This Week In Fandom History
Hosted by Emily and V and Emily Jaye and DB and V Arrow · V. Arrow & Emily Jaye | Fanfiction Aficionados & Fandom Historians
4.8from 279 ratings
- 221
- Episodes
- 53
- Transcribed
- 279
- Ratings
- Weekly
- Cadence
- 2023
- First episode
About This Week In Fandom History
A podcast about why fandom matters. Co-hosted by V. Arrow and Emily Jaye, This Week In Fandom History celebrates fandom culture's highest highs and weirdest lows. With which short-lived vampire cop drama was the very first X-Files fanfiction crossed over? Who is Tara Gilesbie? How recently did the Starsky & Hutch Lending Library rent out its last zine? What were Strikethrough, Racefail, LGBTFansDeserveBetter, and Conchobar, anyway? V and Emily trade off some deep-internet research each week to learn and laugh (and sometimes rage) their way through the annals of fandom history. Come join us!
- Publisher
- V. Arrow & Emily Jaye | Fanfiction Aficionados & Fandom Historians
- Category
- arts · leisure
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- Yes
- First episode
- 1 Jan 2023
- Latest episode
- 14 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
53 of 221 episodes have a transcript.
14 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
BONUS! TWIFH Plays Their First Fannish TTRPG (Dis/Continuity with GM Jeff from Party Of One)
11 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
October 14-16, 1988: The Blake's 7 Slash Wars Build Fandom's Fourth Wall
7 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Batman Wouldn't, Spider-Man Would || Episode #012: Emily's Safeword Is 'Pedro Pascal' with @elismor (Mr. Immortal, Marvel; Andromache the Scythian, The Old Guard)
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BONUS! TWIFH Plays Their First Fannish TTRPG (Dis/Continuity with GM Jeff from Party Of One)
Published 14 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] Nobody would have done that yet. That feels great. All right. So Miss Mystery was a film serial like silent film short series about a woman detective doing like pratfalls and also like cracking cases. Great, great starting place. I'm very excited about it. Starts in 19. First one comes out in 1925. What's the immediate – I'll throw this – actually, here's how we're going to – we'll go ahead and just start drawing cards and get into like the plot of the game because now we're going to start like fleshing out the world around Miss Mystery, which is to say I'm going to draw a card. As long as that card is not a joker or an ace, then I will go around in a circle and will detail a fact about the world, the fandom response to it, its audience response, notable plot things that developed as the series – as the film series went on. […]
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- Jeff Stormer
- Lena Barkin
- Elismor
- Other Emily
- Vee
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- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.9 / 5
- 43 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.8 / 5
- 236 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 58 / 100
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- 79
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- YouTube
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- Engagement
- 92
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Who hosts This Week In Fandom History?
Emily and V and Emily Jaye and DB and V Arrow host the show. Published by V. Arrow & Emily Jaye | Fanfiction Aficionados & Fandom Historians.
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