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Hello all!

So as part of a shift away from being hosted on SoundCloud and due to its accessibility on various podcasting apps being disrupted (and because Spotify ate my Anchor.fm account when it bought it), the show is going to be being republished weekly over on Spotify for the next little while as a way of continuing to have it be made available to people.

Please enjoy the episodes all over again if you so choose. :)

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A New Years Message From the Mod

Hi everyone,

I know many of you have been wondering what’s going on with the show, and you deserve a proper answer, so I apologize greatly. I’ve been hesitant to say anything with any finality about the status of the show, because there was a small part of me that was never wanting to say anything final, but I feel like with 2019 coming, now is the time. I need to communicate something.I want all of you to know that the show is (obviously) on a pretty permanent hiatus. I hesitate to say it’s done forever, because I do have some recordings that have not been released yet and have just been waiting to find the time to clean up and release. And my goal in going on hiatus was to move towards a different podcast model where I might put together themed seasons and release them in bursts.

That may still happen someday. But for right now, I just can’t keep it going with any regularity or guarantee of new episodes. The show was always primarily a labor of love for me, and it required an extraordinary amount of time, money, and energy to coordinate and put together. I just don’t have the space in my life for it anymore. Thank you to all of the contributors, who were such a great help to me at various points and are why I was able to keep it going as long as it did, and who are why I still want to leave the door open on it. And thank you to everyone who listened to the episodes. Your comments, sharing of the show, and messages always made me so happy to have been able to put out the episodes that I was able to, and I’m so glad that the show resonated with people and that I put something out into fandom that was able to have an impact and generate such positivity and love.

All the best to everyone in 2019.

- Enthusiasm Girl

randoboiiii

Fanfic:

Me: hmmmm

Fanfic:

Me, already clicking: It’s just one chapter

iamnmbr3

When you’re writing and you can clearly see in your mind the exact expression a character is wearing or hear the exact nonverbal sound they are making, but completely fail at coming up with a way to explain it.

bookwisebriggy

And he was smiling very smiley-like, you know, like a smile except even more smiley.

writing-in-the-grave

Typing various versions of ugh/egh/argh/blagh while repeatedly making the noise you’re trying to spell but none of them sound right

spnfamily-alwayskeepfighting

This is so accurate it hurts

justjasper

new person: i’m late to this fandom/ship.. there’s not much point writing fic/making art for it is there?

The Fans:

W̡̨͍̞̯ͬͦͤ̍̽͑̌͠E̼̠̪̩̯͈̩̖̳͛͋ͧͭͪ ̣̣̐̚ͅH̡͇͓̓̈́͛ͨ̏͛ͯŲ͔̙̳͇͔̺͓̲͚̐̇ͯ̃́̈N̛̈͐͗̍҉͕̗̗̠̞̗̠̱Ǧ̵̹̜̪̪̖̫̌ͨ̂̇͂ͬȨ̶̥̻̱̦̤̥̬̬͕ͩͪͤͧ̇͗̿R̵̢̘̘̩̠̜̭̭̯̅ͩ͂͆̉̅̎ͩ͜ͅ ̛̖͎̞̎̂̐͊̿̑ͣ͊̐͜͟F̵̹͈̯̘̣̀̽Ô̲̯͇̪̰̼͕̬͒ͣͪ̎͜R͓͚̱͔͌̍̔͐̓̈̚̕͜ͅ ̺̥͙͐́͟ͅN̲̹̘̤̱̅̊ͨ̀͝E̸̺͉̦̼͇̜͑ͯͭ̀W͈̳͉̘͈͓̅̃͘ ̸̣̜͙͉̀̊ͤ̐͐ͫͣ́͝B̵̨͇͍̟͎̞̦̝̄̎̌L̶̠̲̗̙ͥͮ̚Ŏ̊̋ͬ̉͡͏̞̥̤̫̱̪̝̮O̧̳͇͎͊̆ͭ͗̎ͤD̴̯͔̳̘̘̪̼ͨ̓̆͜ͅ

nonasuch

Speaking as a person who wrote her very first Harry Potter fic in this the year of our lord 2018, this is MUCH TRUER than I thought it was.

#so true

hello! i don't know if this will be seen, but i just recently found out about these podcasts and binged a bunch of them and they're awesome! i'm not sure if this has been answered at any point in time (i don't currently have the time to page-stalk ahah) but will the show ever be coming back? i noticed it's been a while and i've had things that i'd love to say or help contribute, but i haven't found much info on what happened to cause the show to stop having new installments. thanks!

Hey there! We’ve gotten a bunch of messages like this so I figured I’d post a reply. I’m not the mod of the show, just a helper, and the last I heard from the mod was that she was planning to do another “season” of episodes, but I don’t know when that will be. Pretty sure things IRL got in the way of it. I’ll let you know if I hear anything more!

#Anonymous

forevergayteen-deactivated20250

Saw something similar here and stole the idea

mynapalmera

Somebody: fanfiction is pretty much porn

me after reading 140,000 words and definitely not crying: Omg they’re finally going to kiss. It’s too perfect. I can’t handle it.

ritshoe

Kudos to fanfiction writers for writing about all the trauma and emotional and mental turmoil that the original content creators dont acknowledge when putting characters through hell

saltoftheao3

This has evolved to one of fanfiction’s major assets in my eyes. To every author that cares enough about the characters in their stories to examine trauma, but also the slow, tedious processes of healing and recovery: your stories mean so much to me and other persons with mental health problems. Thank you, thank you, thank you.

ao3commentoftheday

I ♡ readers

here’s to the readers who stay up past midnight reading just one more chapter

here’s to the readers who like one fic - so they go through our archive and read everything else

here’s to the readers who are still learning the language of the fic they’re reading, but they’re making it through anyhow

here’s to the readers who are too shy to tell us how much they love our story, so they just tell all of their friends about it instead

here’s to the readers who kudos - and then comment “kudos” when they can’t do it again

here’s to the readers who make rec lists or run fic reccing blogs

here’s to the readers who give out prompts and ask for metas and suggest ideas of things they’d love to see

here’s to the readers who hide their phones so that no one sees what they’re reading, but omg this fic is just so good!

here’s to the readers who keysmash, reaction gif, tag, comment, quote us back to us, and otherwise let us know that they loved our work

here’s to the readers

without you, we don’t exist

ao3commentoftheday

original ad

callmehopeless

I made it

ao3commentoftheday

thank you, fic readers, for all of the wonderful things you to do help writers keep on writing

tjmystic

So, when I was doing my thesis on whether or not fanfiction should be considered a legitimate genre of literature, my advising professor asked me for examples. I gave him the generic ones, of course - “Pride & Prejudice and Zombies” is a horror fanfic of “Pride & Prejudice”, “50 Shades of Grey” is an erotica fic of “Twilight" - and that seemed to make him understand what fanfiction is, but not how it’s useful. So I thought about it, and, after about a minute, I said, “Paradise Lost is basically a fanfiction of the Book of Genesis. And The Divine Comedy is an epic self-insertion fic for Catholic doctrine. So, basically, you were teaching us fanfiction last semester.” I had never before seen a grown man’s eyes widen with such fear, incomprehension, disgust, awe, and understanding.