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ella_rose88 ([personal profile] ella_rose88) wrote2017-02-05 08:25 pm

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

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 [livejournal.com profile] 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.

[identity profile] sayuri2023.livejournal.com 2017-02-05 10:13 am (UTC)(link)
I am a Merlin/Morgana fan, hard to find any fic either...

[identity profile] schweet_heart.livejournal.com 2017-02-05 10:24 am (UTC)(link)
I think there are one or two Mergana shippers at [livejournal.com profile] camelot_drabble who post fairly regularly, if you haven't found them yet :)

[identity profile] ella-rose88.livejournal.com 2017-02-05 10:32 am (UTC)(link)
I echo what [livejournal.com profile] schweet_heart said. My friend [livejournal.com profile] sidhe_faerie writes Mergana fics on [livejournal.com profile] camelot_drabble, and [livejournal.com profile] ajsrandom also does too :)

[identity profile] schweet_heart.livejournal.com 2017-02-05 09:42 pm (UTC)(link)
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 :)

[identity profile] ella-rose88.livejournal.com 2017-02-05 11:06 pm (UTC)(link)
That's an idea. Although I'm in the process of starting a Merlin Re-Watch soon at [livejournal.com profile] the_pendragons so I might meet new people who ship them :)

Really! I'll give it a go :)

[identity profile] schweet_heart.livejournal.com 2017-02-05 11:20 pm (UTC)(link)
Cool! Just email me what you come up with :)

[identity profile] oneill.livejournal.com 2017-02-09 06:27 am (UTC)(link)
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.

[identity profile] ella-rose88.livejournal.com 2017-02-09 07:10 am (UTC)(link)
You should :) I'm planning a Merlin re-watch at [livejournal.com profile] 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.