3_ships
The reveal for 3_Ships is tomorrow, if I'm not mistaken. The guessing post is somewhere or other if you want to try.
I'm not quite sure--I'm not completely familiar with all the fandoms, and gender wasn't always obvious--but I think the breakdown is fifteen m/m/f stories, nine f/f/m stories, three m/m/m, and two f/f/f. So there was a preference for writing male characters over writing female characters (no surprise there), but even more so a very strong preference towards pairings which included both genders.
I'm even more interested in which pairings were chosen in those fandoms in which more than one fic were written, though. There are three Torchwood stories, and all with the same pairing, Jack/Ianto//Tosh. This fandomwide OT3 makes sense since Jack/Ianto is the slash OTP, and Tosh becomes Hobson's choice once one eliminates Owen and Gwen (as people do). Pirates of the Carribean has, like Torchwood, a clear OT3, Will/Jack/Elizabeth, which of course is the central triangle of the movies. Both VMars fics were Keith/Veronica/Mac, which I think is less evidence of a fandomwide OT3 than Ari's and my eccentric requests skewing the results. God bless our mystery writers.
Joss Whedon projects, on the other hand, showed much more diversity in their threesome offerings. Firefly on the other hand had two rather different pairings, Zoe/Kaylee/River and Zoe/Wash/Mal. Angel has Cordy/Gunn/Wesley and Spike/Wesley/Fred.
Harry Potter, too, has two different pairings, Sirius/Remus/Tonks and Hermione/Ron/Harry, possibly as a result of the unwieldy character of the fandom? ETA: And a Hermione/Luna/Percy.
I'm not quite sure--I'm not completely familiar with all the fandoms, and gender wasn't always obvious--but I think the breakdown is fifteen m/m/f stories, nine f/f/m stories, three m/m/m, and two f/f/f. So there was a preference for writing male characters over writing female characters (no surprise there), but even more so a very strong preference towards pairings which included both genders.
I'm even more interested in which pairings were chosen in those fandoms in which more than one fic were written, though. There are three Torchwood stories, and all with the same pairing, Jack/Ianto//Tosh. This fandomwide OT3 makes sense since Jack/Ianto is the slash OTP, and Tosh becomes Hobson's choice once one eliminates Owen and Gwen (as people do). Pirates of the Carribean has, like Torchwood, a clear OT3, Will/Jack/Elizabeth, which of course is the central triangle of the movies. Both VMars fics were Keith/Veronica/Mac, which I think is less evidence of a fandomwide OT3 than Ari's and my eccentric requests skewing the results. God bless our mystery writers.
Joss Whedon projects, on the other hand, showed much more diversity in their threesome offerings. Firefly on the other hand had two rather different pairings, Zoe/Kaylee/River and Zoe/Wash/Mal. Angel has Cordy/Gunn/Wesley and Spike/Wesley/Fred.
Harry Potter, too, has two different pairings, Sirius/Remus/Tonks and Hermione/Ron/Harry, possibly as a result of the unwieldy character of the fandom? ETA: And a Hermione/Luna/Percy.