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It’s another Tags and Tropes episode in which Sandra and Kasey focus on a category or aspect of fanfiction they may or may not have delved into before. The genre up for discussion is Transformation.
Link to Metafic Fanlore Page: https://fanlore.org/wiki/Animal_Trans... and https://fanlore.org/wiki/Anthropomorfic.
Doc with all the stats and fic links discussed in this episode can be found here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-....
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Chapter Timestamps
00:00:00 - Intro
00:01:11 - Back in the driver’s seat after a break
00:01:56 - Transformation
00:02:31 - What we think of when we hear transformation
00:04:20 - Animal transformation
00:08:35 - Leaning into mythical animals
00:11:17 - Sandra has an affinity for witches
00:11:42 - Include werewolves and alpha omega or no?
00:12:49 - AO3 tags are lacking in animal transformation
00:14:23 - Interest in fics that lean hard into the actual act of transformation
00:15:45 - Some squicks might keep people away from transformation fics
00:25:40 - The fallout after animal transformation
00:26:45 - Anthropomorphic
00:27:18 - Dean loves his car
00:29:41 - We haven’t read much anthropomorphic fic outside of the Impala
00:30:36 - Becoming an object solely for function and dom/sub undertones
00:32:03 - Absolved of responsibility or being cared for
00:33:49 - AO3 stats
00:36:01 - Kasey’s memory gets jogged
00:38:08 - Sandra has some fics to rec
00:49:13 - Kasey found a fic to rec
00:50:14 - Recs from our Discord members
00:53:31 - Final verdict and Outro
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