[ SECRET POST #2861 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2861 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Fans write shippy fic because the shippers tend to be vary vocal in fandom and are a reliable source of kudos/notes/favs. It's all really about popularity and how many notes the author receives. If they write about the popular pairing, they'll get more attention than if they write gen. (Not in all cases, but in many.)

[(Anonymous)]

Except no.

[(Anonymous)]

This isn't the norm in fandom, but I have seen it happen.

[(Anonymous)]

I think it's the other way around.

Writers tend to write shippy fic because that's what they most want to write. Then the fics for the popular pairings get the most comments because that's what people really want to read.

I've seen too many weird rarepair mpreg sex magic Cold War epic 100,000 word fics out there for it all to be a popularity contest. No one writes that shit for the kudos.

[(Anonymous)]

No, honey. I write shippy fic because it's what I want. It's what's burning up inside of me. The canon already has almost all of the gen I want or need, and the little bit that it hasn't given me can be explored in a fic that's all shippy.

In short, I write shippy fic because I'm a shipper. Sorry that you don't understand that, but I'm not doing it for you.

[(Anonymous)]

do you also picture yourself in the place of either half of your otp?

we're anon. you can be honest.

[(Anonymous)]

I hear this a lot and I just think it's an ass backwards way of thinking about this. Why do people read and write ship fic? Because they ship characters. It's pretty simple.

[(Anonymous)]

I'll admit to attention-whoring a few times in the past, and this wasn't what I did. I wrote fic for less popular pairings involving characters from popular pairings. I also wrote stuff for semi-rarepairs because those tend to have a more loyal following.

Basically, write for smaller/closer-knit groups, for a demand that isn't fed, or in response to frustration.