For our second episode, we introduce our fourth contributor, Earis, and spiral off on an involved discussion of Henry Jenkin's 1992 book Textual Poachers: Television Fans and Participatory Culture. This text is now twenty years old, but though it is dated, still contains some interesting insights into fandom, and seemed like a reasonable place for us to start delving into an exploration of academic works on fandoms. Please share this around if you're interested, and feel free to join our communities on either Livejournal or Dreamwidth to get regular updates. We have plans to start crossposting to Tumblr as well, and if anyone has suggestions on how to promote and disseminate this podcast, we would be pleased to hear about it!
The podcast Ficthropology is designed as a discussion of the wonderful world of fan fiction from a critical standpoint. Modeled after an informal academic discussion group, we generally tackle one article, book, or theme per episode, from any field from anthropology, media studies, communications, women's studies - whoever has an interesting take of fanfic, its writers, readers, community, genres, themes, trends, or tropes. Anything is fair game! It is not fandom specific, and we tend to pull examples from any fandom we've come across in our travels.
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Episiode Two (click to play, right click and Save Link As to download) runs for an hour and ten (we sure can talk, goodness!) and be sure to check below the cut for links to his weeks recs.... as well as a bonus rec that Earis tracked down :D
Recs of the week!
Elanya's Pick:
Working Title (1333 words) by Franzeska
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Ghost Soup Infidel Blue (reboot)
Rating: Explicit
Warning: Author Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Luke/Angela's clone, Luke/Angela, Moira/Angela, Moira/Angela/Angela's Clone
Summary:Luke makes out with Angela's clone and Angela gets mad and seduces Moira just to make Luke mad, and then Ryan and Luke duel to the death with their lightsabers and it ends up in an Angela/Angela's clone/Moira threesome. And Ryan feels really bad and flies off to Mars forever.
Lukoni's Pick:
Winterlong (1363 words) by torch
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Gundam Wing
Rating: General Audiences
Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Trowa Barton/Heero Yuy
Characters: Heero Yuy, Chang Wufei, Duo Maxwell, Quatre Raberba Winner, Relena Peacecraft, Trowa Barton
Summary:You seem to be where I belong.
Nary's Pick:
The End and the Way (12225 words) by Luzula
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Left Hand of Darkness - Ursula K. Le Guin
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Original Characters
Summary:On Posthe Tuwa of the Year One in the reign of Argaven XII, Harny Sord of Gernahan gave birth to a pervert.
Earis's Pick:
Phoenix Burning (88766 words) by Yahtzee
Chapters: 24/24
Fandom: Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Rating: Mature
Warning: Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death
Relationships: Buffy Summers/Angel
Characters: Original Character
Summary:At the end of Season Five, Buffy plunges to her death. Then she is resurrected -- 350 years in the future.
Bonus story (with illustrations!):
Wine Dark Nexus by Anne Carr, illustrated by Susan Lovette. The Professionals - Cretan Bulldancers!