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March 2, 2017: "All the Young Dudes" Debuts on AO3
Wotcher! This week, Emily and V look at a massively, massively popular and influential fanfiction that blew up during the long winter of COVID lockdowns thanks to... long sigh... #FicTok. Unfortunately, it is a Harry Potter fic. We once again condemn every single goddamn thing JKR says, does, and stands for; however, we must discuss the Wizarding World because we are a fandom history podcast and those books changed, and continue to change, fandom. That said, "All the Young Dudes" by MsKingBean89 is as much about 1970s British queerness as it is about a magical wizarding school, and many of…
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