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The Success of Heated Rivalry Should Not Be a Surprise by Gavia Baker-Whitelaw
Jan 26, 2026
16m 25s
Fansplaining's Next Chapter by Elizabeth Minkel
Jan 21, 2026
7m 14s
Can Fandom Make Us Better Tourists? by Kayti Burt
Dec 10, 2025
17m 02s
Alternate Universes by Newt Albiston
Nov 19, 2025
13m 52s
Reclaiming the Mary Sue by Meghan Fitzmartin
Oct 29, 2025
10m 29s
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
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| 1/26/26 | ![]() The Success of Heated Rivalry Should Not Be a Surprise by Gavia Baker-Whitelaw✨ | Heated Rivalrysuccess+1 | Gavia Baker-Whitelaw | — | — | rivalrysuccess+1 | — | 16m 25s | |
| 1/21/26 | ![]() Fansplaining's Next Chapter by Elizabeth Minkel✨ | fandompublication+3 | — | Fansplaining 2.0Fansplaining's Next Chapter+1 | — | Fansplaining 2.0reporting+3 | — | 7m 14s | |
| 12/10/25 | ![]() Can Fandom Make Us Better Tourists? by Kayti Burt✨ | fandom tourismovertourism+3 | Kayti Burt | BTSFansplaining | South Korea'sJeju Island | fandomtourism+2 | — | 17m 02s | |
| 11/19/25 | ![]() Alternate Universes by Newt Albiston✨ | fandomroleplaying+2 | — | Alternate Universes | — | alternate universesroleplay+2 | — | 13m 52s | |
| 10/29/25 | ![]() Reclaiming the Mary Sue by Meghan Fitzmartin✨ | Mary Suefanfiction+4 | Meghan Fitzmartin | Mary SueDC Comics+3 | — | indie comicfan culture+2 | — | 10m 29s | |
| 9/24/25 | ![]() K-Pop's Demons, Real and Fictional by Aja Romano✨ | K-PopDemon Hunters+2 | Aja Romano | Kpop Demon Hunters | U.S. | K-PopDemon Hunters+1 | — | 20m 49s | |
| 8/27/25 | ![]() The Fan, the Pro, and the Spaces In Between by Tessa Gratton✨ | fan writingpro writing+2 | Tessa Gratton | The Fan, the Pro, and the Spaces In BetweenStar Wars | — | Star Warsfandom+1 | — | 28m 36s | |
| 7/30/25 | ![]() The Fandom Advantage: How Fan Creativity Fuels Pro Entertainment Careers✨ | fandomcreativity+2 | — | FansplainingFIYAH Literary Magazine+8 | San Diego | San Diego Comic-Confan creativity+1 | — | 53m 33s | |
| 6/25/25 | ![]() How Friendships Onscreen and Off Fueled Half a Century of Fandom by Jay Castello✨ | fandomfriendship+2 | — | the Starsky & Hutch Fiction Archive"How Friendships Onscreen and Off Fueled Half a Century of Fandom | — | Starsky & Hutchfannish community+1 | — | 11m 09s | |
| 5/28/25 | ![]() I Came to Ruin You: The Collecting Practices of K-Pop Fandoms by Rea McNamara & Bo Shin✨ | K-Popfandom+2 | Rea McNamaraBo Shin+2 | BTSYork University+2 | Toronto | BTSYork University+2 | — | 23m 39s | |
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| 4/23/25 | ![]() The RPF Question by Sacha Judd | In our newest piece, Sacha Judd goes deep on RPF, tracing it back decades and tackling its thorny intersections with other kinds of fan practices. "The RPF Question" by Sacha Judd. Amid blurry boundaries between fic, celebrity fandom, and conspiracy theories, how real person fiction evolved from forbidden to mainstream and back again. Read the full piece: https://fansplaining.com/articles/the-rpf-question | — | ||||||
| 3/26/25 | ![]() Bridgerton and Period Drama Fandom's Enduring Racism Problem by Amanda-Rae Prescott | Our latest piece is by Amanda-Rae Prescott, who was one of the expert guests in our "Race and Fandom" series back in 2020! (https://www.fansplaining.com/episodes/135b-race-and-fandom-revisited-part-2) "Bridgerton and Period Drama Fandom's Enduring Racism Problem" by Amanda-Rae Prescott. Complaints about historical accuracy and acting quality are often dog-whistles: some fans only want to see white actors—and white history—on screen. Read the full piece here: https://fansplaining.com/articles/bridgerton-period-drama-fandoms-racism | — | ||||||
| 2/26/25 | ![]() Sam Wilson Deserved Better Than Brave New World by Gavia Baker-Whitelaw | Gav is back in Fansplaining in 2025! This time, she writes about Sam Wilson's recent Captain America debut—and how the MCU failed both the character and the fandom. "Sam Wilson Deserved Better Than Brave New World" by Gavia Baker-Whitelaw: Marvel wants fans to care about lore without thinking too deeply about themes and emotions—the things that brought them to this fandom in the first place. Read the full piece here: fansplaining.com/articles/sam-wilson-deserved-better-brave-new-world | — | ||||||
| 1/22/25 | ![]() The War That Almost Broke a Classic Fandom by Lena Barkin | Our first article of 2025 is here—and it's a big one! "The War That Almost Broke a Classic Fandom" by Lena Barkin: Blake's 7 fans and actors mixed regularly at cons and on the pages of zines—until an anonymous letter changed everything. Read the full piece here: fansplaining.com/articles/the-war-that-almost-broke-a-classic-fandom | — | ||||||
| 12/31/24 | ![]() The Endless Appetite for Fanfiction by Elizabeth Minkel | Around this time in December, we usually wrap up Fansplaining with "The Year in Fandom": a look back at five trends from the prior year followed by five trends from the year coming to a close. With Flourish's departure this summer, the podcast is now on hiatus—but I had a lot of thoughts about 2024, particularly when it came to fanfiction. Many thanks to Flourish for looking this over; in a way, it's a "Year in Fandom" segment in spirit. In 2024, everyone wanted a piece of fic, from AI grifters to traditional publishers to ravenous audiences. Where did that leave the people who write it? Read the full article as you listen along: https://www.fansplaining.com/articles/endless-appetite-fanfiction | — | ||||||
| 11/20/24 | ![]() Bringing Fanfiction Into the Classroom by Abby Kirby | Our latest article is by Abby Kirby, who writes about her experiences teaching fanfiction to middle schoolers: "Fic does something that my traditional English classes cannot: it places the power in the hands of the student." Read the full piece here: https://www.fansplaining.com/articles/bringing-fanfiction-into-the-classroom | — | ||||||
| 10/23/24 | ![]() The Beatles Live! by Allegra Rosenberg | We're excited to welcome back Allegra Rosenberg, who's written a new article for us on contemporary Beatles fandom: "The Beatles Live! New generations of fans are cultural archaeologists, working with the materials of the past to create the passion of the present." Read the full piece here: https://www.fansplaining.com/articles/the-beatles-live | — | ||||||
| 9/4/24 | ![]() The Scream Fandom's Enduring Divide by Michael Boyle | Our newest article is "The Scream Fandom's Enduring Divide" by Michael Boyle: Nearly a year after star Melissa Barrera was fired for pro-Palestinian social media posts, fans remain torn over the future of the franchise. Read the full piece here: https://www.fansplaining.com/articles/the-scream-fandoms-enduring-divide | — | ||||||
| 8/23/24 | ![]() The Acolyte's Squandered Potential by Gavia Baker-Whitelaw | Our newest article is "The Acolyte's Squandered Potential" by Gavia Baker-Whitelaw: The show brought a whole new set of fans to a stagnating franchise. Its cancellation suggests Star Wars is only interested in looking backwards. Read the full piece here: https://www.fansplaining.com/articles/the-acolytes-squandered-potential | — | ||||||
| 8/14/24 | ![]() The Traumatized Gatekeepers of Broadway by Laura Wheatman Hill | Our newest article is "The Traumatized Gatekeepers of Broadway" by Laura Wheatman Hill: Theatre fans measure their passion by nitpicking. Does it do the industry more harm than good? You can read the full article here: https://www.fansplaining.com/articles//the-traumatized-gatekeepers-of-broadway | — | ||||||
| 6/12/24 | ![]() The Yellow Balloon Movement by Maria Temming | Our first piece in this new era of Fansplaining is "The Yellow Balloon Movement" by Maria Temming: Within jam band fandoms often dominated by substance use, clean and sober fans are building their own communities. You can read the full article here: https://www.fansplaining.com/articles/the-yellow-balloon-movement Hi, Fansplaning listeners, Elizabeth here. So everyone probably knows by now that the podcast is on hiatus. And you may be wondering why is this still showing up in my feed?Thanks for not unsubscribing, because I would say with 95% certainty, the podcast will be back in some form before too long. But this is showing up in your feed because, as you may recall, in the hiatus portion of the podcast itself, I'm going to be ramping up our publication arm, which we've, you know, kind of periodically added to over the years. Now, there's going to be at least one new piece per month, and we had a listener when I announced this suggest that we also do audio versions. And so everyone who's writing one of these stories also knows they have to record themselves, reading it and then we'll put it up alongside the text. And so I thought, well, you know, for folks who do like listening, why not use this feed to share the audio with them? You can also find it with the article itself on fansplaining.com, and if you listen to this and enjoy it I would really appreciate if you go back there and maybe share it with folks, whether they like listening or reading. So that's all to say,I thought I would just, for this one, explain what I was doing, but rather than just dropping the audio into your feet with no, with no warning. So I won't have a big introduction for, for all of them, but for this one, because it was showing up again after a few weeks, I wanted to explain why something new was showing up in your feet. So without further ado, the first article in this new era of Fanplaining that I am thrilled to publish is actually a repeat contributor. It's by Maria Temming who was the author of "The Pain Fandom," the article we published on whump. She also came on the podcast to talk about that article. And importantly, she has been one of our two transcriptionists for the past few years. Extraordinary transcriptionist, incredibly meticulous, and she brings that meticulousness to her journalism. The whump story was extremely deeply and thoughtfully reported, and this story is no different. It's about yellow balloon groups. They are clean and sober fans who basically have meetings, like AA-style meetings, right within the concerts they're attending. So it's like creating fandoms within fandoms, and huge, you know, diversity range of ages and experiences of the folks that she talked to for this. And so it was a real pleasure to edit and to learn about this, like this corner of fandom. And so I really hope you enjoy it. So without further ado, here's Maria Temming. | — | ||||||
| 5/22/24 | ![]() Episode 223: The End of the Flourish Era | After nine years of collaborating on Fansplaining, Flourish and Elizabeth mark Flourish's final regular episode by casting back to the state of fandom when they first met on a panel at San Diego Comic-Con in July of 2015. A decade ago, we were at the height of Hollywood's "Geek is Chic" arc, facing the rapid mainstreaming of fandom and the beginnings of the "creator-ification" of fanworks. What's changed for the better—and what's gotten worse? Plus: in the ultimate ironic twist, Flourish accepts their own personal journey into lurkerdom, a truly fitting end to a podcast run that nearly ended during a fight on the subject 215 episodes ago… 🥰 | — | ||||||
| 5/8/24 | ![]() Episode 222: Ask Fansplaining Anything: Part 19 | Flourish's final "Ask Fansplaining Anything" episode follows the format of the previous 18 (!!), with a new batch of (thoughtful as ever!) listener letters and voicemails. Topics discussed include people bringing a prior adaptation's fandom baggage to a new version, writing RPF about people who aren't actually famous at all, the tropification of fanfiction, and whether multiple versions of a character can feel true simultaneously. | — | ||||||
| 4/24/24 | ![]() Episode 221: Self-Inserts | On Episode 221, "Self-Inserts," Elizabeth and Flourish welcome fan studies scholar Effie Sapuridis to talk about the wide world of self-inserts, including Y/N and x reader fic, imagines, shifting, and classic Mary Sues. Topics discussed include differences between platforms, including AO3, Wattpad, Tumblr, and especially TikTok; ties to things like roleplaying, LARPing, and theme parks; and whether self-insert forms are leading us towards a future of ~personalized AI storytelling~. Plus: they talk about why there's so little academic work on self-inserts, and the ethical issues around continuing to study the Harry Potter fandom. | — | ||||||
| 4/10/24 | ![]() Episode 220: The Fan-Journalist | On Episode 220, "The Fan-Journalist," Flourish and Elizabeth welcome one particular fan-journalist—Kayti Burt—to discuss her recent article for us on the specific challenges of covering things you love in a very precarious industry. Topics discussed include Kayti's journey from youthful fandom to pop culture reporting, a step-by-step rundown of how an article goes from idea to finished product, and the many ethical questions journalists have to weigh when writing about fans or their objects of fandom. | — | ||||||
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