Minor changes to archive categories!

[cyanei]

Hey everyone! I just wanted to mention that I've spent the last week sorting out redundancies in the archive, as well as alphabetising pairings for both ease of navigation and to limit those redundancies in the first place. Yes, I know, I'm crazy and pedantic

Comments

[caiusmajor]

I was wondering who was doing that.

[cyanei]

Hope I didn't frustrate you too badly. ( :

[ratcreature]

You never noticed that about the common order in het pairings before? I think that the man is usually listed first is because the patriarchal convention bleeds through automatically without thought. Like you always say "Mr. and Mrs. ..." and saying it the other way round sounds weird. What I'm curious about now is which couples were the exceptions. Like were there compelling reasons of ease of pronunciation?

It's like that in most adult/teenager pairings the adult's name is listed first in the pairing label's order that is most widespread.

[liviapenn]

I always just assumed that (in comics fandom at least) the guy is way more likely to be the more common character. Like, there are SO many Dick pairings, it makes sense that they get listed like Dick/Babs, Dick/Garth, Dick/Roy, Dick/Selina, etc. If this was a list of mostly femslash pairings with some het, I wonder if it would be the other way around (Selina/Babs, Selina/Dick, Selina/Dinah, Selina/Zinda, etc.)

But in most fandoms, as it is, you're probably right.

[cyanei]

Actually, I must point out that while I thought that pairings would be sorted by most common/less common, they aren't. For example, Garth/Dick and Roy/Dick.

[mtgat]

Wow!

*hands you commemorative golden shovel for that particular Herculean task*

I figured the pairings were basically alphabetical at first (well, at first first, the listings were by superhero name rather than secret identity; Hawkgirl and Wonder Woman are still listed that way and they're the two females with the largest het collections), and then additional pairings were added for the "person what has the most pairings already." So, there was an entry for Wally West already before there was ever an entry for Linda, so it was listed as "Wally/Linda," with even odds as to whether the person making the memory would remember to add an entry for "Linda Park." (Or, what liviapenn said.)

So overall, while patriarchy has something to do with it, I think it's more a matter of the "male character was already listed due to a slash story archived earlier" factor in this particular case.

[cyanei]

Thank you! *puts shovel on pedestal*

Hawkgirl has been hard for me to sort, because I have to read all the stories to figure out who she is; I've been avoiding it. *g*

I find it telling that Kory is always put first in the pairing, despite a category for Dick likely existing long before one for Koriand'r.

[mtgat]

I'd say leave Hawkgirl where she is. The entire section is animated Shayera Hol. (Trust me. I've read every single one, usually multiple times.)

The Kory/Dick thing is funny. :D I wonder who did that? (And that's the other thing about "how things got their names." We're beholden to whoever was the first to put a pairing in the list.)

[brown_betty]

You are a rockstar! And also kind of weird, but we like that here, so carry on!

[cyanei]

Hee, thank you. *bows*

[vange]

Oh, wonderful! Those things have been bugging me for ages. I'll be helping out if you don't mind.

Also, I've been thinking of sorting the Legion characters so they match up with the others, that is: Civilian name (Superhero name). Does anyone have an opinion on this? Some of them are split between the two currently and it's hard to call which way to go.

[cyanei]

EEE! *clings* Thank you so much.

I'm all for matchiness, but I'm by no means an authority.

[liviapenn]

Since I was probably the one who started archiving Legion stories, and I know NOTHING about ANY versions of them, probably anything would be an improvement at this point. :)

[vange]

I ended up going with the Civilian (Super) name, which cuts down on the problems of name changes in different reboots and multiple people with same name. Oh Legion, why must you be so insane?