In Deep Ship!

Welcome to an extra spooky Halloween special where we dive into Supernatural’s internet-defining ships, focusing on Destiel (Dean/Castiel) and with a ittle sprinkle of WinCest (Sam/Dean) for good measure. We recap how Castiel was introduced to raise Dean from hell, became a long-running character due to fan reception, and how fandom culture (SuperWhoLock, Tumblr, conventions, writers monitoring fo...

What does a ship that's taken the internet by storm need the most? Certainly not another two random ladies yapping about it. That's why we're forgoing our faves to see how they measure up against any other potential ships from the Game Changers world. We're exploring four new Heated Rivalry pairings and seeing if they can get us on that ship. The fics we read this week were: Ha...

Hang on to your $%#!*@ ribbons and detachable body parts, we've got an adventure for you today. We're diving into the world of The Amazing Digital Circus, an indie YouTube animated seris. This week, we're unpacking the listener-submited ship "Abstragedy" or the relationship between Gangle and Zooble. These two humans navigate being trapped in a program run by an AI ringmas...

Join the patron saints of one-way trips as we explore the containment-shattering cross ship "BloodyMary." This week we're exploring the mind child of some internet genius who took quirky scientist, Ryland Grace (Project Hail Mary), and paired him with brooding space terrorist, Simon (Iron Lung). This is truly a crack ship that some how has us all in a chokehold. We discuss its origi...

Love gothic teens and bubbly werewolves, oh my! Join us for our first ship of the season, Wenclair (Wednesday Addams and Enid Sinclair) from the Netflix show Wednesday. We're debuting our new format where we explore the ship and the fan art to see if the fans can get us aboard their ship. This episode tackles listener-requested Wenclair (Wednesday Addams/Enid Sinclair) from Netflix’s Wednesda...

Mischief Managed. Pour two cups of tea and join us for this super-sized episode where we'll cover the final section of All the Young Dudes by MsKingBean89. We spent our summer with our favorite dead gay wizards, specifically Wolfstar (Remus Lupin/Sirius Black). We'll recap the final section of the epic fic and share our final thoughts on the story, the Harry Potter series and our anticip...

It's calm before the storm in this section of our Summer Fanfic Book Club. We're working our way through All the Young Dudes by Ms. KingBean89 and its central ship WolfStar (Remus Lupin/Sirius Black). It's our final semester at Hogwarts and our first glimpse into life as child soldiers in Dumbledore's secret army. We'll cover all the Wolfstar drama, Hope's short, sad...

We're back again, covering another 30 chapters of the Wolfstar epic, All the Young Dudes. We return to MsKingBean89's masterpiece featuring the Remus Lupin and Sirius Black, just when things are heating up. In this section, we see Remus navigate a secret situationship, coming face-to-face with his past and just how his lycanthropy fits inside the wizarding world. We meet our first werewo...

We're back and this week's episode is what slow burn dreams are made of! Join us for part 3 of our Summer Fanfic Book Club on the Marauders-era Harry Potter fanfic All the Young Dudes. For today's episode, we're covering chapters 63–94 and obsessing over the Wolfstar slow burn (Remus Lupin/Sirius Black). We get clued in on the title’s David Bowie origin, then recap Remus’s sexu...

Join us as we continue our summer fanfic book club with All the Young Dudes chapters 31–62. We continue our read through of MissKingBean89’s Wolfstar epic by recapping our stand out moments, how relationships are changing and, of course, the pranks and mischief made along the way. Tensions in the wizarding world set a ominous backdrop as the Marauders face their biggest challenge yet: puberty. Thi...

Hot fandom summer starts now: we launch our “In Deep Ship FanFic Book Club” summer series with the AO3 juggernaut All the Young Dudes by MissKingBean89. Across six episodes, we'll dive into the Marauders-era Wolfstar ship (Remus Lupin/Sirius Black). We start off with a look at the Marauders fandom as a way to revisit the Harry Potter world ethically, discuss fanfic’s appeal and discourse, and...

Join us as we jump on the monster hunter to monster kisser express. In this episode, we're discussing "Bloodpact," the ship featuring Astarion and Wyll Ravensguard from Baldur's Gate 3.  In a classic Emily special-interest-info-dump, we'll explore why BloodPact works so well as a gothic character foil relationship — plus tragic backstories, hope and healing, and the contro...

Come on in for an awkward sibling hug as we explore the spooky and supernatural world of Gravity Falls. This week we're talking about the bitter yet heated relationship between Bill Cipher and Standford Pines. We'll dive into Gravity Falls—its 2012–2016 two-season run, Alex Hirsch’s clues/ciphers, ARG scavenger hunt, and the 2024 Book of Bill—before focusing on the controversial ship “Bi...

Everything about this episode invites you in... so come join us as we explore the ships the average Twilight fan is afraid to say out loud. We drop some serious Emily and Rachel lore before introducing you to four ships from the Twilight series by Stephanie Meyer that you might have missed in your first readthrough. We cover all the romance from the cozy dadmance to the dark romantasy of Dramione...

Enter our mind palace as we explore the couple that set Tumblr ablaze. Today we're talking Johnlock, the fan fixation of Sherlock Holmes shipped with John Watson from Sherlock—the 2010-2017 BBC drama. This modern retelling from Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss pulled fans back into the world created by Arthur Conan Doyle. The chemistry and hints in the show led fans to passionately root for the...

Bone magic, swords in space and a ship that reaches beyond death. Join us today for a dive into Tamsyn Muir’s unfinished Locked Tomb series (Gideon the Ninth and sequels), a sci-fi/fantasy horror murder-mystery with meme-heavy humor and a final book still unreleased. We explore the relationship betwwen Gideon Nav and Harrowhark ("GriddleHark"), lifelong enemies from the dying, cultish Ni...

Making obsessive situationships hot since 1847. Join us as we dive into the dark and twisted world of 2026 Wuthering Heights film adaptation—written and directed by Emerald Fennell and starring Margot Robbie. We focus on the iconic ship Catherine Earnshaw/Heathcliff. We compare the movie’s glossy “goth Bridgerton” vibe and major changes—softening Heathcliff, cutting cruelty, and ending halfway thr...

Let your darker side give in as we delve into the sizzling love story of Christine Daae and the Phantom (Erik) from the hit Andrew Lloyd Webber musical: Phantom of the Opera. Join us as we go down once more to the dungeon of Rachel's childhood obsession and revisit the moments that got our hearts racing and made us swoon. We'll also explore the novel by Gaston Leroux, the 2004 Phantom of...

What's better than one Valentine? Five! We're digging into the fantastical and expansive world of Love and Deepspace during this most romantic time of the year. We're learning how this mobile game combined the oteme genre, gacha mechanics and ASMR mouth sounds to build the virtual boyfriends of women around the world. We'll meet Xavier, Rafayel, Zayne, Sylus and Caleb then dive...

“We are here!” …to talk about one of the most volatile ships in anime history. Today we're throwing on our hero costumes and diving headfirst into My Hero Academia’s most explosive ships: BakuDeku—aka Katsuki Bakugo and Izuku Midoriya. We're digging through our piles of hero analysis notes to  track this couple from childhood companionship to super rivals and eventually reluctant teammat...

We're connecting the dots, like so many string lights, to get to the truth behind Byler, the popular Stranger Things ship of Mike Wheeler and Will Byler. We will disect the pair's top moments in order to follow the clues as defined by diehard Byler stans. Along the way, we discuss Stranger Things Season 5, Conformity Gate and the Duffer Brother's take on queer representation. We wil...

Join us as we celebrate all the love that got us through the year. We'll revisit some of our favorite (and least favorite) ships of the year. We'll also dig into AO3 numbers to see what ships had fans in a chokehold this year. And finally, we get a visit from the Ghost of Shipmas' Yet to Come as we predict what ships to watch in 2026. Oh and we reveal some big changes for the podcas...

It's cold, so let's dig into a frosty couple in our final official ship of 2025! We're diving into the fandom phenomenon of shipping Elsa from Frozen with Jack Frost from Rise of the Guardians. We explore the origins, tropes, and fan theories that bring these two ice-powered characters together, despite belonging to different animation studios. They discuss the potential romance dyn...

Join us for our first foray into the dubious world of shipping real life people with special guest host Laura of Impolite Society podcast.  Together we dive into the fan-driven phenomenon surrounding Rhett and Link from Good Mythical Morning. We explore the origins of the 'Rink' ship, the deep friendship between the two YouTube stars, and the boundary between fan fiction and reality. The...

Join the party as we embark on an adventure into the world of Dungeons and Dragons. Today we're talking internet sensation 'Critical Role' and fan favorite ship of 'Shadowgast' from the show's second campaign. We explore the relationship between Caleb Widogast, a human wizard with a tragic past, and Essek Thelyss, a drow wizard with a penchant for gravity and time mag...