Dec 29, 2020
Trust your gut! This week, Maggie and V analyze their favorite transgressive lady detectives through the decades: Nancy Drew, The Bletchley Circle, Veronica Mars, and Jessica Jones. They compare and contrast the ways each of these women navigate the sexism of their time, respond to sexual assault, and struggle to ever...
Dec 22, 2020
Get on the truck! This week, V and Maggie discuss two road trip movies that couldn't be more different -- except that they're both good examples of sequels better than the original films. Maggie forces V to watch Magic Mike XXL and V is never surer of being a huge lesbian, then both pals discuss the masterpiece that is...
Dec 15, 2020
Grab your backstage pass! This week, V and Maggie recount their Best Fandom Days Ever: two different but totally unforgettable person-to-person experiences they had with their favorite artists. V tells the story of interviewing Dream Street’s Greg Raposo backstage at the House of Blues when she was 17, and Maggie...
Dec 8, 2020
Roll call! This week, Maggie and V interview Dr. Anne Jamison​, who teaches classes on fanfiction at the University of Utah and Princeton University. They discuss fandom friendships, grammar, diversity in fandom, the lost thread of Star Wars, why people love #johnlock, and the golden age of Twific.
Dec 1, 2020
This week, Maggie and V chat about their first impressions of The Old Guard, Pacific Rim, Venom, and Jupiter Ascending, and the ways in which fandom uses those worlds to create character growth. These movies have everything--immortal fighters, immortal aliens, loser aliens that eat people, monster aliens getting killed...