My Top 100 Ships (#77: Brittany/Santana)
Fanfiction Rating: C-
Glee fanfiction is..... an experience. This is definitely a pre-AO3 pairing, but it's still rocking over 3k fics on the archive. Most of those are background to m/m or faberry fics though!
When Did I Start Shipping Them?
When I came out in 2011, I was immediately compared to Britney and Santana by my friends: they were the gay girl representation of the time. I watched Glee the next year and basically shipped them from the start because I knew about them from that experience!
Why Do I Ship Them?
I care about them because they're classic, and they were tied into my early gay experience. I ship them because they make each other happy. Glee's cycle of introducing 'mean girls' and then redeeming them might get repetitive by the end, but Santana was such a solid villain character and I'm glad she didn't completely lose her claws when she was happy.
Favourite Fanfiction Tropes/Staples?
I like complete AUs for this ship: meeting after high school or other set-ups. I am also a fan of poly!trio fics with Quinn in the mix, of course.
