I Ship It – Details, episodes & analysis

There are many tropes that have endured for the ages, but none quite so popular as the Dead Mom Phenomenon. Everywhere we look in films, books, TVs shows, etc. moms are dropping like flies. Em is joined once again by two lovely motherless mongrels, Carly and Farleigh to breakdown why moms are such easy targets in fiction, talk about our favorite fictional moms, and of course, get off topic at least a few times.

Fics:

• The Right Mom by acaseofthemondays

• Taserbones Tumblr Prompts II: Electric Boogaloo (Chapters 12 and 17) by PumpkinDoodles

• everything you lose is a step you take by onlyalittlebookworm

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I Ship It by Not Literally

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Candice returns to Shipper City to share the ins and outs of the Hanahaki trope, including a trip down memory lane of parents who gave us the wrong version of fairy tales and some truly delectable angsty meanderings.

Links:

• ColeyDoesThings Explainer

Fics:

• of red carnations and rainflowers by ryukogo

• love is an affliction by WerewolvesAreReal

• In The Margins of Another Life by ravensandwritings

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Mia returns for our first episode on opposite coasts (Omigod, guys. THE SADNESS.) to talk about some new MCU disappointment, history of the AIDS crisis, and Emily's new obsession: Stranger Things. Specifically how Stranger Things is getting their depiction of teenaged homosexuality in 1986 sadly, truly, right. Join us for some good ol' fashioned salt mining, giggling about the shared braincell of Steve and Robin's epic friendship, and a long and winding list of all the reasons Will Byers is too good for the world he inhabits.

• Book Rec: All the Young Men by Ruth Coker Burks

Fics:

• How your heart beats when you run for cover by fragilethings
• i need you closer, and you're not even an inch away by esperastra
• Video Killed the Radio Star by DiscoSuperFly

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Fair warning: your hostess with the mostest is not a Star Wars fan. She is, however, the most basic of all humans and has joined the rest of the world in caring deeply for Baby Yoda. Who is surprised? Absolutely no one.

Fics:

• Luke Learns First Hand Why You Shouldn't Kidnap Baby Yoda by boredom
  
• Presentation by MissTeaVee
  
• don't get your tinsel in a tangle by not_so_weary_pilgrim
  

Links:

• Star Wars Lingo
  

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Did you ever wonder why some fanfics start with a disclaimer stating how they don't own any of the characters and storylines they're writing about? Well, if you don't know, consider yourself lucky to have not lived through some of the darkest days of fanfic history. And sit down for a tale of terror and read some fic that was once considered forbidden fruit.

Fics:

Coffee Shop AU:

Signature Blend by Burnadette_dpdl, Rebness

College/University AU:

Interview with the Frat Boy by the_corinthian

There was no sacred place by firstaudrina

Links:

• https://jennytrout.tumblr.com/post/160931383033/do-not-trust-anne-rice
  
• https://dresupi.tumblr.com/post/190083468326/ao3commentoftheday-kink-tomato-elfwreck
  
• https://kotaku.com/it-used-to-be-perilous-to-write-fanfiction-1826083509
  
• https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Anne%20Rice
  

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Where else but the internet can you find myriad transformative works about the quasi-incestuous relationship of two characters in a Folgers commercial from 2009? As a special holiday treat, Emily takes a sip of the Folgerscest fandom and shares her findings with all of you. You're welcome, by the way.

Links:

• The Commercial
  
• GQ article
  
• Returned Present by Azdaema
  
• When I wake I'll be the first thing you see by Lizzen
  

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Emily announces her intention to go down with yet another ship this week. The good ship Peggysous. That's right, we're talking about the absolutely one-hundred-percent canon delight that is the relationship between Peggy Carter and Daniel Sousa as shown to us in two delicious seasons of Agent Carter.

Links:

• Cherry Lips, Crystal Skies by RockSaltandRoll
  
• Renegades by inkdust
  

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Joined by one of her absolute best friends in the world, Emily basically giggles her way through her own personal history and love of the 1992 critical flop, Newsies. Listen to how those pelvic thrusting newsboys brought your host her best friend and some of her favorite memories. Also, if you don't know when The Berlin Wall came down, this is also the episode for you.

Links:

• Angie by Sparker
  
• Brooklyn Baby by PeterPansEyebrows
  

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As December blows in cold and icy, Em takes you on a little spin through what she's been into lately, what she's been reading, watching, and that thing AO3 can give us that nothing else can.

Links:

• we all burn as one by glowinghorizons
  
• These Red Strings of Tangled Intent by chinaink
  
• Broken Boy, New Boy by TheCockyUndead
  

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I Ship It by Not Literally

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We're going to wrap up our November with some gratitude, some attitude, and some serious familiar shipping. Em poses a fun new challenge for four specific people in 2020 and offers up two tasty Shieldshock fics to pass around the table with the sweet potatoes and stuffing this Thanskgiving.

Links:

• Whatever Remains by Nerissa
  
• All my heros got tired by grimeysociety
  
• Shieldshock Fanvid
  

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