#fshoker

[casino-lights]

returning to the classic "take 30 screenshots every time they're in the same frame" approach to ship content

[kyratittyfish]

Sketched my gal AJ Shepard and her boy Joker all dressed up and ready to slay at the Citadel Casino during the Citadel DLC!

(Cause Joker deserved to be a possible date.)

[hatboyproject]

One of the ways the conversation after Mordin's recruitment mission in 3 can go. He's only quite so forward with Shepard if they've flirted with him at least once before this... otherwise it's a different line! The aim here is to give a sense of building tension between them and contribute to Joker having different levels of confidence about the entire situation depending on Shepard's interactions with him. I'm finishing up the animations on the other path, and will post that in the coming days, I am sure.

[spaced0lphin]

Shokerex OT3 Oneshot

I wrote this oneshot on my phone like two years ago and it'd just been sitting there, rotting, so today I decided to tidy it up and post it for your enjoyment. Yes, friends and fae, I have written the (to my knowledge) only OT3 fic about fShepard/Joker/Wrex on Ao3. Which is baffling to me, because, like, kromance or bust, my guys

It deals with an established couple inviting an old friend to have some fun.

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Anyways yeah it's rated E for Fuck Off if You're Under 18. Thanks

[the-shotce-newsletter]

And I also got to work with @oratorio-the-writer for the Mass Effect Big Bang over at @mebigbang !! I had fun learning about her Shepard and her fic had so many of my favorite characters in it, please read it over here!

[ljandersen]

Mass Effect Fanfic Ship Stats

I compiled an average for AO3 stats based on ME ship. I stratified the list for a ship from greatest to least for each variable (kudos, hits, BM, etc). I'm using median vs mean due to ease in collection and to correct for outliers. I filtered out confounding ships to better isolate the ship being studied.

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Major ships I studied:  

Shakarian (4147), FShenko (2247), MShenko (2095), FShiara (1299)

Minor ships I studied:  

FShrios (740), FShega (287), FShoker (274), Shaynor (160)

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RESULT AVERAGES:

Kudos:

Shakarian (55), MShenko (51), FShiara (50), FShoker (40), Shaynor (40), FShrios (39), FShega (30), FShenko (22)

Hits:

FShiara (1180), Shakarian (1000), MShenko (930), Shaynor (970), FShoker (830), FShrios (670), FShega (550), FShenko (420)

Bookmarks:

Shakarian (5), Shaynor (4), MShenko (3), FShiara (3), FShoker (3), FShrios (3), FShega (2), FShenko (1) 

Comments:

Shakarian (6), MShenko (5), FShega (5), FShiara (4), Shaynor (4), FShoker (3), FShrios (4), FShenko (2)

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SAMPLE CHARACTERISTICS

I compared characteristics to identify confounding factors. Samples are comparable and indicate the primary causative variable is the ship.

Word Count:

FShiara (3000), Shaynor (2500), Shakarian (2400), MShenko (2300), FShoker (2100), FShrios (2000), Shega (2000), FShenko (1800)

Date Posted:

MShenko (Jan 2016), FShenko (May 2016), FShrios (June 2016), Shakarian (Dec 2016), FShiara (Jan 2017), FShoker (Jan 2017), FShega (Jan 2017), Shaynor (April 2017)

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EPIC-LENGTH FIC STATS

Out of curiosity, since I love to read and write epics, I compared the major ships for >80,000 words.  Data is less dependable since sample size is less.

Kudos: 

MShenko (220), Shakarian (126), FShiara (117), FShenko (75)

Word Count:

FShiara (140,000), MShenko (138,000), FShenko (136,000), Shakarian (131,000)

Sample Size:

Shakarian (149 total, 44% completed), FShiara (79 total, 43% completed), FShenko (73 total, 51% completed), MShenko (40 total, 73% completed)

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Commentary:  

Popularity Stats: The major ships, except for FShenko, consistently have the highest stats.  Despite the larger sample size, Shakarian performs the same as MShenko and FShiara.  The minor ships I studied were about equal.  FShenko consistently had less than half the stats of the other major ships and brings up the rear, even behind the minor ships studied.

Epic-Length Stats: MShenko has nearly twice as many kudos on average as Shakarian and FShiara and three times as many as FShenko.  This is likely due to the smaller number of epic-length fics available and the higher completion rate. FShiara and Shakarian are about equal. Again, FShenko takes up the tail.

Kudos/Hits Ratio:  To correct for the wide range in popularity (hits), I calculated the median kudos / median hits. 

FShrios (5.7%), Shakarian (5.6%), MShenko (5.5%), FShenko (5.2%), FShega (5.1%), FShoker (4.8%), FShiara (4.2%), Shaynor (4.0%)

With these results, it appears minor ships and FShenko fall amid the major ships. The difference in average number of kudos seems more a factor of ship popularity (hits) than a difference in reader responsiveness.  

Conclusions:

Most major ships have higher stats than minor ships (unsurprisingly)

Shakarian, MShenko, and FShiara are the most popular and fall about even

FShenko is the least popular. It falls well below other major ships and is even outperformed by the minor ships I studied

Correcting for popularity (hits), the ships get about equal engagement.  FShenko and the minor ships fall even with the Shakarian, MShenko, and FShiara  

*** Note on ship selection:  There were more m/m ships I tried to study, but after eliminating confounding ships, they had too small of a sample size (Steve Cortez/Male Shepard, James Vega/Male Shepard, Garrus Vakarian/Male Shepard).  I didn't explore MShep/Female due to lack of interest, but generally, it appears to be on the low end of average kudos (20-30 range).

[fromyourtwmsecretadmirer]

You mentioned you were really proud of your Shoker series, so as part of @thewritemoment Secret Admirer week I went ahead and made you a book cover for the series @guileandgall This was the only faceclaim in your Leah Shepard tag so I hope this image is ok! Also today is the last day for the event so Happy Valentine’s Day! Fic series here for any shoker fans out there!

[hatboyproject]

Yes, I'm going to change "Babe With the Bullets" to be something else for BroShep. "Hunk Who Killed Harbinger" is top contender. Proof that I'm making it work for DudeShep, too!