DescriptionThis project analyzes three speculative podcasts and their fans' transformative works to demonstrate the ways in which together they imagine radical and queer futures. Spec-fic can be seen as a way to take back a future that is traditionally imagined without certain voices and bodies. Because podcasts are a solely audio medium without visual representations at all, bodies in this arrangement are brought in via fanworks. I use close reading to look at The Penumbra Podcast, 2016-; The Magnus Archives, 2016-; and The Bright Sessions, 2015-2018. This thesis asserts that speculative podcasts and their fans’ works build off of each other to envision the future, while also being complicated by contemporary discourse and understandings of race. Utilizing queer theory and fan studies, I argue that queer podcast creators create space within their audio medium for fans to continue to grow upon their stories. Fans then do so by bringing in (raced) bodies and visuals via fanworks. In this understanding, fanworks and fans themselves have changed understandings of the original media to create a collaborative version of the future.