Hello there! This is {read more}, a podcast where one friend tells another about weird fandom history - ancient and modern. In this episode, we start our three-part series on Anti Fandom culture. You've seen them on your timeline - and in your notifications, if you're unlucky - and now we're gonna spend some time talking about the pastel profile pictured Antis and just what their deal is.

For additional reading, please consider checking out gil's piece on Medium, "I Want to be Horny on Main: a Look at the Disappearance of Explicit Content Online."

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Fiction, Genre Exposure, and Moral Reality by Jessica Black, Stephanie Capps, and Jennifer Barnes

The Pedagogy of Critical Enjoyment: Teaching and Reaching the Hearts and Minds of Adolescent Learners Through Media Literacy Education by Theresa Redmond

Toxic Fandom: When Criticism and Entitlement Go Too Far by Sean Z

Sound and editing by: Malik

Intro and outro music: Flow by KV

Hello there! This is {read more}, a podcast where one friend tells another about weird fandom history - ancient and modern. In this episode, we talk about what the hell One Piece even is and what it means to be trans on The Grand Line. We have a guest too! A dear friend, bel, host of Road Podglifos, is here to finally explain anime to gil.

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Intro and outro music: Flow by KV

Hello there! This is {read more}, a podcast where one friend tells another about weird fandom history - ancient and modern. In this episode, we talk about how it's 2021, and all three members of this podcast still use Tumblr.

Why? Because we've been here far too long and we can't stop. 

Hear about the rise, the fall, and the shitshow left by everyone's favorite hellsite. 

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Info for this episode comes from:

Wikipedia: Tumblr, Microblogging

Yahoo buys Tumblr, promises to not 'screw it up'

Tumblr will ban all adult content on December 17th

and, my disgusting amount of knowledge of tumblr history after 10yrs on the site

Sound and editing by: Bel

Intro and outro music: Flow by KV

Hello there! This is {read more}, a podcast where one friend tells another about weird fandom history - ancient and modern. In this episode, gil finally gets to talk about what everyone wants them to finally shut up about: dan and phil.

For the first time in two years, the crew of {read more} is all together in person. This was gil's master plan all along: get nikki and malik trapped in a room to talk to them about dan & phil, why gil loves them, and why a lot of people's love for them made the men's lives harder.

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Revisiting parasocial theory in fan studies: Pathological or (path)illogical? by Rivkah Groszman

Sci Guys Episode 87: The Science of Parasocial Relationships (with Shaaba.)

Wikipedia which lead me to googling scans of the original work

Sound and editing by: Malik

Intro and outro music: Flow by KV

Hello there! This is {read more}, a podcast where one friend tells another about weird fandom history - ancient and modern. In this episode, gil takes nikki and malik down the road of Omegaverse/ABO fanfiction. Join us for upsetting kink meme prompts, a science lesson, and a lot of talk not suitable for those who don’t want to hear about "canine-like" cock.

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Info for this episode comes from:

Fanlore's ABO Wiki

Shipper's Guide to the Galaxy's Omegaverse video

Destination: Toast!'s 2013 Omegaverse AO3 Study

Sound and editing by: Malik

Intro and outro music: Flow by KV

Hello there! This is {read more}, a podcast where one friend tells another about weird fandom history - ancient and modern. For our first episode, gil decides to tell nikki about their tragic fandom origin story - the TJLC. 

Join us for gil’s favorite activity: complaining about mofftiss, and being proven wrong by nikki!

Info for this episode comes from:

The JohnLock Conspiracy, fandom eschatology, and longing to belong by Bo Allesøe Christensen and Thessa Jensen

Wikipedia’s article on Queerbaiting

My emo high school years

Sound and editing by: Malik

Intro and outro music: Flow by KV