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Secrets, rants, opinions, anything you want to say about your fandom or a fandom or fandom in general, do it here! Anonymously, of course. Get it all off your chest.

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1. Going anon is encouraged but not absolutely required (for those who struggle with recaptchas and stuff).
2. No autoplaying/autolooping embeds, or embeds that cover/stretch the screen.
3. No dropping personal info or IRL contact info, etc.

That's about it, though!

(Today's post is below.)

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Shipping woes

[(Anonymous)]

My small fandom has 4 pairings, excluding threesomes/foursomes.

I introduced myself as a fan of pairing #1, assigned myself a username based on that fact, and started (slowly) writing fic for that pairing.

The main fanfic hub features a lot of pairing #1 (mine), and #2. Little bit of Pairing #3. And I can count on one hand the number of stories in the entire fandom that feature Pairing #4. There are more stories that feature orgies than just pairing #4. People are constantly complaining about the lack of Pairing #4, and begging popular authors to write stuff.

I feel guilty for adding more of my pairing into the bucket, and not writing the sad, lonely, little Pairing #4... It's just, one of the characters, I can't see as sexual, and if I try to force it, it seems, well, forced. I'm so torn.

Re: Shipping woes

[(Anonymous)]

Name the fandom? When I see posts like these, I like to know what the fandom is in case it's something I'm familiar with, so I can write some fic for the other pairings.

Re: Shipping woes

[(Anonymous)]

It's nice of you to sympathize with them, but if you can't find a way to write it believably yourself, that's not your fault.

Also, I'm really curious about this fandom.

Re: Shipping woes

[(Anonymous)]

Is it Leverage?

In response to the actual question, why would you feel bad about writing the pairing that YOU LIKE? The people that like Pairing #4 are responsible for writing stuff for Pairing #4, not complaining that people that prefer OTHER pairings aren't writing the one that they like.

OP

[(Anonymous)]

Not naming the fandom, it is very small and I would easily out myself.

Re: Shipping woes

[(Anonymous)]

I've been in your situation, OP, and I've tried to write stuff for other pairings, but, I just couldn't. It seems that if I'm not in love with a pairing, I just can't write anything believable. Do you think they like some mediocre fic just to fulfill a quota? I don't think so.