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An Unlikely Source of Superhero Fan Fic
National Public Radio. This American Life, specifically. This radio show, made famous for its true-life storytelling on subjects ranging from building superintendents to summer camp, occasionally dabbles in the world of fiction. Very occasionally, they dabble in the world of…
I Can Has Cheezburger: The Untold Story
We’ve done a lot of Overthinking(tm) of back story on this site. From Gossip Girl to Batman to Sex and the City, we desperately want to know where our fictional heroes came from. We want to be able to relate…
Political coverage no longer exists. Instead, we have electoral process fanfic
And it’s not even *good* fanfic. Obama and Palin are Mary Sues, the pair of them. Let me be clear: Obama and Palin, the human beings, are as complex and irreducible as any other human beings. But Obama and Palin,…
Take On Me, The Sequel
Once upon a time, an 80s girl was reading a subversive comic book in a diner while listening to that one A-ha song everyone likes. But lo! Out of one of the comic’s frames pops a sketchy hand – the…
Fictional Fictions
Never again will the real have the chance to produce itself — such is the vital function of the model in a system of death, or rather of anticipated resurrection, that no longer even gives the event of death a…