Open Tabs

On this episode of Open Tabs, we talk about BASKETBALL (and other sports) and how between the Knicks victory and a few other events we might be back on the path of good and righteousness. Fanficiton features - we swear! Sydney's mic is a little off again, we're working on it, but this is us letting you know you're not crazy! If you have any questions, comments, or fic recommendations you can drop...

On this episode of Open Tabs, we're back after out unintentional May hiatus! We talk about Moms, Mother's Day and Male Pregnancy... Naturally. Tappy is giving away a hard cover copy of (officially, now) New York Time's best seller 'Strixhaven: Omens of Chaos' by friend of the hosts (and New York Time's Best Selling Author) Seanan McGuire to one lucky patron of the cast - so if you have't already,...

On this episode of Open Tabs, Bugs has returned to us from her myriad adventures and she's brought a friend! Tappy interviews Mia Moore, co-director, co-star and writer of Again, Again a new film set to debut at Seattle International Film Festival (SIFF) this May. We talk about the inspiration for the script and the film, the creative process and time-loop ethics and lot about being a grungy piece...

On this episode of Open Tabs, the hosts dig into AO3's post mortem regarding the March site downtime and new s-s-s-s-s-stats on AO3's user demographics. In a completely unshocking turn of events, James Bond and Harry Potter are mentioned several times. We are, as ever, back in the building again. On the plus side! Tappy is giving away a hard cover copy of (officially, now) New York Time's best sel...

On this episode of Open Tabs, Sydney brings a new voice onto the cast for a guest appearance: Please welcome to the ice, Nef! Nef's here to talk about a new TTRPG project he's starting as a DM-for-hire as well as a bunch of other thoughts on rpgs in general, fanfic, hockey (Heated Rivalry and beyond!) and also the 2000s "hit" show Firefly - if you can believe it. If you'd like to check out Nef's h...

On this episode of Open Tabs, Princess and Sydney share their story of bringing fanfiction to the Tolarian Community College on the latest episode of Shuffle Up & Play, Amy talks turtles and somehow we still find a way to bring up Columbo. 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 podc...

We're kicking of today's episode of Open Tabs a listener inquiry: How do you find (or revive) a dead fandom? We're not sure but we're definitely gonna talk about it. Along with other very relevant topics like American actor Scott Bakula and amphibious secret agents. 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 su...

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 i...

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...

Welcome to Open Tabs! Tappy's whole new personality is the gay hockey show, government name, Heated Rivalry: the Crave Canada production airing in America and beyond on HBO. We talk about how it came to be, what it started out as (hint - it MIGHT just have been fanfiction) and why its so fucking good. Heads up! This episode may contain spoilers for the first three episodes of Heated Rivarly. If yo...

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...

Welcome to Open Tabs! THE KIDS ARE NOT OKAY and we talk about that again, in addition to some card game updates, the fanfiction implications of smashing different IP together for (sometimes) fun and (mostly) profit. 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 ex...

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...

What is this a BONUS episode? KINDA! We've got a special event planned that we hope y'all will be excited to participate in and help us spread some love to the community creatives across fandom who give us all so much. TIME TO GIVE BACK, BITCHES! Here are the details as well as a link to the OPEN & FREE Patreon post that also contains all our art and visual files of the event description and rules...

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 res...

Welcome to Open Tabs! Amy's back this week and we're covering all sorts of stuff in the lead up to Magic Con Atlanta (even though this episode is dropping to your earholes right AFTER) including the some very hot (or not) takes on denim and how its advertised. We're also doing a mailbag episode to celebrate our totally-normal-little podcast turning one year old in December: If you'd like to ask us...

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 a...

Welcome to Open Tabs! Today's episode starts with the new batch of 2025 AO3 ship statistics from community darling, centreoftheselights. We talk about the good and the bad and then Sydney does (a few) rants she's been wanting to get off her chest for a while - and splash around in the shallow end of data science and stat analysis. Its not nearly as scary as it sounds! If you'd like to support our...

Welcome to Open Tabs! We've got an episode we recorded awhile ago and stashed away for a rainy day - and since half of Tappy's town almost got rained out with record flooding, it seems like exactly the time. 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 co...

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 y...

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...

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 suppor...

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...

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...

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 phi...