“Bats in the Belfry” and “When Crossovers Break Fourth Walls:” Adventures in Frantic Fanfic

Frantic Fanfic (@franticfanfic on Twitter) is a browser-based, free-to-play cooperative fanfiction writing game. In the basic mode, each player nominates ?five? characters suitable for fanfiction. Another player will select two of those characters and you or they will begin writing them into a story. When a timer runs out (at normal speed, 3 min), the …

Shoujo’s Ramblings, DCAU Edition 1 — Who is Andrea Beaumont?

http://anchor.fm/shoujo-ramblings Text: Before we begin, we need to ask ourselves, what is the DCAU? Bruce Timm’s Batman the Animated Series aired in 1992. It’s 85 episode run was supplemented by a 24 episode continuation series called The New Batman Adventures. Both titles are critical within the DC Animated Universe, or the DCAU. The DCAU an …

The Majesty of Continuity — DCAU Podcast 1 (Trial Run)

Shoujo · The Majesty of Continuity -- DCAU Podcast 1 Please consider this podcast a rough, trial run. In my excitement, I recorded it before I even rolled out of bed this morning; such is the power of the DC Animated Universe. Because my groggy brain missed some things and made a few errors, I …