Fine Pairings

One Direction One Shot: Niall and the SWAT Team

Grace asked Claire for a self insert One Direction Fanfic. Claire forgot because...life. Then she remembered that she has access to lots of those because she's written them. In this oneshot, Niall Horan finds out are joining the SWAT team and he isn't happy about it. Enjoy.

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Pairing: Black Cherry Mike's Hard Lemonade. Aka the best flavor. Aka College Claire's favorite flavor. Crack a cold one and empty the sweetness.

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Want to read this fic for yourself? Give this author the kudos they deserve? You can find this fic on notatruefan.tumblr.com, Title: Request for Liz, Author: notatruefan

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Fine Pairings Podcast - A podcast about fanfiction. Where we pair ships with cocktails and reading with comedy. Got fanfic you'd like to share? Email us at FinePairingsPodcast@gmail.com

Operation Seduce Michael

Is this the Bad Place? Or have we all just been in quarantining for too long? This week Grace brings Claire a fic about seduction...or rather how the characters of The Good Place tried to seduce their way out of the Bad Place.

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Pairing: The Good Place Bad Place Quarantini - 2 ounces of gin, 0.75 ounce fresh lemon juice, 0.75 ounce simple syrup, a dash (or more) of cinnamon. Shake with ice and pour into a cold glass. Serve with the element of surprise.

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Want to read this fic for yourself? Give this author the kudos they deserve? You can find this fic on ArchiveOfOurOwn.com, Title: Operation Seduce Michael, Author: blithers

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Fine Pairings Podcast - A podcast about fanfiction. Where we pair ships with cocktails and reading with comedy. Got fanfic you'd like to share? Email us at FinePairingsPodcast@gmail.com

The Recounting

We're back! Kicking off the second season, Grace and Claire will read a satirical fanfic that they wrote back in college. Joe Jonas had just penned an essay about chafing under the pressure of being a public figure, and Grace and Claire needed an escape from their courses. Thus The Recounting was born!

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Pairing: In our excitement we forgot a drink. We were also broke in college, so the drink is whatever was free in the kitchen. Aka whatever our roommates no longer wanted.

As we're kicking off the season, you may also pop some bubbly and pop in a cherry! The cherry will be important later.

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Fine Pairings Podcast - A podcast about fanfiction. Where we pair ships with cocktails and reading with comedy. Got fanfic you'd like to share? Email us at FinePairingsPodcast@gmail.com

The Lock-In

It's part two of the holiday fic exchange between Grace and Claire. This episode is a gift from Grace to Claire, and features a fanfic alternative universe where Chris Evans appears in a true story from Grace/Claire's childhood.

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Pairing: Hot chocolate with a shot of peppermint schnapps. Add marshmallows if desired, remember you'll need vegan marshmallows if you're serving Grace but also she doesn't like marshmallows getting in the way. 

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Fine Pairings Podcast - A podcast about fanfiction. Where we pair ships with cocktails and reading with comedy. Got fanfic you'd like to share? Email us at FinePairingsPodcast@gmail.com

It's a Carter-ful Life

It's part one of the holiday fic exchange between Grace and Claire. This episode is a gift from Claire to Grace with an Aaron Carter fanfic that Claire only just before recording learned was not actually what Grace asked for. But like any good gift, it was what she needed.

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Pairing: Hot chocolate with a shot of peppermint schnapps. Add marshmallows if desired, remember you'll need vegan marshmallows if you're serving Grace but also she doesn't like marshmallows getting in the way.

 

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Fine Pairings Podcast - A podcast about fanfiction. Where we pair ships with cocktails and reading with comedy. Got fanfic you'd like to share? Email us at FinePairingsPodcast@gmail.com

I Work for You (I Dream of Drew)

It's beginning to look a lot like...fanfic, and there's no place like HGTV for the holidays! Grace found a Mary Sue type fanfic on the Property Brothers because Claire demanded that there be no twincest.

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Pairing: A Fuzzy Navel, or whatever the first drink you've ever ordered in a bar was. Because the relationship in this fic feels just as inexperienced as you did that first time the bartender asked you what you wanted.

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Want to read this fic for yourself? Give this author the kudos they deserve? You can find this fic on wattpad.net, Title: I work for you (I dream of drew), Author: StoriesandLyrics1

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Fine Pairings Podcast - A podcast about fanfiction. Where we pair ships with cocktails and reading with comedy. Got fanfic you'd like to share? Email us at FinePairingsPodcast@gmail.com

Backstage

This week is an homage to fanfic with a Harry Potter fic that gets meta about fanfiction. See the secret lives of the characters when they aren't starring in the fanfics that we all know and love.

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Pairing: Felix Felicis ("Liquid Luck") - Mix 1/4 oz simple syrup and 1/4 oz lemon juice in the bottom of a champagne flute, add the ginger beer and fill with champagne.

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Want to read this fic for yourself? Give this author the kudos they deserve? You can find this fic on ArchiveOfOurOwn.org, Title: Backstage [+podfic], Author: picascribit

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Fine Pairings Podcast - A podcast about fanfiction. Where we pair ships with cocktails and reading with comedy. Got fanfic you'd like to share? Email us at FinePairingsPodcast@gmail.com

Bonus Episode - After the Movie

There's much to be thankful for this week, including a bonus episode from Fine Pairings! This week Grace and Claire are thankful that After was made into a movie. It's everything you could hope it could be.

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Pairing: Grace and Claire are drinking BuzzBallz Tequila 'Rita Cocktails because it seemed ridiculous and like maybe something you would drink in college, but probably don't actually drink in college. Which is basically what After makes college seem like.

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Want to watch this movie for yourself? You can rent the movie from Amazon, or Claire discovered that it's now on international flights on Delta when she went on a business trip and the man next to her watched it. This is not an ad, and it's probably cheaper to rent it.

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Fine Pairings Podcast - A podcast about fanfiction. Where we pair ships with cocktails and reading with comedy. Got fanfic you'd like to share? Email us at FinePairingsPodcast@gmail.com

Get Religion Quick - A Good Omens Fic

Grace reminds the audience that she knows nothing of popular culture, so reading a Good Omens fanfiction was always going to be a stretch without Claire explaining basically the whole show. This whole podcast is basically the Odd Couple, but so is Good Omens!

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Pairing: A non-alcoholic hibiscus tea, paired with the idea that you are a Victorian child and if you spend time outside in any form of weather...you will get sick.

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Want to read this fic for yourself? Give this author the kudos they deserve? You can find this fic on ArchiveOfOurOwn.org, Title: get religion quick (cause you're looking divine), Author: brinnanza

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Fine Pairings Podcast - A podcast about fanfiction. Where we pair ships with cocktails and reading with comedy. Got fanfic you'd like to share? Email us at FinePairingsPodcast@gmail.com

Paranormal Activity aka Buzzfeed Unsolved

 

For this Halloween special Claire and Grace dive into paranormal activity! But instead, Claire went deep into Buzzfeed Unsolved for our Halloween episode!

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Pairing: A Blue Devil. Mix 1 oz light Bacardi Rum, 1/2 oz blue curacao, 1 oz pineapple juice. Rim glass with sugar (preferably confectioners sugar, but Claire only had cane sugar) using lime juice.

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Want to read this fic for yourself? Give this author the kudos they deserve? You can find this fic on ArchiveOfOurOwn.org, Title: like you're the most precious things I've ever touched (and I never plan on letting go), Author: Catherines_Collections

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Fine Pairings Podcast - A podcast about fanfiction. Where we pair ships with cocktails and reading with comedy. Got fanfic you'd like to share? Email us at FinePairingsPodcast@gmail.com