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Lifelong fans of fan fiction tackle the fiction by fans: The famous and the infamous. The gloriously cringe to the heartbreakingly profound. Notorious tropes, trending topics and unsung community heroes. What's in your Open Tabs?
If you'd like to support our silly little project and get into our fun little community discord - you can check us out on patreon.com/OpenTabsCast !
A podcast by adults for adults, listener discretion is advised.
If you'd like to support our silly little project and get into our fun little community discord - you can check us out on patreon.com/OpenTabsCast !
A podcast by adults for adults, listener discretion is advised.
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Welcome to SEASON 2 of Open Tabs! We're back and starting strong with everyone's favorite subject line: STATS. We've got AO3's ship stats of 2025 to discuss as well as some very information about who's accessing the website and when from the OTW (Organization of Trasnformative Works) themslves. We get inevitably distracted when Sasuke enters the conversation - and we're only a little sorry about it. AO3 Ship Stats from Centreoftheselights: https://archiveofourown.org/works/77097891 OTW Access Stats from OTW: https://www.transformativeworks.org/ao3-statistics-2025-update/ If you have any questions, comments, or fic recommendations you can drop us a line at opentabscast@gmail.com or if you'd like to support our silly little podcast you can check us out at over at Patreon! www.patreon.com/OpenTabsCast This podcast and this episode cover adult themes and discuss explicit content: listener discretion is advised.
Welcome to Open Tabs! Editor Bryan gave the hosts the week off for the holidays and put together a clip show of his favorite moments from our first year of this very silly little project (and your's out in the community.) Thanks for coming with us on this crazy ride and we'll surely have more unhinged content for you in 2026! If you have any questions, comments, or fic recommendations you can drop us a line at opentabscast@gmail.com or if you'd like to support our silly little podcast you can check us out at over at Patreon! www.patreon.com/OpenTabsCast This podcast and this episode cover adult themes and discuss explicit content: listener discretion is advised.
Welcome to Open Tabs! IT'S THE OMEGAVERSE EPISODE - we've been promising and like a bunch of weird looking storks, we're delivering! And to make things ever more fun we've brought on our friend Shivam, you might know him from his work in the Magic the Gathering community, with the Dragonlace folks or his religious essays - He's been a big ol' nerd longer than any of us and today we find out if he can hang with the weird stuff. (Spoiler alert... he ABSOLUTELY can!) You can find Shivam here (https://bsky.app/profile/shivambhatt.bsky.social) on blusky and here are some of his myriad projects: https://www.youtube.com/@casualmagicwithshivambhatt https://sites.libsyn.com/460224 If you have any questions, comments, or fic recommendations you can drop us a line at opentabscast@gmail.com or if you'd like to support our silly little podcast you can check us out at over at Patreon! www.patreon.com/OpenTabsCast This podcast and this episode cover adult themes and discuss explicit content: listener discretion is advised.
Welcome to Open Tabs! Post Magic Con Atlanta and just in time for Halloween. We talk about the usual stuff: kinktober, strange horror media takes and gear up for Comment-ember (start's tomorrow folks!) If you'd like to support our silly little podcast you can check us out at over at Patreon! www.patreon.com/OpenTabsCast This podcast and this episode cover adult themes and discuss explicit content: listener discretion is advised.
Welcome to Open Tabs! A potpourri episode - we stole Amy mid-twitch-subathon (at time of recording) so she could take a break and talk about fanfiction, Pacific Rim and an exciting new Open Tabs-sponsored event that's going to be taking place in cyber-space very soon, right near you! If you'd like to check out the Pacific Rim youtube video essay we reference please check it out (as well as the rest of LadyKnighttheBrave's incredible work) here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sud3KX_6zoM&t=4379s You can also check out the other project we mentioned, Song vs. Song, on Todd in the Shadows's youtube channel or whever you prefer to get your podcasts! If you'd like to support our silly little podcast you can check us out at over at Patreon! www.patreon.com/OpenTabsCast This podcast and this episode cover adult themes and discuss explicit content: listener discretion is advised.
Welcome to Open Tabs! This week we give Amy a break this week to recover and (at time of recording) prep for her sub-a-thon over on twitch. We talk about Princess's recent trip to Anime NYC, the panel she did there, the cool stuff she bought from some artists and the all the related rants about capitalism and community building in fandom spaces! Plus, as a housekeeping note, we've added a little audio tone before and after the Editing Tappy notes to make them more clear - let us know what you think. If you'd like to take a quick gander at the video on Albanian Sworn Virgins I mentioned, you can find it over here on Youtube: "The last 'sworn virgins' of Albania - BBC News" Mar 12, 2023, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJQPbMraGFE If you'd like to support our silly little podcast you can check us out at over at Patreon! www.patreon.com/OpenTabsCast This podcast and this episode cover adult themes and discuss explicit content: listener discretion is advised.
Welcome to Open Tabs! On today's episode we discuss our favorite website's occasional boughts of down time. We all need it, but does AO3 go down sometimes? More specifically, why did it go down THIS time? Also the KPOP Demon Hunters episode because we weren't going to tell Princess she couldn't talk about it - what the hell else is a podcast for? If you'd like to support out silly little podcast you can check us out at over at Patreon! www.patreon.com/OpenTabsCast
Welcome to Open Tabs! On today's episode we discuss some of the movie adaptations of written works that were originally (maybe allegedly) adapted from fanfictions. The beautiful Balkan nation of Albania features heavily. There's a reasonable segue we promise. Also Sydney finally has a mic that doesn't predate the fall of Rome! If you'd like to support out silly little podcast you can check us out at over at Patreon! www.patreon.com/OpenTabsCast This podcast and this episode cover adult themes and discuss explicit content: listener discretion is advised.
Welcome to Open Tabs! We had to talk about the black mold in the castle one day: We're covering Harry Potter Fanfiction and the she-who-should-be-ignored who wrote it and uses its continued, metastasized presence in fan culture spaces to justify her bigotry. BUT we've got a bright side to this episode's shit-stain of a topic: We brought Bugs back to help us talk through it! If you'd like to support out silly little podcast you can check us out at over at Patreon! www.patreon.com/OpenTabsCast This podcast and this episode cover adult themes and discuss explicit content: listener discretion is advised.
Welcome to Open Tabs! AO3 got scraped for AI training: What happened, why is this bad, what can we do about it and will hammers be involved? We're bringing on one of our favorite silly little guys from the internet to join Sydney and Amy as we discuss some of our LEAST favorite stupid little guys from the internet and their even dumber ideas. If you'd like to support out silly little podcast you can check us out at over at Patreon! www.patreon.com/OpenTabsCast This podcast and this episode cover adult themes and discuss explicit content: listener discretion is advised.
Welcome to Open Tabs! Today we're tackling censorship as it relates to fandom and how it is and has affected internet spaces throughout our tormented millennial tenure in cyberspace. We just wanna enjoy our weirdo shit in piece. We're tired, are you tired? So for some well deserved dopamine we open up the podcast mailbag and discuss your lovely comments and questions from our first 10 episodes! We also have a very exciting announcement to make: You can now support the podcast on Patreon and help us grow our little community including... drumroll please our very own cool fanfiction discord! www.patreon.com/OpenTabsCast This podcast and this episode cover adult themes and discuss explicit content: listener discretion is advised.
Welcome to Open Tabs! We've got another episode from the cache for you this week - we're talking about purity culture and how this strange backslide is affecting fandom spaces. What's up with the this shift in the way folks interact with liscened and fan media and each other? We don't have all the answers but we certainly have some loud opinions (and less some very important opinions about the philosophy and fine craft of good chicken wings.) This podcast and this episode cover adult themes and discuss explicit content: listener discretion is advised.
Welcome to Open Tabs! This weeks episode is another from the archived recordings. The crew sets out to discuss the epilogue of My Hero Academia and proceeds to rate of all of shounen anime to filth - except for Yu Yu Hakusho - that one's almost perfect. This podcast and this episode cover adult themes and discuss explicit content: listener discretion is advised.
Welcome to Open Tabs! We've got our first special guest of the podcast: Sydney's long-term (long-suffering) bestie SKS-Ninja. She's here to talk about all things podfics, Legend of Zelda and a whole lot of the kind of lore drops you only get from a friendship that involves lots of fucked up, shared fandom history. This podcast and this episode cover adult themes and discuss explicit content: listener discretion is advised.
Welcome to Open Tabs! On today's episode we talk writing challenges: from NaNoWriMo to Kinktober, then get promptly side-tracked and dig into the history of the Hoover Dam. Y'know, the usual stuff! This podcast and this episode cover adult themes and discuss explicit content: listener discretion is advised.
Welcome to Open Tabs! On today's episode we discuss the ban (and near-immediate unban) of Tiktok in January 2025 - along with all the ways the young and old are interacting with fanfiction and fandom on this strange, short-form space. HEADS UP! Because of the context surrounding the ban/unban of Tiktok this episode delves more into recent American politcs than normal. If that's something you can't or don't want to handle right now, we absolutely understand. If you're as angry as we are and looking to spend your bandwidth on something construction, I (Sydney) recommend contacting your local branch of the DSA or checking out the resource guide over here by Individsible Action as a starting point for more good trouble you can get into. This podcast and this episode cover adult themes and discuss explicit content: listener discretion is advised.
Welcome to Open Tabs! Today our intrepid hosts set out to discuss how and where to find fanfiction. From the old stomping grounds at fanfiction.net to the promised land of AO3, to kinkmemes and gated discord communities (with all the usual millennial yapping in between). This podcast and this episode cover adult themes and discuss explicit content: listener discretion is advised.
Welcome to Open Tabs! We're welcoming in 2025 by discussing the Jan-Dec AO3 ship stats from... 2023. We may have recorded this episode before the 2024 ship stats were out, what are you going to do about it? Better late than (M) pregnant! More importantly, huge thanks and infinite kudos to AO3 user centreoftheselights for the amazing data work they do for the community year after year! This podcast and this episode cover adult themes and discuss explicit content: listener discretion is advised.
Welcome to Open Tabs! The crew is back and we're getting personal: This episode we cover our own personal introductions to the world of fanfiction and reflect on how much has changed since we were all wandering around blindly asking Jeeves to show us two characters kissing. It's good, it's bad, and it's definitely ugly but at least Sesshomaru features prominently. This podcast and this episode cover adult themes and discuss explicit content: listener discretion is advised.
Welcome to Open Tabs! On this very special inaugural episode the crew makes sure to define the terms of some of the most common fanfiction tropes and then proceeds to judge them all. We're off to a great start! This podcast and this episode cover adult themes and discuss explicit content: listener discretion is advised.
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