F.A.Q.
Q: What is this blog?
A: A fan-run blog featuring ship polls for the series Percy Jackson and the Olympians by Rick Riordan. There are two kinds of polls here: character ship polls and feelings polls.
Q: What are the character ship polls?
A: They're polls that ask your favorite ship involving each character from the riordanverse. Most of these polls will be the top twelve (12) ships but characters who aren't shipped with twelve different people will have smaller polls. You can find the masterlist here.
Q: What are the feelings polls?
A: They're polls where I ask you how you feel about each of the ships from the character polls, but individually. There are three options for these ones: Positive, Neutral, and Negative. You can find the masterlist here.
Q: Why did you choose to use Positive, Neutral, and Negative instead of something else?
A: I actually worded the polls as carefully as I could. A lot of fandom is very conservative these days and I wanted to make it clear that I wasn't passing moral judgement on any of the ships, even the ones that I personally feel negatively about.
Q: Are these polls about platonic relationships?
A: No. These are all romantic and sexual relationships.
Q: What if I want to do this but for platonic relationships?
A: That's great. You should absolutely do that.
Q: Will you do this but for platonic relationships?
A: No.
Q: Why would you include ships that I personally don't like?
A: Because they're part of the fandom whether you like them or not.
Q: Where did the old polls go?
A: I deleted them.
Q: Why did you delete the old polls?
A: Originally, this was only for ships with demigods in them but some people asked me to include more characters that aren't demigods. I ran a poll asking what I should do and the majority of people wanted me to completely redo the ship polls to add the new characters. So I didn't want them cluttering up the blog or confusing people.
Q: Some of the ships from the old polls and the new polls are different. Why is that?
A: Every three months or so, I update my long list of ship fic numbers and more people wrote fic for those ships.
Q: Where do you get your fic numbers?
A: AO3. I bookmark each ship and have a word doc listing the number of fics each ship has.
Q: Can we see the ship list?
A: Every February around the 18th I recheck all of the ship tags, record the numbers, and post a list of the Top 100 Ships in the PJO fandom. However, the full list (1,050 ships as of writing this) isn't something I'm planning to share at the moment.
Q: Why won't you share the full list?
A: Because I know that it's going to be used to harass people. There's a risk that even making these polls will cause harassment simply be spreading awareness that these ships exist. It's why I've got a strict policy on no ship hate.
Q: Why aren't Annabeth/Percy or Nico/Will on the character polls?
A: Because those options would win on each character poll. It's not an opinion; it's a fact. They will win on every poll they're on. We don't need further confirmation that they're the favorite ships of the fandom. I want these polls to be interesting and to make people think about ships they didn't know existed. Maybe even to start shipping some of them.
Q: Do you have a posting schedule?
A: Only in the loosest sense of the word. I use the queue to post twice a day at the same time, every day. Character polls always come first, then the feelings polls. The feelings polls are based on the ships from the character polls, so how many days between character polls depends on how many ships there are on the poll before it.
Q: What about when there's the same ship on multiple character polls?
A: I only do one feelings poll per ship, even if the ship shows up in multiple character polls.
Q: Where are all the HOO, TOA, and TSATS characters?
A: Trust me, I haven't forgotten them. I'm going in order of character introduction. Starting with The Lightning Thief and ending with...to be determined since the series is still actively being written. So it'll be awhile before I get to HOO, TOA, and TSATS.
Q: Why aren't you including Magnus Chase or Kane Chronicles characters?
A: Originally I wasn't going to do polls for these characters because I expected it to be a lot of work and I wasn't familiar with the characters, but I've gathered the data and will be doing these polls after TOA. The characters for Magnus Chase and Kane Chronicles will have their own polls.
Q: You forgot a character!
A: If you think I forgot one, you're welcome to send them in an ask. But I promise, if they've got a name in the series then they're on the list. And some of them are such minor characters that they only have one or no romantic ships at all.
Q: Why isn't Alabaster Torrington on any of those polls?
A: Alabaster is from a short story called Son of Magic, written by Rick Riordan's son, Haley Riordan. It's not considered to be part of the canon and so he isn't included.
Q: What's the ship name for [ship]?
A: I tag all of the ship names for relevant ships in the polls so that's where you'll want to look to check. There's also a list of PJO ship names that can be found here.
Q: Why do you only do couples and threesomes?
A: I am only one person and I had to decide years ago where the line was. The line is three-people ships. It is a hard line and I am not going to cross it ever. Someone else is more than welcome to record data for the ships with four or more characters.
Q: Are we allowed to submit propaganda?
A: Yes, as long as you're uplifting your ship and not bashing the other ones to do it.
Q: Are we allowed to commit voter fraud?
A: Yes. I can't stop you and truthfully don't care to even if I could. I suspect voter fraud is already happening.
Q: Will reblogging skew results?
A: No. But it will get the polls seen by more people, which means more people may vote. Please feel free to reblog the polls.
Q: Are votes anonymous?
A: Yes. The only person who can see what option you voted for is you. Not me, not Tumblr, not anyone else. Unless you say your vote in the tags or replies, no one will know.
Q: I have a question you didn't answer here!
A: Go ahead and ask it. My inbox is open.