Noel King

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So you've created this thing that has managed to avoid many of the traps of capitalism meets culture.

What's the future of fan fiction?

Francesca Capa, she's a professor at Muhlenberg College and one of the founders of the Organization for Transformative Works, which created AO3.

Danielle Hewitt produced today's show.

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Patrick Boyd and David Tadish were engineered.

And Gabriel Dunatov checked the facts.

The rest of us, the best of us, Avishai Artsy, Miles Bryan, Ariana Espudu, Peter Balanon, Rosen Hadi Mwagdi, Kelly Wessinger, Dustin DeSoto, Miranda Kennedy, Jolie Myers, and Sean Ramos.

We use music by Breakmaster Cylinder.

Today Explained is part of the Vox Media Podcast Network.

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It's hosted by Vox.com's Astead Herndon.

The show asks the following question, what will America look like after Donald Trump?

President Trump's been President Trumpin' on and off for almost a decade now, but we are headed toward the first open presidential election since 2016 in a very, very, very different way.

America, that of 2026.

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