Talkin’ Fanfic 

Episode No. - 203

Episode Title - Interview with RivkaT

RivkaT has written 53 stories in the Smallville fandom, and many, many stories in other fandoms such as Supernatural, The X-Files, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and Fringe. Sara notes that nearly every time she sits down to read a RivkaT story, she learns something-- new vocabulary, a joke she hadn’t picked up on the first time, a new way of looking through a character’s eyes-- her writing is immersive, intelligent, incredibly thoughtful-- and fun! And even when utilizing overtly silly or overused tropes and clichés, nothing is cheaply handled. She is one of the best of the very best, not just in the Smallville fandom, but in the pantheon of authors held in highest regard. Sara was honored to sit down with her and talk about her work, including Sara’s favorite, “Useful Arts.”

Episode References

• Work - "Useful Arts" by rivkat - Ao3   


• Work - “Ceremony of Innocence” - Ao3 (THE CORRUPTION ONE ;) 


• Work - “Repent at Leisure” - Ao3


• Work - “Locked Room Mystery” - Ao3


• Sime~Gen Universe, by by Jacqueline Lichtenberg (Wikipedia)


• Fanlore article on RivkaT


• Fanlore article on X-Files fandom writing partner MustangSally (this article also links to a Writer’s Block interview with Sally


• "D'Aulaires Book of Greek Myths" (Penguin Random House, children's nonfiction)


• Edith Hamilton's "Mythology (Barnes and Noble) 


• Useful Arts background - What is a PHOSITA? (Wikipedia)


• YouTube Clip - Oliver Queen looking fantaaaaaaastic in drag


• Rivka is reading - "The Goblin Emperor" (series) - Katherine Addison


• Rivka is reading - "This Virtual Night" - C.S. Friedman ("philosophy with thin skin of sci-fi")


• Rivka is reading - The Ministry for the Future - Kim Stanley Robinson (Sci-Fi)


• Rivka is reading - Creatures of Empire: How Domestic Animals Transformed Early America (History/Nonfiction)


• Fanfic Rec - Smallville fics by astolat (Ao3)


• Fanfic Rec - Smallville fics by Thamiris (Ao3)


• Fanfic Rec - “Manifest Destiny” by Liviapenn (Ao3)


• Fanfic Rec - “Looking Glass Country” by astolat (Ao3) 


• Recc - Star Trek tie-in novel - "How Much for Just the Planet?" by John M. Ford [$5 thrift novel, you can find $8 ebook on Simon and Schuster site]


• Recc - “JLA: Tower of Babel” (JLA Vol. 1 #43 to 46) 

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