HIIIII HAPPY FRIDAY!!! We're back with our LAST episode of the season with an EDITS AWARD PARTY!! It's less of an awards show and more of a watch party with some of our favorite edits we've stumbled upon, with help from edit aficionado Aeryn, and it's a boatload of fun. We seriously can't wait to see how the edits game steps up with season two content (filming soon!!!!!). Also thank you for bearing with us as the editing in this is not perfect--Amanda is very stressed and doing their best with a new software.

We'll return with regular episodes in a few months and we'll miss you quite dearly in the meantime! Thank you to all our listeners, those who sent voice memos, guests, supporters, and community members for this wonderful first season of Since Rookie Season pod. Our show notes in previous episodes are FULL of further readings so you have plenty to do while we're gone :)) Or, y'know, fanfic, which is what we're probably reading. Keep up with us on socials to see what we get up to during the break!!!! HAGS y'all! (if you're in the northern hemisphere lol)

See this doc for the links to all edits so you can watch for yourself! Please give lots of love to these hard working editors!!!!! [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1DAOch3tv9wG7Uc5Q6FI7uVoKmQL1nrHzgRzin2Tzqt8/edit?usp=sharing]

Other References & Citations:

Vidding: A History by Francesca Coppa [https://www.fulcrum.org/concern/monographs/hq37vq792]

“Vidding and/as pedagogy” by former podcast guest, Katie Morrissey [https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781315637518-8/vidding-pedagogy-katherine-morrissey]

“Toward an ecology of vidding” by Tisha Turk and Joshua Johnson [https://journal.transformativeworks.org/index.php/twc/article/view/326]

“Vidding: Remix as Affective Media Literacy” by Louisa Stein [https://www.erudit.org/en/journals/im/2014-n23-im02092/1033338ar/abstract/]

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Since Rookie Season Season Finale: The Edit Awards!

Happy Friday!!!! HAPPY PRIDE!!!!!!!!!! To kick off Pride month, we have a great discussion about Heated Rivalry raves & parties and engaging with community in that way. If you're celebrating, STAY SAFE and take care of each other!! Have a great Pride month & we'll see y'all next week for our EDIT AWARDS!!!! Thanks for listening as always <3

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Links & References:

The Making of a Heated Rivalry Rave (youtube) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYzhyh7ljf4]

Eden Strader (youtube) [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpLoOhoCiYkhd6Ue98wOJVw]

Eden's Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/notedenstrader/]

Haus Party Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/xhauspartyx]

Garden Of Website [https://www.gardenofcollective.com/]

Reheating Hockey Haus (In More Ways Than One!) 

HAPPY FRIDAY!!!!! In this episode, we're joined by a couple guests to talk about romance novels!!!! We're a bunch of readers, but what is it about romance novels that we love so much? Do we see more adaptations in the future? Who is the intended audience, and who is the realized audience? Where does Heated Rivalry fit into this genre? Tune in to find out our thoughts!!!! Thanks for listening!!!!

Sources & References:

Guest, Dr. Katie Morrissey [https://katiedidnt.net/]

E Lynn Harris  [https://www.thehistorymakers.org/biography/e-lynn-harris-40]

Indigo by Beverly Jenkins [https://www.beverlyjenkins.net/books/historical-romance-books/indigo-2/]

Tessa Thompson Met Gala Look [https://coveteur.com/tessa-thompson-met-gala-2026]

Fabio Lanzoni [https://people.com/where-is-fabio-now-11794785]

Squee [https://fanlore.org/wiki/Squee]

BL/yaoi [https://boyslove.fandom.com/wiki/The_BL_Wiki]

ROMANCE & MELODRAMA: FEMININE GENRES REPUTED AS TRASH: GONE WITH THE WIND: THE STUDY OF A CASE by Susana Lozano Moreno [https://revistaselectronicas.ujaen.es/index.php/grove/article/download/1239/1028/3926#page=56]

Thomas Baudinette [https://newbooksnetwork.com/boys-love-media-in-thailand]

Noah’s Arc [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noah%27s_Arc_(TV_series)]

The Ultimatum: Queer Love [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ultimatum:_Queer_Love]

Imperfect Women [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperfect_Women]

How Bridgerton Lost Its Way [https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/25/opinion/bridgerton-race-identity.html] by Jayashree Kamble

Also, in case people are interested, here’s a free/easily accessible Thai BL Rec. The series is fully available from GMMTV on YouTube and was helpfully organized into a playlist here: Not Me (2021) [https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLYYyUhZKiEj59aNMppRfRc_F_MYI_ccLH].

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Romance Me

HAPPY FRIDAY!!!!! In this chaotic episode, we FINALLY talk about the women in Heated Rivalry and how much we adore them while not passing the Bechdel Test. We are also interrupted by the Met Gala because we all forgot it was happening when we scheduled recording, but please enjoy our commentary in real time as it unfolds. We're joined by friends of the pod Haley and Rogue as well!!! Take this opportunity to remember to decenter men <3 Thanks for listening!

References & Citations:

Bechdel Test [https://bechdeltest.com/]

None of us are straight, some of us are not women (literally, please check our socials) [https://www.instagram.com/p/DTGg-3SkYrW/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==]

Canada's History of Indigenous Genocide [https://humanrights.ca/news/confronting-genocide-canada]

Trudeau's Blackface Pictures [https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-49749851]

Roselana Ship [https://shipping.fandom.com/wiki/Roselana]

Misogyny hurts men too [https://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/2016/11/sexism-harmful]

The problem with the glorifying strength in oppressed women [https://www.anthropolitics.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Dubuisson-and-Schuller-Beyond-Poto-Mitan-1.pdf]

Si me matan, Silvana Estrada  [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeU7rb-dBow]

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Feral Femmes: This Episode Does Not Pass the Bechdel Test

This week, we're joined by two friends to talk about neurodivergence! Not only Shane but almost everyone in the universe quite frankly. Join us as we describe our experiences and break down the different brains of each character. Thanks for listening!

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Citations & Sources & Further Reading:

Non-verbal Learning Disability  [https://nvld.org/non-verbal-learning-disability/]

Email Templates for Executive Dysfunction [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rMWSTXCTYIHTeMySW0RYcTP4ijlwgvI51cGl0zGyJlE/edit?usp=sharing]

Autism Bread Fic [https://archiveofourown.org/works/83200796]

Orthorexia [https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6370446/]

National ED Association [https://www.nationaleatingdisorders.org/]

Lauren Disability Studies Primer List:

Decarcerating Disability: Deinstitutionalization and Prison Abolition by Liat Ben-moshe

The Secret Life of Stories by Michael Berebue

Brilliant Imperfection: Grappling with Cure by Eli Clare

Enforcing Normalcy: Disability, Deafness, and the Body by Leonard Davis

Disability Media Studies, eds. Liz Ellcessor and Leonard Davis (Lauren is in vol. 2!)

Feminist, Queer, Crip by Alison Kafer

Claiming Disability by Simi Linton

Crip Theory by Robert McRuer

Sex and Disability, ed. Robert McRuer

Mad at School: Rhetorics of Mental Disability and Academic Life by Margaret Price

Killing the Black Body by Dorothy Roberts

Black Disability Politics by Sami Schalk

Bodyminds Reimagined: (Dis)ability, Race, and Gender in Black Women’s Speculative Fiction by Sami Schalk

Against Technoableism: Rethinking Who Needs Improvement by Ashley Shrew

Disability Theory by Tobin Siebers

Disability Intimacy: Essays on Love, Care, and Desire by Alice Wong

Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century by Alice Wong

Authoring Autism: On Rhetoric and Neurological Queerness by M. Remi Yergeau

Disability and Fandom by Katherine Anderson Howell (here’s my book review on it! [https://intellectdiscover.com/content/journals/10.1386/jfs_00129_5])

Canadian Journal of Disability Studies special issue: Disability and/in/through Fandom [https://cjds.uwaterloo.ca/index.php/cjds/issue/view/26]

Forthcoming special issue in Transformative Works and Cultures on disability and fandom! (Release in June 2026; edited by Lauren and Olivia Riley) [https://journal.transformativeworks.org/index.php/twc/announcement/view/147]

Store Bought Dopamine & Other Neurodivergent Things

This week, we're joined by Ethan to talk about race and racism in Heated Rivalry & GCU. Tune in to see how we analyze different characters across both the books and the show and how we think critically about these identities. Thanks for listening!

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References & Citations:

Lauren's Anti-Racism Book List [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1PFf_9H1-MhJ-gcSbVhNoTzP3WvYvTEngIohmLwsFCDc/edit?usp=sharing]

Books About Racism and the Asian American Experience — a staff-created list from Chicago Public Library [https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/list/display/199702383/1858402059]

I was ashamed of being Chinese until I learned about my ancestors' first years in Canada | CBC Television [https://www.cbc.ca/television/changed-when-i-learned-about-my-ancestors-first-years-in-canada-1.6858176]

The Struggles of Being Asian In Canada [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3Zu64qPWBI]

Misinformation and the Asian-Canadian Experience [https://natoassociation.ca/misinformation-and-the-asian-canadian-experience/]

Parsley massacre - Wikipedia [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parsley_massacre]

Orientalism, Edward W. Said PDF [https://monoskop.org/images/4/4e/Said_Edward_Orientalism_1979.pdf]

Orientalism: Edward Said’s groundbreaking book explained [https://theconversation.com/orientalism-edward-saids-groundbreaking-book-explained-197429]

stick handling fan art comic on instagram [https://www.instagram.com/p/DWeiAdSmBXK/?img_index=1]

Yellowface by R. F. Kuang [https://www.harpercollins.com/products/yellowface-r-f-kuang?variant=40985522831394]

Bindery Books [https://binderybooks.com/]

Why All Haitians Were Declared Black [https://haitidecoded.com/blogs/blog/why-all-haitians-were-declared-black?srsltid=AfmBOopgfnqATstBmrlAIiUz3x9eV1-ytLEQqkDefNNtZoOaIPnGlkUJ]

10 Years of Fighting for Nationality in the Dominican Republic [https://www.institutesi.org/news/10-year-anniversary-of-dr-court-ruling-stripping-nationality]

Racism? In my Heated Rivalry fandom? More likely than you think!

This week, our trio discuss intersectionality and how it applies to many of the characters in the Game Changers universe. Tune in for lots of feminist theory, interesting history, and us not knowing US states! Thanks for listening!

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LINKED PDF TO SHOWNOTES FOR RESOURCES AND CITATIONS [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1HTZfa99ZMYZJoQdsTN361IMp8sBwiSwbAVXwic20sOk/edit?usp=sharing]

Intersectionality? In this economy?

This week, we are joined by Mal from The Pitt Crew (also The Puck Crew) and Demigod Debut to talk about FANFICTION and how it’s so important to community and our storied history with it. We brought FOUR of some of our fav fics to discuss and they are SO GOOD please check them out (linked below)!!! What are some of your go-to Hollanov tropes? Have you written fanfiction? Let us know!!

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fanfics we read:

you and i might just be the best thing - blongblong [https://archiveofourown.org/series/5536111]

russia's greatest love machine - OrYouCouldHaveMine [https://archiveofourown.org/works/75526046/chapters/197480386]

i'll believe in anything - bisoubug [https://archiveofourown.org/works/80668226/chapters/211874581]

please leave a message - subcorax [https://archiveofourown.org/works/76008221]

other references and citations:

You Didn't Hear This From Me (normal gossip book) [https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/457518/you-didnt-hear-this-from-me-by-mckinney-kelsey/9781405975100]

Hollanov Fanfics Spreadsheet [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1agcZxL8sr9b9HMm_KHoIum2yOYdd-qrZVVxWef10WVg/edit?usp=sharing]

NormalGossip (@normalgossip) • Instagram photos and videos [https://www.instagram.com/normalgossip/]

Puck Crew Inspired Fic [https://archiveofourown.org/works/82231826/chapters/216420746]

PJO skit creator that Amanda mentioned (tiktok) [https://www.tiktok.com/@thesleepydm]

The Glory of AO3: The Internet’s Greatest Fic Machine

HAPPY FRIDAY! Join us this week with ANOTHER LIVE GUEST as we talk different aspects of fandom with people who literally research it. PLEASE let us know what your first fandoms were in the comments or on our socials!

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Citations & Sources & Further Reading:

Texts and Technology Ph.D. [https://cah.ucf.edu/textstech/]

Mel Stanfill [https://melstanfill.com/]

Four pivotal ages in your brain's development [https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cgl6klez226o]

“WE ARE ALL TEEN GIRLS” [https://centerforpoetry.wordpress.com/2019/10/01/poem-of-the-week-when-i-say-that-we-are-all-teen-girls-by-olivia-gatwood/]

SuperWhoLock [https://fanlore.org/wiki/SuperWhoLock]

FictionAlley [https://fictionalley.blogspot.com/]

Cassandra Claire [https://fanlore.org/wiki/Cassandra_Claire]

Forbidden Feline Fanfiction with Ashley Reese - Normal Gossip [https://open.spotify.com/episode/14FYWkhHo2F0NdOyyBAKRj]

Anne Rice [https://fanlore.org/wiki/Anne_Rice]

RPF [https://fanlore.org/wiki/RPF]

Moving Across Lands: Online Platform Migration in Fandom Communities [https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3392847]

A genealogy of queerbaiting [https://intellectdiscover.com/content/journals/10.1386/jfs.6.2.115_1]

Check, Please! [https://www.checkpleasecomic.com/]

Fanon [https://fanlore.org/wiki/Fanon]

Big Name Fan [https://fanlore.org/wiki/Big_Name_Fan]

Parasocial Relationships

Parasocial relationships, social media, & well-being [https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352250X22000082?casa_token=8klBDphe7y0AAAAA:BtSvqynQn-6KIKDm0D_77vDH-eT7t6q1fOrqG9n-vKe6iG0STy8eZRzOpVSKKHWQXpYvPbjIVrM]

Quebecois Curse Words [https://blog.gymglish.com/2025/03/14/guide-quebec-insults-curse-words]

Historical Fandom Research

Enterprising Women [https://www.pennpress.org/9780812213799/enterprising-women/?ki-cf-botcl=1]

Textual Poachers [https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/10.4324/9780203114339/textual-poachers-henry-jenkins]

Feminism & Film Theory [https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/10.4324/9780203699362/feminism-film-theory-constance-penley]

Lauren’s Research

Lauren Rouse - Google Scholar [https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=NaBN7kUAAAAJ&hl=en]

Over*Flow: Fan Demographics on Archive of Our Own [https://www.flowjournal.org/2023/02/fan-demographics-on-ao3/]

Kate’s Research

Daddy issues/daddy kink: Remixing masculine authority in Spider-Man fan fiction [https://journal.transformativeworks.org/index.php/twc/article/view/2673]

Race in Fandom

Squee from the Margins [https://uipress.uiowa.edu/books/squee-margins]

Stitch's Media Mix [https://stitchmediamix.com/]

Fandom Is Ugly [https://nyupress.org/9781479824960/fandom-is-ugly/]

The Unbearable Whiteness of Fandom & Fan Studies [https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/9781119237211.ch19]



“Wait It’s All Parasocial? Always Has Been”: A Breakdown of HR Fandom

This week, our trio welcome OUR VERY FIRST LIVE GUEST ON THE POD!!!! Everyone welcome Ollie (any/all) as we talk about Ember & Ice! Was it just an HR fanfic? Maybe! Did we gobble up all those little moans? ABSOLUTELY. Thanks for listening!!!!

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Links & References:

Ember & Ice [https://www.tryquinn.com/series/ember-and-ice]  [https://www.bellesa.co/]

No ID, no Nudes: Florida’s pornography crackdown survives Supreme Court shake-up [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKcmOemi5BI]

Lauren's Work On Sex Work [https://mediacommons.org/imr/content/its-hard-out-here-fosta-and-its-impacts-onlyfans-and-online-sex-work]

Ember & Ice Breakdown [https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/lifestyle/arts/hudson-williams-connor-quinn-audio-romance-ember-and-ice-1236460184/]

The Allure of Books About Faeries & the Fae [https://bookriot.com/the-allure-of-books-about-faeries-and-the-fae/]

Safety & Protection w the fae [https://www.tumblr.com/wanderlustspider/173861576710/safety-and-protection-with-fae]

Pon Farr, Mpreg, Bonds, and the Rise of the Omegaverse [https://kristinabusse.com/pdf/Busse,%20Kristina%20-%20Pon%20Farr%20Mpreg,%20Bonds,%20and%20the%20Rise%20of%20the%20Omegaverse%20(in%20Fic%202013).pdf]

Pregnant Teen Wolf [https://journal.transformativeworks.org/index.php/twc/article/download/2193/3059?inline=1]

Brief History of MPreg [https://www.cherrypickett.com/2021/05/18/a-brief-history-of-mpreg/]  [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECKw5zjLLUM]

Male Delivery [https://www.vanderbiltuniversitypress.com/9780826515162/male-delivery/]

MPreg in Spanish Lit [https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/in00000265713]

SNL Host Connor Storrie, Mumford & Sons and Sarah Make Out [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECKw5zjLLUM]

The Snake Handler [https://www.tryquinn.com/series/the-snake-handler]

Ember & Ice: The Inherent Homoeroticism of F*cking Your Fairy Enemy

Welcome to Since Rookie Season, a Heated Rivalry fan companion podcast, where your hosts, Amanda, Lau, and Lauren break down the episodes from the Crave Canada television series, the Game Changers novels, and various media surrounding this fan phenomenon.

Amanda (they/them) is Since Rookie Season’s gen-z representative, mediator, and editor. They have two B.S., one of which in Sociology, and have a strong interest in feminist theory and intersectionality. They grew up playing roller hockey but have no other awareness in hockey other than what Lauren says. Having engaged in fandom since childhood, Amanda is excited to delve deep into both fandom and media analysis and explore nuances in this universe.

Laura - Lau (she/her) is Since Rookie Season’s language, narrative, and on-screen intimacy expert. She has a PhD in Romance Studies from Duke University and her research focuses contemporary Francophone, Creolophone, and Hispanic narratives, trauma informed pedagogy and arts, romances languages and translation, Queer Studies, and Haitian Studies. She also has training as a Consent-forward artist from the Intimacy Professional Association. She is a big fan of queer stories in all formats!

Lauren (they/them) is Since Rookie Season’s fan and hockey guru and intersectionality extraordinaire. They have a PhD in Texts and Technology from the University of Central Florida (where they met their bestie, Amanda) and their research is situated at the intersections of fan and audience studies, media studies and disability studies. Their work is interdisciplinary, and connects to the larger fields of critical platform studies, online labor, and race, gender and sexuality studies. They have been a hockey fan for several years and support the Chicago Blackhawks (*sigh*), the Minnesota Frost, Laila Edwards, the haunted Victorian child that lives inside of Quinn Hughes, and the Big Boy that is Matt Rempe. They are a life long romance reader and fandom enjoyer, and were deeply involved in the heyday of 2010s tumblr.

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