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Mass Effect Kink Meme: SIXTH PEOPLE'S CHOICE AWARDS

Mar 20, 2016 16:48

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/Thanks to everyone who voted for and nominated stories, and congratulations to all our winners!
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Full list of nominees and winners below the cut:
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Suggestions/Comments? masseffectkink March 22 2016, 08:57:20 UTC

Feel free to debate, rant, or point out possible tips and tricks to make this years' People's Choice Awards a more meaningful experience.

*If you have previously staked your nominations and can't find your thread, I have hidden them in order to raise the 'Nomination' threads to the top of the page. Your nominations are not deleted and there is no reason to repost them outside of making yourself feel more secure. While I express the fact that I have them, can see them, and have counted them, I cannot stop you from reposting your nominations separately into the appropriate categories at your own leisure.

Re: Suggestions/Comments? masseffectkink March 22 2016, 11:56:14 UTC

As a kink meme PCA newbie, it's so fascinating to me that there isn't one ship that dominates slash fics the way a lot of het is Shakarian and a lot of femslash is femshep/Liara.

RE: Re: Suggestions/Comments? masseffectkink March 24 2016, 01:12:37 UTC

My guess is that 1. there weren't any canon slash romances by ME2, when the series really established its popularity, and 2. male Shepard isn't as popular among fan writers and artists in any case. Both the other categories involve femshep with a popular canon LI, and people get understandably attached to their in-game romances.

Re: Suggestions/Comments? (offtopic) masseffectkink March 24 2016, 17:37:06 UTC

In general, I find it quite interesting that in this fandom, gay pairings are even quite low represented in the total amount of works...

Most fandoms through their slash pairings right at you when you search for them (fanfic, pictures, ...), here it's all Asari-sex-godesses on google :P
And here in the meme, you most of the times focus on (at least one) of the ladies.

I'm quite ok with that ;) but sometimes I do wonder why. More strong female canon characters and less male-male interaction necessary if you play the game as female fan? Dunno.. What do I know anyway?

Re: Suggestions/Comments? (offtopic) masseffectkink March 24 2016, 17:43:17 UTC

I think it is definitely the number of female characters who get adequate screen time. If you look at Sherlock or the Avengers or Supernatural (or any other popular slash-shipper show), you'd be hard pressed to find more than one woman who gets decent screen time. Sometimes there isn't even one woman who can claim adequate screen time! Combine that with the fact that most female fans play FemShep and their primary ship often becomes whomever they ship their Shep with? (try saying that 5 times fast...) It makes a lot of sense.

Re: Suggestions/Comments? (offtopic) masseffectkink March 24 2016, 19:09:45 UTC

My sister ships Shep slash shyly. With Sovereign.

RE: Re: Suggestions/Comments? (offtopic) masseffectkink March 25 2016, 02:13:45 UTC

I've also heard Kaidan/Sheploo has been a fairly popular dark horse ship since circa ME1, which is why we got same-sex romance for Kaidan in ME3 but not Ashley. I wasn't around this fandom then, though.

RE: Suggestions/Comments? masseffectkink March 22 2016, 21:40:32 UTC

Having voting and nominating as separate stages might be a good idea, I'm sure there are plenty of people who are looking to the nominations for recs.

Re: Suggestions/Comments? masseffectkink March 23 2016, 07:55:04 UTC

I would also prefer if voting happened after everything was nommed, but I'm a newbie here so maybe there's a good reason not to make it a separate process.

+1 masseffectkink March 23 2016, 08:50:44 UTC

I'd love to have a reread of the fics in any given category in case someone's nominated something better than what I offered.

Re: Suggestions/Comments? masseffectkink March 22 2016, 22:16:59 UTC

Could you please repost the nominations you got before doing threads for each category? It would help to know what's already been nominated :)

Re: Suggestions/Comments? masseffectkink March 25 2016, 20:23:46 UTC

I know it must be SOMEWHERE but I can't find it, so: how long are nominations open?

Re: Suggestions/Comments? masseffectkink March 26 2016, 00:34:08 UTC

The announcement post said up to April 6th, but with the cry for nominations and voting to be separate... ???