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Fanfiction taken seriously. Seriously! We don‘t trash fic or do podfic. We interview authors about their work, talk at length and in-depth about fics, characters, ships and tropes. This is a place for fanfiction community-- and cocktails!
Talkin’ Fanfic
Episode No. - 203
Episode Title - Interview with RivkaT
RivkaT has written 53 stories in the Smallville fandom, and many, many stories in other fandoms such as Supernatural, The X-Files, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and Fringe. Sara notes that nearly every time she sits down to read a RivkaT story, she learns something-- new vocabulary, a joke she hadn’t picked up on the first time, a new way of looking through a character’s eyes-- her writing is immersive, intelligent, incredibly thoughtful-- and fun! And even when utilizing overtly silly or overused tropes and clichés, nothing is cheaply handled. She is one of the best of the very best, not just in the Smallville fandom, but in the pantheon of authors held in highest regard. Sara was honored to sit down with her and talk about her work, including Sara’s favorite, “Useful Arts.”
Episode References
Work - "Useful Arts" by rivkat - Ao3
Work - “Ceremony of Innocence” - Ao3 (THE CORRUPTION ONE ;)
Work - “Repent at Leisure” - Ao3
Work - “Locked Room Mystery” - Ao3
Sime~Gen Universe, by by Jacqueline Lichtenberg (Wikipedia)
Fanlore article on RivkaT
Fanlore article on X-Files fandom writing partner MustangSally (this article also links to a Writer’s Block interview with Sally
"D'Aulaires Book of Greek Myths" (Penguin Random House, children's nonfiction)
Edith Hamilton's "Mythology (Barnes and Noble)
Useful Arts background - What is a PHOSITA? (Wikipedia)
YouTube Clip - Oliver Queen looking fantaaaaaaastic in drag
Rivka is reading - "The Goblin Emperor" (series) - Katherine Addison
Rivka is reading - "This Virtual Night" - C.S. Friedman ("philosophy with thin skin of sci-fi")
Rivka is reading - The Ministry for the Future - Kim Stanley Robinson (Sci-Fi)
Rivka is reading - Creatures of Empire: How Domestic Animals Transformed Early America (History/Nonfiction)
Fanfic Rec - Smallville fics by astolat (Ao3)
Fanfic Rec - Smallville fics by Thamiris (Ao3)
Fanfic Rec - “Manifest Destiny” by Liviapenn (Ao3)
Fanfic Rec - “Looking Glass Country” by astolat (Ao3)
Recc - Star Trek tie-in novel - "How Much for Just the Planet?" by John M. Ford [$5 thrift novel, you can find $8 ebook on Simon and Schuster site]
Recc - “JLA: Tower of Babel” (JLA Vol. 1 #43 to 46)
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Talkin‘ Fanfic
Fanfiction taken seriously. Seriously! We don‘t trash fic or do podfic. We interview authors about their work, talk at length and in-depth about fics, characters, ships and tropes. This is a place for fanfiction community-- and cocktails!
