The Shipping Forecast

Episode Notes This week, well its been a rough one because there was a big heatwave, the episode was corrupted and it took until after the heatwave for my brain to realise I could recover it. So we had to power through and only just managed to get this out in time! Join Grace and James as we manage to explain the highs and lows of the Arrowverse, pondering why the muscle girls always end up with g...

Episode Notes This week, we go to space with Ryan Gosling in the hopes of making friends. Grace spends the entire thing unsettling because he has borrowed her name. Grace gives (actually quite good) dating advice Nick gives (some alright) fashion advice) and James is here too. Enjoying the show? Got a fic you'd like us to read? Hate the show and you want to tell us anyway? Come find us on our soci...

Episode Notes The secret fourth member of SuperWhoLock has ended, attempting to squeeze 6 hours of plot into 100 minutes. The forecasters weigh in on their feelings about Good Omens season 3, have a look for some fics about it all, and answer hard hitting questions like: Is Free Will Real?  Who is the coolest pope?  Was chitty chitty bang bang sentient? Discussion of the finale ends at 35 minutes,...

Episode Notes This week, a very sleep deprived group of Forecasters explore the "Sold to One Direction" genre, a small but very amusing category in the Archive. It turns out many people from across history have been sold to boy bands over time, we still don't know why but we do answer hard hitting questions, like Who got the best deal for selling their child to One Direction (or another...

Episode Notes His coming has been foreshadowed for some time. This week, we talk about F1, doing our best to wrangle Nick away from talking about the car side of it to focus on the surprisingly popular shipping of the drivers. Join us, as we look at some of the best F1 fics and answer hard hitting questions like: Just how DO you become an alpha? Why does everyone want men to cry? What exactly does...

Episode Notes Grace has a need, a need for more of the himbo Dunk from Knights of the Seven Kingdoms. Join us as we look into one of many fandoms that seemed to blink out of existence after its finale aired, and ponder hard hitting questions like; Are One Direction still buying people? Do we need to split the Crack tag into Dark Crack and Light Crack? Can we work Big Ladies into this somehow? Enjo...

Episode Notes Grace and James saw Zootopia at the end of last year and have been meaning to discuss it ever since, join us as we barely do that, and instead tangent to other furry adjacent topics; including the objectively better film The Bad Guys 2, Reg the fox mascot of a local railway station, and what we think Keir Starmer's fursona would be. Ao3 went down half way through our recording sessio...

Episode Notes This week, we return to the post apocalyptic wasteland to talk about New Vegas, and the second season of Fallout. This season had big shoes to fill here as this is Nick and James' favourite game in the series, We'll see if they delivered, and if the new season had an impact on the fandom, and answer hard hitting questions like: Did Duran Duran Exist? What are we going to call the oth...

Episode Notes We don't know much about Hockey. And we only know a little bit about Romance. But we do know a lot about Yaoi! Join us as the Forecasters talk about Heated Rivalry, the Canadian Government's first (and hopefully not last) state sponsored erotica. Join us as we ask hard hitting questions, like: What is a Tuna Melt? Will Sophie convince Nick to watch Heated Rivalry over Valentine's Day...

Episode Notes This week, James explains his new favourite second monitor content he has on while he edits the show, While James has no knowledge about actual horses, Grace is a recovering horse girl. Will any of this knowledge overlap? Find out as we discuss our favourite ships and answer hard hitting questions like: Are horses real? When will the cowards at Cygames put out a Christmas Tree costum...

Episode Notes This week, in an episode most definitely recorded and uploaded during Christmas, the forecasters share their favourite ships from 2025. We're doing awards for: Best Doomed Relationship Best Old Man Yaoi Best Rare Pair Best Het Ship The "I Can Fix Him/Her/Them" Award for Problematic Faves The "Hear Me Out" Award Best OTP And, best NoTP We also take time to look int...

Episode Notes This week, James returns from his travels to discuss Hot People Management Simulator (also known as Dispatch). Join us as we find out if he made good choices, and ask hard hitting questions like: Why are the writers such cowards? What is a girlfailure? Did Thatcher Ruin Pegging? Enjoying the show? Got a fic you'd like us to read? Hate the show and you want to tell us anyway? Come fin...

Episode Notes This week, the Forecasters discuss Frankenstein, which James has only seen 2 hours before we recorded! Join us as we catch Nick up with the very first sci-fi novel and check in on how the fanfic world has interpreted the iconic characters. Seriously though, Del Toro is a genius but theres no way that works as a water tower. James is currently travelling and we likely won't get time t...

Episode Notes This week, we return to check in on the Wednesday fandom. We had a good time with the first season but time has passed and only 3 characters really stuck with us. Join us as Grace explains the second season and its new British men, Nick remains disappointed as an original Addams fan, and James disregards the whole thing in favour of searching for more 'grumpy one in love with the sun...

Episode Notes This week, Nick and James check in on Wikihow and discover it's provided some handy guides on playing party games. So join us as we play truth or dare, unearthing some horrifying stories from our teenage years. Then Nick gets to learn what a Labubu is. And then finds out about Sigma Males. And then he realises he might be one himself... Enjoying the show? Got a fic you'd like us to r...

Episode Notes This week, we talk dinosaurs! Join us, as we turn the tables by having Nick explain a film he saw but James did not, before we try and seek out Jurassic Park fics that hold up better than the World trilogy. No real spoilers for any of them this time, unless you count "The Hubris of Man in the face of Nature leads to chaos as Dinosaurs bite peoples faces off". Join us, as we...

Episode Notes This week, James talks at Grace and Nick about Expedition 33, which has been rapidly re-writing his brain chemistry and he desperately needs an outlet to talk about it. Heavily spoilers throughout, I cannot stress this enough, I do recommend playing the game before listening to the episode, we're good but we're not that good. Go play it first. Do it, for those who come after. But if...

Episode Notes This week, after being completely out of our depth on K-Pop, Nick and James continue the trend by looking at music they know of. Join us, as we answer hard hitting questions like: Who is the most popular British Singer RPF? Can they even get to Ao3 now the UK is hell bent on blocking adult content? Who is the most popular Musician on Ao3 that Nick has heard of? All this and more on t...

This week, the Forecasters take their very limited knowledge of K-pop and try and find more content for K-Pop Demon Hunters. Both Grace and James left this film wanting more, and its pretty clear the internet felt the same given they've managed 5000 fics in a month! Join us as we answer hard hitting questions, like Can a fandom be this big without a core yaoi pair? What were the Spice Girls doing...

This week, the crew get together to talk about inanimate objects, and fics involving them. Because of the UK heatwave this is an unhinged one, also James had mic issues so apologies for that. Join us as we answer hard hitting questions, like: Why did Dr Jones have the bag of sand? Which Ice Lolly is best? Will this be our first YouTube apology? Will Nick and James believe anything about tampons? I...

This week, Grace and James set out to undoom their yaoi. Today we're looking for couples that were doomed by their media but the fandom chose to ignore that. We also found how much Greggs AU work there is, and debate if that counts as a Coffee Shop AU. Join us for all that and more, on todays Shipping Forecast. Enjoying the show? Got a fic you'd like us to read? Hate the show and you want to tell...

This week, we begin our long promised melodramatic reading of Dark Shrimp Emotions' surprisingly plausible Guillermo X Colin Robinson fic Join us as Guillermo puts together a plan to make Nandor fall in love with him. Featuring: James as Colin, Guillermo, and Laszlo Cravensworth Grace as Nandor the Relentless and Nadja of Antipaxos Nick as The Narrator Join us as these go up semi-regularly, both h...

This week, we really tried to record a Pride special talking about ships that had been either queer baited or were heavily queer coded but not canon. However, we got side-tracked pretty hard. In hindsight, it was a mistake to open with Bert and Ernie because that really sent us off on some wild tangents. Enjoying the show? Got a fic you'd like us to read? Hate the show and you want to tell us anyw...

This week, in Part 2 of the "Grace is on Holiday and its dangerous to go alone", Nick and James continue trying to understand complicated fandoms, this time taking a look at the Metal Gear Solid Universe. Regular listeners will know that Nick is an avid Cold War nerd, so hopefully all of this will make sense to him, right? Right? Enjoying the show? Got a fic you'd like us to read? Hate the show an...

This week, James and Nick do some preliminary research on one of the most convoluted storylines we're aware of. Join us, as we try and understand any of it through the Kingdom Hearts Wiki (thanks Kingdom Hearts Wiki for being so easy to understand) Let us know if you like the format! We'll be back to looking at fics when we're back to a three man band. Are there any fandoms where the source materi...