Retro Fanfic Retrospective Podcast
1) RFR Special Episode: Anime Fandom Retrospective
We indulge ourselves in reminiscences about the voyage of discovery and exploration that was being an anime fan around the turn of the millennium. We remember the slow internet speeds, purple Kodocha ...Show More
2) Episode 173: Xena - The Dragon's Child
We return to an old favorite, armed with marginally more Xena: Warrior Princess knowledge than we had the first time around. Xena kills a very large man, Gabrielle tells fairy tales, and the two of th...Show More
3) RFR Special Episode - One of Us Actually Wrote a Fanfic
After more five years and 170 episodes of podcasting, Amado has finally written a full 1600 words of actual, genuine Magic School Bus fanfiction. And Tory and Della are ready to listen to it and try t...Show More
4) Episode 172: Lord of the Rings / Final Fantasy - Legendary Frog's Animations
We return to Newgrounds (not to be confused with Newsgrounds, which is presumably a news site) to discuss the early fan animations of LegendaryFrog. Do they still hold up in 2024? And does it really m...Show More
Episode 172: Lord of the Rings / Final Fantasy - Legendary Frog's Animations
52:58 | Jun 17th, 2024
5) Episode 171: Magic School Bus - What Comes After & As I Always Say
Seatbelts, everyone! Tory and Amado go on a magical journey to compare and contrast two Magic School Bus fanfics that have very different ideas about where the magic lies. Arnold may be the heart of t...Show More
6) RFR Special Episode - The Fantasy of Fanfiction
In this roundtable discussion episode our co-hosts discuss the 'why' of fanfiction. What could possibly drive these miscreants to produce such materials? We discuss things like fan culture, seeing you...Show More
7) Episode 170: Kino's Journey - the nature of uncarved blocks
We make a two-night visit to the fandom of Kino's Journey to read "the nature of uncarved blocks." It's a short piece that explores Kino's transgender journey. (See what I did there?) We get sidetrack...Show More
8) Episode 169: Halo Reach - A Fistful of Arrows
Elite commando fanfic readers Della and Amado read a fancomic that skirts right up to the edge of being official but doesn't quite cross that line. Spartan sharpshooter Jun has some issues that he nee...Show More
9) Episode 168: Aliens - Far Across the Stars
The magic of Yuletide brings us this delightful pitch for a replacement for Alien 3, in which Ripley becomes a pirate, Hicks sells out, and it turns out the REAL facehugger was Capitalism all along. Â ...Show More
10) Episode 167: Pokemon - Butterfree
We try not to think about the Pocket Monsters we've left in the box for the last 20 years as we read a love story between a trainer and their huge flying bug with psychic powers. While we're at it, we...Show More