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Fresh from a week of braving the elements from the comfort of a La Quinta, Emily is flying solo and discussing WandaVision, her lack of survival skills, and a fun sexy little trope called 'Huddling for Warmth'. Fics: your will is not your own by Merideath The Hoth Affair by ester_inc Breaking the Ice by Dira Sudis (dsudis) Support the podcast: Make…
It's February, a month for lovers. And thanks to the magic of time travel/time zones, your host and her special guest are talking to you on BOTH Galentine's and Valentine's Day. What better time for Grimey and Emily to spend talking about femslash and Femslash February. Just a heads up, they're going to flirt with each other the whole time. Fics: N…
Have you ever seen a ship so absolutely and entirely perfect in gif and fic form that you think it must of course be canon? Only to find out that is NOT? If so, you maybe be entitled to compensation from the law offices of Nelson & Murdock and be eligible for a one-time payout of a few hundred Shipper Bucks. Anyway. Mia is back, leading Emily aboar…
We love a good old fashioned Robin Hood in Shipper City, be it Kevin Costner, Eyroll Flynn, or some neckbeard whose user name 'LickMyBalls93'. Check out the Robin Hood AU this week and do some good along the way. Links: Gamestop Explanation Troop 6000 Girl Scout Cookies Fics: Merlin, Morgana, and the Merry Men by Elizabeth Steve Hood and His Merry …
After some WandaVision speculation, Em dives back in time to the early 2000s and the world of high seas adventures of Captain Jack Sparrow, Elizabeth Swann, Will Turner, and the sad puppy who deserved better, Commodore James Norrington. That is correct, Shipper City, we're talking about everyone's favorite bisexual awakening: Pirates of the Caribbe…
While Grimey and Emily navigate the world of video podcasting, they also manage to deep dive into the world of those fics that bring us catharsis for our own problems, that twist our souls and hearts and water our crops with our tears. Plus lots of talk about WandaVision, the eternal sadness of Bucky Barnes, and what in the H Chris Evans thinks he'…
With WandaVision only a few days away, Em takes a moment to compose a love letter to her favorite character of all time and cherish the time they've spent together in Darcyland before anything changes. Links: Alpha Convergence WandaVision PressKit Fics: Hit me with your best shot by Swing Set in December It’s Electrifying by waketosleep So he won’t…
"Happy New Year, sluts!" - Legolas. Welcome to 2021 where we're all just going to sit quietly and not touch anything for awhile until it makes its intentions known. The halls of Shipper City University are open once more for another episode offering some history into world of fanfic, some terminology and new vocabulary words, and a good healthy ran…
So much giggling in our last episode of 2020 -- Grimey and Mia come back for a wee bender in Shipper City. Talking about the Fake Dating trope as well as sharing our favorite Christmas movies, quoting The Grinch, and generally giggling more than we talk. Merry Shipmas to all and to all a good night! Links: Holiday In Handcuffs Fics: Good to Know by…
Ange is back to thirst out loud over her favorite dadbod, David Harbour. As promised, a thirsty little deep-dive into his work on Stranger Things and what we're hoping for in Black Widow. Fics: our house (was our castle, our keep) by INTPSlytherin_reylove97 A Low And Distant Sound by howdyspacebuddy (eigengrau) Youth (makes fools of us all) by Sanc…
Brittany is back to discuss the Supernatural finale, Destiel as canon, and what the hell was going on with Sam's wig in this week's episode. Fics: An Exercise in ‘Worthless’ by beastofthesky The World at Large by cenotaphy Loud by Castielslostwings Support the podcast: Make a monthly contribution via Anchor Support via PayPal, Ko-fi, or our Amazon …
Right in time for American Thanksgiving, Mia has rowed her fleet of kayaks into port and is here to tell us all about being a rarepair shipper and how it's definitely not the same as loving crack. There's also talk of piracy (like, the kind with boats), naked Christmas parties, and a fair bit of Endgame salt. Links: Electric Love by Børns Ani: a pa…
When the truth is stranger than fanfic, the fanfic writers get to work. In another episode of "I'm sorry, what the entire hell, 2020?" Emily explores a brand new trope that's just popped up in response to the fantastic end of a horrible election cycle. Move over, Flower Shop/Tattoo Parlor AUs... there's a new trope in town. Links: Bury Your Gays Ep…
Hello, Babysitter's Club! This is Emily and Grimey speaking, both of whom desperately wanted to be Claudias but were, in fact, a Kristy and a Mary Anne by nature. But no matter, listen up for the deep dive into everyone's favorite club of middle school babysitters and swim in some nostalgia while we celebrate a brief respite from all the craziness …
This is a little episode about a little fandom that was never supposed to exist. But it does. All thanks to the brilliant work of whoever made the movie poster for the film "Cordelia." Links: Cordelia (2020) Are You Tired Yet? by Mondlein_Madchen1 Unnatural Philosphy by sinemoras09 Then I set fire to our bed by Dinae Support the podcast: Make a mon…
Annie is back after a long and lonely year without her! She's back to talk about all our favorite spooky things as we head into Halloween here in Shipper City. Be prepared for squeals and giggles and more tears than you might expect while we talk about our favorite books, films, and tv of the best season of the year. Producer's note: We used a diff…
It's Inktober! It's Kinktober! It's Spooktober! It's time you told someone you love them and also gave yourself permission to be tired and grumpy and burned out too, if that's what you need. No matter what, we love the heck out of you here in Shipper City. Links: Inktober Kinktober As Pants the Hart The Devil's Acre by littleblackfox Dresupi grimey…
Listen in while Emily talks about all the dark and twisty bits of her heart, forgets how old she is (no, really, she has no idea) and finds her way back to the reader-insert fics she had once so ardently dismissed. It's all kinds of messy growth up in here today, ya'll. Links: Fat Bear Winner Bucky-the-thigh-slayer tropicalcap Stargazingfangirl18 S…
Grimey returns to talk about the art of the AU: the differences in reading and writing and how best to shove your favorite characters into as many different worlds as you want. Links: I've been waiting for this moment all my life by Ibelieveinturtles Dos Lobos Papas Fritas Especial by lindenmae In Plain Sight by taibhrigh Total Knock Out by Skasis …
Listen, Shipper City. It's been an incredibly long year full of next to nothing but bad news. So instead of crawling into a fort of fuzzy blankets and just making you guys fend for yourselves without an episode this week, we're bringing you a whole bunch of comfort and hopefully a little bit of joy in these very dark times. Links: Fat Bear Week But…
Our sweet Angela joins us for yet another deep dive on a Marvel Dad. She's back this week to talk about why Ant-Man is one of the least disappointing things to ever come out of the MCU and all the reasons that Hope, Cassie, and Luis are just some of the best companions for the sexiest and most ageless of dads. Links: WandaVision Trailer Paul Rudd, …
It's a swell time to be a fangirl and an even better time to support the United States Postal Service. How better to do both of those things than by talking about a sexy little genre called the Espistolary Fic. Links: Epistolary Fic from Fanlore Lucky Us by PrincessKity1 like it or not by shortcrust Marriage of True Minds by spicyshimmy Ellerigby13…
An underappreciated and underused trope, the College AU allows for your favorite characters to be in a situation with little-to-no supervision and, traditionally, an exceptional amount of free time on their hands. What could happen? Usually a lot of drunk, tearful confessions of love... among other things. Links: Hemingway Can Suck It by Orphaned A…
We're back, Shipper City! Fresh-faced and ready to talk about the one thing that keeps some(a lot? Most?) of us coming back to the fanfic boards again and again. That's right, we're talking about smutty smutty fanfic this week with the lovely and talented grimeysociety. Listen to us dish on what works and what doesn't and why our opinions on these …
If you're like most of the entire planet, you've never heard of a little HBO original called Carnivale and boy, howdy, you don't know what you're missing. Also, give a listen for an update about how we'll be spending the rest of our summer vacation and what you can do to help Shipper City keep the lights on. Links: Word of God Something Borrowed by…
Some good news, some less-exciting-than-it-could-be news, and a revisit of my favorite holiday a few weeks late. Links: Death of the Author It’s in your nature to fear what is natural by auroralynches A world without stars by crimtastic Support the podcast: Make a monthly contribution via Anchor Support via PayPal, Ko-fi, or our Amazon affiliate li…
Another lifelong friend and fangirl stops in to celebrate our 100th episode with lots of laughs, discussions of the checkered past of the Carter Brothers, and Emily finally going into detail about her own writing. Thanks Briz! Links: Broken/By My Side Not Another Teeny Bopper Fanfic Support the podcast: Make a monthly contribution via Anchor Suppor…
Once upon a time, Lana and Lilly Wachowski created a world where people of all races, ethnicities, orientations, and genders shared a single consciousness. They created a found family dynamic so beautiful and a world so rich it legit deserves to be studied for its simplicity and perfection and basically no one watched this show or paid it any atten…
Come on back to Avengers Tower for our baby's 2nd birthday party with special guest, Chelsea. A slightly deeper dive on the found family trope and why it's so important to have a friend and a comfort (and a cup of tea) here at the end of the world. Links: Cara McGee Fandom Tea Things That Friends Do by Aenaria Overwatch by Laura Kaye Love Is For Ch…
As we mark month number 3 of quarantine and continued lockdown, things are starting to get a little weird in Shipper City. Maybe even a little...fishy? With everything that's going on, we might as well talk about the Mermaid AU. I mean, why not. Links: mermay.com ties of blood and water by sweetwatersong Deep breath, Cap by Cap_Sweet_And_Salty_Sadn…
There are few AUs where just about everything goes but that's what we found in the Space AU. Join us to celebrate one of the few good things the US has accomplished recently and rock out to some m-f'in space fics. Links: Darling Scion of the House of Stark, Diamond Class by AngeNoir World of My Dream by KelliDiane Renegades by crinklefries Fics: Su…
Checking in to talk about the seriously underrated friendship between Jane Foster and Darcy Lewis and also to yell at the New York Times. Links: “A Feud in Wolf-Kink Erotica Raises a Deep Legal Question” - Alexandra Alter Artist Alley: www.ellenpaquette.com Fics: Super Science Best Friends by Catsparrow Novaya Zemlya Effect by voiceimplosives The B…
A look at one of fandoms favorite ancestors, take a dive into Mulder's filing cabinet and learn about the critical role The X-Files played in shaping fandom history and also probably a lot about Emily's homemade pizza and breadsticks. Artist Alley: Alpha Dawn by Morgan R.R. Haze Fics: Campfire Confessions by Speechteacher M.I.A. by QuietLittleVoice…
Nia returns as our first lock-down guest to share some honest thoughts about how she's feeling, how we're all feeling, and whether or not she's baking any banana bread. Fics: Can't Let the Day Go by momebie the dogfather by hollimichele Grace and a tender hand by feyburner impulse control by sarahyyy everything you say is a sweet revelation by lazu…
A fictional device full of potential for heaps of tropey goodness, car games and even the chance to build an accompanying playlist. We're talking about the Roadtrip Fic this week. If you listen next to an open window, it's almost like we're all allowed to go somewhere together. Artist Alley: Kimberleigh Fics: It’s a great big atlas (and I love you …
In world that feels like it's been cursed by a wicked sorcerer, we're combing the stacks this week to talk about the Fairytale AU. Also featuring a technical update from our super sexy producer. Links: Artist Alley: ArtingGrace the damp grass yields to me by ashleykay Brucie and the Beast by Blizzard_Fire Of Sea Waves and Starlight (La Petite Sirèn…
Character structure is pretty simple. You've got your hero, your villain, your mentor/parent/guardian, your sidekicks...and then everyone else. We all know and the love all the heroes and swoon for the villains and elevate the sidekicks every chance we get. But what about those side sidekicks? Those spare characters that don't get as much love? Tha…
Who'd have thought that five weeks later, we'd still be writing and sharing quarantine fics. Not Emily! That's for sure! But here we are, still, together in this mess and we've got some fics and some words of encouragement to hopefully help you through. Links: Artist Alley: Mintmintdoodles Must Love Dogs (Right Here at the End of the Line) by bookj…
With an active, albeit kind of boring, dystopia happening right outside our front doors, Emily revisits one of her favorite fandoms and talks about what makes for a good, solid, End of the World. Hint: it's not toilet paper wars and incompetent leadership. Links: Artist Alley: Stitchy Button Broadcast News (the Marionette Mix) by flyingcarpet All T…
As things spiral from bad to worse and we find ourselves in week three of quarantine/isolation, Emily wants to share some fluff and comfort and maybe also rant about the Lion King. Maybe. Just a little Lion King rant. As a treat. Links: Artist Alley: Keznik Kurios Defending Jacob Trailer repeated a thousand times in golden ink by LullabyKnell The T…
With an official lockdown/quarantine/stay-the-eff-home order in place, Em gives in to the songs that have been playing on repeat in her head since all this nonsense began. Since we're all in this together, it's time to get your head in the game and finally watch all the High School Musical movies for no reason other than you're stuck inside trying …
Em flies solo for some really uneven advice about dealing with our current pandemic, talks through an update on AO3, and sprinkles on some salt before diving into some of the fics she found this week to get us through this current unprecedented moment in history. Lookout, bed-sharing. There's a new trope on the block. Links: Red Skull as Yoda AO3 K…
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Emily, Elizabeth, and Jeremy settle in to watch and discuss The Covenant, starring Sebastian Stan and end up with an exceptionally deep dive for a film that's so very, very shallow. Support the podcast: Support via PayPal Buy us a Ko-fi Use our Amazon affiliate link Sign up for email updates / new episode announcements Follow on social: Tumblr Inst…
A mastermind, a grifter, a hacker, a hitter, a thief all walk into a bar and stay there, as a found family, and an in-canon OT3. A fandom so perfect it has the lowest amount of fix-it fics. A fandom so perfect it fixes OTHER people's canon. It may not have been a perfect show, but it certainly made an impact on its fanbase and that's something you …
What started out as possible fodder for the return of Why So Salty turned into an entire episode devoted to SHIELD's number one agent, Nick Fury's Number Two, and all around bad. ass. bitch Maria Hill. Also in this episode, get ready for a special project from I Ship It and a whole new reason to tune in to this podcast. Links: This Guy by gwyneth r…
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Are Harry and Louis really in love? Is there a reason Liam's frequently written as a werewolf? Who is Jace and why does no one question why he's partying with a bunch of college students? We're daving super deep this week into the world of One Direction with specific attention paid to the fanfic-turned-novel-turned-film "After". Special guest Eliza…
Emily didn't necessarily WANT to do this episode. She didn't WANT to have spent way too much time analyze a 30 second TV spot, formulating multiple theories, hashing out her hopes and dreams, and finding coordinating fanfic about it. But she did. She did that for you. (And, let's be real. She did that for herself because that's entirely her MO and …
Not as popular as the coffee shop AU, but filled with just as much potential for all the best drams, it's the theatre AU! This AU has EVERYTHING: potential for intense longing during rehearsals, the first glimpse of someone in a costume that's REALLY working for them, potential for mid-costume-change run-ins with partial nudity, stage kisses. Stage…
If you ever wondered why so many of your favorite characters end up in a coffee shop at some point or another in fanfic, this is the episode for you! Stop on by your favorite cafe, AO3, and ask the barista to prepare you that special blend of fluff, found family and romance always found in the ever popular Coffee Shop AU Links: Bakery Boy by Spring…
You ever pour your heart and soul into a fandom for years and years and years only to have the creators totally blow it in the final inning? (The ENDGAME, if you will. We will, don't worry.) Yeah, friend, we've all been there. Gather round ye olde podcast for a deep-dive into why we fix-it-fic, what your hostess thinks makes for a good story, and w…
