It's That Time Again!

[greeneyedlady]

That's right! It's time for my approximately-once-a-year-but-really-whenever-I-feel-like-it Shipping Survey! This is the third time I am posting it and, like the last time, there are a few new questions to keep it interesting. But a lot is the same. So maybe people are sick of this, of answering the same questions yet again, but there are some new

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[qualapec]

What are your ships?

Too many to count.

Do you mostly ship slash? Het? Both equally?

Depends on the series and the fandom. Since becoming involved in the Hetalia fandom, I've shipped more slash- then again, the general level of quality slash fanworks in the LJ Hetalia comm is way higher than other fandoms I've been involved in. The opposite is Dresden Files, where I have almost no slash pairings. I have a couple slash pairings for Resident Evil, but that's mostly het, too. So it depends. However, excessive sexism in a fandom will make me less likely to ship the slash.

Do your ships follow certain patterns or have commonalities?

I mostly like pairings where the characters make each other stronger (so if I think there's a huge disparity between the characters emotionally or in the way they're written, I probably won't like them; SEE: most seme/uke stuff). I also like villain/fallen!hero ships for the sheer twistedness of it (there is a part of me that ships Aizen/Urahara, for example).

Will you pimp this poll out to other people so I can get more feedback? Pretty please?

Don't see why not :)

[greeneyedlady]

Hetalia is actually my biggest foray into the world of slash, being very strongly het-focused in almost all of my other fandoms. There is something unique about Hetalia, I think. The slash doesn't really feel like slash in the way it is described in too many pretentious meta essays about its subversiveness and inherent superiority.

I am glad you said that thing about sexism. I do that too sometimes. I will support the female love interest all the more strongly if the fandom seems to hate her just for having a vagina and getting in the way of the gay. Thank you for contributing!

[qualapec]

The slash doesn't really feel like slash in the way it is described in too many pretentious meta essays about its subversiveness and inherent superiority.

I think it seems subversive and superior to other slash because...well, the fandom actually freaking tries. It's the first fandom I've been in where character is generally more important than teh pretty or making them slide easily into seme/uke stereotypes. There is some of that, but I see less character assassination as a result. It's still slash, it's just mostly the...good kind, for lack of a better term.

Also, I was wondering if you had any links to these pretentious metas? Being extremely over-opinionated myself, I'm interested XD

^_^ It's always nice to encounter people who care about the ladies! Another one I hate is when people automatically call a strong female character "Mary Sue" as a way to imply that a strong female is something bad or undesirable for a writer.