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Friends read old fanfiction that they think might be good. Sometimes they are right. Sometimes they are not. Send us emails at RetroFanficRetrospective@gmail.com See our tweets and episode previews at https://twitter.com/RetroFanfic Visit us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/RetroFanficRetrospective/
Episodes
Monday Oct 24, 2022
RFR Special Episode - Anime Music Videos
Monday Oct 24, 2022
Monday Oct 24, 2022
Anime Music Videos: the carefully-crafted works of transformative media that we watched in our youth, largely because downloading full episodes of anime off the internet was nigh impossible. Tory, Della, and Amado each pick a few AMVs to discuss, and somehow we don't hit any Evanescence songs. (We've got U2 and Linkin Park covered, though.) Amado tries to force his arbitrary categorization dichotomy on the others to limited success.
Links to the AMVs:
- Jinnai and the Bugrom Live (El-Hazard): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypGWEXFpxyA
- Everybody Wants to Rule the World (Utena): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYPGqyF4GJY
- Elevation (FFIX): https://youtu.be/Hdum57uAOLQ
- 500 Miles (Ranma): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkeuzElAIDA
- Move Bitch (Various): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yilAb5phPc
- In the End (Rurouni Kenshin): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jd73iNKUCds
- Caffeine Enconium (Kodomo no Omocha): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jc8dFL9Mk0o
Monday Aug 15, 2022
Episode 140: The Beatles - The First Year
Monday Aug 15, 2022
Monday Aug 15, 2022
Sara B. rejoins us with a strong recommendation to the world of music RPF. In Liverpool circa 1958, John Lennon is a charismatic asshole, while Paul McCartney is less charismatic but also less of an asshole. Together, they make music and have outrageous chemistry together. Stuart Sutcliffe is also there. Everyone needs to be a lot nicer to poor George Harrison.
Link to the story: https://archiveofourown.org/works/188089
Link to Sara's AO3: https://archiveofourown.org/users/Storyshark2005
Monday Apr 25, 2022
Episode 134: Animaniacs/Akira - Akatie
Monday Apr 25, 2022
Monday Apr 25, 2022
Taran joins us to do the same thing we do every night: read an old fanfic and talk about it. Classic anime movie Akira is smashed together with Animaniacs... and long story short, Akira wins. Brain's friendship with Pinky is front-and-center, while Pinky's friendship with Crow T. Robot is sadly secondary.
Wayback Machine link to the first chapter: bit.ly/rfrakatie
Monday Jan 18, 2021
Episode 105: Ranma 1/2 - Thy Inward Love
Monday Jan 18, 2021
Monday Jan 18, 2021
We drag special guest Fire Princess Lily of the One Half Podcast into the deep end of the cursed waters of Ranma 1/2 fanfiction. In this post-manga continuation, Ranma tries to pull his shit together and be a better person, and so does practically every other character in the series. Obviously this is going to take a lot of work. I'm looking at you, P-chan.
Link to the fanfic: bit.ly/rfrinward
Three friends read old fanfiction that they think might be good. Sometimes they are right. Sometimes they are not.
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Monday Dec 21, 2020
Episode 103: Star Trek TNG - Audacter Ire
Monday Dec 21, 2020
Monday Dec 21, 2020
Sue of the Women at Warp podcast leads us where we've hardly gone before - Star Trek: The Next Generation fanfiction! In the wake of the Enterprise's destruction, Jean-Luc and Beverly finally have the free time to address twenty years of built-up sexual tension. It's going to take quite a lot of addressing. At least they'll be relaxed for that Starfleet court-martial!
Link to the PG story: bit.ly/rfraipg
Link to the NC-17 story: bit.ly/rfrAINC17
Three friends read old fanfiction that they think might be good. Sometimes they are right. Sometimes they are not.
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Monday Oct 26, 2020
Episode 99.5: Evangelion - Neon Genesis Evangelion: R (Part 2)
Monday Oct 26, 2020
Monday Oct 26, 2020
The continuation of Evangelion continues as Taran, Tory, and Amado tackle ONE of its endings, at least. We finally reach the theatrical trailer and its professional voice work. Rei's soul does a super-cool battle move. The ending is either happy or existentially terrifying.
bit.ly/rfrevar
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Monday Oct 12, 2020
Episode 99: Evangelion - Neon Genesis Evangelion: R
Monday Oct 12, 2020
Monday Oct 12, 2020
Taran the Third Podcaster joins us to discuss Evangelion: R, the classic fanfic with such high production values (for a fanfic) that it has original voice talent, a trailer, a soundtrack, and VHS covers. And there's a story there too! Rest assured that more children with mother-related emotional trauma get shoved into giant alien robot thingies.
bit.ly/rfrevar
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Monday Sep 28, 2020
Episode 98: X-Files - Strangers and the Strange Dead
Monday Sep 28, 2020
Monday Sep 28, 2020
Skeptical Tory and true-believer CJ team up to investigate a short X-Files fanfic from early 2000. The author, who pays close attention to the relationship between two federal agents, writes about an author who pays close attention to the relationship between two federal agents. The truth may or may not be out there, but a twist ending is definitely in the cards.
bit.ly/rfrstrangers
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Monday Sep 14, 2020
Episode 97: Animal Crossing - The Terrible Secret of Animal Crossing
Monday Sep 14, 2020
Monday Sep 14, 2020
Tory and Amado are joined by Serena to try out a new format of fanfiction, which starts out cutely creepy and then becomes steadily less cute. Billy has a rough time at camp. Tom Nook holds many secrets. Only part of the horror comes from capitalism.
bit.ly/rfrac
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Monday Aug 31, 2020
Episode 96: Sailor Moon - Sailor Moon 4200
Monday Aug 31, 2020
Monday Aug 31, 2020
Special guest Mar joins us to talk about Sailor Moon 4200, a perpetually-unfinished masterpiece. The utopian Crystal Tokyo was destroyed long ago by monstrous forces, but we still have a pair of plucky talking cats wandering the streets seeking out young girls to awaken as Sailor Senshi, so things can't have changed that much, right?
bit.ly/rfrsm4200
Three friends read old fanfiction that they think might be good. Sometimes they are right. Sometimes they are not.
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Monday Aug 24, 2020
Episode 95: Dr. Who - Disintegration
Monday Aug 24, 2020
Monday Aug 24, 2020
Special guest Rosie joins us to talk about Doctor Who. Rose makes the difficult decision to leave the Doctor, because she's understandably got hella trauma. She deals with things in very healthy, productive ways, then in some more questionable ways. Sarah Jane is a cool friend to have. The fanfic only barely avoids becoming a threesome with two Doctors.
bit.ly/rfrdisintegration
Three friends read old fanfiction that they think might be good. Sometimes they are right. Sometimes they are not.
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Monday Aug 10, 2020
Episode 93: Vampire Hunter D - For One Day's Rule
Monday Aug 10, 2020
Monday Aug 10, 2020
Special guest Chris is enlisted as a minion on our ageless, decadent podcast to discuss a Vampire Hunter D fanfic out of a 1980s anime fanzine. Rei Ginsei has a rough and confusing backstory. Facing down vampires is, in fact, terrifying. Everybody finds something to like about the award-winning art, but nobody can agree on what.
Link to the story: bit.ly/rfrrule
Three friends read old fanfiction that they think might be good. Sometimes they are right. Sometimes they are not.
Check out our website at https://bit.ly/retrofanfic
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Monday Jul 20, 2020
Episode 90: Sherlock Holmes/Cthulhu - A Study in Emerald
Monday Jul 20, 2020
Monday Jul 20, 2020
Intrepid partners Amado and Serena unveil the mysteries of Neil Gaiman's award-winning mashup fanfic. Baker Street attracts consulting detectives in any timeline. The rich and powerful might as well be tentacled monstrosities, for all the difference it makes. The moon is a comforting red.
Link to the story: bit.ly/rfrstudy
Three friends read old fanfiction that they think might be good. Sometimes they are right. Sometimes they are not.
Check out our website at https://bit.ly/retrofanfic
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Monday May 04, 2020
RFR Special Episode - John Biles Interview
Monday May 04, 2020
Monday May 04, 2020
Amado sits down with one of his nostalgic favorite authors, John Biles, to discuss his decades-spanning fanfic writing career. The topics are wide-ranging and very, VERY geeky. We return to the previously-featured "Children of an Elder God" as well as his other major collaboration "Sailor Moon Z." John can't resist a crossover. He also never stops writing.
Children of an Elder God: bit.ly/rfrchildren
Sailor Moon Z: bit.ly/rfrsmz
Three friends read old fanfiction that they think might be good. Sometimes they are right. Sometimes they are not.
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Monday Apr 27, 2020
Episode 82: Mobile Suit Gundam - Everyone Excels at Something
Monday Apr 27, 2020
Monday Apr 27, 2020
Thom and Nina of the Mobile Suit Breakdown podcast join Amado to discuss a First Gundam fanfic from 1988. Military cadets Char and Garma are best buds, except for part where one is planning to murder the other. A heist is planned and executed perfectly. The sexual content is shockingly heterosexual.
Link to the story: bit.ly/rfrsomething
Find Mobile Suit Podcast at: https://gundampodcast.com/
Three friends read old fanfiction that they think might be good. Sometimes they are right. Sometimes they are not.
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Monday Apr 20, 2020
Episode 81: Calvin & Hobbes - Reminiscence & Geniuses
Monday Apr 20, 2020
Monday Apr 20, 2020
Amado & Taran team up to tackle two short fanfics. In "Reminiscence," an adult Calvin looks back with rose-colored lenses on his childhood, Susie gets fridged, and the torch of imagination is symbolically passed on but also maybe regained somehow. In "Geniuses," college-aged Calvin gains a romantic interest in the form of Jason Fox. And we are so on board with that premise.
Link to the stories:
Reminiscence (Text): bit.ly/rfrcalvin
Reminiscence (Podfic): https://archiveofourown.org/works/4312425
Geniuses: bit.ly/rfrhobbes
Three friends read old fanfiction that they think might be good. Sometimes they are right. Sometimes they are not.
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Monday Apr 13, 2020
Episode 80: Sailor Moon Crossover - Suburban Senshi
Monday Apr 13, 2020
Monday Apr 13, 2020
We need a lot of help tackling Suburban Senshi, the text fanfic turned irc-formatted fanfic turned sprawling fan project. Luckily the original author himself, Dr. Xadium, joins us to explain just what we're looking at. The breadth of geekiness involved is staggering. Michiru is Dr. X's nemesis. The real Suburban Senshi are the friends we made along the way.
Link to the story: bit.ly/rfrss
Three friends read old fanfiction that they think might be good. Sometimes they are right. Sometimes they are not.
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Monday Apr 06, 2020
Episode 79: BTS - out of the woodwork
Monday Apr 06, 2020
Monday Apr 06, 2020
Amado and Serena host Cutting Edge Fanfic Deep-cut as we discuss a high-kudos BTS fanfic. Taehyung gets soap opera amnesia. Serena is ARMY and Amado is barely a recruit. The joy of the Vmin pairing is that they can cuddle, stroke, and call each other pet names, and still angst over whether the other person is into them.
Link to the story: bit.ly/cefdbts
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Monday Mar 23, 2020
Episode 77: FF8 - Story
Monday Mar 23, 2020
Monday Mar 23, 2020
Special guest Chris joins us to take a trip down memory lane with Zell, in this post-series FFVIII fanfic. Somehow the game made being a child mercenary seem more glamorous than it really is. But at least Zell got some good stories out of it, that he'll keep locked up deep inside and never share with another living soul. How about some fairy tales, instead?
Link to the story: bit.ly/rfrstory
Three friends read old fanfiction that they think might be good. Sometimes they are right. Sometimes they are not.
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Monday Mar 16, 2020
Episode 76: New Mutants - Kid Dynamo, Chapters 7-12
Monday Mar 16, 2020
Monday Mar 16, 2020
CJ isn’t the only special guest this week, as Loki, X-Factor, Power Pack, and more pop in to finish Jessica Pierce’s story in the second half of Kid Dynamo. Magik is incredibly useful all the time. Apocalypse has some very on-the-nose Horsemen. The epilogue is more upsetting than Harry Potter’s.
Link to the story: bit.ly/rfrdynamo
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Monday Mar 09, 2020
Episode 75: New Mutants - Kid Dynamo, Chapters 1-6
Monday Mar 09, 2020
Monday Mar 09, 2020
Special guest CJ returns to discuss the first part of Kid Dynamo. Since it’s set firmly in late-1980s Marvel comics continuity, this is slightly disorienting. Luckily, teenage telekinetic fireproof mutant runaway Jessica Pierce is just as new to things as we are! Stevie and Magneto go on a date. Jessica is vegetarian for a very good reason. We get very excited about Mutant Prom.
Link to the story: bit.ly/rfrdynamo
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