Dangerous love! This week, V and Emily return to the world of kpop for a tale that is truly too wild to be believed. There's badfic. There's a fanfiction contest that should NOT have happened. There's fanservice. Emily learns the word "skinshipping" and hates it. There's a ghost kidnapping boy banders in the woods and it doesn't even matter because there's fanfic on television. In 2006. There's compulsory military service. There's rival fansites at war. There's a tramp stamp. There's a meet-cute-via-street-fight. There's exploitative contracts and industry blacklisting. This story has all the things.

Sources

yunjaestory.carrd.co

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Wotcher! This week, Emily and V look at a massively, massively popular and influential fanfiction that blew up during the long winter of COVID lockdowns thanks to... long sigh... #FicTok. Unfortunately, it is a Harry Potter fic. We once again condemn every single goddamn thing JKR says, does, and stands for; however, we must discuss the Wizarding World because we are a fandom history podcast and those books changed, and continue to change, fandom. That said, "All the Young Dudes" by MsKingBean89 is as much about 1970s British queerness as it is about a magical wizarding school, and many of its ardent fans eschew JKR's version of Hogwarts in favor of ATYD's Marauders Era model, claiming that its gay, more nuanced Wizarding World is the "real" magic. Regardless of the politics behind it, this fic draws enough Numbers that it is, undeniably, a force and fandom of its own at this point, and we're gonna talk about it.

Sources

All the Young Dudes on AO3
Fanlore
Deep Dive on YouTube

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It is a soulmate AU, and you are a horrible goose! This week, Emily and V explore Emily's deep-seated Goose Trauma and look at the only Soulmate AU they like: the Soulmate Goose of Enforcement, a trope that originated in OMG Check Please fandom. What is it? It's what it sounds like. Why is it? Well, you'd have to ask @shitty-check-please-aus. It's a silly one, folks.

Sources

Fanlore
shitty-check-please-aus on Tumblr

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