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Fan-written romance, read aloud and argued over.
Ships of Chaos has Jonny and Justina reading fanfiction aloud and breaking off mid-passage to question what the characters are doing. Episodes numbered 3.1 to 3.4 work through a Twilight story, The Spaces Between the Notes by Lyrical Chris. Elsewhere the talk turns to Teen Wolf fics, 50 Shades and the dreadful stories every fandom seems to have.
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Ships of Chaos is a fanfiction read-along presented by Jonny and Justina, and the reading is only half the appeal. The other half is the running commentary. Episodes open on a scripted welcome that treats the listener like a passenger boarding a ship. A captain and a first mate are introduced, adult situations and themes are flagged, and there is a gentle suggestion to be careful about listening in public. A note follows that the stories and characters belong to other people. Then the pair catch up. Jonny has a new job and a 45-minute drive to get there. One episode lands a week late after a rough stretch for him, another is recorded on new software the two are still working out, and one carries the title 'Episode 1.23 or The One with the Audio Issues'. The fiction in this stretch is romance. Episodes 3.1 to 3.4 read The Spaces Between the Notes, a Twilight story by Lyrical Chris, who is thanked by name for permission to share it. Bella falls for Carlisle Cullen, cast as a rock star. She is turned away from a 21-plus club, trades shouts with her father over the phone, and watches Carlisle perform from just off the stage, steered there by a teasing Alistair. The pair do not read straight through. They stop to ask what was said at dinner in the previous chapter. They debate whether Bella is rebelling against Charlie or really in love, note that she and the rock star have met only twice, and say so when her youth and the speed of it make them uneasy. There is an episode called '3.3 - or Jess questions love at first sight.' One of them has read the story before and hints at time jumps ahead; the other simply wants to see where it ends up. Other fandoms keep slipping in. A bouncer in the Twilight story gets pitched as Derek, partly for the muscles and partly because the last fic one of them read made him a bouncer too. In 'Episode 2.6 or Jonny talks about crack ships', the conversation takes in terrible fanfic from Harry Potter and Teen Wolf, 50 Shades making plenty of money anyway, and a story that lifts Ross and Rachel's pregnancy plot from Friends. Someone has been practicing voices ahead of the Twilight reading. The show also tends its own corner of fandom, with talk of a Facebook group, promos, and a planned special 420 episode in which Jonny does the reading. Listeners are 'Chaotix', and the sign-offs promise another 'Chaotic Thursday'. For a first listen, 'Episode 3.1 - Wrong Wrong Wrong' is where the pair welcome everyone to the start of this story.
Made for: Suits a listener who wants fan-written romance read aloud with company, and who enjoys hearing two readers stop mid-chapter to question a character's choices or wince at a sudden turn.
What sets it apart: It performs the fanfiction itself rather than summarising it, credits the author by name, and lets the pair's candid reactions, including open discomfort with where a story is heading, sit right beside the prose.
Join Jonny and Justina while they explore different fanfictions and their fandoms. Our podcast has recently explored fics from the TeenWolf, Harry P and Twilight Fandoms. This podcast will contain adult situations and themes. We do not own these stories or characters. They are just along for the ride upon The Ships of Chaos.
Bella falls for rock-star Carlisle, and Johnny and Justina make you question the speed of the swoon.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
Bella's backstage detour with Alistair gives this fanfiction reading a mix of teasing tension, nerves, and host banter.
Ships of Chaos starts in its usual loose, lived-in mode, as the hosts talk through a new job, a 45-minute drive, a forgotten schedule, and an upcoming move before easing into the fanfiction reading.
A lively chapter read built around Sweet's sudden leap into love.
Chapter three of "spaces between the notes" turns a fan-fiction reading into a running argument about how fast Chase and Sweet can name their connection as love.
Rock-star glamour meets fanfiction hosts still deciding whether Carlisle and Bella click.
Ships of Chaos follows a heated chapter from Lyrical Chris's The Spaces Between the Notes, with Bella watching Carlisle Cullen perform and beginning to look past the stage persona behind the songs.
Bella fears the worst outside a Seattle club, until one kind question turns the night stranger.
Ships of Chaos opens with Bella stranded outside a 21-plus club, short on cash, lost in Seattle, and bracing for the worst when a dark-windowed car pulls her attention.
A loose fanfiction vocabulary chat sets up a Bella and Carlisle pairing while weighing the tags the hosts avoid.
Ships of Chaos frames its Twilight setup as a casual primer on fanfiction terms. Johnny and Justina work through what they mean by a crack ship, touch on non-canon and rare pairings, and set up the next story as a Bella and Carlisle pairing.
Intimate podfic for myth, memory, and aftermath.
Serialized pulp radio drama: Red Panda battles android-army supervillain Captain Clockwork in 1930s Toronto.
Mike Muncer and a different guest dissect two horror films per episode, by subgenre.
Joe Lipsett and Trace Thurman find queer subtext in everything from Anaconda to The Mummy.
["Ships of Chaos episode 3.4, 'Let me see your Peacock,' tracks Bella and Carlisle after a two-year separation as a concert-night reunion collides with his new album and his life as a father.", "Johnny, Jess, and Justina recap Lyrical Chris's fanfiction The Spaces Between the Notes, then move into a chapter full of backstage access and jealousy.", "Bella's college life still carries her freshman-year relationship with James, whose controlling behavior ended after Jasper got a black eye and James got a broken nose.", "The chapter spends its last stretch on Carlisle, Peter Damon, Alice, and Jasper measuring each other at the concert, then on Carlisle showing up at Bella's dorm door late at night."]
Chapter three of 'Ships of Chaos - A Fanfiction Podcast' centers on Carlisle sending 18-year-old Bella home after their Portland hotel-room scene, while Alistair pushes him to explain why he stopped.
Ships of Chaos episode 3.2, "How did Peter P End Up in this Story," mixes a week-late recording apology with a read of "The Spaces Between the Notes" by Lyrical Chris.
["Ships of Chaos Episode 3.1, \"Wrong Wrong Wrong,\" reads Chapter 1 of The Spaces Between the Notes by Lyrical Chris, a Twilight fanfiction built around Carlisle Cullen and Bella Swan.", "Johnny and the co-host who identifies herself as Justina, after being introduced as Jess, spend the opening minutes reacting to an author's note that treats the Carlisle/Bella pairing as intentionally wrong.", "Bella drives to Seattle in an ancient truck to see Carlisle, gets turned away from a 21-plus club, and is stranded in the rain until he offers her a ride.", "The readthrough centers on Bella's blunt dialogue, Carlisle's restraint, and the diner-and-hotel scenes where their mutual attraction becomes impossible to ignore."]
Ships of Chaos - A Fanfiction Podcast spends Episode 2.6 defining "crack ship" and lands on Bella/Carlisle Cullen, a Twilight pairing Johnny says has only about three Archive of Our Own pages.
Hosts Johnny and Jess introduce their fanfiction podcast, discuss upcoming episodes, and announce a special 420 holiday episode.
Hosts Jonny and Justina introduce their fanfiction podcast, share personal updates, and discuss Jonny's new job at Walmart.
Jonny and Justina recap part one of a Teen Wolf fanfiction chapter and invite listener feedback.
Jonny and Jess introduce their fanfiction podcast, discuss the Teen Wolf fandom, and begin reading a story called Radio Tower.