Retro Fanfic Retrospective

Jul 29 2024 202 ep. 78 mins 226

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Three friends read old fanfiction that they think might be good. Sometimes they are right. Sometimes they are not. Check out our website at bit.ly/retrofanfic Send us emails at [email protected] Visit us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/RetroFanficRetrospective/ Witness our tweets at https://twitter.com/RetroFanfic

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RFR Special Episode: Anime Fandom Retrospective

Jul 29 2024 66 mins

We indulge ourselves in reminiscences about the voyage of discovery and exploration that was being an anime fan around the turn of the millennium. We remember the slow internet speeds, purple Kodocha Fansubs tapes, and inability to find any given volume of manga! Also, we had to walk to the anime con uphill, through the snow.

Episode 173: Xena - The Dragon's Child

Jul 15 2024 75 mins

We return to an old favorite, armed with marginally more Xena: Warrior Princess knowledge than we had the first time around. Xena kills a very large man, Gabrielle tells fairy tales, and the two of them have sex together at LEAST three times. bit.ly/rfrdragon

RFR Special Episode - One of Us Actually Wrote a Fanfic

Jul 01 2024 60 mins

After more five years and 170 episodes of podcasting, Amado has finally written a full 1600 words of actual, genuine Magic School Bus fanfiction. And Tory and Della are ready to listen to it and try to serve as betas. Beta readers, I mean. You can't be too careful with the Omegaverse out there. Link to the (slightly revised) story: https://archiveofourown.org/works/57044551

Episode 172: Lord of the Rings / Final Fantasy - Legendary Frog's Animations

Jun 17 2024 52 mins

We return to Newgrounds (not to be confused with Newsgrounds, which is presumably a news site) to discuss the early fan animations of LegendaryFrog. Do they still hold up in 2024? And does it really matter, because dozens of lines from them are lodged in our middle school lizard brains either way? I'm looking at YOU, Aeris! Link to the videos: https://legendaryfrog.newgrounds.com

Episode 171: Magic School Bus - What Comes After & As I Always Say

Jun 03 2024 56 mins

Seatbelts, everyone! Tory and Amado go on a magical journey to compare and contrast two Magic School Bus fanfics that have very different ideas about where the magic lies. Arnold may be the heart of the show. Mary Poppins makes a guest appearance. Link to the stories: https://www.fanfiction.net/s/4787280/1/What-Comes-After https://archiveofourown.org/works/296134

RFR Special Episode - The Fantasy of Fanfiction

May 06 2024 41 mins

In this roundtable discussion episode our co-hosts discuss the 'why' of fanfiction. What could possibly drive these miscreants to produce such materials? We discuss things like fan culture, seeing yourself in characters and fiction, and creating spaces for exploration of unrepresented groups. Beverly Clearly would not approve.

Episode 170: Kino's Journey - the nature of uncarved blocks

Apr 22 2024 45 mins

We make a two-night visit to the fandom of Kino's Journey to read "the nature of uncarved blocks." It's a short piece that explores Kino's transgender journey. (See what I did there?) We get sidetracked overanalyzing the use of parenthesis. Kino is Kino. Link to the story: https://archiveofourown.org/works/88265

Episode 169: Halo Reach - A Fistful of Arrows

Apr 08 2024 76 mins

Elite commando fanfic readers Della and Amado read a fancomic that skirts right up to the edge of being official but doesn't quite cross that line. Spartan sharpshooter Jun has some issues that he needs to work through. Della has some Halo lore to talk about. And most importantly, Covenant soldiers get blown up by some sticky grenades. Link to the comic, where (and we cannot stre

Episode 168: Aliens - Far Across the Stars

Mar 25 2024 53 mins

The magic of Yuletide brings us this delightful pitch for a replacement for Alien 3, in which Ripley becomes a pirate, Hicks sells out, and it turns out the REAL facehugger was Capitalism all along. Link to the story: https://archiveofourown.org/works/310288

Episode 167: Pokemon - Butterfree

Mar 11 2024 52 mins

We try not to think about the Pocket Monsters we've left in the box for the last 20 years as we read a love story between a trainer and their huge flying bug with psychic powers. While we're at it, we argue over what happens to Pokemon while they're in their balls, and which interpretation is the most disturbing. Link to the story: https://forums.serebii.net/threads/butterfree-on