Their Tropes Battled for Dominance

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Podcast
Title: Their Tropes Battled for Dominance
Created by: Liz and Gabs
Date(s): 2021-present
Focus: Fanfiction, Fanon, and Fandom
Fandom: Multifandom
External Links: Podtail
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Their Tropes Battled for Dominance is a fanfiction podcast hosted by Liz and Gabs. In each episode, they discuss and explore different tropes popular in fanfiction, the history of the tropes, and their fannish experience with them. On 20 September 2023, the official description read:

Two people, one bed? Coffee Shop AU? Enemies to lovers? If you've read one, you certainly haven't read them all. Join Liz and Gabs as they explore all the tropes that the world of FanFiction has to offer!

The general format of the podcast is the co-hosts discuss two tropes per episode; Liz discusses a trope of her choosing and Gabs discusses a trope chosen by a random generator.

Episode List

2021 Episodes

Episodes of Their Tropes Battled for Dominance
Episode Number Release Date Title Fandom or Fannish Topics Direct Link
1 January 1, 2021 The Premise of Every YA Novel (Fake Dating/Dystopian AU) Stucky, One Direction, Severus Snape X
2 January 1, 2021 Spiteful Soulmates (Soulmates/Spitefic) Miraculous Ladybug, Twilight, X
3 January 1, 2021 I Know About Your Naruto Self-Insert (Self-Insert/Telepathy) American Idol X
4 January 8, 2021 That Person Who Won’t Shut Up About Their Warrior Cats Phase (Crackfic/Domestic AU) X
5 January 15, 2021 Cat Boys Deserve an Education (College AU/Kemonomimi) Stucky, TikTok X
6 January 22, 2021 Another Episode Where We Allude to Omegaverse (Enemies to Lovers/Childhood Friends) X
7 January 29, 2021 Two Kwamis Walk Into A Coffee Shop (Coffee Shop AU/Kwami Swap) Miraculous Ladybug X
8 February 5, 2021 Becoming Royal to Escape the Trauma (Royalty AU/Polyamory) X
9 February 12, 2021 Edgelord Alert! *Coughs up Bloody Flowers* (Hanahaki Disease/Blood Kink) Hannibal X
10 February 19, 2021 The Cute Boy Next Door Has A Band (Band AU/Neighbor AU) FinnPoe X
11 February 26, 2021 Sleeping through the Holidays (Holiday Fic/Sleeping Curse) Once Upon a Time X
12 March 1, 2021 Whoops! I Accidentally Texted an Extra-Terrestrial Being (Text Fic/Xeno) Tumblr, Monster fucking X
13 March 12, 2021 Punk!Tentacle Monster -- Alternatively: FishBoy Punk Edits (Punk AU/Tentacle Monster) X
14 March 19, 2021 Jedi Homework: How to be a F*ckb0i (School Project/Jedi AU) Attack on Titan, Anakin Skywalker X
15 March 26, 2021 Tweeting from Hell (Social Media AU/Demon AU) Phineas and Ferb, KPop X
16 April 2, 2021 Loki Seduces Us at IKEA (IKEA Erotica/Jotun Loki) X
17 April 9, 2021 This Bakery Is Out of this World! (Bakery AU/"I love my spaceship") Maze Runner, Supernatural X
18 April 16, 2021 Vampires, Werewolves, and Fanfic! Oh my! (Ascended Fanfiction) Twilight, 50 Shades of Gray X
19 April 23, 2021 Zombies-- But Make Them Sexy! (Zombie Apocalypse) X
20 April 30, 2021 Asking J.K. Rowling to Please Block Us :) (Fanon!Draco/Magical Pregnancy) Cassandra Clare, Draco Malfoy X
21 May 7, 2021 *Cutely Goes Into Heat* -- SPECIAL: Omegaverse! Guest: OriginallyJaden X
22 May 14, 2021 5 Times the Groundhog Saw His Shadow (+1 Time He Didn't) (5 Times/Groundhog Day) X
23 May 21, 2021 "The Salt Is in Aisle 3" (Grocery Store AU/SaltFic) X
24 May 28, 2021 It's Almost Pride Month! (Modern AU/Next Gen) She-Ra: The Princesses of Power, Overwatch X
25 June 18, 2021 YouTube Boxing Presents: Anakin VS. Obi-Wan (Sith AU/Psychic Powers) RPF X
26 June 25, 2021 TLDR: Dragons! (HTTYD-Verse/GoT-Verse) Fire Emblem: Three Houses X
27 July 2, 2021 Tony Tries to Retcon Steve's Birthday (4th of July/Fix-It Fics) Captain America, Twilight X
28 July 9, 2021 50 Shades vs Twilight! Chapter 1 X
29 July 16, 2021 The Rise of E-Boys (YouTuber AU/Dragons) X
30 July 23, 2021 BuzzFeed Unsolved: Are Vampires Real? (BuzzFeed Unsolved AU/Vampires) Gravity Falls X
31 July 31, 2021 This Dick Will ROCK Your World!!! (Magical Healing C*ck/Earth AU) X
32 August 6, 2021 Returning to Our Roots (High School AU/Getting Together) Attack on Titan, Genshin Impact X
33 August 13, 2021 50 Shades vs Twilight! Chapter 2 X
34 August 20, 2021 The Sapphic Episode We Deserve (Birthday/Huddling for Warmth) She-Ra: Princess of Power, Catradora X
35 August 27, 2021 Stephanie Meyer??? In My Diner??? (Restaurant AU/Immortality) Twilight X
36 September 3, 2021 The Week of Problematic Authors (Twilight Renaissance/Quidditch) Harry Potter X
37 September 10, 2021 A Threesome? In This Elevator?! (Harem/Trapped in an Elevator) X
38 September 17, 2021 It's 2012 & We Are All Smol Tumblr Beans (Twitter AU/Not!fic) Yuri On Ice, YouTuber RPF X
39 September 24, 2021 Unrequited Love Is a Crime (Crime AU/Pining) Boku no Hero Academia, Miraculous Ladybug X
40 October 1, 2021 uel: Idiots to Lovers (Canon Continuation/Idiots in Love) Twilight X
41 October 8, 2021 First Comes Love... Then Making It? (First Meetings/Vanilla Sex) Stucky X
42 October 15, 2021 Congrats! You ARE The Father! (Canon Divergence/Real Parent) Bleach, X-Men X
43 October 22, 2021 This One Time At Band Camp... (Murder Family/Dinosaurs) X
44 October 29, 2021 50 Shades vs Twilight! Chapter 3 X
45 November 7, 2021 Bunny Otome Game (Playboy Bunny/True Love) X
46 November 12, 2021 I Died and Got Reincarnated in the Pacific Rim Universe?! (Isekai/Pacific Rim AU) Teen Wolf X
47 November 19, 2021 50 Shades vs Twilight! Chapter 4 X
48 November 26, 2021 In Vino Veritas (Drunken Confessions) X
49 December 3, 2021 How Villains Get Made (A+ Parenting/Legitimate Gendry) X
50 December 10, 2021 What Does the Cock Say? (Gay Chicken/Opposites Attract) Voltron, League of Legends X
51 December 17, 2021 *Liz Voice* Greedy Slut (Emperor AU/Inappropriate Use of the Force(tm)) X
52 December 24, 2021 50 Shades vs Twilight! Chapter 5 X
53 December 31, 2021 Han Solo's Pregnancy Pouch -- SPECIAL: MPreg! Fandom History X

2022 Episodes

Episodes of Their Tropes Battled for Dominance
Episode Number Release Date Title Fandom or Fannish Topics Direct Link
54 January 7, 2022 Sippin' a Cuppa Like a DFP (Pet Adoption/Dark Fuck Prince) X
55 January 15, 2022 Maybe the True Friends We Made Were the Kids? (Friendship/KidFic) Teen Titans X
56 January 21, 2022 The Ways That Food Can Be Sexy (Vampire Sex/Food in Fic) X
57 January 29, 2022 Fem!Mando & Baby!Yoda (Accidental Baby Acquisition/Last Kiss) Star Wars, The Mandalorian, Genshin Impact X
58 February 4, 2022 The Lost Glee Episode (Bystander Fic/Woke Up Gay) Glee X
59 February 11, 2022 Therapy Part Two, Electric Boogaloo! (Order 66/Wilderness Survival) Star Wars, Community X
60 August 5, 2022 50 Shades vs Twilight! Chapter 6 X
61 August 12, 2022 S. Meyers' Worst Nightmare -- SPECIAL: Gay Twilight Renaissance Twilight, Ship Wars X
62 August 19, 2022 SECRET MISSION: Holiday Party (Undercover/Ugly Xmas Sweater) The Blacklist, Stucky X
63 August 26, 2022 Cake by the Beach [Volleyball] (Height Difference/Cakeverse) Haikyuu!! X
64 September 9, 2022 Bailed Out of Horny Jail (HealSluts/Hookerfic) X
65 September 16, 2022 We Really Like Ali Hazelwood (Mini: Ascended Fanfic/Canon Continuation) X
66 September 30, 2022 Starring the GirliePops! (Hollywood AU/Buddy Cop Fandom) Brooklyn 99, Copaganda X
67 October 7, 2022 Kelton the Titch Shipper (Burly Detective Syndrome/Cryptid AU) X
68 October 14, 2022 Confess Under Duress (Mini: Drunken Confessions) X
69 October 21, 2022 Femslash Omegaverse) Femslash X
70 November 12, 2022 And They Were Roommates?! (Forced Proximity/Hogwarts Era) MCU, Harry Potter X
71 November 18, 2022 Period-Typical Homosexuality (Mini: Soulmate AU) Stucky X
72 December 2, 2022 We Hate British People (Mini: Royalty AU) She-Ra X
73 December 9, 2022 How to Assemble One Direction (Mini: IKEA Erotica/1D Slave) Quotev, Wattpad, Bandom X
74 December 16, 2022 Time to Get Less Normaler -- SPECIAL: Field Trip to SI/Domestic Avengers MCU, Stucky X
75 December 23, 2022 Will Graham Is an Omega (Mini: Blood Kink & Hannibal) X
76 December 30, 2022 What a Sleigh (Listener Submission #1) One Direction, 5 Seconds of Summer, Bandom X

2023 Episodes

Episodes of Their Tropes Battled for Dominance
Episode Number Release Date Title Fandom or Fannish Topics Direct Link
73 January 13, 2023 Buzzfeed Unsolved (AU): Stranger Things (Mini) X
74 January 20, 2023 The Velvetiest Smoothiest Episode Yet (Mental Time Travel/Yet Another Halloween Fic) Buffy the Vampire Slayer X
75 January 27, 2023 *Karkat Noises* (Touch Starved/Quirk) X
76 February 3, 2023 Waking Up Bonded in Vegas (Absent Animal Companion/Marriage) X
77 February 10, 2023 The DRAMAtical 90's (Roommate AU/Obligala) Star Wars, YouTube, Roleplay X
78 February 17, 2023 Pinkie Pie's Cinematic Universe (Everyone Meets Everyone/AI) X
79 March 3, 2023 Liz's Dream (Mini: Woke Up Gay) MCU X
80 March 10, 2023 And Yet, Despite It All, You Throbbed. (Mini: Inappropriate Use of the Force) X
81 March 24, 2023 You, But Irishly (Yandere/Robots) Whump X
82 March 31, 2023 The Basketball Love Deception (Mini: Fake Dating) X
83 April 14, 2023 Hannibal Is Just a Little Fucked Up (Mini: Murder Family) Hannibal X
84 April 21, 2023 The Graveyard Shift (Apathetic Clerk/Ghosts) Batman X
85 May 5, 2023 Revenge of the Fifth (Mini: Jedi AU) Star Wars X
86 May 12, 2023 Australians 🤝 Us (Mini: Hanahaki Disease) X
87 May 19, 2023 Imagine Naruto Is Your Mom (Imagines/Dandere) X
88 June 9, 2023 Fighting Feelings (Boxing Episode/Mirror of Erised) Harry Potter X
89 June 16, 2023 I Want to Punch Inessa (Mini: Social Media AU) Genshin Impact X
90 June 30, 2023 Marvel Hunger Games Simulator (Hunger Games AU/Nebulous Zemo Parole Universe) Hunger Games, Whump, Marvel X
91 July 21, 2023 Kinnie Moment ("Oh."/Hannibal Extended Universe) X
92 August 11, 2023 This Episode's Job is Beach (Beach Episode/Kidswap & Bloodswap) Homestuck, Barbie (2023) X
93 September 2, 2023 R.I.P. Charlie Swan (All Human AU/Afterlife) Twilight X
94 September 22, 2023 When She Cyber On My Punk Till I Pine (Cyberpunk/Pining) X