Ship Wars Ads

[titti]

All Ship War Ads are being removed for the following reasons:

1. No permission was previously asked
2. We've received multiple complains about these ads
3. They tend to lead to wank.

You can still advertise in reply to THIS post. I'm adding a tag so people can find it.

Comments

[taraljc]

Back in the early 1990s, I was on a Forever Knight mailing list where the character-based factions (Cousins, Ravenettes, NatPack, and Knighties) would have an annual "war" which was sorta an RPG with the fans writing themselves into a story along with the fictional characters. It was pretty much similar to the st_respect 'ship wars, only without the RPG factor, what with a team captain and a team. I don't know if other fandoms do that sort of thing, but it genuinely hadn't occurred to me anyone would take the "war" part *seriously*.

But then, I was in SV fandom way back in the day, when the Clark/lex, Clark/Lana, and Chloe/Clark fans used to get embroiled in stupid fannish politics that soured a lot of folks on the fandom and show completely. So I can understand completely why folks would see the words "'ship wars" and back away slowly.

Basically, I'm supporting anything that a) generates more fanworks for my fave characters and b) gets fans to wander outside their comfort zone and explore the outer-reaches of the fandom for a bit, cos it might result in gaining new fans and folks finding fanworks they really enjoy, which they might have skipped over previously because it wasn't "their 'ship".

[titti]

I'm all for anything that generates fic, but then have rare pairing fests, ship manifestos, ships prompts, pairing anything, drabble comms. However many people in this fandom come from Buffy, Supernatural and/or Harry Potter where the ship wars have reached epic dimensions, making the SV wars look like child's play.

For many, ship wars don't generate content, but resentment. The words themselves have negative implications.