Who gets shipped and why?

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Title: Who gets shipped and why?
Creator: Ashley Cai, Florina Sutanto, Jan Diehm, and Caitlyn Ralph
Date(s): posted October 2024
Medium: Multimedia essay
Fandom:
Topic: Shipping, Slash, RPF
External Links: https://pudding.cool/2024/10/fanfic/
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Who gets shipped and why? is a meta essay published on The Pudding about why we ship what we ship.

History

Ashley Cai and Florina Sutanto both pitched articles about fanfiction to The Pudding in 2023. Pudding workers Jan and Caitlyn were so intrigued by the pair of possibilities that they asked both submitters if they would be interested in the four of them collaborating on one larger project.[1]

Methodology

Starting with data from centrumlumina's 2013-2024 AO3 Ship Stats, the creators used fandom wikis to add information about the canonicity and RPF status of all relevant ships, as well as information about the genres of the relevant fandoms. This new dataset was posted on Google Sheets for the public's further interest.[2]

Content

Introduction

Slash

Canon

RPF

Conclusion

Design

Reception

Praise

This is the single most important piece of journalism on the internet today.

https://x.com/hayley_g/status/1844087103682117903

i can’t stop crying. we did it kids.

https://x.com/xunmrks/status/1844314683874148781, in response to Lee Donghyuck/Mark Lee's inclusion on one of the discussed lists

Criticism

Other readers enjoyed the essay, particularly the page design, but felt the essay failed to consider transmasculinity as a potential reason why presumed cis women enjoy M/M fanfiction.[3]

It's absolutely true there's c1s women who like and make gay male erotica, but also, like, it is also catnip for flagrantly homosexual transsexual men, regardless of how aware aforementioned men are of this trait

InkfaceFahz on Twitter

sometimes on Reddit I see people asking “am I trans or just a fujoshi?” and I strongly reject the premise of the question. it’s akin to asking “am I a candidate for piano lessons or do I just love the piano?” not only in the sense of "girl, it's up to you!" (which it very much is) but also in the sense that if you love it, you're already off to a great start

@james_f_thomas on Twitter [4]

Further Reading

References

  1. ^ https://x.com/jadiehm/status/1844033051913007396
  2. ^ https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/13zvKPayDOM1IJQF44dYW-8ZKtINlanyByWTUPPP2_aI/edit?gid=0#gid=0
  3. ^ https://x.com/james_f_thomas/status/1844389178982924411, Archived
  4. ^ "sometimes on Reddit I see people asking "am I trans or just a fujoshi?" and I strongly reject the premise of the question. it's akin to asking "am I a candidate for piano lessons or do I just love the piano?"". Archived from the original on 2024-10-11. Retrieved 2024-10-12.
  5. ^ https://x.com/jadiehm/status/1844033880560746708
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