Their Tropes Battled for Dominance: A FanFic Podcast

Gabs picks a cool and fun trope but Liz's RNG decides to be a copycat! One trope that's not a special episode? Y'all are in luck! Gabs gushes about her current hyperfixation (what's new?) and Liz brings up some underrated faves. | Come meet us at our FIRST LIVE SHOW at Holiday Matsuri in Orlando, Florida 12/18! | Shop our friend's brand that we mentioned in the beginning! https://vivatnovum.com/ (...

As Gabs AND Liz attend a con again this week, there was no time for recording. Instead, Liz and Gabs bring you chapter 4 of the 50 Shades series and their comparisons of it to the Twilight Saga! Come meet us at AnimeNYC 11/19-11/21! | Come meet us at our FIRST LIVE SHOW at Holiday Matsuri in Orlando, Florida 12/18! | You can help counteract the harm that S. Meyers has done with her portrayal of in...

Liz picks a doozy of a topic this week, bringing up a trope that they both love. We don't care what people think, isekai is a FUN and INTERACTIVE trope!!! Gabs gets randomly assigned a movie she hasn't seen in almost 10 years, so she brings in Teen Wolf to make it more relatable for Liz. Liz then declares this a Dylan O'Brien stan podcast! | Come meet us at AnimeNYC 11/19-11/21! | Come meet us at...

In the spirit of Halloween, Gabs picks the trope based on the iconic outfit. She unfortunately also brings us back to 2014 at the same time. Liz gets randomly assigned a cute trope, but surprisingly doesn't talk about Stucky? WHO IS SHE???

As Gabs attends a con again this week, there was no time for recording. Instead, Liz and Gabs bring you chapter 3 of the 50 Shades series and their comparisons of it to the Twilight Saga! | You can help counteract the harm that S. Meyers has done with her portrayal of indigenous people by contributing to the Quileute tribe's fundraiser here: https://mthg.org/ | Please remember the easiest way to b...

...I saw a shit-eating dinosaur get murdered by Hannibal! Liz tells us a tale of found-family, yandere-style. Gabs and Liz then take a small break to talk about the trauma of puberty at camp and how a Catholic camp somehow was more progressive than a Jewish camp. Gabs talks about dinosaurs and 18th-century composers in the same sentence.

This week we get a lovely recap of Liz's time at NYCC. Gabs gets to talk about Bleach lore and Liz finally understand how Gabs feels when she talks about Star Wars. Liz throws it right back at Gabs though by explaining X-Men lore and why Pietro being Magneto's son is one of her favorite X-Men story lines. 

Liz decides it has been too long since she got to talk about Stucky (about 7 episodes). So, of course, she must bring another popular AU in Stucky-world. Gabs gets randomly assigned something that she has no choice but to read an explicit excerpt from... Can Liz handle it? Spoiler: not really!

Gabs gets to talk about one of her and Liz's favorite movies while also managing to sneak Twilight in. Tangents, beware! Liz gets assigned a trope she personally relates to. This, of course, causes more tangents and breaks Liz. You can help counteract the harm that S. Meyers has done with her portrayal of indigenous people by contributing to the Quileute tribe's fundraiser here: https://mthg.org/

Liz blindsides Gabs with more BNHA fics but this time with a twist! Actually, jk villain au bnha is super common. Gabs takes any chance she can to talk about the Miraculous Ladybug love square. Also Gabs and Liz gush about how they are hopeless romantics... AGAIN! 

Yes, we died writing the title. Yes, we used to call ourselves that. We exist! Gabs takes us down memory lane with Yuuri on Ice but in a not-so-safe-for-work way. Liz breaks Gabs and now Gabs is glad she was never in bandom. But, like, WTF Liz???? We knew you liked Dan & Phil but this too????

Liz finally gets to declare her undying love for harem anime while Gabs roasts all of her questionable choices for "best harem anime". It's not Liz's fault she watched Diabolik Lovers in 8th grade and fell in love! Gabs also poses the age old questions of "Who would actually want to fuck in an elevator?" 

Gabs starts us off on the right (wrong?) foot with the return of Twilight! Gabs and Liz talk about growing up as Twilight fans and how the fandom has barely changed in the past ten years. Liz then gets assigned Quidditch and bemoans the fact that she never got to spend her weekends running around on a broom pretending to be a wizard. You can help counteract the harm that S. Meyers has done with he...

Liz picks a trope that Gabs has dedicated to that really odd specific cameo of Stephanie Meyer in the first Twilight movie, AKA Restaurant AU! Gabs gets assigned a fantasy trope yet surprisingly does NOT read about Twilight, and instead informs us all that you have been lied to about lobsters. (Liz: I love lobster!) | You can help counteract the harm that S. Meyers has done with her portrayal of i...

Gabs and Liz give the audience an early birthday gift with the sapphic episode we've always wanted. Gabs starts us off strong with some Catradora, and Liz brings it home with her new favorite anime! Tune in this week for our regular content.

Between the Big Move and getting sick, Gabs was unable to record for this week's episode. As such, Gabs and Liz hereby present episode two of their comparison mini-series on 50 Shades of Grey and Twilight! Stay tuned to next week for our return to normal episodes. | You can help counteract the harm that S. Meyers has done with her portrayal of indigenous people by contributing to the Quileute trib...

Gabs and Liz take you through a time travel machine back to 2013! Tumblr, smol bean, punk/pastel edits? Oh my! Attack on Titan is all the rage, and the ship to end them all is JeanMarco. Gabs then spends 20 minutes info-dumping about Genshin Impact and desperately trying to pronounce all the names correctly.

Gabs brings us back to fandom days of old, where the penises are magical and cringe culture doesn't exist! Liz makes Gabs return to Earth by talking about her favorite space boys (but like they're all on Earth this time, OK???).

NOTE: THIS IS NOT A PODCAST BY THE REAL BUZZFEED UNSOLVED. THIS IS A FANFIC-BASED PODCAST AND THIS EPISODE TALKS ABOUT A TROPE USING BUZZFEED UNSOLVED Liz gets to talk about one of the comfort series she and her junior year apartment used to watch together. She also lets us in on a little secret of what the Pine's twins have been up to since the conclusion of Gravity Falls. Gabs gets super luc...

Gabs sends Liz to nostalgic Youtuber heaven while also roasting their mutual friend. Liz talks about dragons with all the passion of someone who does not care about dragons. 

Liz and Gabs present their new not-so-mini-series on comparing Twilight and 50 Shades! They'll take you through the first chapter where we meet a LOT of blondes (THEY CAN'T ALL BE BASED OFF ROSALIE!!!!) and get to know Bella and Edward--- I mean Liz-- I mean Anastasia and Mr. Gray????? | You can help counteract the harm that S. Meyers has done with her portrayal of indigenous people by contributin...

Liz celebrates Captain America's birthday! And the country's independence celebration, I guess. Gabs brings up a discussion of how she would change some of her favorite media if given the chance. You can help counteract the harm that S. Meyers has done with her portrayal of indigenous people by contributing to the Quileute tribe's fundraiser here: https://mthg.org/ | Please remember the easiest wa...

Gabs gets to talk about her love of How to Train Your Dragon AND her favorite ship from Fire Emblem: Three Houses! Liz is exhausted and has no idea what the fuck she is reading. Please get Liz an iced coffee ASAP.

Liz gets to talk about the opposite of episode 14-- what happens when our favorite characters become evil? Gabs keeps getting psychic stuff for some reason and is determined to only use RPF fics despite her dislike of them. So, basically, the force is just a glorified psychic ability, right?

Gabs takes us into her 8th grade math glass (please don't look at her acne). Harry Potter and Ichigo Kurosaki are now BFFs! Liz has to correct Gabs multiple times that this is NOT the rap battle YouTube channel, and that League of Legends has some actual serious lore!!!!!! You can help counteract the harm that J.K. Rowling has done to trans individuals by contributing to the National Center for Tr...