Proportion of romantic stories for your favourite ships

[g_uava]

How much fic for your ship is romantic in nature? One defintion of romance could be development towards greater emotional and/or physical intimacy.

It seems a no-brainer for most shipfics to be romantic, but for a couple of my OTPs, it's far more common to encounter stories in which one of them grieves over the death of the other half than fics featuring them kissing/hugging/trading love confessions/other stereotypically romantic gesture. I dashed off some thoughts in a journal entry on why that might be the case and wondered about how romantic the fanworks are for other ships/fandoms.

Comments

[beatrice_otter]

I mean, that presumes that I have a ship. I do have ships! Lots of them! In fandoms with large casts I might have five or ten in that fandom alone! but to me the romantic part of it is often the least important part of the story, I just like the characters interacting together.

[g_uava]

At this point I'm grateful for fics where my favs are alive and interacting without one of them ending up dead 😂

[beatrice_otter]

Heh. I feel you.