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Open Tabs
by Amy, Sydney, Princess
Lifelong fans of fan fiction tackle the fiction by fans: The famous and the infamous. The gloriously cringe to the heartbreakingly profound. Notorious tropes, trending topics and unsung community heroes. What's in your Open Tabs?If you'd like to support our silly little project and get into our fun little community discord - you can check us out on patreon.com/OpenTabsCast !A podcast by adults for adults, listener discretion is advised.
Episodes
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2-14: #Rat Money vs Mouse Money #Looney Toons Boob Physics
On this episode of Open Tabs, we bounce around IP subjects more than Magic the Gathering has lately! We talk Disney, Looney Toons, One Piece and more. If you have any questions, comments, or fic recommendations you can drop us a line at [email protected] or if you'd like to support our silly...
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2-13: #Jennifer's Transforming Quadrupedal Robot Centaur Body
On this episode of Open Tabs, the gangs all back together and consequently back on our usual bullshit (complimentary). We're taking it back to fun, frivolous and actual fandom roots and talking about what's literally in our Open Tabs. If you have any questions, comments, or fic recommendations…
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2-12: #The Death of Death of the Author Discourse
On this episode of Open Tabs, Sydney's really fucking done with people completely misintrepreting some dead French guy's essay so they can keep buying shitty wizard-branded plastic and watch the newest attempt to reboot the shitty wizard show AKA Sydney and Bugs just read and discuss the entire,...
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2-11: #Author's Note #Actually! #Applause All Around
On this episode of Open Tabs, we've got a real, living, breathing, not-currently-stressing-under-a-deadline-or-at-least-not-enough-to-be-too-busy-for-us FANFIC AUTHOR! in the metaphorical recording booth with Tappy. We'll be keeping his username and his works private (at a very reasonable…
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2-10: #In-Browser Reading #Internet Drama #I don't know about you, but the internet is sounding REALLY 22
On this episode of Open Tabs: Sydney and Princess are back from various overseas adventures and all three hosts are ready to talk about the lastest hot mess of fanfic and fandom related internet drama. How is there ALWAYS more? Job security for us at least. If you have any questions, comments, or...
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2-09: #Transforming Girlfriends #Transformational Works #Transformers #That's what you missed on Glee!
On this episode of Open Tabs: Sydney has good news, Princess has more relevant news and Amy gets to talk about pregnant transformers. We hit on a lot of classic fandom talk and throw some ideas around for future episodes - less us know which ones you want us to tackle! If you have any questions,...
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2-08: #Princess's Mayor Muslim #Amy's from Boston #Sydney can drive #KNICKS IN FIVE
On this episode of Open Tabs, we talk about BASKETBALL (and other sports) and how between the Knicks victory and a few other events we might be back on the path of good and righteousness. Fanficiton features - we swear! Sydney's mic is a little off again, we're working on it, but this is us…
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2-07: #Happy Belated Mother's Day #Mom Media #Male Pregnancy
On this episode of Open Tabs, we're back after out unintentional May hiatus! We talk about Moms, Mother's Day and Male Pregnancy... Naturally. Tappy is giving away a hard cover copy of (officially, now) New York Time's best seller 'Strixhaven: Omens of Chaos' by friend of the hosts (and New York...
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2-06: #Bugs is back #with even (Mia) Moore #Again, Again
On this episode of Open Tabs, Bugs has returned to us from her myriad adventures and she's brought a friend! Tappy interviews Mia Moore, co-director, co-star and writer of Again, Again a new film set to debut at Seattle International Film Festival (SIFF) this May. We talk about the inspiration…
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2-05: #Population Demographic #Publishers, Weakly #PBR
On this episode of Open Tabs, the hosts dig into AO3's post mortem regarding the March site downtime and new s-s-s-s-s-stats on AO3's user demographics. In a completely unshocking turn of events, James Bond and Harry Potter are mentioned several times. We are, as ever, back in the building again....
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2-04: #Guest Appearance! #TTRPGs #Millienial Hockey Power-Hour
On this episode of Open Tabs, Sydney brings a new voice onto the cast for a guest appearance: Please welcome to the ice, Nef! Nef's here to talk about a new TTRPG project he's starting as a DM-for-hire as well as a bunch of other thoughts on rpgs in general, fanfic, hockey (Heated Rivalry and...
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2-03: #Incestuous Turtles #Illegal Partners #Inflation Studies
On this episode of Open Tabs, Princess and Sydney share their story of bringing fanfiction to the Tolarian Community College on the latest episode of Shuffle Up & Play, Amy talks turtles and somehow we still find a way to bring up Columbo. If you have any questions, comments, or fic…
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2-02: #Lost Media #Dead Fandoms #Back to Bakula
We're kicking of today's episode of Open Tabs a listener inquiry: How do you find (or revive) a dead fandom? We're not sure but we're definitely gonna talk about it. Along with other very relevant topics like American actor Scott Bakula and amphibious secret agents. If you have any questions,...
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2-01: #Season 2 Kickoff! #Stats #Sasuke v Naruto 2026
Welcome to SEASON 2 of Open Tabs! We're back and starting strong with everyone's favorite subject line: STATS. We've got AO3's ship stats of 2025 to discuss as well as some very information about who's accessing the website and when from the OTW (Organization of Trasnformative Works) themslves.…
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24: #Editor's Choice:2025 #The Clip Show
Welcome to Open Tabs! Editor Bryan gave the hosts the week off for the holidays and put together a clip show of his favorite moments from our first year of this very silly little project (and your's out in the community.) Thanks for coming with us on this crazy ride and we'll surely have more...
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23: #Heating Up #Hockey Facts #Happy Hollanov to Everyone!
Welcome to Open Tabs! Tappy's whole new personality is the gay hockey show, government name, Heated Rivalry: the Crave Canada production airing in America and beyond on HBO. We talk about how it came to be, what it started out as (hint - it MIGHT just have been fanfiction) and why its so fucking...
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22: #Secondary Gender Studies #Shivam's Inferno #AKA #The Omegaverse Episode
Welcome to Open Tabs! IT'S THE OMEGAVERSE EPISODE - we've been promising and like a bunch of weird looking storks, we're delivering! And to make things ever more fun we've brought on our friend Shivam, you might know him from his work in the Magic the Gathering community, with the Dragonlace…
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21: #Bad Game Ending #Bad Birdology #Blondes We Respect
Welcome to Open Tabs! THE KIDS ARE NOT OKAY and we talk about that again, in addition to some card game updates, the fanfiction implications of smashing different IP together for (sometimes) fun and (mostly) profit. If you'd like to support our silly little podcast you can check us out at over at...
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20: #Horror #Halloween #Hype time!
Welcome to Open Tabs! Post Magic Con Atlanta and just in time for Halloween. We talk about the usual stuff: kinktober, strange horror media takes and gear up for Comment-ember (start's tomorrow folks!) If you'd like to support our silly little podcast you can check us out at over at Patreon!...
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# Comment-Ember 2025
What is this a BONUS episode? KINDA! We've got a special event planned that we hope y'all will be excited to participate in and help us spread some love to the community creatives across fandom who give us all so much. TIME TO GIVE BACK, BITCHES! Here are the details as well as a link to the OPEN…
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19: #Chaos (Music) Theory #Compatability #Ethical Comment-farming
Welcome to Open Tabs! A potpourri episode - we stole Amy mid-twitch-subathon (at time of recording) so she could take a break and talk about fanfiction, Pacific Rim and an exciting new Open Tabs-sponsored event that's going to be taking place in cyber-space very soon, right near you! If you'd…
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18: #Wake Me Up When September Starts #And Ends
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…
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17: #Amyless Temporarily #Anime NYC Recap #And Albania Again?
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...
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16: #Fem Slash #and Burn #and STATS!
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...
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15: #Get Him Pregnant #Get HIM Away from Her #Gerontocratic Hole
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…
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14: #Sitewide Crash #Science (Dry vs. Wet) #Stretchood is a Spectrum
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...
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13: #Alleged Adaptations #Audio Quality Improvements #Albania Appreciation Hour
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...
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12: #Bigotry Warning #Black Mold #Bugs is back at least!
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...
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11: #Please Welcome Ms. Maytrix to the Stage #Plagarism Machines #Pascal's Stupidest Wager
Welcome to Open Tabs! AO3 got scraped for AI training: What happened, why is this bad, what can we do about it and will hammers be involved? We're bringing on one of our favorite silly little guys from the internet to join Sydney and Amy as we discuss some of our LEAST favorite stupid little guys...
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10: #Internet history #IPOs Ruin Everything #Inbox Unload
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…
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09: #Biological Tender #Brunettes with Bangs #Biblical Canon
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…
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08: #Anime Spoilers #Alcohol #Academia (because ninja school was taken)
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...
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07: #Linking Universes #Lurker Leaderboards #Loud Noises
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…
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06: #Writing Challenges #Wet Ass Something #Welcome the Editor
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…
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05: #Bans #Blocks #Beating (off) that Dead Horse
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. HEADS UP! Because of the context surrounding the ban/unban of...
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04: #FF.net #Favs v Bookmarks #Fake Ears
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...
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03: #Data Science #DILFs #Detroit: Become Drarry
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…
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02: #Search Engine Optimization #Showing Your Age #Shadow the Hedgehog
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…
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01: #Terms #Tropes #Triple S Tier
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…
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Teaser
Coming soon to earholes near you - maybe even yours! Open Tabs is the brain(rot) child of Tappy Toe Claws, Amy the Amazonian and Princess Weekes. All of whom love fanfiction too much to have waited this long to make a podcast where they scream at each other about it. This production does cover...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Lifelong fans of fan fiction tackle the fiction by fans: The famous and the infamous. The gloriously cringe to the heartbreakingly profound. Notorious tropes, trending topics and unsung community heroes. What's in your Open Tabs?If you'd like to support our silly little project and get into our fun little community discord - you can check us out on patreon.com/OpenTabsCast !A podcast by adults for adults, listener discretion is advised.
HOSTED BY
Amy, Sydney, Princess
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Lifelong fans of fan fiction tackle the fiction by fans: The famous and the infamous. The gloriously cringe to the heartbreakingly profound. Notorious tropes, trending topics and unsung community heroes. What's in your Open Tabs?If you'd like to support our silly little project and get into our fun...
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