Defend Your Ship

Raina explains the Danganronpa series to Stevie, who learned what Junko posing was this past week. One entire hour of Danganronpa, because this quarantine is doing strange things to all of us!

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Raina & Stevie's recommendations for what to watch while you're on quarantine. Stay healthy out there, friends! Bonus: Raina recaps the last two Steven Universe episodes. 

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Cliortis B. Toklas brings us a trio of fandoms! We talk Anne of Green Gables, Little Women, and Call the Midwife (plus one long tangent about Dollywood) for our longest episode yet. 

Content Warnings: Middle-aged white lady fandom, gently ragging on Laurie, and a reaaally long intro. 

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Which is better: Riverdale, or The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina? Neither. They're both trash, and that's why we love them. In this episode, Raina represents Sabrina, and Stevie enthusiastically trash talks Riverdale. 

Content Warnings: Spoilers for The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina Season 3. No hard spoilers for Riverdale, but there is discussion of events from early in Season 4. 

Other warnings: Raina eats a wonton, Stevie's cats thunder up and down their cat tree, and Stevie hijacks the show to plug their new fandom. 

"Hey what IS that pyramid scheme Stevie wouldn't shut up about?" Don't worry, Stevie's got you. You can read their primer for The Untamed right here. 

Questions, concerns, enthusiasm? Find us on Twitter @defendyourship, or send us an email at [email protected]. 

Today we present Johnny Caligula on the greatest divorce story of all time: Professor X & Magneto, of The X-Men. They're playing chess, they're raising kids (kind off), they're ....madly in love. It's basically canon. 

Content Warnings for: Not much! Except... Shrek-like Scottish accents. Apologies. 

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Raina and Stevie talk through the ups and downs of Millennials in Fandom, from the days of geocities, to AO3, to FOSTA/SESTA. Tl;dr, the kids are alright. 

Thoughts about Millennials? Thoughts about Fandom? Find us on Twitter @defendyourship, or email us at [email protected]. 

We brought back Maggie McMuffin for another round! This time we're talking femslash. Specifically, Harley Quinn & Poison Ivy, and all our queer fantasies for them. 

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Content warnings: discussion of abuse and trauma in real life and fanficion. Light encouragement of criminal behavior (like robbing banks to pay your mortgage). Discussion of homophobia as it impacts women and femslash. 

Get ready for a rambling conversation about all the wild tropes and topics that make us love fandom (and make real life media look super boring by comparison). Featuring discussion of  polyamory, sexwork, BDSM, romance as psychological horror, and taking care of each other while exploring the dark weird stuff. 

Additional topics include an 8-minute recap of the last Twilight movie (29:54 to 37:02), and an in-depth discussion of A/B/O, and its significance as a fandom trope that has developed a canon of its own (from 46:20 on). Plus, stay-tuned after the regular content as we answer the question, "which ghost do you ship Scrooge with?" (We originally meant to post this episode on Christmas).

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Content warnings: horrific pregnancy (Twilight), A/B/O, biological prescriptivism as a trope, heat cycles, dubious consent, dark!fic in general. 

Fanfiction referenced in this episode: Suppress that shit by appalachian_fireflies

Would you believe that Homestuck was an innovative frontier for new storytelling and language? Well, we're defending it anyway. Or rather, Betty Brash is. 

Content Warnings: Can't think of any! This is a fairly tame episode, aside from the fact that it's Homestuck we're discussing.

Want to tell us how nuts we are for talking about Homestuck in 2020? Tweet as us @defendyourship, or send us an email - [email protected]. 

And don't forget Betty Brash and Mx Macabre's Homestuck Burlesque show! March 13th, at the Nest in Brooklyn. 

Happy New Year! For our first instalment of 2020, we're bringing you murder, desire, obsession - but this time with femslash (well, technically it's canon). Our guest Shannon presents: Killing Eve. 

Content Warnings: Murder, serial killers, gaslighting, obsession, stabbings and shootings, and spoilers for Killing Eve, 

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