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The relationship between Bruce and Oliver is alternately like that between Penelope Garcia and Derek Morgan, and Penelope Garcia and Luke Alvez. There are moment with pet names and flirt and other with sassiness and jokes.

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How does my brain choose fandoms??
Tbh, earlier this year, I half expected to be an all-Wheel of Time blog at this point in time. (This point in time being in the aftermath of the series launch on Amazon. I have some mixed feelings about the series so far that I was going to get into here, and I'll probably get into those in some other post.)
Instead, somehow I'm falling down a Ted Lasso rabbit hole...??? After ~eight years since my last big fandom swoon, the one that brought me into participatory fandom, it seems like possibly I have a new fixation and new OT3. Maybe. At least, I felt compelled to feverishly write 10K about them, and I haven't done that since Sherlock. It's fun! And weird. And my fondness for the show isn't nearly as intense as my adoration of Sherlock S1-S2 was... But neither of them is the kind of canon I expect to fall for (though Sherlock is certainly closer).
Because it's not like I haven't been fannish about other stuff, in very different ways. ASOIAF were my favorite books for many years, and GoT was one of my favorite TV shows (despite many issues). But I just wanted to lurkily read theories about where the books might be going, and reblog the occasional fanart or gifset. I didn't feel called to read or write much fic. I didn't really have any ships (which also made it harder to find fic that spoke to me). And similarly with a bunch of my other favorite books/series -- e.g., Watership Down, Earthsea, His Dark Materials, Imperial Radch, Murderbot -- I just seem to want to consume the canon (and hear others' thoughts about what details they particularly liked or what themes they noticed) but not to transform it. And I guess despite my having a lot more ambivalence about WoT than most of those, that series is also pretty firmly in the category of stuff I don't feel the need to transform. (Though I still would like to read lots of nonbinary and agender WoT fic. And some better approaches to polyamory across the various cultures. But I don't feel any desire to transform any of the canon characters/relationships, despite the myriad problems with them, and in the absence of that, I'd rather just write my own original fic than try to fix the messed up gender dynamics of that world.)
Someday I need to figure out why my favorite books are all SF/F series, but I don't seem to feel compelled to be in transformative or even very participatory fandom for those. Is it because I'm more content with those works as they are? (I have so many issues with WoT, though, despite my love of it. And with the later ASOIAF books, too. And even though I don't have issues with Watership Down, I'd love to have more of it.) Is it because I don't seem to ship non-canonical ships very often or strongly in those works (and why is that)? Is it because my favorite books spend a lot more time closely in the characters' heads, and leave far fewer spaces in the canon to wonder about and want to fill in? (I suspect that's a lot of it, and also I guess that likely contributes to why I don't generally develop non-canonical ships... The characters' thoughts don't leave me room to do so.) I also have loved a lot of SF/F shows that weren't based on books (e.g., Battlestar Galactica, BtVS, Firefly, and in a fairly different way Star Trek), and I've never felt compelled to transform any of those, either. But I think I could imagine doing so more easily than for my favorite books. So maybe it's more about the bookness and the amount of character interiority than it is about the genre?
(There's been a lot of non-SF/F TV that I've loved, too, and that I also haven't felt compelled to read/write fic about. E.g., I'm currently pretty obsessed with Succession. And I recently finished and adored Halt and Catch Fire. And Black Sails was amazing. I even had multiple polyships in Black Sails -- but they were canon!! đ So I guess again, I don't feel like I need to mess with canon in these cases... I just want to obsess about it lurkily.)
IIRC, I didn't actually feel a need to mess with Sherlock S1-S2 either, at first anyway, or with Ted Lasso (not that I don't have criticisms). I think in both cases, I started out quite liking the canon, and admiring things about it, but not obsessed. And then I didn't think about it too much for a while. And then SUDDENLY I HAD TO GO LOOK ON AO3 RIGHT NOW because I abruptly had to know if anyone had written any fic about a particular ship that got into my head. (Spoiler alert: there was a lot more Johnlock fic out there than Roy/Keeley/Jamie, ahahahaha.) And from that ship sprung a more general fandom obsession, and a desire to write the particular character/relationship dynamics that I wanted.
But?? Idk, that's also kinda weird if it's maybe my involvement in participatory fandom is exclusively ship-driven?? Not weird in general or in a judgy way, just unexpected for me -- I read books/watch shows for so many reasons, and obsess about them for so many reasons, not just for romance or sexytimes. And I don't know what made me fasten on these particular ships to be super horny about; I often turn to other media besides fiction fanfic when I want erotic material, and it's often kinkier than most of the fic read/write for these ships. Except for the several years in the past decade when I read and was turned on by almost nothing but johnlock(ary), why did that suddenly become my main kink, shrug emoji?? Does this mean that I'm about to spend who knows how long only fantasizing about a dumbass soccer player and the duo that he truly does not deserve??? We Just Don't Know. (For that matter, maybe I only have one K/R/J fic in me, and this thinking is all premature... But they sure are extremely different from S/J/M, and I'm so intrigued by that!)
I guess the biggest question for me, if shipping is indeed my key to fandom -- why haven't I shipped lots of non-canonical ships this hard? There are so many canons out there that I've liked that could benefit from more queer and/or poly dynamics! And lots of those canons have interesting gaps to try to address with fic, even if a few of my favorite books don't leave as much room for that.
A final piece of this puzzle may be my mental state... I was in a deep, deep well of depression and anxiety when I found the Sherlock fandom, and it was a welcome escape. But despite the fact that I've been going through some Intense Heath Stuff lately, and changing jobs, and going through other big life changes -- not to even mention the motherfucking pandemic, ahahaha, sob -- I feel like I'm coping so much better now, and I'm so much happier. I don't need to escape. Still, that's a heaping serving of stress, and maybe I just self-soothe best by diving into a ship/fandom?
Clearly the true statistical answer is that it's pointless to try to generalize from this ridiculously small data set of N=2 transformative fandoms. (Though far larger if you count all the negative examples.) But sparse data is not going to stop me from being curious about and trying to model and understand my own fannish brain! đš
Curious to hear others' experiences of what differentiates for them a fandom that they want to read/write fic for vs. one where they just obsess over the canon.
June Colorful column: Queering the lines, spaces and the fucking moon â A very one-sided comment on âBound princes and monogamy warnings: Harry Potter, slash, and queer performance in LiveJournal communitiesâ
Welcome everyone to the first installment of the Colourful Column! This is a monthly space where we, your Mods, try to discuss specific topics that are relevant to the Wolfstar Fandom. With a little bit of research, a pinch of personal opinion, and a dash of expert perspectives, we hope this space opens conversations, brings nuance to your perspectives, and helps as a resource for your content creation!
Today in our colorful column Iâm not gonna talk about racism or representation as you probably expect (well⌠not directly. LOL I know, whatâs even this blog theme then?) but you get to experience me, Mx. Moth, nerding about fandom, queerness and research.
Yup. As terrible as it sounds.
Iâm kidding, I hope itâs not too terrible, and at least one of you finds it in their hearts to indulge me, read this, and nerd with me about, chan chan chaaaan (dramatic music in Spanish)... fandom.
Black Clover ships
Iâm very sad, fandom.
I ship Licht x Lumiere, Yami x William and Vanessa x Finral and itâs very sad
find that there is nothing about them.
WHY.
Ah, my sfiga ship *hugs them*

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it sure would be nice if I could just read momfriend Steve fics without having to scroll past a wall of Steve/B*lly fics....