Content Warning: Mention of sexual assault in a romance novel @ 34:39-34:57

Welcome back you sparkly romance nerds! First and foremost, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE LOVE WE'VE BEEN GETTING FOR LAST MONTH'S EPISODES! You love Ruby, we love Ruby, and we're seriously so grateful for all of you. In this episode, we follow up our last discussion of fanfiction with some live discussion and reactions! Jen made Jackie read a bunch of different original works from sites like A03, Fanfic.net, Wattpad, and Tumblr, and Jackie has a few thoughts...

Thoughts/feelings/opinions/fics to recommend to Jackie? Email us at Ragingromantics@nopl.org!

Sites/fics:

• Dramione - "If I'm Gonna Fall in Love" by Colubrina (fanfic.net)
• Stiles/Derek - "Binomial Coeficients" by DevilDoll (A03)
• Angrything Starlight (Tumblr)
• Wattpad
• Lore Olympus (book) originally a webtoon
• The Kissing Booth

Books/authors we mention:

• EL James
• Christina Lauren
• Anna Todd
• The Love Hypothesis

Links:

• "Wattpad partners with ViacomCBS to adapt stories to Streaming" (bookriot.com, 2021)
• "Wattpad to Be Acquired for $600 Million by Korean Parent Company of Webtoon" (Spangler, 2021)
• "ViacomCBS announces partnership with Wattpad to adapt originals" (Keck, 2021)
• "Why “The Mary Sue?”" (Polo, 2011)
• "Why Are So Many Gay Romance Novels Written By Straight Women?" (Foster, 2018)
• Jack Harbon's twitter (@jackharbon) and the tweet
• Gen Fic in Fanfic (tvtropes.com)
• "Why smut fics are so popular in the LGBTQ community" (Sung, 2020)
• Wattpad copyright FAQ