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The Fandomentalist Gets Busy

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3 months ago

October 15, 2018

Kylie

Julia, Gretchen, and Kylie take time out of their busy schedules to chat about the media they make time for in their busy schedules. Then they also chat vampires and werewolves, because October.

Episode Breakdown

0:00 – Season 3 intro & fandom news 10/15/18
22:05 – What media do we always make time for?
36:15 – Pen a vampire or werewolf YA trilogy
57:45 – What media do we wish we had time for?

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Kylie is a Managing Editor at The Fandomentals on a mission to slay all the tropes. She has a penchant for complex familial dynamics and is easily pleased when authors include in-depth business details.

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The Yellow-Eyed Woman… Which series is she From?

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This may be similar to things that have already been done, but a YA novel with Vampirism and Werewolfdom as a metaphor for estrogen- and testosterone- driven puberty respectively, and our main characters are a trans girl and trans boy, because why be about it figuratively when it could be about it figuratively and literally. Our main characters are an assigned-male child who doesn’t want to be a werewolf/man and an assigned-female child who doesn’t want to be a vampire/woman, they do a switcheroo at their induction ceremonies and have to be socialized into their new roles at the same… Read more »

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It’s a New Year, A New Doctor, And Some of the Same Fandom Unpacking

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5 days ago

January 10, 2019

Elizabeth

Elizabeth, Seher, and Kori kick off 2019 with a look at Doctor Who, fandom as a whole, and why you shouldn’t cross social media boundaries.

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The Fandomentalist and the Princesses of Power

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6 days ago

January 9, 2019

Kylie

Julia, Gretchen, and Kylie return from an impromptu hiatus to discuss something they recently found delightful: She-Ra and the Princesses of Power. Other topics include their holiday media “presents,” and that complicated feel when a straight actor says he won’t take anymore gay roles.

Episode Breakdown

0:00 – Fandom news 1/5/19 edition
20:05 – She-Ra watered our crops
48:45 – Media we watched over the holidays
1:03:55 – Straight actors in gay roles…it’s complicated

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That’s Haram!: Introduction

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2 weeks ago

January 4, 2019

Seher

Tired of seeing Muslim characters in media reduced down to the unholy trifecta of “bacon, hijab, and terrorism”, Seher and Kori created a podcast to break down these topics, as well as explore Muslim representation done well, and done… not so well.

The promo for Nakshi Kantha. [Seher meant Mama’s Family towards the end.]