top 3 or 5 bmc ships, go!
oh jesus that’s a hard one, uhhhh… hm…
in order of good to great:
5, richmichael and jakejer and jakemichael
4, richmichaeljeremy. this prolly woulda been higher a few months ago but i’ve been… really burnt on michael (outside my favorite michael rper; she knows who she is <3) lately*
3, brookechloe (dark/angsty) and brookejenna and softie book squip/two rivers squip
2, a very specific version of rich’s squip/jeremy’s squip, and richjer
1, squipemy (or squipjer, or jersquip, or technical difficulties, or w/e) and rich/his squip (preferably that very specific kind i mentioned before; also, does anyone have a name for this ship?)
* = if you notice, i didn’t include singular boyfs or richjake. that’s not because i don’t ship them.
while i’m more casual about richjake, i just… so many boyf, and by extension michael, fans have been people who have actively wished for my (and others) death, among other issues like ‘harassing the fuck out of george salamander and noticeably changing the way he interacts with fans’. that’s NOT even CLOSE to the majority of boyf shippers, mind you, but basically all the fandoms antis are staunch boyfs, and so of course they tend to be aggressive as fuck about how you should write/consume boyfs, and i just… can’t… deal with that. it’s exhausting.
which is made worse by the fact that under the flame wars and aggression and fandom bullshit, platonic and/or romantic boyfs is arguably one of the most fascinating main character/best friend dynamics i’ve ever seen. sucks i can’t really enjoy it as much as i’d like to right now; this feeling will pass eventually, but until then, i just gotta Sit Here and feel wary around fans i meet until i know for sure they won’t attack me over shipping.
also: my ao3 is Sedusa and i post bmc fics, including an ongoing squipemy multichapter fic!