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Welcome back to the Fic List Presents: Author’s Notes, an interview series where I chat with creative-type people about their experiences in and relationships to fandom and fan culture. HAPPY PRIIIIIIIDE! In this episode, I am delighted to chat with author and generally delightful human, Alethea Faust! Sometimes the universe really says, “Oh, hey - did you know there’s a really cool person out the...

In today’s episode of Erin Explains It All (to Alan), we yap endlessly about Heated Rivalry, Stranger Things, queerness, and the mundane things in life. Truly, just a yap sesh between two friends who haven’t seen each other in awhile. Enjoy? As always, special thanks to our supporters on ko-fi, especially our Friends of the Pod - Dione, Aly, Liow, Rose, Dani, Cly, Charlotte, and Marina! If you lik...

HAPPY VALENTINE’S DAY BABES WE’RE GOING TO THE COTTAGE AND TALKIN’ BOUT GAY STUFF As always, special thanks to our supporters on ko-fi, especially our Friends of the Pod - Dione, Aly, Liow, Rose, Dani, Cly, Charlotte, and Marina! If you like, you can help us off-set the costs of making this podcast through donations on ko-fi.com/theficlist. Every dollar makes a difference, offsetting production co...

Welcome back to the Fic List Presents: Author’s Notes, an interview series where I chat with creative-type people about their experiences in and relationships to fandom and fan culture. New Year, New Episode! Please join me in welcoming #1 New York Times and #1 USA Today bestselling, Lambda Literary Award–winning author, TJ Klune, to the Author’s Notes airwaves!!! Do we discuss the deep and comple...

Welcome back to the Fic List Presents: Author’s Notes, an interview series where I chat with creative-type people about their experiences in and relationships to fandom and fan culture. And welcome back to our first ever return guest, the incomparable A. LoveUnlaced! I am SO unbelievably glad to end the year with an even more in-depth conversation with my long-time friend and incredible artist Ada...

Welcome back to the Fic List Presents: Author’s Notes, an interview series where I chat with creative-type people about their experiences in and relationships to fandom and fan culture. Pride month may officially be over, but it’s Pride in our lives every day! As such, please welcome to the Author’s Notes podcast-stage, the Chanteuse of Southern Maryland, Drag Queen, Cosplayer, WATCH Award Winning...

IT’S PRIDE Y’ALL Well, technically, it’s just after Pride month, but it’s never *not* Pride here at The Fic List Headquarters. And what else could we possibly choose for our grand return to the podcast but Omegaverse fic??? After all the panels we’ve done on the topic, it’s a shock even to us that we’ve never discussed it here before! So, here we are. Gather up your suppressants, make a nice lil d...

Welcome back to the Fic List Presents: Author’s Notes, an interview series where I chat with creative-type people about their experiences in and relationships to fandom and fan culture. In today’s episode, I am beyond thrilled to welcome Social Media Department Lead at Try Guys (2nd Try LLC), social strategist, content creator, professional fangirl, and pop-culture aficionado, Cailyn Hoertz! Why n...

Welcome back to the Fic List Presents: Author’s Notes, an interview series where I chat with creative-type people about their experiences in and relationships to fandom and fan culture. In today’s episode, I am delighted to welcome Anti-Racism and Anti-Oppression Specialist, Talent Acquisition Manager, Director, Dramaturg, Playwright, and occasional Actor - Jon Jon Johnson! It’s impossible to dist...

Welcome to the first ever episode of The Fic List Presents: Author’s Notes, an interview series where I chat with creative-type people about their experiences in and relationships to fandom and fan culture. My name is Erin, and you might know me as one cohost of The Fic List podcast (or as that girl you see on Tiktok sometimes when your FYP sends you jokes about fanfiction). I am a 20-year veteran...

Summary: Gather ‘round, dear listeners, it’s time for a family discussion. Join us as we catch up and share some updates! This is not a goodbye - just a ‘see you soon.’ Authors' Notes: As always, special thanks to our supporters on ko-fi! If you like, you can help us off-set the costs of making this podcast through donations on ko-fi.com/theficlist. Every dollar makes a difference, offsetting prod...

Summary: What it says on the tin. We also can’t believe this is happening. Buckle in, buckaroos - this is an episode of The Fic List that is not to be missed!!! This episode contains spoilers for the novel “Bury Your Gays,” by Chuck Tingle. Chuck Tingle is a USA Today bestselling author, as well as a two time Hugo Award finalist and a Bram Stoker Award nominee. He is a mysterious force of energy b...

Summary: An episode in which Erin and Alan pontificate on the inherent trials and tribulations of turning your identity into your brand; or, Watcher biffed it and we have Thoughts. Special thank you to our supporters on ko-fi! If you like, you can help us off-set the costs of making this podcast through donations on ko-fi.com/theficlist. Every dollar makes a difference, offsetting production costs...

Summary: Pride season’s greetings to you all! We are back with the first episode of Season 6 of The Fic List! To kick us off, we thought we’d dive back into the tag that broke Alan many moons ago: Enemies to Lovers! Join us for all the tension, the drama, the STAKES. Will Alan make it out of this episode without shedding a tear? Listen now to find out! Author's Notes: Special thank you to our supp...

Author's Notes: We’re wrapping up season 5 of The Fic List with a 2023 Wrapped! ...At least, that was the plan, but as these things tend to go, we…uh…got a bit sidetracked. Instead, join us for a spirited (and slightly unhinged) retrospective in which we talk about everything from the strikes to John Stamos puking up his guts. It was certainly a year to remember. Author's Notes: Special thank you...

Summary: Season’s Greetings from The Fic List! With the strikes officially over, and just in time for the end of the year, we’ve decided to pull this episode out of the vault for your listening pleasure! Join us as we explore this highly requested tag while covering two NEW fandoms to the show! (Very wow! Much excite!) Author's Notes: Special thank you to our supporters on ko-fi! If you like, you...

Summary: It’s an episode a DECADE in the making! Professional fan-artist, freelance illustrator, and all-around lovely person A. Loveunlaced (aka Ada) joins us to talk about being a Professional Fandom Person, the complexity and nuances of fannish experiences, and the intersections of mental health care and transformative works. We are *also* amazed that this episode came in under an hour, lol! Yo...

Summary: As of the recording of this episode (September 2023), both the WGA (Writer’s Guild of America) and SAG-AFTRA (Screen Actor’s Guild - American Federation of Television and Radio Artists) remain on strike. As such, we begin our dive into more generalized fandom topics with everyone’s favorite fake gangster movie: Goncharov! Join us as Erin introduces Alan to the internet meme that took on a...

Summary: And now for something… a little different. As you may know, both the WGA (Writer’s Guild of America) and SAG-AFTRA (Screen Actor’s Guild - American Federation of Television and Radio Artists) are currently on strike (August 2023), which is having a wide range of effects on film, TV, theater, and fandom. In this episode, we are pivoting from our usual content to talk about the strikes - wh...

Summary: HELLO AND WELCOME BACK TO THE FIC LIST - SEASON 5!!! We’re here, we’re queer… we’re better than ever (maybe), with our annual Pride episode - full of rambling, interruptions, and Emotions with a capital E. Coming out is a journey, and boy howdy, so is this whopper of an episode. We’re sorry/you’re welcome/didn’t you miss us, lol? Author's Notes: Special thank you to our supporters on ko-f...

Summary: We came, we saw… we read half a million words of fanfic for just this one episode! For our season four finale (!!!), please welcome our friend and incredible artist Evelyn Rogers, who has waited very patiently to journey with us through one of - if not *the* - quintessential Lord of the Rings fanfics ever written. There’s action, there’s intrigue, there’s betrayal… but, you know what? Lov...

Summary: It’s BOGO - two fics for the price of one! (Actually, we just couldn’t get ourselves together enough to record proper holiday episodes… oops). In this end-of-year double-header, we’re tackling arranged marriage fics and teacher AUs, and boy howdy, do we have some hot takes for these cold winter days. Author's Notes: Find us at www.theficlist.com, and/or follow us on socials - Tiktok (@the...

Summary: It’s BOGO - two fics for the price of one! (Actually, we just couldn’t get ourselves together enough to record proper holiday episodes… oops). In this end-of-year double-header, we’re tackling arranged marriage fics and teacher AUs, and boy howdy, do we have some hot takes for these cold winter days. Author's Notes: Find us at www.theficlist.com, and/or follow us on socials - Tiktok (@the...

Summary: Tricks? Treats? Fix-It Fic?!? It’s not quite a Halloween episode… but we still think you should stick around for what might just be the biggest twist in Fic List history! Author's Notes: We have a website now! Find us at www.theficlist.com, and/or follow us on socials - Tiktok (@theficlist), twitter (@FicList), instagram (@theficlist), Facebook (what Facebook?), and Tumblr (https://thefic...

Summary: Things continue to be ~wild~ here at Fic List Headquarters… and yet, we persist! In this distinctly-not-a-Halloween-episode, we’re talking Hanahaki AUs. Soft Boi Alan (TM) is not particularly thrilled with this endeavor, but you know… sometimes we suffer for things we love. Much like characters with Hanahaki disease! Wow. So full circle. …enjoy, lol Author's Notes: We have a website now!...