going to be honest with you got a bit scared tonight thinking about how easily things are deleted off the internet. i decided to make a personal copy of 5s bad company but after deciding to do that i just thought why not upload it to ao3? I'll archive the rest of the merryshipping fics if its ever announced ff.net goes down, promise. i just am the most emotionally attached to this one. its selfish. but im a selfish guy.
i just want people outside of tumblr to know that this is our origin point and this is the fanfiction that sold eb5 to people. i think that context is important. and has never not been incredibly important to how we view this ship.
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alright so i might have to comb through ao3 itself, because guess what i found!
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another hidden merryshipping fic! i can forgive them for not knowing how ao3s tagging system works because this is a fic very early in ao3s history if it isnt backdated but still oh my god how many fics on ao3 are just mistagged. i keep finding them accidentally!! why does this happen (i know why it does)
okay heres the entire archive, with their original descriptions in order to the chapter i posted them in.
so if i post a description and its the third one, its the third chapter on the archive, etc.
some thoughts under the cut
based on my impressions here i dont think this is the only east blue polycule fic that exists in terms of older work (in fact, theres evidence to suggest theres way more i havent found, specifically on livejournal and specifically from the time around drum kingdom ish? as the fact that merryshipping was a livejournal community and these people didnt seem to know eachother pre livejournal,
suggesting that it probably was mildly popular at some point on niche internet forums. if i can find the origin of the term merryshipping online i'm pretty sure i'll find more fanfiction, there's also the fact ive heard other people reference things on livejournal I didn't see, in regards to east blue polycule, so eventually this archival project would have to start up again when I find that.
i stopped reading all of them because i started the disassociate and really focus on getting them on ao3, but thats probably for the best I want the sweet comfort of ao3's layout when I read these for the first time (livejournal... specifically the merryshipping community site was unforgiving to my dyslexia)
if anybody knows where to find things on livejournal please hmu
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theres also the spefific matter of me finding it very funny that east blue polycule shippers have always been a spefific type of person.
see guardian1s (one of the first east blue polycule shippers on ff.net) ff.net profile:
the trend in namis perspective always being a grounding point for east blue polycule shippers is also incredibly interesting, and it aligns with canon so i'm not surprised.
im sorry to inform everybody that there exists a deleted vampire diaries x one piece merryshipping fanfiction that we will never see please take a few minutes in your day for our fallen ally
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i will also note for the sake of this blog, that merryshipping is only used to refer to the east blue polycule (technically, although I have seen fics use it as a general term for poly strawhats) sunnyshipping is a similar concept to merryshipping. (I believe it's everybody and not just a proto-term for paradise polycule, although... i should look into that) it seems like more or less the more strawhats got added the more the strawhat polycule shippers spunoff,
although it's been my perception that merryshipping (east blue polycule) was always the most popular. sunnyshipping is now called allhats (although that's + jimbei, it's... the same) the older fanfiction does include chopper (wild.) (people don't do that now more or less even when allhats is on the table)
theres a fics i didn't archive to ao3, because of it's nature as a (franky/robin/chopper mainfic. (with east blue polycule to the side) You might go "that's weird!" and the author was aware.) as well as several allhats fic and I debated on posting them and I'm still debating. (as it's a different categorization than just the east blue polycule ship fics I've been archiving).
for the sake of accessibility in case i decide on not archiving them the community is here in case someone with a vested interest does
anyways would you believe if i started going through ao3s backlogs because i saw someone claim a zosan fic on ao3 is the "first fanfiction for one piece" and i know thats not true because it was a backlogged ao3 fic, only to find out that that person. who they were claiming was the original one piece author. also was a merryshipper.
the tweet was like "everything came from zosan and you should thank us for it!" and im sitting here. like. not only is this inaccurate to how the archival of fanfiction works, but you according to your own logic you really should be thanking merryshippers.