salty asks: 2, 4,6, 11, 20, 22, 23, <3
bless you, Matt, you fuckin beaut
2) Are there any popular fandom OTPs you only BroTP?*
sometimes I’m back and forth about Shardo. Not because I don’t like them together, but because my poly ass would like to see them as metamours
4) Do you have a NoTP in your fandom? Are they a popular OTP?*
Patater? I just? I like Hockey Ot4, but I feel like they’re shoved together. And when it’s done well I can appreciate their narrative. But I don’t want either of them to be together just for the sake of a monogamous homebase ship for Kent (my polyass saying let him have other partners)
6) Has fandom ever made you enjoy a pairing you previously hated?*
I have a back and forth relationship with Zimbits. Canonically they’re so good. But I feel like it’s so very obvious when a fic is written by someone younger because a lot of nuance is left out of their dynamic. So I think when I find a good fic it makes me fall in love with them all over again. Like, I forget how much I like them until I get a good rec.
11) Is there an unpopular character you like that the fandom doesn’t? Why?
I personally think Ransom isn’t as popular as he could be. He’s such a good character that has to navigate being the child of immigrants, being Black, having anxiety, and dealing navigating toxic masculinity and compulsory heteronormativity in the hockey world. I’ve talked about this a bit, but I think sometimes people see Holsom and they don’t see any BIG conflict in their dynamic and they happily let them sit there. So then Ransom doesn’t get any attention. Which...there’s so many other ships! for Ransom to have! NurseyRans, JackRans, BittyRans, Larson, GRAND LARSONY (not self promoting at all),
20) What is the purest ship in the fandom?
Grand Larsony Polyfarms. Can we take a moment to appreciate Polyfarms? How they all revolve around the axis that is Christopher Franklin Chow. How soft Derek and Caitlin are together and how they can be bros but also disgustingly in love. How Chris and Dex do homework together all the time and Dex gets frustrated when he doesn’t get something but that doesn’t mean he doesn’t enjoy it any less (especially when Chris points out where he missed something). Dex and Caitlin cooking together. Derek and Chris lying in leaf piles reading assignments together before taking a study break at Annie’s. Chris and Caitlin spending the holidays together and skyping the other two. Nursey and Dex playing video games and not knowing when the chirping stops and the flirting begins. The four of them working out like the ultimate power polyship that they are. Them sleeping in a giant bed together. I love these four ok? (Also Caitlin Farmer is Chicana in my book thanks)
22) Popular character you hate?
I don’t have one in this fandom?
But like, prior to yesterday’s update, I would’ve said “I just don’t get Tater”. So tbf I’ve written Tater all of once. And it was emotionally exhausting throwing so much into his immigrant narrative. I talked about how out of place he felt; I talked about English being his second language; I attempted to accurately replicate the experience of learning English and its sentence structures/colloquial. But for as much as I poured of myself into him, I’d rather expend that energy into a kid of an immigrant who’s a COC (like Ransom, Lardo, or (in my hc) Nursey). But I’m intrigued by the idea that Tater’s back story parallels Jack and I think I’d be up for writing about that story at some point.
23) Unpopular character you love?
