Being a heterosexual shipper in a prominentally slash fandom...

[ella_rose88]

No disrespect to slash/femslash shippers, but since returning to the Merlin fandom I'm finding it hard to find other Arthur/Gwen shippers. While the show was on, we had a strong fan base, not as big as Arthur/Merlin, but a great number of people. And while it's great to interact with other Merlin fans, it would be nice to have a nice number of people who ship like I do.

Another thing that's gotten me feeling a little down is merlinreverse. I was interested when I saw the idea behind this challenge. I love using fan art to inspire fic. But sadly, (I wasn't surprised really) all the prompts are slash or femslash (which is great for people into that kind of thing), but not if you are after a different pairing. So I'm really bummed. I mean if I had known about this challenge earlier I could have made something for it, but I didn't and I'm bummed.

Comments

[sayuri2023.livejournal.com]

I am a Merlin/Morgana fan, hard to find any fic either...

[schweet_heart.livejournal.com]

I think there are one or two Mergana shippers at camelot_drabble who post fairly regularly, if you haven't found them yet :)

[ella-rose88.livejournal.com]

I echo what schweet_heart said. My friend sidhe_faerie writes Mergana fics on camelot_drabble, and ajsrandom also does too :)

[schweet_heart.livejournal.com]

I can't help you much with finding other shippers - perhaps multifandom or rare pair comms might turn up something? But if you want to come up with a piece of art and a prompt I could write you a short A/G reverse!fic if you like (I would offer to art but, you know, I kind of suck at it lol). It's not my ship usually, but I've been trying to write new things lately so it would help me broaden my horizons a bit :)

If it helps, though, I think a lot of artists didn't make the deadline this time, so maybe there would've been more variety if they had :)

[ella-rose88.livejournal.com]

That's an idea. Although I'm in the process of starting a Merlin Re-Watch soon at the_pendragons so I might meet new people who ship them :)

Really! I'll give it a go :)

[schweet_heart.livejournal.com]

Cool! Just email me what you come up with :)

[oneill.livejournal.com]

Need to re-watch Merlin again. But I first started out Arthur/Merlin, but started to get into Arthur/Gwen before I stopped watching, mainly due cause of too many shows I was into. So it was hard to keep up. But I know the feeling. Most shows it's hard to find fans of non-slash ships anymore. Though I am open to all ships to be honest.

[ella-rose88.livejournal.com]

You should :) I'm planning a Merlin re-watch at the_pendragons (it's an Arthur/Gwen community but we welcome multishippers as long as you like A/G we are happy). It's been a while since I watched it too.