I finished listening to your second oasis podcast episode last night, and just wanted to pop by to say that it was brilliant and lovely and wonderful! Simply being able to “listen in” on a conversation that I will most likely never be able to have irl, hearing it all said out loud, secondhand squeeing if you will… I had so much fun. A silly grin on my face all the way to the shops!
Also, I am a huge fan of both your and Jeevey’s work, so hearing you guys talk about your writing was such a privilege.
Thank you so much! Fanfiction has been so important to me in my life, but also a secret love-- and sometimes that's okay and comfortable-- but I also found so much joy in speaking to others who shared my passion, and I was glad to share that joy with the fandom in a way that we never get to otherwise.
Also @jeevey I mean GET OUT, what a writer!! And what a privilege it was to be able to speak about Oasis, the Gallagher brothers, and fanfiction with such a wise, funny, and grounded soul.
Gcest fans, if you haven't listened already, here are the Oasis centric episodes:
Are ye mad fer it?! In episode 303 Sara and Laura crack open a lager and spend three hours indulging in their most problematic (or NOT) obse
Summary:
Sara sits down with the amazing, sublime, talented Jeevey, a legend in the Oasis RPF and Gcest world. Jeevey talks about the challe
“I want to go on field trips with the rest of you.”
“I’m sorry,” Ms. Frizzle said, genuinely. Even Liz looked sympathetic, for a chameleon. “You haven’t turned in your permission slip.”
“My mom’s never going to give permission for you to take me ‘to any location and/or time period’!”
“Never say ‘never!’” Ms. Frizzle responded automatically, before realizing that was perhaps not appropriate in this situation. “In any case, there’s more than one way to explore the breadth of the known universe. One is a magic school bus, and another is… a library!”
“Why do I even need a permission slip? Can’t you just bring me along anyway? I won’t tell, or anything!”
“Good question, Lauren!” exclaimed Ms. Frizzle. “Perhaps it’s time for a field trip… through the history of American liability law!”
Episode 307 - Interview with HeyJulien, Football RPF and Carraville writer
🎧 Episode available on any podcast app, Spotify, or stream here!
Like a bicycle kick goal at minute 95, Sara finally completes editing on a much overdue interview with fellow Carraville author @heyyjulien !
Sara and Julien talk about the world of football RPF (as in soccer, for all you Yankees); specifically the delightfully odd-couple rivals-to-lovers ship of English football pundits Gary Neville and Jamie Carragher. Other talking points scattered across the pitch include: football as war, derby days and football rivalry; the joys of local non-league football, the Bundesliga and fußballkultur; to switch POV, or not to switch POV; the annoying beauty of David Beckham; and of course, we discuss the tragically under-utilized in fic friendship of Paul Scholes and Gary Neville (or, Scholesy as the Kermit to Gary Neville’s Miss Piggy).
Join us, if you like!
Correction - at 03:27:40 we incorrectly refer to our wonderful fellow Carraville author as ‘player1604’-- their handle is @player1064, which is a reference to Gary Neville’s England legacy number. Gary was the 1,064th player to play for England’s National Team.
More notes, references, and time caps below the cut.
00:10:39 - Chelsea v Liverpool result in the Carabao Cup Final AND “Football and Butts”
00:13:17 minutes - Picking an English team as an outside fan, local rivalry in sport, and the mechanisms of tribalism
00:21:10 - Football pride as a substitute for national pride in Germany
00:22:57 - League structure in european football, the purity of the local club, financial doping, and German “fußballkultur”
00:32:57 - A late introduction to HeyJulien ! Julien’s earliest reading and writing memories.
00:36:36 - First encounter with fanfiction and Youtuber RPF
00:42:11 - Path into Sports RPF
00:45:28 - The specific allure of Hockey RPF
00:53:54 - Getting into Football RPF and Carraville
01:11:07 - Carraville fic, start of “Zombies” discussion, and Julien’s real-life plot inspiration
01:20:04 - Excerpt 1, from “Zombies”
01:39:12 - Strategy and instinct of switching POV’s
01:59:50 - “The Victorian Era”
02:06:13 - Excerpt 2, from “The Victorian Era” (apologies from Sara for the botched English accents)
02:23:17 - Cat cameo by Daniel Pickles - and the theme of power in “The Victorian Era”, Gary and Victoria’s friendship, and writing moments that “show” instead of “tell”.
02:32:27 - The fun of writing about “bad people”, and recurring themes popping up in our works; AND the specific joys of fanfiction enriching “real life”
02:40:36 - “Tasting Syrup On My Tongue”
02:50:45 - The joy of Stevie G and Scholsey in Carraville fics
03:00:46 - Sara’s childhood soccer experience
03:02:49- Rapid Fire Questions!!!
03:17:21 - Michael Owen Quotes
03:31:00 - Coffee Shop Scenario
03:37:32 - Julien’s fic recs
03:43:11 - Final question- “What do you think it is about sport that lends itself to fiction and fanfiction?”
Episode References
FIC - ‘These zombies in the park, they're looking for my heart’ by HeyJulien
FIC - 'The Victorian Era' by HeyJulien
FIC - ‘Tasting Syrup On My Tongue’ by HeyJulien
https://www.fanfiktion.de/ - Julien’s first fanfic site!
CBS Champions League Today "Best Of" - Youtube video, example of CBS crew compilation, ft. Jamie Carragher, Micah Richards, Thierry Henry, and Kate Abdo
"Gary Neville & Jamie Carragher's BEST moments! 👀🍿" - Youtube video that Julien sent Sara to kick off the Carraville spiral
Gary Neville’s interview with Jamie Carragher on The Overlap - Youtube
"Neville and Carra - the perfect TV double act make their Monday Night Football debut" - Daily Mail article from August 2013, describing Jamie’s MNF debut alongside Gary.
And another 2013 article, this one from Stretty News on the Carraville punditry duo, described as “a dream pair”.
‘Tasting Syrup’ reference - Footage of John Terry head injury in the 2007 League Cup Final, Chelsea v Arsenal - Youtube
‘Tasting Syrup’ reference - Footage of Jamie Carragher head injury in a match against Arsenal in April 2011 - tumblr link
Fanart - Man United v Liverpool lineup as envisioned by the genius k-ky - tumblr link
Article - "Bastian Schweinsteiger dragged the modern Germany to ultimate glory with blood, sweat and tears" - on Schweinsteiger’s heroic and gritty performance in the 2014 World Cup Final (October 2019)
Some more brilliant Michael Owen quotes (unverified but highly entertaining)
Julien rec - Sara's fic, [the gap between crack and thunder] WIP!
Julien rec - Quell the Tide by Imnotreallyhereatall - the hockey RPF julien mentions loving (Ao3, locked)
Julien rec - Take a Chance on Me by @zevons, @jjjat3am (Ao3, locked)
Julien rec - keep your silver, give me that gold by @thesecretdetectivecollection (Ao3)
Julien rec - Gary Neville is Still a Red, Just a Different Shade by @fanficburner (Ao3)
Liam Gallagher/Noel Gallagher (Oasis (band)) vs. Thor/Loki (Marvel Cinematic Universe)
Liam/Noel
Thor/Loki
Voting ended onDec 31, 2023
Propaganda under the cut:
Liam/Noel:
The incest rumours used to be common for good reason <3
those two have kissed and groped each other too many times
They are really weird about each other, they have kissed a few times, made incest jokes many times, wrote songs about each other (I could be your lover/you could be all mine) and had a break up so messy they haven't been on speaking terms for +10 years
The song that goes like "I'm your brother/ you're my lover" there are many such cases
"Liam's gotten all religious. It's quite disturbing. He thinks he's Abel for some weird reason. He wrote a new song called "Guess God Thinks I'm Abel." And I thought, "Right, so you think you're Abel. That must make me Cain. Doesn't Cain kill Abel?" But then the first line of that song is "You could be my lover." I'm not too sure about that. That's illegal, innit? It's kind of illegal for two brothers to make love. It's certainly frowned upon."
Thor/Loki:
i mean do i even have to say it. Look at them. theyre in love and in hate and have crazy chemistry. *chef's kiss*
Listen I know adopted brothers are normally the cowards way out but Thor/Loki is so fucking good
Hot friendly jock plus hot grumpy twink, what more could you want?
If they'd only fucked out their issues all those alien invasions and other evil plots could've been avoided
IT'S A TWO-FER!
Sara sits down with professional author Andrea Anderson, who also writes fanfiction under the pen name provocative_envy. In
Just a reminder of when me and @provocative-envy got tipsy and talked about flash fiction v the novel, original fiction v fanfiction, White Claw, Sonic Slushies, and "unambitious Slytherins". Truly one of my favorite (TWO PART) interviews I've done!!
PART TWO!! Sara and Andrea continue their discussion, this time with the aid of White Claw and more beer. Topics include: motherhood and wri
I interviewed the organizers of the Media Fandom Oral History Project, and they shared about the project and what makes it important! The project collects oral histories (interviews) from fans about their fannish experiences. Oral histories help fans define for ourselves what it means to a fan, and they help preserve our histories for future generations.
The project needs volunteers! Email oralhistoryfandom (at) gmail (dot) com if you want to get involved.
The full interview can be found under the cut.
-Lianne, Fanhackers volunteer
Q: Can you briefly introduce yourself, the project, and its purpose?
Morgan Dawn: I am Morgan Dawn and have been a slash fanfiction fan since the 1990s. I entered fandom during the last years of paper fanfiction and the beginning era of online fandom.
The Media Fandom Oral History Project’s goal is to capture our history in our own words and with our own voices. The idea came when I was sitting at our kitchen table with my friend Sandy Herrold. We realized that fans talking to other fans in informal settings was the perfect way to showcase our community and our connections. What could be more fannish than talking about and sharing the things we love? We started interviewing fans at conventions, then moved to phone interviews and have finally switched the project into a Do-It-Yourself Mode with fans taking the lead interviewing their friends and choosing what they want to preserve.
The recordings are submitted to the University of Iowa's oral history collection and are available online. We are hoping to provide transcripts for all of the interviews. The University of Iowa has one of the world's largest fanfiction fanzine collections. You can see the list of interviews at Fanlore, one of the OTW’s projects.
Franzeska Dickson: I am Franzeska Dickson and have also been a slash fan since the 90s. In my case, I started as a 13-year-old screaming about Scully on alt.tv.x-files during the first season. (I was a NoRomo, as I recall, mostly because I thought Mulder wasn't nearly good enough for her.) I remember being floored when I was told about fanfic. I have no memory of being told that slash existed. I guess it didn't seem like a big deal. I spent the late 90s and early 00s in anime fandom before swinging back to oldschool Media Fandom and later to other Asian fandoms.
I ran into Morgan at a con and informed her that her recording plans were all wrong and she needed the type of voice recorder that linguists use in the field… I ended up with the recorder and the bulk of the early interviewing work.
Q: Speaking as if to someone unfamiliar with oral history and your project, why is the Media Fandom Oral History Project important?
MD: The recordings allow us to speak directly to future generations of fans and control the discussion of what it means to be a ‘fan.’ By having fans talk to other fans we bypass the dominant narrative of how fans interact with the TV, movies, books and comics. It is also an opportunity for marginalized members of our community to talk about their experiences. There has been much scholarship surrounding live action and anime fandoms. Some of it has been done by academics who are fans themselves and it has been wonderful to see the growth of Fandom Studies. But oral history offers every fan the ability to use their own words to talk about the things they remember and what matters to them.
FD: The early zine generation is rapidly dropping dead, and even when they aren't, I'm always running into younger fans trying to do research who have zero clue who's still alive or where to find them. If we wait for people to do their secondary academic research, it will be too late. Primary sources now or we won't have them!
The scope of fans who are interested in fandom history is much wider than the people who can make the right connections to talk to someone older. It's particularly true for early zines, but it's even true for something like Livejournal: I could rustle up thirty people in five minutes who'd be able to speak cogently on that fandom history. A lot of would-be history researchers currently in undergrad would not. For the future academics, the meta writers, or merely our curious fellow fans, it behooves us to record our history in our own words.
Q: What has the Media Fandom Oral History Project accomplished so far?
MD: We have completed 57 interviews. The first few years we went to in-person conventions and used a digital recorder to interview anyone who was interested. In 2017, a graduate student named Megan Genovese obtained funding and did 24 interviews over the phone in a single summer. During the pandemic, we moved into a DIY (do it yourself) phase - instead of a single person doing the interviewing, we now invite fans to contact their friends and spend an hour chatting about their fandom history. They can use their smartphones, Zoom/video conference recording or reserve a time slot on our international audio conference system.
We have recorded the history of some of the earliest slash writers, publishers and artists. We have preserved the memories of the first fan who created the first fanvid using a slide project and cassette audio tape. We have heard from fans who organized conventions and started letter writing campaigns to save shows. The interviews include filk singers, fans whose passion is meta, and fans who created and ran some of the first fiction archives. These fans are creators, organizers, supporters, and devotees and have so many stories to tell.
Q: In what ways do you hope the project will grow in the coming years? Or, what are your hopes for the project's future?
MD: We’re a small project and it is difficult to scale with our current resources. By shifting to the DIY phase we’re hoping to encourage fans to take the reins of their fandom history and never stop telling their personal fannish stories. The DIY project also allows fandom communities to leverage off our existing “infrastructure” - we can offer permission forms, an international recording platform (if needed), and a place to archive the interviews.
FD: All fandom history resources suffer from a strong predilection for the researcher's friends or their part of fandom to be the main focus. I hope people from very different parts of fandom will interview their friends about areas other people haven't found important or accessible enough to record.
Q: What help is needed, and how can people get involved?
MD: We need 2 intake coordinators to answer questions, e-mail and collect permission forms (Participants must sign a permission form allowing their recordings to be archived at the University of Iowa). We also need help with outreach to communities that may not be aware of the project - anime, BL fans, cosplayers, filkers, fans in other countries. This is not just a historical project looking backwards. We want to capture our community as it is today and hear from fans whose experiences differ. The central focus has not changed - fans participating in transformative fandom - reading, writing, creating fanfiction, fanvids, podfic, art, managing discord communities. But it all starts with intake coordinators who can keep track of participants and follow up to get the recordings. Each oral history also has a written transcription, as we want this project to be as accessible to as many people as possible. We’ve tried some automated transcription services, and the results are very uneven. This means there’s another opportunity for volunteers, people to listen to the recordings and to help transcribe the contents.
Q: Is there anything else you'd like people to know about the Media Fandom Oral History Project?
MD: It's a way for fans to be heard. They can describe their experiences on their own terms, in their own words, and take back some of the power of storytelling, rather than having others tell their stories for them.
It's a way to help preserve and honor fan experiences and fan history.
Envision you and your friends, talking about the things you love, your community, and what they mean to you, and describing and preserving these things for history.
Plus, it's really fun!
FD: If you don't want 'fandom history' to mean just one kind of fandom history, speak up while you can, whether that's here or in essays or in your own projects!
Today I had a nice holiday-themed chat with ChaosBlue over at @fanficmaverickpodcast that you’ll be able to check out next month 😎 Always a great time to chat fannish stuff with my friend! 🤗
one thing i love about supernatural (and about wincest but it's endemic to the canon) is that it doesn't matter how high the stakes are, the actual stakes are honestly, exceptionally low, but we are so. so. so fucking invested.
what i mean is that - the true stakes of the show are always and forever sam and dean's relationship. are they good? are they in alignment? where do they stand and where will they stand after this?
yes the world is ending, yes people are dying, yes angels are falling and yes that ups the ante superficially. but the real stakes are sam and dean's relationship. it's small scale. it means nothing in the grand scheme of everything and yet it means more than anything else in the entire universe, the entire multiverse by the end of the series. literally just. these two brothers.
it's honestly just really impressive to me because i can't honestly think of another fictional duo (platonic, romantic, or anything in between) who carry a story so entirely on the ups and downs of their relationship, and for whom the story and the consequences and the apocalyptic scale all really pale in comparison to "will these two make it out of this okay?" (and okay can be dead! dead is fine! so long as they're together!)
Writer Tamsyn Muir spent her childhood craving a world that she could not find on earth.
This American Life’s recent segment on fanfiction!
Tamsyn Muir is featured, a published Sci-if fantasy author of “Gideon the Ninth” and the Locked Tomb series.
Here, she laments how becoming published essentially locked her out of interacting with the community that fist fostered her art and voice— fanfiction writers!!
Episode 306 - Talkin’ U2, Bono, and Bedge with Tory from the Retro Fanfic Retrospective Podcast!
Sara welcomes the great and wonderful Tory, best known for their reliably insightful analysis of fanfiction on the Retro Fanfic Retrospective podcast (found wherever you get your podcasts!) Tory shares their lifelong love affair with the legendary band U2, and their knowledge of the band’s history and music. Tory also digs into the amazing feat of how the band’s joyful, sublime chemistry seeps into the very music they produce, sustaining fruitful artistry for nearly fifty years.
Other topics include: Irish history, and the Christianity of U2, along with comparisons with Oasis. We also talk Bedge and RPF! And we dig into a mini-RFR discussion of likeamadonna’s Bono/Edge fanfiction within a fanfiction, “Fictitious Characters”.
🎧 Find Talkin' Fanfic on your favorite podcast app such as Spotify or Apple Podcasts. Or stream Episode 306 here!
Clip used - Noel Gallagher on The Late Late Show | RTÉ One
Outro clip - “Beautiful Day” by U2, from the album ‘All That You Can't Leave Behind’ - pulled from Youtube licensed via UMG (on behalf of Universal-Island Records Ltd. ℗ An Island Records recording; ℗ 2000 Island Records Limited
45:19 - The Troubles, a climate for the formation of U2
56:03 - U2’s Bigness, America, and ‘What is Bono??’
01:02:45 - Bono’s useful celebrity, vs individualism of Oasis. Or, “do-gooders” vs “do-badders”
01:08:22 - Bono the Energizer Bunny, and U2 in Vegas
01:13:07 - The other members of U2 (Larry, The Edge, and Adam)
01:20:35 - Christianity and U2
01:31:45 - Religion, U2 vs. Oasis
01:34:50 - Religious imagery in the Achtung Baby-era, and Bono’s ‘characters’
01:41:42 - U2 fanfiction and RPF fandom
01:51:20 - “Fictitious Characters”, by likeamadonna
02:02:26 - Fitting Ali into the Bono/Edge
02:07:20 - Start of Rapid Fire! (which lasts nearly an hour, lol)
02:12:27 - Tory’s Top 5 U2 Tracks
Episode References
U2 Fanfiction.com (Tory mentions they used to read fanfiction from this now defunct archive; link via Wayback Machine)
The Retro Fanfic Retrospective podcast (Podbean, you can also search for it on Spotify or Apple Podcasts)
Link - Band bio, from threechordsandthetruth.net great U2 overview and biography
U2: The Origins Of The Biggest Band Of The Early 2000s a decent youtube documentary on U2
A live performance of ‘Until The End Of The World’ from ‘Achtung Baby’, filmed during the US leg of the Zoo TV tour in 1992. Kiss for the camera at 2m34s <3
"One" - U2 Music Video (Anton Corbijn Version) feat. Bob Hewson, and U2 in drag!
Bono interview with NPR Podcasts - at 14m46 Bono starts speaking about the concept of ‘Surrender’. “Shut up and listen…is kinda where I’m at.”
Noel Gallagher on The Late Late Show | RTÉ One - “Who puts the batteries in that guy??”
Youtube Clip - Noel Gallagher, on U2 (for NME)
“Electrical Storm” - U2 Music Video directed by Anton Corbijn (starring Larry!)
Photo via Pinterest - Liam and Bono kissing. According to Bono, Liam had a guitar pick in his mouth and dared Bono to try and retrieve it in front of paparazzi. The photo was printed in a 2002 issue of Rolling Stone.
Reprint of article - “When Oasis Hit the Road with U2” The Daily Telegraph, June 26, 1997
Bono’s ‘characters’ - Here is MacPhisto making a phone call to a taxi to take him home. This was in Syndey, Australia during the 1993 Zoo TV Tour.
Retro Fanfic Retrospective - Special Episode - Fanfiction Hypothesis The RFR crew discuss…what is and what is not fanfiction? (Spotify link)
Fic discussion - "Fictitious Characters" by likeamadonna (Ao3 link)
Bono and The Edge - NPR Tiny Desk Concert (2023) Bono asks Edge to “do an Edge thing!”
Bono and The Edge - BBC Radio 2 Piano Room (2023) Bono and the Edge vibing together through a string-laden performance of classic U2 songs. Bono serenading the Edge during “Vertigo” around 7m30s, lots of fond looks.
Fic mentioned - The Scientist or: How Edge Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bono by spacemonkey
Tory’s Top 5 U2 Tracks (slightly deeper cuts, in no particular order): Red Hill Mining Town , Bad, Lemon, Every Breaking Wave, and Stay (Faraway, So Close!)
“Ordinary Love” acoustic version, U2 on Jimmy Fallon (2014) with Roots. One of Sara’s favorite U2 live vids ever!!
Tory is listening to - Leith Ross, an indie-rock Canadian singer-songwriter. Here’s a song from their Youtube channel.
Bandcamp - Her Dilemma the bass player that played for Leith Ross during the set Tory watched. “Mathy”, a bit like Slint!
Episode 306 - Talkin’ U2, Bono, and Bedge with Tory from the Retro Fanfic Retrospective Podcast!
Sara welcomes the great and wonderful Tory, best known for their reliably insightful analysis of fanfiction on the Retro Fanfic Retrospective podcast (found wherever you get your podcasts!) Tory shares their lifelong love affair with the legendary band U2, and their knowledge of the band’s history and music. Tory also digs into the amazing feat of how the band’s joyful, sublime chemistry seeps into the very music they produce, sustaining fruitful artistry for nearly fifty years.
Other topics include: Irish history, and the Christianity of U2, along with comparisons with Oasis. We also talk Bedge and RPF! And we dig into a mini-RFR discussion of likeamadonna’s Bono/Edge fanfiction within a fanfiction, “Fictitious Characters”.
🎧 Find Talkin' Fanfic on your favorite podcast app such as Spotify or Apple Podcasts. Or stream Episode 306 here!
Clip used - Noel Gallagher on The Late Late Show | RTÉ One
Outro clip - “Beautiful Day” by U2, from the album ‘All That You Can't Leave Behind’ - pulled from Youtube licensed via UMG (on behalf of Universal-Island Records Ltd. ℗ An Island Records recording; ℗ 2000 Island Records Limited
45:19 - The Troubles, a climate for the formation of U2
56:03 - U2’s Bigness, America, and ‘What is Bono??’
01:02:45 - Bono’s useful celebrity, vs individualism of Oasis. Or, “do-gooders” vs “do-badders”
01:08:22 - Bono the Energizer Bunny, and U2 in Vegas
01:13:07 - The other members of U2 (Larry, The Edge, and Adam)
01:20:35 - Christianity and U2
01:31:45 - Religion, U2 vs. Oasis
01:34:50 - Religious imagery in the Achtung Baby-era, and Bono’s ‘characters’
01:41:42 - U2 fanfiction and RPF fandom
01:51:20 - “Fictitious Characters”, by likeamadonna
02:02:26 - Fitting Ali into the Bono/Edge
02:07:20 - Start of Rapid Fire! (which lasts nearly an hour, lol)
02:12:27 - Tory’s Top 5 U2 Tracks
Episode References
U2 Fanfiction.com (Tory mentions they used to read fanfiction from this now defunct archive; link via Wayback Machine)
The Retro Fanfic Retrospective podcast (Podbean, you can also search for it on Spotify or Apple Podcasts)
Link - Band bio, from threechordsandthetruth.net great U2 overview and biography
U2: The Origins Of The Biggest Band Of The Early 2000s a decent youtube documentary on U2
A live performance of ‘Until The End Of The World’ from ‘Achtung Baby’, filmed during the US leg of the Zoo TV tour in 1992. Kiss for the camera at 2m34s <3
"One" - U2 Music Video (Anton Corbijn Version) feat. Bob Hewson, and U2 in drag!
Bono interview with NPR Podcasts - at 14m46 Bono starts speaking about the concept of ‘Surrender’. “Shut up and listen…is kinda where I’m at.”
Noel Gallagher on The Late Late Show | RTÉ One - “Who puts the batteries in that guy??”
Youtube Clip - Noel Gallagher, on U2 (for NME)
“Electrical Storm” - U2 Music Video directed by Anton Corbijn (starring Larry!)
Photo via Pinterest - Liam and Bono kissing. According to Bono, Liam had a guitar pick in his mouth and dared Bono to try and retrieve it in front of paparazzi. The photo was printed in a 2002 issue of Rolling Stone.
Reprint of article - “When Oasis Hit the Road with U2” The Daily Telegraph, June 26, 1997
Bono’s ‘characters’ - Here is MacPhisto making a phone call to a taxi to take him home. This was in Syndey, Australia during the 1993 Zoo TV Tour.
Retro Fanfic Retrospective - Special Episode - Fanfiction Hypothesis The RFR crew discuss…what is and what is not fanfiction? (Spotify link)
Fic discussion - "Fictitious Characters" by likeamadonna (Ao3 link)
Bono and The Edge - NPR Tiny Desk Concert (2023) Bono asks Edge to “do an Edge thing!”
Bono and The Edge - BBC Radio 2 Piano Room (2023) Bono and the Edge vibing together through a string-laden performance of classic U2 songs. Bono serenading the Edge during “Vertigo” around 7m30s, lots of fond looks.
Fic mentioned - The Scientist or: How Edge Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bono by spacemonkey
Tory’s Top 5 U2 Tracks (slightly deeper cuts, in no particular order): Red Hill Mining Town , Bad, Lemon, Every Breaking Wave, and Stay (Faraway, So Close!)
“Ordinary Love” acoustic version, U2 on Jimmy Fallon (2014) with Roots. One of Sara’s favorite U2 live vids ever!!
Tory is listening to - Leith Ross, an indie-rock Canadian singer-songwriter. Here’s a song from their Youtube channel.
Bandcamp - Her Dilemma the bass player that played for Leith Ross during the set Tory watched. “Mathy”, a bit like Slint!
Hello! Do you already know when you will publish the story about Liam and Noel's childhood/youth from Paul Gallagher's pov that you've already given us a teaser of? I always love these origin stories and been really excited for this one. I just re-read Paul Gallagher's book the other day, so I was thinking about your story again <3
Oh thank you very much!!! I wish I had an ETA, but I don't know at the moment 😬 I writing the Paul POV concurrently with a Debbie POV and the Mustique fic! The Mustique one is a bit easier scope-wise, so I'll try to keep updating that one about once a week if possible, but I'm chugging away at the Debbie and Paul fics as well, so I hope to have some good progress in the next couple of months. But it's always very motivating to hear that people actually care (especially in a small fandom) so thank you for reaching out!
For the podcast listeners (I hope I still have some!!) I have a REALLY great interview with Tory from the Retro Fanfic Retrospective, and we talk all things U2 and Bono (and Bedge!), so I'm hoping to wrap up editing on that and post this week! So keep yer ears peeled everyone 🎧
In this episode I got to chat with TWDObsessive about The Walking Dead, her fic ‘Blooms Among The Dead,’ and fandom life cycles.
The latest episode of The FanFic Maverick podcast is out! The show is available through the link above and also on Apple Podcast, Google Podcast, Spotify, and iHeartRadio.
In this episode I got to chat with TWDObsessive about The Walking Dead, her fic ‘Blooms Among The Dead,’ discovering fanfiction completely by accident, and the life cycles of fandom.
Thanks for coming on the show, @catantmblr!
Keep on rollin’!
The link to ‘Blooms Among The Dead’ is here: https://archiveofourown.org/works/5143463/chapters/11838602
