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platforms punishing users (eg removing icons on Tumblr) for not safe for work content or hiding posts behind id or facial rec walls (bluesky and discord now ig) makes for an interesting incentive to just never tag or provide warnings on any media you post with adult themes

kskskajsjenwkns

// MDNI, nsfw 🔞

OMG guys guys guys if you are a fan of my Rockstar!Doflamingo x Manager!Crocodile au, feel free to check out this fic @bemabro wrote inspired by it!

https://archiveofourown.org/works/84842546

as always read the tags 🙂‍↕️ it's so crazy something i drew inspired almost 20k words, thank you so much friend... the buildup is really good and if you enjoy the service top doffy flavor you might like this! but don't worry, they fight plenty too

the way @bemabro writes their dynamic i find interesting in general! conflicts of control, power struggle, one's repression/denial/doubt/aggression met with the other's unflinching, overt and offputting desire, i.e. doffy SLEAZEEEE etc etc

(all the artwork i've done for #🎸au so far ↓)

💬 0 🔁 36 ❤️ 236 · 🎸AU where i put crocodile in HELL by making him rockstar!doflamingo's manager. (you get to decide what doffy did, i can

💬 6 🔁 38 ❤️ 211 · Post by @kskskajsjenwkns · 1 image · [rockstar🦩 x manager🐊 AU] 💄 (9pgs) 💬 0 🔁 24 ❤️ 161 · 🎸AU where i put crocodile i

💬 2 🔁 20 ❤️ 126 · the heavenly demons 🎸 · lead singer/guitar: doflamingo... rhythm guitar: corazon (will he join the 27 club in this au?

if you wanna know his music sounds like, listen to aku no charisma and shinjidai no saga because holy shit doffy's va sang so well... spanish guitar x rock/metal is just sick asf, i need more of that combo... im also thinking a little visual kei vibe 🙂‍↕️ if anyone wants to ask about the au, or anything, my comments/inbox are always open and i'd love to talk :3

duplexbiscuit

work

lostcryptids

joey calling kaiba a BOWL HEAD oh my god

supergrinch

reblog to be eaten by this thing

buddyjoey

Coming at you red hot, ITS JOEY WHEELER! WOOOOOOO

violetsparkzzz

petemcvries23

the natural lifespan of a fandom is unlimited. when well tended a fandom can be functionally immortal. and yet everywhere you look you see newly bred fandoms withering and dying when they’re barely a year old. barely even six months old. fans are looking at their six month old fandoms and saying i think it’s on its last legs, should i euthanise it? when with the proper care that fandom could outlive them for decades. it’s sad. sad state of affairs we’re in.

bizarrelittlemew

Are you frustrated you can't leave second kudos on AO3? or third kudos? or whatever-who's-counting kudos?

Well, have I got the html for you!

Plop any of these in a comment (by copy&pasting the code) to make an author's day and show your appreciation!

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It will look something like this (and will be transparent with white outline on dark backgrounds):

Feel free to spread and use these as much as you like! (and if you have ideas for other variations, let me know ✌️)

bizarrelittlemew

So happy to see people enjoying these and spreading the love 💖

UPDATE with some suggestions from the replies!

From requests: cookie kudos — you've already left kudos here — should be sleeping kudos

HTML codes under the cut.

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Leave an author extra kudos!!

papayafromtv

honestly i really like the AU's where Damian doesn't ever hate/want Tim gone. personally i think a way funnier option is if Damian takes an instant liking to Tim and gets attached. even funnier is if this is a Jason-and-Damian-meet-in-the-league AU because can you imagine how frustrated Jason would be.

Jason wants to kill his replacement so fucking bad but he can't because his new little shit of a brother's gotten fucking attached, and Jason's so pissed about it. Damian has fully adopted Tim as his own before even meeting the guy and so Jason is forced to give up on the idea of ever being able to hurt him. they get to Gotham and Jason is just. white knuckling. gritting his teeth. tensely trying so hard to be polite to Tim for Damian's sake, while Damian is hanging off of Tim's arm because that's his new brother, the only one cool enough to choose being a bat rather than be chosen. the guy who brute forced himself into being a Robin--that's Damian's hero. and Jason has literally never been more irritated in his life.

it's like watching a pair of divorced parents desperately trying to communicate peacefully for their present child's sake while obviously wanting to rip the other's head off, except instead of that it's one parent doing that while the other genuinely has no idea who this other guy is or why they have beef. Tim is so fucking confused as to why Red Hood doesn't like him. he's so confused. at first he wonders if it's because he and Damian are so close and Hood feels like he's stealing his little brother, but then Damian makes it pretty clear that Hood is his primary brother and cannot be usurped, and also he's not even that aggressive with Dick so.... what the fuck did he do????

meanwhile Damian is just keeping an eye on the pair every time they interact like a dog owner aware that his dog has the potential to attack others and keeping an eye on Hood's body language to make sure he doesn't have to drag him away.

vr0dexyman

They're such silly darlings🫪.

olderthannetfic

Idk how to articulate it but the Heated Rivalry fanfic situation is so crazy to me because I've never encountered such a giant fandom where a single ship is so dominant. In the past, either my romance media had 3 fans, or a lot of fics would focus on one of the many background ships (see Moshang from svsss). Non-romance media would be even more split, especially by criminal scums who didn't like my ship >:/

As of now, there are over 22k fics on AO3, only less than 500 are not tagged Hollanov, and otp:true yields 14k results. I genuinely have yet to encounter a fic that wasn't locked in on Hollanov even when I browsed the fandom tag

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When something with a big, central ship does get a fic fandom, it's often like this.

tozettastone

This is a pretty high estimate and I wondered how it compared.

I want to look at Heated Rivalry and compare it with other fandoms I suspected of having a strong preference for a major pairing.

Here's some AO3 napkin maths for percentage of fanworks within a fandom tag featuring the most dominant pairing WITH otp: true selected. I am logged in, so it includes archive-locked works.

Heated Rivalry: 57% Shane Hollander/Ilya Rozanov

BBC Merlin: 33% Merlin/Arthur Pendragon

Wynonna Earp: 38% Waverly Earp/Nicole Haught

Supernatural: 25% Castiel/Dean Winchester

Yuri!!! on ICE: 39% Katsuki Yuuri/Victor Nikiforov

Pride and Prejudice: 27% Elizabeth Bennet/Fitzwilliam Darcy

魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù: 29% Lan Zhan | Lan Wangji/Wei Ying | Wei Wuxian

Xena: Warrior Princess: 36% Gabrielle/Xena

Star Trek: The Original Series (this is TV, not reboot): 35% James T. Kirk/Spock

Stargate Atlantis: 37% Rodney McKay/John Sheppard

Rivers of London - Ben Aaronovitch: 20% Peter Grant/Thomas Nightingale

For shits and giggles, this is the same napkin maths done for a few fandoms where I did not expect to find a single really really dominant ship. I've taken the first ship listed under the relationships filter as the biggest.

Marvel: 9% James "Bucky" Barnes/Steve Rogers

僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga): 9% Bakugou Katsuki/Midoriya Izuku

The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien: 3% Frodo Baggins/Sam Gamgee

Transformers - All Media Types: 4% Megatron/Optimus Prime

Naruto (Anime & Manga): 8% Uchiha Sasuke/Uzumaki Naruto

Some other things to think about:

Using otp true means that a ship you feel is ubiquitous may nevertheless have a relatively lower percentage here. Like, what bullshit that lwj/wwx is only 29% when it feels like it's half the fandom tag, right? But, while it's tagged in 48% of fics in the MDZS tag, it's the only ship tag in only 29%.

While tagging ship is pretty consistent in general, I suspect that fandoms with plenty of imports from older archives might not be tagged so consistently, like, e.g. the K/S stuff.

The tagging habits of a fandom can also change a little, especially with regard to how secondary/additional romances are tagged. So otp: true might not necessarily mean precisely the same kind of focused fic content in every fandom owing to that factor. 🤔

Some of these fandoms are big and some are not as big. I know measuring as a percentage should account for that. However, in smaller fandoms one (1) REALLY obsessed shipper can swing the percentage. So if this were to be a proxy for how a bunch of people in a fandom are behaving, it might not be so useful in, for example, Rivers of London, where 276 fics make up that 20%.

So after all that

My conclusion is that the Heated Rivalry AO3 tag does seem to have an uncommonly large proportion of works featuring a single dominant pairing when otp: true is selected. My hunch is that it's relatedly newer and might diversify over time. (⁠ﾉ⁠◕⁠ヮ⁠◕⁠)⁠ﾉ⁠*⁠.⁠✧

olderthannetfic

Interesting!

It definitely feels like fandoms like MDZS do change over time as people find the fixits or alternate versions they most wanted for the big ship and start wondering about side characters or the setting or something. I don't know if that actually shows in the AO3 tagging over time though.