A Call To Arms - Light the Cannons for Lightcannon!
Lightcannon Week is coming in one month, baby! And it's also Pride month RIGHT NOW! So I want to issue a challenge to everyone out there interested in the Little Crack Ship That Could.
For all of Pride Month, and later for Lightcannon Week, I want everyone who can to write as many good Lightcannon fics as they can.
Why's this important? Well, because Lightcannon (Jinx/Lux) is currently, and has been for more than a year, both Jinx's and Lux's top tag on Ao3.
That's right, both characters have more fics about this silly, crazy, non-canon crack ship than any of their 'canon' romantic interests. That's wild, and I'm so proud of my Little Crack Ship.
But after we hit 1000 fics last year (WOOHOO) we slowed down, bad.
Other ships are now less than 40 fics behind us, and likely to get a big visibility boost from Arcane S2, and that means the crown is at risk. Lightcannon supremacy could be at an end. 😱
Now, I wanna preface, I don't have anything against other ships. I'm just hyper competitive and I'm proud of our girlies being the top of their tags. We get so little, everything we have to our name means so much to me.
I don't want to lose the crown. And there's only one way to keep it.
So here's my call to arms!
Write! AUs! Prompts! Main canon fics! Star Guardians, Valoran Town, Battle Academia, modern romance, pirates, ninjas, robots, anything you wanna!
Short fics will bump those numbers quicker! Don't let it stop you from writing longform, but I recognize that me and my 30 chapter epics aren't boosting them like one-shots would be 😅so for LC week I'm committed to keeping to shorter fics. I swear.
DO LIGHTCANNON WEEK! Every year this event boosts our ship and its visibility!
Share 'em! Far and wide! Let the word be known! Preach the gospel of Lightcannon! Let's get eyes on our pairing and show off why they're awesome!
If you're an artist, JUMP in too! Ao3 is fantastic but it's not the only place! We wanna see more of our pairing, everywhere, and each new art piece is a treasure for our fandom! It's Pride Month, we can do this! Who knows, we might even get Riot's acknowledgment, FINALLY. Not holding out for that, though, and we don't need it 🥰
Please do not antagonize other shippers or engage in ship wars. This is healthy competition and it's all in good fun and in the name of boosting fan content for our community. Ship wars only hurt fan communities and fan content creators. Keep it clean and fair!
We've never been on the "Top 100 WLW ships" list in A03, and I think we ought to see our girls up there, don't you? 😄
We 'win' by making awesome fan content and that's it! So let's get out there and light those cannons, mateys!