he gives as good as he gets. Not having air-conditioning at any con is the worst. Also the worst: mosquitos. And while conventions are awesome, the illness known as con-crud is not. Unpacking after a con is a nightmare, especially when your car has turned into a swimming pool.  Reuniting and making friends at cons is a highlight. Getting introduced to new games is wonderful. After four failed attempts, Donya finally saw Five Year Mission play live.

#ANA - Ask NATW Anything: "How do you react if you really like something and someone tries to tell you that your opinion is wrong or the thing you like is problematic?"

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This episode’s hosts are: Karen Rought, Kristen Kranz, and Donya Abramo.

Resources/Recommendations:

Five Year Mission band homepage

Knives in Hens starring Matt Ryan

Sushi Go Party card game

The Established Facts game-centric podcast

The Obsessive Viewer tv/film review podcast

The Nerds You're Looking For fandom general talk podcast

OITNB. Dirk Gently. Baby. As in, B - A - B - Y Baby. These coincidentally rhyming properties are some of the things that we're currently recommending. But in the wake of MTV's recent announcement, we're passionately enraged by the ongoing dismissal of longform content. The issue of the alleged shortening attention span of the average internet user ties into several more of our gripes, including Jack's observation of online abuse in the RuPaul's Drag Race community and Karen's discovery of the world's most bullshit opinion article about franchise film gatekeeping. Meanwhile. Natalie is an utter hypocrite about a couple of book to screen television adaptations, Karen's stoked for Comic Con despite hating panels, and Brittany's Comic Con is wherever Natalie is.

#ANA - Ask NATW Anything: "Do you have any, or plan to get any, fandom tattoos?"

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This episode’s hosts are: Brittany Lovely, Natalie Fisher, Karen Rought and Jack Farrugia.

Resources/Recommendations:

Not Another Teen Wolf Podcast - Whose Show Is It Anyway?

MTV News cuts writers, axes longform, emphasizes video

Comics Alliance To Close

New York Times copy desk to top editors: ‘You have turned your backs on us’

Probably Natalie's Longest Ever Article

Buzzfeed: Meet The Man Who Stopped Thousands Of People Becoming HIV-Positive

Buzzfeed: 13 Potatoes That Look Like Channing Tatum

Caroline Framke's article on RuPaul’s Drag Race and DragCon

Tom Hardy on CBeebies Bedtime Stories

The Fans Have Inherited the Film Industry — and It's a Problem for the Rest of Us

Celebrities Read Mean Tweets - Oscar Isaac edition

Maggie Stiefvater’s The Raven Cycle to be adapted for TV

Watch Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency on BBC America for free

Watch the trailer for Orange is the New Black season 5

Watch the trailer for The Big Sick

Watch the trailer for Baby Driver

Edgar Wright Reddit AMA

Cats and gaming. Gaming and cats. That's pretty much what you're getting here. Mitch and Natalie are joined by author, spoken-word performer and video game restoration artist Christopher Gutierrez to talk about his new charitable initiative, The Catcade, an arcade alley take on the traditional cat cafe. This combination of interests has us talking about the best and worst of our experiences with animal rescue, gaming culture, the hang-ups of asking for support as a self-made creator, and, of course, the weirdnesses of our cats - between our three hosts, we have eight! 

#ANA - Ask NATW Anything: "What’s the weirdest thing you’ve done/that’s happened to you on a long road trip?"

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This episode’s hosts are: Mitchel Clow and Natalie Fisher.

Our special guest is: Christopher Gutierrez.

Resources/Recommendations:

The Catcade

The Catcade Indiegogo (ends 22 May)

DeadxStop Publishing

Two days in June 1992 in the halls of Bolingbrook High School

King of Kong documentary - trailer

Interview with the writer of the longest piece of fiction ever composed - a Super Smash Bros fanfic

My First Virtual Reality Groping

Potato Salad Kickstarter Guy

Radio 64 Nintendo Podcast

The Art of Asking - TED Talk

Cat Haikus - source

We want our men to cry and our women to kill, if our love of Jon Bernthal's Punisher and Charlize Theron's Atomic Blonde are any indication. Social media needs to stop trying to fix what ain't broke - good thing that this recording took place prior the most recent and disgusting Twitter update, otherwise we'd still be screaming. Meanwhile, Mitch makes some extremely incorrect assumptions about Keanu Reeves and Natalie uses the podcast as a cheap form of therapy as she expresses her joys and sorrows over internet fandom friendship, in particular a very weird and traumatic occurrence.

#ANA - Ask NATW Anything: "What do you think is the next big step in improving LGBT representation in fiction?"

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This episode’s hosts are: Mitchel Clow, Natalie Fisher and Karen Rought.

Resources/Recommendations:

'Scream season 3 may reboot the entire series' - Hypable

Scream Cast

Peach

Jon Bernthal 'Cemetary Scene' - Daredevil

Bob Ross - The Joy of Painting

Atomic Blonde trailer

Awesome Stuff About Keanu Reeves, Shut Your Mouth Mitchel

'Is Star Wars setting up Poe Dameron as its first queer protagonist?' - Hypable

If all superhero films turn out like Logan, Brittany will be single-handedly funding the entire genre, but if all live-action Disney films turn out like Beauty and the Beast, she will be burning the studio to the ground. Movies aside, the rest of this episode is a veritable deluge of CW commentary. Ariana arrives armed with a spreadsheet to explain her hype and gripe as a singular issue, Jane the Virgin's Raf vs Michael debate* - is it an example of white mediocrity surpassing brown excellence? And after several mentions in passing in recent weeks, Donya finally lets loose about Riverdale's (lack of) asexual representation, but Crazy Ex-Girlfriend has helped her become less anxious about starting new shows. 

*We're never a spoiler-free show, but please note discussion of MAJOR spoilers for the current season of Jane the Virgin, commencing at 40:40.

#ANA - Ask NATW Anything: "I am in a long distance relationship and the only real part of the relationship is sexting... How do I tell the boy that that does not a relationship make and it legit means nothing to me?"

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This episode’s hosts are: Brittany Lovely, Ariana Quiñónez and Donya Abramo. Features a cameo from a surprise dad in the background.

Resources/Recommendations:

Tom and Lorenzo - Beauty and the Beast coverage

Ewan McGregor on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

James Corden's Crosswalk the Musical - Beauty and the Beast

Mulan: Rise of a Warrior

Logan "Sunseeker" promo

Cole Sprouse on Jughead's Sexuality - Bleeding Cool

An Asexual’s Defense of Jughead Kissing Betty on Riverdale - Vulture

We Asked Asexuals if Riverdale's Jughead-Betty Romance Is Bullshit - Vice

The CW App - watch Riverdale, Jane the Virgin and Crazy Ex-Girlfriend

Newsies proved that cinema screenings are the way forward for Broadway, but while we're on the subject of theater, Mitch and Brittany are still arguing about the Gilmore revival - in this case, specifically whether the 16 minute Stars Hollow: The Musical scene was a work of genius or a waste of space. Bringing it down a notch: Natalie is a house wanker, Brit has lost her fandom FOMO, and Caitlin recounts her experience within the nonsensical American healthcare system. However, our love remains pure for many things: Brittany continues to champion The Americans, Mitch wants you to go taste test the cultures of the world at Epcot, and Caitlin gives us her latest audiobook recommendation - The Bear and the Nightingale. Also, we're all old, boring and obsessed with lifestyle programming.

#ANA - Ask NATW Anything: "Favorite friendship (any media)?"

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This episode’s hosts are: Brittany Lovely, Mitchel Clow, Caitlin Kelly and Natalie Fisher

Resources/Recommendations:

Stars Hollow: The Musical

Chuck & Darren Criss - Computer Games

Gumtree - the Australia Craigslist

Property Brothers - HGTV

Chuck Hughes - Cooking Channel

Barefoot Contessa - The Food Network

GoodRX Prescription Checker

Hank Green- Living With A Chronic Disease

The Americans Season 5 Official Trailer - FX

Feud: Bette and Joan First Look - FX

The Bear and the Nightingale - Audible

Norse Mythology - Audible

Newsies Movie Event: Official Trailer

Riverdale Isn't As Progressive As It Thinks It Is

From Thunderbirds to Auguries, Malfoys to MACUSA, this episode is themed specifically around the new Potter canon that's been released into the world in this past year via Harry Potter and the Cursed Child and Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them. This might honestly just be an excuse for us to talk excessively about Jamie Parker, who makes Cursed Child worth seeing, but we've got lots of love for the play's casting, performance and magical special effects, if not its plot. We're taking umbrage with Rowling's continued double standards between representation in her work and advocacy in her real life, and the script book of Cursed Child was really not the best way to share that story. Fantastic Beasts introduced some awesome new canon to the universe, but did it really, really need Johnny Depp? Also, there's a Hamilton meltdown in here somewhere, because this is us.

#ANA - Ask NATW Anything: "Do you accept the new Potter content as actually being canon?"

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This episode’s hosts are: Brittany Lovely, Donya Abramo, and Natalie Fisher

Resources/Recommendations:

"Keep The Secrets" video featuring first glimpse of Jamie Parker as Harry

Beyond the Binary interview with James Le Lacheur

How Lavender Brown Became White

J.K. Rowling and Eddie Redmayne In Conversation at Lumos Screening of Fantastic Beasts

Where the hell is Darren Criss? The rest of the team chimes in with their ultimate obsessions to share and grievances to air from the horrorshow that was 2016. Tragic TV cancellations - some more prominent than others - are on the gripe menu, as is the seriously problematic way that some YA creators handle requests for diversity. However, a lot of family films like Zootopia and Pete's Dragon served up some super-woke meaningful content that we can all enjoy, and we're alive on Planet Earth at the same time as Lin-Manuel Miranda. Who do we want to bring to tears in 2017? This episode is part two of our 2016 year in review special - hear about 2016 from the rest of our hosts on episode 10!

#ANA - Ask NATW Anything: "Who is your favorite Ariana? Grande, Dumbledore, or the original?“

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This episode’s hosts are: Brittany Lovely, Kristen Kranz, Ariana Quiñónez, and Natalie Fisher

Resources/Recommendations:

S.E. Hinton Twitter Drama Summary from Huffington Post

Maggie Stiefvater on racebending The Raven Cycle

Elsie Fest

Darren Criss developing music business sitcom 'Royalties'

Just one petition example of the "Save Agent Carter" campaign

Law and Order: Special Letters Unit Sesame Street parody

Daveed Diggs singing "Rubber Duckie" on Sesame Street

The article that made Lin-Manuel Miranda cry

The tweet where Lin-Manuel Miranda admitted he cried

Here is a thing if you don't know what an EGOT is

Misha Collins' Facebook Live videos, including election campaigning