209 Gender AUs

Pru made the mistake of leaving MK alone with The Hoyden and Twentysomething this week with only the promise that they not make another episode entirely about Teen Wolf. So this episode is only half about Teen Wolf. The wolf pack talks gender AUs, SGA, Community, Teen Wolf, Legend of Korra, and loads more.

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208 Mystery Slashreport Three Thousand: Iron Man

Charge your arc reactors and brush up on your sexual innuendos, folks. This week's watch-along is Iron Man I, starring our favorite cat-lady man child, Robert Downey Jr. Brace yourself for our many and sundry feels about stripper planes, how much Pru hates that reporter in the movie, and how much MK hates hook noses and the original graphical elements of early Mac operating systems.

Our RSS feed can be found over here or you can follow us on twitter for even more inanity during the week. What are you waiting for? Go grab this week's episode now! 

 (We really hope the itunes feed works this week - blogger has changed their set up so who knows if this will work at all.)

207 Teen Wolf with Hoyden, Leupagus, and Twentysomething

This week, Hoyden, Twentysomething (Kate), Leupagus and MK ruin Pru's life by making her sit in on a Teen Wolf episode where we lose track of the plot, forget that a bunch of you have probably not seen the show at all, and get sidetracked by knotting constantly. Prepare to embarass yourself during your weekday commute as we go full on teen wolf on you.

206 Martha Wells, Science Fiction, and Fantasy

Join us around the interstellar campfire as we talk with Martha Wells — author of The Cloud Roads and the Serpent Sea — about genre and speculative fiction, why we love (and hate) dragons, the way science fiction builds communities and kept weird little kids like us from feeling alone, and how it's so much more than Twilight out there. Charge your Stargate and gas up the Enterprise, ladies and gentlemen, and keep your arms, legs, and flippers inside the cart for the ride.

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205 Podfic with Pennyplainknits

Strap on your animal ears and feathers, ladies and gents, because in an episode meant to explore the complexities, heartbreak, and joy of podfics, we veered so off course we hooked up with the Donner Party. Come for the special guest, Pennyplainknits, and her charming accent, stay for extensive, awful discussions in what has been agreed to be the "worst episode since we had Lianne on." We talk how to podfic, why we podfic, why we listen to it, and also, have at least one legitimate use case for the term "swanfucker."

Our RSS feed can be found over here or you can follow us on twitter for even more inanity during the week.

204 Author Talk with Cobweb Diamond

This week we trick the wild Cobweb_Diamond aka Gav with sparkly gold flats and large quantities of booze and stuff her into our /report carpeted van to interrogate her about fandom. We talk about writing WIPs, the best method of being creative while drunk and coming home from parties, the sound of Scotland crying, and spend a lot of time being puzzled about The Last Airbender and fashion.

Heads up, listeners, a warning about this week: there is some high pitched audio interference science, magic, and threats all failed to remove during the first 15 minutes of the episode. It's intermittent, but listen with caution, or fast-forward to the 16 minute mark and spare yourself the grief entirely.

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203 Video Games

Lijaka, Yin, and MK discuss gaming, gaming platforms, which games are good for girls to play and aren't just mediocre sports games, and take listener questions.

Everything you've ever wanted to know about video games but were afraid to ask until you posted it on twitter is in this episode. Or rather, we think we got everything but there's a chance we've missed some things. More for next time! Whether you're an avid gamer or you're terrified and think all games are for men by men, listen to this episode and we'll set the record straight.

You can visit Lijaka's otome games blog here (Japanese games aimed at women) and Yin's livejournal here.

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Recs are available on slashreport.com.

202 Mystery Slashreport Three Thousand: Inception

You voted and we made it happen. Pull out your Inception DVD or your digital file and get ready for the first ever Mystery Slashreport Three Thousand episode: Inception edition.

Watch Inception in real time with us as we get distracted over and over again by JGL's ass, dream heist mechanics, and what a dumbass Cobb is.

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201 BBC Sherlock

We're back with season 2 of Slash Report! Hold onto your feels because this week we wail hysteric over the second series of BBC's Sherlock with some reference to season 1, and top you off with some happy and some sad fic recs. Pru would like to note that while her name may be on Sherlock's face the roles here should actually be reversed.

New this season, we have amazing new opening and closing music composed for us by the lovely and talented Rebecca Scoble (the audio editor for Tokyo Demons). We hope you love it just as much as we do.

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23 December 2011 - Best & Worst

This week we're covering the best and worst of 2011 -- everything from our favorite shows of the year to the worst Strong Like Ox entry we've ever heard -- to serenade you as you travel to wherever you're spending your holidays, and numb the pain once you get there. We're chatting about TV, terribleness, and answering a shedload of accumulated questions, so check it out,and have a very happy Death to 2011. We'll see you back on the flip side February 2012.

Fic Recs for this episode:

• As Any She Belied With False Compare by Mesmiranda [BBC Sherlock, Sherlock/girl!John, Mycroft/Lestrade]
• Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports by Paperclipbitch [Primeval, Becker/Connor, past pre-Connor/Abby]

Follow us on twitter for what could pass as witty reparte.

18 December 2011: Comic Books & Graphic Novels

This week, Templemarker plays sherpa through the soap operatic wilds of Marvel, DC, and indie comics. We talk about how to get your toes wet in the twisty, confusing world of sprawling and contradictory canons, show you the ropes on the stories to read and the ones to avoid, and give those of you already chomping at the bit for the 2012 Avengers movie some context for the film. And then, we drop a righteous mountain of fandom and canon recs for you guys — happy reading! The comics blog MK mentions at the end of the recording is Comics212.net. TempleMarker's Generation Kill intro post can be found over here.

Music this week: Opening music: Calculation, by Regina Spektor. Closing music: Long Division, by Death Cab for Cutie

Follow us on twitter for what could pass as witty reparte.

Fic Recs for this episode:

• Ready, Aim, Fire by Gyzym [Avengers, Steve/Tony]
• Mr. July by Jibrailis [Avengers, Steve/Tony, everyone/Steve]
• Textual Analysis by Soera [H50, Steve/Danny]
• Following Home series by RM [Glee]
• Managing Expectations by Alethialia [Generation Kill]
• Never Leave a Trace by Sam-Storyteller [White Collar]
• Trace by Sam [Profic]
• Degrees of Separation by Plingo_kat [Avengers, Steve/Tony but mostly gen]
• Cosmetic Damage Only by Valtyr [Avengers, Steve/Tony]
• The Modern World is Awesome and So Are You by Anonymous [Avengers, Steve/Tony]

Comics Recs for this episode:

• Fables
• Sandman
• Batman: No Man's Land (Also War Drums, War Games, etc)
• Bruce Wayne: Murderer?
• Captain America: Man Out of Time
• Birds of Prey
• Avengers
• Gotham Central
• Powers
• Persepolis
• The Arrival
• Castle Waiting

10 December 2011: K-Dramas

Forgive us our long and totally impromptu hiatus! But we're back (a little early, even! Sort of!) this week with Pru and Til_Midnight nattering about korean dramas. Why are they so addictive? What's the cycle of consumption on these things like? How do they get churned out so quickly? How are people with � presumably � otherwise good taste in media turning into vein-tapping smack addicts when it comes to this business? Especially with all the amnesia, convenient car accidents, and inevitable everybody dying of stupid diseases that are probably fake? Let us take you on a magical journey into Asia, drinking in tents, and the closest thing we're ever likely to get to a film version of a romance novel.

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20 November 2011

This week on /report, we're joined by Cherrybina to chat about porn, porn, and when we're done with that, some more porn. Well, we start off by answering some of our backlog of listener questions, but then we get straight to the smut — what makes it hot, what makes it not, how we write it, why we read it, and horrifying childhood tales of erotica discovery and humiliation in bookstores. So plug in, turn up the volume, and crank on your iBuzz. (PS: If you actually turn on your iBuzz while listening to this, please don't tell us.)

Don't forget to follow us on twitter for further hilarity between episodes.

Slash Report: Author Talk With The Hoyden

Sorry we're late! First Pru and the Hoyden were drinking their way through Spain and then MK had the death flu for about a week. Fail.

This week we talk about Fringe, The Good Wife, CSI NY, and The Mentalist, do a brief foray into your submissions for the Bad Fic Strong Like Ox challenge, and then move right on to the real meat - our very first Author Talk! We asked The Hoyden every question you sent us and made her answer them, whether she liked it or not.

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Slash Report 30 October 2011

Welcome back to yet another week of /reporter-y goodness with <user name="thehoyden"> as a special guest. This week we talk about how our tentative quality rating on NCIS this week, discuss keeping boys as pets (what else are you going to do with them anyway?), yammer on about Sherlock, and discuss our ongoing Why Are We Even Dating You Anymore relationship with Hawaii 5-0.

Also! Don't forget that next week we will be recording our first ever Author Talk with the hoyden, so please send us questions you've always wanted to ask her -- about life, the universe, writing, what her hopes and dreams are, why she hangs out with us losers -- to our twitter account or email us at slashreport at gmail.com.

/Report: 23 October 2011

And we're back! This week we talk yaoi, drama cds, and a little bit of shoujo manga with Lianne Sentar. Head over to the DW com for recs.

/Report: 20 October 2011

Much delayed, it's a mini episode of /report all about Merlin. There are loads of spoilers for Series 4, so be prepared for that (aired episodes only). This is also a special episode because this episode is the first to not be hosted on Cloudly.  

/Report: 9 October 2011

Guys, we recorded for over an hour this week before scrapping the episode and re-recording on a different topic entirely. If we sound punchy at all it's because it was late in England and in Canada. (Oops?)

But! This week we cover a delightful range of children's and young adult books, which we hope you will enjoy, and we finish up with some book recs for you.

/Report: 2 October 2011

This week's episode is fiiiiinally finished. We're both pretty messed up during this week's episode due to illness and various fails, so please enjoy Pru and MK less-censored-than-usual.

This week we discuss Fringe, NCIS, Good Wife, NCIS L-Gay, Mentalist, Dresden Files, the great Delicious departure, and more. We have a Fandom Safari, a boatload of recs for you, and some fail. I'm sure you'll really enjoy it.

Recs will be on our twitter account as usual, but for those of you interested in alt-fannish-delicious we still need:

• Programmers, or people willing to learn Ruby / Java / etc
• UX/UI people
• systems person to manage other things and/or a server eventually
• entrepreneur/business types
• launch page / updates blog / etc
• hosting or someone to manage hosting - more complicated since it must run some kind of ruby - if you're interested in providing we can give you more details
• Javascript people who can make browser extensions (Chrome, Firefox)

Enjoy?

/Report: 27 September 2011

Normally we only release one episode a week of /report, but if you, like us, woke up this morning to see that all the shit in the world had hit every fan that ever existed or ever would exist, you are not alone. Here, listen to this special emergency broadcast of /report where we discuss the AVOS changes to Delicious bookmarks: Right-click here to download.

I can't even say it'll be okay, guys. I can't even say that to you.

Send flu medicine and snacks and a bucket for my cries.