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Open Tabs

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 !

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S2 · E15
Monday · 55 min
2-15: #All Saints Day #AO3 Still Down #Anthony Bourdain Would Never
On this episode of Open Tabs, we beat a dead horse for a while. Several, in fact. But what do you care you little sicko, AO3 is down. You don't have anything better to do. So, give this a listen. We're hilarious. If you have any questions, comments, or fic recommendations you can drop us a line at opentabscast@gmail.com or 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.
S2 · E17
October 15 · 53 min
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 opentabscast@gmail.com or 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.
S2 · E13
October 1 · 50 min
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 you can drop us a line at opentabscast@gmail.com or 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.
S2 · E11
September 17 · 1 hr 19 min
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, ACTUAL text of Death of the Author. Buckle up folks, its real academic hours in here! Huge shout out to University of Pennsylvania School of Arts and Science's Center for Programs in Contemporary (CPCW) for hosting a full, free access copy of a translation of Barthes's original 1967 'The Death of the Author' essay. (if you like to check it out yourself or have it open to follow along with us you can check it out at the link here: https://writing.upenn.edu/~taransky/Barthes.pdf) If you have any questions, comments, or fic recommendations you can drop us a line at opentabscast@gmail.com or 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.
S2 · E11
August 27 · 57 min
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 request) but we are so excited to hand him the microphone and let him introduce himself and talk a little about what its like to be tapping away at a keyboard on the other side of the screen! If you have any questions, comments, or fic recommendations you can drop us a line at opentabscast@gmail.com or 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.
S2 · E10
August 6 · 1 hr 2 min
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 fic recommendations you can drop us a line at opentabscast@gmail.com or 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.
S2 · E9
July 16 · 1 hr
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, comments, or fic recommendations you can drop us a line at opentabscast@gmail.com or 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.
S2 · E8
June 30 · 1 hr 1 min
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 letting you know you're not crazy! If you have any questions, comments, or fic recommendations you can drop us a line at opentabscast@gmail.com or 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.
S2 · E7
June 16 · 1 hr 17 min
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 Time's Best Selling Author) Seanan McGuire to one lucky patron of the cast - so if you have't already, make sure to hop on over to the Patreon and sign up this month (we'll do the give away at the end of May!) If you have any questions, comments, or fic recommendations you can drop us a line at opentabscast@gmail.com or 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.
S2 · E6
April 30 · 1 hr 11 min
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 for the script and the film, the creative process and time-loop ethics and lot about being a grungy piece of shit. Its a good time all around. If you want to find out more about Again, Again (or find information on how and were to get tickets for yourself!) check out the SIFF page here: https://www.siff.net/festival/again-again and follow Mia on her socials linked here: linktr.ee/miamooretree Remember to reach out to your local film festivals and theatres and tell them you want Again, Again shown near you! You can find Bugs at bsky here: https://bsky.app/profile/bugsmaytrix.bsky.social And as one last a reminder: 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 Time's Best Selling Author) Seanan McGuire to one lucky patron of the cast - so if you have't already, make sure to hop on over to the Patreon and sign up this month (we'll do the give away at the end of May!) If you have any questions, comments, or fic recommendations you can drop us a line at opentabscast@gmail.com or 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.
S2 · E5
April 16 · 1 hr 17 min
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. On the plus side! 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 Time's Best Selling Author) Seanan McGuire to one lucky patron of the cast - so if you have't already, make sure to hop on over to the Patreon and sign up this month. If you have any questions, comments, or fic recommendations you can drop us a line at opentabscast@gmail.com or 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.
S2 · E6
April 2 · 1 hr 19 min
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 beyond!) and also the 2000s "hit" show Firefly - if you can believe it. If you'd like to check out Nef's hockey romance or other ttrpg offerings follow the link here: startplaying.games/gm/nef ! (We do have some audio quality issues on this episode because of some tech problems - We think its still totally listen-able, but know that you're not crazy and the audio issues on not your end, listener <3) If you have any questions, comments, or fic recommendations you can drop us a line at opentabscast@gmail.com or if you'd like to support our silly little podcast you can check us out at over at Patreon! www.patreon.com/OpenTabsCast (We'd also like to thank a new 'Round on the House' tier Patron who's since joined since this ep was recorded, Hannah! Thanks Hannah, you'll get an extra bonus audio shout out in the next episode!) This podcast and this episode cover adult themes and discuss explicit content: listener discretion is advised.
S2 · E3
March 6 · 1 hr
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 recommendations you can drop us a line at opentabscast@gmail.com or 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.
S2 · E2
February 17 · 53 min
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, comments, or fic recommendations you can drop us a line at opentabscast@gmail.com or 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.
S2 · E1
January 26 · 1 hr 5 min
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. We get inevitably distracted when Sasuke enters the conversation - and we're only a little sorry about it. AO3 Ship Stats from Centreoftheselights: https://archiveofourown.org/works/77097891 OTW Access Stats from OTW: https://www.transformativeworks.org/ao3-statistics-2025-update/ If you have any questions, comments, or fic recommendations you can drop us a line at opentabscast@gmail.com or 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.
S1 · E24
January 2 · 1 hr 37 min
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 unhinged content for you in 2026! If you have any questions, comments, or fic recommendations you can drop us a line at opentabscast@gmail.com or 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.
Dec 19, 2025 · 1 hr 4 min
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 good. Heads up! This episode may contain spoilers for the first three episodes of Heated Rivarly. If you have any questions, comments, or fic recommendations you can drop us a line at opentabscast@gmail.com or 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.
S1 · E22
Nov 28, 2025 · 1 hr 11 min
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 folks or his religious essays - He's been a big ol' nerd longer than any of us and today we find out if he can hang with the weird stuff. (Spoiler alert... he ABSOLUTELY can!) You can find Shivam here (https://bsky.app/profile/shivambhatt.bsky.social) on blusky and here are some of his myriad projects: https://www.youtube.com/@casualmagicwithshivambhatt https://sites.libsyn.com/460224 If you have any questions, comments, or fic recommendations you can drop us a line at opentabscast@gmail.com or 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.
Nov 15, 2025 · 52 min
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 Patreon! www.patreon.com/OpenTabsCast This podcast and this episode cover adult themes and discuss explicit content: listener discretion is advised.
S1 · E20
Oct 31, 2025 · 1 hr 6 min
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! www.patreon.com/OpenTabsCast This podcast and this episode cover adult themes and discuss explicit content: listener discretion is advised.

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