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Fic Clique
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by Nic, Brenna, and Reid | Fannish Analysis and Discussion Podcast | tags: Meta, Humor, Fandom, Fic | Length: 1.5-2 hours | WIP - updates every other Friday
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Fic Clique @ficclique.bsky.social · Nov 11
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You're going to want to join us at center ice for our first episode of 2026, which celebrates Brenna's birthday with an exploration of all things hockey: from Heated Rivalry to Check Please! to RPF and beyond, it's jam-packed with analysis and narratives.

💚: bit.ly/452TL5W
🍎: bit.ly/4svQOow
114: "The Love of the Game"
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January 9, 2026 at 8:25 PM
ficclique.bsky.social
You're going to want to join us at center ice for our first episode of 2026, which celebrates Brenna's birthday with an exploration of all things hockey: from Heated Rivalry to Check Please! to RPF and beyond, it's jam-packed with analysis and narratives.

💚: bit.ly/452TL5W
🍎: bit.ly/4svQOow
114: "The Love of the Game"
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January 9, 2026 at 8:25 PM
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I (host Brenna) am very excited for my birthday episode tomorrow and I hope you all are too! Here are some spoilers with maybe more context than usual, to get you HYPED UP !!!
The "illusion of free choice" cow meme and the two options are "getting into hockey" and "doing literally anything else" but the end of the hallway is always number 87 for the Pittsburgh Penguins, Sidney Crosby A man in a suit stands in an empty room looking at a very long scroll of paper. There is a little bubble that shows you zoomed in what the paper says at the top: "Reasons Why SidGeno is Compelling:" A screenshot of a TikTok video of a person looking at a laptop while speaking on their cellphone and the text on screen reads "girl who hacks one direction hotel security footage peeps hollanov" and the caption reads "2014 was insane actually" An edit of an image showing that Hello Kitty's measurements are that she is 5 apples tall, but edited in is that Eric Bittle (aka Bitty) from Check Please is also the same height of 5 apples tall.
January 9, 2026 at 2:55 AM
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Returning for 2026 Fanlore will be having monthly editing challenges! Each month you can earn a shiny new badge for completing the suggested editing task. January's editing challenge is add three example fanworks to any page . Find out more on Fanlore: bit.ly/3VVU51W
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January 1, 2026 at 6:00 PM
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Fic Clique's end of year minisode is up! Join your hosts as they review the year in fandom, share personal best-ofs, and make predictions and manifestations for the year ahead in fannish podcasting.

Thank you Ficlets for another wonderful year! We love you!

🍎: bit.ly/4q6fJgE
💚: bit.ly/3Yx6J8x
Minisode: 2025 Year in Review
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December 26, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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Fic Clique's end of year minisode is up! Join your hosts as they review the year in fandom, share personal best-ofs, and make predictions and manifestations for the year ahead in fannish podcasting.

Thank you Ficlets for another wonderful year! We love you!

🍎: bit.ly/4q6fJgE
💚: bit.ly/3Yx6J8x
Minisode: 2025 Year in Review
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December 26, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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Ficlets who want to stay ahead of the fannish curve will love today's episode on the fandom zeitgeist! We discuss fics for The Pitt, IWTV, & Arcane, humor as a cultural indicator, sci fi as a reflection of societal fears, Philomena Cunk, and of course toxic yuri.

💚: bit.ly/498jFYj
🍎: bit.ly/4rUYsbC
113: Open Your Heart to Toxic Yuri (Zeitgeisty Fandoms of 2025)
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December 12, 2025 at 7:18 PM
ficclique.bsky.social
Ficlets who want to stay ahead of the fannish curve will love today's episode on the fandom zeitgeist! We discuss fics for The Pitt, IWTV, & Arcane, humor as a cultural indicator, sci fi as a reflection of societal fears, Philomena Cunk, and of course toxic yuri.

💚: bit.ly/498jFYj
🍎: bit.ly/4rUYsbC
113: Open Your Heart to Toxic Yuri (Zeitgeisty Fandoms of 2025)
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December 12, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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Thank you all sooo much for a wonderful year of podcasting in 2025. We are so thankful for our ficlets and so excited for everything 2026 is going to bring for this little pod!
December 4, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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Last night, your hosts recorded an episode discussing our best approximation of a sampler of "zeitgeisty" fandoms and fannish themes from 2025 and I still can't believe the timing worked out so that Heated Rivalry was juuuust too late for us to slip a meaningful discussion of it under the wire.
December 3, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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Hey (Y/N), it's time to throw up your messy bun because a new Fic Clique minisode is out, and it's all about reader insert fanfiction! Nic & Reid embark upon our first two-host journey into pov and mediation, fantasy and (dis)comfort, and communal reading ✨

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💚: bit.ly/48hpD97
Minisode: Reader Insert Fic
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November 28, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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An incredible, must-read piece! “Whether end products created by AI hold legitimate creative value is, in our view, irrelevant here; our concern is with systems of power and their relationship to fan cultures.”
journal.transformativeworks.org Transformative Works and Cultures @journal.transformativeworks.org · Nov 19
In a New Currents symposium, Irissa Cisternino & Rebecca Radillo ask us to consider major questions about how generative AI problematizes existing power structures in and around fandom in #TWC46! Read their piece here:
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November 19, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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Early spoilers without context ahead of Friday's ep! Hosts Nic & Reid will be chatting about self-insert fic, and host Brenna had the joy of compiling these spoilers while truly having no context.
A screenshot of texts between hosts Reid and Nic. Reid sent a photo of a mall Santa display with the text "I miss him,,,,," to which Nic replied "HA god me too" and then "What a man" A screenshot of a YouTube video titled "When he cheated on you with his secretary #jungkookff." The thumbnail image is two photoshopped images of Jungkook from BTS with the text "when he cheated on his wife with his secretary." A photo edit of a stock photo of a man with a broken leg in a hospital bed and Sylvain from the Fire Emblem games standing next to him. A ticket that reads "Hall Pass" and "use promo code: Santa." There is a red background with snowflakes and white winter berries. It also says "A Lesbian Hall Pass for Santa Claus" at the bottom.
November 27, 2025 at 5:21 AM
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ALSO MARY SUE 2 IS OUT ON ARCHIVE OF OUR OWN’S 16th BIRTHDAY?! Happy birthday AO3, you and Cassie are the same age.
megfitz89.bsky.social Meghan Fitzmartin @megfitz89.bsky.social · Nov 19
💛🧛‍♀️ MARY SUE ISSUE 2 OUT NOW 🧛🏻‍♀️💗

What would you do if your Mary Sue popped out of your fic? Cassie calls on the Greek Choir of fandom friends while her Mary Sue Jessica experiences a new AU - reality!
Cover of Mary Sue Issue 2 by Lisa Sterle Variant Cover of Mary Sue Issue 2 by Sweeney Boo
November 19, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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I got the chance to talk about Mary Sue and one of the most pivotal fanfics I read at a young age, dragging the fine folks at @ficclique.bsky.social into my insanity.
ficclique.bsky.social Fic Clique @ficclique.bsky.social · Nov 14
Today's episode — which highlights fandoms that are pivotal to our DNA, complex female characters, and the value of horniness in fic — features a wonderful guest in @megfitz89.bsky.social. We can't wait for you to listen!

💚: open.spotify.com/episode/78NU...
🍎: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1...
Spotify – Web Player
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November 14, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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#AO3 is turning 16! Look back with us on some of what we accomplished this year, and participate in our anniversary fanwork prompt! Learn more at otw-news.org/yckt835x #AO3Celebrates16
AO3 16
November 14, 2025 at 5:39 PM
ficclique.bsky.social
Today's episode — which highlights fandoms that are pivotal to our DNA, complex female characters, and the value of horniness in fic — features a wonderful guest in @megfitz89.bsky.social. We can't wait for you to listen!

💚: open.spotify.com/episode/78NU...
🍎: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1...
Spotify – Web Player
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November 14, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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In preparation for our episode dropping tomorrow, here's some spoilers without context for everything you need to know in advance!
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November 14, 2025 at 3:13 AM
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Taking a break from our regularly scheduled programming to share some horror-related articles from our Archive!
October 31, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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Happy Halloween, Ficlets! 🧡🖤🎃 In this 4 fic episode we dissect questions about horror: Why is it so popular? Why so underrepresented in fanfiction? What can it accomplish that other genres can't? And why monster sexy???

💚: open.spotify.com/episode/2HFw...
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111: "Kidnapping Can Be Gender Neutral"
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October 31, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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We've got a terrrrrrifyingly good episode coming tomorrow! Get ready for some haunting, hooting and hollering.
October 31, 2025 at 4:32 AM
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Today's Fic Clique special is a long fic featuring discussions of the queer as monstrous, breaking of cycles, and the joys of femslash. You also might want to get your silver ready for this one 🐺

🍎: apple.co/4oqMYKD
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110: "Healing the World Through Fanfiction"
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October 18, 2025 at 1:05 AM
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Banger episode coming tomorrow, spoilers without context here tonight.
"The Tiger" poem edited to be by Lae'zel. Text reads, "The Tiger by Lae'zel, age 22 The tiger He destroyed his cage Yes YES The tiger is out" Screencap of Little Women (2019) dir. Greta Gerwig of Jo March saying "women!" Cover of the book "House of Leaves" edited to say "House of Tangents" Meme image of Hulk and Black Widow from the MCU with Black Widow reaching out to Hulk. Red text on top reads "In life every man will meet that one woman that can calm the beast in him when no1 else ever could... A weak man would run and think she isn't right for him but a strong man would embrace her and love her bus he knows that she is his soulmate"
October 17, 2025 at 3:30 AM
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We love Hamlet on this pod!! In the immortal words of host Nic, everything is Hamlet.
October 9, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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Clare Sears shines a light on how femslash writers view their labor and contributions to their communities in their #TWC46 Article, "Come as you are: Sex, race, and writing in f/f slash fan fiction communities"! Read it here:
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October 3, 2025 at 1:27 PM