diff --git a/modules/email/wanderlust/packages.el b/modules/email/wanderlust/packages.el
index b2d336172..c49dc6c54 100644
--- a/modules/email/wanderlust/packages.el
+++ b/modules/email/wanderlust/packages.el
@@ -1,4 +1,10 @@
 ;; -*- no-byte-compile: t; -*-
 ;;; app/wanderlust/packages.el
 
+;; HACK These are wanderlust's dependencies (wanderlust depends on semi, semi
+;;      depends on flim, flim on apel), but both flim and apel have non-standard
+;;      default branches, which straight cannot detect without our help.
+(package! flim :recipe (:branch "flim-1_14-wl"))
+(package! apel :recipe (:branch "semi-1_14-wl"))
+
 (package! wanderlust)