Shipping and AO3

[peoriapeoriawhereart]

I wrote up something here in response to The Niche which was based on this on tumblr.

Feel free to respond here or there. Thought we could use a conversation starter.

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[chelseagirl]

I was around for the transition from zines to online posting, but my main fandoms then were Forever Knight and Buffy, which were pretty gender balanced and had plenty of het ships as well as slash -- and of course in Buffy, canon f/f.

After that I drifted in and out of fandoms, due to a change of where my energies were focused, and I stayed on LJ, then DW mostly to stay in touch with friends I'd made through fandom. I got back into writing fic through Yuletide maybe five years ago, and perhaps it's not surprising that in the smaller fandoms exchange, I've matched on requests for stories that were f/m or f/f oriented: The Hour, The Bletchley Circle, Halt & Catch Fire.

For whatever that's worth.

[peoriapeoriawhereart]

Ah! I came in post Perpetual September but frequently am the only non-digital native about.

I watched Forever Knight, but not the episode That Didn't Happen; read about that online. Buffy I only know by osmosis; it was on cable. SG-1 I didn't actually see until sometime after 2005 iirc.

I missed most of LJ, joining them possibly mere months before DW. Besides MCU I've done Wilby Wonderful and a book series and that's pretty much it for 21st century fandoms.