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.

Comments

[megpie71]

Okay, the article on "The Niche" reads like the author was deliberately looking for something to piss them off in pretty much every single one of the ships presented. Which, to be honest, I bounce off good and hard. I'm Australian - if I want manufactured outrage for the sake of outrage, I can read the Murdoch media (or I can read about the manufactured outrage in the Murdoch media in the other 30% of our media environment). This is what we have Andrew Bolt and Alan Jones for, after all.

That said, given it didn't even mention any of the fandoms I write in (which says a lot about the relative obscurity of video games fandom - all of the mentioned fandoms were mainstream media productions which ran over a number of years) I found it all somewhat dull.

(I can go on for hours about various ships in Final Fantasy VII; I'm reasonably good with Final Fantasy VIII and Kingdom Hearts 1 & 2; and I'm starting to bounce off the fandom's favourite ship in Persona 5).

[peoriapeoriawhereart]

Looking (very fast, mind you) at the Video Games page on AO3, very few of the fandoms seem to have many fanworks. I didn't take any looks into how the breakdown goes for pairings.