Grace, James and Nick are on a mission to find the best works of the fanfiction community. Join us bi-weekly as we explore a new fandoms, learn about the most popular fan couples ("Ships") and get lost down many rabbit holes along the way. Expect adult content and discussion of sexual topics throughout. Intro music by Matthew Dommett, more of his work can be found here: https://soundcloud.com/matthew-dommett
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Signup to Generate a PitchGrace, James and Nick are on a mission to find the best works of the fanfiction community. Join us bi-weekly as we explore a new fandoms, learn about the most popular fan couples ("Ships") and get lost down many rabbit holes along the way. Expect adult content and discussion of sexual topics throughout.
Recent episodes include "A Not Very Serious Discussion of Looney Tunes Yaoi" (25 October 2026, 126 minutes), "Write More Time Cop Fics" (12 October 2026, 90 minutes), and "Fanfics and Chill: Bin Night" (27 September 2026, 31 minutes).
The Shipping Forecast publishes roughly every two weeks, with episodes averaging 103 minutes across 183 episodes.
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The Shipping Forecast is an arts podcast with 183 episodes published.
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The Shipping Forecast
Episode Notes This week, the Forecasters get together, in person for a change, to discuss the second human/non-human bromance that has stolen our hearts this year. (Acme vs Coyote) We also find a surprising amount of...
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Episode Notes This week, Nick and James are left to their own devices as Grace is busy with an important side project. Join us, as we chat about 00s British TV, learn about Soulmate AUs, and try and work out if we can...
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Episode Notes This week we return to our long missed series of dramatic readings; Fanfics and Chill. Tonight we read IrisRetulata9's erotic tale about Ceefax advocate and Britain's future Prime Minister; Count Binface...
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Episode Notes This week, the forecasters look for works about people being In Heat, because they have just come out of the fifth heatwave of the UK, and they wanted to see how other people handled being In Heat. They...
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Episode Notes This week, while this episode is nominally about the Odyssey, only Grace saw it so we mostly want to talk about Hades 2 again. It expands into discussion of Greek mythology as a whole, but not before a...
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Episode Notes This week, we celebrate that Nick is legally a trucker now that he has passed his truck test. He joins other famous truckers like Smokey and the Bandit, Ganondorf, and Kim Namjoon from BTS. Probably. Join...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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