Fanonball

Seeing a new episode of Fanonball has finally been uploaded... it fills you with determination. Today we're joined by Mel to talk about the 2015 indie RPG Undertale! We talk about its connection to Homestuck, shipping discourse, and how it's possible to ship Sans with himself.
Sources and relevant links for this episode:

• Undertale, Underfell, Sans/Frisk on fanlore
• The Undertale Drama by Chloe Spencer for Kotaku
• Flowerfell on the (now abandoned?) Undertale AU wiki
• Sans on the Tumblr Sexymen wiki
• What happened to the Undertale fandom? on Quora
• What happened to the Undertale fandom? on r/outoftheloop
• The Tumblr Needle Cookie Story

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Have you ever awoken in the dead of night in a cold sweat and thought, "What if England and France fucked?" Well, we have some great news for you: You are not alone, and you are so not alone that an entire fandom agrees with you. Today Nat joins us to talk about the nation gijinka webcomic and anime series Hetalia! We talk about globalism with respect to the premise, how the fandom handled problematic situations, and the different ways the fans responded to racism and misogyny.
Sources and relevant links for this episode:

• Pyrrhiccomedy's fic directory
• Wizzard890's fic directory
• Puella_nerdii's Hetalia LJ posts
• Mithrigil's fics
• Hetalia's Dreamwidth
• SaMelodii's Bahamas OC
• HetArchive
• Hetalia on Fanlore
• Anime Boston incident (TW: antisemitism, Holocaust)

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Beth: Twitter, Instagram
Max: Instagram
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THIS EPISODE CONTAINS EXPLICIT SPOILERS FOR DANGANRONPA 1, 2 AND 3! DO NOT LISTEN IF YOU DON'T WANT TO BE SPOILED!
Welcome to the Ultimate Podcast! Today we're talking about the Danganronpa fandom and BOY is it a doozy. We discuss kinning, dancing on literal graves, and how the fans on the Something Awful boards were key to getting the series localized in the West.
Sources and relevant links for this episode:

• Danganronpa Fanlore
• Danganronpa Discourse blog
• Danganronpa fanfiction discourse blog
• Fandom Files ep on Danganronpa
• Thread on DR/SomethingAwful/orenroren
• Orenroren let’s play archive of DR1, and his translation of SDR2

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Max: Instagram
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Is it still us that makes you sweat? Are we who you think about in bed? Probably not, but a podcast can dream, right? Anyway, we're BACK and we're wrapping up our series on bandom with an episode about Panic! at the Disco, joined by Nicole Fenton. We talk about celebrities breaking the fandom fourth wall, shipping theories and... dairy products.
Sources and relevant links for this episode:

• P!atD, Ryden, Brencer, Dallon Weekes, Divorce!fic on fanlore
• Panic primer on LJ
• Panic origin story on tumblr
• Another Panic primer on LJ
• Panic primer on dreamwidth
• Slashatthedisco
• Lots of Ryden masterposts
• Brencer manifesto
• Catfishing incident masterpost

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Beth: Twitter, Instagram
Max: Instagram
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We ARE okay, thank you for asking. In the second episode of our series on bandom, Meredith Gillies joins us as we cover My Chemical Romance. We talk about why they're the biggest band in bandom to this day, how their creativity inspires fans' creativity, and how they will Save Your Life.
Sources and relevant links for this episode:

• MCR, Frerard, Waycest on Fanlore
• A weirdly involved fandom primer on Quora, of all things
• Another fandom primer on LJ
• Part 1 of a 4 part Frerard primer
• The Used primer

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Meredith: Twitter
Beth: Twitter, Instagram
Max: Instagram
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We are a member of the Scavengers Network. You can find our show and other great ones on the network by visiting scavengersnetwork.com!
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