Canonically Incorrect

Here's to another year! Season 2 has come and gone so quickly, but you, our listeners, make it worth every minute recording and every hour editing. For our annual bonus Q&A episode, we're answering YOUR questions! What food combination is Sydney and Maya? Have they ever read a fanfiction that made them close the tab and walk away from the computer? Would they rather be a vampire or fairy (you...

As a Christmas present to her favorite co-host, Maya is taking a break from her usual heavy angst, rip your heart out, make you think about it for days on end fanfiction to bring Sydney a flower shop AU filled with fluff, the perfect amount of awkwardness, and yes, a little bit of angst (this is still Maya after all). Thanks to listener, andypantsx3 on Tumblr, for reminding Maya that this beautifu...

It's the most wonderful time of the year! The holiday season is back and Sydney has decided that her present to Maya will be to not subject her to another year of Hallmark. But that won't stop her from celebrating her favorite holiday, and she knows exactly how to do so. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, a novel written in 1834, is still as relevant today as it was back in Victorian England. T...

Fanfiction author Simply_Lumity (Music Under the Spotlight and More Than One Meeting), joins Sydney and Maya to talk about how the COVID-19 pandemic changed the way we consume and interact with fanfiction, how Lumity somehow wrote an incredibly popular band AU with no prior knowledge of bands or music, what happens to a work-in-progress fanfiction when the author loses their obsession over the med...

IT'S PERCY JACKSON DAY! At least according to Maya it is! She's read the most popular Percy Jackson fanfiction on AO3 featuring everyone's favorite son of Hades and sunshine son of Apollo, Nico di Angelo and Will Solace. It's after the war with Gaia and the gang is resting, catching up, and catching their breaths as they recover from saving the world (yet again). Reading such a sweet, slice of lif...

*in the tune of The Black Parade by My Chemical Romance* When I was a young boy, I had unrestricted internet access, to fight people online. About Ryden, and Ferard, and people who were not dating in real life, or know me at all. *ends* Sydney just had the chance to see My Chemical Romance live in concert after almost a decade of dreaming, and since then she has pondered on her time in the fandom...

We're bidding the Halloween season goodbye with a shortie, but a goodie. As we recovered from our penultimate episode, we decided to give ourselves a little break by pulling out some of the best 'Trick or Treating' one-shots we could find on AO3. We've got it all in this episode. We've got cute kids, doting parents/uncles, existential crisises, and all the candy you could eat. Put on your best cos...

Come one, come all, to this ultra special, ultra raunchy, ultra horny extravaganza. For our penultimate 69th episode, we are celebrating all things monsters and monsterfuckers. For too long you have lived in the shadows, fantasizing about tentacles and fangs under the cover of night, but tonight... it's all about you. We have set up two incredible segments (Smash or Pass, and the ultimate Monsterf...

Spooky season is here and we are upping the ante this year! You know Sydney as the fluffy fic loving, heavy angst hating, hopeless romantic. But, did you know that she has a deep, intricate love of horror and gore, especially around Halloween time. Halloween is that time where her dark side can come out and play, and to kick off the spooky season, she's kicking it off with the gorsiest, cruelest,...

Welcome back to the extra special, extra wild, extra scary, and extra boozy episode! The time is here, Maya is 21, so we've broken out the liquor, turned down the lights, and put on a good 'ole MatPat video for this very special Five Nights At Freddy's episode. We all know the infamous videogame series featuring haunted animatronics trying to kill you while you survive until 5 AM, but do you know...

Fanfiction author Joe a.k.a athingofvikings (I'm Not Saying Anything, A Thing of Vikings), joins Sydney and Maya to talk about how he was introduced to How to Train Your Dragon by his then fiancée, why representation is so important in the media you consume, what the process of having several beta readers looks like, and the incredible and supportive fanbase that has surrounded themselves around o...

Hey guys. I thought this was going to be fun. If you can't tell, this is Maya coming in live to tell you that the Silmarillion is very complex, and I've dived deep to help you all better understand it for the new Lord of the Rings show, The Rings of Power . Unfortunately, Sydney had to sit there and watch me descend into madness as I tried my best (keyword: tried) to tell the history of not only M...

We're back at it again with Sydney and Maya's birthday month! And you know what they mean, they get to do whatever they want because this month is for them and them alone. To kick off birthday month, Sydney's diving into her childhood to find a time of innocence and wholesome-ness. She is turning 24 this year, and she may or may not have had an entire existential crisis about the fact that she's o...

Fanfiction author Asimi_Shadowborn (When the Sun Caught Icarus, The Greatest, and Better Than Birds of a Feather), joins Sydney (add in sad music for Maya's absence in this episode) to talk about how she started her anime journey with one of the most depressing animes known to mankind, why she cannot bring herself to read or write heavy angst/unhappy endings, her love of writing a variety of ships...

It's finally here! Our special Game of Thrones episode to celebrate the release of the prequel, House of the Dragon! We couldn't let this day go by without giving Maya a chance to talk about one of her favorite shows, and two of her favorite characters inside said show. Maya has always had a soft spot for the powerful OG girl boss Brienne of Tarth and the dashing prince who deserved a redemption a...

The bell has rung and school is back in session! For those of you returning to class, and others of you who are never stepping foot in a classroom again, you probably remember the day when you realized that teacher were real people who didn't sleep in the basement of the school. Teachers are incredible humans and that's why today, it's all about that teacher x teacher romance! We love a good teach...

Sydney and Maya step up to the debate podium once again to argue two sides of a shockingly similar coin. Friends to Lovers v. Enemies to Lovers. Both are great romance choices, but which side are you on? The heart-achingly, bittersweet love of falling for the person who you hate the most, or the heart-breakingly, longing of falling in love with your best friend. Do you love the moment where the ri...

Fanfiction author Tawus (Personal Trainer, Wolfman’s Medicine, and Infidelity), joins Sydney and Maya to talk about her love of writing heavy angst fanfiction, talks about her wildly popular fic Infidelity, other characters she would love to write for in the Jujutsu Kaisen universe, and why exploring those darker tropes and negative human emotions are needed in fanfiction. Plus, Sydney tells Tawus...

You know her, you love her and now you get to learn even more about fanfiction author rdvelevetkisscs, a.k.a. Canonically Incorrect co-host Sydney! Hear about how she didn't publish any of the fanfiction she wrote for many years, her most controversial fanfiction trope that Sydney does not like to read, why she continues to write for little Sydney, and the kick in the pants she needed to finally s...

Before the dawn of the internet, fanfiction could only be found in the small corners of your local 'nerd' spots. Women were mocked for the art and you had to hope there was another group of fans for you to engage with or you were just going to be alone in your obsession. The internet brought good and bad. Suddenly, there were more access to fanfiction on Geocities and Angelfire sites, but there wa...

Sara from Talkin' Fanfic joins Sydney and Maya to talk about how fans are the backbone of the television, movies, books, and video games that we love, why Talkin' Fanfic went from a Cobra Kai-centric podcast to one that includes multiple fandoms, why there are so many podcasts who talk negatively about fanfiction, and the reason why she is so proud to be an amateur. Plus, Maya and Sara talk about...

Welcome one, welcome all, to the first annual Canonically Incorrect Hunger Games! In tonight's epic showdown, 24 contestants who Sydney and Maya have talked about during the run of the show will go head to head in a bloody duel for the public's utmost love and affection! In all seriousness, Maya has taken 24 beloved characters that we have read fanfiction for over the past year and a half, pu...

Normally, we would wait until a fanfiction is finished before rambling on and on about it in an episode. Normally, fanfictions aren't 1.3 million words long. But not all fics are A Thing Of Vikings by athingofvikings. Starting today, we give you part one to a special multi-part series that Sydney could not be more excited to share with you all. The Viking Age meets Game of Thrones (at least that's...

Jasper and Jordan from On The Road With Supernatural joins Sydney and Maya to talk about the burning pile of shit the last two episodes of Supernatural are, why individuals are still drawn to the show and the ship even after years of queerbaiting and misogyny, what made them return to the show even after they turned their backs on it, and the reason why they champion small podcasts ran by fans rat...

DISCLAIMER: This episode contains many sensitive topics. If you are easily trigger by or are uncomfortable listening to topics including child sexual abuse, self harm, suicide, domestic abuse, stalking, kidnapping, and torture, please do not listen to this episode and we will see you next week. If you have stuck around, welcome to this week's episode, where Maya explores the violent and disturbing...