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Open Tabs Cast
@opentabscast.bsky.social
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Lifelong fans of fan fiction tackle the fiction by fans: A podcast by adults for adults, listener discretion is advised. Brain(rot) child of TappyToeClaws, Amazonian & Princess Weekes.

Listen @ https://opentabs.libsyn.com/
Contact @ opentabscast@gmail.com
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Happy Halloween everyone! You didn't come over and ring our door bell but we've still got an episode for you as a treat 🍬🎃

Remember Comment-ember starts tomorrow too 👀

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October 31, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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Full event introduction, rules and FAQ are available in the episode description but we'll post them here in picture format if it's easier to save and share them!
October 16, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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WHAT IS THIS A BONUS EPISODE?! (Honestly, even better!)

This November we're running our own little seasonal challenge: We're throwing down a gauntlet to get y'all into that comment section to support the creatives who make the works you love! More info below 👇🧵

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October 16, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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New Episode day: WE GOT TO ABOUT PACIFIC RIM IN THIS ONE 👀👏

(And an upcoming project we think you're really gonna be excited about 😌)

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October 14, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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Oh 👀 Wouldya LOOKIT that... It's just about time for a new Open Tabs!

AND a reminder that we're doing a Q&A mailbag episode to celebrate our cast turning 1 in December: Drop us a line with questions, comments and got takes!

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18: #Wake Me Up When September Starts #And Ends Show Notes Welcome to Open Tabs! Amy's back this week and we're covering all sorts of stuff in the lead up to Magic Con Atlanta (even though this episode is dropping to your earholes right AFTER) including the some very hot (or not) takes on denim and how its advertised. We're also doing a mailbag episode to celebrate our totally-normal-little podcast turning one year old in December: If you'd like to ask us a question or leave us a comment to be read on the cast please send us an email @ opentabs@gmail.com and include MAILBAG somewhere obvious in the subject line! If you'd like to support our silly little podcast you can check us out at over at Patreon! www.patreon.com/OpenTabsCast This podcast and this episode cover adult themes and discuss explicit content: listener discretion is advised.
September 30, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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Need something to spruce up your Tuesday? We've got a hot new episode of Open Tabs for you 👏

Any was resting her voice for this one so Sydney and Princess take the wheel and somehow Albania is mentioned again?

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17: #Amyless Temporarily #Anime NYC Recap #And Albania Again? Show Notes Welcome to Open Tabs! This week we give Amy a break this week to recover and (at time of recording) prep for her sub-a-thon over on twitch. We talk about Princess's recent trip to Anime NYC, the panel she did there, the cool stuff she bought from some artists and the all the related rants about capitalism and community building in fandom spaces! Plus, as a housekeeping note, we've added a little audio tone before and after the Editing Tappy notes to make them more clear - let us know what you think. If you'd like to take a quick gander at the video on Albanian Sworn Virgins I mentioned, you can find it over here on Youtube: "The last ‘sworn virgins’ of Albania - BBC News" Mar 12, 2023, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJQPbMraGFE If you'd like to support our silly little podcast you can check us out at over at Patreon! www.patreon.com/OpenTabsCast This podcast and this episode cover adult themes and discuss explicit content: listener discretion is advised.
September 16, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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And Friday ... I'm personally in love with this new episode of OPEN TABS!

We cover the 2025 fanfiction stats and all that comes with it: turns out that's a LOT of *thoughts* from Tappy.

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16: #Fem Slash #and Burn #and STATS! Show Notes Welcome to Open Tabs! Today's episode starts with the new batch of 2025 AO3 ship statistics from community darling, centreoftheselights. We talk about the good and the bad and then Sydney does (a few) rants she's been wanting to get off her chest for a while - and splash around in the shallow end of data science and stat analysis. Its not nearly as scary as it sounds! If you'd like to support our silly little podcast you can check us out at over at Patreon! www.patreon.com/OpenTabsCast This podcast and this episode cover adult themes and discuss explicit content: listener discretion is advised.
August 29, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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NEW OPEN TABS 👏

We were saving this episode for a rainy day and Tappy almost got washed away over the weekend so it seems fitting! Enjoy this sort of grab bag episode - weird as ever of course, no worries there.

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15: #Get Him Pregnant #Get HIM Away from Her #Gerontocratic Hole Show Notes Welcome to Open Tabs! We've got an episode we recorded awhile ago and stashed away for a rainy day - and since half of Tappy's town almost got rained out with record flooding, it seems like exactly the time. If you'd like to support our silly little podcast you can check us out at over at Patreon! www.patreon.com/OpenTabsCast This podcast and this episode cover adult themes and discuss explicit content: listener discretion is advised.
August 13, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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New Open Tabs! Hot fresh and ALMOST timely 👏

We talk about the final bookmark that took down AO3 and some new pop culture splashes like KPop Demon Hunters, Superman and the Fantastic 4 💪

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14: #Sitewide Crash #Science (Dry vs. Wet) #Stretchood is a Spectrum Show Notes Welcome to Open Tabs! On today's episode we discuss our favorite website's occasional boughts of down time. We all need it, but does AO3 go down sometimes? More specifically, why did it go down THIS time? Also the KPOP Demon Hunters episode because we weren't going to tell Princess she couldn't talk about it - what the hell else is a podcast for? If you'd like to support out silly little podcast you can check us out at over at Patreon! www.patreon.com/OpenTabsCast
July 29, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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Happy Friday! We've got a hot new episode of OPEN TABS for you 👀
(Maybe not fresh, we're still getting back on schedule after summer travel - but SYDNEY FINALLY HAS A NEW MICROPHONE 👏 Earholes everywhere can rejoice!)

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13: #Alleged Adaptations #Audio Quality Improvements #Albania Appreciation Hour Show Notes Welcome to Open Tabs! On today's episode we discuss some of the movie adaptations of written works that were originally (maybe allegedly) adapted from fanfictions. The beautiful Balkan nation of Albania features heavily. There's a reasonable segue we promise. Also Sydney finally has a mic that doesn't predate the fall of Rome! If you'd like to support out silly little podcast you can check us out at over at Patreon! www.patreon.com/OpenTabsCast
July 11, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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It's Monday and before half of us scramble off to Vegas: We've got a new episode about a topic that should have gone away long ago... But sadly we're back in the building a-fucking-gain.

Let's talk about the black mold and the boy wizard in the room.

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12: #Bigotry Warning #Black Mold #Bugs is back at least! Show Notes Welcome to Open Tabs! We had to talk about the black mold in the castle one day: We're covering Harry Potter Fanfiction and the she-who-should-be-ignored who wrote it and uses its continued, metastasized presence in fan culture spaces to justify her bigotry. BUT we've got a bright side to this episode's shit-stain of a topic: We brought Bugs back to help us talk through it! If you'd like to support out silly little podcast you can check us out at over at Patreon! www.patreon.com/OpenTabsCast This podcast and this episode cover adult themes and discuss explicit content: listener discretion is advised.
June 16, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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Happy Friday! Hope it's already going well but it's about to get ever BETTER because there's a new episode of OPEN TABS!

And we've got a very special guest, please welcome @bugsmaytrix.bsky.social to the floor (and is that a... steel chair she's got?!)

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11: #Please Welcome Ms. Maytrix to the Stage #Plagarism Machines #Pascal's Stupidest Wager Show Notes Welcome to Open Tabs! Today we're tackling censorship as it relates to fandom and how it is and has affected internet spaces throughout our tormented millennial tenure in cyberspace. We just wanna enjoy our weirdo shit in piece. We're tired, are you tired? So for some well deserved dopamine we open up the podcast mailbag and discuss your lovely comments and questions from our first 10 episodes! If you'd like to support out silly little podcast you can check us out at over at Patreon! www.patreon.com/OpenTabsCast This podcast and this episode cover adult themes and discuss explicit content: listener discretion is advised.
May 30, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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We can't keep Monday from rolling around every week, but maybe we can make this one a little better with a NEW OPEN TABS EPISODE 👀

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#Internet history #IPOs Ruin Everything #Inbox Unload Show Notes Welcome to Open Tabs! Today we're tackling censorship as it relates to fandom and how it is and has affected internet spaces throughout our tormented millennial tenure in cyberspace. We just wanna enjoy our weirdo shit in piece. We're tired, are you tired? So for some well deserved dopamine we open up the podcast mailbag and discuss your lovely comments and questions from our first 10 episodes! We also have a very exciting announcement to make: You can now support the podcast on Patreon and help us grow our little community including... drumroll please our very own cool fanfiction discord! www.patreon.com/OpenTabsCast This podcast and this episode cover adult themes and discuss explicit content: listener discretion is advised.
May 12, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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This IS very much just a start and we wanna be very above board since we're talking about fanfiction - and the authors we love and support CANNOT monetize their work in the way we can monetize a podcast. We'd love feedback!

Please check out the ABOUT section of our Patreon for more details.
What are we planning on doing with your money? Glad you asked, smarty pants! This project is the fun, quicky little brain (rot) child we all share in a fucked up, loving custody system - we're not monetizing it out of any attempt to run away with a bag. We’re looking to cover our costs: netting neutral on the fees for our recording software, editing software, website hosting and music licensing would be incredible! Being able to buy our editor Bryan a burrito every once in a while for all his work and maybe even some of Tappy’s very official folly equipment. Everything past that we’d like to invest back into the project, obviously: better equipment, getting the cast out on more platforms (youtube, shorts, tiktok, fuck instagram but instagram I guess?), commissioning some artists and designers for stuff… That sort of thing. We’re also hoping we can boost up the discord if the community grows and make it into a fun, wacky creative space for fun weirdos to find each other and their fun weirdo shit, maybe run some fic writing events (exchanges, big bangs and the like?) We’d love to hear from you!
April 23, 2025 at 11:07 PM
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ITS A NEW OPEN TABS DAY 👏

This is definitely a fanfiction podcast where we talk about fanfiction - not chicken wings.

ALSO... We might have another announcement later today, so give this a listen and stand by 👀
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09: #Biological Tender #Brunettes with Bangs #Biblical Canon Show Notes Welcome to Open Tabs! We've got another episode from the cache for you this week - we're talking about purity culture and how this strange backslide is affecting fandom spaces. What's up with the this shift in the way folks interact with liscened and fan media and each other? We don't have all the answers but we certainly have some loud opinions (and less some very important opinions about the philosophy and fine craft of good chicken wings.) This podcast and this episode cover adult themes and discuss explicit content: listener discretion is advised.
April 23, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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2/3 of our hosts are traveling currently to escape the horrors, how about an episode from the backlog?

We talk the wrap ups of many a shonen anime and come to the conclusion that either they're ALL bad or MAYBE millennial queers are not the target audience.

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08: #Anime Spoilers #Alcohol #Academia (because ninja school was taken) Show Notes Welcome to Open Tabs! This weeks episode is another from the archived recordings. The crew sets out to discuss the epilogue of My Hero Academia and proceeds to rate of all of shounen anime to filth - except for Yu Yu Hakusho - that one's almost perfect. This podcast and this episode cover adult themes and discuss explicit content: listener discretion is advised.
April 9, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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We've had a few people ask and were happy to report we are FINALLY on Apple Podcasts! Please head over there and give us a 5 star review bc you love our unhinged stuff and want more 👏♥️
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March 20, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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It's Monday (something else too, but a Monday none-the-less) and folks might be looking for a pick-me-up 👀

Look no further than a new episode of Open Tabs 👏 Feat. Our very first, very special guest @sksninja.bsky.social 👏

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07: #Linking Universes #Lurker Leaderboards #Loud Noises Show Notes Welcome to Open Tabs! We've got our first special guest of the podcast: Sydney's long-term (long-suffering) bestie SKS-Ninja. She's here to talk about all things podfics, Legend of Zelda and a whole lot of the kind of lore drops you only get from a friendship that involves lots of fucked up, shared fandom history. This podcast and this episode cover adult themes and discuss explicit content: listener discretion is advised.
March 17, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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If you saw yesterday's post with the typos... No you didn't 😌👏

New episode alert 🚨

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06: #Writing Challenges #Wet Ass Something #Welcome the Editor Show Notes Welcome to Open Tabs! On today's episode we talk writing challenges: from NaNoWriMo to Kinktober, then get promptly side-tracked and dig into the history of the Hoover Dam. Y'know, the usual stuff! This podcast and this episode cover adult themes and discuss explicit content: listener discretion is advised.
March 5, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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New Episode Alert!

We're talking about fandom on TikTok! And... also that time it was banned and then unbanned and some of the horse shit political context that entails.

But ALSO WHALE CARCASSES AND SPORTS?!

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05: #Bans #Blocks #Beating (off) that Dead Horse Show Notes Welcome to Open Tabs! On today's episode we discuss the ban (and near-immediate unban) of Tiktok in January 2025 - along with all the ways the young and old are interacting with fanfiction and fandom on this strange, short-form space.
February 18, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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Need a midweek pick-me-up? How does Episode 4 of Open Tabs sound?

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04: #FF.net #Favs v Bookmarks #Fake Ears Show Notes Welcome to Open Tabs! Today our intrepid hosts set out to discuss how and where to find fanfiction. From the old stomping grounds at fanfiction.net to the promised land of AO3, to kinkmemes and gated discord communities (with all the usual millennial yapping in between). This podcast and this episode cover adult themes and discuss explicit content: listener discretion is advised.
January 29, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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As promised! In this episode we cover some fic ship stats... From 2023 (We're working through the backlog, we promise!)

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03: #Data Science #DILFs #Detroit: Become Drarry Show Notes Welcome to Open Tabs! We're welcoming in 2025 by discussing the Jan-Dec AO3 ship stats from... 2023. We may have recorded this episode before the 2024 ship stats were out, what are you going to do about it? Better late than (M) pregnant! More importantly, huge thanks and infinite kudos to AO3 user centreoftheselights for the amazing data work they do for the community year after year! This podcast and this episode cover adult themes and discuss explicit content: listener discretion is advised.
January 15, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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Episode 2 is UPON YOU! The episode where we ask the important, hard hitting questions like: "What is an Echidna, anyway?"

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02: #Search Engine Optimization #Showing Your Age #Shadow the Hedgehog Show Notes Welcome to Open Tabs! The crew is back and we're getting personal: This episode we cover our own personal introductions to the world of fanfiction and reflect on how much has changed since we were all wandering around blindly asking Jeeves to show us two characters kissing. It's good, it's bad, and it's definitely ugly but at least Sesshomaru features prominently. This podcast and this episode cover adult themes and discuss explicit content: listener discretion is advised.
December 20, 2024 at 6:49 PM
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Our inaugural episode is FINALLY HERE!

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01: #Terms #Tropes #Triple S Tier Show Notes Welcome to Open Tabs! On this very special inaugural episode the crew makes sure to define the terms of some of the most common fanfiction tropes and then proceeds to judge them all. We're off to a great start! This podcast and this episode cover adult themes and discuss explicit content: listener discretion is advised.
December 4, 2024 at 4:00 PM