YGOVR Ship List

Shiplist for YGO VRAINS. Read the rules before sending an ask!

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Follow vrains-shiplist!

@vrains-shiplist are taking up the shipping list mantle, so go ahead and follow them from now on! I wish all of the mods there the very best.

(A note in the interests of transparency: another person did message me with the shipping list they’re planning to run, but they openly admit in the rules that they won’t be accepting names for ships that the mod doesn’t approve of - they rule out incest/age difference ships entirely, and say that they’ll only accept names for ships like Kusanagi x Yuusaku and Go x Yuusaku because they’re popular, but make it very clear that the mod doesn’t want to.

As vrship has been all about archiving any ship that has shippers/fanwork, regardless of any moral opinions that I or anyone else has regarding those ships, given the choice I’ve chosen to support the blog that’s continuing that goal, rather than the blog that openly admits they have no intention of doing so.)

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Shutting Down

While the running poll results as they stand are still well within the ‘continuing to run’ threshold, I’ve come to the decision that I can’t run vrship anymore. At this point, what I’m getting out of running it doesn’t compare to what it’s taking out of me in terms of energy and stress, so for my own sake I’m stepping down.

To those of you who’ve supported vrship and brought your comments to me, whether support or criticism: I’m pretty sure you guys are the majority, and for that I want to thank you. I’m sorry for dropping vrship like this.

To the group of you who’ve been very vocal about criticisms without actually bringing them to me: The majority of them are moot at this point, so I’m only going to address one: yes, I agree that the ask about CyverseDragonshipping would have been better addressed in a separate post than answered directly. The user in question had previously ignored submission rules and sent time-wasting joke asks prior to their attitude there, and I’ll admit that as a result I was annoyed and just responded directly without thinking that decision through.

To anyone who plans to take up the reins: Let me know what url you’ll be using, and I’ll promo it.

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Maybe don't shut the whole blog down, but just list names that become more popular? Kinda like the DM ship blog. Like there's eventually going to be some sort of "official" list

That’s not something that I personally have the time or energy to do. I run vrship the way I do because it’s the way I’m able to run a shipping list; I wouldn’t be able to do the work that would be involved in tracking everything that’s in use and trying to compile that.

If people would prefer the VRAINS shipping list be run that way then someone is free to make that happen, but it won’t be me.

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Following the previous post, I’ve set up a poll regarding whether people will use whichever -shipping name they prefer if they dislike the one that wins. 

This will decide the future of this shipping list: if more than 20 people or more than 35% of the voters vote that yes, they would do that, then I’ll shut vrship down. With the typical number of votes that the ship name polls get, results like that would indicate to me that there are too many people undermining the purpose of this blog for running it to be worth my while.

Poll will run until Saturday (07/08). Please vote here.

ETA: Because it might not have been clear from the original, the 20 people/35% of the vote are not equivalent numbers. What I meant by those numbers was that if the vote reaches either of those, I’ll shut vrship down. If it gets enough votes, I’ll potentially ignore the ‘20 people’ part and look just at the percentage.

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A Note RE: Ship Names

It’s come to my attention that some people in VRAINS fandom are disappointed enough in some of the confirmed ship names to insist they’re going to use others that lost the vote (or were never even up to vote) instead.

I understand being disappointed with ship names. I definitely have ships that I wish had better names. This is why vrship requires a ship to get more than 50% of the vote to be confirmed; while no -shipping name is ever going to please everyone, because everyone has different tastes, it at least means that the name is hopefully preferred by the majority of the fandom.

I understand the disappointment. But when you react to this by insisting on using another name anyway, you do two things: you split up the content, making it harder for shippers to find, and you claim multiple names for one ship that could have gone to others (and create potential clashes where two ships are trying to use the same name, too).

If people are going to do this, there is no point having a shipping list. There is no point attempting to catalogue ship names and please as much of the fandom as possible if some of you would rather just use several different names for a ship, with no rhyme or reason or cohesion.

And if there’s no point in having a shipping list, I’m certainly not going to continue running one for the good of my health.

So basically: if you guys want vrship to continue, then make that clear to the people who are undermining what I’m doing here. And if the people who’d rather just use whichever name they prefer and have the ship names basically be a free-for-all are the majority, then make that clear to me so that I can leave you guys to it instead of trying to herd cats here.

I’ll probably put up a poll in the next couple days about this, so look out for that.

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I’d like to clarify something, sparked by the previous ask:

I will not respond privately to any asks sent to vrship. I intend to keep everything as transparent as possible, which means keeping my communications as public as possible. As a result, asks will be answered publicly or not at all.

This is particularly true when dealing with comments about how vrship is being run/how things are named, as my responses to those in particular are things I feel that everyone should be able to see so that everyone is on the same page about how this blog and the running of it work. If your ask is about those things, particularly if you have criticism of how vrship is running, it will be answered.

If you don’t wish to have your name attached to something, anonymous asks are enabled. If you accidentally sent something un-anon that you wanted anonymous, then send a message letting me know that before I publish a response and I’ll cap the ask and blank out your name/icon, rather than responding directly.

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I personally believe it is utter bullshit that CyverseDragonShipping went to Firewall/Topologic w/o their even being votes, considering it's a super unpopular ship and doesn't even really need a name. But that's just me being salty bc I wanted that for Revsaku.

I’m not going to police whether ships are popular enough to ‘need a name’. If a ship has fanwork, and someone cares enough to submit a name for it, then as far as vrship standards are concerned it qualifies as ‘needing a name’. 

Not to mention that I’ve seen rarepair shippers discuss in the past that having a name helps them recruit more shippers, since it makes it easier for people to find the ship and its content and other shippers (particularly with a ship like this, where there isn’t really a good portmanteau available). If you feel that rarepair shippers don’t deserve that kind of consideration even if they’re out there making content for their ships then that’s fine, you’re welcome to, but that’s not how I run vrship and it never will be.

It wasn’t voted on because there weren’t alternate suggestions for it, barring the one you made that didn’t meet the naming standards. From your attitude here, it’s pretty obvious that your entire motivation for submitting a name was that you didn’t want the shipper who submitted CyverseDragonshipping to get the name they wanted for their ship, because you felt your own ship was more entitled to it (despite the fact that the name applied to both of them). This is not an attitude I’m particularly tolerant toward, and not at all the kind of attitude vrship encourages toward submitting names. I can’t ensure that every name is submitted by someone who actually ships the ship in question, but ideally those are the people who should be submitting names.

I’m sorry that you’re ‘salty because you wanted that for Revsaku’. Revolver x Yuusaku is currently set to become Cyverseshipping unless there are any more suggestions before they’ve interacted enough for a vote, so I have to admit that personally I can’t see why you’d be set on the longer/more complicated name anyway. 

Besides that, unfortunately I think that ‘it ending up going to a different ship’ is the risk you run when your suggested shipname applies to more than one ship in the first place - Ignis x Yuusaku shippers who wanted Cyverseshipping are likely going to have to see it go to Revolver x Yuusaku, for example.

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Just a quick note: it’d be super appreciated if whatever fanwork you’ve posted for a ship before it was named, you re-tag with the shipname or add the shipname once it has an official name. That way, the shipnames become more useful for actually finding content!

If you use xkit, you can use the Tag Replacer app to change portmanteau tags to the shipname. Alternatively, the basic Mass Post Editor and xkit’s Quick Tags app both allow you to add tags to a post quickly and easily.

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Update 07/01/17

Poll Results

Angelmakershipping (51%)

Bloomshipping (49%)

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Angelmakershipping (Aoi x Yuusaku / AoiYuu / AoSaku)

A portmanteau of their VR names, ‘Blue Angel’ and ‘Playmaker’.

Celebshipping (Go x Yuusaku / GoSaku)

Both are celebrities in Link VRAINS.

CyverseDragonshipping (Firewall Dragon x Topologic Bomber Dragon)

Both are Cyverse-type dragon monsters.

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The Aoi x Yuusaku flash poll is supposed to end today but is currently 50/50, so please vote if you haven’t already!

(NB: In future I’ll probably hold back on voting myself so that I can tiebreak if this happens again, but this time around I already voted.)

ETA: Tie has been broken (and then briefly re-tied and re-broken before I got around to ending the poll, whoops), thank you!

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Update 06/28/17

Poll Results

Aoi x Yuusaku / AoiYuu / AoSaku

Aloofshipping (14.6%)

Angelmakershipping (36.6%)

Bloomshipping (48.8%)

Flash-vote here (until 07/01)!

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Suggestion for Firewall/Topologic: Link4Shipping, because both are Link 4s and were the first Link 4 monsters revealed.

They were the first revealed, but as there’s already a Link 4 Gouki monster prior to either of them actually showing up in-show - so for all we know, Destroy Ogre could show up in the show proper before either/both of them - and there are bound to be a lot more Link 4 monsters over the course of the show, I’m not inclined to accept this.

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Hello! I would like to pitch CyverseDragonShipping for Topologic Bomber Dragon x Firewall Dragon. Fanfiction can be found on my blog. /post/162104953014/attraction

This is already a suggestion for Revolver x Yuusaku, but since that’s not up to vote yet and you can’t really get much more straight-forward than this for this ship, I’ll go ahead and add it to the suggestions list.

Any input from everyone about what I should do with duplicate name suggestions in future would be appreciated, though!

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Update 06/24/17

Poll Results

Aloofshipping (13.33%)

Angelmakershipping (15.78%)

Bloomshipping (15.22%)

Bluebloomshipping (12.22%)

Cherubshipping (7.11%)

Debtshipping (10.22%)

Playangelshipping (9.44%)

Remoteshipping (8.56%)

Saveshipping (8.11%)

Flash-vote here (until 06/28)!

It did come out with pretty close percentages doing it this way, but it also meant that things that would have been the second or third choice did better than they would have in a straight-up 'pick your first preference only' vote, so I'm going to keep using this method for votes with a lot of name options - I think it's the best way to end up with a name that pleases as many people as possible, since you're more likely to at least end up with your second or third preference winning!

Also, as a note: four of you were apparently not able to follow the 'don't vote for the same name multiple times' instruction. As a reminder, Google Forms does let me see individual responses, so all you did was get your entire vote deleted.

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Proveshipping (Akira x Aoi / Zaizencest / AkirAoi)

Aoi wants to prove to Akira that she can hold her own.

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How about Celebshipping for GoSaku? Since the two of them are celebrities in Link Vrains and all.

It’ll be added to the suggestions!

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Hey! I was wondering what the best/most common smushname would be for Akira/Shoichi? I've been told a few different things, I just want to make sure I'm tagging right. The rules page says this is the place to ask. Thank you, and thanks for putting this blog together!

AkiSho and ShoAki seem to be being used about equally from what I can see - I’d suggest AkiSho out of those two, personally, since it reads back more easily even without the uppercase and is alphabetical.

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Update 06/21/17

Poll Results

Ignis x Yuusaku / YuuIgu / IgSaku

Aiballshipping (52.1%)

Cyverseshipping (47.9%)

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Aiballshipping (Ignis x Yuusaku / YuuIgu / IgSaku)

Ignis is currently an AI who’s only an eyeball, and Yuusaku gave him the name Eye/AI because of that.