Rachel D. Oak is passing you a notebook full of fanfiction

On this episode of Mind the Tags, Vee and Emily interview AO3 curse survivor and self-published author Rachel D. Oak. Rachel shares how fanfiction inspires her and introduces the hosts to early 2000s British boy band McFly. Plus, Rachel discusses how and why the romance novel industry and fanfiction share so much in common!

Sources from today's ep:

• Important McFly content
• “Red Queen Plagiarized Powerless”: Anti-Fandom, Comments, and Warped Temporality on BookTok by Henry Roach
• The Curse of AO3 on Fanlore
• Rachel's YouTube channel
• Rachel's Substack
• Rachel's Instagram
• Rachel's books on Amazon

Thank you to Erik Potteiger for producing our song and Haflacky for our logo design.