gameplay mechanic: you can choose to send out one invite per day because your discord server is very skittish. you can skip an invite if you think there’s no one suitable. your goal is to gain a certain number of members so you can start the bogwaters ship week. fighting against you is the fandom enjoyment meter— it drops every time you see anti mcyt shipping sentiment (which occurs daily) and rises every time you recruit someone or when something gay happens. if it drops completely, you leave the fandom and it’s game over. being cancelled is also a game over.
this begins in june 2021 after the finale of triple life. happy pride month
as the days pass, events happen on certain dates. for instance, a popular artist gets cancelled on twitter for their vaguely shippy brian/foodtimeswithstar fanart and it’s your priority to rescue them otherwise there’ll be a big drop in fandom enjoyment. benthebog and mars ofthebigwaters end up in the same macguffin championship (mcc) with riversymphony and this creates a big boost. someone brings up benbog/lakemonster69 stuff from 2019 to show shipping is okay and fandom enjoyment increases. yes there is a water theme. there’s probably a blue boats 9 reference
a solitarygamer/botmajor (“shower husbands”) shipper who just wants more triple life shipping and is going “does NO ONE see how GAY this is”
teenager who is very paranoid of shipping after witnessing cancellations and having their riverbog works misinterpreted as shipping
mysterious user who clips the ben/mars shippy moments with ambig captions and if you dig deep enough you’ll find out they were a bystander in the 2019 discourse. dig a little deeper on their old instagram and you’ll find out they were a larry shipper when they were 11
your beloved mutual who has been around longer and all your picks are vetted by them
artist who makes gorgeous art but it turns out they’re one of the untrustworthy doxxers from 2019
someone who puts “DO NOT TAG AS SHIP” on all their posts and you’re like ok much respect. a month later they sneak into your dms like 🥺 i’m consumed by CATHOLIC guilt because ben and mars are kinda… idk…. i can’t even say it… 🥺
mars otbw has an official artist and you carefully navigate around them but it turns out they draw bogwaters ship art on a side blog under a different pseud but You Recognise The Drawing Style
you post a ship fic on anon ao3 and religiously track whoever kudoses/comments
you recognise an anon bogwaters fic writer from their generous use of hozier lyrics and em dashes and recruit them on their tumblr main
a brian/mumble (bumble) shipper from 2019 who came back to cautiously post about triple life but you’re like 👀 i know you 👀 you like shipping
your reward is that you carry out bogwaters week successfully and mars otbw says “happy bogwaters week” on stream and benbog ignores his dms
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