If you’d like to read in advance you can check out the fic we’ll be talking about here!
“and so my heart beats wildly,” by lily_winterwood (MDZS)
archiveofourown.org/works/174265...
You may have noticed we didn’t post an episode 2 weeks ago- host Reid is in the middle of a move and life got a little chaotic, but there will be a new episode up this Friday!
You can also listen to the episode directly through our hosting website!
www.podbean.com/ew/pb-rnjh9-...
Happy Valentine's Day ficlets! We're sending you all love, which is what the characters in our fics are also hoping to find, albeit in some circuitous ways.
💚: bit.ly/4aQx0Fv
🍎: bit.ly/3Zz7wpV
A screenshot that reads “Gollum as Trial Attorney”
A screenshot that reads “Bucky’s Subway Scent”
A screenshot that reads “Nic’s Spackle Obsession”
A screenshot that reads “Lawyers in Japan-a-Fornia?”
No fancy spoilers this week but here are some real gems that our recording software auto-generated for us!
Roll for birthday! In today's episode, FC goes TTRPG as game master Nic leads players Brenna and Reid down a road of tropes, true love, and learning to expect the unexpected as they save AO3 from bad actors and defend fanfiction everywhere.
🍎: bit.ly/4a71im4
💚: bit.ly/4rtMyVr
google search results for "i, we, waluigi": the article itself on wordpress, a reddit discussion of the article, and a post that links to it on tumblr.
an email draft. recipient: bondjamesbond@jamesbond.bond. subject: help me leave my job. text: i can do mysterious and important work! attachment: helly r dot resume dot pdf.
Tomorrow's mysterious episode is a roll-icking good time, and we have two bespoke spoilers without context to pass your interest check and show that we all have different strengths!
If you're able to nominate for the Hugo Awards, this is a note that Fic Clique is an eligible fancast!
You're going to want to join us at center ice for our first episode of 2026, which celebrates Brenna's birthday with an exploration of all things hockey: from Heated Rivalry to Check Please! to RPF and beyond, it's jam-packed with analysis and narratives.
💚: bit.ly/452TL5W
🍎: bit.ly/4svQOow
As ever, you can also listen on podbean directly! www.podbean.com/eas/pb-k6ngj...
You're going to want to join us at center ice for our first episode of 2026, which celebrates Brenna's birthday with an exploration of all things hockey: from Heated Rivalry to Check Please! to RPF and beyond, it's jam-packed with analysis and narratives.
💚: bit.ly/452TL5W
🍎: bit.ly/4svQOow
The "illusion of free choice" cow meme and the two options are "getting into hockey" and "doing literally anything else" but the end of the hallway is always number 87 for the Pittsburgh Penguins, Sidney Crosby
A man in a suit stands in an empty room looking at a very long scroll of paper. There is a little bubble that shows you zoomed in what the paper says at the top: "Reasons Why SidGeno is Compelling:"
A screenshot of a TikTok video of a person looking at a laptop while speaking on their cellphone and the text on screen reads "girl who hacks one direction hotel security footage peeps hollanov" and the caption reads "2014 was insane actually"
An edit of an image showing that Hello Kitty's measurements are that she is 5 apples tall, but edited in is that Eric Bittle (aka Bitty) from Check Please is also the same height of 5 apples tall.
I (host Brenna) am very excited for my birthday episode tomorrow and I hope you all are too! Here are some spoilers with maybe more context than usual, to get you HYPED UP !!!
An arched doorway with constellation Aries on the righthand side. “Fanlore Monthly Editing Challenge“ written on the left. The background consists of a glowing pink-purple-orange nebula and celestial motif borders.
Returning for 2026 Fanlore will be having monthly editing challenges! Each month you can earn a shiny new badge for completing the suggested editing task. January's editing challenge is add three example fanworks to any page . Find out more on Fanlore: bit.ly/3VVU51W
Fic Clique's end of year minisode is up! Join your hosts as they review the year in fandom, share personal best-ofs, and make predictions and manifestations for the year ahead in fannish podcasting.
Thank you Ficlets for another wonderful year! We love you!
🍎: bit.ly/4q6fJgE
💚: bit.ly/3Yx6J8x
You can also always listen to Fic Clique directly on Podbean, our hosting website, in case you're looking for alternate platforms: ficclique.podbean.com/e/minisode-2...
Fic Clique's end of year minisode is up! Join your hosts as they review the year in fandom, share personal best-ofs, and make predictions and manifestations for the year ahead in fannish podcasting.
Thank you Ficlets for another wonderful year! We love you!
🍎: bit.ly/4q6fJgE
💚: bit.ly/3Yx6J8x
Ficlets who want to stay ahead of the fannish curve will love today's episode on the fandom zeitgeist! We discuss fics for The Pitt, IWTV, & Arcane, humor as a cultural indicator, sci fi as a reflection of societal fears, Philomena Cunk, and of course toxic yuri.
💚: bit.ly/498jFYj
🍎: bit.ly/4rUYsbC
Ficlets who want to stay ahead of the fannish curve will love today's episode on the fandom zeitgeist! We discuss fics for The Pitt, IWTV, & Arcane, humor as a cultural indicator, sci fi as a reflection of societal fears, Philomena Cunk, and of course toxic yuri.
💚: bit.ly/498jFYj
🍎: bit.ly/4rUYsbC
What elite company to be mentioned in!! 💖
Thank you all sooo much for a wonderful year of podcasting in 2025. We are so thankful for our ficlets and so excited for everything 2026 is going to bring for this little pod!
A renaissance of sorts for the idea that any time you love something fannish you are only 1-2 steps removed from that mysterious and evergreen world of hockey fandom, indeed.
Last night, your hosts recorded an episode discussing our best approximation of a sampler of "zeitgeisty" fandoms and fannish themes from 2025 and I still can't believe the timing worked out so that Heated Rivalry was juuuust too late for us to slip a meaningful discussion of it under the wire.
Hey (Y/N), it's time to throw up your messy bun because a new Fic Clique minisode is out, and it's all about reader insert fanfiction! Nic & Reid embark upon our first two-host journey into pov and mediation, fantasy and (dis)comfort, and communal reading ✨
🍎: apple.co/4rq11ST
💚: bit.ly/48hpD97
An incredible, must-read piece! “Whether end products created by AI hold legitimate creative value is, in our view, irrelevant here; our concern is with systems of power and their relationship to fan cultures.”
A screenshot of texts between hosts Reid and Nic. Reid sent a photo of a mall Santa display with the text "I miss him,,,,," to which Nic replied "HA god me too" and then "What a man"
A screenshot of a YouTube video titled "When he cheated on you with his secretary #jungkookff." The thumbnail image is two photoshopped images of Jungkook from BTS with the text "when he cheated on his wife with his secretary."
A photo edit of a stock photo of a man with a broken leg in a hospital bed and Sylvain from the Fire Emblem games standing next to him.
A ticket that reads "Hall Pass" and "use promo code: Santa." There is a red background with snowflakes and white winter berries. It also says "A Lesbian Hall Pass for Santa Claus" at the bottom.
Early spoilers without context ahead of Friday's ep! Hosts Nic & Reid will be chatting about self-insert fic, and host Brenna had the joy of compiling these spoilers while truly having no context.
ALSO MARY SUE 2 IS OUT ON ARCHIVE OF OUR OWN’S 16th BIRTHDAY?! Happy birthday AO3, you and Cassie are the same age.
I got the chance to talk about Mary Sue and one of the most pivotal fanfics I read at a young age, dragging the fine folks at @ficclique.bsky.social into my insanity.
Thank you! :)
AO3 16
#AO3 is turning 16! Look back with us on some of what we accomplished this year, and participate in our anniversary fanwork prompt! Learn more at otw-news.org/yckt835x #AO3Celebrates16
And you can learn more about Meghan and her projects at www.meghanfitzmartin.com
She's also on Tumblr, Instagram, and generally around the internet at the handle megfitz89
