Fansplaining

"The Meta Episode" isn't an episode about episodes: Flourish and Elizabeth use a listener letter about fan meta—nonfiction writing about an object of fandom or fandom at large—as a...

Episode 172, "Safe Spaces," is split into two parts: first, Flourish and Elizabeth read and respond to a series of listener letters about their recent "Fandom-Tinted Glasses" conve...

In Episode 170, "OFIC Magazine," Flourish and Elizabeth welcome back fic writer, editor, and writing teacher Betts to talk about her latest project, a literary magazine of original...

In Episode 170, "Fandom-Tinted Glasses," Flourish and Elizabeth use a letter from a listener weary with certain patterns in fandom as a springboard to discuss pan-fandom dynamics i...

In Episode 169, "Ask Fansplaining Anything: Part 12," Elizabeth and Flourish dig into a new collection of listener messages. Topics covered include the "Dead Dove Do Not Eat" tag, ...

In Episode 168, "The Entertainment Media Machine," Flourish and Elizabeth use a recent Business Insider article about Netflix's editorial strategy—and some subsequent worries in fa...

In episode 167, "Our Secret Identities," Elizabeth and Flourish use a listener voicemail on pseudonyms as a springboard to talk about the many facets of fannish personas online. To...

In episode 166, Flourish and Elizabeth are joined by friend of the podcast and recurring guest Destination Toast to talk through Toast's recent stats on trans, nonbinary, and gende...

In Episode 165, "Fests," Flourish and Elizabeth use a listener letter about Yuletide—a long-running fanfic exchange for tiny fandoms—to talk about fanwork fests more broadly. While...

As the pandemic marches on and Flourish and Elizabeth (and presumably many other people) struggle to remember whether individual events happened in 2020 or 2021, they break their l...

In episode 163, Flourish and Elizabeth talk to novelist and Be the Serpent co-host Freya Marske upon the publication of A Marvellous Light, the first novel in her historical fantas...

In episode 162, "Ways of Seeing," Flourish and Elizabeth dig into their recent respective fannish experiences—and how those experiences differ from the way they've "done fandom" in...